Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-07
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SEVEN quick -sighted scientists are to be
sent by the British government to Grenada,
in the West Indies, to grasp the great facts
| that have to do with a total eclipse of the sun.
The eclipse VIII be on Aug. 20.
THE first free day at the Paris Salon
brought 1892 visitors, and 1000 persons paid
a franc each for entrance before noon. on
the official day of orening Il, 900 francs were
PAID at the rate of francs per person.
AT Dortmund, in Germany, the quack Jo-
ham Ries was sentenced to eight years in the
! penitentary for killing a patient without a
license from the State or DOCTORS diploma.
| hles real vocation was that of a night watch
| man.
THE first strike OF which there is any record
is referred to in the British Calendar OF State
Papers, in which there is the following entry
" 535 August II, Dover. Sir W. Fitzwil-
nams to Mr.. Secr'y Crom well. Refusal OF the
Worklngmen to work, ETC."
AN irish journalist in London dressed hi M
self in blue and gold livery, with PAIR of
green spectacles, and spent two hours with the
clown In the sawdust at the circus perform
ance given before the Queen. He wanted to
tell now the Queen acted on such an occasion.
THE balance of the sum raised by popular
subscription for the statue of Sir Robert Peel
at the western end of Cheapside is to be used
Tor endowng peel scholarship" 1t mas
IAN idle for some years, and amounts to
70, $50. The scholarship Will be for political
economy.
ONE by one the roses fall. 1t is now found
that S If John Newton did not get the great
idea of the law of gravitation from the fall
OF an apple. He was in a garden when the
whlCe flash Of truth came to him, but he saw
no apple That story is proven 10 be fanciful
ana was an invention of Noltaire.
They tell of a boy in England who, seeing a
"a faNyf inn oh,
Pilgrims Progress" was being exhibited
went to the ticket taker and asked if Mr.,
Bunyan was in. Receiving a negative reply
ne remarked that he was sorry, AS Mr.. Bun
yam was his father, and ended with the query,
"of course you'll pass me in free?"
AN ingenious idea has been carried out at
the new circus in Paris, where the Sisters
johnson are nightly astonishing the natives
WIN their aquatic feats. The swimming
oath is Int up by electricity from below, so
that, the theatre being darkened the water
becomes transparency in which the move
menus OF the nalads can be minutely folloWe d.
A STRANGE INCIDENT happened to a con
Segment of heavy cattle sold for shipment to
England Rough weather was encountered
on the voyage, and the stanchons to which
the cattle were tied gave way, forcing the
STOCK TO the other side of the ship and causing
1t 70 careen so much that to tighten the yes-
sci the cattle were thrown overheard, loss of
$4,000.
WILD BEES are very plentiful in some parts
of California. The chimney of James Davi s.
house in Beer Valley, which had not been
used for year or two, was found to be
packed full of honey. A fire having been
started in tht part of the house, the flames
caught IN the honeycomb and shot up ten feet
above the TOP of the chimney. Over 200
pounds of honey ran down the chimney into
the house.
IN consequence of the ice breaking on the
Volga, a considerable number of naphtha
barges were wrecked this spring. and about
1000, 900 pools, or 30, 900 tons, of naphtha are
now floating along the river. According to
the observation of past years the presence of
such large amount of hydrocarbon in the
water will prOdIce q very disastrous effect
upon Russian fisheries, not only along the
Nolga, but even on the northern coast Of the
Caspian Sea.
BISHOP JOHN NEUMANN, of PHILADELPHIA
who died in $780, is to be canonized. The data
are now being collected at Loyola College bv
a committee appointed for the purpose, at the
head of which is Very Rev. Maurice A.Walsb
wear General of Philadelphia. The complete
hi story of his life will be sent to Rome, where
it will be examined by Congregation of Car
d lnals who are appointed for that purpose.
If the evidence is sufficient, the ceremony of
b ratification will take place, followed at a
alter date by canonlzation.
THE new grave of Wendell Phillips at Mil
ton, Mass, is on high ground by stately trees
"a spot selected by himself. The body of
Mrs. Phillips has been laid beside him, upon
his left hand, as was his wish, and II stone will
be placed at the head of the grave bearing the
inscription. "Anna Il Wendell Phillips" as
he was accustomed to write their names when
used together. There is talk in Boston of
opening u subscription list toward erecting
monument to his memory--a memorial to
which his wife objected as long as she re-
manned alive.
THE ARCHBISHOP OF PHILADELPHIA has
published in his diocese the decisions of the re-
cent Plenary Council of Baltimore in regard to
the sale of liquors on Sunday. He has an
nounced that all Roman Catholics under his
jurisdiction must either abstain from selling
intoxcants on Sunday or leave the church.
Should they disregard this injunction, tn.
priests will refuse to grant them absolution
and thus deprive them of the sacramento
The Archbishop stated that the decree had
been affirmed by the Vatican. and would be
enforced all over the United States.
A CURIOUS and valuable prayer book has
just been sold IN London. 1t is the little vol
ume which the unfortunate Mary Queen of
scots used at her death upon the scafTold
The prayers are the handiwork of some rare
hfteenth-century scribe; they are written in
Latin on vellum. The pages of the missal
are eNquisitey illuminated with elegant Dor
ders OF iruit, flowers and birds; they are also
decorated with thirty-five miniatures by n
ship. The little book still rests in the original
oak boards covered with silk now much worm
in which it was originally bound.
THERE is a fiourishing escort supply agency
IN London, the object OF which is to supply
escorts to ladies who visit London or who re-
side in London but have no male friends
upon whose time and courtesy they can make
sufficient claim. Prices are according to the
quality Of escort supplied. The younger sons
OF peers come as high as S25 a day or IS an
hour, while commOner articles can be had a
much lower figures. The escorts are d. essed
by fashionable tailor. and are guaIan teed
to be very Chesterields in manners. Here is
an answer to the well-worn question Of tn q
London press, what shall we do with our
boys?
A YANKEE INVENTOR is now in the field
with paper product which he calls leather
ODD and this marvellous material is now in
course Of extensive manufacture by a ''leath-
eroid company" in the little country town OF
kennebdnk. Me. For practical utility the ar
ticle named bids fair to supplant almost every
other material. Ii is strictly n chem ca pro-
duct. and for strength and adhesion Is said to
surpass everything else IL is as tough as
rawhde ana rs elastic as whale bone and IA
AZ the same time adaptable to the most sum
pie as well as the most solid use. In short
according 10 report, there is scarcely manu-.
featured article for which IL Is not available
and superior. II has already been wrought
into various things.
THE smallest newspaper on this continent
ispublished in Guadalaiara, Mex, the capi.
tai of the State Of Jalisco, and one Of tie lead
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