Savannah morning news., 1886-06-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

WINE CELLAR is to be built at the Cali
| fornia State University for experiments on
wines from various parts of the State.
AN invention by Chicago man is said to
| increase the yield of butter from milk tC
twelve pounds per hundred weight of milk
| Inns Is ABOUT three times the present yield.
JOHN RUsKIN's latest is: ''When 1 see
girl dance l thank heaven that made hel
cheerful as well as graceful, and envy neither
the science nor the sentiment OF my Oar
| winian friend, who sees in her only a eros
between dodo and daddy longlegs."
THERE are SO vacancies in the grade of Sec
ond Lieutenant In the army, and nearly al
! the graduates from West Point can be as.
signed to duty. There are 7e graduates, anC
! tne class Is regarded as one OF the most eff
cient that ever passed through the academy
PETITION signed by many thousands o.
persons will be presented to the Oregon Legis-
lature next winter asking the enactment of q
law to prohibit liquor sellers from placing
| screens before their doors, or frostIng OF
/ shading their windows so as to protect the
business" from the public view.
A TRACT OF 400 acres of land in Grafton
/ county, n. H., has been purchased by a syn
dicate Of Phladelphians. who have incorpo-
rated the Arctic Mica Company. They say
they have vein of mica as wide as l3 feet in
some places, and are able to take out the
largest sheets OF isinglass produced.
The fire winch occurred In the mattress
and shoddy factory in Chicago, Tuesday last,
resulted in loss of life, as already reported,
was caused by button. An operative was
feeding rags into separate machine. A tooth
IN the machine struck button. and spark
shot In the air and fell into the midst OF the
combustible material.
THE editor Of the Sentinel of Centralia, III -,
tried TO print a picture of Mrs. Cleveland
The intention was good, but the cut, ink,
roller and paper were bad, and the result
was such frightful specimen of art that sew
eral leading citizens threatened to stop taking
apaper which so treated the wife Of the Pres
ident.
CLAUS SPREcKELs, the Sugar King of the
Sandwich Islands, denies the story that the
Hawaiian government intends to sell itself
out to an European syndicate for $40, ,00G, 600.
and also the rumOr that the King wishes to be
Emperor of the Pacific. King Spreckels will
| tolerate no imperial rival within the boun-
darles of his saccharine, but volcanic, domain.
BISHOP SPALDING, of the Episcopal diocese
of Colorado, and Dean Martyr Hart, of Den
yer, are at odds. The Bishop says that the
Dean doesn't show him any Difference, and
won't allow him to officiate in the cathedral
! when he desires to do so. The Deans friends
| say tnat as rector Of the Cathedral church,
| he has right to say who shall and shall not
oihclate IN 1t, and they say that they viii stick
/ by him through thick and thin The contro-
versy will doubtless be q bitter one, Dean
Hart is an Englishman.
! RELIABLE IEFoRMATIoN from Rosebud
Agency states that Chief Two Strike and 500
Sioux braves are still determined to m axe their
proposed visit to the Crows in the Montana and
the Shashones in Wyoming, against the IN
| structlons from Washington and the agents
/ orders, and will start in a few days. General
| Brisbn. commanding Fort Niobrara, North
| ern Nebraska, says that troops win be sent
of hon 10 kra..
| without permission. 1t is feared serious COM
plcations will arise if this should be done.
| THE young Emperor of China has just been
] engaged in the pleasant occupation of select
ing three ladies as bSides from among thirty
two assembled at his palace. These are col
lected from all over Mantchooria from certain
noble Mantchoo families. and have Travelled
some OF them for hundreds and even 1000
/ miles to Pekln to undergo review. The future
| Empress is first selected, and then two assist
| ants, called the Eastern and Western Em-
presses. This is the ancient custom of the
emplreslnce the Mantchoos became Its rulers.
/ The Emperor will take over the relns of
| power next year.
1AcHFsMEN dispute Mr.. Gerry's claims to
be considered one Of them, and, above all. the
Commodore Of the crack club of the country.
But although belonging to the "tea pot brig
| ade," as these hardy salts sneeringly aIlude
to steam yachts, Mr.. Gerry is as thorough and
|
the country. 1t is not generally known that
! he holds first-class masters certificate, Is a
/ skilled navigator and also a licensed engineer
having passed all the government examina-
lions There are seven separate and distinct
engines on board the Electra, each one Of
which owes something of its convenience and
efficiency to Mr.. Gerry's ingenuity.
! A LONDON LETTER says: "a rather droll
/ incident occurred at recent representation
by Mrs. Langtry, which was for the benefit Of
a charity. Freddy Gebhardt had secured a
'big box, but by an error of the usher he was
! shown into the Princes box. When his ROYAL
| Highness arrived Freddy mad o step out and
| go to MS own quarters. He did o(seem to
| ike 1t, but the two admirers of La Lengthy
sat opposite to each other, and no doubt en-
joyed their own thoughts. Freddy, not to be
I, outdone by the Prince, sent down to Covent
| Garden and ORDERED $50 bouquet to be com
posed Tor his goddess, and when it arrived it
required two men TO lift. it over the footlights
1t was as biground as small cart wheeln
THAT frogs have formidable enemy in the
common mouse is evidenced by the following
incident: Mr.. w. August Carter, of South
Norwood, Eng, states that he observed. a
short time since, several mice pursuing some
frogs in shed, which was 'overrun with
these reptiles, The alacrity of the latter,
however, rendered the attacks Of the mice fu
tile for considerable period. Again and
again the frogs escaped from the clutches of
their foes, but only 10 be recaptured, severely
SuhhC ~ anu pibtCHs INC energy put forth by
the frogs was 80 great that they actually
swayed their captors TO and fro in their efforts
to wrest themselves from their grasp At
length the wounds inflicted upon them rem
dered them incapable of further resistance.
and they were easily oVerpOwered by the.
mice, which devOured q certain portion .of
them.
IN New York the rivalry between the Wal.
lack and the Bijou Theatre people, growing
out OF the playing at each house of a different
version of Audrans opera. called 'sThe Crow
ing Hen," at Wallack's, where McCaulps
company produces IL. and '.The Bridal Tram
at the Bijou, led to comioal rivalry 10 ace
which could most successfully. by stereopt-
con lime lights and other contrivances, cover
the front walls of the rival house with adver-
tisements OF its piece. Wallack's people
started It by having a dead wall next the BIZ
Jou for "crOwing hen" POSTERS last
night the Biiou stereopticon advertised ''The
Bridal Trap" on Wallack's front Saturday
night for two hours the employees OF each
theatre kept devisng new means OF putting
M lis own signs and keeping invisible the
other house. Finally. on account of the great
crowd in the street, Police Captain Williams
ordered suspension of hostilities.
PEOPLE who have seen ghosts or know Of
haunted houses will find themselves interested
in a circular that has just been issued by the
committee on apparitIons and haunted houses
OF the American Society for PsychicaI Re-
search. This committee consists of Chair.
man Josiah Boyce, +. W. Higginson and r. E.
Abbott. OF Cambridge, Secretary Morton
Prince, J..C Ropes an Roland Phaxter, Of