Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ cent out circulars assuring recipients that 1t
! has influence with the President. and that all
applications intended for official cOnslders-
ton should be sent through the bureau, y
accompanied by S. retainers.
THE United Richard Wagner Society, which
was founded in 1883 with view of combining
/ the masters scattered adherents in one or
/ ganlzaiiOn for eff, ctive action, has already
| ISL branches and agencies in Europe and
America, with total of 5,l2i members.
RESIDENTS of the temperance town of Ev-
ansyille, Rock county, WIS, have hit upon a
novel method of procuring liquor. They
| hoard the dlning-cars on the railroad, which
| passes through the town, drink as much as
| they wish, and return home when satlated'
| RECENTLY in Germany scientific journal
made the statement that it would be benef-
cial to the eyesight to print books in dark
blue ink on pale green paper. The first vol
1 ume printed in this way. THE Natural His
tory Of the Women Of Berlin" has just made
Its appearance.
NEW Indian school and farm are to be
located at Grand Junction, Col. Congress
appropriated $25, 900 to be expended on build
ings on condition that the pc pie would give
1850 acres Of land for farm purposes, which was
done, The location selected is about one and
quarter miles from the town.
A LONDON JOURNAL tells this story of Mr..
Sturgeon, who lately visited San Reno. On
one occasion, when he was crossing the Italian
frontier, the redoubtable preacher was or
dered by the dOUdnier8 to give up to Them GER
tain fruit which he was carrying. Thereupon
! he retired three PAGES into the French terri
tory and ate it.
PLATINUM has been discovered in New
South Wales in connection with gold in the
Ophir district. 1t has been found IN the form
OF small grains in the Hunter and Macleay
districts. and nugget weighing 26S grains
was obtained from Wiseman's creek with
sl'uVal gold. The sand of the seacOast near
Richmond river is also found to contain this
precious metal.
DIR. ScuULTHEIss graduated in theology in
Berlin in 1887, and went forth to convert the
heather in Southern Africa. In his Goth year
he undertook some scientific journeys, and in
1881 he returned to Berlin, where he COM
menced the study Of medicine. Having now
in his 14th year-received his doctors de-
gree, it is his purpose to settle down in Africa
as a general practitioner.
EX-GOv PORTER made reputation in Ten
nessee by challenging Horace Maynard some
years ago. Maynard refused to fight. There
was one other instance also where Mr.. Porter
had sent q challenge. Gen. Gordon, the bearer
OF the WhittAorle note, undoubtedly gave a
verbal explanation Of the character Of the
/ note. Mr. Porter's declining TO receive 1t
shows that he has changed HE mind about the
code which he was so free to use few years
ago.
ONE day when the ground was white with
snow, Nine. Dorian, great whip among the
Partisan "sportswomen," invited Victor Hugo
to drive out and see the skaters in the Bots de
BOulOgne. As he got up beside her on the
box Of her turnout she remarked: "YOu have
forgotten your Overcoat, mon cher maitre."
my Overcoat! 1 haven't any, and l never
had one; and | dress Just the same way in
winter rs | do in summer. My Overcoat is
my youth"
ITALIAN antiquarians have discovered false
teeth in a skull which has been excavated in
an ancient Etruscan cemetery. with many
other curiosites, at present safely slowed
away at the museum Of antiquities at CornetO,
in Tusc my. The sepulchre out of which the
skull was taken dates, according to experts,
from the fifth or sixth century b. c.. and the
false teeth are nothing but animal teeth at
tached to the human teeth by means of small
| gold plates.
IN France ''the MOBILITY and the 6our-
goojsie," said Cardinal Pie a few years ago,
''giye fewer and fewer of their offspring to
our holy order, which no longer finds its sus-
tenauce save among the children of the
! people" While in Ireland the fact that the
| priests are OF and from the people has been
a potent source of their influence, it does not
! seem IN France TO cOnciliate popular good VIII.
/ The French prOtelariat never seems to have
4 got over the intense hatred Of the priesthood
/ which showed itself in 17SS. They regard it
as the friend Of an aristOcrcy.
TEE Supreme Courts Of New York and
Massachusetts, have settled the matter as to
who owns medical prescription. The sub
/ stance Of the decisions is, that the physician,
IN prescribing, gives the patient a written
/ order for drugs, and their delivery terminates
J the operation. The druggist nav on his own
/ responsibility, renew tGc drugs. for he is a
! merchant. and has q right to sell drugs in any
shape. lie Is not bound to give copy of the
! prescription, nor even to keen It, though he
/ usually retains 1t as q protection in case of
error on the part Of doctors or patient.
| A MAN from Shellburue Falls. Mass, care
lessly left wallet, containing 5000 in money
and S1,4O0 in notes and securities, in the wait
ing-room at the union depot in Troy. At
! Jacksonville he missed the wallet, which
/ meantime had been taken into safe keeping
/ by the ticket agent. He was allowed to send
J from Johnsonvile a free dispatch announcing
his loss. he then went back to Troy and OBJ
/ tanned the property from the agent. Then
! followed a grutf "thank you," with a volley
of fault-fnding because he had been put to
! the expense of paying his fare back from
/ JohnsOnyile to Troy.
BISHOP BURNETT relates a curious crcum-
stance respecting the original passage of that
important statute, the habeas corpus act at
was carried" he says, ''by an odd artilce in
the House of Lords. Lord Grey and Lord
! Norris were named to be the tellers. Lord
Norris, being man subject to vapors, was
not at all times attentive TO what he was
/ doing; so, very fat Lord coming in, Lord
Grey counted him for ten, as a jest at first but
| seeing Lord Norris had not observed it, he
/ went on with this mlsreckoning of ten: so it
I was reported to the House, and declared that
| they who were for the bill were the majority.
| though il indeed went on the other side. and
! by this means the bill passed."
THE widow OF Gen. Custer relates that. in
| a Dakota Indian dance, 4-year-old boy
was brought to the circle by his mother and left
to make lis little whirling gyrations around
/ the ring Of the dancers. It was explained
/ that he had won his rignt to ioin in the fes
/ tlvities of the tribe. or the four Indians OF a
| rival tribe left on the battlefield. one though
| mortally wounded, was not vet dead when
/ the retreat took place. squaw melted the
/ child TO plunge a knife into the wounded
| warrior. As reward he acquired the
privilege Of j1inilg in all celebrations, and
/ the right to wear an eagle feather standing
| straight from the scalp-lock OF his tiny
/ head. The mothers eye cleaned with pr lie
| "a she watched the miniature warrior ad-
| mitted amoLg the mature and experienced
/ braves
THE King Of the Belgians, who has just cele-
DRAFTED the completion of his ffteth year,
may be said to enjoy one almost unique dis
tlnction among the reigning princes Of Chris L
endom. Born heir apparent to tho crown, he
succeed q father who died a natural death
az good old age and in secure possession Of
ms scrptrc. Tho King Of Italy was II years
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