Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-27
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ted in July, and published next autumn.
\ CIRCUS in the West advertises 1.-THE only
coal black sacred elephant ever seen IN cap
tivity."
TIE amount of PERUVIAN indebtedness
guaranteed by the nitrate and guano deposits
aggregates f60,00O,0O0.
CHICAGO writer says that dead bodies
should be neither burned nor buried in collins.
but laid IN the clean, sweet earth, which is
the best disinfectant.
AN agent Of one Of the ocean steamship
companies predicts that Storage passengers
viii be abe to cross the Atlantic for SO or Sl2
before another year passes.
\ STRANGE mode OF revenging himself on his
enemies has been adopted by wrathful Mag
var il Hungarian town. He hired the
town crier TO go round the streets and an
nounce loudly, TO vigorous drum accountant
ment, that MIR. So-and- SO is a scoundrel."
MoRE than 100 tons of human hair are an
nually bought and Sold Four ounces is an
average clipping from a human head: so that
100 tons represent the product of from 100000
TO 100000 heads. In Europe the heads of
female criminals are shOrn. and they supply
large market, but the greater part is bought
by travelling peddlers. Between the ages of
II and 10. woman can grow about seven
crops of hair.
A PARIS correspondent says that the ar
ch@OlOGical researches on the site Of ancient
Carthage, conducted by Messrs. Solomon Rel
mach and Ernest Babeon, have brought to
light number of objects of historical and ar
tistic Importance. COnfOrmably to the in
structions of the French Institute this scien-
thc mission has been chiefly occupied in de-
teTmining the relative Levels of the Roman and
the Punie soil on the site of Carthage.
TIE United States Government owes the
State of New Jersey 70 cents, with interest
thereon, since 1861, the State having paid an
excess of the amount assessed upon it for
direct taxes to carry on the war in SOL The
interest amounts to 81 cents and mills and
at the present time the sum of 81 7O.6 stands
TO the credit of the State on this account on
the books of the Treasury. An act of Congress
would be necessary, however, in order to have
the debt paid of
NOT many years have passed since alligator
skin was tanned as a novelty. Now, however,
1t is necessity, and there are at least a dozen
firms in this country engaged exclusively IN
tanning alligator hides. 1t is estimated that
100000 alligators were killed during 1888 in
order TO supply the demand for leather. The
negroes kill the creatures, and get from 20 to
80 cents each for the skins, according to the
size and quality. The StOrek eeper who huvs
the skin from the negro gets from 81 to 81 for
II, making handsome profit. a skin six feet
long is considered the best, but they come in
all Sizes from two to eighteen feet.
A FRENCH medical man has has been talk
ing of the wine question in a new and original
way. as it,, he asks, absolutely necessary
to drink wine: We can understand why
Noah used it when we think of the profound
disgust he must have felt for water after the
dcluge. 1t was natural that carafe Of water
should sicken him. But in making up his
first vineyards did he consider the coming
worries of the phyloxera, of deliberations, OF
licenses, of taxes, and of temperance oratorsY
Is he not now looking sadly down upon the
curious destiny of the wine he naturally re
joiced over, but which is moving to its centre
the capital OF the civilized worldY"
TIE Supreme Court Of Iowa recently rem
dered a decision which embodies world of
truth and warning that should interest every
young woman in the land. A wife had made
application for divorce on the ground that
her husband was confirmed drunkard, when
the evidence showed that she had knowledge
OF his Incorporate habits before she had mar
ried him. In refusing the petition, the Judge
SAID: You voluntarily chose drunkard for
husband, and you should discharge the du-
ties of a drunkard wife. His failure to keen
pledge OF reformation, made before mar
rlage, does not justify you in deserving him
Having knowingly married drunkard Won
must make yourself content with the sacred
relationship"
4 MULE STORY is told by DR.. William A.
Hammond in the Youths Companion. While
stationed at Fort Webster, in what is now
Arizona, he started down the canon on a very
fine and large mule. The beast stopped
abruptly, and signifed that he would not
bulge a step. Spurs were dug into his fianks
To no purpose. There he stood as firm as a
rock. Hammond pulled HIM round and gall
loped back to the fort. The next morning it
was ascertained that at a point scarcely a
hundred yards in advance of where the mule
had gained his victory some Apache Indians
had ambushed the road and but for the brute's
Keen nose and ears, and Grmness in resisting
an obstinate man, short work would have been
made Of both.
KARL KRoN, journalist, rode a bicycle
from Detroit, Mich, TO Staunton. VT, dis
lance Of I,422 miles, at an average rate Of
forty-two miles a day. On one day he made
over 100 miles. One hundred miles in twelve
hours has been done frequently. One hum
bred and twenty miles in ten hours riding
time has been often done. \ ride OF 236 miles
without n dismOunt was done in England, and
J ,i04 miles in six days, riding eighteen hours /
a day. w. +. sutton rode go niles over Eng
lish roads inside of twentv-four hours. An
English tricyclsts record OF road riding for
the year 1883 amounted to 6,0j3 miles. In six
years and half the number OF wheelmen in
the United States has increased from three to
10000 The best bicycling record for a mile
from flying start Is 2:3l %.
DO YOU think life is worth livingfn was
asked of Mignet, the late French historian,
five or six years ago, when he was more than
so. II was" he replied, mot born to fortune
I
option of taking a fresh start in life on the
conditions under which I set out [ should not
hesitate to accept the offer. ! feel like per-
son who has witnessed great drama which
is drawing TO its close, and who has done his
best to understand it. have not had a box
ticket OF my own, but was able to enter the
best boxes, which between the acts is an adj
vantage. Human existence Is fun Of interest
to me STILL 1t greatly depends upon ourselves
whether we go through il in a manner to be
satisfied with it or otherwise. Life to me has
been q perpetual fete. Ny greatest trouble
has been in seeing friends drop into the grave.
But | have Learned to accept death en- DhtEOsO-
Pie. It's not the evil we are IN the habit Of
painting it,"
II an address recently delivered by Mr.. II.
G.. Shepard. Of New Haven. relative to the
use of wood in carriage making he said that
after piece Of wood is bent its characters
tics undergo considerable change. The
wood is heavier, and its fbres have become
interlaced; it will sustain more pressure and
strain than straight wood in the same direc-
tions, either across or with the grain. He
said: A piece Of timber that has been steamed,
whether it is bent or not, has its stiffness in
creased. 1t is more brittle than it was before,
and for some uses IL VIII do as
well, and yet there is quality
that the steaming process and the
kiln-drying process produce in much
the same way; they both cook the gum in the
timber aud make it brittle and stiff. There is
a kind of hickory thatnever becomes stIff by
natural process OF drying, and one OF the
desirable qualities of a spoke, rim or while
tree Is stiffness as well as strength; you take
that hickOry-and it is the very best we have
and steam it, and it is better fitted for those
purposes than it was before. 1t is difficult to
tear apart piece of bent wood; the fbres are
interviewer one with the other. We do not
perceive the change on the outside, but when
come to split the stick open. we ind that
lis character Is entirely changed.
BRIGHT BITS.
eyes" she said. Il always obey my hus-