Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-09
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church in New York has not stopped since it
was first started, nearly twenty-six years ago.
IT is said that the electric lights at sacra-
mento can he seen from the high land near
jackson, Amador county, a distance OF 90
miles.
CHICAGO has barber shop the floor tiles of
which are joined at the corners by genuine
silver dollars and she has anarchists who are
covering her dead walls with red flags upon
which is printed demand for bread.
KENTUCKY boasts of family by the name
Of Howard whose combined height is exactly
- feet and weight 2,29S pounds. There are
eleven persons ia the family. and the father
and his SIX sons are able to lit $500 pounds.
GoNDoLA voyage across the Adriatic
from Venice TO Trieste has been made nvolun-
tarly by the Comte de Bardl, nephew and
heir OF the late COmte de Chambord While
the Comte was boating on the Venetian la
goons with an artist friend, his gondola was
suddenly blown out to sea. and although the
little vessel was only intended for canal navi-
CATION, she crossed the gulf safely to Trieste.
THE largest vein of gas eyer struck in Ohio
was reached at Shelby at a depth OF $50 feet
Tuesday. The men were warned Of its pres
ence by roaring soNnd. and fed for their
lives, barely escaping before the gas rushed
from the orifce with a tremendous report
SCATTERING the derrick and throwing dirt and
mud many feet into the arr A Temporary
pipe 20 feet in length has been laid connecting
with the well. and it furnishes steady stream
of fire IS feet high.
WHILE the count of the money in the silver
storage vault Of the Treasury was in progress
bag containing 81, 900 in standard dollars be-
came unfastened in some way and a number
OF the coins rolled out on the floor of the vault
1t was supposed that all were recovered, but
on proving the contents of the bag it was
found to be 50 short 1t is believed, however
that the missing monev will be found under
some OF the bags with which the vault is filed
ana which are yet to be examined.
RECENT WRITER on antique Roman sculp-
ture notes the curious circumstance that
some Roman statues were fitted with movable
wigs. The statue of Lucilla, wife of the
Emperor Lucius Verus. in the museum of the
capitol at Rome. has wig of black marble
that can he taken Off; and in the Vatican
Venus is believed to represent Julia So8mias
the mother of the Emperor Elagabalus. with
hair that may be removed. There was also
bald bust OF woman, with marble wig
attached, IN the palace of Sans-SOuci at
POtsdam.
THE Clifton Society is a flourishing colored
association of Philadelphia, and decided to
give dinner, a swell affair, on May /. Jane
Jackson is member, and opposed the project
from economic motives, but found herself in
a miserable minority. She decided then to
spoil the dinner, and turned upin Brier place,
where the tables were spread and the viands
lad out in a very tempting manner. William
Marshall took great pr de in the dinner. of
which he was superintendent, but his pride
was changed TO wrath when Jane covered the
salads and jellIes with snuff Pandemonium
on small scale followed.
DIR ZULINsKI has published in Warsaw
medical journal the result of q long series of
experiments made by him on both human
beings and animals, with view of verifying
the physiological effects of tobacco smoke. He
found that it is a distinct poison even in small
doses. Upon men its action is very slight,
when not inhaled in large quaint les. but it
would soon become powerful if the smoker
got INTO the habit, as sope do, Of swallowing
the smoke. The cigar SIN ker absorbs more
pol on than the cigarette smoker. and the lat
ter than those who smoke pines. while the
Smos er who takes the precaution of using a
narghilie. or any other apparatus which con-
ducts the smoke through water, reduces the
deleterlous effects TO minimum.
THE Penlentes of New Mexico are said by
Bryce Harrison, fresh writer on the subject.
to number 10000. A statue of the Virgin was
lately placed in the centre Of a church. and
the floor in front Of 1t IS strewn knee deep
with cactus. whose poisonous snnes wi some
tim pierce the heaviest snled shoes. Through
this bed of thorns the Penitentes march with
naked feet or crawl along on bare knees. call
ing plteOusly the while to the Virgin for for
Giveness OF their sins. AS # this we're not
suthclent, they scOurge themselves with great
punches of cactus tied together on 2 thong
and slash themselves with knives. Tho natli-
raj result of these horrible exercises is a d -ath
now and then and many manned and pitiable
creatures who drag ont a miserable existence
for the remainder Of their avs.
THE indulgence of his taste for Landscape
gardening led Gen. Mcdowell to remodel and
beautify, economically but effectually. the
military posts on the Bay OF San Francisco,
and to build roads through the magnificent
Preside reservation there. in such a way as
TO make u for civil uses a practical extension
Of the great Golden Gate Park The Me-
DONeil drive, ~ IL should be known, is a per
manent memorial of him, and gives at once
distinct views of mountains, bay, city and
ocean. After his retirement he was made a
Park commissioner there in order to utilize
his public spirit and his superb taste and II
was in the prosecution Of thO.e civic duties
that he received dangerous injury that has
prem thought TO mark the beginning of his
physical decline.
AT the time of the Geographical Congress
in Paris there was a Conversations at the
house OF NJ. Theirs, and among those who
were present were Lord Lyons. Prince Orlof
and NJ. de Lesseps. The great French engi-
neer had been corgratulating the Russian
Amhass tdor upon the general excellence of
Russian maps. ~ our praise is the more
valuable" said Prince OToT 'sseeino how
enormous is the extent Of tho Cars domi
MONS. and how many difficulties our suryev-
Ors have to encounter" True" renlied NJ
dc Lesseps. "the area of your country is al
most exactly similar in extent to that of the
moon" "1he difference Icing" continued
Lord Lyons, THAT whereas the area of the
moon, Ia spite Of her apparent changes is a
fixed quantity, the area Of Russia is continu.
ally increasing"
A COMPANY OF Russian infantry Of the line
consists Of 2l5 officers, non commissioned Off
GERS. and men. A battalion ia composed of
four companies, and three battalions form
regiment. squadron OF regular cavalry
consists of 30 officers, non commissioned OH
GERS and lac horses. The squadron is divided
into four sections; two squadrons form a di-
VISION; and four field squHdrOns and one re-
serve squadron form regiment A battery
OF artillery contains eight guns. A a-patiuder
heli battery has 26l officers and men. $50
horses. and - wagons. A o FOUNDER field
D9lery has 3s2 officers and mon. 9li horses
ana 53 Wagons. a 3-DOunder mountain bat
terry mas Us ohiccrs and men, l0l horses, aud
liz ammunition boxes, which are carried on
PACK animals. a FOUNDER horse battery
has 8jI officers and men, 32i horses, and q
wagons. mitgailleuso battery has - Off
GERS ami men. liO horses, and l6 wagons. Tho
battery ls divided into two half batteries. and
the half battery into two sections. sotnfa
Of Cossacks consists pr1pcrly OF 100 men. but
the number varies in different polks or regi-
ments.
PRESIDENT PIEEoE's coachman, in a recent
conversation with Washington eorrespon-
dent, said: president Pierce was a fine man,
and q good looking one, too. The White