Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-27
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was burned down. the Consul sisters, having
escaped In their night clothes, found that
female servant remained behind. One or
them instantly dashed back and rescued the
woman, both being much burned.
THE sun looks like great glowing globe Of
blue light when seen from the top of Mount
Whitney, in the Sierra Nevada range; and
because the air is so clear there the govern
ment at Washington has set apart the noun
tam as a reservation for astronomers.
AU JON shipped on the St. Stephens, sail
ing vessel, bound from Liverpool for New
J ork, and he was known to all the hands as
that heather COOK" On the log of the st.
stephens is the following note: "At midnight,
Aug ID, heavy gale. Fell overheard at md
night Au Jon, cook" The st; stephens,
Weatherlng the gale, was mOOred the other
day at the foot Of Baltic street. Brooklyn.
DON after Au Jon was seen to steal from the
place where he had slowed himself away, ami
run for dear life.
IN the revised Bible, published at Oxford,
only three printers errors have as yet been
discovered in all the editions. In the pearl
l6mo edition there is an error in Ezekiel xviii:
~, where an ''e" is left out of righteous, and
the word is printed "rightous" In the paral-
lei Svo edition there are GwO mistakes. In
Palms, vii: Is, ''shatfe" appears instead OF
shafts" and in Amos, v: a. in the margin,
"overtlowing" should be 'eveFAowlng." The
usual guinea will be paid to any person dis
covering printers error in the book and
pointing II out 10 the Controller.of the Press
before any other discoverer.
IT is just fifty years ago that the sonstruc-
ton of the first French railroad, that from
Paris to st. German, was officially sane
toned. The late Emil Pereire undertook to
make this line at his own expense 1t had
taken nearly three years to obtain the con-
sent of the authorities, the contention Of
Ihlers being that railroads could never be
more than mere toys. while Arazo also doubt
Ell their utility. The financial difficulties
were also great, and only surmounted when
the Rothchilds and Davilers were won over.
TIL road was opened in 1897 and became the
nucleus Of the western system.
STILL another explanation of sickness
was furnished by the explorer, DIR. r. Neu-
hanss, at recent meeting Of the Berlin
Medical Society He considers sea-sickness
10 ne simply slight attack OF ursemla-blood-
polsoning-caused. rs his experiment go to
show, by the diminished activity of the kid
neys at sea. He recommends the use OF the
hydrate Of chloral on the bird or fourth day
of the sickness, but condemns all other so
called remedies as useless. Alcoholic stlmu-
ANTS he considers injurious to sea-sck
patients. According to DR. Reuhauss. only
3 per cent. OF mankind are proof against sea
sickness, and about the same number resist
all remedies.
IN the Palembang district, in SumatFa, as
the party of H. o. Forbes, the naturalist, was
returning one evening from the forest, a tiger
suddenly struck down a youth, one of the
members of it. The beast was driven off with
a spear, but the victim died IN half an hour.
Early next morning the tiger ventured into
the middle of the village the villagers having
insisted that it would do 20 to search for its
unburied prey. The body was buried by an
armed party, and much deeper than usual, as
the villagers asserted that the tiger would
come TO scrape it mp. The beast actually did
attempt this on the following night, and was
some nights later killed by means of a bow
trap, made with spear ami a green bamboo
30 feet long, set with the grave as a bait.
ANYONE who has ever visited Kingston,
Canada, knows that the round
towers form part of its ex-
tensive Notifications. These, it is supposed,
were copied from the similar structures
on the coast of Ire and which are about to be
demolished The Irish towers were built at
the time when LORD Corn wallis was VicerOy
of Ireland, at the suggestion of the DuSe of
Richmond, who had heard that the to Fn Of
Martello, in Corsica. had by means of similar
defenses successfully res sted the attack of a
fleet. This same Duke Of Richmond afterward
became Governor General of Canada, and it
was during his career there that these Mar
tello towers were built for Hi eston, then the
capital of the united provinces Of Upper and
Lower Canada. His death occurred in 1919
from hydrOpbObia, produced by the bite of a
fox.
at the rate OF about a foot year. Eventually
Connecticut and Rhode Island will be fight
ing over it. The gray old Atlantic is grimly
grinding away the stately and pictured clay
cliffs on the southern end of the Island. In
numerous spots along the southern bluffs NAV
be seen places wher last winters storms have
gro nd out huge cores of earth and swept
them around to the nOrlhwe tern ssndspits Of
the island, where treacherous bars are ever
forming towards the north. Footpaths on the
u Loaf
abruptly on the brink of chasms thus formed.
and new ones have to be m AIDE. Jolly Keeper
Clarke, at the big llgh house on Southeast
Point, says the sea is surely eating awav the
bluffs whereOn his light is now perched. 200
feet above The sea level, and it is simply a
question Of time when the tower viii have TO
be moved inland.
OUT in Congressional Cemetery, on the
banks of the Anacostia river or the eastern
branch of the Potomac, beneath beautifully
veined marble monument, rests the body Of
Gen. John A. Rawlins, the friend and conf
lpant Of Grant The simple inscription is as
follows: "Maj. Gen. John A. RawliDs, born
Feb. ID, 1884. died Sept. g. 1869. Chief of STAFF
to Gen. U. S. Grant from 1881 to 1892 At the
time of his death secretary OF War" In an
other part of the city, not far from the White
House, IN the centre of one OF the beautiful
triangular parks, is a life-siZed statue OF
Rawlins in bronze, not on horsebacs, but
standing in an easy attitude in full uniform
with his eft hand resting upon his sword hit,
his right thrust in the breast Of his coat. Gen.
Grant paid the expenses Of the funeral Of
Rawlins out OF has own pocket, it having
been reported that the Chief of StafT
had left his family destitute. For several
weeks the remains Of Rawlins Law in a
vault in Congressional Cemetery, and before
they were permanently buried the widow
had married again. Gen. Grant purchased
the lot and paid for it himself, and, with his
Cabinet, went 10 the burial Of his former
friend and companion in arms. When the
casket was opened the corpse was found in a
perfect STATE Of preservation. gentleman
who was present states that the Silent Man
gazed long and earnestly at the face OF Raw
Inns and seemed lost in thought. With his
own hand he planted shrub over the grave.
The monument was erected by subscription.
W. MATTEL WILLIAMS believes that rats
are, upon occasion, yoracious cannibals, de-
vouring one another by wholesale and with
out mercy Being troubled beyond endur-
ance by these pests, and getting no relief from
dogs iorrets ana cats. and fearing poison, he
tried the effects OF stufing the holes with
broken glass. This was successful, and some
curious results accompanied the clearance.
A first there we're streAks OF blood on th.
kitchen moor in considerable quantity. and
distributed all over it. These appeared on
several mornings At about the same time,
and subsequently. much scamperng and
screaming WAS heard beneath This was fol-
lowed by rapid reduction Of the number OF
the cncmy Ny theory" says Mr.. Williams,
us mat when any one rat was wounded by
the glass, the scent OF blood excited the voraci-
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