Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

CHAs. G. LELAND writes that the masses in
France believe that our civil war was between
the Spaniards of South America and the
negroes Of North America. He afirms that
as fast as Frenchmen learn that we are very
much Ike Engllshmen their feeling changes
TO hatred.
SOMEBODY remembers that Morse once pre-
dicted that talking through hundred miles
Of wire would become common. and that
ocean steamers on voyage would keep M
communication electrically with the shore.
The first prediction having come true, the
second is hopefully regarded, though regarded
rs wild when made.
THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONGRESS which is
soon to be held at Rome is to have a curious
feature In a collection of 700 skulls OF criml-
nails, numbered and classified To these will
De added the photographs Of 1900 and the
brains OF more than $50 convicts, thousands Of
autographs poems. sketches, and special in
sLruments. the work of criminals.
AN odd coffee machine has been patented in
London. A lamp beneath boils the water for
infusion and at the same time roasts the Der
rles, which, as roasted, are automatically
emptled into q hopper and ground by a mill
attached Thus the whole process of roasting
the green coffee berries, grinding and infuslng
me same is simultaneously performed within
about fifteen minutes.
THE RULE Of the famous "Beefsteak Club,"
organized in Engl ind in 1874, for the cooking
of beefsteak, was as follows:
Pound well your meat until the Gbres break;
Re sure that next you have, To broil the steak,
GOOD coal in plenty; nor moment leave,
Eut turn 1t over mis- way and then that.
The lean should be quite rare-not so the fat;
let platter now anu then the juice receive.
Put on Your butter--place It on your meat
salt, pepper; turn it over, serve and eat.
PHYSICIANS throughout the country, nave
received a circular from a dealer in bnman
curiosities. The menageries are supplied with
beasts the world over by a single German
firm, but the exhibits of human defOrmity are
found through items in the newspapers. This
sprculator has planned to be a mOnOpOllst.
lie says that he will pay literally for lmme-
dlate information OF any physically peculiar
child, SO that he may get ahead of COMPETE
tors IN bargaining with the parents.
JOHANNES SCHoNRR, a Jealous astrologer of
the sixteenth century, once when on a jour-
ney put up at a friends house, where he saw
the youngest child of the latter, aged 2, lying
IN the cradle. He Immediately sat down at
his friends writing desk and drew up the
baby's horoscope. in which he foretold that 1t
would grow up TO be a gallant warrior, and,
ike his father, would attain to high rank and
dignitles. After gancing at the paper, the
lather exclaimed, laughing, why, JOhannes,
1t is a girl!"
silversmiths, and their silver bracelets in par
ticular are in great demand. A lame work.
man has an extensive repute. and he cells
dozens of bracelets, upon the arrival of each
steamer at 50 per pair. Some specimens he
gets SIS pair for. The lame Indian arti6cer
IS very rapid workman, and will from a
piece OF coin make "a beautifully chased ring
IN an hour or SO with his rude TOOLS The
heads of animals and Indian characters are
included IN his designs.
ACCOUNTS from the larger summer resorts
agree that the most successful dandyism was
that OF three brothers nearly enough alike to
be triplets. By wearing similar clothes and
manners they made a treble impression, for
the observer could see no distinguishing diff
ferences, aud so the combined dude makes
three hits To one by any competitor. They
put on no shred of American garb. From the
iops of their hats to the tips of their socks
everything was imported from London. They
had genuine Austrian baron as their guest
all summer. taking him from place to place
and paying all his expenses.
MINISTER WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Of War
saw, Ind who is just back from MOntevideo,
Uruguay. said the other day: ~ saw in an in
terview with ex-Minister Osborn, on his re-
turn from Brazil, a statement that Ameri-
cans own all the tramways, gas works, and
similar local enterprises at Rio. This is a
mistake. Ihey are all owned by English
men. The English have high appreciation
Of South America as place for profitable in
vestment Their young men 20 there as
clerks, soon branch out in business. and pre-
sently are rich nabobs. 1t IS difficult to make
New Workers or Americans understand what
"A rich field of trade lies right below Them"
ARIO BATES, of Boston. has been telling
story Of a woman who went TO Concord, Mass,
and asked for some of Ralph Waldo Emer-
sons old clothes to use in ''pOets' rug'' made
Of patchwork. 81 can corroborate this story"
writes George Parsons LathrOp, "because
when | owned and lived in the Waysde Ma
thaniel Hawthorne's old home at Concord, the
same woman applied there on a similar err
rand. Being told that it was futile. she
asked: May pick up something around the
place TO carry away as a mementop Permis-
sion was granted and she finally caught
cricket in the grass of the lawn and put 1t
into bottle. She said she also had cricket
from Emerson's front yard.
SOME of the opium dens in the large cities
are owned by Americans, 1t isnOw said, while
seemingly the enterprises of the Cinnamon
who conduct them. The practice is to bring
men in through the enticements OF fellows
who pretend to be like the victims, bent on see
ing the vices of the town. Pretence is made of
inquiring out den, and of difficulty in gain
ing admission. Then the two smoke, and
when the dupe is unconscious his pockets are
rfod. He discovers his loss on awaking. but
his companion pretends to have been plum
dered too, and they conclude TO that to make
any report Ia the police would expose them to
ridicuie. Tn this way rObberies are committed
IN the mock opium resorts very extensively
THE LATEST NOVELTY in the manufacture
of bogus butter is the use Of gelatine. The
makers Of oleomargarine first began with
clean beef fat, then used common dirty fat,
and now have come down TO pork grease.
This Is not, however, cheap enough, and they
have been been extending il with cotton seed
oil, sesame oil, aud other substances. Hard
ness is given by stearine. They have Just
struck upon gelatine, which is made Of the
hO0fs Of neat cattle and horses. OF itself il
costs rs much as other thing5. but IL possesses
an unequaed power 10 absorb water One
pound OF IL Will take up ten pounds of water,
which costs nothing, ana two or three pounds
OF geatine to the key reduces the expense OF
making the whole mixture to 1--WE or six cents
pound.
YOUNG WOMEN IN white, with pages in green
at their heels, made the eye OF the Austrian
Emperor twinkle as the procession at Pllsen
fled past him the other day. But Pilsen is
celebrated for it, Dreweres, consequently the
bar OF Gambrinus was the chief attraction of
the cavnlcade. The beer king, giant, when
opposite the Emperor. emptied an enormous
bowl 10 his health, with n mighty "HOck v in
which Thousands joined. Casks innumerable,
large ana small, came next, with coOpnrs at
work on the cara. The gardeners, surrounded
with palm trees and lowers, rolled past with
newy-married couple. with hundreds Of the
pea autry, wearing their national costumes,
and 1890 miners from the mines OF the neigh
bOrhOod. closed the procession.
Four MINERS sat onehight in June, 1855. in