Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! the opening day of the session. If he does he
! Is looked upon as being verdant.
REPORT comes from Arkansas of dis
covery in Boone county of a zinc lode 80 miles
long and half mile to three miles wide, and
exhibiting more of this metal In sight tnan
can be seen elsewhere throughout the United
States.
THE municipality of Naples has been greatly
blamed in Parliament by members and mill
listers for spending so much money in lllumi-
nations and fireworks. when so little has been
done to provide against a renewal OF the
cholera epidemic of last year.
THE study of the English language is pre-
vailing all over Japan. In Toyama Project
ure every man of any means, and even the
local officials and police authorities are study
ing the language. The general belief there
is that those vino do not know the English
tongue are in the rear of civilization.
IT is a singular historical fact that the ele-
giant soft hat OF the Spaniard has remained
the same from the earliest period to the pres
ent day, while among all other civilized ma
lions transformation in that article has
taken place. Comfort in the wear seems to
have given place at all times to fancy and the
demands of fashion.
THEY have an original way in Vienna Of
protesting against bad tenor. A gentleman
in the parterre of the Teatro Malibran re-
Gently opened his umbrella and held it toward
Jllt SbdSts tNlueubly TO Keep Ou Int SuSWtI ot
false notes. The auditorium at once became
forest of umbrellas. The tenor fed, the
curtain fell and art was avenged.
A PORT JERvIs On. y MAN has concluded
that if there can be a scarecrow there can
also be a scarebug. So he has stuck little
! stake in the middle OF his cucumber hills on
| which he has attached a small white rag. He
/ says that the little bugs which were destroy
/ ing his cucumber plants are scared by the
/ Hopping of the rags and vacate the premises.
THE Chicago Board of Trade has been
! exercised about suppressing the practice Of
| stealing quotations, all sorts Of ingenious
1 devices being resorted to. A member was
! lately discovered making dumb signals by
] stroklng his right or left cheek to indicate the
I rise or fall of One-eighth IN the market, and
| was traced to the room in which his con-
| federate had been concealed.
| COAL is said to be an almost unknown
| luxury to the Chinese of San Francisco. Their
mode of cooking is to have an empty oil can
/ serve as a stove, upon which they place their
! tea Kettle or cooking pan. They start fire
! with two or three small sticks of wood, which
! they add to as they burn, and in this way
manage to establish a good degree Of heat
with but small expenditure of fuel.
AMERICANS are the third highest in point
of number of the foreigners residing in Japan,
according to statistics published IN a native
paper. The Chinese stand at the cad of the
! list with 2.47l residents, followed by the Eng
! lish with 6ls, the Americans numbering 1877.
! Although the Americans are farless numerous
there than the chinese or English. they Oc-
! cupy more houses in proportion to their num-
( Der than either.
AT the recent annual meeting of the Re
form Club OF London motion was brought
forward to abolish the Political Committee.
! The motion was adj vocated on the ground that
the attempt TO convert the Reform Club into
| a political agency, even for Ministerial pur-
ag nrl in mi fVy will fha ahar
| acter of the club or the sentiments of the ma
jority OF its members. The motion, however,
was rejected, and the rejection confirmed by
| vote by ballot.
THE Duke of Norfolk has been visiting
| Rome, and has been received by the Pope, to-
gether with the Duchess and their son. Re-
port says that it is hoped that the little Earl
OF Arundel. VINO is blind, VIII not long remain
an only child, and that the object of the pres
ent visit is to beg the POpe's special blessings
on the coming event. AS head of the British
Roman Catholic laity, the Duke receives i'm
mense Difference from the Papal authorities.
There is no sympathy between the English
| Catholics and the Irish Catholics of the hum
bier class. The former are intensely English
| in feeling.
! THE latest wrinkle on proving up claims in
Kansas so that one person can get two claims
is reported from the northern part of that
state. A person who had already proved
up on his claim took fancy to one adjoining
his. and on this he put building aud estab-
lished his wife, announcing that he had
separated from her, and that he had secured
a divorce. married woman cannot prove
up claim. but divorced or single woman
can. 1t is probable that chs avaricious couple
would really 90 through the fOrmality of a
divorce to secure a claim and then remarry
after the final proof has been made.
THE painting of President Arthur, which
has been in the East Room of the White
House for the past two years, though consid-
cred very good one, has never been pur-
chased by the government. It remains the
property of Mr.. LeClear, of New York, the
artist who painted it. Ut will be returned to
New York. and in its place will be hung a
portrait of President Arthur by Huntington,
which was ordered by the Senate Committee
on the Library. The Huntington portrait ar
rived Tuesday, but it will probably not be put
in place until after the summer cleaning mp of
the White House is completed. A portrait of
President Cleveland is now being painted by
a New York artist for the White House. 1t
will not be finished before the fall.
RECENT gunnery experiments at Stenfeld,
near FeliXdorf. have convinced the Austrian
War Office that it is desirable to adopt def
nitely the Uchatius bronze steel mortar of Is
centimetres diameter in siege operations.
From one Of these engines 200 bombs and
shrapnels were fired without the ri1ing of the
gun being much injured. The powder charge
was one kilogramme the weight Of the bomb
81 kilOs. and that of the shrapnel 30 kilos, and
the distance, not OF tine trajectory, but OF the
target, measured IN q straight line. was l,9C0
metres. From these trials IL is concluded that
the resisting quality of the Uchatius metal has
been amply proved Experiments are now
being made at Stenfeld with 7-centimetre
Uchatius mountain piece. These, also, have
up to the present given satisfaction.
DIR. LEAs, Of Baltimore, maintains the
theory that the organ by means of which the
female cicada pierces the twigs OF trees IN
preparing place for her eggs is sufficiently
sharp and strong TO pierce the skin OF a hui
man being, and that the wounds reported
from time to time by the country press and
attributed to the dFger wasp are in fact pro-
duced by the female cicada in consequence OF
her mistaking the surface upon which she has
happened TO alight for a twig. Making this
mistake, she proceeds 10 insert her ovipOsitor
90 she great scOmiOrt Of the person whose
identity Is mistaken. The digger wasp. the
doctor thinks, IL probably innocent Of the
crimes laid TO his charge. II not myth. II is
coniectured bv him that the cicada eggs once
laid under the skin may produce by their
presence very considerable amount of irri-
tation and pain.
ONE OF the most convenient among the va
rious electrical contrivances which have been
brought forward as auxiliarles is the follow
/ ing English device. enabling a person ringing