Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-22

/ from Japan are selling in London at TWENTY
! five cents a piece.
! PROF. BINz finds that coffee is an absolute
anti fote to alcohol, if it be taken in suflci-
ent quantity. Dog saturated with caffeine
| could not be made drunk.
! FRANCO PRUssIAN engineering commits
sion has just completed the survey for a canal
70 connect the Volgt and the D ma scheme
Great.
HE GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM at Cambridge.
Mass, which Agassiz b. gan in 1855 on gift
OF $50,m0, now represents an Investment in
Dullulngs' ETC.. OF over 500, &C., and has 5000,
goo OF invested funds.
A RECENT INvEsTIGA ToR into the causes OF
consumption, says that the disease is often in
herited because the heir has taken for his per-
sontl use the decendent's old paattresses mn
nolstered chairs and carpets.
BILL to prohibit newspa ners from pub
fishing details OF suicides is being considered
by the Uraguayau lawmakers. The bill pro-
Vldes line OF so for the fir offense, and
500, or four months Imprisonment, for the
second.
SPEAKER at the Dairymen's Convention
IN Chicago, feelingly related touclrng in
stance of the love Of Danish women Tor their
cows. In which she took a blanket from her
shoulders and wrapped it around a COW to
protect 1t from the cold.
ECCENTRIC BEER SALOONS have been for
some time past the rage in Paris. Walters In
convict garb and in the robes OF academicians
were tolerated by the government but when
II came to beer monastery, with walters and
par, maids made up as monks and nuns, the
authorities refused license.
In the Samaritan Synagogue at Nablous
there Is an altar, covered with veil Of yell
low silk, and within this altar is kept a man
yrrfff 81.
the son OF Phinehas, 3 co. years ago. 1t is seen
/ by he congregation but once a year, when
elevated above the priests head on the Day of
Atonement.
THE ethnologists have long argued from the
fact that many tribes in Africa. notably the
Zulus and the Masais, practice the rite OF cir
cumcisiOn thai the black races, originating in
asia, net the Jews, and borrowed from them
Lhe rite, which they carried into Africa. DR..
hohler, however diff rs from the ethnologists
and condemns circumcision as a relic of bar
barism that WAS derived from the savages of
central Africa.
HALFBBEED Indian IN the Dead river re-
gion in Maine, has domestlcaeed a huge
moose, and uses him in the farm work. In
the winter. when the moose is hitched to a
sled and Is driven upon the ice. there is no
| morse uth9 country round about which can
/ Keep up with him. The half breed turns his
org 0Jeed INTO an enc Osure with a fe, CO Of
ord nary height Oace in a while the muo.e
jumps out anu goes on an excur,Ion.' but. as
ne never rails to return, this privilege is not
| begrudged him.
pHE Duke of Edinburg has been playing
the violin at concert Brighton. The local
paper was sufficiently dIsloyal to critcise the
Royal performer in such words as these:
"Ihe Royal ollnist. who had led the orc es-
ira In the second part, rem lined seatrd while
plaplng the Largo HIS Royal Highnes-
commenced with apparent nerVOnsnesS ani
the rae Iul smUOtlnea3 Of thu U1aiadiOua FIR
was marred by defective information, which
~ not harmonic ~ tn The licate handling
oil the harp by Mr.. Lockwo or the q scrimi-
nate use orthe organ by MIR. Couke.N The
finale vas tax n ~ by the remaining violins
and was ver3 effective"
THE GERMAN PAPERS publish the following
hit on the Socialists: SO 'ial. Democrat 10 SOL
d'er-"say. you are one of the people. You
wouldn't fire on your countrymen, would
yoH?" SOldier-"No. Catch me Shooting at
anybody" That's the way Ike to hear a
soldier Ia k. Sit down and have some beer"
The soldier does so. "&uw taEe a smoke"
) 'id the social Democrat after the repast was
over. Once more the colder compiled. Are
there m ny so diers in your regiment who
would refu to fire or the pc ple?" ke'4 the
Socialist about tw' nty. You see, W mern-
bers of the band nave noth to shoot with.
am member of the band"
THE President has deposited in the National
Museum the presents sent hIm recently by the
King of Samoa, consistin- of a kava bowl, a
cocoanut cup for drinking the kava, and
specimens OF the root of the pepper tree of
which the kava Is made, also a rug made of
the bark of the paper mulberry tr ee and the
complete wardrobe of sam an lady consist
ing merely OF llku or girdle, upon which are
suspended long fbres Of the iIner bark OF the
mulberry tree. This girdle is bound around
the lady's waist, n d the ibres hang down a
distance OF Is inches orr feet. The Esva bow
Is the most valuable of the articles. The bowl
ana It's legs are carved out of a sllid niece of
Samoan chestnut. The bowl is Is or Is inches
IN diameter. The interior is hig hly polished
JEREMIAH JONES, of New London. Conn.
succeeded Saturday In accomp ishing the feat
of eating 100 smelts in II minutes and % Sec
onds, minutes and 10 seconds quicker than
me time al owe by the terms of the wager
he made wi mon Sebler. 1t was agreed
that Jones should eat the smelts, heads and
tails. inside of % minutes. the stake beng IS a
side. As Jones rallied TO eat the heads and
tails Siebler refused 20 hand over the IS. Jones
has placed himself on record as the grea est
smelt eater OF the age, but swears by ali that
Is great and rood that he will not attempt ;h4
feat again uni rs the money is place in tho
hands of a stakeholder. He s afes thar the
head ana tail" business was added after he
and eber shook hands as sealer OF the
agreement.
The "crazy quilt" show in New York
is thronged daily. One Of the sbowiest
quilts, was the ndiwork Of a venero-
bic lazy, ~ years old; another has
22l2 pieces in 1t, and all OF them
embrofer' d; another has pieces o. silk in il
l20 years Old. ami piece of Mrs Grants we'd
Dug dress. a historical quilt of braided wool
d sign OF impossible rlses and leaves. was
made before the war. by southern lady! wbo
employed her slaves TO tn cad her needles "a
she worked OF tapestry work, there are s.v-
eral remark bly, fine specimens, also at bic
cover, ait TO con ain more than a million Of
stitches in 1t. a wO0lleu "faScinator' is in
terestng rom the act that il was bron0ht
from the arctic region shy apt. DeIong. and
not less an ,ctive, perhap-, is n lace dress.
the work OF Is ears. whch caused the tot 4
blindness Of the lady VIII made it.
"There is something of the shrewd humor
OF the Oriental cazi in the decisl on OF Rus
sian stipendiary mag rate. a report of VIII CHI
has just reached MS ON Odessa Il apnears
that new cemetery IS about to be oucnrd
near That city, and that two Greek merch mis-.
each anxious To secure the most comfort hid
Q most distinguished testing place, we're al
lowed by some official blunder to Inv the
same allotment. When the mist Ike was Is.
covered neit en- wou Il Weld his ctaim and
/ the matter was referred to the district ,Jtdge'
Greek had met Gre X. nj the tug of war
/ threatened 10 b. revere, when the maqistrate
with an astuteuess worthy al ilon m ar
RAJ ged the matter IN the smp est wav nos-
sible by applying the rule First come Il rat
served,' and suggesting that whichever tiled
irst should have the right 10 the cove ed rest
ing place. tn parties went away reronciIeA
aud IA py. II Is not stated whether thee md
"a "a hat