Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-22
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the saloon keepers will not have an easy time
of it.
IT is told in st. Paul that the children in
Minneapolis, its near by and hated rival, have
refused to read the Bible in the public schools
because it is ''hlled full of talk about ST.
Paul" while from Genesisto Revelation there
is no mention made of Minneapolis.
AT the Mechernich Lead Works in Germany
the tallest chimney in the world has recently
been completed. 1t is 440 feet high, six feet
more than the famous chimney Of the st. Roll
loX Chemical Works, near Glasgow, scotland,
which, until the German one was built, was
without rival. The fue of the Mechernch
chimney is ~ feet in diameter at the bottom
and 10 feet at the top.
A NEW and plausible explanation Of the
destructive fires occurring in pine forests is
offered. The pine resin exuding from the
trees is often of lens shape, and before 1t
thoroughly hardens is frequently OF crystal
line clearness. IL is surmised that while In
that condition a resin lens may focus the
SUMS rays upon some light twig or reslnous
point and so start blaze that quickly eats up
forest.
FIGURES, which proverbially cannot lie,
show that the cornields of the United States
cover a territory as large as England, Scot
land and Belgium united, while the grain
fields surpass Spain in territorial extent. The
acreage of our farm lands under cultivation
is equal in extent to all of the United King
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, France.
Belgium, Portugal, Germany and Austro-
Hungary.
AN interesting experiment, showing the in
fiuence of electricity on the growth of roots,
has been made In Germany by Prof. Hode-
feiss. Plates of copper were thrust upright
into the earth and connected by wire with
similarly placed zinc plates, about 100 feet
distant, an electric battery being thus formed
in the circuit. Both potatoes and beets,
planted between such plates, gave an in
creased yield-beets 10 per cent, potatoes rs
per cent.--as compared with other parts Of
the same field.
THE Chinese youth who came to this coun-
try few years ago, under the Yung Wing
Commission, to be educated, begin to be heard
from. Lew Yuk Lin has recently arrived In
New York as the Chinese Vice Consul
there, and Lang Pi Yuk is chief in
terpreter and translator to the Chi
nese legation at washington: OF the
Academy, Andover, one was drowned in the
China Sea In the service of the Chinese navy,
one was killed in the French attack on Ton
| gum, one is physician in the Imperial Hos
pital at Pekin, two are officers on the new
| iron-clad bought o. Germany by the Chinese
| government, while another has just gradu-
| ated from Columbia College Law School, New
| York.
REV. THOMAS E. GREEN, pastor Of the St.
Andrews Protestant Episcopal Church of
Chicago, sees great evil in the public schools
there as now conducted. He said from his
| pulpit on Sunday that, just as sure as the
| secular tendency of the schools prevailed,
| atheism and infdelitY would flourish in the
| land, leaving the inevitable fruits of anarchy
| and communism. He thought thelsecuariza-
ton of the schools largely responsible for the
| growing evils Ofthesocial and business world.
| Without Bible, without Christ, without re-
ligion, almost without morality, they could
| not but breed atheism andtwIckednesss. Mr..
| Green proposes to establish parochIal
| schools in his parish, to in some measure conn
| teract the baneful influence of the public
| schools.
"THREE Zuni Indians have just arrived in
| this city," says the Boston Transcript, ''for
the purpose Of aiding Mr.. Frank II. Cushing,
the ethnologIst, who is spending several
months in Boston and it's neighborhood, and
| who is now engage d in making a dictionary
| and grammar of the Zuni Language, describing
| their philosophy and theogony, etc. 1t is eX-
| pected that the result of his work will not
| ONLY have a high scientific value, but will
contribute essentially to the fund of knowl-
| edge needed for the solution of important
| practical questit rs before the world to-day,
| afording better understanding, not only of
mans primitive condition and history, but
| also OF the various aspects of Indian admins
tration, and the needsof the Indians in order
to advance them toward civilization"
THE commission of the seventh Oriental
Congress-. which VIII meet at Vienna in Sep
TENDER, has already received 2Si applications
for membership from foreign Orientalists, in
cluuing thirty three from the United King
| dom and eleven from British India. Among
| the best known names are: From Oxford,
| Profs. Max Muller, Sayce and Sir Monier Will
| hams; from Cambridge, Profs. CoWell and w =,
| Wright and from Edinburgh. Prof. David
| son. The Royal Asiatic and the Royal Geo
| graphical Societies Will be represented by Mr..
r. Gust, the biblical Archaeological Society by
| Messrs. Rylands and Gates, and the India
| Office by DR.. X. Rost. Several ladies have
been admitted to membership, among them
| Miss Amelia B. Edwards, who will deliver
| an address on recent discoveries in Egypt
| The number OF papers already announced
amounts to fifty.
| SAM JoNES,in arecent sermon at the Urbana
! (O.) camp meeting, is reported to have said:
II would rather take the chance Of prohibit
ZIONIST for heaven than non bipartisan Meth
odist The only difference between the Re-
| publican and Democratic parties to-day is on
| the tariff, and that is differentiated. We
want to get down from this Republican tree
| The Dow law is in league with hell and the
devil, and the Methodist who will follow it
| up hasn't got any sense. That Dow law viz
| tually sells out the Sabbath. The Germ ans
are trying 10 take this country, but this is
America. The question for YOU people to set
| tie is, Shall we turn this country over to the
| devil, the Dutch. and the drunkards? | hope
| the day will come when we preachers will
| take hold of these things and thunder them
| from the pulpit like hell fire."
THE largest cutter ever built is said to have
been the Stag, owned by Paul Jones' but no
| account Of her dimensions are in existence.
revenue cutter, named Stag, of about 200
tons, was also for many years on the Isle OF
| Wight station on the lockout for smuaqlers
| ara htty or Sixty years ago this was By no
| means barren occupation. In the church.
| yard, in the village of Newchurch, in the Isle
| OF wight, is curious bas-relief carved on a
! tombstone, representing u revenue cutter
| CHASING ana nrlng at smuggler cutter; the
| heimsman OF the latter is represented IN
| railing posture, and the inscription informs
| us that he was hit by q cannon ball from the
cruiser and killed on the spot. There ia no
| doubt that our yachts were originally all cut
| ter rugged, OF the revenue cruiser type. and
| those who Affected much larger vessels had
| brigs. SO far as tonnage goes, the largest
| cutter yacht ever built was the Alarm l0i
| tons, OF Mr.. Joseph Weld. of Lulworth Castle,
| Dorset. This vessel was built in 1880 and
| named after q famous revenue cruiser dis-
! tingulshed for speed the crdiser, built in 1853
WAs broken up at the commencement of this
| century. The Alarm, however, was not mod
| ellCd after he revenue cruiser but from the
| lines OF famous smugglcr which was can
| tured of the Isle OF Wight and sold for break
! ing up.
THE Chicago umberman declares that not
wlthstandng the opposition to gum it is
making Roadway. In Chicago there are men
who have used IL in finishing ono or moro