Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


A THOUSAND QUAIL are to be liberated In
the spring by the Camden ounty tN.J.) Cane
Protection Society, an association recently
organized.
TIE PEOPLE of Tennessee do love corn-jnice.
Within radius of p miles the internal reve-
nue. agents seized u crooked distilleries in a
recent raid In Overton cOusty.
A NEW FEAT in the way OF electric lighting
is the application Of cell orage to pianos.
The case of the instrument cnnceals the
materials Tor an illumination lasting over ten
hours.
ENGLISH DOCTORS accused by hYsterical
women OF attempted assault are now de
scrlbed by he London medical press "a being
,,Bradleyed;' that Is, falsely charged, - DR..
bradley Is believed to have been.
HERR THEODORE GRAFT. OF Berlin. a Per-
sian carpet merchant, has just completed a
rksble collection Of Egyptian wooden and
tomDs ana unwrdpped from mummies.
STATURE, as connected with hereditv. has
recently demonstrated By Francis Dalton;
aud among his first results is the inference
That the height OF children of DO sexes, nut
e pee ally that Of the daughters, takes after
that OF the father.
BERLIN is going to establish an Anthropo-
logical Gar len, in which families of foreign
people who are able to stand the climate are
70 continually reside, while every summer
there VIII be lmportations OF people from trop-
ical ana other countries.
SWISS mountaineer has assembled the ST.
delhorn in midwinter tDec. 2l), remaining on
the summit two hours. He found the tenn
peraiure rather m Id, and describes the A.
m sphere as far clearer than in the warm
"eatner. so that the view was glorious. The
peas Is over 5000 feet in height
IN ONE Of the great temples in Japan the
devotion Of the worshlpers consists IN run
ming around the sacred building 100 times ard
dropping piece OF wood into box at each
round, when, The wearsome eXertiOn being
ended, the worshiper goes home tired aud
very happy at the thought of having done his
god such worthy service.
HARRY Woman, a bright boy in Fostoris,
OHIO, showed SO much interest in electrical
experiment that he became privileged char
acter at the cleo rio light works, no other ont
| sider being permitted near the dynamos The
| nIher dHy he wanted to receive good
| shock" and so got pail Of water, and, touch
ing the positive pole of a dynamo with a rod
| IN one hand, put the other hand in the water
| ana Tell back dead.
Nor LONG AGO young man called upon q
Paris doctor and asked him whether his uncle,
| whom the doctor had attended for many years,
was not failing very fast; for" he said, 1--WE
| will insist upon making ten points too many,
and that nothing that we can say will per-
| saade him that be mistaken. Is no. this a
| very bad sign?" The doctor, smiling, assured
MIN thar he had nothing TO fear Tor hoptl upon
| that head; but" he added, ''if your uncle
mould begin mahing ten points too lew send
for me at once"
BEAUTIFUL and intricate piece Of dental
mechanism, consisting of an upper set OF teeth
with palate attached, SO constructed as to
vibrate perfectly and serve as an excellent
substitute for the natura organ, lost by dis
ease Il tne throat, was inserted in Baltimore
recently for a gentleman from california. who
had tried in various cities to have the organ
replaced by an artificial device, but without
success. The one Ia question works b auti-
fully, aSd the gentleman is delighted that he
can artIcu ate perfectly and eat with satisfac-
ton aHd comfort.
A MINNESOTA CORRESPONDENT writes: "a
neighbor having work TO do with a span OF
horses, u and Is years old, had them shod at
hat age for the first time. But they handled
their feet so aWkwardly that he had the shoes
removed inside Of two weeks. Horses bali
mp much worse with shoes on, and when gr at
| Jumps of snow and ice are on thtir feet they
are more likely to slip than when the feet are
bare. Aud when 1t comes 10 wadIng through
large drifts OF snow, the bare DOT team comes
Out ahead every lime. They can leap through
the drifts 4 Ike foxes, with no danger of calk-
| ing themselves"
TEMPERATURE is mainly the secret Of sue
cess or failure In making butter, says Henry
stewart, and the difference of a degree or
| Two in the cream when il goes into the churn
| s sufficient to produce vast amount of
| trouble IN the way OF f0amlng cream. butter
| not coming, and butter not gathering. 1t
| should not be a matter for surprise that this
| -mal variation in temperate should pro-
| duce such results when we think that at 80
deg. ali the water in the world is fluid, but at
| 80 deg. it becomes as hard as a rock, and il
| this were continued 1t would make the whole
| earth uuinhabitable.
lord POwIs and shooting party at Ly-
more recently consisted of four guns, and
were walking In line. Lord Fowls being on
| the extreme right, when a covey of eleven
birds got up Immediately in front, and Lord
| Fowls KILLED a bird to each barrel. The re-
ma ndrr of the covey few down the line, the
| Two middle guns dropping a bird between
| them. The gun on the extreme left, Col.
Pryce Harrison, brought down seven birds
with the first barrel, aud was so completely
aston shed at the unloOked-fOr result that he
forgot to fire his second barrel, and so one
rd, and one only, got away out Of the cOvey
of eleven.
MUzzAFEK EDDIN, the lately deceased Emir
of Bokhara--a khAnate which contains
scarcely 2O0O,O 900 inhabitants, had at his death
one Of the largest domestic establishments in
| Asia. His household consisted OF sonS. 10
I
male BARRIERS, female cooks. midwives. az
| needlewomen, ami so washerwomen. Among
his male attendants there were astPolORers
| private physicians, chaplRins Qmamsl and
IA euuuChs. The new Emlr, Abdul Ahad has
| instituted "A drastic reform in the palace ex-
penditure. He has peusioned his fathers
wives with free dwelling and a daily sum of
| two rupees apiece. Tins may seem a small
sum for the widow Of monarch;h ut in Boil.
| hara u Is regarded as a handsome mainte-
nance, The new ruler has the immemorial
| privilege Of dismis ing al his predee easora,
servants; but Abdul Ahad, from motives Of
economy, has preferred to retain ra her than
pension the crowd OF his fathers domestic Of,
icials.
A CORRESPONDENT at Mandalay says: "The
CHASTITY scenes which constantly recur in exc
cutiops carried out by the Provost Marshal
constitute grave public scandals. The Pro.
vost Marshal, who is an ardent amateur pho-
tographer, Is DESTROYS of securing views Of
the persons executed at the precise moment
when they are struck by the bullets. no a..
cure this result. aft the orders, Ready
Present have been gwen to the firing Marty
the Provost Mar hal fixes his camera on the
prisoners. VINO at times are kept waiting for
some minutes in that position. The ohieer
commanding the firing party Ia then directed
~ the Provost Marshal TO give the order n
fire az the moment when he exposes his plate,
SO far no satisfactory negative has been OBJ
tanned, and the expert sents are likely 10 he
continued. These proceed X take place be-
fore a crowd Of miXei nationaiities and can
not fail 10 have dcmOrattzing effect ON noth
soldiers and spectators"
Mr.. RAREYs system OF tanning vicious horses
consisted mainly In throwing them down on
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