Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-21
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IT IS Queen VictorIa's desire that all her
| family should be in England during the cele-
| bration next year, so the Duke and Duchess
| OF Edinburgh and Prince George of Wales are
! coming home from Malta at the end OF May
for Il few weeks. and the Duke and Duchess
| OF Connaucht are TO return from Bombay for
couple OF months.
1T has been reserved for a Manchester,
Eng, man to invent new reason for
self-slaughter, and to take strychnine because
| his wife had never given him anything on his
| birthday! Had 1t only been penny cigar"
ne wrote pathetically, II would have priced
It," He does not say that he would have
smoked it, and this nice selection of terms
argues certain method in his madness.
PERSONS in high official positions are
making ready Says an English writer to be
knlghted next year, but they are, some of
hem, little too sanguine. The line will
nave to be drawn tight somewhere. or else
knghthood Will lose its value. and people
VINO have really won the distinction will have
good reason to feel offended at being maze
comrades with mass who have no right 10
the rank. Dear, de-
THE following are given as the height and
location Of some Of the tall buildings used for
dwelling purposes in New York city: Os-
borne Flats, Fifty-seventh street and Seventh
| avenue, III feet IN height; Dakota Flats,
| Eighth avenue and Seventy-second street, l55
feet; Munro Flats, Fifty ninth street, 100 feet
| east OF Sixth avenue, 1855 feet; Navarro Flats,
| Seventh avenue and FIfty-ninth street, 1929
feet. The measurement is from the curb level
| to roof. .2apl'.
| MRS. CHARLES TURNER, the daughter OF
the Rev. Amos Cooke, one, of the fret mis-
sionaries to the Sandwich Islands, is visiting
| in New Haven. She was born in Honolulu,
| and Tor several years past has been giving
concerts in Australia. She sang at achurch
a N an ~ ar a
! Haven newspapers say that the audience was
| moved to rapturous enthusiasm and that
several cd Judges say that sRe sings as well
| as Parepa did.
| MRS. ELIZABETH BoosER. of Mlddletown,
Pa, dreamed on Monday night that she was
sitting in the room and Of a sudden expert
| enced great pain in her right side and limb.
| She arose on Tuesday morning in her usual
| health, and while sitting near the stove in
| the forenoon commenced to feel pain in her
| right side aud limb winch in a short time III
| creased until 1t was almost uncomfortable. The
| pain had not decreased at last accounts.
Mrs. BoOser is IS years old.
| THE Pesther Lloyd announces the death a
few days ago of the wife OF Moritz Jokai, the
celebrated Hungarian dramatist and poet.
! Before her marriage, as Rosa Laborsalvy. she
| had high reputation as tragic actress,
| especially as the National Theatre in Buda-
| Pesth. and especially in the parts of Magyar
| hcrOines. Three years ago the jubilee Of her
| first appearance on the boards was celebrated
at Buda by the performance of shakespeares
"COrl0lanus," when she played "Nolumnla."
DR.. GILES DELLA ToURETTE has recently
published monograph upon normal locomo-
ton and the variations in the gait caused by
diseases Of the nervous system. He found,
| from a com parlsOn of a large number of cases,
| that the average length Of a space is for men,
| twenty five inches; for women twenty inches.
| The step with the right foot is somewhat
| longer than that with the left The feet a q
| separated laterally IN walking about four and
| ne-half inches In men and about five inches
| In women.
| Mr.. GRADER has made some curious obser-
vations on the effect Of light upon eye
| less animals. He put number OF earth
worms into a box. which was provided with
an aperture at one side. The result of many
| experiments showed that the worms sought
| the darkest part of their temporary prison,
| and that at least two-ffths of their number
| Stunned the light Experimenting with rays
| OF different cnl0rs by means of stained glass.
he found that the worms exhibited marked
| preference for red light.
In the French village of Thenelles there is
young lady who has enjoyed an unlter-
rupted sleep since June l, 1888. Her name is
| Margaret BOrgenval, and she is said to be eX-
| ceedingly beautiful, though. as was only 10 be
! expected, her three years trance has made
| her rather thin. During the whole period
she has never been i'll, and she appears no
older than she did when she first went of"
| Every now and then dose of peptone is adj
| mlni5tered to keep the vital spark alight; but
otherwise she requires no attention.
A GYMNAsIUM BUILDING, exclusively for the
use OF women, is nearly completed at Garr-
son and St. Botolph streets, Boston. 1t is 100
! by 20 feet, has six bowling alleys, a tennis
court, perfectly appointed gymnasium hall,
| running track of twenty laps to the mile
made of patent composition of glue and
| felt; hot and cold water baths. and, indeed,
| every appliance that women could desire IN
| gymnasium, even to piano. All this is the
result OF the untiring work of Miss Mary E.
| Allen, VINO Tor years mas been deyotng her
| self to the physical culture of 4}ostons
| daughters. tT IA -
TALKING about fasting men, the following
recipe. according to the philosopher Epi-
menides, who lived for fifty years in a cavern
with no apparent means of sustenance, is a
specific against hunger: Cooked squills, or
else onions. to be finely chopped UP and
mixed with a fifth part Of oily gram sesa-
NUNS and a fifteenth part Of poppy heads.
| This compound 10 be ground up together with
| some honey and shaped into balls OF about
| the size of a large olive, which is about equal
to that OF small walnut. People cannot
! srarve II they eat one ball at about o'clock
| and another AT about 4.
MRS. NJ. B. wooowoRTH, who has been
holding remarkably exciting religious meet
ings IN Muucie, Ind, and exertng an unusual
influence upon women ami children, has been
| asked to stop her work. The request signed
| by leading citizens, says: LAS the result of
| your meetings We have seen one OF our most
| respected citizens made defendant in a $40. 900
| libel SUIT; we have seen one Of our fair daugL-
tiers carried from our midst by one OF your
| camp followers, and another brought to the
| verge OF suicides grave; and we have seen
| n mother, VINO Young children needed her
| constant and tender care, rendered insane"
A CORRESPONDENT of the London Times.
quoting a letter recently received from Svd
ney. New South Wales, gives an account of
the extraordinary instnnt shown by ants
and other insects which live in and on the
| ground. some months ago the natives of a
| certain district predicted the approach of
! floods. and left their low lying camping
! grounds for the higher country, The floods
came as predicted several weeks later: and
| the natives said that their sole information
| regarding them WAS gathered from the
insects, which had built Their nests. ETC., in
the trees, instead OF, rs usual, in the ground.
THE Boston Courier thinks that too many
demands are made on the emotional nature
of children. "Who." it saws, 'has not seen
children badgered ana harrassed with: Kiss
| your auntie. because you love her: now kiss
| grandpa: now pat your arms round grand.
| mas neck ana show her how fond Of her Won
! arc: and YOU do love your dear wn mamma,
| don't yOuE aud the unfortunate baby IL forced
| to 20 through successive demonstrations Of
affection, getting through the round of the
circle ouly 10 nave lCstarled over again How