Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-07-17
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TlDINGS FROM ABROAD.


The population OF Chilli on the LIST OF
January was 8,165,2s9. This includes
$4,000 Indians.
THE proprietors of the new hotel near
the Pyramids of Gizeh intend to build
an elevator up one of the pyramids.
THE site for the Watkins Tower, tho
English rival of the Eiffel Tower, has
been fixed in st. Johns Wood, in the
northwest of London.
GERMANY has decided to adopt the
time standard which came into use here
in 1883. By it official time all over
Germany will be one hour earlier than
Greenwich and seven hours earlier than
Chicago time.
THERE is a great demand for metal
furniture in Australia, not only for
household use, but in places Of business,
school-houses, etc. The demand Is
caused by the ravages of the white ant,
which eats all kinds of wood.
The money offerings at the Vatican
during the past four months by pill
grims from France, Germany, Italy,
Austria and America have amounted,
1t is stated, to about 100000, OF which
the Americans left the largest sum
100000.
THE train which recently carried the
Emperor of Japan to Nagoya made, it
is said, the best record ever reported
over Japanese road. 1t traversed the
distance of 226 miles between Toyyo and
Nagoya in nine and half hours includ-
ing stoppages.
WHEN the King of Samoa ratified the
treaty with the United States, in the
presence of $50 representatives of his
people, he wore white derby hat, a
white cotton shirt and white sheet fold
ed around his loins. He was barelegged
and barefooted.
Much Indignation is felt in theatrical
circles in Paris, because the rank OF
officer in the Territorial army has been
refused to an actor of the Odeon Com
pany. Actors say that the times no
longer exist when their profession was
excluded from the pale of the church,
from the army, and from the Legion of
Honor.
THE Italian military engineers are
building Notifications on the top of
Mount Cents apd tho Alps near Nice, in
order to prepare against French inyas-
ion of Italy at those points; the works
are being pressed forward, as the mill
tary authorities consider them urgent In
view of sudden changes liable to occur
In France at any time.
THE boy Meladschek, the favorite Of
the Shah when last in England, is
betrothed At fete the other day
the most magnificent ever given in
Teheran-in honor of this boy, the
Shah arose, and in loud voice pro-
claimed Meladschek's betrothal to his
youngest daughter, to the great con-
sternation of the Persian nobility pre-
sent.
THE Waterloo ballroom, where once
there was sound of revelry by night,
and all went merry as marriage bell
just before Napoleon's overthrow, is fol
sale. 1t is the upper story of now
deserted brewery in the Rue de Ia
Blanchisserie, Brussels. 1t is very
large room, with rough beams supported
by row of six wooden pillars in the
center, and the upset price is 102,OO'
francs.
SINCE the order went forth that al
dogs in England should be muzzled il
consequence of many outbreaks o
rabies, the number of cases OF the dis
order reported has fallen from eighty
, one in the last quarter of 1889 to thirty
nine in the first quarter Of the presen
year and the decrease is still going on
What is more to the point, nine of tn
rabid dogs seized since tho order wa
issued were found to be secprel
muzzled and thus prevented from mis-
chief.