Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An expert base ball player tried to catch a
| ball thrown from the top OF the Washington
monument, but was unable to hold it. So
! great was its velocity that it dented the
| ground like a cannon ball.
WHILE during the entire month of Novem-
Der. 1890, but ll3 persons from outside entered
through the u gates Of the Prussian capital,
the number OF strangers now arriving per
month reaches an average OF upward OF 30
900.
RECENT excavations at Worms brought TO
light about 400 metres of Roman pavement
and a large number Of objects of great interest,
including some which afford hint to manu-
facturers, namely, pieces for playing such
game as draughts, made Ct glass.
PAsTEUR's prophylactic treatment of the
various diseases due TO germs is progressing
satisfactorily. Already it is claimed that by
lnoculating animals-and man is, presuma-
blv included, though hitherto he has been re-
garced as too valuable subject to be exposed
to the risks of eXperlment-Wlth an attenu-
ated preparation of hydrOphobic virus, they
NAV be bitten with comparative IMMUNITY by
mad dogs. But if a hydrOphObc micrObe eX-
lists. it has not yet been detected.
THE London Truth says: ''Wherevr there
is an aristocracy Of birth it inevitably follows
that the aristOcrat is socially the most pleas
ant person, for his social status is clearly de-
6aed. whereas hat OF others depends good
deal upon the company they keep; and, CON
sPouentlv they are ever engaged IN seeking
tn be on good terms with one person and to
avoid being on good terms with another per
son An aristOcracy is not so much an evil IN
itself as productive Of evil IN others. Every
one lord makes ten thousand snoDs."
ALL EUROPE is laughing over Bismarck's
idiotic display in the Reichstag in debating
the question OF emigration, and people are
asking whether, after all, the Man of Iron has
e bar ba 1F1lr Lar
increased emigration is the best proof of
national prosperity. The contradictions in
which he involved himself in defending this
extraordinary proposition have placed him,
nerhaps for the first time In his political life,
IN a nosition that was abjectly absurd. Mean
time he will proceed serenely to raise the
duties on wheat.
PROsELYTIZING CAMPAIGN Is being car
ried on by the Russian clergy of the German
nrovinces of the empire. The system pursued
il one Of brides and promises, not of pains and
nenalties. A magnificent church of the ortho
doN rite mas inst been consecrated at Riga in
nrespnce OF the prOcuratOr of the Holy Synod
and several other dignitaries. ard the papers
If St Petersburg ascrIbed to it all the import
ance of "A great historical event. The Car.
ont Of his own purse has endowed the new
church with 100000 rOubles, and the pictures
which adOrn it were presented by the ST.
Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts.
REAR ADMIRAL ENGLISH, commanding the
EurODean station, united states navy, re-
ports the movements of the vessels OF that
SQUADRON. under date of Jan. 8, as follows:
Ihe Lancaste- was at Villefranehe, undergo
inc rcnairs. prior to a cruise on the west coast
~ AR "a The Kearsarge left Monr0via,
Nov. Is and arrived at Cape Coast Castle
Dee g. and was expected 70 leaVe there Dec.
; for the GabOOn, and thence TO the Congo.
Tie Ouinnebaug was at Alexandra, Egypt.
Her Commander reports that 1t is impossible
to report what has taken place up the Nile,
where the British expeditionary corps are
moving. The Quinnebaug was under orders
to be at Nillefranche by Jan. %.
MRS. f. II. GREEN, the Queen Of Wall
street, visited her bankers, John j. Cisco
Son. Tuesday. She demanded her box OF Sc
curities. 1t was placed in her hands. She
found them untouched; not one was missing.
Imagine her feelings as she counted her bonds
and stocks in that box, worth $25.O00, 900. AS
the firm held them in trust the assignee is
hound TO return them t. her, but for the pre-
sent she left them with the firm. Her cash
deDosit with the house must remain, the same
rs am the other deposits, in the hands OF the
assignee until he can get the funds to return
them, She will have to share alike with the
other depositors. Nothing could be learned