Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST

HOUSTON. TEX, will have grand military
encampment this spring.
RETURNS show Dublin still to be what Lady
Morgan described in her day, the stay drink
INCEST" city in the world.
SINCE the opening OF the Suez canal tea has,
1879 excepted. declined each year In price 1t
has never been lower in England than now.
THE Cape Cod ship canal. when completed,
will 10 away with navigation around DEVILS
Bridge, the spot on which the City of Column
b"s was wrecked.
THERE will be a rush of photographers to
British Columbia after Parliament passes the
bill requiring Chinese residents to have their
photographs taken.
THE New York Tribune prints communi-
cation in which it is asserted that the use of
salt to melt the snow on car tracks is not IN
furious t. the feet of horses.
PRESIDENT B,RTLETT, of Dartmouth Col
lege, announced at the alumni dinner IN
Boston on Wednesday that $780, 600 had been
given the college within the last three years
AN experiment was made last year of I'M
porting dead meat from Russia to London,
which is likely 20 prove successful, and NAV
appreciably affect the price of meat in Lon
don.
TIE State Temperance Alliance and WO-
mans Christian Temperance Union of Ala
bama, have just closed their annual meetings
in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Both were largely at
tended.
THE reports Of the discovery of enormously
rich gold placers III the Cgur d'Alene Noun
tains, idaho. are pronounced greatly exag-
gerated by Prof. Herman, who has examined
the country.
A CHINESE joss house. or sacred temple, is
to be erected. in Denver Col. There are two
warning factions Il Celestials in that city,
and it Is beloved that the temple will have
peac full influence over them. According 10
the creed OF the church, all who attend must be
friends.
BENSON J. LOSING, the historian, suggests
that the fourth centennial of the discovery of
Observation-Disclosures u, l892-be celebrated bv
gathering of ships of al nations IN New York
harbor. This is an amendment to the prOpOsi-
ton OF Emilio Castelar, that such a naval
affair should occur in the harbor of Palos.
REMARKABLE changes are reported in the
comet. On Sunday night the nucleus was
surrounded by faint envelop and numerous
dark riffs were visible in the tail. On Mon
day night the tail separated into three dis
unct branches, showing dark sky between.
and rapid pulsatiOn Of light one degree back
OF the nucleus
A p RIM in the town Of Elliot, Ne, has been
the home of nine generations Of one family,
having been handed dow from father to son
for nearly $50 Years Upwards of seventv-fve
children nave been bora and brought ~, there
ami IL Ia recorded that only Que unmarried !
oerson has ever died in it, except one child.
who was accidentally Killed.
ONE of the present popular contentious in
Norway is for a merchant marine flag which
shall be distinct from the "unlOn" flag.
which now aids in confusing Norway with
Sweden in the minds of foreigners. The
Norwegians are very sensitive 20 any rlun-
0prg
resent the idea that their language is the
same as Swedish.
PRINCE ALBERT VICToR's recent entry upon
his 2lst year reminds the 81. James Gasette
that never We. has the eldest son of a Prince
OF Wales come of age during his fathers life
time and before his fathers accession 10 the
throne. "Frederick, son of George H., who /
came nearest to dong so, was" it saws. 40
years and few months old when, in 1927. the
latter became King"
WRITER in Vienna paper urges a new
and amusing theory regarding the afterglows.
He is quite certain that our atmosphere has
been pundering space of a supposed stock of
interplanetarv moisture. and that crystals Of
this wandering dew are what form the
refracring substance. Perhaps angels
tears float about in space and justify this !
bold maker Of hypothesis.
A CORRESPONDENT thinks that Iceland has
shared in the volcanic disturbances of the
past few months. The interior of the island
it filled with mountains, glaciers. and lava
fields 80 that at this season no one goes there
but in December perrOns living on remote
inland farms saw vast columns of smoke and
vapor rising over the mountains, and for days
the sky had the appearance peculiar to it
alter volcanic erup ions.
FROM several suburbs the statement is made
that the birds which have attracted attention
in the vicinity OF Boston during the past week
fbp nj, xEhi ot,
mon at this season in Northern New England
and Canada. The male s about the size OF
the kingbird. and is handsomely marked with
red about his head and back. The females.
several of which are usually seen with the
male, are little smaller. and, while having
some reddish plumage, are neutralin cOlOring.
FATHER JOHN +. MALo, the missionary
priest, arrived in Chicago on Saturday last
with thirty nine half-breed Chippewa Indian
children, ranging from to Is years OF age,
who are to be educated to be missionaries.
Twelve OF them are boys. who are to be sent
to The Chri-tia Brothers school near Chi
C 60. The girls Will enter the school of the
La, of the Good shepherd, in Mi waukee.
The general government gives them 1851 each
annually. The full -blOoded Indian mothers
would not assent 10 Father MalO's taking
their children, and the only full -bOOded child
that started sprang out OF the eigh and ran
back.
TIKI OTHER DAY priest in Kerry. says the
st. Jaarts' Gazette, went to his Bishop. Il
want YOU re said, "to give me general dis
pensng power for cases of perjury" "For
perjury?" said his LOrdship: "what do the
people want with THAR" Faith" answered
the good father ''they can't get on without it;
for, first of all, the MoOnlighters come TO them
and swear them that they must say that they
didn't know who they we're; ami then there's
the arrears act, and they have to take the
oath they're not worth farthing; and you
know in the Land Court they can't get
reduction till they say they can't pay their
rent In fact, my Lord, the poor people have
to peTjure themselves at every turn"