Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-21
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him he must either stop or leave the establish
ment. He was obliged from necessity to choose
the former alternative.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO three brothers
named Dryer were separated. They met
the other day in shipvard in Bath, Me-,
whore two OF them had been working for
some time without knowing of the relation
ship. The third, a sailor came TO the yard,
and the klnshlp was accidentally discovered.
A PARTY OF seven Italian itinerant must
clans who were recently playing at Monte
Video and Buenos Ayrcs, have all lost their
lives IN the snow while crossing the Andes
into Chilli. One of them was a handsome
young woman who used to sing while her
com Oanions accompanied her on their lnstru-
ments.
IN large oak tree at Brookfeld, Conn.,,
which was struck by lightning a few days
ago, raccoon and her family had a nest.
They were all killed outright by the lightning
except one Of the young. The mother had
streak of her fur entirely singed of on one
slae. one young coon had his nose y, ana hea al
partly paralyzed, and could not use It's hlnd
legs. 1t has since died.
THERE was a fine thing In the matter OF col
or at the Lake of Lucerne a few days ago.
First not spell. followed by tremendous
storm. Then magnificent sight presented
Itself. Against the gray background OF storm
ana cloud there arose. spanning the whole
breadth Of the lake. perfect double rainbow,
with one base of its. arch resting upon Gersau,
the othereupon theSeelisberg. The space be-
tween thetwe bows was a deep purple.
THE New Work Tribune and other enemies
OF the ADM nistration who. a few weeks ago.
were charging Secretary Whitney with bring
ing John Roach to his deathbed, will scarcely
be able to conceal their displeasure that the
great shipbuilder perslstently refused 10 die,
but proposes again TO be at the head of HIS
former business estsblishpents. This utter
disregard OF the interests of those who would
make partisan capital out of his death is some
thing that We should not expect of MIR.
Roach.
ONE of those obeervipg and hearty Western
ers says that whom a New Yorker meets an
acquaintance he says "Why didn't you let
me know that you came this morning? /
want to take you out to the park, down to
COney Island, down to Long Branch, to the
theatre. Now. don't you make any engage
ment with any one else; you must go out to
the house to dinner" The Boston map says
coldly: "Been here a week, have your Glad
to meet you; let me know i'll can do anything
for you. When are you going away?"
IGNORANCE, violation of all sanitary princi-
pies. miserable poverty, the extreme rigor of
winter and neglect by drunken parents are
said to be some of the principal reasons why
out Of 1000 children born in Russia scarcely
423 will reach their twentieth birthday. Sta
tistics show that 345 out of each 1000 die in
the first five years, The Russian government
is seeking means to diminish this frightful in
FAINT mortality, but with little hope of speedy
success, since the main causes can only be
erRdicated by the progressive education and
reformation of successive generations of the
people.
1T is a curious circumstance, that an inven-
tor early in the present century proposed
ive-masted sailing shlp-a recommendation
we have approached to the extent of four
masts IN some of the great iron clipper mer-
chantmen, and exceeded to the extent of
sixth mast in one or more armor clads. Even
the Calais Douvres was anticipated two cen
turtles since by Sir William Petty, who built q
twin ship of which some very curious ac-
counts are still extant. But the last OF the
wooden ships has been sold out of England's
navy, and the song writers and the roman
cists must look in sober earnest at twelve
inch plates and 10000 tons displacements for
inspirations for all future work concerning
the pride Of the ocean and the home of the
brave.
A RUSSIAN MEDICAL JOURNAL makes pub
lie system of treatment for acute articular
rheumatism. which is represented as having
been employed with the greatest success for
twenty years past by DR.. l.. Grinevitski of
Rostoff- on the Don. He administers two
drachms daily of nitrate of potash in rasn-
berry syrup, distributed in doses given every
two hours. At the same time, for external
use morning and evening, he prescribes an
ointment composed of olei hyosc., OF; un2-
hydrarg, cinerei. 2 dr.; ext-acon., i Dir. This
treatment is said to cure, In almost all cases
in from one to two weeks. and is generally
successful in the most severe cases, where
salicylates are Ineffective. Rheumatic per-
sons should be glad of this inform alton if ohIv
as direction for new line OF personal expert
ment.
BARRED WIRE for fences has for some time
been smuggled into Canada from Detroit,
Mich, and the loophoie of the smugulers has
just been found out. They would load a
wagon with barbed wire carefully tucked
away in barrels and drive north beyond the
city limits and down into the river as if to
fill the barrels with water for the neighborlng
garden patches. but the barrels were quietly
sunk out OF sight in the river. When night
came two schooners would sail out from the
Canadian shore and beat down by where the
barrels were sunk. They were then loaded
on board and the boats would then put back
to some neglected spot on the Dominion shore
TO unload. Team after team loaded with the
wire in barrels had been daily driven down to
the shore in this way, and the wire afterwards
tshed up and taken to the other shore under
the noses OF the customs officers.
A CORRESPONDENT in Notes and Queries
as: at Is really surprising how widely
SPREAD over Europe the belief is that horse
hairs falling into the water will become living
credJures IN uue course OF time. have met
with the superstition in Germany, ana n
friend of mine told me that Russian peasants
mad shown him. sw INNING in a bottle a lively
horsehair which they had taken out of Lake
Ladoga. | have known educated persons in
Germany who kept horsehsirs in bottles 6lled
with water and shook them from time TO time
to see whether life had not come to them vet.
and whose hope and faith and want of ali
scientific training was such that they felt sure
that the horsehair was just beginning to swim
with spontaneous motion, and were irritated
by my scepticlsm. A German emigrant IN
North America assured me sulemply that he
had tried the experiment with perfect sue
cess. The superstition IS based on the exist
ence OF fllform worm, Gordus aquatlcus.
which is found in stapnant poolssand is not
unlike wriggling horsehair."
Lucy HOOPER, the Paris correspondent Of
the Evening Telegraph, says in her last letter
to that paper: "Our gifted and charming
young fellow citizen, Miss Nellie Everest. re-
celved from the hands of Madame Marchesi
on Saturday last the first certificate of pro-
censorship ever accorded to an American girl
by that famous teacher. Miss Everest ia not
only hulshed singer and an exquisite artistic
out she possesses to the highest degree the gift
or lmparting her knowledge to others, which
Is lar rarer than is commonly imagined
Many great singer in the decline OF his or
her powers has found this faculty lacking
when they attempted to give lessons in the
ART they knew so well and had so long prac-
tced. And Miss Everest does not return to
America an untried and theoretical profess
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