Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-22
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tennis this year.
NEW SALAD reported from New Y ork is
made of lettuce and frog legs, capers and
heavy mayonnaise.
HAVING been mercllessly pounded by hail
stones. a Michigan farmer is nursing his
bruised body in bed.
A BED OF sNowBALLs, with a loose mound
OF long -stemmed roses rising from their midst,
was a pretty centre piece at a Washington
dinner.
TIE General Theological Seminary of New
| York, an Episcopal institution, holds mort
gage on Wallack's new theatre as security
| Tor loan of $4,000.
THE visitors al the London Zoo during 1885
were only $50 $685. against 745, AGO in 1884, fall
ing of due. it is supposed, to financial distress
| among the working people.
Mr.. LoFTIE points out in the Magazine of
Art that the town of Guiford is mentioned in
! King Afred's will, so that it may be assumed
That guilds were known in his time.
DURING 1885 the number of receptions" at
the morgue In Paris was S5S. OF these $50
were the bodies of men. 1893 of women, The
busiest mouth was August, when the mum Der
! was lO6; the slackest, February, when it was
Al or the sos bodies, 605 were identified.
DIR. R. B BIBBER. of Bath, Me-, kindly fur
nished the funds wherewith to equip John
| TraynOr for the voyage he proposed to make
| across the Atlantic in rowboat. Mr.. Tray
/ nor started last September and has not since
| been heard from, but DR.. Bibber is not DIS
couraged and says he is ready to send out
| another man.
IN Cabonel's birth of Venus" the goddess
is represented, not as rising erect from the
sea, but as rolled upon the beach by the long
/ wave which is just retreatng from her hair.
! The picture is full of grace, and, 1t need
scarcely be said, much more French than
| Greek in feeling, the attitude being conscious
| and the face arch in expression.
BORDEAUX journal describes the dinner
usually provided for workmen in that city. A
large plate of vegetable soup, cost &c; a large
| piece OF bread, &C.; a large plate of red harI-
cot beans, cost &c. 4; half plate OF roast veal
1.-THE quantity being ample for an ordinary
man, cost &C.; plate OF rice, lc., and hall
bottle OF vim Ordlnaire, cost 4c.; so 1t Will be
seen a fair dinner was provided, with half
! bottle OF wine included, for l5c.
AT the meeting of the Troy conference, at
Pittsfeld, Mass, recently the Rev. DR..
Strong, of the Drew Theological Seminary,
sad that Harvard had gone far astray, and
the money of John Harvard was not being
used for the purpose he intended Andover
had only two men, Phelps and Park. who
are orthodox. At Yale they were no better
than they should be. and there was only one
sound man al the Union theological Institu-
ton.
A PECULIAR ACCIDENT occurred recently
at st. Johns, Arizona. Mr.. A. Tenney
was blowing in a city lot which was
dry well about 10 feet deer, and passing round
the well he threw his pillow out of the ground
and it dropped into the well and dragged both
the horses in with it. The horses were one
upon the other and the plow under both.
Qulle a crowd of men gathered In few MIN
utes and the horses were dragged out, to the
surprise of all present, uninjured.
REV. R. W. B. WEBSTER, a missionaryto
South Africa, who is on visit to Baltimore,
oil
Protestant Episcopal chapel Wednesday
night on ChinesesG Ordon, with whom he was
in intimate personal relations while Mr.. Web
ster was chaplain to the English forces at
King Williams Town. in South Africa. He
said Gen. Gordon knew the Bible more thor
oughly than any man the speaker ever met.
THE almost forgotten name OF President
Garfeld's slayer is recalled by a dispatch an
/ nouncng that his counsel, Charles Reed, is IN
| Jail in New York for Incorporating funds
belonging to client. The avenGlBg fates
! seem TO pursue all concerned in the de ense of
| the assassin. 1t is but short time since his
| attorney, ScOville, was arrested in Chicago
! for failing to pay almony to his wife from
whom he had been divorced, while the
/ divorced wife, Guiteau's devoted sister, was
In extreme destitution.
CALIFORNIA carries on a large business in
sea shells, which are gathered on its coast and
shipped to Europe. One firm has a contract
to ship 30 tons of shells every 60 days. They
| are worth from 500 to $1,000 ton. They are
| used in all kinds of decorative industries, re-
| turning to the United states from France
vastly increased in price, when transformed
| into pearl buttons brooches. shawl clasps,
| knife handles or inlaid work. Tahita shells,
| large fiat moJher-of-pearl shells, are worth
| from s, 50 to 81 each, and the finest selected
pairs are sometimes sold for as much as $50
DR.. EDISON, of the New York health depart
meut, who has been visiting Chicago. said
Wednesday that while there he examined the
| implements of destruction used by the auar-
| chisis IN the recent riots. and found them tn
| be, not bombs, but Atlas powder cartridges,
such as are used in blasting. These car
! tridges are purchasable anywhere and were
| not manufactured by the anarchists. They
| are of the shape and size of giant fire
| cracker. and. as they are as likely to prove
deadly to the handlers as to the persons
| against whom they are directed, Dr. Edison
| thinks their use will not be popular with
| anarchists.
THE late Col. Buffers old friends have been
recalling anecdotes and witticisms Of his one
of which was at the expense of Col. @. B
rkhill. The latter picked up Butler on the
streets Of Washington one night, and as soon
| as he was recognized the latter. with true
| journalistic instinct. asked: whats the
| news?" "If you stand up and come along
/ with me III tell you something that VIII in
terest yOu." said COrkhill. Butler braced
himself up and demanded the Information.
] "Nell," sald Corkhlll, I've been appointed
/ District ATTORNEY" 81 congratulate youu
was the reply. "And as a member OF the
| criminal class L rejoice"
THE NAME of "Norwegium" has been given
to the interesting new metal discovered by
Dahl some time ago, while he was exam
| ming a specimen OF nickel ore from Kragero
In Norway. THIS addition to the now rapdlv
| growing llst OF elements is a mail cable metal
| of white cnOr. with hnge OF brown, ana
presents, when pure, metallic lustre, but on
| exposure to the atmosphere becomes coated
with thin Fl IN Of oxide; ijs hardness is about
! that Of copper. its specific gravity is nearly
! 81 and it melts at $50 Geg. Cent From its
| physical properties and chemical reaction, it
/ appears 70 to differ from every other known
metal as to give il distinct individuality.
SOME ONE went through several streets in the
| Fifth wa~d OF Paterson, N j ION Tuesday night
and lett On many 81 oops knives OF a peculiar
shape. Each was somewhat like a cleaver
/ 1t was roughly made Of saw steel, with
wooden handle. They are about twenty
inches long. The blades are about three
| inches broad near the handle but widen until
/ at the eud they are eight nine inches
| across. They were evidently made by some
one not in that line of bu-ine-s. They are
/ said 90 be some what similar 10 those used in
! The South for cutting sugar cane. Where
/ they came from aud NhO dstriluted them il A
! myaerv. About dozen of then we're taken
] L.. 10. 80 IA