Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-10
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1855 than IN any year since that following the
treat ire. The total valle of these wa $780,
OJ0.
ONE FIRM IN Western Messachr sets last
year made 10 100 drums, using 100000 ieet OF
umbr, $4,000 sheepskns, 1900 pounds Ga
cord, and tons Of other fittings.
y TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYER, aow being
CO.'S ructed on the Clyde for the Spanish gov
erument. is designed to stepm % knots an
nour- about twice as fast as most OF the heavy
ir0nc ads
ABOUT l,6OO electric lghts are now burning
in Bottom nightly. Probably the drst regu-
larly earned electric LIGHT di eidend ever paid
IN that city was .nnouEced by the Brush
Company last week.
ACToCRATIC GERMANY has struck blow at
another American institution the travelling
circus and meaagerie The Berlin police au-
thor es have tOrbiiden all public perform
ances VI trained lions and other wild ANIMALS.
MNE. PATTI has been compelled oomit her
enga-ements at AnsS'erp and W arsaw, which
places were includedin her projected tour. on
account Of the unanimous stand taken by thu
Hubc in those cities against The eXorbltant
charges Tor seats.
RFCEEr EXPLORERS III Alae.A came upon
NATIVE village containing II males, five OF
whom we're deaf mutes, while one of the wo-
men was wholly deaf. The state OF things is
accounted for by steady lntermarr a&e, as
no ol0er Indians lived within several days
journey.
or he 5,342 students who are at present at
tending the Berlin University. lbs belong to
European countries other than Russia, while
33i come from extra European lands.
America sends % of her sons 70 the seat of
j learning IN the German capital. Asia Is rep
/ resented by ten students. and Africa and
! AUST, ala have also ther contingents.
MAN who went hunting in the wild noun
tainoIs region near Stratton, VT, recently,
I was found dead after three days, with his
gun lodged in the crevce of the rocks, where
! app rentv II had accidentally discharged
! both barrels into his body. The snow wa
tramp hard about the corpse b7 the efforts
OF HI dog to arouse and comfort his master.
De JOSEPH LEIDY lately had submitted to
him spongy ice from the vicinity of Morris
town. n j., which contained great quantities
Of hving worms, some an inch in length. They
proved to be a new species Of lua6rtcuS, TO
which the common earth worm belongs. No
living organisms have ever been found within
clear dense ice, such as is usually served for
drinking purposes.
I.ASr WEEK the corporation OF London sent,
"a usual, it's annual four and one-haf yards
of best black cloth to the Lord Chancellor, the
Lord Chief Justice. and others. The Town
| Clerk gets six wards Of black cloth for his
Christmas and six of green. The black cloth.
of course, goes It's appointed way into dress
suits, but the press Is anXlOus'y inquiring
what on earth Is done with the green.
IN a real London fog it is much darker out
Of doors than it would be on an ordinary
American night. What gives it its peculiar
mu key character is the adm xture of coal
smoke. hen there are no heavy clouds
above, or only mist, the sunlight gives the
vapOr an indesrribably urid, muddy, yellow
brown tinge. This is called a pea-soup fog.
and one may then be sure that at a distance
OF fe miles there Ii clear, sunny weather.
THE SUBJECTS of Emperor William are
likely to suffer in an unexpected manner from
the arbitrary expulsion of the Poles. Many
manufacturers and merchants in Warsaw.
Cracow. Lcmberg and other Polish towns
have agreed among themselves to make re
pris2ls by cutting off all business relations
with their former German, and more par
uculsrly Prusslan correspondents, and by
seadiDg their orders to houses in other
countries.
a SOCIETY OF native gentlemen has been
started at Madras, under the title of the Mad
ras sanscrt and Vernaeular Text Society.
with the object of col Getting. preserving and
publishing ancient and valuable Sanscrit and
Vernacular manuscripts. The first work to
be undertaken by the society is the pubIcs-
ton OF Important and hitherto unpublished
Sanscrt manuscripts and his orical records
! IN tae Madras Government Oriental Library
and elsewhere.
De. c. G. ABBoTT's collection Of stone i'm
pemenff Of the American Indians now on
exhibition in the Peabody Museum of Arch@o-
ogv a. ambridge. NJ S., Is considered one
of the most important OF It's kind ever brought
Uog thcr. and one which arch8OOgisJs Will
consult for al time to come. 1t con aims more
than ~ COO stone implements and several hun
drcd cts made OF hone. clay ana copper,
and was gathered almost wholly IN the neigh
borhooI Of Trenton. n. j.
GEN. SHERIDAN has received a curiosity
| from Gen. j. d. Wilder, of Chattanooga. 1t is
a gave. the handle of which ia made from
/ wood growing on the top of Missionary Ridge,
/ where Gen. Sherdan's division first reached,
! and the mailet, from wool cut from pine on
/ the battlefield Of Cmekam tuga, where Gen.
Lyte fell. In the centre OF he mallet ls
large rife bull ct deeply imbedded, which
must evidently have been fired into the tree
and around winch the wood has grown. Gen.
sheridan is highly pleased with the memento,
/ wirch Is intended to he used when he presides
/ at the meetings Of the Society OF the Army of
4 the Cumberland.
/ EVANGELIST BERTRAND, Of Paris, who is
now speaking in New York city in behalf the
| Protestant Churches of France, has had
/ checkered career. For nearly thirty years
| he was professor cf mathematics in the Uni
4 versity of Paris His specially, however, was
/ the science Of military Notifications, and
/ MANY British officers in active service have
received instructions from him He was in
Paris during the Franco Prussian war, and
! endured all the horrors OF the Siege. He
/ wears a decoration for eminent services as
an educator, given by the minister of publ
/ instruction. When the Rev. Mr.. McAll
/ started his now famous mission Prof. Ber-
| trand resigned his university chair ami its
! comfortable salary To travel as an evangelist
among the country villages.
A CURIOUS MILITARY POINT arose at the
! birth OF the Prince of Wales. II had been the
/ custom for the officer on guard at st. James
/ Palace 10 be promoted to a Majority when
/ rOyal child was born. The guard was re-
/ heved al l0:45. At that hour the new guard
/ marched into the palace ward. and three
] minutes later the child was born. The ques-
/ tIon arose which officer was ent tied TO pro-
I motion. The officer Of the fresh guard claim
/ ed IL because the relief marched In before the
I birth ami the keys were delivered over to
! him; but the other officer claimed u because
/ the seutries had not been chan red when the
child was actually born. HIS men were still
/ on guard, ami he disputed the fact Of the de-
biiity this rad not Occurfe az the moment Of
I the birth a though there was no precedent,
/ the old guard got t..
"THE DEATH RATE in Alexandria says q
I correspondent, "is abnormally high owing 20
4 the dlthy state Of that town, where in the
matter OF ewage aud sanitary ARRANGEMENTS
/ each person does what is rigtt IA has own
/ eyes. Many valuable hives have been lost
through yirulent fever, arising from the ppl-
/ luted SOL. hlch r, cclVeg all sOr ~ dccHyikg
/ and nON ous matt r. A scheme for The SAM
I tttiop of tins town IA ia preparation. but