Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-19
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regiments at Gettysburg, but one has raised a
monument on the deld.
A GOURMET saws the way to broil beef
steak is to hold it over red hot Goals while you
| count A. Turn the spit four times.
AN EMINENT PROFESSOR who died in Paris
recently willed his body to Surgeon Cornil
for dissection, and 1t was duly cut up.
A WESTERN editor announces that he will
| Insert poetry at 20 cents line, but for spring
poetry he charges cents line extra.
II IS SAID that the larch timber of which
the cottages in the canton Of Valois were
built in the Fourteenth century is still sound.
The DEATH-RATR throughout the cities Of
Ireland is shown by recent statistics to be
considerably higher than that of the cities Of
England.
MAKERS of brooms report an extraordinary
scarcity of broom corn, which now brings an
extremely high price in the wholesale market.
and they predict that the price of brooms Will
/ soon be doubled.
WHAT is the natural term Of a carp's life?
The question is suggested by the announce
ment made by the British papers that fish
OF this kind has been taken from the spree at
the age of 26S years.
QUAIL, once so plentiful in Illinois, have be-
come ver7 scarce, and Illinois farmers. who
recognize their value as insect destrOyers, are
making arrangements to stock their farms
with Tennessee birds.
JOHN PIERCE, Paterson blacksmith, and
three helpers the other day shod 1875 horses 'all
around" That means that the four men han
died $40 feet and shot them. Mr.. Pierce 10 an
eX-school commissioner.
MAINE NEWSPAPERS report that game is
very abundant this winter in the we'll tied
central district of that State. A herd of
thirtyfve caribou, for example, was lately
| seen making its way toward Mount Katahdin.
| upon whose upper slopes these animals find a
moss OF which they are very fond.
A TIPsY COLORED WOMAN caused great ex-
element in the Hebrew quarter of st. Louis
the other day by meandering along the street
wearing as a shawl ''talith," a garment
worn by orthodox jews at morning prayers
only The woman would give no account Of
how she procured the garment, and had no
idea Of its sacred character,
ONE of the most ingenious processes which
has lately come into vogue IN the treatment
of irOn-an Austrian invention-is that of
giving TO the metal a silver surface, this be-
ing affected by first covering the iron with
mercury and then silver by the galvanic pro-
cess. By heating to 300 degrees, c., the mer-
curry evapOrates and the silver layer is fixed
SOME time ago the sample of a new repeat
ing rifle, which is to be introduced in the
German army, was stolen by a man dressed
in a Majors uniform from a guardhouse at
Spandau and offered to the French govern
ment, which; however, not only declined to
purchase it, but communicated the fact to the
German Ambassador at Paris. The rifle Is a
nine shooter.
SOME of the best corn lands in Indiana are
the bottoms of ponds which have been
drained, but in certain of these the working
of the soil on warm days causes an intolerable
| itching, followed by burning pain IN the skin
for some days. The cause Of this is found to
be che minute spicules of sponges which once
grew in the pond and remain in enormous
abundance in the dust,
THE champion hog that was killed in Rhine
beck the other day in the presence of 1900
persons for weeks before his death had to be
| fed with a spoon. He was so fat that he
could not feed himself. and so a small boy and
a big IRON spoon were employed. The boy
had no sinecure, for the hog ate half barrel
/ of swill daily, but the boy learned to love the
/ fat hog, and wept bitterly when he was
1 slaughtered.
ONE of the boarders in an Augusta, Me-,
| boarding house was annoyed at finding that
| some one was smoking his favorit e meerchaum
| pipe. SO he loaded it carefully with a mixture
1 of powder and tobacco and went to business.
| When he returned he received an emphatic
| expression of oDiniOn from an elderly and
| estlmable lady Of the family whose face was
\ wei swathed IN bandages that covert
powder marks. AS for the pipe, that had
totally disappeared.
| TORTILLAs is not only one Of the great
| Mexican dishes, but one of the women's chief
! industries. In almost any street there can be
seen women on their knees m ASKING corn be-
| tween smooth stones, making 1t into batter
| and finally shaping 1t into round, nat cakes
| They spit on their hands to keep the dough
! from sticking, and bake in pan of hot grease
/ kept boiling by few Jumps OF charcoal. Rich
| and poor buy and eat them. apparently un-
mindful of the way they are made.
! THE CHIEF OF POLICE in Marmaros- szlget,
IN Hungary, has been sent to prison for one
month aud dismissed from his office on &C
count of an act of unusual official INSIDE
meanor and brutality. Getting into hot dis
! pute in a public restaurant with the public
Recorder OF Deeds in the place, he had the
| latter arrested, bound and thrown into prs-
son, where he not only administered a good
| thrashing to the defenseless man with his own
/ hand. but also made his assistants apply the
whip to him % times.
"THE latest thing out for street fakirs."
said q man who m axes his living by SUPPLYING
goods to the merchants OF the pavement, s'is a
| safety razor. II is one of the neatest things
put on the market for many a year, and the
! bows expect to do well with it. The razor
! blade is circular, and is protected by a little
| metal guard which IS said to AXE cutting of
/ the face impossible. All a m an has to do "a To
! skim the mechanical razor around over his
face, just as he would a wash-rag, and in a
minute or two he is shaved.
GEN. CAMANo, President of Ecuador. was
recently en- route from Quito, the capital Of
Guayaquil, the seaport of that republic. The
| journey requires a nine days mule ride down
the COrdiHerss. Stopping for the night al a
| lOneyroadside inn, the President was toll of a
| plot to assassinate him by ang of revolu-
tioniets. He slipped out by back door.
plunged through a mountain gorge and swan
a river, thus saving his life. He remained All
night in his wet clothing, and found his way
to Quito alone and by pnfrequented trails.
THE BURIAL PLACE QUESTION is once more
before the Belgian Chamber. The law. dating
from the French revolution, which makes
burial in theeommunal cemeteries obligatory.
is interpreted by the Liberals as prohibiting
division OF the cemeteries according To creed.
while the Clericals interpret it in the con-
trary sense, attaching. moreover certain on
probrium TO burials in the non Catholic nor.
ton. The communal administration eXecute
the law according 30 their respective convic.
tions, which system gives rise TO continual
contests and interpretations in the Chamber
The present Ministry is in favor Of the Cleri-
cal Interpretation.
A PROMINENT Boston gentleman Of military
reputation started out the other day 10 re-
fresh himself. lie laid the foundation by put
ting in six WHISTLES at brother officers. He
took another whisky for ballast on his wav Ia
tho Revere house, where he ate big lunch
aud drank bottle Of scotch ale Then he
went 10 a friends house out OF town, drank
four 'asses Of Madeira, % years old and mt
in three brandicH 20 Introduce the dife rent