Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-16

VET produces less than tenth Of what the
United states does with 10.
THE San Diego Cali Natural History So
ciety are going to petition Congress to give
them deed OF San Miguel mountain. near
san Diego, as site for an observatory.
SAN FRANcIsoo's S,lOO saloons yield a reve-
nue. of $20s540. The local press points out
| that with high license this sum would be in
creased to $lS60.0 0, or, il half the saloons
were shut, to $3.50, COO.
GEORGE MULLER, who has charge of several
orphans homes at Br stol, Eng, and who
makes 1t point never to ask for anything ex-
cept by prayer, announces that something
over S2OO.OOO has been sent to him this year.
PROF COPE says that party of English
men not long ago killed lin defiance OF law
twenty or thirty bison in the Y ellowstone Ma
tional park without taking any parts of the
animal for use. This was about a fourth of
the total herd.
ONE-TENTH Of the "Studentenschaft" at the
Zurich university is now female. Twenty
nine young ladies study medicine, fourteen
phlo ophy and two political economy. OF
tne forty live female students fifteen are
SWISS and ten Russian.
THE well known bronze column in the form
Of serpent, now at Constantinople, which is
supposed to have served as a support for the
Youve offering Of the Greeks to the temple at
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lned, with the result of cor Getting several err
rors IN the commonly accepted reading.
AN ALBANY, N. Y, DRUGGIST keeps all his
liquid poisons inclosed behind substantial
wire screens, which are securely locked.
/ while poisons in powdered form are kept in
drawers OF peculiar pattern, having covers
on them. Thus no clerk can make a mistake
unless through incredible stupidity. Kindred
prcc utions should be established in every
apothecary shop.
AMONG the floating gossip is a story to the
effect that Mr. Vanderbilt had an offer Of l27
made to him on Wall street Thursday for his
| holdings OF 100000 United States per cent.
/ bonds; another, that t sale Of SO Q. 900 900 If
/ per cent. annuties, to run twenty one years
from July next. h been suggested to the
Score ary OF the Treasury, but by whom no
body seems to know.
The FOOTBALL SEASON in England has
barely yet got into full swing, but already
two deaths have been caused by the game.
besides sOOdy number of broken limbs. The
con- roVersy as to the comparative safety of
the Two styles OF playing is left lust where it
was before, since one of the draths occurred
in an association, the other in Rugby match,
/ though at the inquest held on the latter a
WI ness assured the coroner that Rugby foot
ba was much less dangerous.
THE FIRST ENGLISH oURN AL ever published
in Japan by a japanese has Just made its APP
I
English journa in Japan. but they belong to
British SUBJECTS. and are written in the inter
eSts OF foreigners, who almost alone buy them.
The AMI -JGpaneSe Times, however. Is pHb-
llshed aud written by and for the Japanese
Themselves. II is brought out by the prnprie-
t RS of an important native newspaper, the
Aatnicht Shim6un, or DaiJu Ne,0s.
BUSINESS at the Brooklyn Navy Yard just
now is uncOmmonly brisk. About 1000 men
art at work. The sloop-of war Essex is I'M
dergolng general rep irs: her engine and
boilers have been overhauled, and large
amount OF rotten timber in her hull has been
rep aced. The Tallapoosa is being trans
'orned into light cruiser, and her battery
VIII be O. board next week. The Richmond
II In the hands OF the joiners and caulkers.
The ships in commission are the Dispatch and
ookly n; the latter is ready for sea.
A CHAMPION MEAN MAN'i'having sent the
Grant memorial fund at New York; so Con
federate note, which New YORK firm re
deemed at par. the Secret airy of ffie tund has
re 'elved the following letter from Mss Zena
5. Miller, Of Ruf1in. \. c II see advertised
ID the South hat man in Augusta, Ca, sent
the committee $50 Confederate bill and il
was sold for $50 Inclosed you win find 4 $500
Dill which VIII ask you 20 Sc II for a poor
southern girl. BY doing so yOu will greatly
oDlge. nyou cannot sell it please return tt.D
EXTENSIVE SODA WORKS have been begun
at Owens Lake, in California. A portable
engine s employed. ard as soon as a vat
Is filled the engine is moved to an
other, and the water is left to evan
ortte from the one that has been filed.
This process will be repeated at ali the
watts until the soda sediment in the water
accumulates in the pit until it reaches the
surface. 1t will take about a year 10 get a
crop Of soda by this nc hod, which will bring
$50 per ton. They expect To ga her fftv tons
of soda to the acre annually. The number of
vats will increased till they hold IN area of
$4,000 acres oi so a, the income from which is
expected to be nearly S2,00O,t 90 a year.
THE French 'lady doctors" rave carried the
day. Henceforth the female medical stu
dents will be mesdemoiselles les internes. and
as such they Will be admitted to hospitals on
The same terms as their male colleagues
Sixty a-plrants to the NJ. ID. degree are at
present rejoicing IN the victory, among them a
young negro lady of the "pius beau noir,"
who is said to be one Of the most Jealous stu
dents IN Paris. Among the different types of
iema medical students In France, which a
French contemporary describes with much
humOr. there is only one who has any chance
Of succt eding in her studies. This is the .'se-
riOus" student, she who. at an age between Is
and 30, dgh's for her existence, is simple aud
reserved, 1vOids the a,hionsble pince- nez
holds aoof from familiarity and d. udishness
ana works steadily and courageous y.
MR.. PARNELL is always altering his per-
sonal appearance. He has been seen 10 come
back TO ST. stephens with long hair, with
short hair, with whiskers and moustache
with moustache without whi-keTs, with a
clean III ven face. and hearted like the pard
1t l. ggested that next February When he
comes 's the leader OF eighty-five true men,
he should invest him-elf with the authority of
apparent age by appearing in a scalp WIG
Perhaps Mr.. Parnell like the late DR.. Greeley
With his white coat and Mr.. Conkling W 9TH mis-
curl is not above the vanity of eccentricity
Mr.. Freeman. the great historian, wore
mass Of fiery red hair and beard. and seemed
proud Of it. ord Randolph Churchill Is said
10 think more OF his moustache than of his
secretary ship. and the remarkable pattern OF
Mr. g adston's collars has long been theme
for the gossip and satirist.
A. W. HIGHT, OF Centralia, wyo., has re-
Gently had an experience in spiritualism of q
more practical, business ke nature than the
vapory manfesl atoms usually presented for
the regal, ment Of believers. Mr.. Hight is one
nf those men who IS never worried by credI-
tors, for the reason that he never allows such
matters o trouble his mind In the expec-
fancy Of changing this feeling somewhat a
letter found its way u his apartment alter
the manner Of the EsOteric Buddhlsts. IL |
read as follows: "Hou no bought will be sur
prised wnen yOu get this letter. for IL comes
from Nesta. 50 rit messenger from the upper !
spheres. II Is sent 10 you as timely word |
OF warning IT m "a spirit friend. You are |
SURROUNDED with danger, q terrible calamity I
rs hanging over you, dangerous men are |
threatening you; one III looking man Is pour I
ing oil over your mill. and say he vii burn il /
70 asher; another IA stand NJ back ia the darK I
with revolver 10 shoot you: another SAYS he /
VIII put dynamite under your house and b ow /
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