Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE French Minister Of War has cut short
the beard controversy by issuing peremptc-
~ order for all soldiers and officers TO raise
boards immediately.
IN FRANCE double tax is to be placed on
the miraculous" waters from Lourdes and
other shrines, and the government hopes
thereby to raise revenue of 100000 francs.
JAPAN. according to the new census, has =
population Of IS 800 900. or about the same as
that Of the United states in 1870. In area
Japan is about three times the size Of Penn e.
| sylyania.
a NEW omslet is made Of eggs. crackers,
CRUMBS, bacon, parsley, and lettuce, and is
called the Oriental By the Baltimore restau-
riteur who claims to have created" and in
| PRODUCED it.
IT IS ESTIMATED that the pictures sent to
the Paris Salon this year would, II placed in
line, extend for even kilometres min
ute's examination bestowed on each would
| take ll6 hours.
AN OBNOXIOUS CITIZEN of Poquitannuck,
near New Haven. Conn, was on Friday even
| ing carried out Of town on rail by mob of
one hundred masked men. and threatened
with dose OF TAR and feathers should he ever
return.
THE word salary comes from the Latin saId-
rum, literally salt money, from sal, salt,
which was part Of the pay of Roman SOL
ultEs. 30 the young men VINO say JOCulafly,
when they draw their pay, that they are TAX
ing their sugar" are wrong; tney are get
| ting their salt"
A RIOT occurred in st. John, N F., on
| Tuesday evening, when a mob, demanding
labor and railroad extension, assembled
around the Parliament buildings with flags,
stnrmed the Assembly house. routed the 20
lice, and broke into the Council cham Der.
| planting their banner on the table OF the
Honse.
THIS is the time of the year when observing
Brltons write to the London papers telling an
anxious public when ana where they saw the
first nightingale. This year nightingales APP
peared IN England in March. though they
u5ua " 10 not appear until April. and the
nlghGnEale sharps throughout the country
are ID an ecstasy of happiness for it presa ges
a mild and GENIAL spring.
DR.. LUTHER C. ROSE, of Palmyra, Ohio,
claims to have invented. after three years.
work, most excelen telephone transmltter.
In test made on Monday over SIS miles OF
wire, whisper was heard distinctly, and
a 80 the tlcking of a watch held ten feet from
! the transmitte.r DR.. Rose claims that with
| his invention conversation could be easily
carried on between New York and Chicago.
TIE Mansion House London Relief Com
mittee gives the following as rates Of re-
Enumeration paid to women: Shirts cents
| each; flannel drawers for Chelsea pensioners
81 cents dozen: lawn tennis aprons. eab-
| orately iriued, y cents a dozen. Such are
| the blessings to country of an overlooking
| population the absence of which in France a
certain class of Frenchmen are continually
! deploring.
a COLLECTION of photographs of American
arms has been compiled by an officer attached
10 the springfield armory for the Sultan Of
Turkey. This collection is made at the Sui
! tame request ard the photographs include
| the exterior appearance and details Of con-
| sIrucuon of the rifles and pistols of every
| prominent manufacturer In the country. A
| Duplicate sci OF the forty large photographs
will be kept at Washington.
THE new oil fields OF Wyoming in the Bing-
ham basin are directly south Of Billings, Mon
tana, near the boundary between Montana
ana Wyoming. They are 90 miles long by 20
| wide. The oil Is said to contain 40 per cent.
| OF mineral sperm oil. % per ceRt. kerosene,
! with small percentages Of gasoline. benzine,
! and naphtha. Its illuminating power is of a
nigh order, and IL is 80 pure that ranchmen in
| the vicinity have been burning il this winter
IN their lamps.
LORD ABERDEEN insists on daily service at
the chapel of the Castle in Dublin, which has
caused much 1uttering among the dove cotes.
| But the Viceroy heard strange stories Of the
| evil spirit tnat had his permanent abode there
| and ne thought it Indispensable to watch and
Vaccinations. There has been much furbish-
! ing up of prayer books and practicing of cere-
mOnial among the Castle officials since the or
der was made public.
THE NEWS that the Washington monument
is cracked completely around will suggest
unpleasant reflections to the few people who
think that this shaft, which at a slight dis
| tance is about as impressive as a pipestem,
| really represents something merit FiOus n
| American art. Architects have something TO
learn yet with regard to the mixing of IRON
| and stone as building materials, and he ae-
ton of these subs ances as employed in the
monument is worth studying.
THE rigor of the winter has told severely
on the Turkish troops who have been massed
in enormous numbers on the Greek frontier,
without time having been allowed to make
proper mmissariat, sanitary, and ambu.
lance arrangements. By all accounts, how
| ever, The plight OF the Greek troops is quite
| a. pitable. Several hundreds OF men on both
| sides of the frontier seem to have been dying
! every week. The Turkish bat alton OF Redi III
| stationed at Samsun is reported 60 have lost
400 men from illness out OF its effective Of
500.
THE Southern variety of proof reader is de-
scrbed in the Memphis tTenn.) udlanche as
a man who 10 only present when he is absent.
He is the Ishmael Of every office Every
mans hands are against him. He Is the srape-
goat on whose back are iald every mans sins.
! In addition, he bears his own burdens, and
these be many. He acquires a feline steAltbi-
ne and side longness Of walk, as If he were
/ expecting bOOtJack to turn every corner. He
sleep. with his eyes open like a IA bbit, To the
public he is a nOnentity when his work is done
and only visible when some huge blunder OBJ
scures him.
THE VictOrans have a very sharp W ay of
dealing with the cheap labor difficulty. No
vessel IS allowed to bring to port more than
one John Chinaman for every hundred tons
( Of it, size. Consequently ship of fourteen
/ huudre tons would only be allowed to carry
/ fourteen heather 0nCs. We have Just seen In
/ file Of Victorian papers that vessel Of that
I size was found to have hftv Cinnamon on
! board and TIE Captain was mulcted in a
penaltv of $500. Every Chnaman coming to
/ Victoria has TO take out papers OF naturaiiza-
! tiOn and pay poll tax. But the cute Celes-
/ tials post their naturalization papers to their
/ friends IN China, who come over with them,
| and thus escape the tax.
IN REV. SAMUEL LONGFRLLow's life Of his
| brother, the poet, ia given the following SON
net, never before published:
MEzZO cAMMtN.
/ Half OF my life is gone, and have let
] fhe years slip from me and have not fulfilled
/ The aspiration Of my youth, to build
! some tower Of song with Ofty parApet.
/ Not Incidence, nor pleasure. nor the fret
+ OF restless passions thAt would not be stilled
/ kut sorrow. and a care hat almost killed,
I Kept me from what may accomplish vet:
/ Though. halfway up the hill, / see the Past
/ Lying beneath me with its sounds and sights
! a city IN the twilight dim and vast,
& d In het