Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Of the famous Torlonia Museum in the villa
della Lungara has been bought by an Ameri-
can.
No GREEK play will, it is understood. be
produced at Cambridge this year; but in 1885
II ls proposed to act the "Eumenides" Of
-Eschylus.
-FOUR HUNDRED foreign doctors have de-
cided to attend the August meeting Of the In
ternauOnal Medical Congress at Copenhagen,
and have announced their intention of pre-
pairing communications on various subject for
that occasion.
M. PAsTEUR and his cOllaboratOrs have an
nOunced to the French Academy of Science
the fact that by incubation they can render
al dogs absolutely proof against the effects OF
raoles, IN Whatever way or quantity the virus
may be administered.
DURING this abnormal winter ice has be-
! come an article of import in Switzerland,
which country, IN spite of all its glaciers is
actually obliged to order that commodity from
southern Germany fOI household, industrial
and sanitary purposes.
THE Lancet informs a correspondent that
''the possibility, nay the certainty in many
cases, OF flies being medium of infection,
especially IN warm climates, has been re-
peatedly pointed out, though perhaps the fact
Is not suflclently borne in mind"
DURING the year 1882 SO. says the Journal de
s. Petersbourg, the Russian distilleries have
produced sS,90S,34l gallons of pure alcohol,
ana during the present year S9,553000. The
decrease OF f6l, l4 gallons in lSS2-S3 is the re-
suit OF the closing of Fifty eight distilleries.
IN the opinion of the Medical Press, most
physicians are very decidedly in favor of the
total abolition of corporal punishment in
schools. The editor asserts that the London
University College School, which is attended
by 500 boys, has been carried on from the first
without corporal punishment. and is equal to
school England
pine.
FAIR PARIsIENNFs with whom money is no
object. and who aspire to everything that is
pschutt, diversity the flowers they wear ac-
cOrding to the time of day. In the morning,
from TO II or II, violets are the correct bios
sons; from to 5, mimOsa is all the rage; hya-
clnths or primrose are considered dinner
wear; and at dances, eOirees, and, in fact, af
ter II at night, gardenias, cape heaths, white
lilac, or roses are permissible.
WESTON, the American pedestrian, who re-
Gently completed a 5000 mile tour in England,
preaching the benefits of temperance, will
have to look to his laurels, for he has now a
rival in the field named Spencer, who Is en-
gagged in walking fifty miles every day. His
object Is to complete 200 miles, and prove that
1t Is possible to accomplish this on alcoholic
beverages. He is a man Of go years of age,
and has already completed one-fOurth of his
task. His liquid refreshment to consist of ale
or brandy, and no unmiXed waterto be taken.
A RECENT issue Of the PaH 1fqU Gazette con-
tains the following almost incredible record
made by school girl: "A girl named Alice
Alderman, aged "A, daughter Of laborer, has
just completed her education at Langley
School, Bucks. She has never missed being
present since the school was opened in Dc
tOber 4, 1875, and in completing her 3.45l at
tendances is said to have walked 5000 miles.
She has passed every standard successfully,
and in the three subjects in first grade draw
ing obtained excellent prizes in free hand
and model, as also in the three stages CT the
specific subjects literature, domestic econ
Omy and animal physiology, and in one stage
in physical geography. She has also obtained
twentysiX other prizes, for good attendance,
sculpture, sewing, knitting, etc.
THE way in which General Gordon chose
his companion for the expedition to Khartoum
is characteristic. When he came before the
Cabinet and announced that he was ready to
start at once, ne was naturally asked whom
he would like to have as companion. Gordon
paused for moment in reflection and then
said: There Is man whom | have met a
few times at the club; | don't know his name
but he is the man j should like to take with
me. II you will wait a little l will go and see
if he can come" ~ThereupOn Gordon left his
Ministerial audience, drove to the club, found
his man in the smoking room, explained the
case, obtained his consent. and was back in
Downing street under the half hour. The
man whom Gordon with instructive insight
had chosen was Colonel Stewart, who probably
knows more of the East than any other officer
in the British army.
W. II. JOHNSTON, the son of a white plan
ter of Waynesville, S. c., was Thursday
night, it is said, visited by two married
women of the neighbOrhood and given n good
logging. When the ladies called Johnston
was in bed sound asleep. He was called up
and when he got into the presence of his visi-
tors he was sOundly logged with stout
single. His shrin cries were heard some
distance from the scene, but no one came to
his aid. His tOrmentors gave no heed to his
appeals, but continued to apply the board
with hearty good viii. Johnston had for
some time past been living on the charity of
an old widow, although young and fully able
to support himself by his own efforts. The
two ladies who introduced Johnston to the
patter of the shingle, il is supposed, are
granddaughter OF the lady upon whose
bounty their victim had lived.
MExICo's dependence on other countries for
its food supplies is well shown in the follow
ing experience of an American traveller: "At
the railway stations are great piles of COM
pressed coal brought from Great Britain for
fuel, for wood is very scarce All of the cora
Of Yucatan in this year of scarcity and half
of the potatoes of Vera Cruz, instead of being
brought from the interior of Mexico where
they are plenty, are brought from New York,
which obtained them by rail from Michigan,
Iowa and our distant West. A barrel of some
heavy stuff tblaek beans, probably came
aboard at PrOgresO and was ended up " here
was standing. looked it over. It had come
from Havana and was bound for Campeachy
The head had been knocked to pieces and
stuck in again at random, so that the letter
ing was upside down and hind side before and
looked very crazy, indeed. But | made out
that it had once contained flour, Minneapolis.
Mimi"
A BOYCOTTING movement, which Will be
rather grave if it be seriously followed, is
undertaken by the Mosems of Madras 1t
appears that one Of the faithful, converted to
Christianity, has issued pamphlet dealing
with points of controversy. The moOlVIes
summoned public meeting at the Trplicane
Mosque, and there drew up a ultra. signed bv
twcnty-three doctors, learned in theology and
law This edict lays down that any Meslem
who engages in discussion, who reads book
Of controversy, gives lessons to a Christian
priest in the Koran, or any other sort of read
ing. or who sends his child to mission school,
shall be boycOtted with the utmost rIgOr in
this world and the next. It is believed that
fanaticism is not strong enough at this day
in Madras to compel obedience TO such a
decree, but certain proportion of the faith
full viii submit doubtless The number of
MoEammCdan pupils in mission schools, or
schools directed by clergymen. is large, and
some of these will suffer. The harmless and
respectable class of moons hees also, who
teach the vernacular, will lose their en-
plOyment-since they are forbidden to read
any sort Of book with clerical Students and
they could not afford TO quarrel with the