Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


ONE OF the largest manufacturers Of gloves
IN England recently issued a circular to the
fashionable dealers in London. pointing out
that the habit of attempting to wear gloves
too small has grown to such an extent that
u mas seriously affected the reputation of the
factory. and urging the dealers to exercise
shelf inhuen against this expensive mani
testation of vanity.
THIS STORY ls on its rounds: ''Jay Gould's
father, stad, honest old farmer in Della
ware county, NY, had very little faith in his
sons capacity to get on, because he was not
I0nd OF ch0pp,ng, blowing, sowing or reaping.
When the lad decided to quit his rural home
Inc elder Gould, it is said, handed him half a
dollar and told HIM he would certainly go to
the devil" The old man just about sized up
his son IN his last remark.
AMONG the art treasures OF Mrs. Morgan,
DR.. Conklings friend. were many remark
able pieces of cameo glass. One vase cost her
probably not less than $4,000 or $l2, 1000,
tnouSh II was only about thirty inches high.
She owned several other vases purchased
from Mr.. Theodore B. Starr. A few other
large and costly specimens of cameo glass
acorn the homes of other wealthy amateurs
IN TINS city, but It's introduction to popular
notice 10 quite recent. Everybody is familiar
with the fame of the Portland vase and with
Wedgwood's marvellous reproduction of it III
pottery.
CAPT HowGATE, the signal service defaul-
ter, is thus described by one who claims to
have recently met him on an Ohio river
steamboat: His manner and appearance
were sadly changed. His face looked rough
and unshaven, a scattering, foxy beard hav-
ing been permitted TO partially cove the lower
part OF the face, His hair was clipped short,
and small black hat gave him an odd and
cOmical appearance. He wore a suit of very
cheap and coarse gray, which disclosed at the
bottom heavy. brogan-lik shoes. His whole
IA a q 2
man. He had quite recovered the use of his
injured hip and leg.
SPEAKING of a Chinese restaurant in San
Francisco, Mrs. Pfei1er, IN a recent volume of
travels, says 81 can imagine nothing short of
being one OF the useless mouths of city IN
state of siege that could make me partake of
any OF the klckshaws OF that devils kitchen;
even then | think | should have grace to pre-
fer more lingering death. flashes of tubu-
lar organisms looking like earth worms, birds
OF the size of chickens and the form Of cranes
made ready for the spit in the cruel mockery
OF flight, multifarlous messes in little saucers,
pots and pans aud refuse of all sorts mixed
with shells having a fatal affinity with those
of snaile, must have suflced to rebut any but
an appetite TO the manner born"
AN old ScOtchman, when taking his BARNS
to be baptized, usually spoke of them as lad
dies or lasses, as the case might be. At last
his wife said he n ust not say it was laddie
or Iassle, but an infant. So the next time
that Sandy had occasion to go to the clergy
man the latter said: "Weel, SANDY, is 1t
ladder" Its nae laddie,'' was the answer.
"Then it's lasse." tits nae a lassie.'' said
Sandy. "Well, man, what is it, them" said
the astOnished preacher. Il dlnna remember
vera wee," said the parent, 'but think the
wife said it was an Illefant." The Clergyman
finally found ont that it was not an elephant,
but an infant, he was expected to baptlze.
PAsTEUR's PARENTS were of humble origin
rated on the field of battle, took up the trade
OF a tanner when, the war over, he returned
to France, and was obliged to work very hard
to keep the wolf from the door. Neverthe-
less he found time every evening to superin-
tend the lessons of his son, who at an early
age was sent to college, and OF whom he was
determined to make an educated man. The
boy. however, was no infant prodigy, and it
is reported of him that he did not always take
the shortest road either to or from school.
else, and whenever he could escape from his
book would amuse himself by taking portraits
of his neIghbors.
DIR. MoRELL-MACKEzIE, the famous throat
specialist, according to the London World,
lives in the midst of almost Oriental magni6-
cence AMI quite after the fashion of the
Arabian Nights. Everything in the way Of
instruments or suggestion of disease is care
fully hidden away behind equisite carvings or
rich hangings; doors open and shut noiseless-
ly, patients are summoned and dismissed by
mysterious electric bells. In one of the doc
tors rOom- he has something clever enough
in device to be adopted by many weary
physician in our own country. Behind the
chair where he examines patients is a heavy
portiere, Through which he vanishes when a
patient SHOWS a disposition to dwell unduly
on his ailments"
THE Chemist and Druggist gives the results
Of DR.. Magnier de la Sources Investigations
- Il,
average annual Importation into Paris equals
l00,00000O gallons, and the quantity of So
called wine sold there amounts to 12O, 100000
gallons. The adulterants are chiefly water
alcohol and glucose, aud the colOring LIQUID ia
made largely from the heavy dressings OF dry
grapes. More than 40 per cent. Of the wines
were so fortified during 1884 as to contain Is
per cent. of alcohol; natural wines contain
only about 10 per cent. Even of the very mild
wines less than samples in 100 contained less
than per cent. of alcohol. The conclusion Is
that French people are constantly demanding
stronger wines and are growing less particu-
ar as to delicacy OF flavor.
A GOOD DEAL has been said Of late wears az
to the changes in the manners and customs of
Quakers, who, it Is urged, have put aside drab
and lavender for more decided colors, and
indulge in many ways after fashion George
Fox would have reprObated But il apnears
from Mrs. Fry's life that in her day some
personsof any othersect. She and her sisters.
the Misses Quincy, seem, indeed. to have had
thoroughly "gOod time" in the American
girls sense of that expression. She went TO
London In the season, and saw everything.
Her hair was dressed in the height Of fashion.
and she painted little" When an Ameri.
can Quaker of the old school, travelling In
England upon a religious mission, cast his
eyes around the company, he was Mortified
ana scandaliled, especially at the appearance
OF Miss Elizabeth Quincy, who wore ''purple
boots, laced with scarlet"
ENGLISH manufacturers of sugar were for n
long time disinclined TO the use Of the centri-
fugal machine, although so early and eagerly
adopted In the United States, where 1t origi
mated, and now its popularity is well known.
In both countries, at the present time. the
is favorite instrument for DO
ratlons In this respect being well nigh mar
VellOus, 10 ~ based, in a word. upon the !
scientific TACT that beam OF polarized light
in passing through q solution of "A Given
strength OF pure cane sugar in water. Ia /
rotated or twisted toward the right 10 a GER |
tam anu UNIFORM extent, and the relative ex- |
tent 10 winch similar solution OF anv other 1
sugar, under the same conditions rotates the |
light, indicates the relative purity and crys. |
tailizing power OF that sugar. The ARRANGE
ment OF lenses in the instrument Is such that |
the operation in itself is very simple. only re- |
quiring care, the result being read in nsurea |
90 scale attached TO the adjusting thumb |
crew.
AT RECENT GATHERING Of medical men in
DR.. W. s. Janney, late Coroner
Of that city, made the startling statement that
"no healthy man or woman ever dies in this
climate from cholera morbus.n He renoated