Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-17
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THE only Chinese paper in san Francisco
has suspended publication.
SEVERAL Italian colonies are fourshing in
Brazil. party Of 300 arrived recently at
Rio de JaneirO.
HENRY WILLIAMS, of Fall River, is said to
have sold a patent apparatus for lighting
street lamps by electricity TO the Electric
Clock Company, of Providence, for $4,000,
THE spruce trees on the Green Mountains
in Vermont have been attacked by some mys-
FERROUS disease, winch is destroying them and
causing no little uneasIness among the owners
of timber land.
ONE of the saddest, yet perhaps, wisest mi
gratlons which is now going on, is that from
Ireland. The constant and rapid thinning of
the population is adding unbearable burdens
to the cares of the few who remain.
THE Grand Orient, of France, has Issued an
appeal to all the lodges of Freemasons in the
world, asking a renewal OF unity in the official
relations between the Grand Orient and all
other branches of the Masonic rite.
THE cOlored people in some portions Of
Texas are beginning to clamOr for legislation
/ requiring the railroads to provide first class
| accommodations for their race, in accordance
| with the views recently expressed by OoN'
| Ireland.
| IT Is proposed to bridge the Straits of Mes
! sina between Italy and Sicily. The bridge IS
to be Of steel. There viii be three arches each
mile long. The Italian Minister of Public
Works is considering the project and eXamIn-
| ing plans.
NJ. VAUCORBEIL, manager of the Paris
Grand Opera House, has decided that in the
future members Of his company shall have no
| titulary right to any given part, ana that no
role shall be held to belong to the artist who
created it.
WHAT is said to be the largest photograph
in the world hangs il acorridor Of the Powers
block at Rochester. 1t is a picture of the
seventy members of Monroe COmmandery Of
Knights Templar, is 1912 feet long, AZ feet
high, weighs 600 pounds, and cost 500.
THE use of blood as a food for cattle has
been recently the subject of experiment in
Denmark by certain chemist, VINO as a re-
suit has now invented and patented new
kind of cake, in which blood forms one OF the
chief ingredients. This new food is stated to
be exceedingly nutritious and wholesome,
and is eaten with avidity by all sorts OF ami
mails, and even by cows and horses, which
have naturally strong dislike to the smell OF
blood.
For the first time in five years an Austrian
man-Of-war is ordered to Indian waters. The
mission Of the Albatross is to serve two pur-
poses. Besides giving the officers and men
an opportunity to become acquainted with
foreign waters, and widen the horizon Of their
observation and information, IN case OF COM
hand to protect Christians living in China
! The AlbatTOss has previously been on duty on
the coast of Egypt.
THE Lowell Mass Times has discovered
the author of a number of sensational news
paper stories recently telegraphed from New
England to be Thomas Addison, temporarily
stopping at that place. He frankly acknOwl-
edged the authorship of the dispatches and
| said they were pure fabrications. One of the
stories described the deadly encounter OF the
son of an English earl with she bear IN the
wilds of Maine, both being found dead. The
/ latest fabrication was telegraphed from Low
ell last Tuesday night, giving sensational
account Of a physicians experience with an
AudOver ghost which proved to be an IN
sane Frenchman.
SO FAR as expense goes, it saves a visitor
to England's royal family little or nothing to
be guest at ''the Palace" The tips which
are given are enormous. When the Emperor
| Nicholas passed Ascot week at Windsor
Castle, in 1874, he left $4,000 for the servants,
and gave twelve gold and diamond snuff
boxes to the lords and gentlemen of the house
| hold. In 1855 the Emperor Napoleon gave
/ 1900 to the Windsor servants, and last year
the King of the Netherlands expended nearly
$1,000 IN the same way. In fact, the Lord
steward keeps a regular tariff OF what is eX-
pected. the amount varying according TO the
rank OF the guest, and this Is formally pre-
sented to the principal parsonage IN attend
ance on him.
MRS. J. W. MAcKAY's jewel chest, which
she keeps in the vaults Of Paris banking
house, contains the finest collection OF precious
stones, outside of royal treasury, that exists
in Europe. 1t is valued at something like
81, OOO, 600. Foremost in the collection shows
resplendent the famous set of sapphlres which
attracted so much attention when exhibited
bv the ieweler BOucheron at the Partisan Uni
versal Exhibition OF 1878. 1t is valued at $780,
600, and comprises the diadem. bracelets
ring. earrings and necklace, with a large
pendant. The necklace is double, the upper
row being a band Of large, square diamonds
and sapphires, fitting the throat closely,
while the lower row, a wide ara
besoue of the same stones, supports the
pendant This last is composed of one enor-
nous sapphire, peerless in color and in water,
and set in large diamonds. The stone is of the
SIC Of a pigeons egg cut trSnSEersely; per-
$50, 900.