Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

WITHIN the last eighty years Congress
has spent more than $100,000,000 on the
city of Washington.
THE works for building iron ships in
san Francisco Will be. the Bulletin says,
the most extensive of any IN the United
States.
SIENAwA, the splendid seat Of Prince
Czartoryski, in Poland, has been burned
down. Beneath its roof the late Prince
in 1913 liberated his serfs. The damage
is estimated at 100000.
The Chicago Board of Education has
decided not TO give the children a holiday
on the Friday after Thanksgiving, because
the teachers don't have enough to do to
earn their salaries" and ''children are a
nuisance at home"
EXPERTS in chemistry have estimated
that the cost of LondOn's winter smoke
and fog is $4,000. 900 annually; that is to
say, constituents of coal to this value es-
cape uncOnsumed, and assist in forming
the sOOty vapOr.
THE Philadelphia North american says
that the surest way to procure the annex
alton of Canada is to encourage its settle
ment by the Irish. AS soon as they are
numerous enough it Will fall into our
boundaries by social gravitatiOn.
A RECENT French law makes revacci-
nation incumbent upon every student re-
ceived into the lyceums and colleges.
Since the experiment was made at the
Lycee Louis lie Grand, not single case of
variola or varioloId has appeared.
NEW HAvEN's oystermen smile de-
risiyely at the rumor of New York and
Chicago syndicate's forming to monopo-
lie the oyster trade. and as to electricity's
killing the star fish that are destroying
oysters in the Sound, the dealers say that
an electric shock that would kill the fish
would kill the oysters also.
THE average daily movement of the
wind on the top of Mount Washington in
October last was go miles; highest tenn
perature, 81 degrees ) minutes: lowest, 6
degrees. The highest velocity of the wind
was "a miles an hour, from the west.
There were three inches of snow on the
summit at the close of the month.
THE Congress of Honduras recently met
and promptly accepted the resignation of
President Soto. and ordered the election
of his successor. There are four candi-
dates in the field, namely: Gen. BOgram,
Don Monico COrdOva. Don Celco Arias,
and Gen. Delgado. The Colonial Guard
ian says that the two last named are sup
posed TO be the tools of Barrlos, and likely
to receive his support.
THE old frigate Ohio, recently sold at
Boston for $4,000, and soon to be torn up
for her copper and lead. is 2l2 feet long,
"a feet and inches wide and II feet 5
inches deep. She mounted 81 guns. The
cost of building her was $515,Se9. She
sailed first from New York IN 1887. In
1865 she succeeded the Franklin in Boston
as a receiving ship, and continued in that
service many years, until the Wabash
was substituted.
THE most profitable industry of the new
Swedish colony in Aristook county, Me-,
is that of raising potatoes for the starch
factories. of which there are twenty-siX.
The largest of these made last year 592
tons of starch from $4,000 bushels of pota-
toes. The process of starch making is
simple, consisting merely of grinding the
potatoes. washing the pulp, and settling
the starch in three watts successfully alter
il has been thoroughly washed with clean
water to remove all impurities. Furnace
heat is employed for drying.
THE sarcophagus found recentlyin the
basement of Girard College is said 10 have
been a present from the Sultan of Egypt
to Gen. jackson when President of the
United States. and was brought 10 this
country in one of our ships of war. 1t
was landed at the Philadelphia Navy
Yard, but could not be accepted by Gen.
jackson as President ofthe United States,
the law forbidding it. The remains of
Stephen Girard were placed in much
more beautiful receptacle, which is now
beneath his monument in the mann college
building.