Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-25
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sion. in fact, Of the proprietors of the Panop-
tlcon. in Berlir.
TIE DAIRYMEN Of Prussia--where farming
seems TO struggle under quite as great de-
preston now as in Grea Britain-are fight
ing artificial buffers and demanding that the
government compel the makers to call their
goods by the right names.
THE RUSSIAN GEoGR APHIcAL SOCIETY has
received bequest OF ZOO rubles to pay for
the collection of the FOLKLORE sonzepf the peo-
pie, and early next spring a welL-knoWp Tnu-
slclan and an ethnologist Will travel into the
ffemcter parts OF the empire to gather this
MISLEADING, Evolutionary music, I44 50 70
NJ CoRTEs, the distinguished microseopist,
hiss been experimenting upon the effects OF
various condiments on the tjsssea of the
oyster. He recommends lemon jufce as the
most valuable of these relshes as IL has the
property of destroying the ami aTcula which
lnfest the stomach of that moIfukk. lev q
TIE SUE CANAL is 90 miles long and q
feet deep, the construction having Covered q
period of thirteen years, and the, capital 4em1
ployed amounted to SIS, 90, 00oin round numg
oers. Q the tonnage between the east and
west the proportions are aoas sDyages by
the canal and sixty by tbe Cape az Good
Hope. .-,-lr7 To.sysgT p
SUBSTANCE called cocoanuta6ellulose, has
been Invented which, the inventors claim
may be used with the greatest Ad< ahtHEe ipl
the construction Of war ships, bYifnAkiEg' it
impossible to sink them. The hieH Is to coat
penetrated by shot, the cellaiose Instantly
closes upon the aperture. thereby preventing
water from entering the hull.
B. F. MYERS of Montana Territory, SAYS to
Chicago interviewer: st is an exploded
idea that people can go to Montana. plough.
drop the seed IN anywhere and reap har-
vest II is hard to pick up good ranch there
nna hnn A. - -
eminent land there, but it is untilable. There
Is on little good land left, and that Is along
the streams"
he ONCE MIGHTY EUPHRATES seems likely
to disappear altogether. For some years past
the river banks below Babylon have been CIV
ing way SO that the stream spread out into a
marsh. until steamers could not sss, and
My narrow channel remained for the ma
tive boats. Now hi passage is becoming OBJ
liberated, and unless matters improve the
WINS on the banks will be rulnei, and the
famous river itself viii be swallowed up by
the desert.
AN OLD SABRE was recently plowed up by
William A. Thompson on his farm on Good
win Point. n. Y. The brass mountings of the
scabbard are we'll preserved, and the hilt,
which is also of brass, had been plated with
gold, as slight traces of that metal can he
seen about the guard The sword is supposed
~ have belonged to an officer of Sulllvan's
born. made raid upon the Indians along
G yuga lake in l779 It will be deposited IN
Cornell University Museum.
THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT has Just created
a certain number trave ing juries This is
a modified form of an institution established
by the first republic. In the organic law of
the institute it was ordained that the institute
was to select yearly ten citizens to travel
abroad and collect information useful to sci
ence- commerce and agriculture. These SCI
entihc travellers will not be appointed by the
Academy of Sc ences or the whole institute,
but by sneclal minlstrative commission,
on the basis of a competitive examination.
The PIAZZA of St. Marks at Venice is being
repav,d, and the opportunity has been taken
to search for the remains of the ancient build
ings which formerly stood on the site of the
present square. Probably the excavations
will occupy two or three years, and it is in
tended 10 determine the original area of the
Piazza, and to look especially for traces of the
native church OF st. Giminiano, built 10 $50,
and Of the wall raised against the Hungari an
pirates about Q 0. Some valuable twelfth
century sculptures have already been found
in the mud.
THE PROCESS of restoring a characteristic
old wooden church at Hoppers ad, in the
Hardes district of Sogne, in Norway, has
brought to light an interesting Norwegian
mediaval relic. In closed niche a book con-
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enclosed In casket of wood and leather. The
tablets are OF lockwood, covered with wax.
each tablet having a thin border, so as to
hinder the tablets rom sticking tOget her on
closing the nook: this precantion has helped
to keep 1t IN excellent preservation The
contents are chiefly drawings made by a fine
style representing scenes from village and
rural life. At the end there is large cata-
logue IN Latin of various kinds of animals
with translation into old NOrw egian, and
from tins II has been cOnjectured that the
syF a no Of hn honk data Fra.
close OF the thirteenth century. But there
are indications that part of the book is of
earlier date, The tablets are fastened to-
gether at tho back and the cover is carved
and inlald with various small pieces of differ
emily cOlored woods. The book has been
placed in the Museum of Antiquities in the
I university OF Chrlstiana, and it is intended TO
publish it shortly in facsimile.
A LARGE NUMBER of Treasury clerks who
have been in the habit Of considering it the
right thing to reach their desks from five
alnutes to an hour late were very much
alarmed Monday when, on their arrival at
the doors OF the Treasury building. they were
opped By the dOorkeeper, their names taken
memorandum made OF the minute and hour
OF their arrival. and the information given
that the report was to be sent to Chief Clerk
1oumans, by order of Secretary Manning
When the notes of the different doorkeepeTs
were collected it was found that 235 tardy en-
ployes had deprived the government of an
aggregate OF three days labor. The excite-
ment caused by this proceeding, il might have
been supposed, would have cured all tardy
clerks. The dOorkeepers to-day reported
that 70 clerks arrived late. The Secretary
has also directed that The hours Of departure
OF clerks shall be observed He is determined
that the government business shall not be de-
layed by failure OF employees to he az their
posts during the hours prescribed for them
If their pay cannot be deducted for | ss of
time, AS TO which there is some dispute ID
may be that discharge will be tried az a
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ALEXANDER FERGUSON, better known in
war times than he Is now, puts upon paper
good bit Of history He writes to a Cincip-
natl journal: Il met Gen. Mcclellan on
train going to Columbus, just after the firing
on fort sumter. r was in the Senate then
and went 70 McClellan'sroom that evening al
his MOTEL. found him considering a bill for
the organization OF the Ohio troops, which
had been introduced to the House bv William
j. Flagg. and which had passed To- its third
reading and was ready for engrossment IL
had be- hastily drawn, and we came 10 the
conclusion that 10 wac not exactly what was
wanted. ] made 8Rppotntmentlfb meet
Mcclellan az the senate Chamber. where
had brlghtly's Dig0shr contajnipg the Mexi-
can war laws, and there AZ, my desk Il drew a
bill which was introduced In the moriil B = and
passed on reassemblngin The afternoon AZ
substitute for Flagg's, and sent 70 tile House,
message announclng concurrence came he.
fore Mcclellan left nnydesh, sud A. remarked:
4 nave higher oplnlon Of n republican form
OF government than ever h lad before Bred
West Pointer. he hadthonEht the macbIneTy
81 our government Too t6pt Tor gl,f faRposes
This bill prnvided fnr fha ny,,.asre :. -. - :