Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A DETROIT druggist saws that pills have
gone out of style. He excerpts quinine. of
course.
MISSISSIPPI claims that it viii compete
with the States of the West in corn pro-
ducti0n this year.
A VICIOUS DOG was sent over Niagara
Falls last week for good radiance. But
the dog came out alive below the falls
with all the Immature soaked out OF him,
and is now an admired household pet.
THE breach of court etiquette which
permitted fair American belle who had
not been presented TO be present at the
last state ball has stirred a tumult in
London high circles. The Queen is angry.
The Louisville pool rooms handle about
5000. 900 yearly, and are located in the
best portions Of the city. The faro banks
do a business of $3.0O0,O0O, and in the
poker rooms $4,000, 600 change hands,
while keno does a business Of 81, 100000.
WHAT VIII poor mother do?' were the
only words uttered by a Boston newsboy
after being mOrtally wounded by a rail
road train. A passenger had offered him
half dollar for a certain paper, and he
was trying to hastily get it at station
when the accident occurred.
THE COUNT De MOREs, of Dakota,
whose life was recently attempted by des-
peradoes. is a thorough practical man of
business. He has created small village
on his land, and acts as Judge. ruler and
protector of the little community, furnish
ing it literally with many OF the neces-
sary adjuncts of civilization.
DR.. 7. r. ALLISON, a believer in the
worth of vegetable food. says that diet is
the philosophers stone. ALLOW me to
diet man." he declares, ''and | will make
him lively or sad. good or bad tempered,
lazy or studiOus, long or short lived, or
give him almost any known disease"
Gov. PATTIsON, of Pennsylvania, de-
clining an invitation to attend Sabbath
school convention, wrote: But extend
to the convention my sincere greeting,
and desire 10 express the hope that the
children under their care may develop, as
by the chisel of grace on rare marble.
into men and women of noble character -
THE Egyptian census has just been
completed. The total population is given
as 6, 79s, $50, Of whom 3,393,9S1 are males
and 3, 404.312 females. Caro- has 36S. los
inhabitants; Alexandria, with its SUBJ
urbs, pos, 10; Port Said, 1850; SueZ, TO-
913; Tantah, 80. 725; Damietta, 34,046;
zig, 1905.
IT'S SAID that English business men
know American railroad maps by heart,
American securities are discussed in the
City" American novels and magazines
are spread in the bookstore windows,
Whistler's and other American pictures
are among the fashions, an American is
the reigning belle, oysters are served in
american STYLE" and ices ''as in Ameri-
ca" while an American actress is at the
theatre, an American emotion store
makes one fancy ones self in COnnecti-
cut, and London is in fact, becoming
AmericaniZed.
Mr.. DU MAURIER, the artist of Punch,
is blind in one eye, while the vision of the
other is often affected. A few years ago
he found it almost impossible to draw at
all-at least on the customary small deli
cate scale, when friend suggested that
photography might be usefully employed
to relieve the strain upon his sight. The
result is that Mr.. du Maurier's pen-and-
ink drawings are now always cOnsidera-
bly, larger than the impressions which APP
pear in Punch. The drawings are photo
graphed on to the engraver's block, the
dimensions being reduced in the process
to the requisite size.
As TO the success of complete isolation
in preventing infection by cholera, the
fact is quoted that in 1881 the court Of
Russia isolated itself at PeterhOf as long
as the epidemic continued. Round the
imperial palace the pestilence made terri
bic ravages, but not one of the 10000 in
habitants of the palace was attacked. In
1850 the military school and a prison at
ConGfantinppln isolated them selves in tho
midst of the city full of cholera, and not a
pupil nor prisoner suffered. In the same
year Sicily kept strictly isolated from all
communication with the infected coun-
tries, and the island remained exempt
from the terrible disease.