Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-31
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serial story now running in the Petit Journal,
Paris.
BUFFALoEs are now bred at Goodnight,
Kan, and buffalo calves sell for $50 a head
where once the earth shook beneath the on
ward tramp of 0 1000 hoofs.
AN awning as scarlet as the intensest hue
OF the sunset clouds stretches in a way that is
startlingly conspicuous in front of Lady Claud
sGotts cottage at Cowes, the swell watering
place In England,
AJAPANEsE dancing master announces in
the feddo papers a solemn festival in COM
memoration of the thousandth anniversary OF
the death Of his ancestor, who was the FIRST
OF the family to take up the profession
The inventor of the Maxim gun has notified
the government that he would be pleased to
contribute to the ordnance collie tions OF the
government a full assortment of the weapons
ne has invented, and he would ike TO have
them introduced into the military and laval
service. Tn contribution will be accepted.
LONDON BRIDGE is about to lose much of its
distinctive character, as new structure, to
be called the Tower bridge. is to be built
across the Thames lower down the stream.
rms Will change the view both around and
upon the bridge ana destroy some cherished
traditions, The new highway across the river
Will cost $4,000 900.
A CERTAIN Virginia town which has long
been infested with thievish tramps, is about
to take radical measures for their extermi-
nation. S%hOtguns rave proved inefficient,
aud a former town officer has gone to Wash
lngton TO purchase dynamite cartridges. These
VIII be planted about melon patches aud fruit
orchards and 1t Is hoped that their moral
effect will keep the marauders at a distance.
TIE several branches OF the Louisville to-
bacco trade are being aroused to the import
ance of duly celebrating the u%nexampled tri-
umph of selling 100000 hogshesds. No other
city on this continent, or elsewhere in the
world. ever sold 100, 900 hOgsheads of tobacco
In a IWelyem0nih h, but Louisville will have
accom- plished that feat by the middle of Sep
TENDER, or in eight and one months.
Ex-CONNODoRE SMITH, of the New York
Yacht Club, makes the interesting and anus
ing statement that Gen. Benjamin F. Butler
will challenge the Genesta, in case the latter
beats the Puritan, and race his yacht America
against her. The America is the same yacht
which won the cup from kngland in 1851, but
she has been practically rebuilt since then,
and Gen. Butler regards her as a very fast
saller.
C~oNsoMME of cave bear Is the most ancient
soup that ever was slipped. 1t was said of
some e~picures that they drank of antedilu-
Wan broth and ate of pre-Adamite jelly, but
the geological consomme is ahead. The con-
gress of naturalists at Tubingen had a smok-
ing tureen of this cave bone soup placed upon
the dinner table at their hotel one evening,
and pronounced it scarcely inferior to prime
OK tall"
AT DENVER the other day John Russell
Young said to a newspaper correspondent
that Grant had a curious aversion to Nap0-
leon, whom he considered a monster, though
be ranked him among the greatest of military
men. Grant considered Waterloo as showing
the greatest intellect of any of his battles, and
that nothing but Providence led to his defeat,
lie SAID that Wellington showed more char
acter than genius, and he ranked him with
Gen. Zachary Taylor.
GRACE HART, aged Is, and Fred Bronson.
a lad Is, of respectable families in Waterbury,,
Conn.,. whence they eloped last Friday. have
been found living in a rudely constructed
shanty Of brush which they had erected at
the foot of Blue Mountain Lake, in the Adj
rondacks. Young Bronson and his compan-
Ion said they had read a ''real nice story in a
dlme novel" about a boy and girl who ran
away and lived in the woods, andthey thought
1t would be romantic to run away and camp
IN the Adlrondacks.
A wELL-KNowN firm of booksellers in the
Strand, London, have on view what must be,
we should think, one of the largest and most
expensive extra illustrated books in exist
ence. 1t is a copy of Boydells edition Of
ShazespeTe's works, which by the insertion of
many thousands OF plates has been extended
to 30 volumes. Some idea Of the vast quantity
~ =
collection may be gained from the price of the
book, fl,5O0. II is said that this by no means
represents the original cost price.
ONE of the principal features Of the bust
ness transacted at the Office OF the Grant
Monument Association IN New York, Thurs
day, was an informal conference with artists
who desire TO give their services in aid of the
testimonial. Among the artists present was
SignOr Barzagli, the Italian sculptor, who de-
signed the statue OF Napoleon, at Milan, and
the latest statue Of Victor Emanuel. He said
that MANY of his cOuntrymen had eXpT essed
the wish that he offer the tribute OF his genius
TO the honor Of Americas greatest General.
LIEUT.. j. W. DANENHowER, who accom-
panied the belong arctic expedition, is said
to take a firm stand against further attempts
to explore the frozen regions Of the North.
He says: "After having served with one Arc
tic expedition. and having devoted seven
years TO thei study of the subject, as we'll a.
the watchtul observations OF the numerous
enorts and the comparatively insufficient re-
suits attending sacrifice Of human life and
treasure. l unhesitatingly record myself as
opposed to further explorations of the CEN
lral polar basin with our present resources.
The gradual extension Of observatory sta
tions in the interest of meteor0logy, magnet
ism ana other scientific branches should be
made, but national support should not be
gwen 70 another polar expedition"
AN antiquarian discovery was made recent
~ IN Il heiu near DuhlGrlnllne, scotland, IN
the shape Of tumuli Of large dimensions.
Some masOns were digging for sand in the
vicinity when tumuli were come upon. Al
ready four cists with "a large quantity Of i'm
PIGMENTS OF the stone Age, and not less than
1000 years old, have been turned up. The
urEs were three feet six inches in length by
one foot six inches in breadth, and about Ten
inches ia depth. They were all filed with
black mOnld, IN which WAS placed a CLAW urn
about i've inches IN depth and twenty Inches
in circumference There we're also flint
nakes, arrow heads. pestlcs. and other imple-
ments inside the clsts or near TO them The
work OF excavation will probably now be
carried on under the supervision OF q gentle
man representing the Scottish Society OF An
tiqusries.
THE latest London crusade lie against the
long hours work imposed upon tramcar en-
plOYes. and the papers are full Of letters from
and about car conductors and driyers. At a
recent meeting OF n street car company
which meeting, by the way, declared a dlyi-
dend OF > per cent. after putting aside reserve
aud renewal funds-she President declared
that the company's employees were neither
overworked nor uuderpdid. They were. IL Is
true, paid for sixteen hours work q day. the
pay being 5 cents an hour. but they really
work only thirteen and n half hours a day. A
motion 20 reduce the working hours 10 four
teen II day on this line receivedon IN 1--WE votes.
A conductor describes his life as consisting
for seven days q week OF seventeen hours
daily on duty and fifteen hours active work,
with All his meals necessarily eaten hurriedly
while AZ work. trueades being Fashionable.
one has begun against benevolent societies.