Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-21
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THE consumption Of tea in Great Britain Is
about six pounds to one pound Of coffee.
GEN. TANNArT. Mayor of Walla Walla,
Oregon, has a dog that eats pins voraciously.
A. $. MARrYN. Of Orange, VT, has lost a
goose that was said to be 100 years old. 1t
was tailors goose.
THEY are Offering wagers in the South
Park. Colorado, that their champion snow.
shoe traveller can make fifty miles IN day OF
ten hours
GERMANY is going In heavily for beet root
culture Ninety new factories were started
last year. and nearly as many are IN course Of
construction.
THE Rochester Herald says that that city
has five astronomical Observatories, with per-
manentiv mounted telescopes and equip
ments more or less elaborate, and that there
are. besides, a number of portable lnstru-
ments with which good work is done.
THE New Orleans Pieayune says that on
SUNDAY mornings the French Market in that
CITY is visited by an unusually large crowd Of
strangers, who do the market, taxing cOnee,
etc, attend the fine services at the Cathedral,
and wind up with breakfast at some quaint
out-of- the way little French restaurant.
THE official record of the death Of young
girl in Brighton, Mass, filed in the Regis
trar's Office. gives as the cause Of death: "Pri-
mary-due to the Boston school system OF
'cramming.' too much study and brain work,
duration SIX months; secondary-coheeotlon
of the brain, resulting in coma, duration 10
days"
THE annual festival given by the teachers in
the Chinese Sunday school in Boston took
place last Monday evening. There were
present about 800 persons, including 100 China
men Although the number of Cinnamon IN
creased, the school has grown from small
beginning until now an average attendance
OF 81 has been maintained for the past year
Last sunday 1874 pupils were present Ihey
are appreciative, quick and Intelligent So
great is the interest taken in the work that no
money, teachers or assistance Of any KIND are
needed.
A SMALL cavalcade of soldiers have recently
arrived at St. Petersburg after eleven days
ride from Mini Novgorod. The party con-
sisted of four officers and fifteen men OF the
Orenburg Cossacks. with their horses anu
three pack horses. In Moscow they were de-
tanned for day by the kindness of the Grand
Duke Nicholas and his friends. Another DAY
was lost through the lnclemency OF me
weather, and it may therefore be sald thag
the distance of nearly LOCO miles was made IN
nine DAYS. On their arrival. the condition OF
both men and horses was found to be hlghly
satisfactory.
THE Toronto Globe says that while it has
generally been supposed that there are more
Irshmen in the United States in proportion
/
resllV the case. For every 1000 of the whole
population there are only 81 Irish IN the
United States to 43 in Canada, according to
the Globes figures, which we suppose approx
mate correctness, though the proportion
which it gives is smaller than we supposed 1t
should be. There was time, some twelve or
fourteen years ago, when the Canailahs
thought there were about lO,OOOOOO lrlshmen
within their borders, each one carrying a
loaded rifle.
A CURIOUS scene was witnessed IN Chancery
lane, Dublin, at midnight, on December 81.
When the bells were ringing in the new
year, following a custom for some wears IN
vogue, all the organ grinders in the city as
sembIed and welcomed the new year by
combined performance. Over dozen organs
were wheeled into the thoroughfare, ana, as
y O'Clock struck, the men began to grind as
many different airs. Other performers joined
in a score of concertinas, an equal number of
iddles and a variety OF other instruments
heing used. A most hideous concert was
kept up for over an hour, the street being
crowded with people, but beyond much
laughter and amusement there was no DIS
order.
An ingenious device to prevent boiler eX-
plosions has recently been patented by two
New York engineers. 1t consists of an cleo
trio battery, placed on the wall, near the
boiler. connected with gong by negative and
positive wires. These wires run 10 Ihe water
gauge and connect with glass DulD hlleu
with mercury. When the water falls below
the point of attachment the steam rushes INTO
the space surrounding the mercury bulb, and
the mercury expands. AS 1t rises IN the tube
il comes in contact with platinum wire,
thus closing the electric circuit and ringing
the alarm bell. When water is pumped into
the boiler it forces the steam Dack, breaks lhe
circuit and puts the alarm in working order
again. The invention recommends itself on
account OF its simplicity.
N France the Monarch or Chief of the Ex-
ecutive has always exercised the prerogative
of mercy independent of Ministerial control.
NJ. Grevy finds it painful privilege. and when
ever a malefactOr is doomed to death he goes
over all the evidence on which he has been
condemned, and really reargues his case. He
does it so well that few murderers nave lost
their heads since he became President. Ma
poleon III had a kind disposition, ana would
have been glad to make, II ne coulu nave uOne
So full and frequent jail deliveries; but he
was afraid to veX Judges by exercising his
power to pardon in capital cases. The chief
use that he made of it was to try ana gam
over the lawyers who obtained audiences OF
him for-sfe purpose of getting him TO remit
sentences Of death passed on their clients. 1t
was in interviews of this kind that Maltfe
Lachaud, who had often occasion TO ask them,
drifted into imperialism.
ANOTHER cherished delusiOn is gone says
the PAL Mall Gazette. Every one has hither-
to imagined that the Eskimo were diminutive
men. with enormous appetitcs, and most trav-
eIers have brought back reports that they
were not particularly truthful or hospltable
But all these notions have been completely
upset by DIR John RAGS lecture at the Lon
don institution He distinctly denied that
the bodies of the Eskimo were any smaller or
their appetities any larger than those of other
people, and as for their moral character,
thew really seem to possess many excellent
and even episcopal virtues. DR.. Rae asserts,
from the experience both of himself and
Others that the Eskimo are much gwen to
hospitality" Then, too, with very rare eN-
ceptions. they are the Husbands of one Wife,;
and. what is more remarkable, the men never
beat the women and the women never beat
the children. And, lastly, Dr. Rae declares
them to be 'most truthful relaters' as well as
accurate observers"