Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-06
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he kept portion of Richard Ceur de Lions
/ conscience.
THE Japanese government intends to send
! specimens OF a new steel gun recently turned
| out at the Osaka arsenal to England and Ger
/ many for experiments.
! DIR. MEITKERKE, an English physician, be-
lieves that single patent soothing medicine
he can name sis the undoubted cause of the
| death of 10000 children annually in Great
| Britain alone"
THE Hotel de Vile ball in Paris, while not
| exactly fashionable and not at all exclusive,
was eminently profitable. 1t melted $50, 000,
! which will he used for the relief of the poor
! in the city, and the sick and wounded soldiers
/ in the East.
IN German grst mill recently sack of
/ flour fell down stairs, opened, and scattered
| the contents in a burning gas flame, set fire to
/ the dust, causing an explosion which Lifted q
/ part Of the roof of the mill and broke almost
/ all the windows.
/ In the year l777 considerable interest was
manifested in an announcement that six
/ stoves had been completed in Philadelphia.
! The annual product OF the stove foundries ia
/ that city s now valuedfat 100000, and the
/ industry supports about $4,000 people.
! ONE of the mostsplendid eOllec tions of armor
is that of Mr.. Stittert, an Englishma at Flor
! ence. 1t is mounted with great taste in a vast
] -
/ spent at the rate of G3.010 year on it,, He
means to leave it to the city Of Florence.
/ THE Earl of Selkirk, whose title has BECOME
! extinct by his death lately at st. Mary's
Isle, Scotland, was a son of the founder of the
Selkirk Settlement in Canada. Paul Jones
! once dropped down on st. Mary's Isle and
carried OF the family plate while the Earl
/ was away. 1t was recovered, and the family
| have 1t to-day.
| EXPERIMENTS have been made to obtain
chloride of ammonia from the chimney of the
cremation furnace at SeDju with success. The
! process is simply to keep a quantity of
| muriatic acid suspended inside the chimney
! to make 1t combine with ammonia from the
/ substances consumed. This utilization of
! human ammonia will be adopted at all other
! cremation establishments in Japan.
! THE $4,000 check on the New York Assay
| Office, lost on Monday by the messenger of the
/ British Bank of North America, was recov-
| cred Sunday. 1t had been for FIVE days in the
pocket of a labOIing man. who was ignO, ant
! of its value, and who probably picked it up
Immediately after it dropped from the run
! now be able to get the money without the
| special act of Congress, which would other
/ wise have been necessary.
THE mortality among children drought up
on the bottle" is frghtfully large. OF 1910
infants under one year who died Of CASTRO
. intestinal troubles in Paris in 1882, it is found
/ by recent investigations that very nearly the
whole number were victims of artificial all
mentation, wholly or in part, or had been fed
/ prematurely with solid food. At the dlspen-
sary of the Societe Philanthropique not a
single case of the disease was found in infants
! fed in conformity with natural laws.
A PARALLEL CASE to Imperial Caesar, dead
! and turned 20 clay" stopping a hole to keep
! the wind away, has been found in Rome this
/ year. The ashes of an imperial Caesar Piso
/ were lately employed for the I've of a Roman
/ wOman's wash-tu9 upon the discovery of the
urn IN which they had reposed for eighteen
/ centuries. They were go white and clean,'
] explained the workman. that / gathered
/ them together in a basket and sent them to
/ my wife to make I've tor her washing"
A MEXICAN HISTORIAN makes a new at
tempt to show that America was discovered
in the fifth century, A. D., by a party of
Buddhist monks from Afghanistau. of whom
! one, Hwui Shan, returned to ASA after an
| absence of forty-one years. A short account
| OF the land which he visited, supposed to be
| Mexico, was included IN the official history
! OF China. There Is proof that HWui Shan
| actually visited some unknown Eastern
/ region. and the traditions Of Mexico contain
an account of the arrival Of monks.
IT is thought a wonderful thing for a bird
to build its nest without any instruction, or
withoutev even seeing anest typical ofits species,
and the fact that it does do so has long been
the sole and convincing argument of the sup
I pOrters Of the blind instinct theory in ami
! mails. This argument has, however, received
/ a staggering blow. Two years ago some
| chaGinch eggs were taken to New Zealand
and there Matched. The newly acclimatized
| BIRDS thriYed well, but, for some unexplained
| reason. builded an entirely new style of nest,
and one wholly lacking in the neatness which
! characterzes chafinch nests built in
England. The fact is now a topic of discus
! sion among naturals!s.
u1ur- EIGHT Of q ,,tot &c o,ro,,,d mo - 1oE
feet. divided by chalk lines into yard squares,
is attracting attention at the Harlem end of
New Y ork. The explanation is that an en-
tirely novel scheme for raising the money
with which to buy a plot for a Methodist
/ church is being tried. The land is to cost
$4,000. The contributor Of $50 VIII be. nomi-
| naly, the owner for life of a particular
| square yard. A certificate will be issued to
HIM, and in the corner stone of the edifice
will be put diagram showing the purchases.
Z Half of the yards have already been sold,
and the plan seems likely, through its success.
to set an example that win be widely fol-
lowed in new church enterprises.
REPORTS from both the upper and lower
Delaware Of the shad fishing show that the
catch has been remarkably good. The Hope
creek nets have been averaging from 1000 to
l,SoO per day. One day last week two tugs
toWed to Philadelphia $4,000 shad upon one
/ trip, which was the largest NUM- erever taken
| 10 market at one time in the history OF shad
fishing on the Delaware. One days fishing
was lost last week by the high wind and low
water IL is estimated that 100000 shad arc
| now being sent u the Philadelphia markets
weekly. On the flood drift on Saturday at
/ Howell Hunts seine fishery, at Gloucester
23l0 shad were caught, which was the great
est number captured on single drift there
for ten years.
ZACH CHANDLERs forid countenance
which led strangers to believe that he in
duged too freely in strong potations, was the
result Of a gas explosion the 1rst evening
after he had removed into new house in
/ Detroit Immediately after the gas was
turned on and lA, the smell OF escaping gas
aroused The family and servants, and search
| was made FOR the leak. The daughter, now
] Mrs. Hale. then child. with lighted candle
/ detected II in closet on the back parlor.
/ The father, knowing the danger OF an eXplo-
sion, hurried 70 the closet with n servant
I took the candle from the daughters hand, and
shielded her just in time 20 receive the fun
] blast himself, Burning his head, neck and
/ hands almost 10 crilp. The nose, ears, eyes,
/ lips andilesh OF tho face were 30 completely
| burned that old Zach embraced the opportu.
| nifty and mumbed through his blistered lps
/ Bring on your cannibals, I'm cookedW Such
~ the history Of face only saved by the
incest skill OF surgery.
lN no country in the world is fortune so
tickle as In this; no position seems to be Sc
cure, no fortune enduring and no good last
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