Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-01
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bound, is the most highly priced of Miss
ClevelaRd's Christmas presents.
TIE city Of Leipzig ia Germany had $1,000
inhabitants Ia 1900. A hundred years later
the number had decreased 300. But in 1885 it
! had risen to $4,000, and to-day the number Is
! lTe,o0e exclusive of suburbs.
THE hunting accident which caused the
| Earl of Gulfords death few days age was
a singular one. While hunting in the Vale of
BuoNland he was taking a flying leap, when
| his horse turned com plete somersault, and
then re led over heavily on its rider.
HENRY q. HARRISON, a citizen Of the State
| Of Connecticut and an architect by profession,
has begun suit in the United states District
| Court Of New Ork against Mrs. A. 4. Stew
/ art for the sum OF Sll3,5S4 30, less Sl7,s52 y
! paid on account, for services in the erection
| Of the Cathedral of the incarnation, 1T car
| den CITY, Long Island.
! TIE gambling tables at Monte Carlo are
about to be made the subject of diplomatic
action on the part of an international COM
mission. The report OF the commission states
| that between the years 1877 anu 1885 $50 leo
| ple-more than the whole population OF the
| "klngdOm" Of Monaco-haYe committed SUI
eide consequent upon losses al the tables or
! Mo- te Gallo.
UNDER the Instructions of gypsy, Farmer
schwab Of saville, Pa, buried s25
at the root Of q tree on his
| morning. Then he tried to produce a similar
! harvest with Il deposit of $780, but ne y + morn
| lug the 500 was gone. Siugularly enough the
| gypsy was also g. SchWab Is poorer IN
| pocket but richer iii experience.
TIE principal weather stations of the Sig
nal Service have been furnished with the
whirling psychrometer, instead Of the wet
and dry bulb now in use. Ia connection with
! thus instrument thermO meters having cylin-
drlcal instead of spherical bulbs will be used,
! ana new hydrometrl tables for computing
! are being prepared.
PETER HENDERSON found tomatoes selling
in London last August at SO per bushel. In
the clouded climate of England tom 4toes are
! largely grown under glass; hence their cost.
| Selected fruit from our wn held- beuer than
| the greenhouse production, can be raised at a
| profit Tor 81 per bushel, aud Mr.. Henderson
| suggests that, with efrigeratIng cha oers in
our ocean steamers, tomatoes might be profit
! ably exported.
SIXTY THOUSAND MUsKETs of the old
| Springfield pattern nave lately been sent from
Western arsenals to the United states ArmOry
| at Springfield, NJ ass, TO be made over. These
| were bOught by the government near he close
| OF the war, but were never used. If sold by
| auction they would bring only trihe; but
| the government saves three-fUurths or more
| of their cost by rebuilding them into the
| present style Of arm.
COFFEE-DRINKERs may be interested in
knowing the result OF experiments made with
| that beverage in France, as reported to the
Paris Academy of Sciences. The expert
ments which were made on dogs, showed that
while moderate quantities of coffee always
increased the process of nutrition and the res
plratory movements, too large doses produced
retardatOu Of the heart and dlmlnutlOn of
The nutrltlve processes.
a HUGE cat tore the throat of a child 10
months old of Mrs. Annie Gaskins, l42 West
IL -
! the night. When Mrs. Gaskins arose her
! child as dead IN its bed near her own. The
animal had been allowed IN the room 10 catch
mice. During the night It jumI Ell across the
1OOr from the bed, and Mrs. Gaskins arose
and opened the door to let it out, but did not
then discover that it had attacked the child
IL ILLUSTRATION of the drinking habits of
the seventeenth century. DIR. Fraser, in a re-
port just published by the British Manuscript
Com mission, quotes from the household &C
count of the sixth Earl of EglinfOn an entry
of the consumption OF ale on Thursday, Nov.
26. 1915: TO your Lordship's morning drink,
pYnt; for ny Ladies morning drink, pynts
to your Lordshlp's deuner, 3 pynts: mair,
pynts; to the letter meal, pynts; efter den
ner. pynt; at four houres, pynt; ane other
pynt; to your LOrdshlp's supper, pyntls,'
etc.
A BEAR which had spent some years OF dig
nfed retirement IN the Geological Garden at
Munich, was transferred a short time ago to
the kindred Institution at frankfort -On- the
Nnin. but did not appear to lie the change.
II showed great uneasiness and restless ess,
ami was evidently hight dissatisfied with his
fare. Inquiries az Munich led to the discov
cry that bruin was born in the Bavaran
mountains, had been accustomed at Alu-
Mich to take his beer, as all good Bavarisns
o. Since then he is allowed. as formerly,
hree quar- > "A day, and as result is as happy
as old Ursa Major on sparkling winter
night.
Il READ Webster and Worcester through
once each year." said an elderly man in a
| Chicago library the other day. II do it as a
sort of rest from my work. When my brain
and hands become tired put my work aside
4 NM zen the ctlOnary. ! can't tell you how
| ia cluatlng II becomes. 1 return to II with
/ avldity, as most people would TO a novel that
/ mad been laid aside half real. l read it lei
| surely. and u becomes as interesting as a
/ history or book Of travels. | have read both
! dictionaries eleven times. and am BY no means
tired Of them yet Webster's has a melan-
eholy interest for me. | was personally ac-
quainted with James g Percival, who did
the greater part of the work upon it. Yes,
poor iercval"
A CORRESPONDENT reports from Japan that,
while the influence of Germany is to be seen in
the military arrangements, medical affairs,
etc, of that country, the language that makes
most progress is English. An English legal
society has been formed. the language is
taught IN many SCHOOLS. ana weekly En-
glsh journal is written and published by ia
panese editors. Hitherto the mere art of
reading and writing required several years of
study and the memOrlzIng " 1900 symbols.
But ID was found that the regular Latin al
phabet sufioed to take the place of these signs,
four letters, \, !, q, and V. being in fact su-
perfuOus. The vOwels receive the Italian
sounds, while tGe consOnants are pronounced
after the English fashion.
MORE than 100 tons of nitro glycerIne we're
exploded an wells in the Pennsylvania oil
fields during November. In the flush days,
when the patent was exclusively controlled
by the Roberts monopoly, the deadly explo-
sive was measured by the quart. and COM
manded most eXOrbitaut prices. II then cost
a poor man nearly "a months produc ton tG
have his well shot. Now the smallest p.o-
ducer IN the region can afford to dump bar
rel or 50 OF the stan INTO his we'll. There are
perhaps 20 drms IN the country that are pill
ny up fortunes making glycerine. The glyc-
crime used during Oc ODER and November was