Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-10

WHEN one becomes a guest at a Mexican
hotel, his name is written upon a huge black
| board behind the hotel clerk in the office.
JEWS own and work more than l,25O,OO0
acres OF land in Russia and rent from the
Gro Sn nearly 100000 acres more.
THE city authorities of Belgrade having de-
termined upon extensive municipal improve
ments, have sent commission Of experts to
France and England for the purpose of pick
ing up suggestions.
THE Kennebec this season has frozen up in
unusually good shape, very smooth and very
clean. The ice is now from three to five
inches in thickness, and of excellent quality.
Cutting will not commence until the ice Is
about eleven inches thick. The storing ca
pacity for ice on the Kennebec, which Is now
about 100000 tons, Is rapidly increasing.
DIR. I'D. CROTHERs advances the theory
that inebriety may be not only a disease, but
contagious. He believes it possible that the
results set down to the evil effects of bad eX-
ample and association are the result of actual
cOntagiOn, resulting in pathological changes
of the nerve centres, and leading to lnebrlety
with as little vOlitiOn on the part of the suf
ferer as if he had an attack OF the measles
THE artesian well business is being prose-
cuted to some extent in Asbury Park, y. J.,
where test was made recently Of a wells
sufliciency as a supply for fire purposes. The
engine at first pumped 81 gallons per minute,
and afterWard 100 gallons. The natural How
Of the well is about 10000 gallons per day.
The test demonstrated that the flow could be
increased by pumping to over 10000 gallons
per day.
AMERICA has produced some strange relig-
ious sects. but none stranger perhaps than
one recently founded in Philadelphia, calling
itself the ~ Elimar Mira Militia Congregation
of the Lord" The principal tenet OF tins sect
Is the worship Of woman named Anna
Meister, who called herself j Elmar Mira
Militia, and claimed to be the Holy Ghost.
She died few months. ago, but her credulous
believers still continue TO pay her divine
hOnOrs.
THE old idea that it is unhealthy to eat at
night is a by gone superstition. The most
advanced physicians now advocate the theory
that digestion aids sleep and sleep aids di-
gestOn." They do not mean hearty meal of
roast turkey and trut1les at bedtime, but
enough of good wholesome food to give the
stomach something to do during the first two
or three hours of sleep. As some wise man
has written, "a cracker or two at bedtime is
better than a dOse Of bromide"
DURING a run with the Fitzwilliam hounds
in England the other day the fox, hard
pressed, made for a railway, where he de-
liberately lay down on the track and refused
to badge. An express train was rapidly APP
preaching, and the pack being in imminent
danger of getting upon the track and being
cut TO pieces, the huntsman reluctantly and
with considerable difficulty drew off the
hounds. The fox maintained his position until
the express got within a short distance, and
then quietly made OF.
THE STEAMER AsHDELL, of Liverpool, with
a cargo of 900 tons Of salt in bag and bulk, is
the first steamship to arrive at Baltimore
with full cargo of that product. Heretofore
full cargOes only came in sailing vessels, and
salt dealers would not charter steamships be-
cause they required greater dispatch IN un-
loading. The indications now are that car
goes of salt, like cargOes of coal oil, will here
after be shipped in the tramp steamships
which will require speedy means, like those
Of grain elevators, to discharge and load them.
THE force with which the gas issues from
some of the gas wells in Pittsburg is trenen-
dous, and in one instance drilling machine
weighing 5000 pounds was thrown high in the
air. The pressure is irregular, too, and there
in lies the chief difficulty In utilizing the gas
for household purposes, as the danger OF leak
age and explosion can hardly be overcome,
though various cOntrivances are employed to
lessen it. The gas bearing stratum Il here
bed of soft, pebbly sandstone, at depth of
1900 feet. underneath solid rock. The rush Of
gas is weaker in the morning and stronger in
the afternoon, and there is also general huc-
tuatiOn corresponding with the changes OF the
moon.
AT a Christmas dinner, a short distance
from Boston, there were seated around the
table u persons, each related to the others,
whose ancestors all arrived in this country
between the years 1922 and 1880, and landed
within IS miles of the place where the family
gathering occurred. Of the company assem-
bled ? were descendants of Gov. Endicott,
Z descendants of Roger COnant, IL descend
ants of Madam Margaret Lake, sister of the
wife of Gov. John Winthrop the second; de-
scendants of Peregrine White, the nrst Whlte
child born in the colony; descendants or
John Alden, descendant Of Elder Brewster,
and IL dies ,endants of Capt. John Gallop, who
Cooper in his t'NaYal History" says, fought
the hrst American naval battle.