Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-12-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TEXAS farmers sold last year Sj90O0,OOO
worth of cotton, So, 900, 900 worth OF cattle,
s. 900 900 worth of wool and mutton, and ST.
100000 worth Of horses and nldes
A MOTION to reduce the Lord Mayor of Dub
Inns salary from $4,000 to $4,000, has been
negatived. He has a large official residence.
The Lord Mayor of London has $4,000.
THE young ladies Of Girton College, in Eng
land. are about to act a Greek play in one of
their own buildings, no member of the male
sex being admitted to witness the interesting
performance.
THE ladies of Olympia, Wy. Ter, held
jubilee meeting when the Woman Suffrage
act passed, and afterward INDUCED in street
parade. y great many ladies marched IN the
ranks bearing transparencies and notices.
IL rebuilding Rochester, Minn,, they are
mindful Of the tornado that recently devasta-
ted the town. They are making strong stone
vaults in the cellars, large enough to contain
a family and strong enough to withstand any
tornado.
According to the statement of a California
journalist, he has yet to ind the first Chris
tian teacher in California who will straight
forwardly assert that the Chinese attend
sunday schools otherwise than for the com
mercial purpose of learning English so as to
make and find a better market price for their
labor.
\ VERY successful endless chain towing
system has been tried on that most difficult Of
navigable rivers, the Rhone, and described by
NJ. Dupuy de LONE before the Academy Of
Sciences, Paris. Two endless lateral chains
are employed. worked with independent ma
chinery by a single hand, serving at the same
time To direct the course of the vessel.
Frederick Koskui, now of st. LOUIS, lived in
Egypt in the employ Of the father of the pres
ent Khedive. To a reporter he said the 9TH
ill. Ia, In Of
SOudan can fling at passing stranger-in
their estimation-is 'Misrany' or Christian.
The entire population Is made up of religious
fanatics. Religion is the only industry
LORD HARRINGTON, who led the Liberal
party during Mr.. Gladstone's memorable re
tirement, has the same taste as the Premier
for the theatre. and has been frequently to
see Miss Anderson. Lord Salisbury, the Con-
servative leader, never visits a theatre. Dis
raeli went only to the pantOmime, where he
enjoyed immensely the harleGuin's tricks.
An English missionary who recently made
the journey4rom st. Petersburg to Omsk, in
Russian Central Asia, says that the Nihilists
not only insert their perniciOus leaflets in
duly authorized pamphlets, but that he had
heard on good authority that Bible had been
seen beginning with Genesis and ending with
Revelations, but filed in the middle with
Nibilism.
A WRITER in the New York Tribune SAYS
locomotives numbered rs high as 1000 and
over. and freight cars with a capacity of So
600 pounds. 1t is 4 wonderful road. At one
point we passed, while running for several
minutes. scores of engines fired up and ready
for duty. We came from Philadelphia in pre-
cisely two hours by straight, steady pull the
whole distance
WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE has closed
its doors, having but one student at the be-
ginning of this school wear. Next to Harvard,
this was the oldest college in America. having
been founded in 1893, and was the only one
that received a royal charter. Among the
most eminent men educated in its halls were
Washington, Marshall. Randolph, Tyler,
Breckenridge and Gen. Scott. Where are her
alumni:
AT the school for telegraphy in Ann Ar
Dor one of the students has not the use Of his
arms, vet he sends and receives messages all
right. On the table in front of him is a pencil
and a stick, Taking the pencil between his
teeth he can write good hand-if that is what
one would call it-and with the stick in his
mouth and resting on the key he can send
messages at the rate Of about seventeen words
per minute. His name is Manly ShOtwell, of
Concord, Jackson county, Mich.
THE dentist of Mendocino City, Cal, sud-
denly threw of the garments of his trade,
like Grindon in "The Miller and his Men, -
and famed forth in his second dress as a cap
followed by a long chase III the hill country,
involving much desultOry fighting, in which
the dentist was killed. 'He had been unwell -
said an apologize speaker at his funeral,
land the doctor told him to take something;
so he took the express box"
THE Tereia fur NaturkURde, of Zickwau,
Saxony, in a circular addressed to German
scientific associations, calls attention to the
fact that Just fifty years have elapsed since
the invention of the electric telegraph by
Professor Wilhelm Weber, then of GOttingen,
who is still alive. and has never derived any
pecuniary benefit from his invention. The
circular claims that, barring few mechani-
cal changes the telegraph now IN use is just
as Professor Weber invented It.
THE social event in Portland, Ore, on the
18th ult., was the marriage of Law Yep, a
wealthy merchant. He is a widOwer, As
years OF age. He sent trusty nephew to
China to select a bride for him, and from a
number of portraits that the nephew mailed
to Oregon the uncle made his choice. He
made the customary presents to the parents,
aud they shipped their daughter to Portland.
After the marriage ceremony there was
display of fireworks, and the celebration was
kept up for some days at a cost of 81, 900.