Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-29
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FRENCH RAILWAYS annually kill one pas
senger in every 1000. 900 carried, English rail-
WAYS one IN 5,250,000. Belgian railways one in
100000, Prussian railways one in 2l,50o,o00.
THE odd fancy of Michigan man is to
build his summer residence In the shape OF
huge lantern. The site is on a bluff overlook
ing Lake Huron. and when at night the house
is well lighted up the effect Is curious.
ONE of the largest single electric lights ever
made was turned out from the factory at
lion. n. Y, recently. 1t is $4,000 candle
'wer, and is expected to light the town OF
Seneca Falls from position on high tower
MAX MULLER has calculated that at the
close of the next two centuries there will be
in the world 53,37OOO0 people speaking the
Italian language, 72,67l,000 the French, l5l.-
| 100000 the German, 505.2S6,000 the spanish,
and l,S37 ,2S6, l5S the English.
TIE African elephant will be extinct in
another hundred years unless stop is put to
the indIscrimlnate massacre now going on.
20 says Josef Menges, the great importer OF
African wild beasts, and probably the most
eminent authority on such subjects.
STRIPES are becoming fashionable in some
localities. The most admired and stylish
young lady at California watering place Is
not handsome, nor does she wear remarkably
good clothes, butshe drives four-in- hand of
zebras and Is the belle of the place The po-
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this world.
A SUCCESSION of large and small wheels in
side of street car is the visible portion of the
invention of a San Francisco man who ad-
mires the cable roads, but wants to do away
with the destructive grip. The system Is
said to be success and to secure the same
speed as the old plan with the expenditure OF
one-third the power.
GIRL writes to the Cincinnati Enquirer
that she has invented and wishes to patent
combination hustle and chair. She explains
that the hustle is constructed like the usual
article. to be worn under the draperies of
dress, but that within it are adj listed the legs
and seat OF 4 chair, arranged so that when the
wearer bends to sit down thev will autoInatl-
caliy drop into place to support her.
THE engineering difficulties in building the
Canada Pacific railroad are greater than
those encountered in any of the present trans
continental lines. because the available passes
! in the Rocky mountains are more broken
| and rugged. A choice was made of the low
| est of the five within Canadian territory, but
! this is now deemed 2 mistake, and surveyors
are exploring the others at heavy cost.
| FIFTEEN YEARS AGO stage coach coming
out Of Blackfoot Idaho, was robbed of 500
pounds of gold dust. The robbers were ar
rested and sent to the Deer Lodge peniten-
| tiary, but they had succeeded in burying the
| gold, and no one has since been able to find it.
/ Their sentences will expire in a few weeks,
| and the inhabitants of the town are said to be
watching the prison doors carefully to follow
/ them to the treasure when they get out.
! CONNECTICUT CAPTAIN who discovered
this summer how much money there is in the
business, has been cruising off Rockaway
Beach every dsv for porpoises. The average
/ value of each fish rs about 1925. The OIL brings
a high price, the hide makes good leather, the
bones are utilized easily, and the meat, ac-
| IN q ia ablpDp6 P1lla-
| delphia. When pOrpoises are not in sight he
occupies his spare time catching menhaden.
| STANLEY says that African sunlight. with all
its great heat, appeared to him a superior
moonlight, Judging from its effects on seem
cry. He attributes the apparent solemnity of
the ''solemn- looking hills" of which he so
often speaks, to this peculiar sunshine. ut
| deepens the shadows and darkens the dark
green foliage Of the forest, while it imparts
| wan appearance or a cold reflection OF light
to naked slopes and wOOdess tOp-hills. It's
| effect Is a chill austerity an Understandable
solemnity, repelling unsOciability."
DIR. WIN. H. GRIM, of Baltimore, says that
genuine case of leprosy of the most aggrava-
ted type came under his notice recently. The
victim was a Chinaman who had not been
long in this country. The doctor assured him
! self that the man was leper and hen deter
mined to hold a consultation with Health
Commissioner Steuart. but the Chmaman's
III nus hurried Tue l6peT out OF bOWn aDu btuL
! him to New York. where there is a Chinese
! doctor in whom they have great confidence IN
cases of leprosy. Several cases were reported
| in Baltimore some years ago which proved
fatal.
Four MILES back from the coast of Southern
New Jersey are the ruins of the deserted vii
lage of Allaire. The place was the Utopian
dream of James ID. Allaire, wealthy vision
! airy. who butt it about 1s40 embodying vari-
GUS reformatOry and s0caistlc ideas. He in
| tended that it should be a manufacturing CEN
I tire, with stores where the inhabitants could
| buy at low prices, and with schools for the
higher education Of all the children. The en-
| terprise was quick and total failure. The
| walls of the factories are tumbled down and
overgrown, and a cracked bell lies at the foot
of the steeple, from which 1t fell years ago.
AsUIT for $4,000 damages has been begun
in the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, by Mrs.
Ellen C. Van Wickle, widow Of John L. Van
| Wickle, against John Mangles. who keeps a
saloon at Graham aud Van Colt avenues. The
plaintiff alleges that on Dec ~. 1884. her hus-
band met his death through liquor supplied
| by MaDgles. The latter says he sold only one
drink to Van Wicke, from the effects of
which he became intoxicated, The widow
says that after giving her husband the liquor
| Mangles placed him 10 damp room where he
| wa exposed to cold. Death resulted on the
same day from heart disease brought on by
! intOXlcatiOn.
DIR. JOHN b. HAMILTON, Supervising Sur.
geon General OF the Marine Hospital Service.
and one of the visiting surgeons at the Provi-
dence hospital, performed successfully a few
days ago an operation which is said to nave
| been OILY twice before performed in the his.
tory OF surgery. The patient was Young
man who was recently shot IN the abdomen at
| the fremont house. The operation consisted
| in opening the cavity OF the stomach and
bowels and sewing up eleven perforatiOns in
| the young mans small intestnes and two large
perforations IN the lare intestlnes leading
| from the stomach. A large artery which had
BEEN cut and caused q hemOrrhage would
/ have ended the young mans life in an hour or
\ two This was q 40 closed up, and the young
I man is now conval scent.
FIVE YEARS AGO remarkably bright and
pretty girl Of Il worked in a San Francisco
laundry, The son Of wealthy parents fell IN
love with her. She returned his passion, but
said that she would not marry him, rs he
wished. hecauee she WIS uneducated and
coarse. Then he offered to send her away To
school. She accepted this Offer. During the
ensuing four years she was In "a Montreal
convent very apt and atudious. The train
ing wrought al the change that was desira-
bic, and tbs wedding took place. with n long
tour in Europe afterward. The couple re-
turned to san Francisco lately. To show that
she mad neither forgotten nor was ashamed
OF her former employment the bride gave a
grand supper 20 those Of her old companions
who could be brought together
GEORGE ARCHER, an employe OF the Waldo