Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-20
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brethren who have returned from America to
China to end their days there.
WEAsEL-RAIsING has become an important
industry in some parts of England, now that
market can be found for weasels in Aus
tralia at from 81 to 81 50 a head.
THE Cincinnati Pottery Club, which lately
had an exhibition of its works, is in -four
ishing condition. The club numbers II ladies,
and the President is Miss Louise Mclaughlin,
the discoverer of the secret OF Limoges fal-
ence.
HERBERT GLADSTONE, who Is said to reflect
the real feelings of his father, in the new edi-
ton of "Dod's Parliamentary COMPANION" is
recorded as sin favor of the settlement OF all
Irish questions IN Ireland by lrishmen." This
is very significant.
THE grim humor of Scotchmen was dis
played at an auction sale in Perth lately.
The stock sold was that of a bankrupt under
tsker. but the demand was so light that one
coffin sold for pence and three others were
disposed of in lot for shillings.
PREPARATIONS for opening the New York
State reservation at Niagara on July Is are
progressing satisfactorily. Prominent among
the ceremonies will he the address by dis
tlnRuished orator and a grand military re-
view. hall at the international Hotel will
close the celebration.
THE shopkeepers of Vienna are accustomed
to the nuisances of politics. They have just
been in the throes of a general election in
Aurtra, and the agitation proved too much
for the nerves of the Vienna bOuFge0iSe. They
pasted no in their shop windows notice:
''TO Canvassers-We pray YOU not to worry
us any more about the elections"
THE publication of the Revised Bible at the
Clarendon Press, oxford, has been seriously
delayed by the strike of the boys, numbering
about seventy, employed in the machinery de-
partment. They sent letter demanding a
rise in their wages. and the request being
! ignored they turned out, with the result that
the machinery had to be stopped.
| A PARTY of five persons, three of whom are
connected with the Institute of Technology,
have lately gone on an expedition under
! Prof Hyatt to the west coast of NewfOund-
! land for geological and geological eXplora-
! tons. They sailed for Cape Breton on the
! Arethusa. a small schooner belonging to Prof.
| Hyatt, who will join them from St. Johns,
! N.F.
| Mr.. BEECHER, as preacher of evolution,
| has a rival in Wales, A London paper gives
| the following original observations on astrOn-
! omy from sermon of a Welsh curate preach
! ing to an English congregation: "a starr is
! bnt lidl dot In the skyee. Saw many STAIRS
/ mex one plannat. Saw many plannats mex a
| constellesshon. Saw many cOnstellesshOns
mex one milkee we. Six milkee Yves mex one
! rorribOrriallis"
A STORY, indicative of the Ameer Abdur-
rhaman's severity, is going the round of the
Indian newspapers. Mulla Khalil, who gave
the British troops in the Khyber much
/ trouble during the war. went lately to
! Cabul to ask for the loan of some cannon for
4 the purpose of attacking the Siah of POsh
/ Kaflirs. The Ameer refused. The Mulla
! was apparently too open IN the expression of
his disappointment, Whereupon the Amer
had his throat cut.
NINE. MoDJEsKA has created considerable
sensation on the other side by a speech de-
! liyered before the curtain in Dublin, in which
| she described Poland as being akin to Ire
| land sin her misfOrtunes. her expressions,
and her hopes and undying prayers for lib
erty." The journals seem to forget that
actresses and actors generally simulate the
sentiments most likely to draw. Boucicault
once hung out the Confederate flag in London.
SENATOR EDMUNDs' new house on Massa-
chusetts avenue. Washington, is to be wholly
above ground. The first story contains little
except the stairway, hall, kitchen and house
hold Offices. The entrance from the street is
| through a low round central arch. There is
I magnificent double bay window in the
southwest corner running up through two
| stories. The Senator paid 50 a foot for the
| land, which he bought from Mr.. Frelinghuy-
sen, who had paid only 81 80 for it few
/ weeks before.
NELLIE HAZBLTINE, that pretty st. Louis
girl who obtained so much newspaper noto-
riety first by announcing her engagement to
Mr.. Tilden, then by the row between her
| brothers and a concert singer named Amweg
/ and who finally married the young million
alre. Frederick ParamOre, and died in child
| birth. Is not to be left quiet in her grave. A
81. Louis letter says: '.Eeliie's life and her
| letters are now to be published in an edition
de luxe, S25 a copy, and her mother. It is said,
has taken pains to notify all of her friends of
the impending publication"
A PEW days ago DR.. Cyrus Edison received
from C. A. VESSEL, provision dealer on the
Produce Exchange, New York, specimens of
smoked ham dotted all over with white
specks, which, upon close examination, proved
to be alive. Mr.. Vessels said that the in
scots had appeared in the pork cured in the
| West after il had been smoked here No one
| here knew what they were. The fact that
/ they resembled in color the cured pork pre-
| vented the discovery OF them before thew
were smoked. DR.. Edison put the mites under
the microscope, and quickly decided they
| were healthy specimens of the acurua sac
chart or sugar mite bug, closely allied to the
/ ordinary plant louise and strongly resembling
II in all but color. DR.. Edison holds that they
would probably do no harm even if eaten
alive.
THE clergyman and tthe organist of fash
ionable church at Malvern, England, were re-
Gently the victims OF q most extraordinary
hoax. One morning the Organist received
| what purported to be a letter from DR.. Grove,
Director Of the Royal College Of Music, Lon
! don, intimAtlng that in recognition of his
| musical abilities the authorities Of the college
/ had determined to confer Oh HIM the degree
| Of Bachelor of Music. Accompanying the
letter was dOcum ent described as the diplo.
ma, which 1t was directed should be read in
( the church on the following Sunday. The
! recipient was also favored with pattern Of
his academical robes. When Sunday came
the organist duly dOnned his robes and the
clergyman completed the Joke by reading the
diploma" to the wondering Congregation
gentleman present however was not so
| incredibly credulous as the youthful musician
and the vicar, and letter Of inquiry to Dr.
Grove led to the exposure Of the hoax.
A PRACTICAL JOKE played upon a Croatian
peasant has nearly caused the destruction Of
the chemical laboratory OF the University of
Agram. Tho man in question, coming with
his wife INTO Agram, separated from her,
agreeing to meet her a few hours later at a
certain place. As she delayed her return, he
( expressed his anxiety TO n bystander. who
told him. In jest. that his wifs had probably
been kidnapped By the university vivisectOrs
who made 10 their business to cut up women
] and children. The wife came uD soon after
ward and went home with her husband but
the latter repeated what he had heard and
the results have been most serious. On Whit
Sunday an Infatuated mob OF peasants at
no Lab