Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-28
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DARTMOUTH sTUHs petitioned to have
the college readlng>m opened on Sunday,
put the trustees unmously refused.
DURING the manores Of the French army
next autumn Foreigners will not be al
owed to follow the airy movements.
SUGAR MAKING haegun in Vermont and
promises well. IT, iadicted that the maple
groves Of that ssalTill produce 100000
pounds this season.
MRS. HELEN NJ. G0AR. the Indiana cham
pion Of temperance woman's rights, will
go to Europe next nth, to be absent all
sum mer. making penal study Of the Irisn
question in al it's pha
A LINE OF soUNDINiust completed across
the South Pacific FRI New Zealand to the
straits of Magellan Commander Barker,
| Y. 5. n. found 3,02 hons near Chatham
island, the greatest da.
THERE is an old lad7O years of age at
Hyeres, who has gone the Riviera solely for
her dogs health. Thanimal is suffering
| from rheumatism. A lysician comes over
! from Toulon to visit thatient two or three
times every week.
| SPANISH LAW, whichrmits a woman on
the throne, also allows tiled woman to be-
stow her title upon h untitled husband.
Instead OF duque, marqSe, or conde, they
are called dudueso, maleso, condeso.
MExICANs have pasn for mirrors, and
a traveller says that the lterior of some OF
| the city houses look lik steambo at cabins.
| He remarks also that mors are among the
commonest articles in tfDawnshops there.
BANGOR newspapesays that so many
fortunes were made byar Harbor mt. De-
sert real estate speculats that many Of the
| adjoining islands and ITS of the sea coast
are being bought up by pitalists IN the hope
| n la no hsai in "a
| summer resorts.
THE AMOUNT of coal 1.-THE Pittsburg re-
| gion is estimated by ProLesley, of the Penn
| sylvanla Geological Suey at 10000, OO0, 900
| tons. About II, 100000 hs are now taken
annually from this bedf which two-thlrds
| are bitumnous coal, andne- third anthracite.
| Prof. Lesley believes tn the oil and gas sup
| ply will practically ceasten or twenty years
hence.
TIE great rainfall in ew England in Feb
ruary is declared by meorologists who have
studied it to have been Unprecedented since
records began to be KEEP The total amount
or water which fell fronthe clouds, chiefly
| during "a hours, is compud to have amount
| Ell to 0,00O.0O0,000 gallss. The fall was
greatest between New Ltdon and Prov
dence.
MISS HILDRBTH, the Warrington bride OF
| Addison Cammack, the NV York broker,
was unknown to Fashionable society there,
| and the girls who go to genans and count
! those who do not as quite OF of the world,
| are chagrined to learn that SO, 000, 600 prize
was won by young ladyt had never
| heard of.
GREAT rivalry as TO speed oists among the
sailing ships that annually IKE grain and
-four to England from OregonInd California
| The distance Is 5000 miles, nd three crack
! ships competed this year. thu winner, Luck
| now, making the voyage TO southampton in
! 100 days, and the second best reaching
| Queenstown in 116 days.
A MAN travelled from SanFrancisco to Chi.
cago recently on a flrst-clas limited ticket,
which cost him only 81 so. The scalpers had
bought it to speculate on, ut had not sue
| ce ded in selling 1t. and thdast day to travel
| on it had arrived, and the asst boat was al
most ready to start. just )efore the gang
plank was drawn up the ian offered 81 30
the offer was accepted and e rushed aboard
TIE Lancet says that "thre have for som,
months past been rumors # the continued
prevalence of cholera IN different parts o
Spain, and now definite Intelligence come
from Gibraltar TO the effect hat several fata
attacks have occurred at 1arlfs, the mos
| southern point of the peninsula" The Lance
also remarks that 1.-THE mOr closely we in
| vestIgate the recent cholera epidemic il
| Spain, the clearer becomes the connection
I
affected"
The recent meetings of the Socialists o
Amsterdam adopted resolutions demandlnG
| great public works; the rebuilding of the un.
wholesome dwellings occupied by the workin
cl sses; the fixing of the working day at lei
! hours, and OF the wOrkingnan's wages at
| minimum of Adj. an hour; iOsns without inter
/ est by the Monte de Piete: the restitution O
all objects pawned having value of less thai
| l5s.; the institution OF an income tax; and tn
distribution of food 10 worknen out of EN-
piOyment.
EVERY MEXICAN FAMILY has at least half
dozen servants, who are generally paid abou
IS month and board themselves. Women d
the cooking and the men wait on the tables
| make the beds and tend the babies. Ever
I room in the house is swept daily, while balco
/ MES and uncarpeted rooms are scrubbed a
often. Beds, which are always single irol
cots, have board or iron bottoms and the hard
| est of hard pillows. Br0oms are an unsee
article, though the country furnishes he MOI
| beautiful broom corn. This s tied in bunche
to a short stick and used in that manner.
! A VIRGINIA CITY BUTCHER killed a stee
the other dav whose teeth we're completed
incrusted with gold and silver bullion. Tn
| animal came from a ranch on Carson river
| and the precious metal on the enamel OF th
teeth doubtless accumulated from drinkin
| the water of the river, which ie impregnate
with the tallings from the mills reducln
ComstOck ores. This circumstance is not ne VI
| however, as Sam Davis mentioned sOmethin
similar before in the Carson AppesL Most O
| the cattle along the river have their teeth at
| ficted in the same way. Their owners Nigh
scrape off quite revenue from them if the
had any financial sense.
BY MEANS of the new and ingenious littl
instrument known as the hyalolyphOtype, @
hot pen, drawings cWh be made on glass @
| CLASSY substances with n waxy composition
which is solid and somewhat hard at ordinar
| temperatures. The pen is so cOntrived that
! can be heated either by gas or by an electri
/ current, and the waxy material flows easil
| from the heated pen, setting so quickly on tn
glass that cBOss- matching can be done NOR
| rapidly than with ordinary pen and ink with
! out risk of blocking up the angles; correc
/ tiOns. too. can be made with the greatest cas-
! by means OF a Deuknife, which leaves the sur
] face afterward I'M act. After the drawing ha
| been made, the plate is etched by huOric acid
! and when complete It can be either electro
! typed, stereOtyped, used direct or applied /
any purpose for which engraved surfaces ar
required.
GOODS are made 10 considerable exter
in Saxony from a textile fibre obtained frjr
the needles Of the FIR tree. The needles. youn
and green, are dried and subjected to set
! Ting and fermenting process similar {, tina
| in use for flax, which softens the WOODY mari
| and loOsens them from the fibre. though ia
| complete separation Is only obtained after
! lengthy boiling by steam. During this boil
| ing by-prOduct appears, called ar wood OF
which Is similar 60 turpentine. The fbre
| pas. ed through milling machine like thos
| used for wooden cloth, and Is carded and spu
! like cotton. Generally the carded abre
mixed with certain proportion OF cotton O