Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-12-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


uses five tons Of passengers tickets annually
THE mail from san Francisco for Australia
last week filed about 900 sacks. The most Of
il was from Europe.
THE Jim river in Dakota is said to be the
longest unnavigable river in the United states,
il not in the world, its distance being nearly
] 1000 miles.
IT is alleged that. although the Vatican ar
chives are now open to heretics. everything
which it is not expedient that they shall see
has been put aside.
ENGLAND imported over 500, o00 900 eggs last
wear. in addition to the enormous production
OF Great Britain and Ireland. Some people
would consider this an ova dose.
INmanv Of the business houses of Paris, and
especially in those in which the cellars are
used as offices. glass is now beng extensively
employed, instead Of boards, for noorlng'
A NEW kind Of cloth is being made in Lyons
from the down of hens. ducks and geese.
Seven hundred and fifty grains OF feathers
make one square metre of a light and very
warm waterproof cloth, which can be dyed IN
all shades.
4 CALIFORNIAN who has returned from
Walla Walla county. W. T., says that IN five
months he had only about ten days Of sun
shine. In the summer the smoke from the
the winter rains. which quenched the hames,
yelled the Sky in clouds.
A WEALTHY young man of Natick, Mass,
while much the worse for drink, hired horse.
He fell asIeep in the vehicle while the stablers
were Harvesting the horse, and they let INN
sleep in the stable. When he awoke ne SAID
he had used the quadrupcd well. ana fed MN
at Newton Lower Falls. lie paid 81 for bis
drive, and went OF satisfied.
THE Democrat, Of Fort Worth, Tex, prints
the following as solemn truth: ''The most
rem trkable women of the age live in Ste
phcnsvile. 4 mute quilting was one OF the
marvellous events OF that place recently. at
which a Quilt was pieced and quilted without
n word spoken. This sacrifice Of their Tree
speech was made for reward OF $40.
IT always makes a man open his eyes on
Western train when he tells fellow traveller
what a splendid plate Of raw oysters he had
in the hotel car. to DE informed that the
oysters were removed from their shells about
a year ago. and that they are taken from her
metrically sealed cans. when ordered, and
placed IN shells carried on the train for that
purpose.
WITHIS a comparatively brief period two
residents Of Louisville have died Of strains
suffered while acting as pall-bearers. 1t Is
believed that this fact moved Prof. j. Law
renee Smith. Of that city, well known sclen-
titic man. to request in his Will that none OF
his friends be asked to be bearers Of his coffin.
and to direct that six strong men be employed
for that purpose.
AT the Togus Military Asylum, near Au
gusta, Ne, the veterans Will celebrate the
renovation of their amusement hall with
ball in a few weeks. Some Of the disabled
soldiers are famous dancers. \ timber leg
chooses 4 wooden arm for a partner and they
whIrl gracefully in the mazes. When Gen.
TiltOn was governor Of the home Mrs. TiltOn
made herself an idol by occasionally joining
in the terpsichOrean revels.
Two Frenchmen, Baron Mechin and the
Comte de Mailly, have just completed jour
ney across the continent Of Asia. Three years
ago they set out from Pekin and went across
Mauchuria to NladivOstOck. the Russian Pa
cific port from whence they turned westward
and jOurneyed to Irkutsk, and thence through
Semepalatirsk to Tashkend. From this point
they proceeded to Merv and then TO Teheran,
going thence, either by the Caspian or the
Caucasus to Moscow and st. Petersburg.
TWENTY-FIVE newspapers We're started in
Dakota during last October. The reason for
this extraordinary outburst of journalistic
enterprise was an act of Congress which re-
quires settlers pre-empting government land
to publish the declaration Of their intentions
in order to acquire a title from the govern
ment. for a period of six weeks in some news
paper OF general circulation. This extensive
advertising Is sufficient TO furnish sustenance
to q much larger number Of journals than eX-
isted formerly, but 1t Is rather costly to the
settlers.
LOCOMOTIVE No. 20 on the Detroit, Lansing
and Northern Road is known as the haunted
engine. Several persons have been killed I'M
der the wheels on one side Of the locomotive,
and the men who are employed about it aver
that when the engine is running it gives out
sound on that side like the moaning Of a hui
man being in distress. 1t has been thoroughly
oiled, but the mysterious sound cannot be
stopped. Several persons who claim to have
been near, support the engineer in the asser-
ton that recently, while No. 20 was standing
on the track, and no one was touching the
ell-rope. the bell began ringing, and cOntin-
ued for several seconds.
THE Rast Goftar, a native paper published
in Bombay. pretcnds to have made the discOv-
cry that the present dress Of an Englishman
Is nothing more or less than the original dress
of the Parsees. The statement is rather vague.
and it is not explained whether the modern
chimney pot hat or the swallOw-tailed coat
of evening dress is included in the discovery;
but il Is affirmed that engravings on the
ancient rocks of PersepOlis and the compare
lively later monuments on the Take Bastan
show that Persians Of ancient times wore the
Englishmans ''shOrt tunics, pantalOOns and
boots" 1t is added that several ancient
figures of ZOrOaster are clad in costumes
which closely resemble modern European
fashions