Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| NEW THING in butter is reported. It is q
German device and consists of centrifugal
machine which expels ali the buttermilk and
water from the butter, This is said to impart
q much liner flavor, aroma and grain, and far
the old way.
DISEASE among horses, resembling the
"eDlzootIc," is prevailing to some extent in
W washington. Seven cases are reported at the
Treasury stables. The disease runs Its course
| IN ABOUT two weeks, and Is in the nature of
qulnsy. There is no appearance of the malady
at the stables of the Messrs. Naylor, or in
those OF the Executive mansion.
BOSTON PEOPLE are not satisfied with the
population of 1896, 900 for their city as returned
by the recent State census The chief asses
sor OF the city gives elaborate figures TO show
That by the number of names in the Boston
directory the population is 4l4,4lS; the
assessed polls show q population of 449,169;
and the school enumeration i20, 600.
AT INYo. CAL, they had a good deal of
trouble in explaining to an Indian murderer
the different grades of homicide. The Dis
trict Attorney was willing to accept plea of
guilty In the second degree, and the prisoner
admitted the killing, but denied the murder.
Finally he suggested that he chad killed the
man ~ years, and the plea was accepted.
THE DUKE OF HAMILTON has been vigor-
ously asserting his feudal privileges on the
to buy or sell without his leave, or to keep
dog or to remain at a hotel. A venturesome
tourist who criticised the medieval manners
OF this petty despot, was stralghtway hustled
from his lodgings and banished from the
island.
A MISSIONARY IN AFRICA found heather
tribe worshiplng a leatLer-bound and gilt
edged book which had been given them by a
traveller. 1t was much the worse for wear,
but on examining it the missionary found that
IL was an Episcopal prayer book. The neathen
had been quite as highly delighted with 1t as
II 1t were wooden image. The gliding on
the edges was the special attraction which IN
splred them with sentiments of reverence for
the volume.
The inhabitants of the island of Formosa
seem to care very little for their idols or their
idolatrous practices. The missionaries have
regarded them as hopeful subjects for CONVEX
sion to Christian faith and doctrine. But the
great difficulty with them is that they want
10 make their religion available rather for
what they can pick up IN this world than for
any advantage they hope to derive from 1t i'll
the world to come. All they think of 1t Is
what they shall eat, drink and wear. There
Tore, the missionary WORK goes on slowly.
To MAKE a serviceable telephone, from one
house TO another, only requires enough wire
and two cigar boxes. First select your boxes
and make hole about half an inch in diane
ter in the centre of the bottom of each, and
6uel place one IN edCn OF bne houses you Wish
TO connect; then get five pounds of common
IRON stOVeplpe wire, or stout cord, make a
loop IN one end and put 1t through the hole
In your cigar box and fasten it with "a nail;
then draw 1t tight to the other box support
ing IG when necessary with a stout cord; call
by rapping on the box. AT 200 or 800 yards
conversation is as easy as though carried on
Dy persons In the same room.
GLANCE at the market quotations Of Mo-
bile of March IL, 1865, shows that apples were
$50 and $40 bushel, bacon was 81 a pound,
and butter ST to IS, Shelby coal was $500 ton.
and Confederate candles were $40 pound,
coffee was $50 pound, and calico $40 yard,
corn meal was SlZ bushel, COW peas were $l6,
while flour ranged from 81 30 to 81 a pound,
ana wheat was $50 bushel, Fresh beef was
~ 90 pound, and fresh pork 81, lard was 50 so
and Jallow s.. Quinine was 500 an ounce
and morphine $3.50, onions were $40 bushel
and Irish potatoes $50, while salt was 1872
bushel, and Whisky was quoted at from sos to
$50 gallon, according to quality.
THE lily, or neur de lis, has long been re-
garded as the flower emblematic of France.
From the time of the Merovingian dynasty it
has been employed among signs of royalty.
The great seals of Frederic Barbaressa, of Ed
ward the COnfessOr and other mon archs
show the fleur de lis either on the pOinL OF the
sceptre or on the crown; many noble families
Of France, Germany and Italy bear it on their
5I6net. Louis VII, lie Jeune, appears to have
been the first King of France who placed il in
hereditary armOrial bearing of the Capets. In
Vulnerable heur de lis covered the royal vest
ments and the oritlamme or banner. Philippe
III. reduced the number to three, to suit the
triangular shape OF his shield.
K. BELFoRD, a brother of Congressman
James Bedford, of Colorado, who about year
ago was appointed Commercial Agent of the
United States at Levaka, Fiji Islands, was
removed some months later and his deputy
was appointed In his place. The scandalous
reports of the business transactions that
caused Belford's removal have been fully con-
ilrmed. After getting in debt on all sides he
absconded to Samoa in a schooner, on Aug
IA. His debts amount to many thousand dol
lars. and he is reported to have sold goods
consigned to his care, using the money for
himself. The effect OF his rascally course has
been to create a distrust of any successor that
may be appointed, the people there holding to
an old-fashloned notion that, with reasonable
caution, the government need not have sent
them man Of such character.
A SINGULAR demonstration took place in
Westminster Abbey on Tuesday. That day,
being the feast of st. Edward the Confessor,
was specially observed by the Catholics In
London, and the services were concluded by
procession TO the shrine of the saint in the
Abbey, where the visitors knelt and prayed
for the conversion of the British nation.
Westminster Abbey was founded by Edward
the ConiessOr In the eleventh century, and his
shrine stands in the centre of the building, be-
hind the high altar. OF course, in his day,
and for centuries afterwards, the Abbey was
devoted to the service of the Catholic church,
and it is not unreasonable that members Of
that communion should make pilgrimage to
the shrine to pray for the return of their ma
ton to its original faith. But the incident
was nevertheless striking and rather start
ling one. IL might easily set people to think
ing, so we are not surprised to learn that after
the scene was over "the question Of the pro-
priety OF the proceedings was Immediately
taken under consideration by the dean and
chapter"
THE Paris Figaro. wishing to give its read
ers some account Of the prominent candidates
for the recent elections. and being unwilling
to stoop to.anything 80 commonplace as biog-
raphies or Licensees, devised the happy
thought Of engaging a graphologist to Judge
the candidates by their handwriting Ac-
cordingly supplement to the paper mas ap-
peared with G5 signatures, and character
sketch told from the handwriting Is amend
ed to each one. NJ. Clemenceans signature
shows him TO be proud vulgar, prudent.
Jules Ferry, or 'le TOnkinOis," as IL is now
the fashion to call him, ID mass OF contra
dictons, and, besides being an arch dissimu-
lat0r, will never stick at a lie. M. de Freyci-
net Is also remarkable for his powers OF dis
stimulation; he is Unfortunately vain, and his
talents are ~ numerous as they are superb
cial. The candidate who has come worst OFF
m the ordeal Is perhaps Nj. Paul Bert. The
moral faculties are almost entirely wanting
IA him, and II Is well 10 have u wholesome
Tear OF such man as he appears TO be from
his handwriting.