Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

DIR. FRIsCH, of the Vienna Polyclinic, after
experimenting for three months. reports
against the Pasteur method in hydrophob1a
cases.
THE Peruvian army has been reduced to
total of $500 mcn-2, 400 infantry, 500 cavalry
and 900 artillery. In addition to this there is
police force mounted and on foot amount
| ing to nearly 800 men, for duty throughout
| the republic.
JUSTIN MCCARTHY, who is the mlldeet man
nered man of the Irish party. is going to
America TO get out of the way OF politics. HIS
departure portends parliamentary squalls. or
| Mr.. Mccarthy has a happy kDack OF being
oEt OF it when mischief is brewing.
THREE American horses are to be shipped
| to Rosa Bonheur. One was bred on the Sun
| river, in the Rocky Mountains; another is
| wild horse caught on the head waters OF the
| NiobrRra, and the third ia q mustang from the
brazos river, Texas. They are designed as
| specimens of horses used on our frontier
THE Dayton, O., gypsies are very wealthy
| in a tribe of about ffty or seventy Ave own
| ing three or four magnificent farms. all well
| stocked. and equipped with fine buildings. 1t
is estimated that in all they are worth several
millions OF property, cash. mortgages, Donds
and other Securities. They cultivate their
| land during the summer.
THE Connecticut river and its tributaries
| o26 horse power. Mlllsr's river and its
branches supply 1873 mills, with 1872 horse
| power; Ohicopee river 1872 mills, " tn l4,904
| horse power, and Pennington river, l7S mills,
| with $3.50 horse power. The Connecticnt
itself has fewer mile (a8), but supplies 49, 1885
| horse power.
HENRY IRVING, who recently visited ex-
| President Arthur at New London, says: HE
| was not so stout as when / saw him last.
could detect the traces of Illness, but he stood
| erect and looked well. His conversation
was animated and embraced many topics, IN
Guiding Engl sh literature ana English poll
| tics. His tendency to humor, too, was
| marked"
| OLIVE LOGAN, who met Robert Louis Ste
vensOn on shipboard, writes of him: he is
| about IS years of age, and of exceedingly
| delicate health. He is so slight and short Of
| stature that he has the appearance OF youth.
| His costume aids this actien. He wears a
short coat, almost like an Eten boys round
| about, and vIsorless soft cap: pale, round
| sheuldered, and much mufffsd about the
| throat. from whose slender column cough
| frequently escapes"
CAREFUL observation and inquiry con-
vInces the American Naturalist that during
winter radial sweep of 100 miles, described
from the city of Philadelphia ana touching
the cities of New York. Harrisburg and Balti-
! more. will include in the day time, in its
| western semi-clrcie, fully two-thirds OF the
crows inhabitlng North America, and at night
| an equal proportion in its eastern half. The
| eastern area of this circle. vita the exception
| of more fertile portions of West and North
| Jersey. is as notably devoid of them by day as
| it Is infested by them at night.
A PARIS letter says there is a very
| good boarding house, kept by French
| novelist, near the Arch of Triumph -
the villa Lord Byron, Hotel Lord Byron.
| l called there short time ago Oh one
| brightest. hrpWnpRt mind
| ed and cordial hammered women that 1t has
| ever been my good fortune to meet, Mrs. Sui
livan, wife Of Alexapder Sullivan, the irish
leader in Chicago. Mrs. Sullivan is from Ul-
ster. Her maiden name was Buchanan, but
| she was brought up in America and is a
bright light Of the Chicago press,
THE readers Coleridge has divided into four
classes. He says: "The frat class of readers
may be compared to an hour-glass; their
! reading being as the sand: 1t runs in and runs
out and leaves not vestige behind. A second
class resembles sponge, which imbibes
| everything and returns il in nearly the same
state. A third class is like jelly bag, which
allows all that 10 pure to pass away and re-
tains only the refuse and dregs, The fourth
clHss NAV be compared to the slave of Col
conda, who, casting aside all that is worth
less, preserves only the pure gems"
THE preparations for the unwilling of the
Bartholdi statue of Liberty are rapidly pro-
crossing. The committee has very nearly
completed its labors, and is now awaiting the
action of the State Department in arranging
details regarding the reception of distin-
guished guests from abroad. 1t is expected
that Secretary Bayard win attend to this
matter early this month. At any rate the
statue will be finished by Oct. l. and the grand
ceremonies attendant upon its unwilling will
occur about that time. The day, however,
will be definitely fixed as soon as the State
Department has completed its arrangements.
ONE Mr.. James Glover has been conducting
an interesting series of experiments upon the
administration OF criminal justice in Eng
land. He began some years ago by stealing a
goose, for which he found the sentence was
seven years penal servitude. Not being sat
isned with the result. he, on regainIng his
liberty, stole two geese. Probably he expected
fourteen years this time. but what he got was
four months i'm prisonnent This naturally
stimulated his curiosity. and at the earliest
subsequent opportunity he stole duck. The
result of the eXperlmeD ut this time Is that Mr..
Justice Day HAS just given him fourteen
days hard labor. If Mr.. Glover only goes on
stealing he will probably be able to enjoy a
stolen fowl at his dinner at the cost Of a days
Imprisonment.
HALsToN, in the New York Times, says:
SupersuHens and signs-what an abundance
of men bow down TO them Vennor, the
aforetime weather prophet, told me once that
he would be afraid to make any prediction
without first writing his name three or four
times on piece Of paper preparatory to tear
ing that same slip of paper into fragments.
There is a successful Spectator in Wall street
who never fails to eros the street twice con-
secu:ively before he buys or sells stocks, An
other Wall street man breads babies, and
claims that to meet one in car on his way to
business always "hoodoss" MIN, and is the
sure precursor OF bad luck if he ventures spec
Walton on the same day. A dry goods m an
| prominent In the wholesale trade on Broad
way has carried silver teaspoon in his
pocket "for luck" daily for the last twenty
years or more,
To find the source from which the Euro
pean nations have derive the art of building
in stone, we must look to the land of the Pha-
raohs. From Egypt the craft passed to
Greece, and from the Greeks It was taken up
, by the Romans TO be by tsem dissemna ted
l through the North and West Of Europe in the
process of colonization. The similarity, In
regard TO the constructive parts of the ancient
t3roek buildings to some of those found in
Egypt OF older date, affords strong confirma-
ton of the tradition that the Greeks borrowed
pthe art from the Egyptians The Greeks,
however, IN adopting II, added new feature,
the pediment, and the reason for this addi.
ton is easy to and. Egypt is practically
rainlesE. All the protection from the elm &c
. required In palace or temple in such n coun-
I try is shelter from the sun by day and from
the cold by nlght, and for this a nat roof, sup
ported by walls, or pillars with architraves,
7 is quite sufficient; but when, MS in all Euro
pean countries, rain has to be taken into &C
count, slanEng roof becomes necessity.