Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-12-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

SANGUINE persons in Wyoming say that the
petroleum belt there is twice as wide as in
Pennsylvania.
THE Memphis papers have just discovered
that the centennial of that city falls in this
year, now closing.
on CHRISTMAS the publishers of London
Truth distributed toys and 5000 bright new
siXpences to children in the London hospitals.
BECAUSE so few Jews understand the He
brew language, a synagogue at Rochester, n.
Y, has adopted for use an English translation
Of the ritual.
PROF. ROGERS, of Harvard College OBJ
servatory, is at work on bar of steel to be a
standard yard in length, and ruled with 10000
lines to the inch.
THE watchman who discovered the attempt
of young Rough to set fire to the New York
Casino was presented with Xmas gift of $500
bv the managers and some OF the owners of
the theatre.
A COURAGEOUS resident of Washington has
undertaken to test the rights of private
property owners as against the telegraph
companies by cutting all the wires that are
attached TO his roof.
Two HUNDRED German emigrants who re-
Gently went to America, according to the st.
james Gazette, returned to Berlin the other
dav utterly disappointed in their expectations
OF things on the other side OF the Atlantic.
JOIN SHERMAN is said to have lost great
deal Of money at the last Chicago Republican
National Convention by paying in advance
the expenses of the Southern delegates. 1t is
plain to all observing people that Mr.. sherman
has been Overrated as iinancler.
THE nineteen New York hospitals-among
which are divided the contributions made in
the churches on the annual Hospital Saturday
and Sunday-expended for care of patients
during the year ended Sept. 30 over $4,000
OF the 10,442 patients treated, 1858 were on
the free list.
The French are said to be frivolous peo
pie, much addicted to idle amusements and
holidays, to the neglect of the serious concerns
of life But the French Legislative Assembly
docs not adjourn for two weeks CHRISTMAS
holiday when important public affairs demand
its attention.
BALTIMORE men are talking about reviving
the sugar refining business in the city,
which declined in 1875. The plan is to organ
ize a company with $l.000,OOO capital, and
erect buildings with a capacity of l,2OO bar
rels a day 1t is said that such an enterprise
would give employment, ulFectly ana lnul-
rectly, to 10000 persons.
NAPOLEON, after having observed to Mad
anne Campan that the old system of children's
education was bad, inquired what she con-
sidered wanting to make 1t good. "Mothers,"
was the reply. As women are the first ana
DerhaDs tile most influential teachers, we
must have good mothers if we would secure
good teachers.
IT is curious that the granddaughter OF
Byron, who sold his fine manor of Rochdale
at a ruinous rate, and otherwise sacrificed his
purse to help the Greeks, should have married
man so enthusiastic as Arabrs friend, Mr..
Blunt, for a foreign cause. Mr.. Blunt Is
Sussex Squire, highly connected. His mother
Joined the Church of Rome, and his sister Is OF
that communion.
THE first Jewish settlers in New York city
were twenty seven exiles, banished from Ba-
hia, in Brazil, on the general expulsion Of the
Jews from that kingdom, who came there in