Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
QUEEN VICToRIA's chicken house is pala-
tial, semi-gothic building.

YOUNG LADY attending one of the subur-
ban high schools recently handed in cOmpo-
sitiOn on "a Winter Day." She had reached
that age when large words have a special
! fascination, as the teacher thought when sne
Tead the Following sentence In the young
! lady's composition: ''On account of the IN
tense cold we wrapped our phisiognomius in
large NANTES and were comfortable"
TIE new Goethe Society met for its first
annual gathering at Weimar recently, and
the little city was much perplexed to accom-
modate its visitors. When first started the
society only mustered 100 members; now the
| numbers reach 800, while the finances are
| most Furnishing. Foreign countries support
| the society, most mem bers dating from Aus
trla. while England contributes twenty
| three.
NEW and rather curious application of the
steam whistle has been made at the Jackson
VILE ull.) institution for the deaf and dumb.
A whistle feet in length and II inches in
] diameter has been placed on the pinnacle of
| the boiler house, and is used as a signal to
| awaken the inmates of the institution, etc,
who, although they cannot hear, are made
| sensible of its various signals by the vibra-
lions it gives to the buildings.
THE FACES of many young children are dis
figured by wrinkles on the forehead and
! about the eyes. This is chiefly the result of
juvenile contempt for the maxim, early
! to bed " etc. Children are also very apt to
raise their eyebrows when looking upwards,
thereby corrngating their foreheads into most
| unyouthful lines. Attention to details OF
this kind would perhaps contribute as much
as anything to the beauty Of the rising .gener-
/ alton.
| A MANUSCRIPT placard, signed by "The In
vincibles," has been found on one OF the pub
lie buildings at Havre, France. The Inyinci-
bles propose the prompt expulsion of all for
eigners from France as panaoea for the in
! dustral crisis through which the country is
passing. Instead of effecting a revolution
and deluging the streets with the blood of cit
| izens, the writers of the placard advise their
countrymen out of work to sign petition en-
masse asking the government to send all for
elgners across the frontiers.
CONSIDERING that Canterbury is, In a GER
tain sense, the headquarters of the Church Of
England, the church there does not seem to
be in a very fiourishlng condition. 1t was
stated at an Easter vestry that at the two
| churches of st. Mary, Northgate, and St.
| Alphege, the total Offertores for the year then
ending amounted to the sum of 10 shIllings.
1t is, therefore, not surprising that. in spite
| of endowments and an annual grant from
the ecclesiastical commissioners, these two
| churches "are in a dilapidated and ruinous
/ condition."
! THE CITIZENS of Stroudsburg, Pa, tried boy
colt experiment the other day. An Elmra
newspaper had written up the town in a SEN
]
| sale in the borough limits A news agent
! thereupOn crossed the bridge and got Just in
! side the East Stroudsburg line, where he sold
| SIX hundred copies, against one hundred sold
! IN both towns on former occasions. Some day
/ the boycOtterS VIII learn that the only efec-
! tive way TO boycott is by advertising the boy
| cOtted'as little as possible Just as a One-horse
! tradesman boycotts himself INTO bankruptcy.
THE besked chetodon of the Indian and
! Polynesian seas is a fish Of eccentric form and
! beautiful tints, but its most remarkable feat
ure Is it's curlouslv elongated muzzle or beak,
which is employed as a gun. with a drop of
water for a bullet. Unlike other fishes, this
| creature does not wait for its prey to fall into
the water, but shoots il down like a true
| sportsman. seeing fl or other insect on
twig over the water, the ch@todOn quietly APP
proaches and, with It's nose just above the
water. accurately projects drop of water at
the unsuspectiDg insect, which is thus knock ed
from its perch and is quickly snapped up by
| the fish.
The FELLOWSHIP in Mathematics for the
session of 1857 at the Bryn Nav rCollegetfor
women) at Philadelphia has been awarded to
Miss Annie Stewart, of Dalhousie College,
New Brunswick The fellowship is worth
| about $3.50. Miss Stewart is a daughter of the
late Rev. Murdoch Stewart, of WhYcomagh c,
| B. She commenced her studies at University
| College. London. and has spent the last three
years at DalhOusie College, where she was
| graduated this spring as a Bachelor of Sci
| ence. with honOrs in mathematics and
physics. AS fellow she will pursue the study
of higher mathematics at Bryn Mawr during
the session of 1867.
STARTLINGrevelations continue to be made
of the extent and persistency of the white
slave traffic in and out of Europe. The
Austro- Hungarian government has issued
circular calling the attention of the local
| authorities to certain Polish Jews. especially
Abraham Scharhman, Lazarus Leibowitz
and Lazarus HOrnstein, who. under all kinds
of preteXts, carry on this Infamous traffic be-
| tween Austria and Bombay. 1t adds that
"the trade fOurshes, not only in Bombay, but
also in Alexandra. Port said, Calcutta,
| devil succeed in procuring passports for the
victims to Switzerland, Italy. or England /;
but take them TO Hamburg. where they lie
shipped for Egypt or India. Such is the kind
of civilization christian" Europe is introduce
lug to the heather East!
THE OFFICE OF the Recorder of Deeds Of the
District Of Columbia still remains in the hands
of Frederick Douglass and viii until Mat
thews is either confirmed or rejected. The
President has no authority to remove him
during the session Of the Senate. There has
been very lively turn in real estate during
the last two weeks. The receipts of the Reg
ister's Office at present net the Recorder about
$40 day. Douglass is at present in NJ ASA
chusetts lecturing. since the President nom =
mated his successor he takes no interest in the
Office. The bnlk of the work is done bv col =
ored subordinates. Eight colored women do
most OF the copying and recording and the in .
come continues to 20 to Douglass. The SPRING
time is the best for good receipts. Matthews
will find. If he should he confirmed late in the
session. that Douglass has already had the
bulk Of the revenues of the office for the year.
A CORRESPONDENT speaking OF the eldest
son OF the Shah, says: NEARLY half Persia, a
territory Of 100000 square miles, is now under
his almost independent rule. He resides at
| Ispahan. and there keepsa court quite as bril-
| liant and luxurious as that OF his father at Te-
| heran. When in his teens he was very head
| strong and vicious, and many acts OF cruelty
| are recorded against him. His arbitrary WAYS
! were one too much for the people Of Shiraz
| they revOlted. and the Prince had to run away
| Later on, as he became older. no mended mis-
| ways, and he is now generally liked. He is
! said TO have amassed enermuus riches-not
| always, though In a way which Western
| people would call straightforward and honest
| Every now and then he enters into CONNER
| cial affairs. NEEDLES with the opium and grain
| trades. and makes considerable profits. He ia
an Eastern Prince OF the old type, entirely un-
scrupuOus when the furtherance OF his own
ends is in question.
THERE are number OF bald heads in the
Senate, and the most patriarchal Of these is
Joe Brown, who, with his long beard of white
hanging upon his chest, looks like Mormon
elder. Phetus Sawyer and Henry b. Payne
are both bald as TO Their crowns, ana Gibson.
| Of louisiana, and Harris, of Tennessee, are
| fast growing the same way. I note that SEN
atOr Hoar's locke have TO be very carefully