Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-04
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J Offices Z COryeh c1unty, Tex.
/ MIME DIsHNER. of Columbus, Neb., mas
been asleep continuously since Oct. 20.
New Years day four years hence VIII begin
the year 1889 with a total eclipse OF the SUM-
The london TIMES is valued at $25.ooo.oOO'
Standard $4,000 900, NeeOS IS, 600 900, Telegraph
! 100000.
WoRE is again suspended on the pedestal
for the Bartholdi statue. 1t is % feet short oil
/ completion.
MICE recently took possession Of two bee
/ hives al Borden town, n. j., drove out tne
| bees am ate half the honey
NEW ZEALAND, with population OF about
! COG. 900, has a debt Of nearly tS4,VOO,OOU' OF
! over $25l FOR each lnhabitant.
A BURGLAR in Weld. Maine, was detected by
a snowfall from the hee Of his boot. which
! correspondent precisely with similar SNOWFALL
/ found in The store after the robbery.
! OLE O EsoN. JB., is the only nstiye-born
| Dakotian Of constitutional age belonging to
| the present Legislature Of that TERRITORY;
! Fancy native American named Ole Oleson!
THE FLEETS OF ice yachts are preparing for
the winters sport on the Hudson. There are
now regular ice yacht clubs, with commo-
| dOres and vice commodores. The largest boat
| has a sal area of $50 feet.
TIE grinding of the crown glass disk of
the immense lens for Lick Observatory,
| California is we'll under way at Cambridge,
Mass, YET whole wears work remains to be
| done before it can be finished.
ST. LOUIS boasts that it lie soon to have the
tallest con mercIal building in the world. An
insurance company is soon to add four stories
to Its S-stOry structure in that city in order to
provide Offices for the Gould Southwestern
| system.
A sTEAyER laden with corn from Chicago
arrived in Buffalo Christmasday. Along the
| route a number of lighthouse keepers lit their
| lanterns especially to help the vessel on her
way, for The department had ordered the
lighthouses to be closed for the winter season.
THE FARMERS of Oregon and the Columbia
valley are feeling exceedingly blue, and all
branches Of industry in that region are great
| ly depressed. The crops are as abundant as
| ever but the distance to market and high
| railway freight charges consume all possible
| profits.
| OF the 30 appraising officers who do work
for the Surrogate's Court in New York, each
man lsanxious to get the Job of appraislng the
| Vanderbilt estate. The commission on the
| appraIsement Is per cent. Mr.. Depew, how
ever, insists that there is not going to be any
| appraisement.
AN ENGLISH COMPANY has perfected its ar
arrangements for providing sick chambers with
telephones. The object is to give persons suf-
lferlng from contagious diseases chance to
talk with their friends. Speaking tubes are
| inadmissibe on account of the infectious ma
I-ture of the breath.
The Ldnast hopes against hope that boys
who smoke viii draw a lesson from the case
of a r. year-old lad in London, who died in
consequence of smoking a penny's worth Of
! double-twlst. "We may at least" says the
venerable editor, ''advise every sensible boy
| to regard tobacco as a poison"
In this new year of our Lord, 1886, w ashIngs
toms birthday comes on Monday, Valentines
| Day on Sunday. st. Patrick's Day on Wednes-
day, April FOOLS Dag on Thursday, Memorial
| Day on Sunday. Fourth of July on Sunday and
Christmas on Saturday; Lent begins n .ch
10; Easter Sunday will be the 18th of April.
! A WRITER recommends soups made of lentil
-four, mixed with One-eighth part of ground
malt, for the use of Invahds. In warming, the
dlstaste of the malt converts the -four into
soluble and easily digested substances. The
soup may he favored with beef tea. The
writer says that ientil -four contains more in
organic salts and twice as much heterogeneous
material as wheat or oat flour.
ANOTHER English physician, DIR. Heald of
Leeds. was lately accused of indecent assault
by a young schoolmistress, who consulted
him in reference to a cough. The presence of
| hysteria was shown at the trial, and the jury
| gave verdict of acquittal after 10 minutes
| consultation. English doctors are beginning
to readopt the once prevailing rule of con-
| sulting women only in the presence of a wit
ness.
A VERY NOTICEABLE CHANGE has taken
place In the grass grow tn of the open sheep
| plains of Australia since it's civilization The
! grass origin ally grew in large tussocks some
distance apart, but now has assumed the ap-
] pearance OF a sward, owing to its having
-stoOled out when led upon by sheep and cat
! spad hpnl1 fF.or MI a
into the gro Ind, where, In the absence ofbush
| fires, is terminated.
PEOPLE receiving letters from Boston have
no doubt noticed that the stamps are invaria-
bly, cancelled IN such a way as to leave long
black lines, Ike bars of music, across the top
! of the envelope. A writer thus explains it :
| s'More literary aspiFants send their ware to
Boston than 10 any other city in the United
\ States. and he Postmaster invented this pro-
cess in order TO cancel at one blow the long
row of stamps necessary m returning rejected
manuscripts"
| The blind Mr.. Fawcett, late Postmaster
| General OF Great Britain. was an enthusiast
tic angler. HE performed If anything better
] than the SEEING saws his biographer. "vheth-
/ err because he waited more patiently to strike
until he felt his fish, or because he was more
! docile IN following the direc ton of his skilled
companions. He had great success In catch
/ ing salmon a1d trout, and in trolling for pike
! "a
| pound salmon,
! ARCHDEAC)E DENIsoN is a beligerent Eng
lish and beIefced clergyman OF the Tory
school, whose especial pubic abomination is
! Mr.. Gladstone. Editor Labouchere credits
/ the ArchdeasOn with the following Dean
! Swift-ish effusiOn.
"Why need we through the record spell
| OF Gladstone and his iendish crew.
! The rs cOmoOse One-han of hell,
And he make up the residue"
IRE British seizure Of Burmah has revived
the history OF the hairy family whose home is
near Mandaliy, and which is the genuine
original Of the many circus frauds annually
/ paraded. Thu mother, now 80 years old. il
4 the daughter " a slave from Laos She mar
4 RED . Burn 3se, and among their children
were two, the heads and faces of which were
| covered Uust IS hers is and that Of her father
| was) with Ion :, silky hair. after the manner
| of a Scotch terrier. This family still live in a
village ON the upper Irrawaddy.
TIE late Thomas G. Appleton's hobby-a
statue for Boston Of the famous Norseman.
| Shoever he was. who ia believed to have first
/ discovered Anerica-causes much quibbling
in that city. Mr.. Appleton, before hi death.
| headed subscription list of $4,000 for this
object with SloQOO. and provided in his will
/ for the neediH remainder, ami also named
/ the artist who was TO do the work. Now Mrs
I ole Bull threatens to withdraw her subscrip-
| ton of SL0UO unless another sculptor is chosen
! There Is much tll-feeing over the matter.