Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Indian civilization. Why the birds have
ceased to sing does not appear.
The BRITISH MUSEUM has now a depart
ment entirely devoted to.newspapers, VIII CHI
is a great convene nee. The number of read
| ers by special ticket has now increased so
largely that although only adults are admit
| ted, more room VIII soon have to be provided
/ or the admission limited.
| EXPERIMENTS on ANIMALS for scientific pur-
| poses sometimes give delusive results. When
NJ. Bernard was heating some birds artificial
| ly before the Academic de Medicine, in order
| to explain the effects OF fever, DR.. Beaumetz
| Is said to have turned to his friend, Prof. Pc
! ter, with the remark, BERNARD is not put
| ting those ANIMALS into a true condition of fe
| yer. lie 10 performing a culinary expert
ment; he is cooking them"
KATIE PUTNAM, the actress, five years ago
was IN Helena, Mont, when the owner of a
newly discovered mine askedthe privilege of
naming his mine after her. His request was
granted. The actress heard nothing further
/ abOut the matter until she received as a
Christmas present handsomely engraved
| certificate of 800 shares nom assessable, raid
up stock in the Katie Putnam Mining Com
| pany. 1t is said that the mine has recently
| developed such wealth as to mako 800 shares
worth nearly quarter of a million.
A FINE LOOKING BOY, wearing the blue
uniform of the United States Navy, was pris-
| oner in Jefferson Market, New York, Sunday.
He was Oliver Bedore, aged Is, ana had run
! away from the man-of- war New Hampshire
| which is now lying at Newport Rhode Island
| He reached the home of his sister Minnie, at
/ 43S sixth avenue, on Saturday night, and she
! turned him over to policeman Jogles of the
Ihlrtleth street police station. Justice
| O'Reilley sent him to the navy yard. Oliver
said he had TO work 100 hard on board ship,
and wanted to nnd something easier to do.
| FROM a recent statement in regard to the
amount of the annual rentals received at Har-
ward for the college rooms, interesting facts
| concerning the average price of rooms at
| Harvard compared with Yale may be ga
! thered At Harvard there is received an
nualiy for the iS6 rooms a rental of S69,Sl1,
while at I ale for POI rooms on the campus but
sl3. 1853 is received. hus the average price
Of a room at Harvard is found to be about
Sl45, an amount which exceeds the highest
price paid for any room on the ale cam
pus, while the average cost at I ale Is only
about $55.
MEIssoN1ER is heavily in debt to his agent,
NJ. Petit, and Will probably remain so to the
last day of his life. His studio is crowded
with unfinished pictures-i. e., the masters so
consider them-which If sold, even at auction,
would make him rich beyond the dreams Of
aVarice." But he is extremely fastidiOus and
in more than one instance, after having re-
| celved enormous payments in advance on
commissions to be executed, he has failed to
| finish within a reasonable time the picture or
| dpred and has had to pay back the money
His generosity also stands in the way of his
success, as he will often, when in need of
money, stop 10 paint pictures ana give them
10 friends. .a...- 49,.
FARMER JOHN SELLERS is onerof the oldest
of morta 6. John lives near New Phila-
delpha. o. He never shears has sheep, but
allows the wool to grow on their backs until
1t drags on the ground. People travelled for
miles last summer TO see his dock Of sheep
that had not been shOrn for SIX years. From
a tho Shaqr lnokad "a n n h IN,
the field. The wool was eighteen inches in
length, His geese are never picked, nor does
he ever brandish that woeful weapon, the
razor, in his own face. which is hidden in a
Kip Van Wrinkle lot OF beard. ''God puts the
wool on the backs Of the sheep, and it Is sinful
TO clip it, says the Buckeye philosopher, with
more sentiment than sense.
IN HER DAYS of maidenhood. Mime. Greville
was a teacher in a Russian family; her father,
native OF Normandy, was Tor years a pro-
fessor in the University of Petersburg. whose
feminine head was, like SO many Saavsg eccen-
trio, tyrannical and cruel. This 'ladY" or
dered NJ sdemoiselle Fleury to perferm some
mental office, which she refused, whereupOn
| the former, dying into rage, declared that if
he did not obey her instantly she would have
h + logged by her serfs. The teacher replied
with perfect compOsure: Have it done
| thoroughly then, m dame; for, if die not
under the lash. will proclaim your savagery
to all the wOrld.'' The petticoated despot
hesitated, and the teacher. who felt her dan
ger in place so remote, lost no time In flying
from the place.
THE GREATEST THICKNESS of ground ice
ever actually measured in America was by
Sir j. FL. LEROY. who in June, 1874, ON the
banks OF the Mackenzie river, in latitude 81
deg. north, saw q perpendicular elf broken
OF by lsndsllp, IN which the earth was
solidly frozen for q distance of fOrty-fve
feet below the surface. Half q century ago,
Russian merchant at Yakutsk, in Siberia,
iph 10 sit Tod al 10.
had TO dig 382 feet before he could get through
The ground ice. The average Temperature at
Yakutsk is only IA DEG. Fahrenheit, and the
town is very near the Siberian pole Of uraat-
est cold. Sir j. H. LEROY thinks there is
good reason to believe that the ground ice
within the arctic circle in America Is much
thicker than the maximum in Siberia, and
even suggests that l. may extend to 300 feet.
REFERRING to the announcement that at a
recent exhumation in Western cemetery
the body of woman was found turned to
stone, the Louisville Medical Nears says: sPet-
rifaction of the body of warm blooded ami
mai never has been known, and it is quite
safe to say never has taken place. The con-
dition of the body which leuds to such mis-
c inception Is not that OF petrifaction but sa-
pOnihcati0n." IL is expla ned that nitrogen
Gus tissues give off ammonia. and this, attack
ing The Eats in the body, produces adipocere
a hard form of soap. The writer when at the
New Orleans fair saw a barrel of pork label
ed, Found floating in the Mississippi In an
advanced state of petrifaction." Being skep-
tical as To the capacity of rocks TO float, he
Clipped of piece and found that the hog,
ike The human being under similar circum-
stances, had utterly turned to adipocere.
THE SUPREME COURT of the United States
has recently delivered an opinion which Is OF
much Importance 70 farmers and railroad
companies. In a suit brought to enforce the
Fence law Of Missouri against the Missouri
Pacific Railroad the company pleaded that
the law is repugnant TO the provision of
the Constitution which declares that no
state "shall deprive any person OF life, lib
erty or property without due process of law
nor deny to any person within ITS jurisdiction
''the equal protection OF the laws" But the
Supreme Court upheld the law on the ground
that IL Is an emanaJion of the police power of
the State for protecting the lives and property
OF citizens against negligence of carriers and
cases OF accident. Justice Field dec AIRED that
there are few cases In which his police mower
Is more wi.ely and benefci ally exercised than
in compelling railroad companies TO fence in
their tracks.
DURING the centennial year Of 70, when
old knee-breeches we're brought down from
garrets, aud family lineage WAS traced, saws
Ben: Perley Poore, there were some curioua
mistakes made. One young rooster, whose
inelpient whiskers reminded one OF the old
definition OF Washington city, ''largely lad
ont but thiuly sathed," was talking about
having the sword II his grandfather. A Revo-
lutiOnary officer, when 10 Was known nv a
gentleman urQ4 cent that the Vra nj ~ IA.