Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-11
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and moustache. He ia stern looking, and his
steady eye and firm mouth show him to pos
sess nerve.
CONGRESSMAN MORRISON is marked figure.
He stanus about feet 10 inches, aud has a
bushy. full beard, nearly all gray. He seldom
wears an overcost His right hand is almost
always In the trousers pocket as he walks,
aud he has measured tread. and his dress
generally, while neat, shows its wearer's in
adherence to style.
A GOOD OLD CoNGREGATIoNAL DEACON,
living IN a small town not far from Rutland,
VT. was recently taken to task flor ''hoss-
racin'" on Sunday. His defense was: don't
approve of hoss-racin'. bus when another
member of the church becomes so godless as
to try to pass me on the read comm home
from meetln, feel it my duty to the church
to Leu out a leetleOn the reius just to keep him
from putin his trust in earthly things,
THE official statistics of the commerce be-
tween Germany and her new -fedged colo
MES is discouragng. The whole amount of
the imports and exports to the German Afri-
can colonies constitutes scarcely half per
cent. OF the value of the total export and i'm
port trade of Germany. The articles eN-
ported to that quarter OF the globe are almost
entirely limited to brandy and gunpo WIDER.
The exports 10 the South Seas, moreover, are
steadily decreasing.
CARLOS MARIA JUAN IsADoR BOURBON is
the fall name of the Spanish pretender. The
original Don Carlos was the brother of King
Ferdinand. He was set aside in the abroga-
ton of the Sale law for the benefit OF his
brothers (King Ferdinand) daughter, Isa-
bella, Alfonso's mo her, who is now scheming
TO be made Queen Regent. There have been
three spanish pretendeTs OF the name of Don
Carlos besides the present one. The first
two were uucles of Isabella, the latter two
are her cousins.
THE Christian Church at Shao hing, China,
a MI mi ~ d
collections for the support of the preacher. A
long bamboo tube which is fastened to the
wall is inscribed God lOveth cheerful CIV
err" Each church member is expected to
drop into this tube every Sunday morning
whatever he can afford The members are
mostly poor people. and their gifts are small;
| but they are trained in the habit of giving
something each week. Thus the preachers
support is regular, even II not prlncely.
A MAN was arrested the other day in Cleve-
land for stealing twelve brass journals be-
longing to railroad cars. At the trial the
prosecuting attorney not only made out that
the prisoner was bad man. but added !:
-FOUR honor, the strong arm of the law should
reach out and grasp aud punish this man. |
ask for his CONVICTION" "You haven't made
out very strong case," replied his honor
but III give him six months in the work
house. Pm bOund not to furnish an excuse
for that railroad company to put another
mortgage on Its property"
A RECENT TRAVELLER in Spain. tells how the
children in Granada played at bull fighting.
One boy, holding pair of wooden horns on
his head, represented the bull. Other boys,
mounted on each others backs, were picadors.
while 9th rs again, with their jackets in their
hands, were supposed to be matadors and
chuios. The bull would stamp his feet and
roar, then make rush at one of the chulos,
whose jacket was thrown up by the wooden
horns, but whose body was never touched.
Then the bull would charge one of the plea
doris, whereupon the boy playing horse would
throw himself to the ground, and allow HIM
self 10 be properly gored.
SAN JONES and Sam Small have been trying
to convert st. Louis, but they find the task
difficult one. The Chicago papers jeer at the
tough old river town." and assure the evan
gelists that Chicago is a much more promising
ield. The rivalry between the two cities is
neutrality-suspicious. Each city is making
preparations to celebrate the 400th anniver-
airy of the discovery of America by gigantic
Worlds FAIR, and of course squiDs on each
side are flying thick and fast. The Chicago
papers declare that st. Louis hasn't been DIS
covered yet BY any one except few wretch
ed natives, while the st. Louis papers satIr-
cally allude to poor old Armourville" and
its efforts TO palm itself of a city. We shall
inform our readers promptly when these san
gu nary cities actually meet each other in
grim war
THE MGR iPHoNE-an electric stethoscope,
whose constituencies to the faintest sounds has
been described as making ''the walk of fly
seem like the tramp of an elephant"-is likely
to become of great use in medical diagnosis.
In the Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal
DR.. Eve describes an interesting series OF ex-
perlments made by him with the instrument.
He was able 70 detect the nature of obscure
! fractures by the character of the sounds con-
Quoted through the instrument, and could
dinerentiate aheurisms from tumOrs by the
sounds OF pulsation. lntra-craaial anu mus
cuar sounds were made out with great clear
ness, and in diagnosis for stone the instrument
worked with mathematical accuracy. The
| D0ctOrsuggests that an audiphone constructed
on the principle of the microphOne would
prove inestimable TO people Of impaired
hearing.
THE oYsTER BEDS along the French coast
are reported as giving so large yield as to
lessen annually the necessity for Importation
The origin Of these beds was stated by the
| late Prof. Milne Edwards to have been wholly
accidental. A schooner with a cargo Of ovs-
| tiers from Portugal sailed mp the Gironde
| river to reach Bordeaux and unload. But on
| reaching port the Oysters-those on the sur
| face at least-were found to be dead and
| purifying. So the schooner was ordered TO
return and dump its cargo into the Atlantic
On their way the sailors managed to strike
reef near the mouth of the Gronde, and
saved themselves a 5O-mile sail and the Job of
unloading by dropping the oysters through a
mole In the hull. Not very long afterward the
Gascou fishermen were astOnIshed to find rich
oyster beds where bare rocks had been before
and under proper care and retransplantatlon
the yield went steadily into market as Area
chon. Cancale. and Marenne oysters, at Is to
SO cents dozen.
THE wILD-BEAsT PEST but slowly disap-
pears in British India. There u.s. however. a
slight decrease in the loss of life from the
bites of wild animals and venomous snakes.
The numbers are 22,905 for 1888, and D. 425 for
1884. The numbers representing those due to
snake bites are 2O,067, and 1859 in the two
years respectively the reported loss OF
cattle amounted to 1862. against Al 47s in the
previous year. OF these, 1884 are said 10
have been caused by wild animals and l,72s by
snakes. Tigers and leopards are shown to
nave been about equally destructive, having
killed 1850 and 1859 head Of cattle respect.
| lively. In the number Of wild animals de-
siroyed there was satisfactory increase
| from 1880 IN the previous year TO 28,75. The
desiruci on OF poisonous snakes is enormous
hut the numbers have declined from 4I9 7s9 tc
Bs0,95l. Wherever the system OF rewards
nave heen pursued the figures have shown a
satisfactory Increase, although IL naturally
happens that here and there q too adventur-
life.
THEBAw, the deposed tyrant OF Burmah,
declares that he is not altogether responsible
for the misdeeds OF his government. as he has
long been a virtual prisoner In his palace.