Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST

ABERDEEN, Miss, is to have Mormon
church.
THREE thousand Americans and twelve
thousand English are now living in Paris
WHEN our population is as dense as
that of France, we shall number 6SO,WO,'
900.
ONE HUNDRED and ten pounds Is the
weight of a 3-vear-old child named FItZ
Buchanan, who lives in Greenup, NY.
AMONG the post offices in the country
there are 81 Washingtons, 10 Shermans,
II Sheridans. Is Grants and 80 Salems.
IL one district in Yucatan, in fort
night, there were killed 10000 pounds of
crasshoppers and over 1900 pounds of
lOcusts.
DURING the past four months the yleld
of herrings in the Shetland Island fisher
les alone have amounted to over 100000
''crans."
NEwBERN, Tenn, has law that i'm
poses fine of not less than $25 or more
than $50 on any person who goes into a
saloon on Sunday.
A COMPANY of Indiana capitalists are
contemplating the erection Of jute fac
tory at Memphis. This building and ma
chinery will cost $15O,OO0.
CHINESE are said to live on next to
nothing, but they are Sybarites in COM
parison with New York Italians, who
support an entire family on 81 week.
The last census of Japan gives total
population of 36, 100000. Toxic, the
largest city, contains somewhat over a
million, and kiOtO, the imperial city, 10O,-
600.
AN Illuminated cross, twelve feet in
height, similar to those in New York and
BROOKLYN. is to be placed upon the spire
of st. Agatha's Roman Catholic Church,
in Philadelphia.
Mr.. BELL, the new Supervisor of Ar
chltecture at Washington, thinks the
Capitol building has been built to on all
sides until it is all out of proportion. ut
looks like very big hat on small man.
AN Iowa man has figured out that the
dogs of that State eat enough annually to
feed 100, 600 wOrkmen. and cost $9,000.000,
counting the sheep they kill. The educa-
ton of the children of the State costs
$4,000,000.
DIR. WERNER SIEMENS has demon
strated by experiment that intensely hot
gases do not emit light, and that cOnse-
Quently all light given by heated gas must
come from solid impurities, and not from
the gas itself.
PROF. YOUMANS says that the study
of dead languages has been the one ire
eminent and historic failure OF so-called
liberal education. There is more hatred
Of it than of any other kind of study,
mathematics not excepted.
WELLS, FARGO & Co. have been sued
for SIC. 900 damages in San Francisco for
alleged failure to transmit medicine in
November, 1881, for a little child sick
with membranous Group, by reason of
which failure, it is claimed, the child
died.
MICHAEL CROSBY arrived in New York
the other day from Hamburg, bound for
Mauch Chunk, Penn. He says he intends
to walk there. He has plenty OF money,
bnt declares that he enjoys walking, hay-
ing often tramped 100 miles in "a hours in
his native land.
y MOST ingenious form of artillery pro-
iectile has recently been invented by Herr
Krupp. 1t is fiat headed instead of point
ed, so that it will not glance, and It's
head is covered by pointed metallic case
filled with grease, which aids in the pro-
jectile's penetration.
THE latest California wonder is burn
ing mountain. A large part of the face of
a hill, said to be composed mainly OF clay
and compounds of sulphur, is in state OF
rapid oxidation. The air is filled with
of smoke and gases, and the
ground near by is too hot to walk upon.
KING THEEBAw's wife has borne him a
daughter. not a son, and the court of Man
dalay seem to be in pretty state of com
motion. King Theebaw upbraids his
Queen. and she upbraids the midwife and
the astrologers. while the courtlers Ia
ment the loss of the largesse that would
have been presented if the unfortunate
little girl had been boy.
THE new Vanderbilt mausoleum in the
Moravian cemetery at New Dorp, staten
Island, is intended to be very costly
affair, though as yet the design has not
been finally fixed upon. The site is on
the summit of hill in the centre OF the
burial ground and covers nine acres. Be
sides the money he will spend on his own
plot, Mr.. Vanderbilt intends to make the
cemetery one of the finest in the country.
BAcNINH is one of the keys of the Red
river, and its capture by the French would
give them a clear waterway through Ton
quin, while it would deprive the Chinese
Of basis of supply and operations almost