Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-28
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through he columns of the Ta0e5latt. that a
gIrl-their twenty ninth chiid-had been born
TO them.
A NUMBER OF Spanish medical students have
petitloned the Minister of Patronage to grant
them exemption from the examinations Of
this session on the ground that, having been
occupied IN the cholera districts, they have
not had the time to prepare.
A SWEDISH PASTOR and his congregation up
in Minnesota have long been at loggeraeads
over the dogma Of Proclamation. Finally the
quarrel became so bitter thattt got into the
JUSTICES Court, and that Official decided
In favor OF the pastor and, presumably, Of
the doctrine.
NEBRASKA people seem to have prejudice
against detectives. The one who killed man
who was robbing the State Treasury has just
been sentenced to two years in the peniten-
tiary. But the Governor stepped in between
the defendant and this extraordinary verdict
and granted an unconditional pardon.
II the Kansas pezitentiary are thirty seven
murderers under sentence Of death. They
have been accommodating there for many years,
owing TO a provision in the law by the terms
Of which murderer condemned to death is
sent 70 the State prison and permitted to re-
m ain there until the Governor orders mis- exc
cution.
"OF the wealth of the world,' says fanci-
full statistician, $3.50 O00, 900 are owned by four
men. as follows: MackaY, s275 oOO, 900; Roth
schild, 500 100000; Vanderbilt, $I75, COO,
and the Duke of Westminster. $500 900.
Their income per minute Is $25, $40, SIS and 81
respectively.
THERE can scarcely be doubt of the COM
plicity of jewelry houses in some of the great
diamond robberies. One well-known London
house was remarked to have made amazing
strides not long after the robbery of the late
Lady Ellesmeres jewels. The value OF the
Jewelry stolen If England since 1870 would
run up into hundreds of thou ands OF pounds.
DR.. HALEs placed a mass of growing turf
under cold bell glass, and in two minutes
the escaping moisture from the leaves OF the
grass condensed on the glass and ran in drops
down it's sides. Plants pump the water from
the soil. and their leaves discharge 1t in the
form of invisible moisture into the air. A
ardener once remarked that the weeds grow
ing among his crops answered a valuable pur-
pose Of shading the ground and preventing
the hot sun from drying up the soil-nOt be-
ing aware that they were drawing up the
water and discharging it into the air many
Times raster than clean, mellow soil. If DR..
Hales had placed a dish of earth under S
bell glass instead OF growing leaves, it would
have had little effect.
THE ladies of Japan show not less readi-
ness to adopt Western ideas and usages than
the japanese of the other sex. The eles OF
edo order dresses from Paris; and the pro-
gress Of imitation has gone 50 far as to make a
knowledge OF the fashions bic dances of Europe
an Indispensable feature in the education of
every japanese lady who respects herself. A
riding school IS about to be opened in YOko-
hama exclusively for the use of native ladies,
and it prom ses to he largely patroniIed. The
Japanese government is about to take step
which will have the effect of bringing the
more solid branches of Western education
within reach Of the female subjects Of the
Mikado. A number of young women are
about to be sent to Europe to receive thor
ough training in the essential branches Of
female education as it is understood there,
with view to their subsequent employ ment
as teachers in their own country when quail
fed.
Boston MAN, who has spent about four
teen years on the east and west coasts of At
RIGA, says that the language of the natives of
the Congo country is difficult to acquire, and
that he knows of only one European who has
mastered it sufficiently to understand il.
though he can speak very little. 1t appears
to be composed OF short words. which, in the
rapid manner of speaking, seem to be run to-
geiher, ana each sentence to consist OF a
longer or shorter compound word. 1t is cana
bic OF strong emphasis and is quite expressive,
4 nut the natives are not given to gestieulation,
even when talking exctedly. excepting always
the fetlcharo or fetch nan when dealing out
damnatlon to transgf essors. The trouble in
acquiring the language seems TO be the gen.
era unWllilngnes' OF the natives to teach it
10 white men. 1t is said. however, that some
Of the Portuguese who are born and raised
here have acquired the language and speak
as fuently as natives.
IN TIE rENPEsTUoUs TIMES of Gov. Belch-
ers reign over Massachusetts bay, in 1851. a
great dispute arose as to the boundary be-
tween that colony and New Hampshire. II
was referred to the crown and a certain
boundary line orcered to be drawn. A man
named Hazen surveyed this line, and allowed
10 deg. for the westerly variation Of the nee
die, when he should have allowed ONLY deg
~ min. The result was the loss 10 New
Hampshire of a triangular piece of territory
~ miles wide at the b Sc. and stretching
from Dracut to the Connecticut river. TINS
error has never been officially corrected and
now joint commission has been appointed
by the two states to confirm the line, over
which Massachusetts has been exercising onlv
prescrip'ive rights for l45 years. The curl
nuslv notched boundary line north of the
Merrma belongs to the same neriod and re-
snlted from an attempt to follow the wind
Ings of the river at a distance of three miles.
SUICIDE Is increasing in Berlin to what NAV
truly be called most frightful extent. In
one day lately there we're no fewer than ten |
cases Of self-murder and attempted self-mur-
der, while not a single day passes without |
bringing its repusive story Of suicide in some !
form or other. Nor are these cases of Ielo-Je- |
" confined to the lower and poorer classes /
There have been several instances quite re- !
Gently OF stock jobbers and other SPECTATORS |
m wing In the upper ranks Of society who |
blew their brains out in a ut OF despair at |
financial misfortune. To-day Nov. III also |
brings its own peculiar tale of the death of an |
aged and respected couple. owning a villa in |
the most fashionable street OF the W est End |
The story IL that Herr Markwal a retired
banker, suddenly expired in some mysterions
way, and thrt his widow at once put An end
to her life with revolver. The connie who
have several married children, had left writ.
ten instructions for the cremation OF their
bodies. S''
SUGAR LAKE, in Crawford county, Pa. Ia a
beautiful little body Of water, and is undergo
ing continual chemical change that should
attract the attention OF scientists. Eighty
years ago the average depth Of water in the
lake was about 30 feet, but Z is row onlv IL !
ieet deep, The surface Of the water stands al
hlgh water mark, but the bottom il filllng mn
or rising. 10 Is most singular phenomenon
mat every year In the month of August the
wafer o. the lake becomes a milky substance
anu aiter a little change in the temperature
mall white particles like cheese curd are
formed and precipitated 20 the bottom. and
arc slowly, but surely, hlhng up the lake
AFTER thefe particles are formed and settle
the wafer bccomes clear AMI pure. Az the
rate TINS chemical change Is now going on 30
Years more and the water Of Sugar Lake will
nave become soldiled into a solid loaf OF an
gT, OF what Is more probable, formed into A
great ped OF Limburger cheese. During tho
SEASON OF the year hon the chemical process
- ~ opefhtien there ~ pungent evidence 20
sustain the latter theory.
"WHEN DOCTORS differ IN the Departne,t
OF Naucluse they act 10 Vnrlr. IN Y,ogson ...h