Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-26
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count OF old age. He was the sire of a num-
Der of winners of German races.
PIUssIAN OFFICIAL has been sent from
Breslau to Hermannstadt, TransylvanIa, for
| the object of studying the nature, raising and
keeping of bnffaloes. with view to introduce
the animals in Germany for farming purposes.
REV. BAHoo MoHINI CHATTERJIE the dis
tinguished Hindoo who has come to this cOun-
| try on missionary tour, 10 reported to he
| greatly shocked at the evidences of depravity
he sees on every hand, and 10 have almost de-
SPARED OF reforming such people as this. He
ought to have penetrated al once into the In
| terror. "A few days stay in New York or Bos-
| ton does not give foreigner just idea of the
United States,
| THE last week of November was singularly
fatal in the academical circles of Switzerland.
Three Of its most eminent scholars, Prof. Jo-
| hannes Scheer. of Zurich. Prof. Albert Burck-
| hardt, of Basel, and Prof. Eugene Rambert,
| of Lausanne, we're struck down successive
| days. Two of these. Scherr, "the German
Carlyle" and Rambert. the poet. novelist,
| critic. and bIogra pher of Vinet, were known
throughout Europe.
THE preparations for the great Worlds
Fair of 1889 at Paris may be said to have
fairly begun by the closing of the little park
which fringes the Quai d'Orsay side OF the
| Champ de Mars Trees and plants have been
| hewn r pulled out and vases have been re-
| moved in order to make room for the founda-
| sheds have also been erected on the spot, and
| everything around wears busy aspect.
THAT venerable and amiable creature Mrs.
Partington, has her disciples in Buffalo as in
most other boroughs. The other day a worthy
citizen who came hither from the fair land of
Poland, in descr bing the sudden taking Off Of
his revered parent, nearly naralyz ed his
hearer by declaring that the oldtgentema nm
| died of "stroke OF politics. Ane her citi-
zen. resident on the Terrace. relsting his ex-
perience at the dentists Office where: he went
To- get rid of very uncongenihl tooth, told
| that he was always afraid OF chloroform or
| ether, nut found 1t pleasant and pafhlesst TO be
treated with "yictlmized air." ~
WHETHER the Minneapolis miIlers have
| made money or not in the last year, they
have made an enormous amount Of the best
| -four in the world. For the year ending Nov.
| 30 the output OF the mills was 49,. 900 barrels
| about two days work short of 6.0o0, 900. For
| the preceding year the production was less
| by nearly 500 600 barrels. The North western
| Miller SAYS that 2,5t3.000 barrels, or AZ per
| cent. of the total output, was exported
| against 1874 per cent. for 1855. The flour sent
| abroad, OF course, goes 10 jute sacks. OF that
| sold in domestic mars cts, abont fve-sevenths
was packed In barrels, and the Minneapolis
1 cfoners have supplied about :, SOC, 600 ''pack-
| ages"
! BERLIN is at last to have bsllon csptif,
and an immense one at that. The 6rm of
| longer u Greven are about to construct, on
a lot in a central location of the city, bal
| Don of the Gif1ard system. capable of holding
| II. COO, 900 litres of gas, and supporting, when
| filled, a basket of SIX metres in diameter, af-
| fording room for forty persons. The cable is
| to be N ade of sieel wire of the length of 1900
| fe't, and to he worked by steam engine of
| 190-h0rse power. The technical part of the
| enterprise viii be under ne direction of the
| well-known mi itary @r0naut Herr Opitz. In
| the enclosure four large restaurants or beer
| sa ouns two music paVllions and Vienna
| cafe are TO be erected.
A COMMITTEE of French electricians, to
which was referred the question of protect
ing from lightning the high steel observatory
tower at the Universal Exposition soon to be
| held IN Paris decided that 1t would it's III be a
| gigantic lightning rod, and that if only care
| were taken to maintain adequate metallic
| connection with earth deep enough to be pep
| manenty moist, not only would those inside
it be perfectly safe during the most violent
thunderstorm. but everything near it and for
a considerable distance around it would be
protected: The earth plates will be OF copper
| and will be connected with each angle at the
| base If the tower by substantial cables, The
| top is to have tall copper rod with a gilded
point.
1t is astonishing how much mock sympathy
Republican papers manage to distl into
crocodile tears about the health of the Presi-
dent. The latest is the record that he takes
no exercise whatever. and that while writing
| his message ne SAT In MS once chair fifteen
| to seventeen hours on stretch" OF course
| no such thing has happened even for one day
and If it is Of interest 10 the public. it NAV be
added that the President takes a good deal of
| exercise each day. even when he does not
| walk. He has system of gymnastics which
| he has practiced almost every day since he
was elected, through which he keeps his
blood active circulation to his extremi-
ties. His enemies will be glad to know that
he is in no immediate danger.
THERE are millions of people in America
who look with gratitude to st. SavIour's par
ish, where John Harvard was boru-from
whose zeal and munificence the Harvard Uni
versIty, one Of the glorles of the United States.
has sprung. For the Americans. too, and for
| all English speaking races, there is another
| attraction in st. Saviour's. There Edmund
| Shakespeare, who acted for his brother vii
liam in the Globe, on Bankside, lies buried
| That theatre was IN this parish, and there it
| was that the immortal William Shakespeare
lived for q time. and in which he wrote his
| best plays. Perhaps some American or colo
Mai mllionnalrei may step in TO do he work
| of rebuilding the nave OF the parish church
while the veal ny people of Surrey and else
| where are hesitating, ,..-
THE Chinese have frntbelief in marriages
being made in he&ven 1f4 certain deity,
whom they call ''Ihe Old MauJin the Moon -
links with silken cord, -they say, all pre-
destined couples. Early marriage is earnestly
inculcated. One of these maxims states thai
| there are three cardinal sins, and TO be with
out offspring is the chief. AS in other conn
tries spring is the time when young people's
| minds turn to thoughts or love, and most
| marriages are celebra.etlin February whom
| the peach tree blossoms appear. Among the
| marriage presents are live geese. which are
supposed to be .enib ematical of the concord
| and happiness OF the married state A Chi
naman may divorce his wife for seven diGrer-
ent reasons. and in the list are i'll tempe and
| u Jalk alive disposition. The birth of a son ia
| the occasion of much rejoicing, for without
sons man lives without honor and dies un-
happy, with no one to worship at his grave
and none to continue the family line.
a FEARFUL AFFAIR is reported from Ver-
viers, in Belgium. An unframed lion called
Brutus. on being let into a cage which an at
tendant named Gremier had not had time TO
leave, showed signs of great excitement, TAX
ing prodigious leaps al about the stage and
uttenng appalling roars. Seeing the man in
| danger the lion queen, a Nine. Sonnet en-
| tered the cage to enable Gremier to with
| draw, when the lion rushed at her and
fastened his teeth in the lower part OF her
face. A professional tanner, August BonyIl-
liant, went to the rescue, and by main force
| opened the lions jaws, thus enabling the un-
fortunate woman TO totter out OF the cage, A
| portion OF her lower jaw, with some OF the
teeth had been bitten away The savage
beast turned his fury upon konvillant ami he
ana the lion actually wrestled together for
two or three minutes, the lion savagely biiin1
N oh thA