Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

As memento Of naval proves, at Ports
mouth, Eng.
a CoNF'CTIoNER in Indianapolis gives GUS
toners the privilege of eating all the candy
they can get away with at one time in his
| store for % cents each, and declares that he
makes money on nine out Of ten.
AN INTERNATIONAL COOKING MATCH is to be
held at the aquarium in Westminster in De-
eember next, when the favorite dishes OF all
! nations are to be produced, from the roast
beef and plum pudding OF old England to the
| kapoosta soup of Norway.
THE MEXIcANs have q strange fashion OF
! trying criminals for crimes committed in the
/ tnlted states. A Mexican who murdered a
! fellow countryman in Texas has Just been
! convicted b. native court and sentenced to
| - long term OF imprisonment AZ Saltlllo.
IRE Transcaspan railway Is so far ad-
vanced that engines already run for fifty
kilometres between Askabad and Bami. The
| construction of the line costumes day and
| night without iutermis-ion. ana already the
tracing out of the line to Nerve has been be-
gun.
! "HANsARD' has just reached its fourth
| century of volumes. Since 1873 not a word
has been spoken in the English Houses of Par
lament bu5 has been faithfully chroniced.
! Besides the actual debates from 1903, a com e.
! plete SET of "Hansard" includes the Parlia .
! men AIRY history as far as it can be collected
from 1865 to 1903.
/ THE process of Latinizing the Japanese al
phabet is making great progress. The Mathi-
matical and Physical Society of Toxic has re
| solved to print the official part of its reports
! IN the Roman characters, and the Chemical
society Is about to take similar step. Sew
eral newspapers are also already printed
with Roman type, and the Japan Gazette ex
| presses he opinion that the Latin alphabet
| Will soon be generally apopted
AT recent meeting of the Paris Academy
| Of Medicine a French naval surgeon gave an
account Of the practice of TRANSMISSION of blood
in cholera cases at Toulon. The operations
| were performed during the state of collapse,
| and proved successfulln Is cases out of Is. The
| TRANSMISSION of 1900 to 1000 grammes ''literally
| effected a resurrection, but unhappily IN the
! majority OF cases the patients did not perma-
nently recover"
AN EXPERT in fine foreign tobaccos tells US
that ''the American tobacco is strong, because
| only the male plant grows on this side of the
Atlantic while the female plants the exclu-
sive product of Turkey and the Orient" In
| that fair and sunny land, where nightngales
| and flower gardens are the prize of every day
| life, tobacco growing has become an art. A
| tropical sun wooes it, Circasslan mtidens in
| Spiced pettcoats spray its leaves with per
TUNED water from lotus brooks. while dark
eyed hours charm away insects with music
| distilled from sweet guitars. When the harvest
| caves are ready for cutting and curing.
THE PHRASE philadelphia treat" never
heard in Philadelphia itself, Is heard fire.
quently IN Western towns. For instance in
an article on the shop girls of Cincinnati the
Commercial Gazette says: "In one establish
ment one OF the errand boys makes tour of
he coupters at IL O'Clock to take the girls
orders and cash for anything they may wish
to buy for luncheon and brings IL them. In
the Basement Is gas stove in summer and a
Goa stove in winter, where the girls can heat
their coffee or brew their tea--tWo or three
going sharesin philadelphia treat Here
they come in relays. gossip for a half hour
and then return, refreshed and rested, to
tlieir work"
DON'T BELIEVE that half the reports which
have been so industriously circulated in
America concerning the husband Of Mrs.
Sartprs, nee Nellie Grant, says Robert s.
Campbell of London, have a word of truth in
them. He IS by no means model man, but
10 say that he is a drunkard, gambler and a
III ertlne is to lie in most deliberate fashion
l have known SartUris for years, and while
We nave but little in common between us.
dlsllke 10 ace him so outrageously malgned.
As mater Of fact he IA somewhat lmpul-
slve, but he has a great big heart. is quick to
| acknowledge an error, and IN his daily inter
coI'-" With men and women is reserved and
refined.
AMONG the twelve good men and true who
composed the jury in Judge Coon's court
room at Minneapolis was one colored person.
The testimony on a certain damage suit was
all in, and the Judge commenced to charge
the jury. lie had no more than commenced
his Instruction than the colored brother drew
a newspaper out of his pocket and began TO
read. The example was pot lost. In a re-
markably short space of time there were five
IF those jurors reading newspapers. To be
! sure, they didn't all have the nerve to 20
| about 10 as openly as did this man Of color
!
/ When the jury went out they consumed only
| five minutes to weigh the evidence, and then
they came In with verdict for the plaintiff.
ONE of the mott attractive watering laces
in England now is Eastbourne, Sussex. 1t
chiefly belongs to the Duke Of Devonshire, one
Of his numerous seats, which he gives up to
his only sister married to the only son of the
! young ga ant Howard" of Chi de Harold's
/ pilgrimage Is in the nelghbOrho ID The Duke
! has expended vast sums in a most judiciOus
! improvement of the place. Among its attrac-
! lions this year have been two men with a
piano placed on donkey cart. One wears
| green goggles and the other a bandage over
! naf his face, and their soft felt hats are
drawn well over their faces One Is an ad-
/ mirable pianist, the other has a splendid voice
and they have the appearance and mein of
persons OF nigh class. They draw big au-
diences.
julius CESAR, who resides in Rio de janet
rio, has built a huge aerial ship and only
| wants means for gigantic balloon to float
the same and his scheme; and there have been
Brazilian believers enough to furnish him
| with funds for many months. but the balloon
Is not built. the air ship has not sailed and the
! p4tence OF the subscribers Ia nearly exhaust
/ ed. while their funds are quite so In this
| emergency actually the Emperor Dom Pedro
| has headed a committee TO solicit the sum of
/ $4,000 e. enable Prof. Julius Cesar 70 further
/ experiment in an art that is not likely TO cul-
/ inmate in success IN the present century. Yet
| subscriptions are lively, most BraZilians be-
/ leylng hat II the Emperor's committee can
raise tine wind the professors air ship will
! sail.
81 SEE great many funny paragraphs IN
the newspapers about Chicago and ST, Louis
! girls feet and the shoes they wear" said a
/ Boston dealer who trades with those towns.
/ $50 far as st. Louis girls are concerned, these
/ Paragraphs are vide OF the mark, for both
men and women in all that section OF the
country have remarkably small feet But il
4 is unqucstOnahly true that the Chicago loot
/ Is unusually large, though will not pretend
/ 90 give reason for IL. You may form some
/ notion OF the difference in size which exists
/ between the Boston and the Chicago foot from
/ the fact that IN the latter city mems sizes av-
ertge nearly II, while here the average IA
about - There is shout the same "a florence
. iu womt shoes. 80 the Joke about Chicago
/ gr-' teet may be said TO be strictly founded
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