Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Edlth, Eve, May, and Violet. There are also
Wayback, Wildcat, snorterville, and Onion.
THE dome on the centre of the ceiling of the
New York Academy of Music is to be painted
a light blue with a cloud design, 50 as to rep
resent the sky, with the chandelier as its
luminary.
A REFORMED BURGLAR delivered a lecture
to large and sympathetic audience in an
Oregon town, the other evening, and a con-
federate picked II wallets while the crowd
was fling in and out.
THE lowest recorded temperature-993 deg.
below zero F.-hss been produced by Ols-
zewski, by vaporiz ng liquid nitrogen under
low pressure. Liquid carbon mon0xide gave
1856 deg. below zero, and liquid oxygen 24615
deg.
A TEXAS GIRL accidentally fell into the
water and was so nearly drowned that resus-
citation was difficult. She declared that her
sensations had been delightful, and she
blamed her friends for regiying her. few
days later she deliberately drowned herself.
The descendants OF the common brook trout
sent to Tasmania have shown a remarkable
tendency to vary in shape and markings.
Furthermore, they are migrating to salt
water, and thus becoming anaGramOus. Tee
same is true OF the New Zealand acclimat-
ants.
Gus SUNDsToRM, the swimming teacher of
the New York Athletic Club, on Sunday swan
from the club house, on the Harlem river, to
the Battery-a distance of 10 miles-in hours
and 81 minutes. He is training for swim
from New York to COney Island with Dennis
Butter, great swimmer.
NEW YORK TAILoRs complain that the
British customers who are introduced to
them by American friends go away in the
great majority OF instances without paying
their bills. he tailOrs DO not care to refuse
their orders, Leaf the American introducers
should be offended; so they prucrasuuate and
are languid, and manage not TO make the
clothes MT, and 80 often save their goods.
LEvAILLANT of the French Ministry, think
ing it likely that the recent closing of clubs
and clandestine gambling houses in Paris
would Increase the number of gamblers that
hetake themselves to the fashionable seaside
places, has ordered the police commissaries to
forward to him the lists of visitors as soon as
they are published, in order that measures be
taken against any notorious sWlndler who
may be among them.
IT appears that the Mormon saints are
rather stupid lot after all. 1t Is said that the
Mormon Legislature which compi ed the Ter
rltOrial statutes, conscious Of their unfltuess
for the SIX, boldly cribbed goodiy portion
Of the California statutes. Nor did they APP
pear 10 have read over the matter which they
appropriated; else they would hardly have
flowed number Of sections relating TO ma
rlne law to pass. seeing that Utah Is about
loco miles from the ocean.
AFTER the conference at Peshawur it was
| observed that the Ameer's followers had a
sentimental desire for keepsakes, almost
amounting to a weakness. One high Afghan
| official WIS seen hurrying along 18th a pair Of
brass candlestlcks, which he safely slowed
away with his own hands. Another, who
was armed with little arsenal from head to
foot, had become posses ed of an umbrella,
and this he had thrust down his back under
u "a hng IN nn .frsgnff Fs
nigh above his head, where it excited the envy
| OF all Afghan beholders.
j. J. THOMAS claims that petroleum applied
| to wood renders it less liable to take fire. Be
has tested this point byexperiment and fOund'
| If there is any difference between the two. the
| lied wood is less liable to take fire. as there
! is less OF cOmbustible fuzz TO form on the
/ surface. The petroleum enters the pores Of
! he wood and renders 1t more like cedar. APP
| gly it freely with coarse brush and in a few
weeks, when 1t has ali soaked in and the sur
| face becomes dry. the surface can be painted.
| Petroleum Is a good protection against the de-
| cay of outbulldlngs, fences, ETC., without the
| addition of paint.
| MINUTE INSTRUCTIONS are given to the Off
GERS of the Salvation Army how TO behave,
what to read, what to wear, and as to mar
rage. They may not marry or court the first
1 ear, and may not become engaged at any
| time without the consent of the General. As
I
| 10 read secular newspapers; but If they do
| look at them, 1t is to be only look. They are
TO read no novels, to avoid all the ordinary
! rel gious books, all the twaddle and trash,
! and gO0dy- goody, milk-and- water stuff and
| TO confne themselves to the Bible, general
orders, the hymn book, and the Var cry.
SEVERAL cases of poisoning by the fumes of
nitric acid have occurred of late at Bonnie
and Halle, and have excited considerable in
terest. In one instance girl who was carry
| ng along the street a metal vessel of nitric
! dcld inhaled the Vap0r ana died of aSphyXla
| Twelve hours afterward. In another instance
young chemist, who had been working for
| some hours with Tuning nitric acid, was
| 9radualiy poisoned, and bis recovery was
very tedious. In view Of such accidents
! LELecfTic,te recommends that batteries, such
is those Of Bunsen, etc, should not be used in
| places where the ventilation is defective.
ABOUT $500, 900, including the Caldwell en-
dowment of s80O,O00 has been raised for the
new National Catholic University at Wash
ngton. The Bishops expect to raise the sum
| to Si,000.O00, and start the institution on u
! basis which Will allow them TO carry out the
work proposed. There will be sl5000O ex-
! pended on the theological department, which
| 10 the building TO be hrst erected, AMI other
wings 10 accommodate the medical, scientific
and law cOurses will be added as they are
| needed. The first students will be priests,
and they Will have the opportunity to follow
! The prescribed course Of study under cOndi-
ALL prior claims to the honor Of the fastest
passage round the world have just been thor
oughly set aside by the performance Of the
| steamship Arawa, OF the Shaw, Savill and
| Albion Co., which arrived from New Zealand
! At Plymouth. Eng, on sunday, July u, at 10
| p. m. The Arawa left Plymouth on March
y, and made her outward voyage to New
! Zealand in ~ days 10 hours so minutes gross
/ or deductiug difference OF time and stop
! pages. 80 DAYS 30 mlnutes net. Homeward
1 the gross time has been 80 days 10 hours or
net steaming time IS days 9 hours 10 minutes
| The voyage round the world was thus per-
| formed in the steaming time of 70 days 8 hours
! ~ minutes.
WHEN Bishop William Taylor went with
men, women, and children TO establish mis-
sonary stations across Africa, with no money
10 pay his expenses, except Of passage, no
! treasury TO draw from for support while IN a
! hostile country, and with on'y limited sup
| ply Of ARTICLES Of merchant Sc to exchange
| with the savages for food and shelter. he had
! M the company his son Ross, with wife and
| four Young children. Ross has decided that
| his children have some clam upon him. He
! could not properly care for them in such a
/ climate rs Africa, and he has deemed u hest
| 20 return 20 America. The Bishop is sorely
! disappointed. writes sadly of the event, and
/ rOmises 10 reimburse the transit fund for
the cost Of their passage.
SOME details Of the Bhootan troubles have
been received 40 last. The subsidy paid yearly
1 by the Indian government is divided among
| the PRINCIPAL chiefs This wear "A ouarrel