Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-23
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/ tive laws, some scalawag depopulated one OF
/ her lakes the other day by exploding guam
| tlty of dynamite underneath the ice. Every
/ fish, apparently, was killed.
ACCORDING to the Pro0res Medical, method
Of treating rabies by incubation was dis
Gus. ed IN a Lepsic medical journal as long
! ago as 1873, ANA the doctor recommending IL
WAS stated to be Constantin Herring, OF Phlla-
de pha.
The POLICE Of Paris recently seized the
books OF money changer against whom the
charges OF usury had been brought 1t was
/ found that he had discounted civil and mill
! tary pensions at minimum rate Of interest
/ OF - per cent. per mum.
AN UNUSUAL ADVERTISEMENT appears in
| Vienna newspaper: "A respectable married
! couple, of whom the husband is no dancer,
! desires TO make the acquaintance Of au
equally respeC table couple where the Wlfe IS
! no dancer, IN order to visit balls in company
At A DISNER of fifty covers, given by a resi-
| dent of North Broad street, Philadelphia, the
other night, at the Bellevue hotel in that city,
| the curtains of the windows of the banquet
| ing hall were removed, and curtains OF nStu-
| raj flowers, costing over 500 each, were hung
| in their place. The cost of the dinner was
| about -, 500.
Mr.. NEREscHAGIN, whose pictures on
! scrlptural subjects have brought him into
such dire disgrace at Vienna, says that the re-
cent attempt to destroy them with vltrol was
/ not the individual act of mailman. but the
/ result OF a conspiracy, and that he has placed
| IN the hands Of the Public Prosecutor letter
which implicated distinguished people.
| Docs in New York have governors" who
! are said TO be as necessary as a governess to a
child. The governor attends to diet, groom
! ing and weighing, and accom- anies his charge
/ once a week to a physician. The governor Is
generally smart young darkey. and the cost
! OF his services Is more than that for a COVER
ness who can teach French and music.
TIE weeping willow seems TO have had a
romantic history. The first scion was sent
from smyrna in a box OF figs to Alexander
Pope. Gen. Clinton brought a shoot from
! POpe's tree to America, in the time of the
! Revolution, which, passing into the hands Of
| John Parke GUSTS. was planted on his estate
| IN virginia, thus becoming the protector OF the
| weeping willow IN America.
IN ENGLAND the legal deanltion of beer ex-
| tends to any liquor which is made or sold as
a description Of beer, or as a substitute for
beer, and which, on analysis of sample
| thereof, shall be found to contain more than 2
! per centum Of proof spirits" Hence, an in
! teresting connection among a number Of
| wouid-be temperance people, who suddenly
| found out that the blue Ribbon Beer con-
tanned considerably over , per cent. of abso-
Lutte alcohol.
The German census, just taken, shows that
! the empire contains As towns of over sc, 200 in
habitants, q of which have more than 100, 900.
| Dusseldorf Berlin, Magdeburg, Chemnitz,
! Nurnburg, Hamburg and Leipsic show an IN
/ crease during the five years of over II per
/ cent, Crefeld over p per cent, KEEL, bort
mund, Mannheim, and Carlsruhe over 10 per
! cent. In Dantzic the population has in
/ creased only per cent, while in Memel there
has been decrease Of nearly ~ per cent.
! A BRILLIANT wedding occurred about
Christmas time IN North Bend Neb the par
! ties being a lawyer who had been for some
| years resident OF the place, and the l9-year-
old daughter Of wealthy local grain dealer
lhe couple started East on their wedding
/ tour, ana a few days ago the bride returned
/ home alone and heartbrOken, her husband
| having been arrested in Iowa for forgery and
! horse stealing. The sheriff of an Iowa coun-
| ~ had been looking for HIM at the time the
! wedding took place.
| The INHABITANTS Of Daghestan have beer
much exercised of late because they have
| found that the people of Tchagma Taschetia
/ have adhered to the old national practice in
/ the time of the tribal wars of cutting of the
/ hands OF their opponents killed in battle, and
I mailing them 10 the door pests Of their houses.
/ The sight Of these remains Of some OF their
/ unfortunate klnsmen has so excited the
{ Dagheslsuls thar they have presented petit
/ ton to the Russian authorities praying them
/ to put a stop TO these proCe dnCs, and the
Ilhis government has given them an express
/ assurance that their request shall be complied
/ with.
/ DOCTORS do not appear to have much faith
in the idea that odd shaped bottles or peculiar
/ labels VIII prevent mistakes in the taking of
! drugs. An English physician relates that he
| once gave a man, for external use, a little Gro
| ton oil liniment ~ blue futed bottle, with a
/ red label. one night the man, being troubled
/ with cough, thought he you'd take sOrce of
/ his Wlfls cough mixture, which was 10 a bot
/ lie having raised letters. tie nistOok the
"a frlr on ia INN hrf ft, H.
/ tiers ON his wlte's, and swallowed the croton
| oil. He soon discovered his error and was
| very i'll for many hours. In a similar case
man recently died from heavy dose of linz
meut.
A CORRESPONDENT writes: 1.-THE Japanese
| excel US in politeness and in inquisltiveness
| Their politeness demands suca forms that to
us it is wearisome, and their inquisitiveness is
both amusing and troublesome. Recently I
was on trip in the country and some men
sent 10 my room in the hotel six or seven fine
! eggs. 1t IS quite usual for visitors to bring
| present the first time they come. few
minutes later three visitors came and asked
some hard questions, VIZ: There is oil in the
mountain, how shall we get IT ont? How clean
it, How can we make cotton out Of straw
How Will we get wax from fish oil? How can
we get sugar out OF turn PSI | did not an
swer al those questions, nor others they asked
me; but IN the conversation, when | told
them That the earth revoved around the sun,
they looked at each other IN utter DISBELIEF
and pity
THY Aztec Indians down in Mexico. of
whose antiquity and traditions we hear SO
much, are very peculiar people," said Gen
eral Eastern Agent Keller. of the Mexican
Central road. They are something like the
Chinese in their inventive genius and their
habit of Keeping to themselves, but thew are
very childish aud simple mi nded. We mad a
curious and lamentable illustration of this
when our first locomotive began running
| through their territory. The Aztecs regarded
our engines rs a species OF their horses or mus
tangs. and believed they could jump and romp
around inst "a those animals do Three Of
them we're by the track one day when a loco-
motive was coming. and thought thew would
Ike 90 see n II could jump higher in the air
than either OF their mustangs could. so thew
| placed several logs OF wood on the track and
made hurdle of them for the locomotive To
vault. Of course there was a wreck. One Of
the tram hand- thought the train was sur-
rounded by Indians, and shot one OF the trio
! Tine other two were captured aud brought to
trial, uut Dr. was so evident hat their action
was entirely free from malice and prompted
solely by curiosity that they were allowed TO
go lree.'
ALL PARIS has just been amusing itself over
"a difficulty that arose between two aides
prominent m public lifo-Mme. Astier de Val.
sayrc and Nine. Pierre which came near
being settled on the held OF honor. Nine. As
tier is the wife Of q physician who is rather