Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-09
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pants Of summer houses that wood fire IN
the evening, when the moisture in the atmost
phere Is excessive, prevents many cases OF
sickness.
swINDLERs in California advertise IN the
London papers for English boys and young
men to learn the art OF fruit-farming, obtain
liberal premiums, and then make the pupils"
work as farm hands without pay.
In the streams in the vicinity OF Heidelberg
the offers have increased to such an extenG as
to diminish very seriously the eupply Of trout.
To combat this evil, pack of hounds mas Just
been imported from Scotland, under the care
OF Scottish keeper.
A SILVER DOLLAR weighs very nearly an
ounce. Hence any letter not heavier than
dollar can go for single 2-cent stamp. A o.
cent piece added VIII give the ounce. III you
have not the silver dollar, five nickles and
small copper cent will give an ounce.
NAMES BURBERRY crop Is worth not less
than $4,000 this year. The yield is immense.
Besides the thousands OF bushels consumed
fresh IN Maine and Massachusetts, markets,
the canning factories are using large LOIS.
Plckers are getting to cents quart.
IN San Francisco a man drawn as trial
juror failed to appear aud was pronounced IN
contempt Of court. Next day ne came around
and explained that he had been under arrest
for cheating az faro. The Judge accepted the
excuse and purged him of contempt, anu he
NCub Ol Auty IN tue phuCl-
THE Hawaiian government sustains three
kinds OF schOOls-drst, where the native lam
guage is taught by poorly educated natives;
second, those in winch the natives are taught
by English teachers. ana third, those IN
which the children of Oreigners are taught
by English speaking teachers. The native
schools are free, the second class pay a nOmi-
mai rental, and the English schools. which are
very good, charge SOC. month tuition.
BENsoN's WATCH. the size of sixpeuce,
creates quite a sensation at the London I'm
yentions.' There is another the size OF
chilling, which shows the time, the year, the
month, the day of the mouth and week, and
the phase of the moon. 1t arranges Itself to
suit the eXlgencles of leap year, and performs
all these various functions by being wound as
an ordinary, but less complicated chronome-
ter 1t repeats, when required, the hours,
the quarters and minutes on q deep-tOned
gong. II is priced at f500.
AN extraordinary and tragic accident has
occurred near Paris. A horse was seen run
ning wildly along the road TO st. German,
the vehicle to which the animal was attached
being enyeloped in flames. Several persons
having succeeded in catching the horse,
dreadful sight presented itself In the Bottom
Of the burning vehicle the body of the driver
was found reduced to an almost indistinguish-
able heap of cinders. 1t is supposed that the
man, having lit hls pipe, fell asleep and that
the burning ashes set fire to the old wood
work.
LONDON is now city of gardens. Even in
the heart of the city proper you arc constantly
stumbling on verIant hooks bright with
flowers. Comfortable benches abound, which
are usually well filed, more especially in such
delightful summer rs that with which Eng
land has this year been favored. Between l
aud O'clock some of these haunts are fun Of
young business men, who after luncheon seek
their repose with cigarette and newspaper
for q precious half hour. The ground around
st. PauIs is now beautifully planted and
bright with parterres.
THE bachelor beaux of Buffalo are warned
by the Co1STier that if they wish to keep III
the good graces of the Buffalo bellies they must,
after the manner OF the Admiral in the opera,
"wear clean collars and brand new shirt"
some of them are meTciless critics. and they
care lot whom they hit A short time ago at
IA lawn party one Of them pointed out to her
escort middle aged bachelor, who is noto-
riOusly careless about his drees: Look at
that collar and that shirt. Do you see that
mark on the front just above the diamond
studg" Yes" was answered. 'tWell. put
that there with lead pencil on the evening
of the Charity ball"
THoUGH the laws of propriety are so rigor-
ouslT strict in Mexico that a gentleman may
not ride in the same carriage with the lady to
whom he is hetrothed, yet most desperate
hrtations are openly INDUCED IN to an ex-
tent which wonld put to blush New York,
Chicago, or San Francisco. Following
senorita up and down the promenade and
staring intently in her face is an accented
mode of compliment gratifying TO the recip-
lent. but fraught with danger to the adOrer il
she happens to have other devoted swans;
and il not unfrequently happens that duels
are the result, She being pre-emnently the
belle who can boast the greatest number of
such encounters
EXPERIMENTS made during the past two
years to introduce a few of the early varie-
ties of American corn into some of the Aus
trian provinces have proved very successful
IN Dalmatia. Not only Is the yield twice that
of the home product but the harvest Of the
American corn can be finished early enough
TO escape the annual foundations, while the
Dalmatia corn ripens late ana is often totally
destroyed by water before the harvest time.
The question, however, seems to be whether
the American corn will retain all these good
points after it has been cultivated in the for
eign soil and climate for period Of years, or
whether IL will be0Ome acclimatized and
partake of the home pecuharities. thus ne
cesstating constant importation Of fresh
seed,
An eminent English physIcian on oath the
other day SAID that he had known men who
took their go tumblers of punch per day and
seemed no whit the worse for the indulgence.
The 2l-tumbler man is, or used to be, a com
mon product Of Irish and Scotch conviviality
Boswell WAS up to that. So was John Philpot
Curran, and Erskine on occasion compassed
his two dozen hot tOddies. Then there was a
good Old soul who died a few weeks ago IN the
Rue Nivienne, in Paris, IN the house where
MIR Z Egan for some time established the
flying eAchequer Of the Land League. This
celebrity was retired shipping agent from
Marseiles. and the daily draught in which he
did peDHnce comprised bottles OF Burgundy
OF claret. and Of champagne. this allow
ance being exclusive Of the ''petits verres"
and occasional drinks.
Tue German newspapers speak with pride
of the progress which has been made by
their country in shipbuilding. Before the
year 1858 not only the larger ships in-war OF
the German fleet, but even most OF the steam
ers OF the German mercantile marine, had To
De built IN England AMI France; while now
China and Japan Ordertheir warships Of Ger.
man shipbuiders; Three ironclad cOrvettes.
Ordered by the Chinese government, have lust
left hiel for China, via the Mediterranean
the Suez canal and the Indian ocean. They
were ready in the spring Of last year and
their departure was postponed, owing 90 the
Franco-L hinese war, as II was feared that
they might he captured by the French fleet
while on their way 10 China. II In also stnted
that ~ great English company for fishing on
the high seas hHA ordered two large cutters
OF a German shiphuildar at Bostock
THE first importation OF foreign cattle into
this country direct from the Bates herd was
made in 1899 by Mr.. George Vale. Of Troy,
near New York, and quite number Of fine
animals were purchased for mericans az the
rale OF Lord DuOfp'H herd IN lsbg. In Ig4s tho