Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-14
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THE Tooth anniversary of the organization
o5 abe First Baptist Church, of Baltimore,
vas celebrated Sunday
BRIDES on the island of Sicily are compelled
to have their eyebrows shaved on jmmedi-
ately before the wedding ceremony takes
place.
WHEN a St. Louis policeman Is asked any
question about city places he takes from his
pocket a small guide book and offers to Sc ii
for % cents.
ONLY -FOUR out of the 46 States and Terri
tories are now trying to prohibit the sale of
strong drink. Five others have made the eff
fort and abandoned it. Eleven have stringent
license laws, and Il have never leglslated on
the subject.
a PHILADELPHIAE went to physician with
what he feared was hopeless case Of heart
disease, but was relieved on finding out that
the creaking sound which he had heard st
every deep breath was caused by little pull
ley on his patent suspenders,
TIKI highest priced picture in the world is
the Blenheim Madonna, belonging to the
Duke of Marlboro. for which the British gov
eminent is asked to pay $35O,OOO. 1t was
painted by Raphael, and is supposed to be the
best example Of his work extant.
JUST NOW IN England there are certain bold
blasphemers who thinks that RuskIn has been
uttering most brilliant twaddle on a subject
OF which he knows nothing. His criticism Of
English civilization and its operation in this
country especially is, like sir Lepel Griffin's,
a mere sacrifice OF accuracy TO the savage
delight of saying something caustic.
PROF. FISCHER, Of Munich, is said to have
obtained from distilled coal white crystal
line powder which, in its action on the system,
cannot be distinguished from quinine. It's
efficacy in reducing fever heat Is thought to
be remarkable, though wholesale druggists
say that the amount of the drug required TO
produce this effect so larg. as to preclude
any rivalry between 1T and genuine qulnlne.
THE state Department has just received
from Wm. Egan " Co., OF Cork, Ireland,
solid silver model Of Shandon Church, Cork,
well-knOwn in the United States and Great
Britain in connection with the famous poem,
entitled, THE Bells of ShandOn," BY the late
Francis MahOney Father irOutl. The model,
which is a beautiful piece of work, is intended
for exhibition at the New Orleans EXPOSE
ton,
SOME of the researches lately made by Eng
lish explorers in regard to deep-sea beds have
led to the belief that there are no rough
ridges, abrupt chasms, nor bare rock, and
that the sea bottom at great depths is not az
fected by currents or streams-even by those
of the magnitude of the Cuff Stream-its gem
eral appearance rather resembling that of
the American prairies, and 1t Is everywhere
covered by a kind OF mud.
ALMOST every European nationality in
New Orleans has its distinctive benevolent
society of that name, and the French the
Spanish, the Italian and the Irish have IN adj
ditiOn almost as many different societies as
the Americans. 1t Is not of rare occurrence
to meet adult male who does belong to
two. three, or a dozen different societies. and
il is not by any means an isolated ease where
the badge of membership in 20 and even 30 So
cietics is proudly exhibited.
SPEAKING Of DIR. Richardson's process for
the painless killing of animals, the Lancet
saws that science scores in 1t a magnificent
success: it gives Inferior creation a blessing
it dare not give to man-painless death. The
agent, which has been used successfully with
5000 dogs, is carb0nic oxide passed at summer
heat over a mixture of chlOrOfOrm and bisul-
phide OF carbon into lethal chamber. The
method has been used successfully with sheep
and will be applied to larger animals.
SENATOR LAMAR" a Cleveland Leader
correspondent says, .'writes as though he
were a monk in some old monastery Of the
fifteenth century. The letters are small and
neat and made in the up and down strokes
in vogue before Spencer invented his curves
and loops. 1t is a scholarly hand, and warm
or than that of George Frsble Hoar, which
stands upon the paper as cold as Massachu-
- a
period or a redundant flourish and abbrevi-
ated at every point"
SAwDUST is mixed with common alluvial
clays now, and the compost is ground and
pressed by machinery, and baked like bricks,
The result is called terra Gotta lumber. which
is spongy enough. the sawdust having been
burned out, to admit OF the use of wood work
ing tools upon it. 1t is only adapted for in
side work, and is used like brick, each piece
being about foot long, six inches wide, and
four inches thick. The surface is smooth, and
can be finished by two thin coats Of plaster
Ii is lighter than similar wall Of studding
and laih heavily plastered. 1t holds nail
well. and affords, II is claimed, prime sys-
TEN OF fire-proofing'
ZONE more unfortunate, with more money
than brains, gone to the dogs, or, rather, to
the horses" Such is the unkindly comment
on the collapsesOf Sir John WlllOughby, after
a short but by no means merry career on the
turf. There could be no more eloquent Illus
tratiOn of the sort OF capacity he brought TO
the pursuit, wherein the shreWdest often find
themselves at fault, than the contrast between
the prices paid by him for the chief animals
in his stud and the figures offered for them at
the auction recently. Sir John bought Har-
Vester about seven months ago Tor $4,000. but
not a bid approached the mere third even OF
the money paid for the Derby dead heater
and his stable companion, Queen Adelaide.
THE Japanese dentist does not brighten
ments. All of his operations in tooth
drawing are performed by the thumb and
fOrefinger of one hand. The skill necessary to
do this is only acquired after long practice,
but once it is obtained the operator is able to
extract half dozen teeth in about thirty
seconds without removing his fingers from the
patients mouth. The dentists education COM
mences with the pulling out of pegs which
have been pressed into soft wood; It ends with
the drawing of hard pegs which have been
driven into an oak plank with a mallet. a
writer in the Union Medicdle says that no hu-
man jaw can resist the delicate but powerful
manipulation of the Japanese dentist.
In FRANCE no candidate for the Legislature
is elected unless at the first ballot he has OBJ
tanned Cd an absolute majority of the votes
given, and ~ a number equal to 25 per cent.
of the electors on the register. If these condi-
tions are not fulfilled, a second election takes
place on the second Sunday following the day
OF the first return. AT this election the can
didate who stands highest at the poll is de-
clared to be successful, no matter what pro-
norton his votes may bear to the total num-
Der of voters. popularity of the French
electoral law is that. if an equal number of
votes is recorded for two candidates. the
elder of the two is declared to be elected.
ALADY well advanced in years was found
recently wandering along the road, near
Leavenworth, Kas., and, on being questioned,
she said she was searching for a buggy con-
tanning a child. She had left the buggy
short distance from the house, ana the horse
attached to it had wandered of. The night
was bitter cold. 1t was discovered that tie
horse had wandered into the woods, and be-
coming tired, had lain down. The child.
bright little girl, was found by some boys next
morning snugly sleeping against the breast Of
the horse, with its head lying on one of the
animals fOrelegs. The little one had evil
IDENTIFY become cold, and when the horse lay
down went to try to make it get
mp, when. the boys think, the
sagaciOus animal managed to place it with its
head on its arm, so to speak, to keep it from
freezing to death. The mother was overjoyed
to recover her child, and will keep the faith
InI hnraa AZ long "a she lives.