Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST


/ Wyoming last year.
EMMA NEWMAN. of New Albany. Ind,
a bride Of three days, ran away from her
. husband to join the Salvation Army.
\ CHATTANOOGA COW committed sui
eide the other day by holding her head
under water and standing until she fell
| over drowned.
THE New Orleans Times Democrat calls
for a law to severely punish local CORE
( spOndents who send North false reports OF
| yellow fever in that city.
A MEXICAN LADY of rank has hair two
and a half yards long. She wears it in
two braIds, and has a page to carry the
| ends as he would a train.
THE CURIOUS discovery has been made
that the microscope may fail to show
lines or errors in ruled lines which may
be detected with the unalded eye.
4 SUDDENLY crazed young man fam
cied himself a highway rObber at San
Rafael. Cal, and fired into his own family
/ carriage, badly w0unding his sister.
ITALY has 1.52S sailing vessels and %
steamers. The trading vessels are manned
by 1S1.3S1 men. Of whom 4.33S are Cap
| tains or long courses and 800 cabOtage
Captains.
RAILROAD DIRECTOR BEsTH0LD, Of
Breslau. Prussia. used his pass to frank
his wife and daughters baggage, and was
| condemned to a weeks Imprisonment for
| fraudulently obtaining 81 3 worth of SER
vice.
THERE are no longer any individual
diggers for diamonds in South Africa.
Companies of capitalists have bought the
/ claims. and not much is being done even
/ BY them. owing to the low prices that the
/ stones now command.
OK THE RAILROADS Of England and
/ Wales there were. in 1881, about 2,263 in
habitants for every locomotive. as against
| 1907 in 1871, and there were 1,0lI inhabi-
tants for every passenger car, as COM
/ pared with 1892 in 1861.
FROM the decomposing masses of AM
nal flesh, Prof. Briggs, Of Berlin, mas isO-
lated a very violent poison, which analy-
sis proved to be hydTOchlOric salt of a
new base. and which did not resemble
! any other known combination.
! \ CHINESE imperial decree has been
issued ordering that the telegraphic lines
/ between Woonsung and Shanghai. and
! between Annoy and HaihOn, are to be con-
| structed by the Chinese themselves and
/ not by Europeans or other foreigners.
/ \ SADDLE HORSE and the warm regard
/ of two girls were possessed by an Iowa
man. He lent the horse to one girl. and
| Of course she rode eXasperatingly past
ran out and s If TBS o tbs p6aggfP wifi a
knife.
THE PENSION granted by the Italian
! Government to Plus X, and constantly
/ declined by him, is to be devoted to re-
/ claiming the Roman marshes, the heirs
I Of bo Of
/ which they brought to obtain possession
\ of it.
Two BOOKS formed with sheet iron
! leaves have been sent to the Amsterdam
! exhibition by an English firm as an illus
| tratiOn Of the perfection to which the pro-
/ cess of rolling sheets of iron has been
! brought The leaves are said to be no
/ thicker than ''goOd-toned paper"
| AMERICAN TRAVELLERS spend, it is esti-
mated. 800, 200, 900 in Europe every sum-
mer. The 100000 inhabitants of Phila-
| delphia. New York and Brooklyn spend
| $15.000.000 during the season upon the
| strip Of sand between Cape May Point
and Long Beach
ACCORDING to an expert III steam en-
cheering, there is something beyond cal
culation in the speed of steamers. Two
boats NAV be built simultaneously from
the same model, with every effort to make
them precise duplicates as to shape and
machinery, and yet one will prove faster
than the other
THE Connecticut river falls but 1000
feet in its whole meandering course of
nearly 800 miles from the Canada to the
Long Island Sound: and before the days
of railroads this river was made navigable
for boats by means of canals and other
improvements TO Monroe, y. H.. a dis
lance Of $50 miles.
A GERMAN scientist has invented BIZ
cycle to be drawn by horse. A Berlin
journal describes it: Beneath the drivers
seat is an axle and two small cranks.
These also impart increased velocity and
set in motion three small cranks," etc.
Some people have supposed that there was
only one crank to bicycle.
THE SECOND VOYAGE 10 China made
by an American vessel, was that Of the
schooner Experiment, which sailed from
Albany on the Hudson, December Is,
1875. 1t took eighteen months to accom-
plish the round trip. A silk dress i'm
ported in her is now in the possession Of
one Of the family Of the mate Of the YES
sci.
A GIRL at Long Branch speaks with an
cawt, at O'clock" she said to the family
coachman, in voice loud enough for a
veranda full of people to hear. Caught
what. missg' the man inquired. A repe-
tition Of the order did not make him I'M
derstand it. and she had to say in plain
American pronunciation, though she low
cred her voice and stepped closer in doing
so: 'My cart, stupid; my village cart, at
O'Clock"
WHAT it is hoped will be the last ''sun'
dance of the Sioux has recently taken
place. Fifteen warriors took part in the
dance, having tasted four days before
entering into it. Their bodies were
frightfully lacerated, according to the
usages of the tribe in testing the ''game"
qualities Of the participants. The govern
ment is rightly to be asked to stop it.
The CENSUS Of Egypt, begun last year
by Sir Auckland COlvin and just com
pleted, shows the population Of the cOun-
try to be SOS, 230. Cairo has popula-
tiOn of 36S. 10S: Alexandria, including its
suburbs, 20S,775; Port said, 1860; Suez,
1898; Tantah. 80, 125; MansOurah, 26,7S4;
Zagazig, 1906; Rosetta, 1851. What
the population Will be when the plague
finishes its ravages Heaven only knows.
A TRAGIC EVENT took place on the
evening OF June =, Dli DOdIu Auc IusSldH
war vessel BoOg, lying in the harbor of
Odessa. A naval officer, Lieutenant kO-
wenko. on account, il is said, of some
neglect of duty on his own part, shot him
self on the deck Of his vessel. Death was
instantaneous. The extraordinary sequel
is that the commander of the vessel,
PrOkOsiefi, who was standing close to the
Lieutenant, was so affected that he at
tempted to throw himself overheard. He
was promptly prevented, but from that
moment he has been insane.
A WATERING PLACE in Abyssinia called
Dabamatta is declared to be far superior
to any of the curative resorts in Europe.
1t is located amid a grove Of tamarinds
and sycamOres on the banks Of mountain
torrent, the water of which is a milky
white color, and is locally supposed to be |
a cure for all the diseases Of humanity. |
Many of the best Abyssinian physicians
live all the year round at Dabamatta, and !
prescribe for those who resort thither 10 !
take the baths. Patients are generally |
recommended to remain for from six to !
eight hours at a time i'm the water. the |
temperature Of which is uniformly warm;
and there is no doubt, says a correspond |
ent. that many remarkable cures are eff |
fected.