Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-08
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usually produced in twelve months time.
ACCORDING TO Edward Goadby, an English
statis,ician, the Frauco-GermGn war, the
Russo Turkish war. the Russian conquests In
Asa. and the French operations in Tunls ana
Tonquin have cost &, 7S7, 500, 900.
EX rERINENTs on an extensive scale have
Deen made in Germany TO ascertain the rela-
tive strength of iron and steel gIrders. The
soft steel grders proved to be 81 Der cent ana
nard -'eei girders 60 per cent. stronger imam
the rron glrders.
a GOOD PART OF Chicago is lit up by a
corona Of electric lamps on the top Of the
tower Of the Board OF Trade building, 81 feet
above he street. The plant is Of 10000 candle
power and IS probably she largest mass OF
electric light IN the world.
On AN oPRRArfC BILL BOARD IN England
Miss Daisy Somebody or other is mentioned
as "the Engi sh Patti" and the advertiser
adds that Miss Daisy was In America and
Australia unanimously pronounced to be the
greatest hrewo-k singer of the day, after the
great Patti"
BY SORT OF ROUGH wAGGEBY many stout
men on both sides OF the sea are known as
Jumbo" after the poor beast that went the
way Of all flesh last summer Among the fat
men 60 ulcknamed is the Duke of Portland,
and the Duke has goOd-naturediy accepted
the name by calling his smartest 2-year- old
- hlse ummY.'
Mr.. BERGH has his eye on no less phi ace
than Paris where cruelty TO horses Is said to
be dis.ressingy common. q cruel thing that
Is ceaselessly happening all over Paris is the
Hacking of the whip Just over the horses
head. 70 as to cause it TO make detenation
ike pistol shot. In satlricM writing or
1912, and then it's not G ven rs new. occurs the
saying: Paris Is the paradise of women. the
purgatory of men and the he'll Of horses"
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO a London dealer
in birds and wild animals received an order
for a nuteracker tNucifraga caryocatactesl.
These birds belong to group of ravens, and
are found IN America and on the Himalaya
Mountains. They are common in Sweden,
but rarely found IN Norway. And yet the
dealer was not able to get live specimen
until a lew days ago, when an agent for
waTded him paTr In apparently healthy con-
dition.
A SINGULAR phenomenon has been observed
at Volt, in the mountainous district of Can
tai, central France. Smoke like that of q
volcano has been rising from hill near the
spot where feudal castle once stood. The
nature Of the ground in the neighborhoOd does
not admit of the suppositlon OF spontaneous
cOmbu- ton, and the newspapers of the dis
trict are excitedly clamoring that the authori-
ties undertake excavations 10 clear up the
mystery.
JUDGE NOAH DAVIS is a great believer IN
mid week wages. @Three times in the last
four weeks" he says, 81 have had young men
before me who had, in each case, committed a
crime late on Saturday night or Sunday morn
ing. After having spent the night in a liquor
shop with fifteen or twenty companions one
was IL each instance, slain" The fact that
they are flush with money on saturday night,
aud have Sunday to sober of IN, leads to these
sprees, he thinks.
Il e. Al, 7
half as much as men who pay the extreme
penalty. In the chemical death chamber Of
unclaimed ours, at Batterses, the dogs trot
into the tempting room, '.lie down, curl them
selves round and round, fan asleep" and 50 20
to that bourne whence no four footed traveller
returns, This lethal chamber is filed with
narcotic vapOr produced by passing carbonic
oxide over surface OF anastbetlc mix IRE
composed of chlorOform and bisulphide Of
carbon.
TIE surviving members of the family of the
hate Wolcott Alien, of Danv1Ile, HI, the
weaIthiest farmer il that section of the State
at the time Of ms death, have Just gone hope
lessly insane over religion. They are al con-
verts OF a recent revival. George Alien, 81
years old was adjudged insane Tuesday, and
his brother, Heber Anen, "a years old. was
adiudget insane Wednesday,. Each has a
wife and two children. Their sister, Miss
Mary A lien, q wears old, and their mother. 6G
years OIL are also pronounced demented.
De. HACKER, OF Leipsic, has investigated
the sensation known as tickling, which be
styles a variable, intermittent excitement OF
the nerves of the skin. He says it produces a
contraction of the blood vessels, and that the
| cons ouent diminution of pressure on the
brain, permeated with blood vessels, is so con-
siderable as not 10 be without danger; that
powerful expiration operates against such a
ii u1rr II r4n nj
| laughter, which is simply intermittent forced
| movements of expiration, Is q decided remedy
| fer the effects of tickling.
c. p. HUNTINGTON is the only man In
America who can ride from the Atlantic tc
the Pacific over his own rails, except for the
distance Of 90 miles. He said recently in rela-
ton to the dispatches relative to the eonsoli-
dation OF bis roads east of the Mississippi
| Yes. it is true that am at work at such q
plan. The intention is 70 place all the roads
under one management. The name OF the
new company will be the Newport News and
| Mlssisslppi Valley Railroad Company" The
| 90 miles Of road which form the connect nR
I link between Huntngton's Eastern and Pa
/ cihc systems stretch from Louisville TO Lex
ingtOn. XIV. II is said that unless he can pur-
chase this line OF road he will build link Of
| his own.
THsRE was great excitement on the line OF
the Brooklyn elevated railroad Tuesday eve
ming. owing to an attempt on the part of the
manager 70 substitute ''shuttle'' trains for
| the regular service between Gates avenue
and East New York. There was a reduction
not only in the number of cars. but in the
number Of trains ri the end OF the line. anC
/ great inconvenience resulted. Last night thi
passengers rebelled and positively refused Il
/ chan.se cars in the fierce storm which pre-
| vailed. and finally the Superintendent. Mr.
J Martin. resolved 10 surrender at discretion
and ordered through trains TO be run as usual
according to the old schedule. The
4 passengers celebrated their victory By
I vocferout cheering.
! IH PLFER on the action ofligh upon pig
ments employed in painting. an Edinburgh
artist states thar his experiments have led
| him 70 the conclusion tat Prussian blue II
oil rs the most stable Of cOlors. He asserts
/ however that 10 would never do TO employ tn,
deedng aniline pigments upon the same can
/ vas with The stable Prussian blue-painiini
| one portion Of a picture with the former anC
| another with the latter. In fact the anilinC
/ colors are found to be, for the most part, quite
I unsulted Tor painting PURPOSES. ana some O
; them. as Is well know, are so changeabe In
I the suniiIlt as 10 be used IN the production OF
+ Photographic images, They are a.so eXten.
slvely n'0ycd for cooring photographs
/ their chin transparent character rendering
! them par oularlv suitable for sac purpose, II
I being pos. bic TO eae tle shadows and outline.
/ OF HE maze beneath the layer OF color. New
/ orthpless. photographs tinted in this way soon
I lose their IOam. and the cOlors arc often seen
/ fading while the pictures are yet exposed ioE
/ sale in Tho hop windows.
HESTER IRUBER aslsterof Henry Lightner
che fauaot Rfav,.i and a IN mar hov of tho a.