Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-20
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TIE use Of bitter willow in havoring and
rolorinE tobacco Is vehementy denounced b.
Prof. Deschamps, Of Paris, Is causing soften
inE Of the brain.
LAST VAR there was consumed in Paris
about $4,000 tons Of butchers meat and
during the same period 5000 tons OF poultry
aad game were sold.
THERE have recently been two trials Of the
navigability of the canal from st. Petersburg
n the sea. which is 10 be formally opened by
the Emperor before long.
II Americans would substitute oatmeal for
pies and hot cakes. they would be calme-. less
lively. less speculative. less bomoastlc ana
happier. according 70 the Glasgow Hsr1id-
The Associated Press kept on whiting OF
the Republican majority last night until II
almost Whitfield Is down 10 nothing shaved 70
a uolntn Every white -oOk OF 3,100 votes
from the previous estimates.
ONE Of the fashionable schools Of New York
has introduced a new thing called slumbrous
omeliness. which teaches the young ladies 70
assume graceful poses in bed. 70 keep the
mouth shut, how not 70 snore, etc
WIrHIN a few days twenty sheep have been
killed in Clifton, Ne. By bears. and bear
was lately seen crossing the public road. All
th5. old bear hunters. Of whom Clifton has not
a few have traps out. put thus Tar the bears
seem TO prefer sheep TO traps.
FOR some time past trouble has been ex-
perienced at the Erie Mil, Cohoes, \. Y, to
get the usual amount Of power. An ex-
animation Of the wheel has disclosed that
the buckets had become clOgged with eels
II required Ak and sew 10 remove the wedged-
in fish.
THE Charleston Nelos reports that four OF
the eight candidates for State officers on the
Republican ticket in South Carolina and one
Of The candidates for Congress have declined
% run. and one other Of the candidates for
state officers Is opposed to the party running
q state ticket.
There i more railway travei in Massachu-
setts than in any other state in the Union.
The number Of passengers carried by the
roads last year was 53-OO1.eO0. Pennsylvania
comes next with 50.000,O01, and New York
third with Il. Coz. 90. Illinois. Nov jersey and
Ohio follow IN the order named.
THE ordnance people of the navy are well
pleased with the progress being made in the
construction OF the guns at the Washington
navv yard They expect to have one a month
Completed now for the next several months.
and two thereafter. until the entire number
for the new cruiser have been delivered.
AT Mazatlan, Mexico. a week or two ago.
during a perfect calm and while the ocean
was smooth as a mirror, the sea suddenly be-
gan 10 roll in great waves toward the shore.
4nd the streets nearest the beach were soon
under water. The strange phenomenon Is
supposed to have been caused by a submarine
earthquake.
THE Japanese Government il nothing il not
courteous in acknowledging faVors done to its
subjects in foreign lands. 1t has lately sent
fue pair Of bronze vases. with rich inlaid
decoration in gold aud silver to Nassar College,
in appreciation OF thu education furnished to
two female students, amataWa Satematsee
and Sagai Shlge.
If hoguug is still carried on in the British
Al
cases, q custom far more bsrbarous is extant
in the French army in Africa as q means Of
punishment The 'Crapaudine" consists IN
living the patients hands and feet, placing
him on the stomach. and leaving him for
hours exposed to the fierce raysOf the African
sun.
AT the funeral Of a wealthy Chinaman, in
Carson. New, the otter day, the chief mourn
ers threw small parcels done up in rice paper
from the carriages as they were going to the
cemetery. a small boy opened one OF the
parcels and found that it contained dime
In g moment the street was alive with BOYS Of
all ages. who fought with each other like
BashI- BazOUks TO get the little parcels as they
fell to the ground.
The famous pictures Of Turner IN the Ma
tional Gallery have all suffered from the dis
Of the pigments employed by the
artist and Raskin says that no picture Of the
great cOlorist has escaped this fate. Anxiety
is now felt for the safety Of one OF his finest
works 1.-THE Decentralization OF William III.
At Torbsv." the sea IN which Is cracking and
sealing OF. and the authorities are called upon
to devise some means for aTrestIng the evil.
TIE Indians OF California Manufacture
baskets which are waterproof. They are
made Of a kind Of willow that grows on the
mountains about eighty miles east Of Los An
gelos. on the border Of the Colorado desert.
Inc baskets are said to be light and better
than any tin. GALVANIZED iron or any otner
Kind Of receptacle for water. They are eX-
tensivelv used by Mexicans and old settlers,
and viii last with constant use, dozen or
more years.
TIE largest dredging machine in the world
has been finished. and viii be used on the
Sacramento and san joaquin swamp lands in
California. She has been named Thor, and
modelled after the best dredges now IN use on
the Isthmus canal. cutting out channel and
building levee 1t the same time Inc Thor
IS l0l feet long and 81 feet vide. ana has "a
iron buckets. with q capacity OF one and
halF cubic Yards each, which can be filed and
emptied fourteen times per minute.
SK1KRNIwICE, where the Emperors met, is
q mere s.Jagd-SchlOss." twas the residence
OF the Archbishops Of Poland till the partition
Of that kingdom; and when Napoleon ravaged
Germany he gave Il, with vast estate. 10
Marshall DavOust. Subsequently, after
changing hands once or twice, II became the
property Of the Emperor Nicholas 1t has
rarely been visited D! the Imperial AaLnllg
but IT is q comfortable, hOmely place inside,
and contains some interesting pictures and
some fne old tapestry.
TIE example Of the great snail industry in
Burgundy, which Is acquiring greater devel-
opment year BY year owing to the quality Of
the flesh OF the vine-leaf fed mollusk, has
eliminated the Swiss to efforts IN the same
diraefion. a number Of gardens, between
Dayos and Landquart, in the Canton OF
Grisons, have lately been transformed ~