Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

announcement OF betrothal in one OF the
local newspapers.
MINIATURE SILVER BARRELS, filed with the
best Minneapolis -four, are the gifts which the
Danish people of the Northwest intend send
ing to the Princess of Wales and her sister, the
Empress OF Russia,
A PLATINUM WIRE too fine to be seen with
the naked eye is said to have been made by
Mr.. II. T. Read of Brooklyn. 1t is to be used
ma telescopes as a substitute for the spiders
web usually employed.
AN ORGANIZATION is being formed in AL
! buquerque to explore by excavation the site
of an ancient city Of vast dimensions and
grandeur in New Mexico 1t IS the belief oil
/ the prospectors that great wealth is hidden IN
| the ruins.
ALEXANDER DUMAS, himself great eater
once said: 1.-The stomach is the criterion OF
I public and private health In spite OF all
/ kinds OF revolutions and ruined constitutions,
/ France Is always France, because she has a
/ Rcod stomach. When the digestion runs
/ smoothly everything prospers."
| THE Duke of Norfolk has obtained his gar
| ter. He earned his decoration, or rather his
/ coachmen and equipages earned 1t for him, by
services more useful than brilliant. He had
! in Westminster not less than twenty-four
| carriages conveying Conservative voters to
! the polls and as many more IN Sheffield ana
| elsewhere,
BERLIN woman lately attempted to Kill
herself by thinking five ounces of kerosene.
/ She became unconscious, but was fully re-
stored to health in three or four days. The
/ DeutSche W0chenschriH tells of man who
drank habltually an ordinary iduor glass of
/ petroleum several times weekly without any
/ dlsagreeable consequences
IT is PROPOSED to erect a new bourse IN
Paris. The one which at present exists is
c1mmodIous and eNcelently situated. One of
its most peculiar features Is the daily gather
ing IN the square around IT OF men VINO rant
by the hour together on political topics, hold-
lnR forth something in the style OF street
preachers or stump orators.
MEXICO is said to possess only about 100 fac
tories of all kinds, owing to the paucity of
water and the high cost of fuel These facto-
ries employ about l3,OOG hands, and those de
! voted to weaving contain $500 looms and go
| 600 spindies. The largest mill Is at Quer-
| etaro, employs !, 400 hands, and manufactures
the unbeached cloth worn by all Indians
1T IS sand that a New York Scientist is de-
voting himself exclusively to the discovery OF
some means of making the shells of eggs
| transparent without injury to their membra
/ neOus lining His object s to make a study
! Of the chan .es and processes by which lie is
! developed from the Ovum. From utllita-
/ rian point of view. transparent eggs would
| be desideratum for the purchaser.
A MONTREAL man lately sued a druggist
for damages from having been deprived OF
! work for several weeks in cOnseq of ia
! king poison sold HIM by mistake. The
! rOr was caused by the wholesaler, who had
| labelled the package wrongly before selling 1t
| to the druggist. The court held, however,
| that the druggist should have verified the
| contents OF the package, and gave judgment
| for $500 and costs.
DISCOVERY has been made in Madrid of :
secret telegraph code which has been en-
ployed by the Republican leaders in commu-
nicating with one another. This is expected
to lead to some important discoveries as to
| the comm unicatiOns which have passed be-
| tween the party leaders, as the duplicates of
the kilograms are naturally to be obtained,
although, a. the discovery of the code IS likely
to he known to the leaders themselves, 1t can
| hardly serve future purposes
THoUGH PETROLEUM is found in many parts
| OF the world, none has been discovered so
valuable for Illuminating purposes as the
| Pennsylvania product. One curious proof of
| this fact Is the demand for empty oil packages
| in the European markets. The Austrian and
! Russian Oeaerf buv them and refill them,
| carefully preserving the American brand,
! They are resOid - containing refined oil from
1 the United states. and tn quality of Amcri-
can oil is thus brought into undeserved dis
| repute.
An INQUEST was recently held at the Lon
don Hospital on the body of Robert BaItholO-
NEW, aged So His widow said that on sun
day, Dec. ID, he was IN bed in his usual good
! health. HIS daughter, aged Is, who was an
invalid and was blind went to kiss HIM, when
she over oalanced herself and her front teeth
struck him the nose, causing IL to bleed
| Witness bathed 1t, and 1t seemed TO get on all
right TIL eight days after, when erysipelas set
ia and he was conveyed to the above institu-
ton, where he died.
WASHINGTON SOCIETY, says a correspond
ent, is feaIfully and wonderfully made. There
is the diplomatic set. to which but few out
siders can gain admission, and there Is the
army and navy circle, whose members. while
not engaged in trying to climb up into the
diplomatic coterie, occupy their time in keep
ing those in civil life from a too close and con-
Eliminating proximity Outside OF the pale
of these two sets any young man with dress
suit and an ordinary amount of what Is Vul-
CARLY known as "cheek," can gain admit
lance. 1t is not so easy for the young ladies,
4. however, and many young man moves in
circles TO winch his sister is never invited.
The annual reporter New York Dairy Com
missioner Josiah X. Brown for 1885 says that
there has been paid into the state Treasury
during the past year on account OF fines for
violation Of the dairy laws. more particularly
those relating TO the manufacture and sale of
OleOmargarIuc. s2,2SS. There are now up
ward of 20 cases in the courts. Or. X. ID.
Clark, OF Albany. asserts in the renOrt as his
/ opinion that Ole0margarine is dangerous to
health flr the reasons that 10 is indigestib BILE.
II Is insoluble when made from animal fats, it
I is lldDle 10 carry the germs OF disease into the
human system, and that, in the eagerness of
manufac urers tg produce the spurious com
pound cheaply, ingredients enter into it which
are de rimental in the last degree to the con-
sumer's health.
THERE is quite sensation in American
circles abroad, and also IN New York, over the
rumor of the engagement of Miss Adele Grant
TO Earl Cairns-Lord Gsrmoyle. Miss Grant
is r New York girl and a noted belle and
beauty. She is the daughter OF Mrs. Beach
Grant, and early in the fall they sailed for
Europe. intending to spend she winter IN the
south of France. They have been IN Pau for
the past month or so. where Earl Cairns Is
also staying. The rumOr of the engagement
ls denied hy the young lady's most intimate
friends who say that Miss Grant Is far too
clever TO wish 20 marry such person. Miss
Grant rs a lovely brunette Of about 20, and ha r
/ a large fortune m her own right, that she
( has mo need 10 marry for wealth, Miss Marion
Lau-ion. another New York belle who IS
winferlua in Pau, may also deign TO marry an
Earl or Duke.
THE coming Centenary Art Exhibition at
Berlin promises 20 be- a most elaborate affair.
There VIII be huge central building, divided
into twenty large galleries, special annex
for historical arr, and another for sacred art.
| close by wiIl stand q copy of the Temple Of
Jam Cr al Olympia. containing panorama