Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-27
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young ladies.
IN order to prevent their books from being
stopped at the Russian frontier, or even wholly
cOnfscated, German authors are now Obliged
70 submit All their proof sheets to the red pen
Gil Of the arbitrary Russian censor.
CREMATION in Paris will soon be available
for the general public at the small cost Of So
for each operation. An experm entail furnace
is being constructed at Pere la Chaise, on the
principle OF the crematories at Rome and
Milan.
Tons upon tons Of bird gravel arc brought
from Long island annually to New York for
the use of canary birds and similar winged
pets. Only the tiny pebbles smOothed and
rounded by the attrition Of the waves will
answer gravel with sharp edges and angles
proving fatal when swallowed.
A LAKE KEUKA trout was sold at Penn Yam
recently, the weight of which was 10 pounds.
soon after 1t was left at the market il was
opened. and quantity of gravel stones were
taken from its stomach. They had been
forced through Its mouth, and added a pound
and half to the weight of the fish
GEN. HENRY 0. REED, of III Broadway,
New York, President of the London and Con-
tlnental Cattle Company, capital $.O,G00,0C0,
IS selecting for purchase 100000 acres OF the
grazing piateaus of Tennessee. The cattle
VIII range the mountain ranches during the
summer and be wintcred in the farming dis
trlcts OF the lOwlands.
A PECULIAR custom in the Cape Verde
Islands Is noted by recent visitor there. His
hostess was smoking a cigarette, when sud
denly she drew it from her lips and offered it
TO him. Though somewhat startled he &C
copied IT with the best grace that he could
command, and upon subsequent inquir found
that IL was considered among the islanders
one OF the greatest compliments lady could
pay to gentleman.
MANY devices have been put in use by
actors and lecturers TO keep from smiling, but
the simplest and most effective is to put
small wooden button in the mouth and bite
down on 1t every time the impulse to laugh
makes Itself manifest. Some grit their teeth,
or crlnge their toes, and IIugheY Dougberty,
the famous minstrel, for a long time resorted
TO the scheme of sticking pin in his thigh.
AN animal tanner has used electricity as a
subduer of unrulY beasts with great success.
His instrument is an apparatus shaped like
an elephant prod and charged with e'ec-
tricity. Three of his lions who were touched
with IT showed signs of the greatest terror;
the tiger, when shocked. crouehed In the
furthest corner of his cage, and the boa con-
strlctor, nearly 20 feet in length, Strengthened
out as II dead, and was mOtionless for six
hours.
IN Alaska, in midsummer, according to a
late letter, the almost continuous light of day
shines upon bright green slopes, shaded here
and there with dark timber belts. rising M
from the deep blue waters. An eHdl ess
variety of bright hued flowers, the hum OF in
| seets, and melOdius song of birds, together
with degree OF heat dispensed by the solar
orb which to our thickened blood appears OPP
pressive, would cause stranger suddenly
transplanted there to think himself IN any
country but Alaska, .at
SOME years ago the soft clam of the Eastern
coast was introduced into the bay of San
xEha md hoa in,
creased exceedingly. The Pacific coast has
returned the compliment by sending its little
round clans, which are much like our "little
neeks," TO be planted in the Atlantic. The
United states Fish Commission agents started
in their car from Puget Sound with 5000
packed in wet sand; and after much difficult
" succeeded in saving about SEQ which are
planted in the beach at Woods Hole, Mass.
VISITORS to Switzerland in the last twenty
years have been disappointed to find the
glaciers, whose greatness tradition has glorled
IN, dwindllnx toward the heads of the valleys
and by their shrinkage uncOverIng fresh mo-
raines and broad acres of hare rock and gray
rubbish not attractive to the general visitor,
however interesting to the geol0gist. Now.
however, the shrinkage has come to halt,
and many glaciers seem to have begun for
ward advance again, and are likely TO recover
the ground lost through series of warm
| years.
THE most recent volcanic eruption in the
/ United States was that which half filed
Feather lake, northern California, on or
about the year 1850. This locality has lately
| been visited by the eminent uluton1st. c. Z.
DUttoD, who says that the lava sheet poured
/ out was over 100 feet thick, and covers a space
/ about by 81 miles in extent, IN the centre OF
| which cinder cone 600 feet high covers the
/ rent. The lava sheet is rough and Jagged in
| the extreme, he says, but shows as vet no
/ trace of weathering. For q space of 400 to 500
/ yards from the cone the trees were all killed.
THE report upon the fishes collected upon
the famous Challenger expedition shows that
all those dredged from great depths two to
1 three thousand fathoms) possess bones and
| ligaments of great softness, and muscles
! loosely connected. This is q provision to al
| low OF the permeatiOH OF their tissues By the
/ water, since otherwise at the great depth
/ where they live the pressure of the water.
! which shivers solid glass TO powder, would
| crush their bodies. Many of these abyssal
| fishes are blind; many have phOsphoreseent
! organs. or secrete a phosphorescent slime;
/ others have distensible stomachs and wide
mouths, which can inguf fishes much larger
than themselves. BIO s7hst
CERTAIN young ladies of what is called So
cety, says a London paper, are just now
much exercised IN their minds about ball
that they proposed to hold. The promoters
of this ball resolved that it should be given
| by IS unmarried girls who were to subscribe
| f5 each TO pay the expenses, and they were
\ each TO be allowed 10 invite n dancing man.
| The happy Is were to be chosen by commit
! tee aud by ballot. and here the trouble began.
| The committee black balled three applieants--
! young ladies' well known in the sacred regions
! Of BelgraYia. This fact came to the knowl-
/ edge OF the Prince of Wales, who took consd-
cradle interest IN the proposed dance, and his
/ Royal Hghneas seems to have resented the
! step taken by the committee In excluding the
/ three ladies', and To have informed the origin
| ators Of the idea that, under the circum-
| stances, they must not expect the ball to be
| graced by royalty.
! 1T is one OF the delights of the stockman
whose fortune has grown up to him like a
jacks beanstalk, to do absurdly eXtravagant
| things. These nabobs will actually shake dice
| for a nice house and lot, frat dash out OF the
! box. Sealskin OveTcOatS are worn over hand
down suits and immense diamonds flash
! from flannel shirt frOnis. A rich ranch own
! er would ask no better fun than To throw sill
! yer dollars into crowd Of street gamins.
/ There was one poker game IN San Francisco
/ in which every chip-red. white, and blue
I represented a steer. When a man antied
! what he threw to the centre OF the table re-
presented a steer and 10 took another to make
| it good. This was git-edged game and no
/ body who could not CONT his cattle on a thou
sand hills dared take any part in ~. II would
make poor man dizzy 10 think of the money
| that h. won and lost M the steer game. II Is
evident that stockmau's game is no place
for a poor man, anyway.
THE only two great commanders now living
who faced each other IN the late civil war