Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-01
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for music in that country.
1T was witty Frenchman who, on Waiting
Germany, exclaimed in horror: ''Three hun
dred religions, and only one gravyw
CEMENT stuck full of big round pebbles from
the beach. which ara painted 50 as to shine,
is the latest decoration for the front OF sea-
side cottage.
No DEvoTEE OF TOBACCO, says Dio Lewis,
has graduated at the head OF his class at Har-
ward or any other college where statistics
have been preserved, Notwithstanding the fact
that large majority Of college students are
smokers.
FRENCH sTATIsTICIAE calculates tnat at
the present rate of increase of population,
Germany will in the wear 2o00 have 1871. 600 900
inhabitants, England l42, 100000, Austro- Hun
gary 10,0O0,OOO, France o4,OO0,oOO, and Italy
56,OOo,000.
A LOG, hollow at one end. was hauled out Of
the water at a New Jersey sawmIll, and the
worthless end taken OF by rotary saw. The
head of large catfish that had taken up its
abode therein fell with the end. The fish
weighed II pounds.
A SPRINGFIELD (MAss.) SCHOOL TEACHER
found that some of the candidates for admis-
sion to the high school in that city were very
phonetic in their spelling. Thus, she encoun
tered such combinations of letters as "etiket."
that show originality.
THE ANKERwYKE PROPERTY on the Thames,
including Magma Charta Island, where the
famous document was signed was put up at
auction on Sept. g. but did not meet the re-
serve price Then it was offered, as is the
custom now in England, in u lots. but again
the reserve price was only reached in one in
stance. The estate carries superb timber. 1t
10 near Windsor.
BERLIN possesses 3 museum of all the uni
Orms worn in the Prussian army since 1917.
Not button or tassel that was ever ordered
for the soldieTy since that time is unrepre-
sented in mat collection, and each article is
carefully labelled aud furnished with the seal
OF the Ministe" of War or Commanding GEN
eTal. Even objects ordered by way Of expert
ment and afterward discarded are preserved.
Thus there quite collection of samples Of
shoes In various stages OF completion.
NEW MEXICO shows more evidence of ma
terial progress in the deceBnIal census which
has Just been completed than some Of the
other Territories whose gain in population has
been lar greater. The number of manufac-
turing establishments In the Territory has
increased from IA to 229 in five years. still
stronger indication of Territorial prosperity
is an increase in the number Of farms FROM
5,053 In 1880 to 1921 in lsS5. The population
OF the Territory in 1880 was ll9, sos; in 1885,
I3l, 9o5-an increase of but l2.420.
requiring all couples who wish to unite their
fortunes to procure license from the clerk of
the Common Pleas Court goes into effect Oct,
l, and the clerks Office will be prepared to
supply the expected demand. A prominent
lawyer says that, in his opinion. one result Of
the law will be to make Camden a sort Of
Gretna Green for runaway couples. The un-
calmly ferry boats may bear many a freight of
two hearts that beat rs One-not on their way
to the seashore, but to some Jersey Justices.
A LONDON CATERER, who provides for the
inner wants of opera goers, has learned 10
distinguish nicely the gastrOnomic desires of
the admirers of the different styles Of modern
music. ION the nights" he says. "when they
play Wagners music / sell five times as much
lager beer as usual. ON MendelssOhn nights
nobody wants any ham sandwiches, and as |
get So per cent. out OF them | guess don I
think much of Mr.. Mendelssohn. Strauss is
the composer to make the wine go Off. A man
feels we'll off while he listens to a waltz of
Strauss's, and he orders his bottle Of cham
payne freely"
AT Kilrush races in the county Of Glare,
the other day. one of the animals entered for
the race was the property of gentleman
obnoxious to the Parnelite party, to whom
notice was sent to withdraw the horse, and it
was announced in posters that there would be
disturbance if he insisted on competing. The
horse had white stockings and star. which
would have Immediately disclosed his lden-
tity. so paint brush was brought into re-
QUESTION effaec the stockings and the star.
and the result proved satisfactory. The AMI
mai in this disguise not only ran bat won.
THE wine trade has secured from the Ad-
ministration of the Prussian domains the fol-
lowing changes in the bottling and labelling
of domanial wines: All wines at a price above
$500 marks per cask are to he benceforth la
belled cabinet wines" and wines below that
price down to $500 marks will have labels
bearing the year of the vintage and the name
of the locality in which they are grown with
the words, Bottled by the Royal Prussian
Domanial Administration" These rules are
|. to apply also to the whole of the Assmann-
hansen wines, without distinction of price.
AT DINNER recently given in London the
question was asked, what was the origin of
the 5 mark2" One of the savans explained
that the American dollar Is patterned from
the Spanish dollar. On the reverse side Of a
| spanish dollar is representation Of the pill
! lars Of Hercules, and round each pillar IS a
scrcll with the inscription, "Pius ultra" This
device in the course OF time has degenerRted
into the sign which stands at present for
American as well as Spanish dollars. p
The scroll round the pillars represents the
two serpents sent by Juno TO destroy Hercules
in his cradle.
JOHN THORPE, q prominent florist, says
that there are now in the United States S,0c0
florists, using over 900 feet or $50 acres
of glass. an average OF 400 feet of glass to each
florist. Allowing Is plants per square foot,
would give nearly b0,000, 900 plants as an an
nual product of these greenhouses. In four
months of last winter more than 4,0QQ,0 900
roses were sent to New York alene. He es-
Inmates that there were ut least 24,000000
roses produced in the winter OF lSSl-S5.
Twelve thousand acres were used last year
for growing bulbs in tins country, and we i'm
ported the product OF at least 5000 acres from
Europe.
CALIFORNIA AND OREGON are liable to the
ravages of three species of loeusts, the most
dangerous of which is the great Rocky Noun
tam locust. whose attacks several years ago
came near starving out the people of two or
three Western States, The locust IL remark
able for its power OF flight, and travels in
dense swsrms high up in the air, darkenbg
light OF their wings. Observers have stood On
the highest peaks OF the Rocky Mountains,
and strainlng their eyes upward. seen tho
sky filled with clouds Of these tiny insects. 30
high up as 10 be barely discernible. After
devastating one region, they rise into tine AIR
10 look for fresh lelds and pastures new.
ONE sometimes sees drunken man pitched
violently from horse, and when the bystand
ers rush to the spot, expecting TO find him
dead, they are astonished TO discover that he
has been little injured. In bis "scrambcs
Among the High Alps" Leslie Stephen tells
the story OF a guide who, whi'e drunk, fell
over precipce 20 deep that fall over 10
seemed almost certain death, and who yet