Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-25
= 81 176964 BIB, 6S6 Il8,(

Totals 8, 1864 81,437,6s6 1ls,6l4,65l
From fragmentary reports of the present
year the foreign tonnage is computed at
II ,6S5, 42S; American, 1856, 222. Total, a.
So, $50.
The rush continues in New York to own
flats, and thus a person has fee simple
in a corner or crevice in some huge ten
storied edifice, and sells out his fiat as he
would a house. Many of these flats are
put up on the associated theOry-s0 much
money being subscribed and paid, and
certain proportion of it taken out in the
title to a series of the rooms, which is dis
pOsable without any regard to the other
tenants. One would think that an ugly
tenant had it in his power to make
all the others very unhappy. Ihese
big houses, which begin to cover the ISL
and to a more imposing extent than the
loftiest resident blocks in EdlnDurg or any
city of the old world, are compelled by the
excessive cost of the ground and cores
bonding taxation per foot. The tenants
rise in the air like bees in hive, instead
of spreading over the surface of the ground
as in most other cities. There is perhaps
another reason for the popularity OF these
apartment blocks. They afford some OF
the sociability and convenience OF a hotel
without the enormous cost OF hotel rooms.
The King of COrea has made an extra
ordinary confession of sin. 1t is doubted
if the ruler of any nation ever made one
more extraordinary: Il have been for
seventeen years at the head Ofthe nation"
he says, "althOugh l was wanting in
ability. My administration has been
failure. and abuses have arisen in the
government through my fault. L repent,
but it is too late. Since | occupied the
throne have made many improvements
in roads and other things, and both rich
and poor have had to suffer under the
burden. This is my sin. l have often
altered the currency and sacrlnced the
interests of the people. This is my SIN. l
have acted against religious doctrines. L
have wasted the revenue. This is my SIN.
Bribery has been carried on publicly. The
complaints of the victimized have not
reached my ear. This is my sin. The
taxes have been embeZZled and the busi-
ness of the people ruined. This is my sin.
| am ashamed to come. before the people
again. L will purify my mind and repent
my former mlsdolngs."
Probably the most careful and interest
ing investigation of the habits of insects
are those conducted by Sir John Lubbock,
who has just given to the Linnaan Society
an account of his observations during the
past year. To test the hearing Of bees he
trained some of them to find honey placed
on a music box which was kept going
several hours a day for fortnight on the
lawn close to a window. The music box
was then taken into the house and set
close beside the window, though out of
sight. The bees could not find it, though
when it had been shown to them they
went to it readily enough. AS re-
CARDS the industry of wasps, Sir
John timed a bee and wasp, for
each of which he provided store OF
honey, and he found that the wasp began
earlier in the morning and worked on later
in the day He did not, however, quote
this as proving greater industry on the
part of the wasp, as it may be that wasps
are less sensitive to cold. Moreover,
though the bees probOscis is admirably
adapted to extract honey from tubular
flowers, when the honey is exposed, as IN
this case, the wasp appears able to sWal-
low il more rapidly, This particular
wasp began work at four in the morning
and went on without any rest or intermis-
sion till a quarter to eight in the evening,
during which time she visited the store of
honey 116 times.
Saws an exchange: ''The introduction of
a multiplicity of evaporating pans into
the sorghum works, so that each mans
cane and even each days cutting can be
worked independently of each other, and
the further introduction of bone black nj
tration, and the complete separation OF
sugar and syrup by the centrifugal, has
suddenly placed sorghum in the list of ag-
ricultural industries of the North, ana
now wherever 1000 acres Of cane can be
secured the erection of even $25, 200
mandatory would pay farmer and man.
ufacturer alike. By the above pro-
cess sugar made from sorghum is
largely sought by the Chicago refners
of Southern sugar, who pay eight and
half cents per pound for it at the works,
Failure in the past has more largely re-
suited from unskilled handling, and IN
suppOsing that various chemicals must be
used to detect it, but in truth rapid
handling. lime juice, and filtering through
bone black is all the secret there is, and
merchantable sugar, not distinguishable
from the New Orleans article, Will result.
We as a nation import not far from $780,
600, 900 of sugar annually, and If we can
produce this sugar at home for an actual
cost of from four and half to fVe cents
per pound and thus save this $lOO,OOO,OO0
to ourselves we can by this economy aHord
to let Germany drive out our hog, and
even suffer a slight falling of in some Of
our other exports"
The Erie canal is now free as naviga-
for its construction, repairs and mainte-
nance, leaving a balance from its earn
ings, including interest, of S41,5OO,OOO,
The Erie, Ghamplain and 0swegO canals
together had on September so, 1881, a
credit balance of 1874, 50O, 900, not including
interest These three canals ar e449 miles
long. There have been taxes levied on
the State over and above what the canal
revenues have repaid, SIS, 1916, 742; the total
tax for canal purposes having been $685.
277, 154. The earnings of the Erie canal
paid back SIS, $50, All "a in contributions
to the general fund. Nearly $50, W0,O 900 has
been expended for lateral canals that
never paid expenses. The property
of the Northwestern States passing
through the Erie canal has paid tolls sui,
fcient to give surplus that put at inter-
est would forever maintain the Erie canal
free. The daily clearances Of boats from
Buffalo and Oswego average hfty or SIXTY,
each carrying as much freight as a train
of twenty-four cars. Freed from tolls the
canal will undoubtedly continue formi-
dable rival to the Mississippi river route;
still the fact will always remain that
constant strain must be maintained to
haul such monStrOus tonnage over dead
water route when the swift flood of the
great river is ever ready to supply the
moving power. At present better faclll-
ties for handling and the interests of in
vested capital are still able to attract
Western export freights to the Eastern
instead of the Southern seaboard, but
time will tell and nature will in the end
assert her sway.
Mrs. NJ. L. Sattufeld, Hartwell, says:
81 suffered from Indigestion, and after
taking Browns Iron Bitters for week
could eat heartily"