Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

I Jeska. according TO the London Court Journal,
has received I special Papal dispensatIon per-
hitting him to marry his cousin, and the
wedilng viii take place 10 New York in De-
cember. The lady is only IL years old, and
her name is Felicia Benda.
ONE Of the Farce Islands has been swal-
lowed up by the sea. For some time past
strong currents have been undermining the
base OF the Monk" vast mass of rock, and
now the whole island has disappeared. The
monk was uninhabted. but it was of consid-
cradle importance to navigation, serving as a
warning or dangerous currents.
TIE Medical Summary thinks that theatri-
cal people are too much inclined to drink alb
sinthe, and considers the taste especially I'M
fortunate, as the dpsomania resulting from
It Is very violent and almost incurable. The
imitation article drank In the United States
is said to be made from q mixture OF essen
tlal oils and indigo-mostly poisons.
OFFICIAL STATISTICS OF the commerce be-
tween Germany and her new fedged colonies
are discouraglng. The whole amount of the
imports from and exports TO the African colo
MES constitute scarcely a half per cent. of the
total foreign trade OF Germany, and the ar
tcles sent to tne dark continent are almost
entirely limited to brandy and gunpowder.
The exports TO the South Seas are, moreover,
decreasing.
THOMAS STEVENS, the bicycler, in tho story
Of his ride through the Balkan Mountains,
gives description of a grim monument 20
Turkish valor in the shape of square stone
structure erected some forty years ago near
Nlsch. The whole exterior was faced with
grlnning rows of Servan skulls partially en-
bedded IN mortar. The Servians have since
move the skulls of their dead comrades and
buried them, but the rows of indentations in
the mortared surface yet remain to tell the
story.
For TIE HOLIDAYS pipes with meersch aum
hoVx- Ia oil
silver plated bowls and stained ivory stems
are put up in decorated cases along with a
cigar holder showing silver trimmings. Cigar
cases in all the approved forms and some that
are not are out in silver, so are smoR ing sets.
sealing sets and the like. Handles of bone
covered with 8 deposit of silver have appeared
In umbrella and cane handles. Quite new are
the carved silver cane and umbrella heads.
representing old men or women with peaked
caps.
81 AN INTERESTED" says Wyatt Gill. a
| traveller of the time, sin the discussion going
on at home about fish as food for the BRAN.
For years past there have been annually resi-
dent in the training institution at Rarotonga
from nifty to seventy natives of various
islands of the South Pacific. The most quick
Wltted students come from low coral ISLANDS
and have grown 10 manhood on a diet of fish
and coacoanuts. In muscular strength, how
ever. and in power of endurance, they are de-
cidedly inferior 10 the inhabitants of volcanic
lStd0uB, VINO use0 q mixed Qlet.V
WELLINGTON GUERNSEY, soldier, war cor
respondent. composer, librettist and journal
list, who died suddenly of paralysis in London,
few days ago, loved to tell the curious his
torv of his most celebrated song "A lice
where art thOu" 1t was offered to half the
music publishers in London for $25 down, but
| those wise acres refused it. Ultimately,
Duncan Dawson agreed to issue it on sharing
terms. In the result, the sale of the song,
several years ago, exceeded a total Of 250.0 600
copies "Nancy Lee,n offered for $50, uit-
ma ely paid its composer, Mr.. Maybrick,
$25, 900.
ROAD AGENT has made his appearance in
Cayuga county, New York. Monday,
rough-looking man jumped in front of tho
stage running between Port Byron and Au-
burn, grabbed the horses by the bit. and
! brought them to a stand-still. The driver or
dered him to let go. He obeyed, and a mo-
nent later he was seen running aR ay with
package under his arm. He had cut The strap
in the rear of the vehicle, and had taken the
most valuable package in the freight. The
driver gave chase, and after running q mile,
captured the thief aud took him TO police
1 headquarters.
AN old Scotchman. when taking his BARNS
to be baptized, usually spoke of them as lad
dies or lassies, as the case might be. At last
his wife said he must not say it was laddie
or lassle, but an infant. SO the next time
tndb SANDY mao occasion to go to the clergy
man the latter said: ''Weel. SauUy, Is It a
Ladder" It's nae q laddie.'' was the answer
-'Ihen it's a lassie.n sits nae a lassie - said
Sandy. Wen, man. what is il, thenP' said
the astonlsneu preacher. II dlnna rene mber
vera wec." said the parent, "but think the
wife said II was an lllefant." The clergy man
finally found out that 1t WAS not an elephant,
but an infant. he was expected to baptIze,
SPEAKING of a Chinese restaurant in San
Francisco Mrs. Pfeiffer. IN a recent volume Of
travels, says: Il can imagine nothing short of
being one Of the useless mouths of a city IN A
state of siege that could make me partake OF
any of the kickshaws Of that DEVILS kitchen:
even then think | should have grace to pre-
fer more lingering death. flashes of tnbu-
lar organisms looking like earth worms. birds
Of the size Of chickens and the form of cranes
made ready for the spit in the cruel mockery
OF flight, multifarious messes in little saucers
pots and pans and refuse of all sorts mixed
with shells having fatal affinity with those
of sna1ls. must have sufficed to rebut any but
an appetite TO the manner born"
PAsrEUK's PARENTS were of humble origin
and poor. His father. an old soldier, deco
rated on the field OF battle, took up the trade
OF tanner, when, the war over, he returned
to France, and was obliged to work very hard
10 keep the wolf from the door. Neverthe.
iess he found time every evening to superin-
tend the lessons OF his son, who at an early
age was sent to college, and OF whom he was
determined to make an educated man The
boy. however, was no infant prodigy. and il
Is reported OF him that he did not alwavsttke
nc shortest road either TO or from school
tie was tOnder of drawing than anything
else, and whenever he could escape from his
book would amuse himself by taking portraits
OF his nelghbOrs.
THERE are eight women doctors practicinp
in Paris. The first one TO take her degree
was Nine. Madeline Bres. The Emueror
Napoleon III. was away at Chalons and the
Empress Eugene was presiding at the minis
terial councils when Nine. Bres received nor
title OF Nj. u. 1t happened very much IN In.
same way that Rosa BOnheur received the
cross Of the Legion of Honor, by the iberaltv
OF the Empress In her husbands absence She
foresaw the ben tlt 10 women that must core
from the opening Of the medical profession 10
her own sex, and she was delighted TO be able
10 create a precedent ia France Nine Rres
not only attends TO large practice but
writes good deal on health subjects. And Ne
also regularly salaried physician al the
Chatelet Theatre.
Miss CATHERINE RAE explained in a recent
chit-ehat on science in Aber cen, over the sea.
the way in which she got a dog, within three
weeks to ring a bell. She began bv letting
Tiny" smell the bone OF mutton chop. and
then tied the hone 90 the string Of the hell.
Az hrst Tiny" was IN great tremor, but bv
taxing her very kind y and strokinR her she
found that she could induce her TO puli al the
bone and 50 rug the bell. After that she fled
4 small piece Of wood TO the string but the
dog would not pull IT, Al last she pulled her
geuty hHck til the bell rang, and in this wav
IN the short course OF three weeks, wfth moi
more an ono or two lessons a DAY, the dog