Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-06
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time of Hannibal fell in defending the Rhone
against that Generals passage.
THE process of GermaniZing the people of
Alsaee and Lorraine is said by the Rev. DR..
Philip SchaG to be going on steadily and ire
slstibly, especially IN the schools. He thinks
that, in a material and educational point of
view, the annexation Is beneHcial.
IT Is ANNOUNCED in Brussels that the Ger
man Lieut.. Weissman. who is in the service
l OF the African Association, has discovered
I that the river Kassal, which was always be-
| ieved to join the Congo above the equator
! station. towns . curve and falls into Lake
/ Leopold II.
| LORD HoUGHroN once approached Sidney
| Smith, whom, in his youthful enthusiasm ne
called ''>idney," and asked him for a note
| Introduction to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
| with all the pleasure in life, my boy" said
Smith. but don't call him Hooleyv' Hooley
was the Archblshop's lay name.
SPEAKING of whisky it is curious fact
] that some OF the largest dist1llers in Cincih-
natl are teetotalers. OF course they do not
preach temperance, but they never touch
| drop. There is one whisky man who sends his
| liquors all over the globe, who has taken moth
! ing stronger than ginger ale for twenty years.
| He says he found that drinking hurt him.
THE RUSSIAN CUSTOM is to place all the
| cold dishes on the table. The hot dishes are
! carved in the kitchen and handed one by one
| has its advantages and disadvantages. In
| the French fashion your dishes often get cold
| before you eat them, and ia the Russian the
/ guests are deprived OF seeing elegant dishes
| pretuly placed on the table.
"IE MY TIME" says savarin. 81 have tried
all the different ways of making coffee which
have been recommended up till to-day, and l
I have decided, from experience. on the meth d
| known as the a la Dubelloy' which consists in
pouring boiling water on the coffee IN SILVER
: Or 81 ms str To n hrgf Falf 1aIn
ami let 1t boil again, pour 1t over the conee
| once more, and you Will get as good and clear
cup OF coffee as it is possible To have"
ARGENTINE is the only country IN South
America where the photographers are not
permitted to sell pictures of local beauties.
| In chill, Peru, Uruguay, and other countries
| YOU can find photOgra phs Of society bellies on
sale at all the news ands and picture stores,
ike those of actresses with us, and the
measured OF a girls popularity is estimated by
/ the number sold; but in Argentine no photo
| grapher dare let print OF one of his clients
90 out Of his hands.
THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT has at last taken
a step toward stopping a most barefaced fraud
| which German firms have been carrying on
| in the wiBe-growing and brandy distiling
/ districts Of Cognae for the past ten years. No
! less than l53 nrms, not one OF which had an
/ office or Is represented in any way IN Cognac,
/ are in the habit of dating their correspond
| ence or having their letters addressed there,
/ the post Office forwarding these on to Ham
/ burg, Cologne, Berlin, etc.
| 1T has just been discovered that in a num-
Der of l3-inch mortars at Woolwch, England,
the vent had been drilled only to a depth of
| three or four inches. leaving barrier Of solid
| metal about eight inches deep between the
/ friction tube and the powder charge. 1t has
/ therefore been concluded1-pTobably with
! sufficient reason-that they are not lit for
| service" But IL is, nevertheless, the fact
| that they were received, inspected and passed
| into store as thoroughly seryiceable."
THE CLEVELAND (TENN.l MARsLE WORKS
| are preparing quite a novel tomb for a gentle
man and his wife, living in North Georgia.
| Both parties are alive and in good health, but
/ are thOughtfuliy preparing their last resting
| place now. The tomb will consist Of two mar
| b e boxes or vaults, just large enough TO con-
\ tam a coffin, to be placed few feet from each
| other, on top of the ground. A monument
/ Will stand between these receptacles, and a
| headstOne at the head Of each. The collins are
| to be made Of marble.
AT Elsterberg, in Saxony, lot of shoe sup
pers" had been stolen from the shop of boot
maker. A simple incident led to the discov-
| cry of the thief. A bobbn Of hempen yarn
was hanging in the window through which
] the thief made his escape, and the waxed end
of the yarn stuck TO his clothes as he climbed
| through, and was found next morning stretch
| ing over several fences until it reached the
| back door of rival shOemaker's premises
/
/ and the thief pleaded guilty.
DIR. TALMAGR's CHURCH PEOPLE did so well
On their Niagara excursions that q movement
is now on foot among them to provide a grand
| excursion to Europe for next summer. 1t is
| proposed TO charter a steamer for the pur-
! pose, and to make such arrangements as may
| combine recreation and sightseeing with
| praiseworthy economy. If the plans are
! wisely laid and sklilfully carried out, this
1 excursion Will be more memorable than the
! moral and religious excursion of the Quaker
| ity, which was made famous by Mark
| Twain in his "Innocents Abroad"
The SOCIAL CONDITION of the Argentine
Republic is as much advanced as its COM
merce and the old customs are rapidly dying
| out. The education Of girls has become pop
| ular, and the young ladies are no longer re-
| stricted in their association with men, as In
| other Spanisn-American countries. Former
! ly If young man fell In love with a girl, he
| told her father or grandmother about II.
| which was about as satisfactory as kissing
through q telephone, Under the new regime
| etiquette gives him the privilege Of telling
| the old, old story into the girls own ear, and
u appears to work Just as well for al con
cerned.
THE TIN DEPOSITS of New South Wales are
estimated by the colonial biologists to cover
an area of 5,+4O,0OO acres, but it is thought
that the area is probably much greater than
| that as new finds OF tin are continually beino
| found in localities hitherto unlocked for, and,
| besides, very few OF the lodes have been
! worked at all. The richest tin mines IN the
| colony are located on Vegetable creek, in the
| New England district, abont 30 miles from
! tilen Innes, and $50 miles from sydney. New
| England lies in the northeastern part Of the
! colony, and has an area Of 10, 100 square miles
l IL forms an immense tahleland al an elevation
4 of 30. Oj0 feet above the sea. The climate ia
/ mild and genial, although IN the wlnser frost
! snow ana sleet occur The population ia
! about H. %. A railway Is in the course OF
! construction to the Queensland haFbor The
| products Of New England district are shipped
70 sydney either by way Of Grafton or Bris-
| bane.
OK the Congo river there are now two Bap-
list missions The missionaries find il ex-
( ceedingly tough work to convert the Congo
! Africans to Christianity. or even TO a SEM
/ bance Of civilization. Intellectually consid-
| red, the minds OF these Africans seem 10 be
| almost blank. No more stupid people have
! been found. even among the stunted 'Dhabi-
1 tants Of the Arctic regions. Yet it Is MT i'm
1 possible u make some impression on them
| some Of the tribes which Stanley found in 1877
! very hostile ana savage are now reported "a
] quite friendly. To negotiate with the chiefs
I 81 such tribes with a view to the introduction
! II improvements In morals or manners is an
I art requiring the highest diplomatic talent
| lt IS "A mistake TO think that because a good
man is competent 20 be a street preacher. he
/ VIII succeed ~ "a miss Onary in Congo. One
| of the pecnliarites OF the Congo natives is
! that they wear little or nothing In the way of
I clothing. Another il that they hate work
] beng Tor the most part too lazy " do any