Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-08
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MAJ. BEN. PERLEY Poo has copy Oh
ne kry's Voyages In Wilma" WITH maps
anu Illustrations, printedn l69o-eing zS3
years or! Who has an Ger book ocolonlai
history tQan this?
TABLETS, with inscrinons. haS been
paced on he house in thrue de Rihelieu'
farls' wheTs Diderot diem 1874 audin the
mouse IN tie rue d'Aunle where hignet
uleU just ole century Tier.
ELECTRICIAN BELL expresses the pinion
shat tne problem Of seeiG by electI1ciT will
soon be solved But tbae;me would sam to
have arrived, suce peone generally al Just
expected. -
a AlsER VINO las just cied in Cantemry,
Eng isreportedo have eft an immensum
o. money ana urge number OF vaAble
E@tnrluks, ihctudAg several RaphaelAnd |
Dycks. he hal walled up the wipws
FOR use.
GREAT many cantry papers in wa
nave appeared in halfsheet form durinthe
past few weeks, and sooe have been prled
or wrapping paper, While still less fortute
ones were obliged to Suspend entirely,he |
Oloct aded trains cutting OF their regAr
supply OF print paper.
ACCORDING to the correspondent of a Je-
ish journal, the Sultan OF Turkey has p.
sented superb chandelier to the gre
mosque in Aleppo. This mosque is hi ghly We
Grated by Mohammedans, for tradition has
mat the remains OF the prophet Iecherl1
rest beneath its foundations.
PRINCE ALEXANDER. the successful, is muei
beloved by his Bulgarian subjects, whatevd
might have been their disposition toward hin
he'd his soldiers teen defeated. A German
neliotype company has just re eived an order
from an art desle", in Sofia for 10000 cabinet
he afN hn Drar
GREAT INDIGNATION has been caused among
factory girls at Burnley, England, by notice
which has been posted in one of the mills
there. 1t is to the effect that all young girls
employed must cease TO wear fringe on the
forehead after the prevailing fashion. an /
must part their hair down the centre. Fail
ure to comply ia to be punished with dis
mssal.
AT the suggestion OF Prince Bismarck, an
Oriental academy is to be founded in Berlin
after the model OF those in Vienna and Paris.
Il is not, indeed, to he an independent insti-
tuition, but is to he afi lated to the university.
The yari us branches will be superintended
by the corresponding professors in the unlver-
sltv, nut for e2cn of the living Eastern Ian
guages native teacher is 10 be employed.
JUSTICE FIELD tells how his pride had q
fall. When he was young man he was par
tcularly proud of his erect form and fine,
curling hair. Walking one day with head
well up, he ran against a cart ana In iured his
knee. The injury resulted in permanent LAM =
moss and q consequent stoop in his shoulders.
Afterward hard study produced brain fever.
aud fly blister cured the fever and destroyed
his waving locks.
A STRANGE CHARGE has been brought by q
Levantlne against Turkish fuActionary, the
Governor of Mttylene. FAIRY BeY. He is &C
cused Of neglecting his duties for the purpose
OF making roads and carrying on archRologi-
cal explorations 1t appears that he is clear
ing out the amphitheatre OF Mitylene. which
is said to have been the model of the Coliseum
OF Rome, 1t Ia equally true that he is i'm
proving the communications OF the island.
SMALLPOX is very prevalent in Vienna, and
in consequence orders have been given for the
vaccination of soldiers in barracks, and the
municipal authorities have issued urgent ap-
pealB to proprietOrs OF schools Wort sho ps,
and employers generally to have the children,
servants or working people under their charge
vacclnated. In Berlin. where revacC nation
is now universal. $40 all -pOx has for some years
been almost completely stamped out.
NOTING that copy of Hans Holbein's
"Dance of Death'' has lately been bound in
hrman skin by London dealer leads the
Tribune to remark: I'm the library at Mex
borough House, near Methley, Yorkshire.
there were formerly two books. Sir John
Cheeks Hurt of SeditlOn.' and Braithwait's
'Arcadian Princees.' moth bound in the pre-
pared SKIN of Mary Bateman, the Yorkshire
witch who was executed early in the begin
ming Of this century for murder"
Mr.. BUCK, the Kentuckian sent as Minister
to Peru, has stirred that fashionable region to
its centre By appearing at a Stare official din
ner in business suit. The dinner was given
in his honor. and he was the only one who did
not appe IN evening dress. Mr.. Buck hon
estly states in his own defence that he had not
in his wardrobe sucn a thing as swallow tail,
50 some OF the Americans have formed y syn
dieate 10 supply him with a dress suit. IRE
Right Honorable w. +. Forster. OF England
committed a similar gaucherIe at q dinner in
his honor given at the Union League club.
Two NICE YOUNG MAINE PERSONS are in a
state of mind and all on account of the care
less business manager Of an Augusta news
paper. One Of the young persons wrote to the
other, directing her letter TO the newspaper
office where he worked, and the business
manager, not noticing the address, Sore open
the envelope and turned it over TO the editor,
who clapped it in the Young Folks Column az
a communication, the name OF the sender and
sendee OF the letter both appearing. The
young man, who had beez awaiting some
word from the lady. first learned of the
course the letter had taken when he saw it in
the paper Their feelings are much easier
imagined than described.
THE New York Sun few days ago printed
an account OF the heroism shown by Maude
Long, OF Independence, Mo-. who walked
three miles after midnight. on a bitter cold
night, to rescue two children who had been
lett by madman to die in the snOW It
pleasant to tell that the citizens OF Kansas
City, approaching her pluck. have given Miss
Maude handsome watch, suitably Inscribed
diamond ring Of considerable value, and
over $500 in money. As for the man, s. g.
Baker, VIII zee crazy freak gave occasion for
Miss Longs heroism, he 10 in 4 private asylum
in Philadelphia, and the doctors say that there
Is very little hope of his recovery.
Mr.. EDGERToN, chairman Of the Civil Ser.
vice Commission, recently said: "When was
in Congress, in 1852, ! represented thirteen of
the northwestern counties Of Ohio. came
in at a time when there was a change OF party.
aud my party had the Presidency. Before /
started for Washington / resolved that no
constituent Of mine should have an office il 7
could help il, and none OF them got into the
government through me. Positions un der the
who accept them, ana the government service
is not q sphere which would invite any Young
friend OF mine TO enter II he Ia a bright fel-
low, he can make ~ much after 4 short time
anywhere else, and II he IL not bright. the
government doesn't want him"
Mr.. RUSSELL, the war correspondent fbet.
ter known, perhaps, as Bull Run RusselD.
was good story teller while in Washington.
and had many "reminiscences OF his adven.
lures IN the East Once, while travelling IN
india, ne carried with him an Indiarubber
pillow. which ut night he inflated. One even
ing he took IL out OF his pocket and showed il
to a chief who ask cd him its use. He told him
! Npu a a L. Loo ct