Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


denounce pompous prelates who riot on
| pTlncely salaries.
MRS. LANGTRY'S agent is negotiating with
! the Metropolitan Board of Works for a site
for new theatre in new thorOughfare which
| Is now being cut through in London, and
! which Is TO be called Shaftesbury avenue.
| Mrs. Langtry intends TO be her own manager
when she has erected this theatre.
SEVERAL of the leading dry goods stores of
Boston are'advertising special sales of goods
recovered from the steamship Oregon. The
Egoods are stained and water-soaked, but de-
Espte their lying for several weeks in 81 faith
| oms OF water the goods will look almost as
good as new when laundried. Ladies are
| buying up considerable of this watered stock
| Tor mere curiosity sake.
CAPT. TEMPLE. of the English Folklore
Society. in paper on the science of folk lore,
says: Folklore is a fine English compound,
| but there is sad want of an alternative.
! tolk-lorlsts and fOlk-lOric are not pleasant
| forms, but students have been driven to use
both. He suggests some classlcally formed
synonym, such as demOlogy, demosophy or
demonocy-the last for chOice-capabe of
easy development into passable derivatives.
GEORGE II. BoUGHToN has in the Grosvenor
Gallery exhibition a picture entitled 1.-THE
Edict of William the Testy, Governor of New
Amsterdam" The moment taken for illus
tratlon Is the gathering of the Dutchmen to
smoking. The mob is in front of the Gov
ernor's house. The Governor is at the door,
and has discovered the disoOedient burghers
IN all pastures, puff gsBway for dear life
every kind of pipe. The Governor holds in
one hand copy Of the .edict and hourishes
his stick with the other.
TIE idea of utilizing the water power of
Niagara bids fair to beat last realized.in some
degree. The Lock port W alter Supply Com
pany, incorporated less than a month ago, has
already begun the surveys for canal which
shall tap the Niagara river and bring the
water 10 LockpOrt, Is miles away, where a
fall OF 30 feet In the space of two and half
miles VIII easily furnish 300, 900 horse power.
| The magnitude of this scheme is better appTe-
Grated by comparison when it Is seen that the
capacity OF the great water powers at Hol-
yoke, Manchester, Lewiston, Lowell and Law
renee In the aggregate furnishes less than
6O,O0O horse power.
M. LARoCHELLE's portable electric lamp
has found much favor in Paris. The battery
Is inciosedin the lower part, and consists of
an ebonite vessel divided into eight compart-
ments by partitions, furnishing eight cells. or
elements, in a very compact form. The YES
sci Will hold about three liters of liquid, cap
able of acting for about eight hours without
exhaustion. Each element Is made mp of a.
rod OF zinc and two rods of carbon fixed to q
disk, W hich can be lowered into the LIQUID or
lifted out OF 1t by turning q Key like that used
In Careel oil lamp, and the power of the
zlncs and carbons are immersed. Tho sOlu-
ton employed is said to be the result-of many
experiments with aview to securing steadi-
ness in the light, and the zines are screwed
INTO the disk, so as to be easily removed for
renewal.
PRESIDENT MCANNRY, of the Jersey, City
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to4Ani-s
mails, has obtained possession of DR. Watsonis-
record of the operations performed by him
uDon dogs at his carriage house.. Each dog
was designated by a number, and forty-one
IN all were experimental upon. OF the forty
one dogs six were found alive in the pen on
the second floor of the carriage house, The
others, with a single exception, were either
killed by the fall or were chlorOformed after
wards. The ceptiOu was brindle bull dog
which was dropped % feet on April 9. 1t
WAS unable to use its hind legs properly for
two days. When IT recovered its strength it
jumped out of the pen and escaped. The lrst
operation recorded was made on Feb. 9, the
last on May 81 The pOst-mortem eXamina-
ton showed that few of the dogs-had no signs
of injury. Others had their spanes broken;
others still had their livers, kidneys, or lungs
ruptured. Four dogs which died outright had
arteries broken. Some of the brutes had their
legs broken in falling upon the iron grating.
AN American newspaper correspondent,
who lives very cheaply in fifth story room
in an questionable quarter in London, says:
81 know, Intimately, a charming woman,
bright, cultivated, intellectual and happy,
VINO assures me that che lives many day on
less than 20 cents per day. She is obliged to
be well dressed, as she has rich and dIstin-
guished relatives, and, to a certain extent
still, the freedom 0f the fashiOn9 able circles to
which she belonged before her father, an army
officer of high grade. died, and her guardian
squandered her money. She, too, lives in a
garrett, but with the privilege Of receiving
callers the one afternoon a week for which
her cards are engraved, in the landlady's
drawing room. She finds her own food here,
there, lsewhere. wherever she.can most ad-
vantageously, and she lives-I almost fear to
tell it lest ] be not believed-On $40 month
She is healthy and happy. devoted to books,
which are the cheapest Of all luXuries in this
London of countless free libraries, and earn
ing what she can tn buy her handsome clothes
by the poorly paid labor of her PEN"
BERRYING GOWNS and botanizing gowns are
now as much necessities of girls summer
wardrobe tennis or bathing suits. A good
berrying dress is of dark green flannel, made
with round skirt finished with three-inch
wide tucks and a four-inch hem at the bot
tom. IL is made short enough for comfort.
For a slender girl the Norfolk Jacket goes
with this, made with two pleats at the back
aud one on each side and in the centre in
front, and confined with canvas or leather
belt. For warm DAYS a cambria woke waist
of a white ground with delicate green figure
NAV be worn. A large straw hat trimmed
with bunch OF natural grasses and loops of
ribbon goes with it. A sketching gown for an
artistic girl is of dark blue flannel with red
Jersey WAIST ana SaSn. Whltc flannel is stiu
the approved thing for yachting and tennis,
and many girls insist upon wearing il for
rowing, hut IL is hard to keep q rowboat in
the best of order, and gray or blue is best A
full skirt OF gray with a tiny pleatng at the
hem of bright red braid has an apron over
skirt edged with the red braid and sailor COL
lar and cuffs OF red cloth on the gray waist.
Sailor hats of straw are best for boating but
soft felt hats of white or gray are most worn
for tennis and archery.
GEN. LoNGsTREET's story, in which Gen.
John r. Cooke figures, suggests an anecdote
about Gen. Lee and Gen. Cooke which has
never been published before. 1t is somewhat
at Gen. Cookies expense, and illustrates Gen.
Lees humor and his nigh opinion OF Cooke
and his North Carolnians. While Cookies
command was stationed below Richmond and
when every man had to spread himself ont as
much as possible. the boys threw up two or
three lines of breastwOrks. Suddenly the en-.
gineer determined 70 change the line, and an
order came to Cookies men to throw up an
other. There was considerable growing.
The boys would rather have charged the enc
my. However, they went TO work diggingdirt
and swearing. In a day or two Gen. Lee, with
his staG, came down to see how matters were
getting along anc 10 inspect the work Gen.
Cook was in his tent suffering severely from
neuralgia, and consequently was mad with
everything foot high and n day old. Gen.
Lee sent for him and asked " the work waa
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