Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-04
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the world.
AT parish church in Dorsetshire recently
a considerable sensation was produced in con
sequence of the vicar publishing his own
7 banns of marriage. The reverend gentleman
is in his som year.
THE violin is beginning to supersede the
piano as fashionable instrument for ladies
in Paris. The angels of the middle ages p aged
/ the vo as well as the harp, and violin play
ing has, therefore, most respectable prece-
dent.
SHEEP die suddenly on Oregon ranges. The
/ cattle men SOW saltpetre over good pasturage'
the close nibbers take il and turn up Their
toes. The cattle, not biting so near TO the
/ ground, escape and have the grass 70 them
selves.
The last remaining toll house on the old
Philadelphia turnpipe was torn down last
week, and for the first time in fifty years the
/ great thQroughfare between Philadelphia aut.
! Ittsburt was open It's entire length without
charge To the public.
NEwBd EXPORT, MASS, has contributed
many distinguished men to the service OF the
legal profession. From Samuel Sewan to
! Caleb c tlshing, through line including Iheo-
/ phllus idrsons, senior and junior, and simon
/ Greenldaf, this old town has almost without
/ an intel mission had a representation IN the
/ front rJ k OF the bar and bench.
/ THEN b is an ice deposit at the mouth2of the
| Sandy river IN Oregon which is twenty feet
high' pr mile long, and extending back
an unJ aown distance 1t was formed by high
/ WaterI ON the Columbia driving 1t INTO the
/ SANDY and having since been covered with
/ ssnd 4 the depth Of two to i've feet, the sun
/ has u effect upon the frigid mass, and 1t
! VIII bE oDably remain all summer.
| PL4Ns for church work in Wales have to be
/ confol rmed to the fact that the people are rap
ly d. a gs1fT 10
"a per cent. spoke English alone, As per cent.
1 spoke both English and Welsh, and p per
/ cent. spoke only Welsh. The number of this
last ass is now much smaller. and, though
/ Nela4 viii be used for long time yet, 1t Is
believed that within Is years English VIII be
generally spoken.
TBE Empress of Germany has accepted a
copy IL the Revised Bible from the universi-
ties IL Oxford and Cambridge, presented
through the resident English chaplain, the
Rev Archibald White, and bearing the fol-
lOWl4g lnscEptiOn: ''Hhis copy of the first
lssQelO the Revised English Version of the
HOW Bible was presented to the Empress Of
Germ kany by the Universities of oxford and
| Cant ridge, A. D. 1885"
a Englishman now resident in England
who lived in America for many years, says
| that he rs quite unable to discover an increased
lntffest there 10 this country. The men take
M Interest in It, and the women less. Such
Aasu as Mr.. Lowell was scarcely known out
slfRof a small circle until he became Minis
u thud even then only, as a rule, to London
M 9be. Names which are household words
u NJ here are unknown there.
al exhausted aeronaut, NJ. Glorieux, was
picI, ed mp out Of the English Channel by the
Ne Fhaven packet the other day. He had as
cended at Lille in the hope of landing near
Pafs. Contrary currents, however, took the
balloon seaWard over Calais and BOuogne,
reqdeiIng a descent lmpracticable. After
passing over the latter city he lost sight of
la3d aud drifted down the channel the car
icing ia contact with the water. n. Glorieux
hai made many previous ascents.
kMONG the more fastidious people there is
an IMPRESSION that the flavor of tea is wholly
ruined by journey on salt water. An the
crowned heads and wealthy nobility of Eu-
rope use tea, therefore, which costs them
three times the prices paid in America for a
brand bearing the same name, but which is
brought by Russian traders IN immense cara
vans overland from China. The trade is very
profitable, and 1t is largely TO protect it that
Russia is so jealous of her Asiatic possessions
BILL has been introduced into the New
Hampshire Legislature providing that when
over any person who has served in the army
br navy Of the United States and has received
IAN honorable discharge from the same shall
from any cause become poor and unable TO
lprOvide for himself and family. such person.
This wife, widow. or minor children shall be
taken care of at their place of abode or at
4 such other place as the town or CITY where
I such persons may reside as the seleetmen or
| overseers Of the poor may think right and
proper.
A NEW Y ORR SCHOONER, bound to Hon
durss, picked up a large ships boat and
towed it into port, where the Admiralty
Court took it IN charge. The boat was duly
sold for sll9, andI as the Admiralty fees
amounted to sl05 the sum of $l4 salvage is to
be divided among the owners, officers and
crew of the schooner. Her prOpretors got
lesson once before. when they saved a $4,000
brig. and received SIPS net for the service, and
since then there has been standing rule for
bidding any OF their Captains TO pick up YES
sells, boats or floating property, when bound
for a British or Spanish port. For violating
it the commander of the schooner Wither-
spoon will be discharged when he returns to
New York.
WHILE the oarsmen were waiting for the
wind to go down, at Toronto the other day,
they amused themselves by experimenting
with the iron shoes invented by Hanlan for
walking on the water. These shoes are made
of galvanized iron, being air tight boxes
about four feet long by nine inches broad. On
top are apertures for the feet, and on the bot
tom are fastened number Of small iron fms
that work on hinges, closing when the foot is
drawn forward on the surface OF the water
and opening to prevent the shoe from reced-
ing in water when step is taken with the
other foot Lee tried these shoes, or rather
tried to try them, but fell into the water, the
shoes coming to the surface first Hanian
walked on the water for several hundred
yards at fair speed.
A STRANGE FUNERAL took place recently in
Paris. A wealthy bourgeois OF the Rue St.
Jacques named Begs, tired of life, and caring
nothing for his relations, made will IN favor
Of Nj. Poubele, the project for the Seine, and
then proceeded to hang himself. The success
sion is estimated at about 10000 Whether
the terms of the viii imply general trust for
charity may be doubtful but 81. Poubelle has
executed the first Instructions OF the testa-
tor. which were 20 give him decent funeral
and pay two francs to any poor person Of his
ACCOMPLISHMENT who would follow his corpse
to the grave. VI. POubelle issued 3 900 invita-
tons, and a string Of fully 1000 claimants for
two francs appeared rs mOurners. The clergy
of ST.. Jacques refused admission "a the church
on account Of the suicide, and the cOrtege pro-
ceeded TO Pere La Chaise.
TIE following "Vindication OF Strong Beer
was written two centuries ago by the prolific
Anon" to defend "the Distress company
Of brewers against teetotal fanatics. Eng
land" says the author, I'll cut OF from wine.
hath whereat TO rejoice. For Of hopps and
mault, our natI e commodities, amt therefore
more agreeable 20 the constitutions Of our ma
tive inhabitants, may bo m ade such strong
beer ~ that 10 may serve instead OF sack II
authority shall think IT. Thence, he re-
marks, would cnsue great increase OF tillage
and Of hop gardens, 10 the benel Of the in
dustriOus farmer, the revenue Of the nobility.
aud the poor people " hose food Affords them