Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
JAVA produces vegetable wool; sub
stance selling for Is cents pound when
ready for manufacture.
PUBLIC meetings are being held IN vari-
Gus towns in Australia To protest against
the policy Of the imperial government re-
gartling annexation in the Pacific. 1le
meetings are very earnest.
The confidence Of Americans in the
honesty Of their fellow creatures Is illus
trated, saws an English traveller, By their
habit Of placing stamped newspapers and
packages on the tops Of street letter
boxes.
MARY BRIGHT, New York negress,
disposes Of the landlord question in an
original way. She engaged rooms the
other day and the next morning disap-
peared. She paid her rent, however, by
4 leaving two new born and chubby babies.
THK poor public insists on being cheat
ed. Since lottery men have been cut of
from mail facilities, numerous letters are
sent to New Orleans merchants Of good
repute requesting them to purchase tick
els in the Louisiana lottery for nOn-resi-
dent writers.
Mr.. JOHN K. FRENCH, formerly SER
geant-at-ATms Of the United states SEM
ate, in his lecture, "Ten Years Among
the senators" ranks William Pitt Fessen-
den as the greatest member Of that body
he ever knew. but he says that he went in
and ont Of the Senate chamber with less
pretensiOn than the man VINO opened and
shut the doors.
LAST year England consumed, IN addi-
ton to the eggs marketed b. her own
the enormous supply from ireland. no
fewer than G,7J7, "a great hundreds Of
foreign eggs, these imported eggs alone
amounting 10 the almost in credible num-
Der Of so. 49,. go, or two and a quarter
million eggs per day.
Is It. Louis, recently, when a we'd
ding ceremony was nearing its close. the
bride and groom, with their attending
bridesmaids and grOOmsmen. kneeling on
the steps Of the altar. and the church
crowded with their friends and relatives,
the church bell pealed forth, not the mer-
~ marriage chime but the slow and dOlO-
rOus toll for the dead. To the door Of the
church there came hearse, and into the
middle aisle, down which the newly we'd
ded ones were compelled 10 pass. there
was brought the long bier with all its
sOmbre display"
LORD CoLERIDGE says that every edu-
Gated speaker of English uses at least
three languages. When he talks, he uses
colloquial English; when he writes, he
uses literary English, and when he reads
his Bible he uses an antiquated form Of
English, which from its relations 10 mod
ern culture. may almost be called sacred
English. so, within the one language,
there are at least three languages, blend
ing with and overlapping each other, yet
each Independent of the other, having its
own forms, its own vocabulary, aud its
own rules Of use.
The bird population Of Wisconsin is
estimated at siXty-siX per square mile. or
$500 for the state. Each bird is as
sumed to eat fifty insects a day, or 5000
for the summer. Hence, all the birds will
consume 2l.3s4. 100000 insects a year.
Add to this amount the work which these
birds do in their Southern homes, and we
have low estimate Of the influence they
exert over insect life. Multiply these fig-
ures by forty-eight, for the States and
Territories, and we arrive at the cOnclu-
sion not only that our bird population is
pretty large. but also that, without it, our
bug population would soon be 50 large
that it would eat us up.
An ex-Confederate surgeon relates in
the Cleveland Leader, that once during
the war. while terrible thunder storm
was raging, "StonewaIl'' jackson ordered
General Malone to take his men and
charge the Union forces. Then. tired out,
jackson lay down under a tree and fell
asleep. soon he was aroused by one Of
MahOne's aids, who said: General, am
sent by General Malone for orders. He
says the rain has wet the ammunition Of
his troops, and wants to know whether he
shall return Replied Jackson: ASK
General Malone if the same rain which
God sends to wet his ammunition will not
also wet that Of the enemy Tell him to
charge them with cold steel" Malone
made the charge.
JAPANESE girls from nine to fifteen wear
their hair interlaced with red Grape, de-
scribing half circle round the head. the
forehead being left free, with a curl at
each side. From fifteen to thirty the hair
is dressed very high on the forehead. and
uD at the back in the shape Of fan or
butterfly, with interlacings OF silver cord
and decoration Of cOlOred balls. Beyond
thirty woman twists her hair round a
shell pin placed horizontally at the back
Of the head. Widows also designate them
selves. and whether or not they desire to
marry again. japanese travelling in the
United states complain that they have
no means Of knowing sometimes whether
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a maid a wife or a widow.
II appears from a French book on Ton
kin, recently quoted by the Figaro, that
gormandizing is one of the most prOmi-
nent national characteristics Of the Ton
linese. 1t is always said that you can
gather the character Of people from It's
metaphors; and the TOnkinese, it seems,
talk Of ''eating a shop for ''gOing shop
ping" and ''eating a theft" for ''steal-
ing" So, too, if you want TO say, 'HOw
do you y" to native, you should ask
him how many ptdts he had for breakfast.
The imperial Chef is person Of great con-
sequence, but he can have little time for
the higher walks of. his art when he has
TO serve up twelve or fifteen dinners to
the Emperor daily. Public dinners are a
great institution. and when the guests
cannot eat no more they carry off the re-
mainder Of the dinner with them without
secrecy or shame"
\ SINGULAR species Of acacia is grow
ing at Virginia, New, which shows all
the characteristics Of sensitive plant.
1t is about eight feet high, and growing
rapidly. When the sun sets its leaves
fold together and the ends of the twigs
coil up like a pigtail, and if the latter
are handled there is evident uneasiness
throughout the plant. Its highest state |
Of agitation was reached when the tree |
was removed from the spot in which it
was matured into a larger one. TO use "A |
gardeners expression, it went mad. 1t |
had scarcely been placed in its new
quarters before the leaves began 10 stand |
up in all directions like the hair on the
tail of an angry cat, and soon the whole |
plant was in "A culver. At the same time
il gave out most sickening and pungent |
OdOr resembling that of rattlesnake |
when teased. The smell so filled the house !
that it was necessary 10 open the doors
and windows, and it was fully an hoer
before the plant Gained down and folded
its leaves in place.
BRIGHT BITS.