Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-27
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GREEN CRESCENT MOON has been New
Zealand novelty since the volcanic upheaval
there.
CIGARETTE SMOKING by persons while in the
surf is the fashionable child's play at San
Diego, Cal.
LACE lie said to be driving out frillngs in
England, and the Honiton factories at Exeter
are overrun with orders.
AN Indian near Snohomish City, W. t.,
caught and landed without help sturgeon
II feet long and weighing 500 pounds.
SYDNEY PAPER AYERS that the Prince OF
Wales gives to ladies diamond latch keys,
which are worn as a sort of decoration.
HUNDRED-ACRE PEAT BOG has peen dis
covered near Glendale. Oak. The peat
reaches to depth of from seven to ten feet.
ana is said to overlay surface Of ice.
MAN out OF his mind in st. Louis has in :
vented "a trap with which to ensnare Jay
Gould" He and two others lost their mental
grip during the great strike last spring.
ST. THOMAS CAM VETERINARY SURGEON
recently pulled the unsound tooth of a dog.
The dog sat up in chair and acted very
human. opening his mouth readily, yelling
when the doctor pulled, and fainting dead
away when the tooth came out,
In making some repairs recently at the
AcPopolis the workmen found near the stair
way at the northern wall some old pillars in
a perfect state OF preservation, and the
Atheni8n arch8olo2ists are of the opinion
that they belong to the period before the Per-
sian war. sag 4,.
AN Indiana tramp was seen hiding pack
age in hedge before he entered Chatham on
begging tour. The package contained $40
in nickels, s400 in greenbacks and a certifi-
este of deposit for $500 All this wealth was
handed over TO the tramp and he was told to
move on.
ONE would have thought that the electric
light, or perhaps the more modest gas, or even
oil, would have been used for the purpose of
lighting the Mersey tunnel extension works
at Liverpool. but the contractors are adver-
Using for tenders for the supply OF $4,000
pounds of candles.
JoEN HUTCHEEs, a colored cook at the
Stanton House, at Chattanooga, Thursday
took fancy in HE head that he was going TO
die, and so told his comp anions. He went
home and shrouded himselY Ia his grave
clothes, and was in the act OF lying DOWN on
his ben, when he dropped TO the flor dead
from he art diseaee.
THERE are said to be living in Prussia eight
persons who were born during the reign of
Frederick the Great. The oldest member of
the army is the Emperor himself. The scienti-
f1c and scholarly circles Of Prussia have re-
Gently lost most of their Nestors. and the
olGesf Inhabitants recruit themselt es mainly
from the trading classes.
CONTINENTAL STRAW HATS are marvellous
in shape and color. A baron or count, with
ribbon of some order IN his luttonhole,
sports slate-coor, ilor-shaped hat, or a
dead ochre hat with long string; or, per-
chance, oy way of variety, gray brIgand hat
with black band, or a Tyrolean brown with
SIN all feather in the band.
AS visitor was one day complimenting NJ.
ChevreuI's two serving women on the length
of the time they had renamed in the came
servce-a rare thing nowadays-one of them
replied: "Well. sir, you see, good masters
make good servants " Denise, the house
keeper. has been with Mr.. Chevreul forty
years and Isoline, the cook, thirty years,
A MINNESOTA MAN who knows the Indians
of the Northwest well. advances the theory
that they are increasing instead of diminish
ing in numbers. He says that they have been
steadily following the buffalo westward,
gradually moving from the Atlantic coast to
the far West, and multiplying as they moved.
The first government report mentions 60,0tc
Indians; the last total number reported wa
5000.
WHILE the orchestra was playing the prayer
from "Rienzi" in the Louisville Music Hall
the other day a vigorous baby struck in with
a lung solo right in one of the most delicate
passages. Conductor Damrosch stopped the
orchestra and sat down. When the little one
had been Quoted he remarked that while it
was a good thing to give children a musical
education, there was such thing as begin
ming too curly in life. Then he resumed his
baton and the prayer was repeated.
FURTHER EXPERIMENTS in the direction Of
lighting trains by electricity are reported from
Glasgow, where an experimental train fitted
with the electric light has been run on the
underground railway, The cost Is about one
third rs compared wlth.gass Each comp art
ment of a carriage is provided with two mean
descent lamps each Of sixteen candle power.
The contact is 60 arranged that only one lamp
is lighted at q time, and IN the event of
breakage of the lamp in use the other one is
Immediately lit up.
THE Medical News says that the recent
cases of sickness at several Long Branch no.
tells were undoubtedly caused by poisonous
milk. and that the toxic material vas tyro-
lexicon. The production of this substance
was no doubt due to the improper manage
ment Of the milk; that IL. too long a time was
allowed to elapse between the milking and
the cooling OF tie milk, the latter not being
attended to until the milk was delivered to
the hotel, whereas, II the milf had been cooled
immed ately after il was drawn from the
cows fermentation would not have ensued
and the resulting m aterial, tyrOtoxl con- would
not have bt en- produced.
SOME months ago among the numerous i'm
provements brought out by the New England
Glass Works in the manufacture of artistic
glassware, was a method which gave co glass
such a surface that it seemed desirable to try
the effect on arc light globes. The process ia
patented. and consists in roughening the sur
face of glass withoutle avlrg any sharp angles
1t has long been question among practical
electric light men why from 30 to 40 per cent
of light is lost in using ground glass globes
The surface OF ground glass is composed of
tVean m al lnsr all
angles with each other. In passing through
the best OF plain glass. nearly 10 per cent of
light IS lost II light, in attempting 10 leave
a substance. makes an angle greater thsn
certain amount. the light is reflected back
again to the other edge of the glass. If we
consider that much of the light passes and
repasses number of times through The glass
much is lost. BY the new process in treating
the glass, a surface is produced without sharp
angles, and no light is lost by total reflection,
and at the same time 1t Is as we'll diffusod as
if the luminous surface were as large as an
apple. Not the slightest shadow is caused by
the lamp rods. while the illumination is equal
to that OF plain globe. The same process APP
piled TO ncandescent globes would give ex-
cellent results.
TEN missionary colonists are to start from
New York for Africa next Saturday TO join
Bishop Taylor in his work there. TIE Rev.
DR.. Asbury Lowrey, who has charge of the
work, has been arranging for the lnal SER
vices to be held in the Methooist Episcopal
churches In that city and BROOKLYN in aid of
thrse missionaries. This will be the third
party that has left New YORK in this work
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