Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-19
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tlonal bank New York.
THE SINKING FUND is per cent. OF the en-
tire public debt. This must be set aside each
year and used in the redemption of bonds.
10 II IL added all fractional currency re-
deemed by the treasury.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL recently gave to
the Massachusetts, Historical Society an auto
graph letter of Robert Burns, dated at Dunn
| Irles' May Il, 1893 which he received from the
WIDOW OF Barry Cornwall.
SECRETARY MANNING and some others in
Washington have formed Syndicate" for
the consumption Of fresh venIsop, which will
ne sent them regularly all the way from Fort
worm Tex, as long as cold weather lasts.
The LEGISLATURES of New York and Ma
ryand are both required to convene a consti-
tutl-nal convention every twenty years for
Ihe revision Of each States fundamental law.
Inc legislation required will be passed at the
ensuing sessions.
The UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY
now operates 4,499 miles of road, and either
controls or has proprietary interests IN 1905
mites more, total 5S04 In operating this
system, which penetrates i've States and
territories, over 10000 men are employed.
LONDON would seem to he fast becoming the
paradise Of domestic servants A lady living
IN Regents Park advertising for a cook and
lontemald, announces that they will be al
lowed the use of piano and late dinner
IheV VII also he allowed out two nights
week and every other Sunday.
IN A REPORT on hydrophobia. lately made to
the Academic dc Medicine by II. Leblanc. at
tentOn was called to the fact that the disease
increases in proportion to the lax application
OF the pretectOral laws concerning dogs. In
Berlin, where the laws are executed with
prec sion. there WAS not Z case OF hydrOpho-
bla during the past year.
4 a
ing into favor. 1t is made much smaller than
on the old pan, but is cast hollow and then
filed with lead. The result is a 1y- wheel of
the same weight but occupying much less
room and giving equally satisfactory results
with those MADE on the plan that has been in
vogue ever since the Introduction of this
form Of regulator for the speed of the steam
engine.
JOHN GOETHE. st. Paul undertaken, was
summoned by a Swedish woman to take the
measure of her husband for his coffin. Enter
ing the room where the illeged deceased was
lying he was astOnished to see the corpse sit
upright In bed. He called for the woman,
VINO did not express any surprise. She said
the man would be dead in a short time and
he might as well take his measure now. The
undertaken refused.
PROF. L. c. JOHNSON, United States geolo-
gst, has just completed an extensive survey
of the iron fields of North Louisiana. His con-
clusion is that these fields are not extended
enough for heavy manufactures, but are suited
Tor pot metal, bar, rod and strap iron, shelf
hardware, and for all kinds of light material.
He prOnounees the quality of the ore excel
lent, and thinks their working would prove
nightly femuneratlve.
THERE ID said to be tradition that the first
man who goes into pawnshop of a Monday
morning is never permitted to leave without
buying what he wants. Pawnbrokers have a
a fhnr III call TO- ho Hrcf
customer who comes in on Monday they will
have bad luck all week. And TINS has become
rule with people who patronize pawnshops.
A man got $40 overcoat last winter for IS
because he went into a pawnbroker's the first
man on Monday and asked 10 look at some
overcOats.
BEAU BRUMMELL's social sway In London
was for time 80 powerful that even to lend
him money-when he condescended to borrow
was considered an honor. A gentleman not
Of the elect once lent him f50O hoping by the
loan 10 be chosen. Disappointed, he asked
the Beau for the return of his money. 81
don't owe you any money" Brummel replied;
II nave paid you. Paid me. When"
why. when | was standing by the window at
whites; and SAID as you passed by All, how
do you do, Jemmy|"
1T Is SAID that the probable origin Of the
term "bloody shirt is to be found in the fifth
volume of Gibbons "RIse and Fall of the Ro-
man Empire" The third successor of Ma
homet, Gilman, had been assassinated by one
Of the Arabs factions. MoawiYa, who reigned
few years later, revenged the death of 9th
man, GlbbOn says vol. 5, p. 1870: 1.-THE sa-
cred duty of pursuing the assassins of 9th
man was the engine and pretense of his ambi-
ton and the bloody shirt of the MARTYR was
exposed in the mosque of Damascus" etc.
Mr.. LABoUCHERE, writing of the late AL
fonso, gives an odd incident in his personal
experience. He was visiting Madrid. 1.-THE
tombs OF the Spanish kings" he tells us, chad
been opened. had courier with me who
was friend of their guardian, so he showed
us the exposed monarchs. As we were look
ing at Charles V. he stopped down and handed
the courier pinch of the dead Emperors
beard, and offered me one. Not caring for
these sort of mOrtuary spos. / declined. but
! suppose that, had accepted it, many would
have regarded it as curiosity if had offered
1t to them"
THE new Lord Mayor OF London is Master
of the Leathersellers Company, whose cor
porate expenditure for the year has been re-
turned at about $s0,00O, including close on
$4,000 for entertainments and $1,000 for
wines. These figures illustrate the large and
liberal style in which the civic organizations
on the other side mOllify the asperities of
business with the delights of social indul-
gence. The beadles OF some of the commands
are very remarkable people. One of them
has nominal salary OF $500, but with pick
lngs ana peTqulsites which bring 1t up to
$500 Bundle WAS never clad in such
glory.
PEOPLE who arc slender and nervous some
times express a dread of the effect that
''shock" might have upon them in case of
accident. AT a recent meeting of the New
York state Medical Association. Dr. C. w
Brown, referring 10 individual susceptibility |
TO shock, said that "some persons Of deshv
habit and apparent health will succumb
sooner to minor injury producing shock
than some others Of delicate habits and ncrv-
GUS temperament, the nervous system in the
latter giving way less readily" Also, shock
Is less IN persons suffering from chronic dis
ease than IN healthy people, though the
former are less likely to make complete re-
coyerIes.
South AMERICA is more than double the
size OF the United States. The empire of
Brazil seems on the map quite as large as
Australia. II Is twenty-isur times the size
or England. The Argentine Republic IA
nearly as large as Europe, taking Russia ont
Bolivia and Venezuela are each twice the size
OF England, New Granada and Peru each as
large as England and Scotland, Ecuador
something less, Paraguay equal TO Great
Britain. Uruguay and Chill about the same.
ana the little-known regions OF Patagonia
and Terra del Fuego at least double the di-
mansions OF Great Britain British. French
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