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

THE Geographical Society OF Australasia
| has completed arrangements for the explora-
I ton Of New Guinea.
/ THE consumption OF rubber in this country
| is steadily on the increase, the imports last
! year having been 2t.O64, 900 pounds, the great
/ est amount ever known.
/ THE Carnavalet Museum possesses the last
arm chair which Voltaire used. 1t is very
low covered with green leather and fitted Ip
with an ingenious contriyance for reading
aud writing. 1t formerly belonged to the
Marquis de- VilleJte. and was purchased by
the city of Paris for $500.
THE new ship canal across the Isthmus of
Corinth, is said to be progressing satisfactorl-
ly. 1t will be, when finished, about four
miles long, the entrances will be some 32s feet
wlue, diminished to u feet. and the depth VIII
be 26 feet. The highest point Of the high land
through which the channel must be cut is go
feet.
ANTS can easily be extermInated by putting
two ounces of lard oil in a small tin can with
out top and burying the can about halfway
in the earth near the ants nest. Leave it un-
til the next day, and, if any ants are seen out
side OF the can, pour little more oil into lt.
STIR it with stick and let it stand little
longer. when the last ant within travelling
distance will be drowned in the oil.
THE depression OF spirits and nervous ex
haustion, for the relief of which many per
sons fiy TO large or repeAted doses Of alcohol,
may be much more etfsctusllv cOmbated by
salv0latile aromatic spirits OF ammonia) IN
suitable doses, say dram. This restores the
spirits and rOuses the energy in a remarkable
manner, and is free from the pernicious effects
attending the use, or abuse, OF whisky ana
! brandy.
JUDGE MGALLIsTER of the United States
District Court for Alaska, recently decided in
the case Of an Indian convicted of the murder
.1fn 70 Ok Ind hal "a il n n
/ Indian country, and therefore the prisoner
/ could MOI be discharged for lack of jursdlc-
ton. Under the general statues OF the United
! states Federal court has no Jurisdiction over
/ in offence committed by one Indian against
! another in Indian country.
A CREW composed of oxford, Cambridge
/ and Dover Oarsmen has crossed from Dover
/ to CALAIS in a boat IS feet long ana feet
/ inches wide in the centre, Lieut.. Colviue, of
! the Grenader Guards padded from Dover to
| CALAIS on Derby day, 1875, in l4-foot canoe,
/ in six and a half hours ''ROb Roy" also pad
/ died across in his canoe on his return from
! Palestine, and was twelve hours on the jour
ney. Four officers Of the ROY al Artillery per-
! formed the feat in 4-Oared galley in 1885, in
! five hours.
PRESIDENT GREvY is building magnificent
private residence in the Avenue de jena, near
the Trocadero. The house will be ready this
winter, and its completion comedies with the
close of the Presldent's term Of office. 1t is
| understood that NJ Grevy will not again be a
| candidate, his great age and long public ser
vice giving him right TO retire 10 private
| life. In his new house quarters nave been
| specially prepared for Mr.. Wilson anu his
wife, who Is M. Crews daughter.
A SYRACUSE bookseller of a statistical turn
of mind has collected accounts of the lives of
10000 centenarians. He found that 5000 of
them came from the Nutmeg State and that
the majority were women. Fifty single
women came up to the century d ark, but
only twelve bachelors. One hundred minis
! ters lived to he 100, and only 30 doctors, 10
| lawyers and 10 actors. A centenarlan news
paper man could not be discovered New
London widOwer of l06, according to the cata-
logue. married a maiden just 80 years his
/ junior, and one woman at LOG could reflect on
| the loss of il husbands.
THE English society papers have taken to
! the CONNECTION of anagrams out Of the names
of the members of the new Ministry. Lord
Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill, Secretary
of State for INDIA" is transformed into II
| rely upon harsh, eccentric, slap dash rhetoric,
and drOll effrUnt terry which Is better than
| "Heigh- no. there thou lieth RrcRtsir Stafford,
! fOrlorn, ill-used, betrayed, /" compounded from
.'Ihe Right Honorable the Earl OF lddesleigh,
| First Lord of the Ire asury." When the Con-
servD tives came ia in 1874 the anagrammatists
| found II lead. sir" in "Disraeli," and &c.
leads not" in "GladstOne."
THE Improvement Of Sabine Pass, between
Louisiana and Texas. is progressing favor
| ably. The government has spent a large
sum-about 5000, 000-at this point, princi-
| pallV in the couat ructiOn of two ietties made
Of brush and ballasted with stone. These ex-
tend several miles out to sea, crossing the bar
and reaching to the outer l2-fOOt curve. Con-
siderable oh tnge OF depth has already been
effected, and the crest of the bar has moved
seward several hundred yards. The work
done under the last appropriation will be
completed this month. when all must come to
stop until another appropriation may be
made.
IN her book on her husband Mrs. Custer
says the General tanned tiny field mouse
and kept it In a large, empty inkstsnd on his
desk. 1t grew fond of him, aud ran over his
head and shoulders, and even through his
hair. | had, fortunately, TO keep away from
the desk when the little creature vas free,
for It was contented TO consider that his do
main. The General, thinking at last that it
was cruel to detain the little thing indoors,
when 1t belonged by nature to the fields. took
st out and left il on the plains. The kindness
prisoner of the Bastile, it was back again at
the steps in no time, and preferred captivity
to freedom.
AT the present time the great bulk of the
teas from China and Japan come 10 San Fran
cisco and are carried over the Central and
Union Pacific lines or the Southern Pacific,
the freight from Yokohama To New York be-
! ing Z13c. q pound, while the rate from Yoke
hama 20 san Francisco Ii &c. pound and
from san Francisco to New York &c. a pound
A New Yorker practically gets his tea carried
to New York from san Francisco for &c, q
pound. A San francisco merchant has to
! pay &c. for the same service A grocer in
| Cincinnati or st Louis can buy from New
York teas which have gone through san
FranciscO for p. less a pound than he could
bring the same teas direct from San Fran
cisco.
JOAQUIN A. VARGAS, recently relieved as
Consul Of Mexico IN Chicago, prints a card in
the papers Of that city IN which he charges
that his removal was brought about through
the fundamentally Of L. II. Talbot. who was
IN charge Of the Mexican Press Excursion
lie charges that MIR. Talbot became his enc
my because he would not consent 10 a certain
business Arrangement. the terms OF which he.
Talbot, assumt Il 10 arbitrarily arrange. The
st. Louis papers promptly pi'cl upon this
card for the purpose Of reAssertng the charge
that the excursion WIS 80 up solely In the IN
tercst OF Chicago, and FOR the purpose of ar
ranging commercial scheme for Inaugural
ing ana fixing the trade between that city
and Mexico.
ST. LOUIS UNDERTAKEN, who claims 10
have been one OF those in charge OF Presi-
dent Lucoln's remains, relates for the fret
time tho following concerning them: AT
Chicago. H.. when we opened the box
that held the remains, the face on
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