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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-08

You can picture to your minds eye the
types of horses isplayed from our illustra
tons. They are from original drawings
by G. Gray Parker, the best horse artist in
the country. The animal in the picture is
nineteen hands high and a wonder Of
strength. The Percherons come from
Perche, a province south of Normandy, ii
France. They are of Arabian extraction,
and very docile and intelligent
A famous animal of kindred blood at the
Exhibition is St. Elmo, an English stallion
imported into Canada He weighs l, 81.
pounds, and has taken seventeen frs
prizes. His muscles are Incompatible, and
his measurements perfect. st. Elmo is &
romantic, high-sounding name, too. But
as we turned to look at the next horSt
beyond ! heard St. Emo groom slap hin
on his mighty breast and say:
Jim, stand over thar"
The Canada horses we're by no means tbt
least interesting part of the show. Their,
was pair of noble draught mares, nearly
as large as Elmo, alias Jim. They wert
Of Percheron extraction too
Are they American bre1w we asket
the man who had charge of them.
''No, they are from Canada"
isn't Canada Americana
well, when we're over there we say i
IS, but when we're in the states we don
call it that wish it was American, the
we wouldn't have to pay 90 per cent. duty
on all horses we bring into the country"
Must you do tha-P
"Yes, and they won't take our valuation
either, but they appraise EN- themselves.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-08
TIE ICE FouNrArN

Ice machines, too, arc "a comparative nov
city. At this exhibition there was one thai
kept a monument Of les about twenty-lyt
feet hiqh towering up in the center of "a.
main hall This frozsn fountain was com
posed Of a series Of pipes through whic
chilled brine was circulated. On the,
pipes the moisture in the air CONDENSED ana
was frozen into pure white frost coatin
producing charming effect Another ice
machine made with six horse
power engine five tons Of ice g.
twenty-four hours. This ice was frozsi
in perfect transparent cakes 35xSx IL
inches weighing 1870 pounds each. An ex
collent educltion feature in an mstheue
way was the furnishing Of large room
throughout with everything that a oorrec
taste could suggest For Instance, dinin
room would have wall paper decoration
carpet, furniture and an elaborate dispa-
OF table service, all harmoniously selected
Among the many thousands OF new inveu
tons there were many that would appeal
every poor mortal. A necktio that wou
not wear out at thu odgo nearest On
chin. A simple devics for drlvil
nails aud tacks whereby IL was impossibi
10 pould the fagsrs A scrsw.driver cha
could not jump cut OF the slot OF screw IN
IN released There were also some joints o
stoyepipe that IL was perfect pleasure
put together So that these eKhi bitions nj
In circulating appliances that will rsnde
our people moral and happy as well as o.
lightened and prosperous Il Is 70 be hops
oth1r cities win emulate this suecessful o.
pertinent of tho Novelties"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-08

The first trotting race that took place in
public for a stake was i'll 1878 for purse OF
81, 600 The bet was that a mile could DC
trOtted in three minutes II was won by
Iopgallant a son of Messenger. Topgal-
ant made his best time after he was 20
years old.
That was sixty-seven years ago. The
great horse question then was whether a
mile could be trotted in minutes. The
question is now whether a mile can be
rotted in 2 minutes. Some are living
Who will probably 500 it, Maud S. hes
brought the time down to 2:SM. When
Vanderbilt owned her it is said he had of
ters of $50, 900 for her. Flora Temples
,est time was 2:194
The handsomest equine animal is the
zach horse. Tae racer is no beauty. TIE
asst trotter Is frequently as homely as
anything IN horsshesh can we'll be- In
these everything is sacrificed to points
Gut the carriage horse has time t o be beau
IfuL 'Ths Cleveland bay is now con sid.
red the finest animal for this purpose
The animals used to mount cavalry are
coaching horses. When Gen. Won Steuben
y,sited America at tho Yorktown centen
iial in 1881 one Of his criticisms on our
umy referred to the poor grade Of horses
.sed for our cavalry and artillery car.
iages. 1t may 10 now We shall remedy
his At the horse show there are five fine
lrakhene stations OF tho breed that fur
iish horses to mount the German cavalry
One Of the coaching stations at the show
vas sired by an English horse that the
9russian government paid $40, 600 for
Trekhene' is the name Of tho imperia,
arm in east Prussia.
Come we now to the stubborn small
'Shelties." A pony is as obstinate as he is
title. II he sets his head that he will 20
ne way, YOU cannot coax hun with bread
ni sugar TO 60 another. If he starts your
'ay and goes on a bit he will presently
make up his mind that he has Travelled FAR
nougb, and he will stop and draw the line
N you with a suddenness that throws you
yer his head.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-08


A noticeable fact illustrated by the State
Novelties exhibition is that inventors rush
like gold pros pectors in the direction that
one of their number has made a hit The
problem Of improving on gas or kerosene
lighting lay dormant for years
until the electricity was discovered
to be competitor. Now, there
are innumerable improvements In all
methods of illumination. We find kero-
sene lamps guaranteed Of seventy-fiya
candle power. Electric lights from the
sparkle Of a diamond TO the dazzling power
Of the sun. But the most novel of all was
the incani escent gas lamps. This light l.
produce1 by introd ucing into a flame Of q
non-iluminating gas called water gas
coil Of metal similar to platinum Thi
becomes heated TO a white heat, giving
powerful light In the folding be-
and furniture line is this compe6i
ton of inventive genius shown. These
beds are made to telescope and take
every conceivable shape. So, also, in the
manufacture of pottery. A few years age
a factory started TO turn out ware thai
would compete with the finest imported
Immediately others rushed into the field
until the market is fairly overwhelmel
with American ware of most exquisite de.
SIGN and quality. The clay for most OF the
porcelain and china that is sold as French
is dug in New Jersey, whers it comes out
so white as not to need clarifying
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-08
Fashionable Garnitures.

The habit of using birdskins for orna
rental purposes is playing havoc with t.
'alyet trade. To show tho enormous extsn
. which the new fashion OF wearing the en-
re stuffed bird has reached, it is compute
at upward of 100000 Of small brilliant
ned birds were imported to En-, land tn
Ut year. one-sixth of which are tbos
ime1 gems tho humming- birds, the r.
linder being parro5S, sunbiris, oriole
ngfshers and birds OF paradise. But thes,
'ien landed, only bring $77J, 600, wherea
le ornamental feathers, such as those q
riches, emus, rheas South American os
'ich), egrets, junglecocks, orioles, trag,
ans, peacocks, ETC.. bring more than a.
) 900 in Great Britain alone. siuppo5in
rat we count the rest Of Europe, IT,
aited States, India and China. there mu.
, annual sales which bring TO first hands o
holesale at least $40, 900 0U0 more.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-08
A GREAT HORSE SHOW.
ILLUSTRATIONS OFNOTED TYPES
OF HORSE BEAUTY.


PercheIoi stallion, Nineteen Hands High
Jim, stand over Thar"-The Draught
Horse, the Pony, and Finally the
Mule.
NEW York. Nov. 4-The horse show is
going on this week at Madison Square gar
den. 1t is the third annual exhibition of
the National Horse Show association OF
America.
Fashion in New York smiles ON the horse
show. SO she oes ON ths dog show She
frowns on walking and roller skating
matches. The two latter are called into
existence and backed by gamblers Fashion
gasps while she speaks the word These
sporting men are quite too utterly horrid
for anything
But there are no gamblers backing the
horse show. Oh mol l suppose not.
There fore virtuous ia shion crowds Madison
square this week. Fashion is always vir-
tuous.
Many of our readers who have heard Of
Madison Square garden all their lives prob
ably don know what it is like Well, it
is shed occupying a whole square in the
heart of the best part of New York. 1t
corners on Madison Square park.
Every large exhibition, from Moody and
Sankey's revivals to prize fight, that
comes to New York holds forth there. In
the center is great oblong space, covered
with sawdustat present On the long sides
of this space tiers of seats rise. At the ends
are offices, committee rooms, etc. There is
promenade around below the seats The
great space in the rear of and under the
seats is now filled with rows upon rows of
pine stalls for the horses.
You can form some idea of the size of
Madison Square garden when tell you
there are Alp horses entered for this exhibit
ton, all stabbed on the premises.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-08
why Arc rI.hes LumInousf

Phosphorescence Is observed IN a greau
variety Of marine animals but Prof. w. G.
McIntash remarks that the functions OF the
luminosity can not yet be explained, the
conditions under which it appears being
worry diverse The numerous views which
nave boen advanced TO account for the phos-
phorescence itself range over a wide area
from It's production by electricity, by con-
Anued agitation or the water, by putrefac-
Jon, by inhibition Of light, TO its nianifesta-
ion as a vital action In the animals, or
ecretion OF phosphoresceut substance.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-08

Gost Of the rifles now turned out Of I'll
tories have front sight upon which th
ghtest point will shift from side to SID
u from base to tip In all quick shot
IS must have some influence, whether 20
9 aware Of it or not Take a rife p
shted out in the sun, and with your ey
the sight swing tho rifle all around a.
,tizon, watch the change OK light upon
/ see how you may be deceived when il
larry. Then point IL up hill and dow
0. with tue SUI behind you and ahead G
q, and see if you can discover how yo
ar missed any game
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-08
EXHIBITING NOVELTIES.
An Idea that Could he ProfitabIy Used
by Other cities.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov 4-Tho novelties
exhibition has closed The books have been
balanced and it is found there is desire
ON the part of the public to see tho latest
inventions, even if they have to pay fifty
cents head for it. There is a lesson for
other cities to learn from this experiment
of the Franklin institute. The fast waning
roller skating craze will shortly leave de-
serted just such buildings as could be
profitably used for the purpose of exhibit
ing the very latest deve opments in every
branch of manufacture resulting in the
mutual profit of both manufacturer and
consumer and in practical education for
all concerned.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-08

them all the way, so surong ana splrIueu
was he. From Messenger the American
ltrotting horse is descended Messenger
had large bony head and windpipe,
and nos trils nearly twice as large as or
ldinary.N To this day every great trotter
has the same distinctive marks, for they
are all Of his blood. Maud S. is noted for
her '1arge bony head" She has four
strains of Messenger blood in her veins
She comes of Hambletonian stock
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-08

The question OF dress at the Italian opera
b puzzling Phlladolphians, who protest that
he harmony OF row OF people In evening
dothes is destroyed II a man In a check suit
md woman in a poke happen 10 DO seated
AZ either end.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-08

The oil discovered in the Black Hills Il
,aid % closely resemble the lubrieating Oil
QUAD at Mecca, Ohio. The oil company
las located additional land and established
district to be known as Lowland.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-08

Townsville Ga Enquirerf We ara fre,
luantly asked Il tho marriage rumors We
refer to include ourseG No, inqulring
,riends, no; wO only have our own conssnt
At presan6
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-08
FLYING Machines.

A paper on flying machines latoly rea
fore the Royal Society Of New s out
'alss was illustrated with sixteen sell
pporting models, varying In weight fror
REQ fourths OF an ounce TO three ounces.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-08
Increase Of European thunderstorm.

Increase Of European Thunderstorms.
are fully collected statistics show thu
100 1859 the disasters from lightning i
,s kingdom Of Saxony have been becon
more numerous each year, from whc
Is inferred that some cause has increase,
70 number or severity Of thunderstorms j
at part OF Europe.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-08

New YORK Times, 'Ant did gu tamei
and by and psr1sit Smith to call you
m AMI a cowardf "Not much. didn'
IN not that kind OF a man What d
a dor Il hurried of and saw my Law
ir I've got three witnesses and tho ca
Jmos 10 to-day"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-08

mounts, for Normans, Clydesdalos and
Arabians, for roadsters, tandems, high
jumpers and cobs.
"Horses they're curious" says the super.
intendent of the Madison square stables.
They run good deal like people. Some
of em know so much they all but talk, aud
others actually are too dumb to go to their
feed" Phil TANDEM
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-08

Bigamists aud cattle thieves arc, Accord
ng 10 the officers Of the Georgia ponitan-
larry, the bost behaved and moss useful
sonviets.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-08

Vessels now find twenty feet Of water 81
10 Columbia river channel, which has bssl
sopened BY sluicing. 3i
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-08

Milwaukee Journals There Is an Indian
in tho Cherokee tribe. in the territory, wb,
IL "a years OF age, and COS all Of his owi
work Tbs fact Is chiefly curious as show
ing that there Is an ago At which Indian
uill work
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-08

Josh Billings; There is a great deal O.
irning ia this world. which Is nothin.
ore than trieing to prove what we dom
a larsLand.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-08
HIBERNATION.
A CONDITION NOT TO BE FOUND
In THE ARTIC REGIONS.

An Explorers What the
Indians Say A otmals OF the Polar Re-
gi"ns Not Given to the Habit of Over
SIaeDfnr
The Washington critic., 1885-07-25
Points for Bathers.

AS rule small, plump girls seem the
most buoyant in the water.
A young Philadelphia widow is the most
daring bather at Cape May.
Oil-cloth caps are more worn than ever
by ladies in the water to protect their hair.
The great ambition of almost every girl
at the seaside who goes bathing is to learn
to float.
Occasionally some lady appears in a
white flannel bathing suit at Cape May,
but it is rare.
Every day at the seaside fashionable
ladies may be seen bathing with their pet
dogs in their arms,
Fashionable ladies use baby powder TO
put on their feet after bathing, so as to get
their stockings on easy.
There has been noticeable absence of
drowning accidents at the seashore this
season. Last summer there were great
many
Hundreds of ladies who resist all pursua-
sion to bathe in the ocean are restrained,
strange to say, purely by motives of mod
esty.
Dark blue flannel, trimmed with white,
or better still, with no trimming at all, con-
tinues to be the favorite material for
bathing dresses with ladies all along the
coast.
A great many married ladies now find
bathing more enjoyable when they wear
long trousers, reaching nearly to theil
ankles, and no stockings.
At Old Point Comfort large parties OF
young people now bathe by moonlight
There is no surf.
The Washington critic., 1885-07-25
SATURDAY, July IS, 1885.
GRANTS RESTING PLACE.

If it has been finally determined upon
to bury General Grant in New York,
there is nothing more to say upon the
subject, and its agitation should cease at
once.
The people of Washington and doubt
less large majority Of the people at large,
would have preferred the selection of the
National Capital, but any attempt to over
rule or set aside the decision made, espe-
cially by violent and fault-fnding protest,
will probably be as unavailing as, under
the circumstances, it is certainly in the
worst of taste.
As THE CRITIc has already said, it be-
leves that Washington, of all other
places in the country, would be the most
bcftting burial place for General Grant.
There are considerations applying here
that attach to nowhere else. The national
character of the man, the national char
acter of his achievements, his intimate
identity with our military and civil govern
ment during the most eventiul period OF
American history, suggest the Capital as
his appropriate resting place.
But it so happens that General Grant
has never expressed desire to this effect
and that his family favor New York
That would seem to settle it against us.
The wishes of General Grant shoul,
have paramount weight in the matter
next to his the wishes of his wife ant
children. Neither Government no
people has the right, nor should affect tn
presumption to dictate to Mrs. Gran
where the body of her illustrious hus
band should repose,
The country has his fame it glorie
in his record it is rich and great in tn
legacy of the restored Union which Ii
left; it will build his monuments an
memorials, but it cannot, without ofienst
intrude upon the privacy of his darkene
household to divest its mourners of
privilege which is theirs by the most sa
cred and inviolable of all titles.
The Washington critic., 1885-07-25
An Author In TIN O Tombs.

Jesse Madison Leathers, tall, military
looking man, who was a general in the
Confederate army was found sleeping on a
stoop by Officer Foley on Fulton street yes
terday.
"Twas the heat sir" said Leathers to
Justice Smith, at the Tombs. 81 drank too
much ice-water and walked in the sun. |
carried sun-shade when left the house
this morning, but some umbrella fiend car
ried it away"
"What is your businessY'
"Author, sir"
"You can 60"
"Thank you. | will remember you
kindly if ever | write the history of the
Tombs. - New York World.
The Washington critic., 1885-07-25
OUR DEFENsELEss sEACOAsT.

"Our Seacoast Defenses," by Lieutenant
Eugene Griffin, Corps of Engineers U. s.
army, is a monograph prepared and read
by that very talented young officer before
the Military Service Institution recently
at Governors Island, being one of series
of professional military papers. In this
the author has treated the subject of our
present defenseless coast condition, as well
as the methods which should be at once
pursued to repair the gross wrong now ex-
listing with such ability that the paper at
tracted far more than mere professional
attention, and the demand caused its re-
publication in neat pamphlet form by Put
nam's Sons, copy of which has been pre-
sented THE CRITIC by Mr.. Robert Beall of
this city.
The author gives first an interesting his
tory of the beginning and progress of the
system of Notifications in this country, and
startlingly depicts the present absolutely
defenseless situation of all Of our large
bellion our coast system of defenses was
moving rapidly to completion, and was be-
lieved to be impregnable. But almost the
first operations of the war demonstrated
the vulnerability of granite and brick
walls, Just as the battle of the Monitor and
Merrimac wholly revolutionized naval
warfare. He shows in careful detail that
any professional may easily under
stand how the advances in modern guns
projectiles and explosives have wrought
the changes he points out, and then tells
in clear and able manner what must be
done.
To the objection of the pennywise
statesman who would demur to the i'm
mense cost he quietly points out that
armed vessels of other nations may easily
be placed at points below New York
where they could not be harmed except by
an as yet undiscovered torpedo system, and
destroy two and one-half thousand mil
lion dollars worth Of property in New
York, Brooklyn and Jersey City alone
within few hours This is sum larger
than was the national debt of the United
States at the time of Lees surrender and
there are other cities, Portland, Boston
and San Francisco where the damage
would be also great.
Lieutenant Griffin, who is now on duty
at West Point, significantly appends to his
paper list of two hundred and thirty-siA
men-of-war of foreign nations, that NIGH
pay their compliments safely to New Yorl
as stated, while this great country has ne
defense that would defend, whether oil
ship or shore.
The Washington critic., 1885-07-25

LIFE is too short and the weather too
warm to argue the question. THE CRrrIc,
therefore, accepts the Greasers of the Pest
as authority on hog-Spanish and stands
corrected. But when our esteemed con-
temporary has the leisure, will it be kind
enough to explain why so common salu-
tation as BHenoS dios should be translated
"Good God" when it really means Good
Day~ Perhaps the learned philologist
believes that "Good Morning and "Go to
SheoP are synonymous.
The Washington critic., 1885-07-25

OWING to the temporary want of press
facilities, necessitating an early closing of
our forms in order to get the paper out at
a reasonably early hour, we are now and
then obliged to omit some of the late after
noon news. 1t does not often happen, and
never except upon dire compulsion. BY
the middle of the coming week, however,
we expect to he provided for in the way of
mechanical appliances, at least to the ex-
tent that THE Critic will be issued
promptly on time and always containing
the latest important advices from the de-
partments and elsewhere. The friends of
the paper who have staid by us so faith
fully during our late embarrassing ex-
pericnce may rest assured that the new
CRITIC shall be as far ahead of the burned
Critic as it was an improvement upon its
predecessor
The Washington critic., 1885-07-25

ONE OF the best and truest things yet
said of General Grant was spoken by
Hannibal Hamlin of Maine on the day of
the Generals death. "The directness and
lucidity of his public utterances left moth
ing to be desired" said Mr.. Hamlin. "We
all know that Grant always did better than
he promised" An apter illustration of
General Grants character was never
given. Whatever opinions he entertained
were enunciated with a clearness and force
that left no doubt as to their meaning or
sincerity. He was a man OF wonderful
keenness of vision and without guile. Nor
was this all. lie was as modest as he was
brave, and instead opposing as soldier of
great expectations, left his merit to be
measured by the sum of his accomplished
facts. "He always did better than he