Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

hAI energetic DanQ. the SaiFdtlon army
IN England, has an income of 100000
A SPRAY of harebells in diamonds was
among the pretty things which Paris BRIDE
was lucky enough 10 receive.
GEN. HANcoCK's death brought Eastward
many army officers who have seized the oeca-
sion . visit their friends in the New England
and Middle States.
THE WICKED STORY comes from Paris that
sausage maker there displays a placard in his
window announcing: EVERY link carefully
lnoculated by NJ. Pasteur."
PALE young celery and eucalyptus are the
names of two new tints of green. The for
mer is almost like the pretty linden green,
tue latter Is a very soft sea green.
TIE Washington monument is a great dis
appointment to visitors. While the structure
ls In reality s55 feet high. it does not appear,
~ "a the eyes OF the average mortal, to be over
THERE is a smart little girl in Cedar
Rapids, Nebraska. She is years old, and
me other day she wrote an account of a chill
uFen e party, set IL up in type, and corrected
the proof. and the work was well done, TOO.
a TEXAS EDITOR is one Of the curiosities in
Washington at present, by reason of his ex-
traordinarily long hair. He was a Wing IN
ls44, ana made vow that he would never
shave MS beard or cut his hair until Clay was
elected President.
SEVERAL citizens of New Havea. with
worthy torethought, have had their graves
dug and tombstones erected. The graves are
stoned up and sealed over to protect them
from the weather, and the stones art all let-
tered, except the date Of death.
A cUTLAss that once belonged to Lord BY
ron has been presented to the museum Of the
Historical and Ethnological Society at Ath-
ems, 1t bears an inscription stating that it
was given o DR.. Stephanltzis, of Santa Maui
"a. at Missoaonghi on March lO-22, 1924.
4 PAPER bearing the signature o. jay
Gould passed through the PfOthnnctafyis
ONCE at Harrisburg lstsly. 1t ceuid S2os be
read; There was not Straight iIestef IN Il,
some one had printed his name below his
scratching.
GOV. FIrzHUGH LEE, of Virginia, gives re-
oeptions every Thursday evening, at which
full dress suits arr considered a necessity. At
the first Of these the toilets OF some of the la
dies were costly and exquisite, nut number
OF well known gentlemen attended in plain
street suits.
FEW YEARS AGO the Montreal Witness,
being strong temperance journal, refused to
publish advertisements of saloons. One dav,
however II printed an advertisement headed,
'schoOuers for Sale" and giving lime and
place, II was an announcement of the open
@-S "a q Ae-6St DSCA
NATURALIsTs now count no less than $50
different kinds of fishes in North American
waters, of which 800 live in the rivers and
lakes and $50 kinds belong o the Pacific. of
the remal nder, los dwell only in the deep wa
ters Of the Atlantic and Gulf Of Mexico, never
approaching che shore or the surface.
ACCORDING to Grant Allen, Darwin was
not, as most people falsely imagine, the Moses
of evolutionism, the prime mover in the bio
logical revolution; he was the Joshua who led
the world of thin ers and workers INTO full
fruition OF that promised land which earlier
investigators had but dimiy deserted from the
Plsgah- top OF coniectural speculation"
The NEW HEADQUARTERS of the Salvation
Army now about completed in Toronto has
frontage of los feet and a depth of 100. The
auditorium will seat $500 persons, and there
are all the conveniences of the modern church
This "Salvatlon Temple" as il is called, cost
$4,000. which has been raised by banquets,
special subscriptions, collections, and the like.
AN inqusitive American in England asked
m mber Of the Prince of Wales household
what the Prince read. Nothing" was the
answer. The American was incredulous, but
the Engl ishman ven. on to say that the
Prince never op ned book or q Newspaper.
competent secretaries read everyth ng that
the Prince should know, and the result is re-
lated to him in condensed form.
LIBEL LAWS bid fair to be betteFed in japan
at least. A revision OF the press I.w now in
force Is expected TO be effected shortly. In
the present law the writer of any defamet tory
note or article In a new paper is punished. no
matter whether his note OF article is founded
on fact or not, but in the expected revision he
VIII be made punishable only when he cannot
prove the truth Of VIII It he has published.
FRANZ PHILLIPS, of Bethel, Sullivan coun-
ty, n. Y e, when going to church on a recent
Sunday, saw bear lying under a stump near
the road. He got rife and couple of friends
with rifles and thes attacked the bear. she
would not run, but fought gamely, and was
not killed until thirteen shots had been fired
at her. Then it was found that she had been
protecting four baby bears Only few hours
old. The cubs were cared for and are grow
ing like pigs.
TIE SPRING RACES Of the Jockey Club of
the City Of Mexico, which are to begin IN that
city on April IS, have an interest apart from
the excitements of the racing course. The
selling stakes" prem ium is designed 10 in
duce owners of thorough ed horses abro d
to take them to Mexico and exhibit their q ID
points, ard as the horses are entered on con
dltion that they shall be sold, there is a pros
pect that Mexico NAV gain some fine amin ais
which may be used to improve the native
breeds.
MEXIcO is about to enter into active com
petition with Cuba as a tobacco growing
country. The tobacco crop Of tue Canton de
los TeXtas will, it is estimated, amount To
l,25O, 900 pounds this year. This famous to-
Geo has been imported into the Uniied
States heretofore under Cuban trademarks
but It is now believed to he sble TO stand on
It's own merits. Many of the Mexican to-
baccos are inferior in quality, owing TO care
lees methods OF cultivation, but as good to-
bacco as is grown IN the Vuelta Abao Of Cuba
is raised every year in many parts OF Mexico.
TIE following extract from private letter
written by the late Bishop Of Manchester on
Oct. "A, eight days before his death, has been
published: ut Is impossible 70 say 10 what
result these incoherent cries which are rand.
ing the air. and ABOUT which II is difficult In
discern from which side they come-for it's Ali
a Babel-wil ultimately tend. At Dresenf
my head Is hardly strong enough To dis
unguish the wheat from the chaf. All 7 seem
to see is that our leaders on both sides seem ro
cease TO lead, and content themselves win
saying to the people, You show us the Wa
you wish us 70 90 and we will take it.U what
would Plato have said Of the chance Of such a
'repuOlicF"
PARIS physician calls attention 10 an ae.
count OF a recent attempt TO observe in the re.
tina OF murdered girls eye the image OF her
unknown slayer. He said ats all non.
sense to expect that this thing can be done
have known OF 4 dozen experiments. slI ~
which failed from the very nature az tbe
thing. All there Is 70 II Is this: The brilliant
coat Of the retinA has a color due 10 what he
known ~ visual purple, and this color IS to
some extent vlslbly impressed by light. When
in college we tiled a careful Experiment ON a
horse We gave the animal Atrupine ami
placed a negative of my own uhotogra,,h -