Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-20
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AMONG CATFISH it is rot the mother fish
which takes care Of the eggs and young, but
/ the male or father fish. He not only guards
! and matches out the eggs, but also, after the
I Matching, takes paternal interest in his
/ some1hat vofacious as well as numerous
/ brood or school of kittens"
IN the outlying districts of New Orleans,
which are lighted by oil street lamps, some of
the worthy citizens are in the habit Of ''bor-
rowing the lamps at nightfal returning them
IN the morning-empLy. The others, VINO
came too late, have complained, and want gas
OF enough oil lamps to go round"
DIR. THEODORE Won oPPoLzER, of Vienna,
announces the early publication of very eX-
tended list Of the dates of solar and lunar
eclpses, which has been prepared under his
direction. There viii be 5000 of the former
ana more than 5000 of the latter class of phe-
nomena, and all included between the years
1907 b. c. and 2l6l A. ID.
EDMUND YATES, who is recruiting at Milan,
writes quite romantic description of the
crematorium there, which he pictures as
delightfully."- fresh and OF most wholesome
fragrance. Bodies are sent there from all
parts of Italy and even from Paris. But
cremation makes but little way in England,
though there IS pretty cremat0rium at
Working.
NJ. DE LEssEPs relates that on the occasion
Of his marriage, the day of the opening of the
/
handed him 100000 francs as a present TO his
wife. A that time, he adds, Suez canal shares
were selling at $50 francs. or so per cent. dis
CONT. lie invested the present in these
shares, on which he realized 100000 francs.
WoRKMEN are erecting a galvanized Iron
Flagstaff on the new State, War and Navy De-
partment building, on which a ball eleven
feet in diameter viii be dropped every day at
noon, by electric communication with the OBJ
servatorv. 1t viii be visible at the capitol
and all along Pennsylvania avenue, afording
all anxious to have the exact time dai y OPP
portunity to verify their watches.
HAWAIIAN CURRENCY is not on a specie
basis, and great complaints are heard from
the poorer classes, who are compelled to pay
for clothing and provisions in gold, but many
OF whom receive their pay in silver or depre
ciated paper. Some firms are honorable
enough to pay in gold, but it is notorious that
the government invariably pays its employees
and its obligations in the cheating currency.
VALENTINE sCHUETz, professional musi-
clan OF Louisville, Ly., was much disturbed
on returning home one evening last week to
find Mrs Schuetz in company with Mr.. John
Webb. to whom she was married ten years
ago. AID whom she supposed to be dead when
five years later she married Mr.. Schuetz,
who now proposes TO submit the matter to
court to decide to which of the two husbands
Mrs. Webb Schuetz belongs.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK told a story in his re-
cent speech at Shrewsbury which can have
no personal application to himself. 1t was
about a traveller who revisited a New Zea-
land village and inquired after a friend,
leading Maori Liberal and member of the
local Peace Society, 1t Is believed. The reply
was discOUraging. "Ah," said the village
chief, WI resignation, 'he gave us so much
good advice that we had to put him to death
mercltuly."
A FEW seasons ago an English Duchess,
whose way is to go ahead in pleasure, went to
try her luck at the Monaco tables, where she
soon got to the bottom OF her purse She
went to the director to ask loan, Offering
pair of earrings with solitaire diamonds as a
pledge. I'VE don't take cages" was the an
swer. ''Our terms are cash, and nobody is
trusted" "But L am the Duchess of ---,"
said her Grace. THAT doesn't matter. SO
manv Duchesses come here who want to Dor
row."
ONE Of the boldest of the French charla-
tans-the widow Noel-has lately been fined
and imprisoned for trickery. Not content
with prescribing nostrums, she used to insist
upon residing with her patients, whom she
thus robbed at her leisure. Her last victim
was man with heart disease. She remained
with him for sixty days and received her
board and $3.50. Her chief 'nedicament was
an ointment" made by boiling bull pups for
nine days in a mixture of red earth, ana for
this foul stuff she charged 81 per pot.
AN Englishman has patented a process of
manufacturing slippers, sandals, and even
common shoes out of paper. Paper pulp, or
paper mache, is employed for the upper,
which IS moulded to the desired form and
size, and a sole is provided made of paper or
pastebOard. leather board, or other suitable
paper MATERIAL which Is united to the upper
by means Of cement, glue or other adhesive
material. The upper Is creased, embossed or
perforated at the instep and sides, which
renders them somewhat pliable and prevents
their cracking while in use.
THE members and ex-members of the As
bury Methodist Episcopal Church, New York,
held their ninth annual reunion Sunday after
noon. A mahogany table, cracked and
warped, attracted much attention. 1t was
the communion table used at the General Con-
ference in 1874 at the Green street church. 1t
was placed in the church vestbule and on it
stood the cornerstone of the old edfice. An
obong Bible, heavily bound with brass, was
exhibited after the afternoon service. Rev.
DR.. BaltOne, the pastor, said it had belonged
to John Wesley. He has been offered $500 for
it by an Ohioan, but refused to sell it.
PRIZE of 1000 francs has been awarded
by the French Society for the Encourage
ment of Industry to NJ. Manlies for the dis
covery of a mode of improving commercial
copper. He adds to the molten copper, Just
before casting. an alloy of IS per cent copper
and % per cent. manganese, of which, 10 is
stated, there is very cheaTly removed a sub
oxide Of copper which is present in the mctnl
treated in ordinary ways. and which lessons
its tenacity. IL Is held by the society that
experiments prove that copper prepared by
the new process is much superior TO the ordi-
nary metal for sheathing ships bottoms, aud
for other purposes in which tenacity or dura-
bility is desirable.
THE operation has been successfully accom-
plished by German chemist of separating
rags Of cotton and wool mixed by subiecting
them TO the action Of jet OF superheated
steam Under a pressure of FIVE atmos-
phcres the wool mcts and sinks to the bottom
Of the receptacle, while cotton, linen and
other vegetable ibres stand. thus remaining
suitable for paper manufacture. The iduid
mud which contains the wool precipitated bv
this means is then desiccated; the residue TO
which is given the name of azOtne, is COM
Dleiely soluble in water, and is valuable on
&C cunt OF lte nitrogen. The increased value
OF the pulp free from wool Is sufficient to
cover the cost Of the process.
THE shipments Of cinchona bark to this
country from Ecuador have prachcallyceased.
A large number of men have been employed
in gathering tins bark, and some very large
and valuable shipments have been made. but
az the present time It is almost impossible to
ship anything. The main canse OF the decline
has been the wonderful development OF the
cultivated bark IN Sierra Leone Africa, and
the East Indies. While the best quinine bark
that L. shipped from South America has sell
dom over 2lS 10 per cent. OF eulphatc of