Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-26
ITEMS oF INTEREST.

| lin.
NEARLY 1000, 600, 600 void be due were all
! insured Americans to d at once Nearly
! $1,000, 600. 0oO have alreadpeen paid on death
| losses in America.
! CANvAsBACK DUCKS hae been hard to Sc
cure on Chesapeake bay his winter, owing to
the legal prohibition agast big, long guns,
| and has been steady all PAIR 10 marker.
! TIE peaches of the funre" in some Della
ware orchards are bcingold at the rate of IS
per 1000 trees. 8, certin are the growers
! that the shaft of Jack FDst has struck them
! dead.
THE military Telegraph wire from Fort
| Suily to Fort Yates, d. :, has just been taken
! down and sold to farIers for use as fence
| @irt, which is merely new form OF beating
words into plowshares
TEN PER CENT. of tie present freshmen
c ass at Cornell are gir,, and Prof. Jones, of
that institution, is quotd as saying that the
average scholarship ofthe young women 10
| superior TO that of the Dung men.
THE French and Germans are still pecking
at each other. The Mayor of Chateauneuf
has Just been condemned to so francs fine
and 100 ffarcs damags for calling an Asa
tan a russian. TIN judges held that the
epithet as Une iNjuFe
THE book beer seaso has begun in Germa-
N.Y. hG ~ Al5lC Iu0ceAbb vi CIV % SOhNNAh-
ed not less than lO6 Advertisements of saloons
and restaurants annonci g book beer on tap,
all embellished with ne vel known emblem
| of goat and a glass fOaming lager.
THE MEETING Of tn American Congress of
Churches for 1886 viii be held at Music Hall,
Cleveland, Ohio. on Nav %, rs and q. Cover
nor Foraker VIII presde. Among the topics
for discussion are ''Ieligion and the Pubic
Schools" and 1.-The Vorkingnan's Distrust OF
The Church: It's Causs and Remedies"
FIFTY members of he engineering depart
ment of Columbia College, will Occnpy bar
racks next summer On Bantam Lake. near
Litchded. Conn.,, taxing heir meals at a
nelghbOring hotel. An instrument house l.
being built, and a course of practical study
VIII be followed. A '0n Of Jay Gould Is one
OF the class
THE ENTIRE ef1ux through the sewers OF
Paris is sscertained u amount, on an aver
age, to $4,000 cubic metres day, or abont
~, 600. 200 gallons. this being almost exactly
three quarters OF thu total amount of water
furnished by the aqieducts and the rainf Ill,
the other quarter icing carried OF by eVapo-
ration, absorption INTO the soil. or by hoW
over the surface directly into the Seine.
AT KRuPP's, in Essen, railroad truck has
just Ueen built with sixteen axles. 1t was
made for the special purpose of transporting
by rail a cennon. which is fifty feet long and
weighs nearly 136 tons, from Essen to Spezzia,
IN Italy, by way IF the st. Gothard tunnel.
The truck Ia seventy-siX feet long, and the
axes are divided into groups Of four, which
easily adapt themselves TO the curves in the
road.
The Bartholdi Statue Committee want
another $4,000 to complete the pedestal,
which has been quite forgotten of late, and
to help them to get it the Twenty second
Ne York Regiment has decided to give an
eXhib ton bug e drill, dress parade and re-
ception at Madison Square q rden on April
%. The Vanderbilt family will charge moth
ing for the rent, and Gilmore will furnish the
music as his contribution.
1T is found that when parafiiue is thor
oughly mixed with linseed oil. cast into small
blocks, and cooled, it may be u ed TO make
nv fabric, as CLOTH felt, and leather, water
proof, by rubbing 1t with such a block, and
rOninR afterward to equallze the distribu-
ton of the material in the pores. If TOO
much is not put IN. the material may be made
to be only imperviaus to alter, but rot to air,
the small greasy pores repelllng water, but
not air.
TIE Danes do not propose to have any de-
ceptiOns in their butter supply A law
enacted in Denmark last year compels all
makers and sellers of adulterated. imitation,
| and bogus butter to pack it in ell optical tubs,
| consplcuously marked margarine" and I'M
| i>hes ATTRACTIONS of the law by 6ne of from
| 200 to 1000 kroners (about S5l to $540). The
| enactment was IOrceu DY the AGRICULTURAL ele-
ment of the country, despite the opposition
/ by the bogus butter people.
AN ART EXHIBITION is to be opened in
Berlin on May Is, under the patronage of the
| Emperor and with the Crown Prince as
honorary President. 1t is organized to com
me crate the foundation by Frederick the
Great OF the Academy of Art 100 years ago.
| he exhibition viii comprise the works OF
| living native ard foreign artists, and also
/ ~ ant nf
ma i've art during the present century. The
| Office of the Exhibition Commission ia at
| Universitats strasse, Berlin.
WHEN a negro site down at one of "Bllly''
Boyle's tables, in a Chicago restaurant, he is
politely handed a special bill of fare, from
which the following prices are culled; Porter
house steak. SO IS pork sausage, SO So; picked
up goldfish, 81 25; fried apples and salt pork,
| ST 30; fried egg, 81 25; tomato Omelet, 81 30
| buckwheat cakes, s 10; oatmeal mush. 5 %;
picked pigs feet 80 30; fried oysters IS 30 for
! half dozen; buttered toast, 81 10; cOrned beef
hash 81 25. eIc. The object OF this is, of course
| to drive the colOred guests from the restau-
rant, and 1t seldom fails.
! SD. WARREN, JR.. Of Boston, being some
/ what sceptical in regard TO the efficiency of
the steam screw process OF disInfection, had
manufactured a dozen accurate maximum
| temperature thermometers, and sent them
/ abroad, where they were cunnngly hidden IN
I a bale of rags and reshipped to the United
| States. After that bale of rags had been
| ''disinfec ed'' by the steam screw process,
not one of the thermometers showed a regis
tered temperature o.. PIP deg, and most OF
| them indicated heat of 20 or thereahouCs, a
degree OF heat Ia which disease germs do
most delight.
IT is ANNOUNCED that Messrs. Appert, Of
Clichy, France, have discovered process that
will make glass blowing by the mouth unnec-
essary. Many attempts have heen made to
get rid Of this painful process in the opera
tions of glass making, but 10 this day in every
bottle house may be seen pale faced men with
their cheeks hanging limp In folds, the result
of wears OF glass blowing by the mouth. Cases
have been known in which mems cheeks hat G
been worn so thin that they lave actually
cracked, and il is common sight In q bolt o
house TO Sc blowers sc work with their thin
cheeks puded out like the fingers OF glove.
THERE was one notable instance, in which
an Irish Parliament was summoned to ap-
pear before the King in England and deliber-
ate with his co neil there, plainly the Eng
lsh Parliament. In 1873, the Irish Parlia
ment having refused 10 q ant subsidies TO Ed
" ri Ill. for the support OF his wars the
King issue writs To the bshOns and laity To
elect a Parliament to meet him in EnRlI md
This Is Of moment as an early evidence OF the
Assembling Of cOnvooation In Ireland similar
10 the English cOnvocation The Kings sum-
nous was obeyed. the ArchbishOpof Armagh
and county of Dub in complying under Dro-
test, in reverence to the King and on account
Of the pressing necessity Of the kingdom.
CONGRESSIONAL FUNERALS have been pro-
life scandals when the committees OF contin-
yent pxupuAna no an IooLfnor oyar a..o..-..