Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

I TIE nlckel, which was until quite recently
I looked upon with contempt n San Francisco,
/ has already reyoluuOpized the prices Of GER
/ tain th ngs and services in that CITY, ana cop
per CENTS WI soon be as current rs the nickel
OYsrEaMEN IN the vicinity Of New Haven,
Conn, are greatly agitaicd over the discovery
that q very destructive insect has been at
work on their oyster beds, and that OF the
700, 1890 bushels OF seed planted last year, ABOUT
10000 have been destroyed.
! \ GENTLEMAN, fishing in Tough Currane'
/ Ireland landed a pound and half trout
whose stomach appeared unusually dis
tendef Upon ripping IL open ne 1oun0
| iully legged sparrow, quite per,ecl: ~ltnouC
/ even feather disturbed Let fly fishermen
| take the hint.
! THE Princess Beatrce's trousseau is to con-
tain wilderness of boots and shoes. There
are seaside or yachting shoes, made Of Rus
I sian leather; light shoes. embroidered in gold
with the rose, shamrock and thistle; noun
/ taineefing boots, studded with nails; riding
! boot, lined with " hite Astrakan, and travel
! ing boots, lined with sealsRln.
DruEG the latter part of the eighteenth
century and the first of the nineteenth Lopez
Touro and other wealthy Jews made New
port, Is. J., their home, and very much of the
wealth Of the then wealthy city was distriD
utei among them, and Abraham TourO left as
a LEGACY to the city JOuro Park, where the
old one mill Is located, with asutticlenJfund
to keep The Jewish Cemetery and Jewish Syn
ag0Ee and the street which bears his name,
forever in good repair
rs BERLIN society has been formed for
the development OF New Guinea. and its first
step is to be taken by medical pioneers, who
/ are advertised for in the German medical
/ journals. Their first duty will be to report
1 upon the ply steal, geological and chronological
asuects OF the country. The method has some
advantages over the invariable English GUS
tom Of bringing isolated peoples TO a knowl-
edge Of the advantages OF trade by the slow
/ measures Of missionary societies.
TIE two Viennese newspapers which had
determined to evade the Sunday rest law by
having their Monday editions printed at
| Fresburg, have yielded, partly to the friendly
| circumstances of their contemporaries, and
partly TO the fact that no express train starts
! from Preshurg on Monday morning at an hour
convenient TO their arran gements. A notice
1 has appeared ia all the Niennese newspapers
stating that for the future there will be no
( MOncQy morning edition. but that after
noon issue VIII be published at 2 O'Clock in
stead Of the ordinary evening edition.
4 YOUNG MAN In Brooklyn, after consulting
his watch. dropped it into his pocket, when he
was startled Ly ar explosion, which was fol-
lowed by many Others in rapid succession.
I Before he could remove his clothing it had
I been burned through to the flesh and pain
I iul wound lnfilcteu. The hand in which he
held the watch was also severely burned. An
examination proved the explosion to have
been caused by chOrate of potash tablets,
which he as in the habit of carrying loose in
his pocket, and which were ignited by the
watch being dropped quickly upon them.
WALT WHITMAN last week told a visitor
4 that he went to Camden twelve years ago to
die, but regained his health and strength by
living outdoors most Of the time among the
birds ana fishes He has profound faith in the
efficacy of sun baths and river baths. The
late ex-Se nat0r n esmth, of Oregon went even
farther. He used TO say that sleeping under a
roof gave him a "chOkey feeling" and he de-
lighted in stealing away to the woods and
camping out beneath q tree with q blanket
around him " Aen he left Washington at the
end of his Senatorial term he carried all his
wardrobe and effects in a single portmanteau.
PRINCE ROLAND BONAPARTE, having spent
three mOnths travelling in Lapland, has
brought home a large collection of original
photographs Of the natives. The photogra phs
have been systematically taken IN accordance
with Broca's instructions, each individual
being represented in full face and in profile.
II is intended to issue sets Of these photo
graphs in a similar form to those of the ma
tlves OF SurinaDl, which the Prince issued
sOue time ago, and distributed to various
/ scientific institutions. The people OF Surinam
We're exhibited a. the Amsterdam exhibition
ald their photographs, with illustrations of
( jIe.r dresses, weapons, and implements, form
a superb anthrOpOloglcal album.
THE vital statistics of London show fear
ful rate of mortality among insured infants.
1t is believed that the mortality among the in
sured is 50 per cent. greater than that among
the uninsured II is strongly suspected that
( many infanJs are deliberately murdered for
the sake OF the insurance on their liyes The
companies which accept risks on infants lives
I Will only issue policies FOR healthy children,
and if they were not killed the mortality
among them would naturally be less than
among the general average Qf children. The
Fn.a4 hot No 10 fe E4ra
1 ringly 10 child-murder, which Is so easy OF
accomplishment and so difficult OF detection
IT is commonly believed that the century
plant blooms only once in a hundred years
but this is not true, as a specimen Of the A quo,
Henderson,, ear. Meeicana, native of Cen
trial America. IS years old, is now in blossom
in the rotunda Of the National Museum
Washington, and attracts large numbers OF
visitors to that institution. a long flower
stalk shoots up from the centre of the plant
and attains its growth in about weeks, dur.
| ing which time the flower cluster is deVelOped
merous OfshoOts from the side, near the top,
covered with long trum pet-sEaped blossoms
somewhat semhling the flower Of Yucca, oil
/ spanish b0yOnet. TINS century plant will
probably be in bloom for about two weeks.
THE annual return just published, OF the
English VivnGetion act seems to show that
this species OF physiological investigation ha,
been practically crushed out. In Ireland nc
certificates 10 perform such operations have
been granted in 1885. During asst year there
were but l3 experiments, all but two of which
were made to calculate the action OF drugs
In England and Scotland 40 licenses were
granted, "a OF which were used. Only AL eX-
perimeuts were made. None was used in
testing previous discoveries, or on the larger
animals; Two were performed on cats and
dogs. Ia 22S cases anesthetlcs were not used,
but 20 OF these consisted OF NEGOTIATIONS, q
we're for medico-egal inquiry, and 10 were
| experiments on Gsh with a fungus. The IN
1854 was wholly insignificant" and the med.
icai journals describe the benefits gained In
about the same terms.
THE heather Chinee rather more than holds
his own in some respects, and many Of the
children Of the better class Of Mongolans hav,
attended school to some purpose, despite The
social restriction law under which they labor
Che other day "a san Francisco matron. Jus
returned from q three years. tour abroad
advertised for q first. class cook. wDefeupOr
: an hgent-ioobing pgtail applied for The
position. "Whatec YOU nance, JOhnY asked
The lady ia Chat peculiar baby talk supposed
10 boz adapted 10 infants and other foreigners
"Wan Leo "NOu sabe Toast tlurklee
WAN" hsped the lady. The Chinaman kn
hia brOws and shook his head. "Oh. dear
men SAID the tourist TO her imported maid
! In what is known here ss Mills Seminary
and abroad as restaurant--French; what am
/ / 10 dor can nuke him understand" al
very unfortunate" said the Chinamsn re
necuyrly. az zee you uOu't speak French