Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

iished between Rome and Genoa, and the pio-
necr boats destined to open the Tiber once
/ more a. a highway Of commerce have been
launched from an English shipyard.
THERE are plenty OF signs that there will
be brilliant fashionable season in the Amer
! ican c9iony this winter" said Edward King
I IN his Paris letter. Our democratic friends
! are preparing 10 show what they can do in
the line Of display"
TEARS stood in the eyes of a wee lass when.
at Madison, Wis, the other day she stood VI
/ before iO0 veterans and was received with
clecf7 ~ the "Chld of the Iron Brigade il
was llttte lea,sy Force, and many caps went
into the air when she sang them a song.
NJ DELAUNAY, of Paris, predicts that
earthquakes on grand scale will occur next
| year. when the earth is under the influence OF
a planet OF the frst rank or under tnat Of a
| group OF asteroids, or &c a time when the sun
and moon are nearest to our planet simulta-
neOusly.
TFE British schooner Bertha collided with
q huge iceberg ON Sept. IA and sank within 10
minutes. Ire Bertha was laden with full
! cargo Of goldfish, and left Francis HaDhnr,
Labrador coast, on the previous day. The dis
aeter occurred OF Cape st. Francis. The
crew numbering seven hands, escaped in the
boats.
TIE new Goethe Society, which is exciting
much attention IN Germany, has already OBJ
| tanned about 60o members. The first publIca-
| tlon which 1t will bring out will be the CORE
| spondence, extending over many years, be-
/ tween the Duchess Anna Amelia, Of SAKE
Welmar, and the Frau Rath, the mother Of
Goethe.
| NEW toy that will interest the children is
| the house that Jack built" 1t IS house
with eight windows. Eight knobs are placed
| Mt the base Of n house. and as these are struck
WIN bA!l rolled by tBe players one of the
| celebrities Of Jacks house appears 1t each
| corresponding window.
TT has been ascertained at the United
States Treasury that the personal accounts OF
| Washington, which have been kept in a box
! IN the Office OF the Register are not in rs good
| condition rs their value as reIcs would make
~ htling mat they should be, and the Regis
| ter has taken steps to secure better protection
| Tor the papers in the future.
MINNESOTA has just hanged man under
| Is re-estabshmeut of the death penalty.
Seven years ago O law was made to leave to
| The Jury the decision whether the convicted
murderer should be killed or imprisoned for
life. The jurors invariably chose the living
punishment, irrespective of the atr0citY
Of the crime. Then the plan of let
ing the Court designate was tried with no
different result.
IN lecture at the meeting Of the British
Medical Association. DIR. Roberts pointed out
the current error that wines aid digestion
'Wines," he said, ''inhibit the action of saliva
70 marked extent, and have q retardng
nect on peptic digestion" He thought
efervesclng wines were the least injurious,
audthat wines taken with table waters did
| not embarrass salivary action. Distilled
spirits taken in moderation were found to
promote digestion very distinctly.
AT the Office of the Adige of Verona there
appeared the other day an aged lady, still
robust and gay, who offered to recite at per-
formsuces proposed to be given in favor Of old
actors, reserving a benefit night for herself.
She was ROsahnda Carus. formerly an actress
wen known in Verona through her career,
nd lately on account Of her venerable age.
She was born on Aug. q, 1885, and has there
fore Just compile ted her one hundredth year.
she Is still able to read without spectaCles.
All the savings she has been able TO accumu-
late during sixty years on The stage had been
deVoureq by the troubles she had gone
through, principally by the burning of the
Monte de Pieta, and the foundations which
occurred a few years ago.
SINCE the tree list in Prof. Sargent's Gen.
| sus Report is to be the standard authority,
some changes from the names now prevalent
| ought TO be motel. Great pains were taken In
the photography of the species. and according
to the law among scientific men priority Of
| the date of description gives the authority to
name. The Southern, or long leaved pine,
| usually known as Pinus Austrahs, Nix, be
4 .
pelo, or peperidge, known as Nyssa multi
| fOra, Wang, has been united with several
southern forms ne one species under n. syl-
vatica, Marshall; the HOrnbeam. Cdrpinus
| Americana, Lamark, becomes &. CarOliniana,
Walter, and our common hemlOck is no longer
Abies, but Tsuga Canadensis, Carriere.
A PIECE OF INTELLIGENCE was recently re-
| ceived at the Mining Exchange in New York
which created some excitement among the
holders of the Cemstock properties, namely,
| the determination of the Sutro Company to
Ht'lize the immense body of water flowing
| from the tunnel, to drive quartz mills for
| crushing the low grade ore several hundred
| feet west from its mouth The fail from the
mouth of the tunnel to the mouth of the Car
son river is about l6s feet, and the calculation
| is that with this power five 40 stamp mills
! can be erected with a total crushing power of
GOO tons in q hours. The ledge OF the low grade
| ore cut through in driving Che tunnel Is SAID
| TO be between 400 and 500 feet IN width, and
J 10 give an average assay of nearly S. per ton.
The building Of trestles for fumes and tracks
md the construction of the mills is to begin at
once.
ACCORDING to Prof. Tyndalrs investig-
ations, the singularly blue color of the water
! OF the Lake OF Geneva is due to the presence
Of small mineral particles, probably derived
from glacier dust, brought into the lake by
drainage from glacier streams, and Of such
extreme minuteness as not to settle even
when the water rs allowed tO stand for a long
time. Examination also makes apparent the
fact that not only Is the light mainly blue
from the FIRST moment Of its reflection from
the minute particles. but the less refrangible
elements which always accompany the blue
| are still further ahstracLed during the trans
NILSSON of the scattered light by true moecu-
lar absorption. These two causes, scattering
and absorption. are therefore considered sur
! hcient to account satisfactorily for the excep-
tional blueness 81 both the Lake OF Geneva
and the Mediterranean sea.
"a NEWPORT GENTLEMAN" writes Margerv
Deane, asked me not long since to come 10
his house, whore he would show me the bones
OF forty women. knowing him to be a col
lector OF all manner OF things rare and I'M
usual, was only too glad to get within his
walls. But pOndcred long over these sbones'
40 suggestive OF st. Ursula and her virgins,
and the Capuchin monks in Rome. I went
Verify, they were the bones of forty women
DUSK b0nes-and curious indeed was the col
lection. There was time when women tor
turei themselves even more than they do
now. In those days bipe were always COM
ing and going from Newport, and the sailors
LETT their wives and sweethearts behind them
for q three years voyage. Every sailor who
came home brought his sweethe art--and il is
to b. hoped his wife II he had oue--a hit OF
his handiwork while az sea, in the shane OF n
husk bone made from wood, ivory or walrus
bucks. These were carved and ornamented
according 70 the skill and taste OF the sailor.
Forty OF these nave been picked up in old
engraved, which must have brought bushes,
and all bear curious devices"
VICTORY comes gayly tripping upon VIC