Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-28

Of the Professors. is fostering the groWtn OF .
class of professionally educated men Tor Y NON
there is no room in the profession; ana MI Mrto
are too proud to go into business OF any 9O- =
Result-poyertYlo or suicide.
A WAITER employed in a restaurant says:
"Any housekeeper can prove the honesty Of
her grocer or his butter by melting 1t. ftIo
butter melted produces a pure, limpid, golden
oil and it retains the butter naVor' 11
oleOEargarine and the oil smells Ike s ~ ~
and looks like tallow. and scum r ises ~ ~
surface. Butterine is mixture OF daiIE ~" III
ter and fats Melt that and the butter on
will rise to the top. Pour TINS Oh duPg ~
will find the fats at the bottom, Nh M :, ~
color and giving of disagreeapie shleh'
THE magnificent fleet Of iron-clads when
the Italian government completed Anew years
ago at an immense cost proves TO be much less
formidable than was anticipated. II seems
that their draught of water was mlseaicu-
lated and that they cannot carry their heaFy
INNS with turrets without sinking too deeply.
Their armament will, therefore, nave " "
changed and the turfets be replaceu Dy lsi I'
ones. This will expose them cons cons, .gi Z,
more to the fire of an enemy anu Sreatly
lessen their capacity for attack or resistance
TIE Russian journal Siberia announces that
on a visit Just made by the Governor General
to the prisons at Tomsk this high functionary
was presented with 800 petitions contestlng
the legality of the detention of the petitioners
The complaints of 200 out of the 3OO suDmltteUt
have been declared by the governor 0eI i eIai
to be well founded, and the writers nave DeeIs I
liberated. This incident furnishes a saU pIooA
of the want Of penal reform IN Russia, WheIe'
rs IN this instance, 200 unfortunate persons
have been illegally detained ana their nDeLly
dependent upon the casual visit OF new
Governor General.
FIFTY TENTS on ice, near the head OF Pat-
tens BAY, few miles east of the Penohsco' >
are occupied by fifty or more Maine farmers
sailors and fishermen who are catching smelts'
The industry there is profitable in January
and February only, and then Iof only lou i9ur
hours day. during the incoming OF the Ilue.
The men fish through holes in the ice, ana get
an average of 50 pounds day ealh. 4Ie hsil
after they freeze they are packed III haIIelS
and shipped to Boston and New 1ork, where
the price is from TO 10 cents pound.
TELEGRAPH POLES have been put to new
purpose Three hippopotami came down as
far as the second cataract in the high Nile Of
1882, which is an unusual thing, and one Of
the three has remained there ever since. He
feeds himself al the expense OF the bean helds
9f tie inhabitants, whO IN spite OF their lndlg-
nation, have not yet cOntrived to put hlm oui
of the way, and rubs himself regularly IN the
evening against the telegraph posts which
skirt the river at that point. He has now at
tFacted the attention of . European sports
/ man, and the days Of the creature are proba-
1 bly, numbered.
A YOUNG LADY recently addressed a letter
to Ruskin on the subject of art training. De-
sirous of becoming an artist, and wishing
good advice, she thought she could do no bet
/ ter than apply to so high an authority. TIE
! 1eply was characteristic and rather disap-
/ pointing The great critic, without giVlni
/ her any hint as to the right course to pursue
! told her ut would be better to write less aht
/ cultivate a good and beautiful handwriting
| No one who writes as you do could make
! good artist" 1t took five people to declphe
! the hieroglyphics in which Ruskln CLOTHED
/ these few words. The young lady framed
this curious production, and hung 1t IN her
studio.
Tnk scene OF the battle of Plttsburg Land
ing was visited the other day by CORES
pondent Of the can Of Peoria, Ill. He say
that farmers still gather lead and iron in tn
field. and that one merchant shipped owe
5000 pounds of old bullets last year. Tn
other day a child found a shell that eNplode
| after it had been buried for twenty one years
| or the 800 soldiers whose remains lie IN IN
| cemetery, 1851 were unrecOgniZed. Nv
| large iron cannon serve as columns at the SaI
| of the cemetery, The grave nearest them J
| that of the drummer Boy of Shiloh" Al
bert Sidney johnson died under large tire
that tood near by; but of the tree there
only the stump remaining. and the spot
marked by young evergreen.