Savannah morning news., 1885-12-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IN ENGLAND there are now upward of So
oOO blind persons. The proportion OF blind
people to the population of all European ma
100.
LIQUID fuel is exciting much attention In
England. With view to its use the Russian
Black Sea Navigation Company is building
large heet of tank steamers to import petro-
leum In bulk.
YES" said lady when interviewed on
the subject of servant girls, 81 find that the
swedes make the most capable and trust
worthy servants never had a Swedenbor-
glan that did not give perfect satisfaction"
ON Monday 3 young lad named O'Brien
was attacked by rats on one of the docks at
Rondour, n, Y. They were attracted by his
dinner pail. Some fifty of them spraug on
tne youth. and would have speedily bitten
MN to death had not help opportunely ar
rived.
WITHIN the past month number of evic-
tions have taken place on the Armagh estate
OF Lord Charlemont, grandson of the famous
nobleman known as the Patriot Earl, who OPP
posed the Union. In one case no rent had
| Deen paid for 10 and in another none for 10
| years. The present peer is seldom resident.
ENGLISH LAW makes difference between
ordinary lectures and those delivered at uni
versities. 1t has been recently decided, on
appeal, at Glasgow, that a university student
may take notes of lectures and publish them
| II he pleases, without the consent of the pro-
| fessors. The lectures are considered public
property.
FARMER JOHN SELLERS, who lives near
! New Philadelphia, o., has never had his face
shaved his hair cut or his nails trimmed. He
| will use nothing but home ade tools upon his
larm, nor Will he permit his geese to be
| plucked or his sheep to be shorn. He believes
1t wicked to interfere with nature in the mat
ter of his hirsute covering.
THE famous old Yorkshire Whig family of
| william has deserted its colors, and the
| Hon. G. Fitzwilliam. son of Earl Fitzwilliam,
| comes forward as a Tory representative. The
present Earl's eldest son, now dead, Lord Mil
ton, was greatly attached to the United
| states. and purchased land. built house. and
resided great part of each year in Virginia.
THE tramp law of Connecticut was de-
| nounced in his sermon at Stratford on Sun
day morning by the Rey. Mr.. Hand (Metho-
DIST as the only one of the State laws be could
not obey. He appealed for pity and charity
| 10 the poor and the outeast wherever found.
and advised his people to ignore the tramp
law and help the needy under all eircum-
| stances.
DIR. VoN GALHLORN, who had been greatly
| troubled with insomnia, tells of the method
which he has found effectual for two years in
curing 1t. 1t consists in bandaging one leg up
| " bu6 huct WITH several IdyerS OF wet callCO.
ana covering these with a sheet of waterproof
cloth. This procedure dilates the vessels of
| the leg, and, by diminishing the amount of
| blood In the head, induces sleep.
PROF. RICE, of Wesleyan University, in
| recent lecture, told of freshet at one time
when the Connecticut river was 10 miles wide
| at Hartford and 200 feet deep at MiddletoWn
! The mountains between the latter city and
| Merlden were islands IN the river that ran to
! the Sound IN two channels, the new one run
nlng over the Wallingford plains in New
! Haven.
Two LION CUBS were born in the Philadel-
phia Zoo last Sunday, but lived only dozen
hours. Neither had any palate or well or
ganized roof to its mouth, and consequently
| could not absorb nutriment. This malfOrma-
| tlon Is found in nearly all lion cubs born in
| captivity, and TO some extent in all wild ami
| mails OF the cat tribe when condemned to the
bondage Of iron bars.
| THE Anglo Burmese war lends special IN
terest to list of foreign residents IN Manda-
lay. Besides two Americans, there are over
| eighty Europeans in the city, consisting of
Tour English, seven Greeks. two Germans
eight huraslans, fifteen ArmenIans. eighteen
Italians, and twenty eight French, including
| The priests and seven nuns belonging to the
| Roman Catholic Mission, which is greatly
respected by the Burmese Queen. Further,
| there are twenty-five Chinese traders and
| local population of 1000 Celestals, twelve
| Mogul traders attracted by the ruby mines)
jews, indian native merchants, and a number
| of Suratis.
EXPERIMENTS have recently been conducted
with view to improving the quality of the
wine produced in the Cape Colony. Some
| Montague wine, purchased last season, has
| been since March subjected to a new treat
| ment, with the special object of removing the
| excess of tannic acid from the LIQUOR The
| wine when purchased is said to have been
! brOwnish red in color, with rough astrlpgent
Taste. The wine was racked. the racklng con-
| slstlng Of simply bringing the wine in contact
with the air by moving it from clean cask to
clean cask. The wine thus manipulated is
said to become most palatable. No spirits are
used.
PRINCE ALExANDER's life, especially now,
IS one OF almost uninterrupted work. From
in the morning until midday he receives
his Ministers; in the afternoon military mat
ters are discussed, and seldom are the even
/ ings free for recreation. Al the court of
| Prince Alexander, IL court it can be termed
| there is observed neither the eiiouette of the
East nor of the West. II is simply a military
| society, where ceremony Is little thought of
| ana admission s easily to be obtained. As
| there Is no aristocrscy among the Sav peonle
\ OF the Balkans, there % no mark of distinc-
! tlon beyond the possession of n greater or
lesser store of roubles. Consequently every
! Bulgarian has a right of free speech with MS
/ ruler. and this right he is fond OF using There
/ Is one drawback 10 1.-THE want of personal
cleanliness on the part Of his loyal subjects.
| LETTER IN the Russian NOOOsi from Diar-
kent describes the disorders and dangers In
] Chinese kuldja and on the Russian frontier as
greatly on the increase. On Sept. a party
] OF marauders burned a large quantity of
| standing corn. and while a Chinese detach
! ment sent against them was resting, they sur
! prsed and murdered ten OF the soldiers and |
! one omcer, and pursued the rest into the fort
fess OF Ichinchagos. About the same time
/ smother party OF brigancs in the TalkinsEv
nils slaughtered no fewer than 300 Infantry.
| and 100 cavalry soldiers to the last man: and |
ON Oct IL 300 more Chinese Bashi- Bazouks
| laid waste the settlement of Altitude. near
! kuldJa Town. Most OF the brigands are
| Chinese deserters, and the email humber of
| Cossack pickets are unable TO prevent similar
acts OF murder and plunder on Russian ter
| rltory.
"THE courageous defense made by Prince
Alexander and the victories he has won.n
says the Berlin correspondent OF the London
Times. "have nowhere caused greater satlsfac-
| tlon than here among his old comrades and in /
military circles generally; and even the SYM |
! paihies oi the political world have now again
/ decidedly yeered round in his favor Tho 1
/ Frince's political vision Ia submitting TO the /
demands Of the Porte Is no less admired thaB J
! the military genius he has displayed in de-
| Tending his people against the cowarfly md
unrghteous attacks OF the Servians, II nov
/ seems 10 be the sincere hope OF every one hen
! that King Milan may got such thoroug 4