Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-20
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ging because she set a hen on three goose
eggs, and the faithful fowl Matched out four
healthy goslings.
A FRENCH ANTI-ToBACCo SOCIETY offers
prize of $500 for an essay on the effect of
smoking on the health of literary men and
its probable ultimate results upon French
| literature.
THE swapping of dog at her legs, though
no bite was inflicted, so frightened little
girl in New Haven the other day that she be-
came i'll, etfusion of blood TO the head ensued,
and she died in commissions before morning.
THE so-called peanut factories of Norfolk.
Va, handle and put ON the market $500, 600
worth OF peanuts each year The factory is
| simply a cleaning, polishing and sorting es-
adjustment, and the work is all done by
machinery.
UNTIL very lately only one copy of the first
edition of 1.-THE Pilgrims Progress" was
known, but recently two copies more have
been picked up in London at sixpence each.
| One was Immediately sold to the British Mu-
scum for EOS, and the other to London pub
| Usher for f25.
IT WAS RESERVED for the people of Califor-
mia to boycott the strawberry. The trouble
is that nearly all the fruit is raised by Chi
nese laborers, and as appeals to the gardeners
| failed, a circular is issued asking that all ber-
| ries be boy cotJed unless known to be picked
| by Caucasian hands.
THE new amended particulars OF procedure
under the French divorce law which have just
appeared in the journal Oficiel provide that
mo report of the proceedings may be pub
lished by the newspapers under pain of 1ne;
! only the judgment of the tribunal may be re-
produced In the press"
BLAST FURNACE and rolling mill have
been erected lately in Bogota The machin-
cry was bought in the United States, and it
cost the owners as much to carry this ma
| ChIneFV head nj n Iaa
| up the Magdalena, as the purchase money and
the ocean freight combined.
THR AUTHORITIES of Liverpool do not APP
pear to like gay colors. They have just issued
an order forbidding any householder to ex-
! hibt flag of any kind outside Of his house,
| But there does not appear to be any objection
| as vet to householders spreading out flag in
their kitchen, or hanging it ON the clothes line
in the back yard.
THE PEOPLE of South Australia are making
great preparations for the International Ex-
hibition which will be held in the CITY of
Adelaide on June 20, 1887. 1t is expected that
| the exhibition will call the attention of the
world generally to the wonderful progress
! which Australia has made in the last Is years
"a progress only paralleled by that OF the
| United States.
THERE are at present 740 old soldiers in
France who have served under the First Ma
noleOn, and each of whom receives a life an
nuitv of $50 francs. 1t is stated that this ven
| cradle battalion loses annually on an average
| lS5 of its members, and IT may thus be ex-
! pected that within the next four years the
| last veteran will take his departure from this
| life.
THE largest dynamo in the world is being
set up in Cleveland, o. 1t will be ID feet long,
81 wide, and weigh 10 tons. four times the
size and ability of the Jumbo" machine ex-
| hibited by Edison at the Philadelphia exposi-
ton in 1884. Five hundred horse power will
RI 6rf 0roda Ne
| furnish incandescent lights of about e, 900
| candle power.
CoMPARED with ordinary book publishing,
the printing of l,437, 44O Bibles and New Testa-
ments during the last year by the American
Bible Society is a remarkable work. At the
| seventeen annual meeting of the society, just
hel0 In New York, prayer was offered by
DR.. Joseph d. Wlckham, of Manchester, VT,
who took part in the first meeting three score
and ten years ago.
TIE annual average of suicides for every
million people is II In Spain, 30 in Russia, 81
| in Italy, 50 IN Hungary, 20 in England and
| Norway, SO in Sweden, l22 in Austria, l97 In
| Bavaria, $50 in France, 164 in Wurtemberg,
| l67 in Mecklenberg, IVA in Prussia, 200 in Den
mark 3O5 in ThurIngia, and 377 in SaXony.
Suicides are becoming more frequent every
year in highly civilized countries, but espe-
cially among the poor German races.
QUITE business in fruit cans for the West
luu6s has DCCn utNGlOpCO III DdiblmOTe b0lS
season. Three vessels, carrying out about 90
900 cases. have sailed for the Bahamas. The
schooner Carrie and Belle is loading there
and her agent, Thomas Tracey, has two other
vessels chartered to load cargOes Of the same
articles. The cans are shipped on New York
account for pineapple packeries in the BAHIA
mas, but all the cans are made by Baltimore
manufacturer.
THERE is a good story told by Mr.. Boehn
about the appearance of Mr.. Gladstones eyes
when he is excited or angered. The sculptor
was taking observations of the great states
man for statue one day. Mr.. Gladstone was
laying down the law TO Prof. Backie in some
| Homeric question, and the sturdy old profess
sor declared his great friend was talking nom
sense. 'Then," said Mr.. Boehm, II learned
for the first time that Mr.. GadstoRe's ewes
could open in two directions. like a vul-
lures"
WHEN LORD AYLEsFoRD married the
daughter of Col. Williams she frankly avOwed
that she only married him for his title. She
informed her husband OF her elOpement when
he was in India tiger hunting with the Prince
OF Wales, and her telegram reached him in
the Nepaul Terai. 81 have tried to love
you" she said, land have failed. am going
away with Biandford." He strobe to the por-
tab . Geographic apparatus which the Prince
carried with him. and told the operator to
rep y: go to h" 1t was the shortest and
pithiest message that ever came out OF an In
dian jungle.
THE farms of America equal the entire ter
rltory of the United Kingdom, France, Bel
GUM, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Por-
tugal. The corn fields, equal the extent of
England, Scotland and Belgium: while the
gram fields generally would overlap Spain.
| The cotton fields cover an area larger than
/ Holland and twice "a large as Belgium. The
rice delds,sugar and tobacco plantations wOuld
also form kingdoms Of no Insignificant size
and such is the stage of advancement reached
by American agriculturists that it is esti-
mated that one farmer like Mr.. Dalrymple,
with field OF wheat covering a hundred
square miles, can raise as much grain with
400 farm servants as 5000 peasant proprietors
in France.
THE recapture OF the Hungarian town OF
Buda from its Mohammedan conquerors in
1886 is to be concentrated by festival at
that place, under the auspices OF the munich
pal authorities, who intend to invite TO the
tete the descendants OF those who took part.in
liberating the city from the yoke OF the Turks
after IL had been in their hands las years.
Among the list OF lbera.ors are number OF
Spaniards Frenchmen, Englishmen, Danes
and CrOatans. The st-mentiOned is the
Duke of Lorraine, who was in command OF
the army Of the House OF Hapsburg. The
British nan include Capt. Ballass; Care,
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