Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| others in Illuminating power, IS SAID TO De
greatly inferior rs a lubricant to the Amerl-
can oils.
THE INDIAN race is not dying out. The
| Sioux, numbering 10000, are more than hold
ing their own. One race of $4,000 in the last
few years has almost doubled itself.
SIR ANDREW CLARK, the noted London
| physician, says that one-hsf the population
OF London is permanently iH-that Is, not in
that condition in which ''work is easy and
/ duty not over great trial, the state in which
1t Is Joy to see, to think. to feel and TO be-"
/ LARGE numbers of small fish are constantly
thrown up by the artesian wei at Aberdeen.
| Oak. They are perfect fish, with good eyes
/ and do not differ from those found in open
water. 1t is thought that they Indicate that
! the source OF the water of the well Is river
or lake.
| THE latest travellers yarn is of q tree in
! the northeastern part of New Guinea, which
| is said to consist almost wholly of amorphous
I carbon and to possess the properties Of an
| electric battery TO such an extent that when
| its dlscoverer touched it he was knocked to
| the ground.
physician in Wings station writes to the
Medical Record that a woman of that village,
hardly past middle life, and now in good
health, has given birth to % children. The
same writer tells of three sisters In northern
! Vermont who have respectively borne rs, %,
and Is children.
| OVER 1000 patents for couplers have been
taken out, and yet the imam Killer has not
been displaced. Few people have the re-
hottest idea of the number of men who have
been crippled or killed coupling cars. The
! casualties from this cause for the past ten
! years far exceed in number the killed and
wounded of any battle of the late war.
THE bracelet presented to the Princess of
Wales as a memento of the opening Of the
Mersey Tunnel bore a clever representation
of section of the tunnel. The arch Sur
mountediby the Princess coronet) was formed
| by circle of brillIants, the entrance was of
black enamel, and fine diamond illustrated
the line of perspective. The open gold band
was interviewer with q brief inscription, and
on either side of the central ornament APP
| peared the monogram of her Royal HI ghness.
The value OF the present is estimated at 700
gulneas.
AT recent st. Louis masquerade a young
lady attracted considerable attention to her
representation of hornet. Her dress was of
black satin, the bodice fitting close and high
and laced down the back, and finished At the
shoulders with silver gauze wings. confined by
| silver wire round the arms, so that they nut
tered with their every motion. The, skirt
| showed in front close fitting, loZenge-shaped
! over dresss of the black satin barred with
stripes of yellow velvet, and at the left side
| wasfastened, To full straight a scarf of gold
en-cOlored silk gauze.
NJ. CHARLES GIRARD, chemist Of Paris, re-
Gently amused himself by investigation OF the
ingredients of beautiful red currant jelly
charmingly put up for export to the United
! States. There was not an atom Of fruit in
| the mass, as was demonstrated by the adding
| to it of methylated alcohol, which would have
/ turned it green had it contained any fruit
! acid. 1t was found to cons st of gelaUne.
| sweetened with glycerine residue, cOlored
| with pichsne "a poisonous mineral extract),
/ and favored with no one knows what. A
great many people in this country imagine
no currant jelly so good as that which is i'm
! ported from France.
AN enormous mass of tinstone, weigh
ing about 5000 pounds, taken from one
Of the mines in the Black Hills, Dakota, has
been shipped to England. 1t was no easy job
| to transport so colossal a ''sp acimen" ninety
| miles across the mountains 10 the nearest rail-
! way station, and it took long while to ac-
cOmplish it. There are people in the metal
| trade on the other side of the Atlantic, it
would appear, who have been skeptical as to
! the existence OF tinstone in the Black Hills,
/ and parties in interest in New FORK. therefore
thought this would be the most practical way
OF disslpating an incredulity which will prob
| ably yield to conviction in the august pres
ence of 5000 pounds.
! TIE PERSIAN PAPER Schems publishes a
communication from BOkhara to the effect
! that ''the mission sent by the Gar to congrat-
ulate the Amir on the Oeuason of his succeed
ing to the throne was houored before its re-
/ turn to Tashkend with a view of the Bokha-
/ ran army and a farewell banquet. At the
| latter the Amir declared that he would facii-
itate to the utmost in his power the construc-
/ ton Of "a railway from Merry 10 BOkhara via
| Burdalik, and that he would provide without
i any charge the materials necessary for con-
/ structlng wooden bridge across the ANU
Darya. He also pledged himself to take pro-
| per steps to insure the Russian engineers al
| ways having at their disposal a sufficient
staff of laborers."
AN INCIDENT which is creating much scan
dal In Cairo is interesting as throwing some
light on the system of management under the
dual administration. The Darra Sanieh is
managed by a native director and by one Eng
lish and one French controller. 1t is alleged
! that the native, a Pasha, had, in the absence
OF the two controllers, let Land worth IS
/ piastres at 40. A commission, consisting of an
! Englishman, Frenchman. an Italian, and a
native was sent TO report on the question. II
maintains that the land Is worth 65 plastres,
| and states that certain natives told the com
missiOners that the Pasha had offered to let
the land at a reduced value if 900 we're
/ paid him as backsheesh. The native director
has answered this report by dismiAsing all the
members OF the commission Fl ON their posts.
NJ. VEREscHAGIN, the Russian painter, Is
about to exhibit in London. It is difficult to
understand what grounds the Archbishop of
| Vienna had in denounciDg the pictures of
| this eminent artist as blasphemous, EXCEPT
| that Nj. Neresehagin depicts the Holy Family
/ rather in accordance with the description of
them In the Gospels than as idealized by the
| old masters. In his picture of Joseph's shOp
! Joseph 10 working with one of his sons at
| bench; Mary IS reclining on the ground with
a cloth round her head, nursing q baby, and
| Christ lie seated on the steps which lead to an
! upper story, poorly dressed, and porIng over
leather scroll. The shop is a high walled
court, on which the sun is beating. The
Archbishop is not perhaps aware that in the
house said by tradition to be Joseph's in Naz-
areth there is Tor was when ! was there 30
years ago picture Of the Holy Family treat
ed in the same realistic style, and that it was
presented BY the Emperor Of Austria NJ
Vereschagin has to thank the Archbishop for
giving him an excellent advertisement
CORA GREEN, aged IA, escaped on Sunday
night from the gypsy wagon OF John McVey,
who, she alleges, kidnapped her two years
ago near Lebanon, Ind. she was carried 10
Greenville, o.. on Wednesday by Alexander
Brown and other residents Of Adams town
ship. Her story is that she was kept in Nc.
Ncy's wagon most all the time, travelling
sui other places, camping ON the road, Mo
Ney, she says, beat her with a club, a buggy
WIN, cut her with knife, and shot her In
the head. About n year ago he drove a nail
through her left foot into a board. and tying
her hands and feet. swung her up: cut her
feet with a Ratchet. The scars and wounds
can be seen plainly. In response 60 telegrAms
replies have been received confirming her
statements rs 10 the place where she lived.
her name and parents, now residing at James,
Town. Ind. McNey fed a. soon ~ he foupd
"a faN had MT g.. -.