Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-22
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Two steamers sailing from New Zealand
with cargoes of frozen beef have caught fire
in their freezing cha nbers, presumably from
the volatile liquids used to produce the cola.
AN English architect asserts that houses
can be made Of timber which viii last longer
than brick or stone. In many English towns
houses of oak or plaster are standing and IN
daily use that were built 500 years ago.
FINGER BOWLS made of bone are among the
curiosities from Mexico now on exhibition.
They are clear, translucent, amber hued,
most durable and yet exquisite, denotlhg
certain refined taste among the natives
A PETROLEUM SPRING is said to have been
discovered under the sea, about seven miles
off the coast of Yechigo. The water is sixty
fathoms deep at the spot, but the oil hoats 70
the surface and keeps the sea constantly
smooth,
THE abandoned canals and fumes of the
gold diggings in California have done more
good in an agricultural than they did in a
mining way. Where a dollars worth OF gOld
dust was found, a thousand dollars worth OF
crops have since been raised.
DIR. KOCH recommends acid drinks during
cholera epidemics. A chemist says in this re-
gard that the workmen in vitriol manufacto-
ries, who use as a beverage diluted sulphurlc
acid sweetened with sugar or molasses, have
never been known to be attacked by the dis
ease.
A LARGE lump of magnesium has been
shown by DR.. Frolich to the Berlin Physical
Society as the product Of an electrolytic in
dustry, the process OF when Is oased essen
TALLY on the melting of chloride OF magnesium
and decomposing it in the melted state by an
electric current.
a WORK on Lapland and the Laps, similar
in character to NJ. du Chaillu's Gland of the
Midnight SUM-" has been prepared by DR..
TrOmbOlt. a Swedish savant, who some time
ago visited that region to watch the aurora boz
reals. DR.. TrOmbolt lived in the closest lntI-
macy with the Laps.
THE frenzied prediction by a woman on
Missouri railroad train that an awful acct
dent was impending might not have scared
ANYBODY had she not immediately afterward
fallen from her seat dead. Most of the
passengers quit the cars at the next station,
but nothing happened to those who continued
their journey.
q THE statement published several days ago
that many of the Canadian boatmen decline
to join the British expedition for the relief of
Gen. Gordon unless the British Government
would guarantee them against DEATH" IS
explained to mean that they demand
pledge of liberal pensions for their wives and
children IN case of death.
A CURIOUS FEATURE of Newport life a
hundred years ago is recorded in George G.
Mason's recently published "reminiscences of
that place. AS reserved seats at the theatres
were never sold, the following notice was
made part of the advertisements and play
bills: Ladies will please send their servants
to keep their places at O'clock" According
ly the servants occupied the seats and laughed
and talked till 6 O'Clock, which was the hour
the performance began, when they made way
for their masters and mlstresses.
WHEN the Zulu warriors were in London
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late Duke of Wellington was among those
seated in the front row of reserved seats.
When the ZuIus were conducted about the
hail. their interpreter, on reaching the Duke,
explained to them his relationship to the
cOnqueror of Napoleon. The whole party
thereupOn suddenly Frustrated themselves at
the Dukes feet, which they devOutly kissed.
They also kissed his hands. He was quite
unable to understand this manifestation OF
reverence until the interpreter told him 1t
was due solely to his being the son or so IA
nous warrior.
OF the eleven persons who formed the Gov
eminent of National Defense after the fall of
the French empire in 1870, six-Cremieux,
Gambetta, Jules Favre Garnier-Pages, Glais-
Bizoin. and Ernest Picsrd-are dead. Eman-
uel Emanuel is shelved in the Frensh Lega-
ton at Berne; Jules Simon has sunk into al
most equal Obscurity IN Paris; Eugene Pelle-
tan is one of the senators; Henri RochefOrt is
editor of the I71trGnSjgedHt, and daily attacks
the government of the republic with as much
vigor and venom as he attacked that of the
empire. But single one of the eleven has at
present a share in the government of the
country. He, it is true, has the lions share,
for he is Jules Ferry.
In view of the number of sharks that have
made their appearance on the Atlantic coast
this season, attention has been turned to their
adaptation for culinarypurposes. The Ichthyo-
phagous Society at their dinner at the Murray
Hill Hotel, New York, Oct. 10, are to partake
of shark and possibly their example may be
followed by persons DESTROYS of emulating
such an epicurean example. AS the Chinese
are VIGOROUSLY fond of sharks fins, which are
rich in the gelatinous matter that gives body
to their favorite soup, there may be some
chance of turning the present superfluity of
sharks to account, though the true Celestial
epicure is content only with the fins of the
great W hite shark, the ferOciOus man-eater,
who is happily unknown in American waters.