Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-18
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Is Germany they don't call it the honey
moon. They limit the period Of the newly
married couples bliss and term Il the Fit
! terwOche," literally the ''spangled week"
PASSENGERS on the Red sea steamer to
India were exposed last summer to a maxi
mum heat Of los degrees. The winter tenn
perature on these steamers is never below 50
degrees.
C~ISCINNATI is soon to have a crematory
built in the neighborhOOd Of the city. The
capital stock. S75.O0o, has been raised, and the
project is in the hands OF responsible ana en-
ergetic men.
GRAN capable OF lifting AZ tons is being
erected at Hamburg. Il Will be the largest
on the continent-the next being that already
erected at Antwerp, which is capable Of lift
ing l20 tons.
The handbag which the American girl and
especially the Philadelphia girl so affects, is
the badge in Paris Of the manicure. 1t Is
never carried BY others, which Is q gratis mint
dropped 10 ladies who may think OF going
abroad.
ECE has increased more than loo per cent. IN
price in Germany in recent years. Fifty thou
| sand tons have been imported into Stettin
alone since the be inning Of the year, and the
project Of artificial manufacture Is receiving
close attention.
THE farmers in certain districts Of England
are irving to wage war on the hunters. At
SbeeDbridge Nationalist meeting the speakers
advised the farmers 20 poison their lands SO as
TO prevent hunting. As q result TWO valuable
dogs were soOn after killed by poison.
SIR MOSES MoSTEFIoRE might have seen a
woman burned in front Of Newgate II he had
happened to be on the spot at the moment.
That within possibility Of living memory q
woman should have been burned. even after
hanging, by English law, seems astonishing
OK a trip around the world the most ex-
pensive link i. that from san Francisco TO
Yokohama. which costs $2S0, with no cut
rates. because there is no competition. And
even at these figures the steamship company
Claims TO lose money now that an embargo
has been placed on Chinese travel.
THERE is a man in CIearfeld county, Pa,
tina is 20 wears old, who boasts Of having 1
mother, l stepfather, 8 brothers, 5 sisters, 3
fathers-in-law ard 5 mothers-in-law. IS
brothers-in-law. 81 sisters-in-law, III nieces
and ~nepnews. Is great nleces and nephews,
and he is also the father Of ! children, which
make q family Of lS9.
THE number OF freshmen at Oxford this
term is unprecedentedly large. Students Of
narrow means are much more numerous than
twenty years ago: in fact. in this respect, OK
ford seems to be returning to the sixteenth
century. when the sons OF persons IN what IN
England is called the lower middle class
women, shopkeepers, III up much Of
the university.
Is the "Healtheries' show in England there
is = lady who pours water on wells, pieces OF
silk and of velvet, ETC.; the water runs about
like quicksilver and does not penetrate even
through the meshes OF the veil. She says that
ink or q basin Of soup might be poured on the
articles subjected TO the process without leav-
ing a stain. She herself never goes about with
An umbrella. and not even the feathers in her
| hat are afected BY the heaviest downp0ur'