Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-06
ITEMs OF INTEREST.

i1k4LHO OE IN E4kAElO l.
THE name Privy Council, in British Gov
eminent annals, dates IRON the time Of Henry
VI. Previous 70 that period 1t was kno"h as
the Kings council.
AT Asbury Park sighted old gentle
man mi-to5k a young mans hand for slice
OF bread the other day aud jaboed his FORK
/ half through The hand, which its owner mad
carele=sly rested on the table at dinner.
MONTANA has over 100000 acres within
her boundaries. OF which 700Jo,OG5 acres are
fine la1d7 suitable for agriculture or grazing.
. Nearly ~ Ho.' 90 are mountainous, but among
these 2i.0U 0j} acres are located some OF the
richest SO ne camps In the world.
Lorusr EArIHG is becoming common at
West Chester, Pa. In cooking them the wings
and lrg. ire removed, and they are thrown
into boIir- water for a few MINUTES. They
are tncu transferred to a frynEp Of hot
butter AMI cooked for about i've minutes.
TIE fir. grist mill run by water power in
/ the Canad IN Northwest stood on the Seine
River at ST. Boniface, Man, and was built in
1850 by L.u.s Rel, father OF the rebel leader.
lie ran II channel nine miles long from Grass
. Greek INTO the Seine river to increase his
/ water power.
/ ACCORuNG to tradition, famines occur in
Japan every 40 or 50 years. Modern history
records great famines in 1910, 1913, 1871 and
1883. TIL Us the ftueth year since the last
/ great dcar;h, and az the climatic changes
/ have been frequent and severe, apprehenslonS
/ are felt 10 a recurrence Of the calamity.
GoLDsluTH MAID, at the height of her glory
/ for Joke she was taken from her quarters
through back street, led to public place
and put up at auction, the spectators bidding
in good aith untn the price was run up $34.
/ when some one connected with the stable bid
y35, the hammer fell and she vas led away.
NAM thousands of comics of the gospel, &C
cordiDg 10 Mark, have been translated into
the Nubian language, and sent to DongolG,
for distribution among the Soudanese. The
translation is an excellent one, but the books
are all printed in the Roman character, of
/ which Arabs, Egyptians and Nubians are
| alike profoundly ignorant.
/ AWAsH%GToN SPECIAL to the Boston Trac-
eUer says that it has TRANSFERRED that one Ro
/ ginsk Hebrew relative of Mrs. Kelley, and
who has fought Mr.. Keiley's political ambi-
] tions lOr years. started the trouble in Vienna,
/ having gone there for that purpose. The DIS
| patch adds that the present Minister, Francis.
/ is working with ROginski to prevent the re-
| cOgnlUon of Mr.. Kelley, and that il is worth
$1,000 per month to Francis o remain IN Office.
/ \ WORCESTER, Mass, doctor was sent for
in haste to attend boy living some distance
from town, and found the lad dangerously
sick with a diphtheritc throat. He left a
prescription upon the table near the patient
and promised to call again. few days
afterward he found the patient much i'm
proved, and the mother assured the good doc
tor hat 1.-THE prescription did him a world OF
good.' She left it by him where he could
hold it in his hand any time, and he could
now read the most of it, The boy is now in
| usual health.
HENRY c. ROWE has just discovered on his
Long leland Sound oyster beds a destructive
mud coral insect which is killing seed oysters
by The million. 1t has not yet been named
scientifically, hut has been submitted to the
state Shell fish Commissioners for idenIlfica-
ton. Our Of 100000 bushels of 0 ysters planted
by Mr.. Rowe one wear ago in twenty feet of
water, over 5000 bushels have been smOth-
cred by the ash cOlOred cells OF the pests
which are built all over the beds. The dis
1 cOvery cXCtes much interest among oyster
men along the sound.
AT the Dane County (Michigan) Medical
| sOciety's annual meeting Thursday evening
feature was the exhibition by Dr.. Settlers, of
stOutOn, of a young Norwegian, one Iverson,
who was suffering from leprOsy. The patient
presented a horrible appearance, his face be-
ing red and blOated, and covered with ugly
blotchcs. The skin was thick on his face,
hands and feet, and could be pricked without
| the patient feeling any pain. The disease de-
NelOped IN lverSOn two years ago, being pre-
Ceded by a rheumatic senaiion II is heredi-
t4ry in the Iverson family.
UNITARIAN SCIENCE appears to stand
ready to turn to account the gaseous resi-
dunn of cremation. In Japan successful ex-
periments have been made in collecting
human ammonia from the crematories. Hy-
drochlOric acid is SUSPENDED inside the Chin
neys, where 1t combines with the ammonia of
the cooperating substances. The product Is
then collected and purified for the market.
Who can say that our widows will not, in the
near future, be able to revive their dropping
spirits with vinaigrettes charged with the
very ammonia we have rendered up at our
| incarceration?
ACCORDING to an English paper the London
street arab is fatalst like the Turk. do
you ever wonder why you are so miserable
and am mott" was asked one of the frater-
nifty. 'Well, he said, ''its all the Lords DO
ing this way; you are grand like and dress
well and lives in big house, and have pi-
amer and a softly; so the Lord secs as how
you are gentleman and thinks lots OF YOU
But we are very poor, we are; mother pawns
the blankets, and father beats mother and
swears awful We hain't got DO Sunday
things; we're all raggety, go the Lord don't
take much notice on u.s."
ONJULY Col. A. Loudon snowden, the re-
firing superintendent of the Mint, formally
vacated his office, and the Hon. Daniel NJ
Fox, his successor, assumed charge. The part
ing with Col. Snowden by the old employees of
the Mint was marked by the presentation to
him. On their behalf. Of a magni f cent stop
watch. A statement of the operations of the
Mint during Col. SnOwden's twenty eight
years Of service shows that the total value of
the gold and silver handled was 81. 702, 2G6 81 =
TO which must be added Slips, lO6 in minor
coins, issued by HIM re chief coiner and su-
perintendent, making $l.7l3,4 ,9H in all.
1.-THE Peruvian army is made up mostly of
Indians ana Cholos las the mixed races are
called, and are brought in from the noun
tains tied with ropes. "A train load Of these
volunteers came in from the country" savs
a Lima letter. ''all of them with their hands
tied behind them, and were driven into a
corral, ike 80 many cattle, where they were
given unfOrms and guns and put through a
course of sprouts. 1t is of little interest to
the Indian on which side he fights for he
knows nothing about the political troubles of
the country, ana serves any commander who
happens TO capture him. ike a mule or a
horse, unul he ls shot or runs away. They
are Obedient, tractable, and enduring. ami
although those who know enough viii cut on
hands and feet to avoid service in the army
| their mutnics always originate with the
officers, who are spanish"
THE now famous Pendjeh is inhabited by
some 1900 families Of Sariks, who are not sub
iect to any great head chief, but are mostly
ruled by various influential headmen. a good
many Jews live among them. and are the
principal shOpkeepers. while they have no
other slaves than q few captured years ago as
chldreR and women. now settling down as
wives. The Sariks are most prusp orOus, ana
possess over half million sheep and 10000