Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-15
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park forever. adding the condition that 81 200
per annum shall be expended on the land for
improvements Tor ten years at least. The
trustees have agreed TO accept the PROPOSE
ton.
THE old smallpox chestnut has turned up
again slightly altered. man went into the
country for walk. He carried his overcoat
on his arm, but finding 1t burdensome, hung
| u on fence. Taking a card from his pocket
he wrote: do not touch this coat; infected
with smallpox" He came back two hours
later and found the card, upon which was
written. underneath his warning: Thanks
for the coat; I've had the smallpox"
THE weekly return of London pauperism
shows that in the second week of August there
were S4,9G4 paupers, of whom 5l,2Ol were in
door and S3,062 outdoor. This is decrease of
| Sc, lO77, and ]. 1883 as compared with the cor
responding weeks of 1884, 1888, and 1882. The
| last day of the second week of August 549vag-
rants were relieved, of whom 3S9 were men,
| l34 women. and 20 children under l6 years of
age.
FROM May 90, 1881, to Aug. g. 1885, a soldier
named Camille Martin lay in the military hos
pltal, at Havana, suffering from catalepsy.
| All the resources of medical science were ap-
Piled to his case without apparent improve
| ment until ire date last named, when the
| doctors ordered that bagpipe be played near
| nls Deu. Inc enect was magical. Conscious
ness was restored Immediately, and he now
takes nourishment and articulates some
words.
! THE methods OF the American ambulance
service, suspension harness and all, are
warmly praised in Liverpool. where they
| have been in use for over year. The record
! OF the Northern hospital gives the average
time from the cali to the departure of an am
! bulance at 2:l4 by day. and minutes by night.
| The time of each journey, from call to return,
was IL 80. The comment is that the keeping
OF such record makes men in the service
| ambitious.
LORD CoLERIDGE mentioned to friend who
met him recently in the quiet old cathedral
town OF Peterborough, in which he is passing
| the summer, that he had no intention of re-
| firing from the bench, but, on the contrary,
| now that he enjoyed the blessing of undis-
| tuTbed domestic peace, he felt that he could
! discharge the duties of his Office with greater
| vigor and efficiency. He has no daughter but
! the one married to Mr.. Adams. He was look
| lpg remarkaby well.
! THE mixed commission of European and
japanese savants convened in Toxic for the
purpose of condensing the 5000 characters of
the Japanese language within the scope of the
European alphabet and of devIsing rules for
writing the Japanese language in Roman
letters has already issued a Japanese Latin
dictionary which will enable the student to
enter into the mysteries of the Japanese Ian
guage as easily as into Latin or Greek.
japanese German, Japanese-French and
Japanese English dictionaries will follow be-
fore long.
MAI. MARINDIN, in a report to the London
Board of Trade on an accident which occurred
on Sept on the Great North of Scotland line,
mentions newly discovered danger in rail-
way travelling. A carriage left the rails and
an examination showed that the mishap was
due to the distortion of the metals at that
spot. Mai. Mariudin says he can attribute
this defect only to an expansion of the metal
from the heat Of the sun, as the sun was ex-
ceedingly hot the day in question. He con-
slders that the sole way of guarding against
such accidents as this would be by having a
midday examination of the line in exception
ally hot weather.
THAT distressing chirper, the English spar
row, has driven our sweet native sOngsters to
the topmost bOughs of the trees, but, all the
same, one reads in the London Times a protest
against the introduction of American fishes
into British streams. lest the newcomers shall
eat the Old-time frequenters of the waters
there. 81 marvel how the fishes do live in the
sea. SAID one fisherman in "Pericles." "Why.
rs men do on the land" replied another fish
erman. ''the great ones eat up the little ONES"
After the matter of the sparroWs Uncle Sam
wonders how the English writer could have
me holiness to protest; but then, as all Of us
know, the Briton's skin fits him q great deal
tighter than his trousers or his manners.
THOSE happy persons who had as lief plav
At cards as sip nectar from Ganvmede's
golden cup, may find fact or two Of interest
in that which follows: The last number of
the statistics of the German empire gives par
ticuars as to the manufacture and sale of
playing cards IN Germany last year. The
number OF manufactures was, as in 1853, six
ry-one, and they turned out 1859. 0lO packs of
thirty-six cards or under, and ], ESQ, 2S9 packs
Of more than thirty six cards. Out of this
total 3,29l, 9l4 packs of the former and 2O3 ia
of the latter description were stamped for in
land sale, and 236, 500 packs of the former and
l054,923 of the latter exported. Includ-
ing the playing cards imported the total num-
Der Of small packs used was 3,3Os, 100, and of
large packs 2l2.4H.
FINDING ROOMS in Paris adapted to ones
means and taste is as difficult as here In the
neighborhood chosen will be found many no
tees standing out from the doors, "Grande on
petite apartment a tOuer," but to discover
what they are like means mounting more than
100 steps, and this repeated many times is
both firing and confusing. OF course the
higher you mount the less you pay, but many
people prefer n fifth story, because the air
seems purer and they have great balcony
the whole width OF the rooms, which, If it is
= corner house, seems, ~ things go in Paris.
quite extensive, for nowhere is economy in
space so much studied as in Paris. To live In
his beloved city, Partisan seems willing to
sacrifice almost everything else.
THE Due diAumale travels nearly always
in reserved carriage, and is generally at
tended by u secretary and some courtiers.
iAS AoACiy Ahtescb 70 Town on FIJI
days, when he is at the seatof the Condes.,
writes a Paris gossip. "and he goes once a
week in the season to the opera. A lady Joins
him there. As his box is on q level with the
pit, and in the shade, it IS not easy to Identify
her. The letters 81. L." are on the panels OF
the coupe that awaits her. and into winch.
with her head closely mufled, she rapidly gets
when the representation Is over Though She
walks quickly, her step has not the lightness
OF 20, which II almost had, when, II years ago.
LeOnide Leblanc played the part Of the Duke
Of Alba's daughter at Brussels in La
Patrie'"
Tue Milan journal Pun0olo relates that a
Turin merchant, who has correspondents In
the French department Of Bouches- du- Rbone.
received at his private house at Pinerlo, a tel
cgram from Marseilles. Upon reading it, he
discovered, TO his great annoyance, that it
must have been sent on some twenty-four
hours before 1t was delivered to him. He
called upon the telegraph clerk to account for
the delay, and the honest man at once con
lcssed that the dispatch had indeed lain for a
day and night in his Office. He went on TO
gravely explain that, as II had come from n
place where cholera was known to be raging,
he felt himself bound, in compliance with the
regulations OF the Italian sanitary authori-
ties, TO dislnfeet II by exposing it to the fumes
Of burning sulphur.
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