Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ARKANSAS has ISL, 900 acres in cotton
this year against LII, 900 last year-an
increase of per cent.
ARKANSAS CITY is full of leyee people.
The work Of piling up dirt has begun in
earnest, and everything is indicative OF
excellent results.
FIFTY MILLIONS of people in this coun-
try use on an average five matches per
day. This makes $4,000 day for
matches, or $27,375,0OO year.
THE Cleveland Herald prescribes small
mutfs and lemon juice for ladies' hands
the former to keep them warm, and the
latter to keep them smooth.
ROYALTY is not proof against accident.
The Crown Prince of Portugal, while
visiting the iron works at Liege recently,
was struck in the eye by a splinter OF
steel.
Mr.. SULLIvAN's attention is called to
the fact that Lexington hotel recently
held at one time ten Kentuckians over SIX
feet high, eight of whom weighed 200
pounds apiece.
AN Illinois man, approaching the con-
venience of stenOgraphy and the type
writer, thinks he has made a happy hit in
easily worked, and very ingenious.
THE ebony tree grows to be 10 feet in
circumference. The outer wood is pure
white, the heart only being perfectly
black. The tree evidently got its pattern
from watching the habits OF certain men,
bers of the human race.
A NINE-YEAR-OLD-BOY, who had sew
eral times escaped from st. Mary's In
dustrial School, Baltimore, was relegated
to the fifth floor for security's sake, but
few days ago he was missing, as usual,
having left via the lightning rod.
AN enterprising Frenchman has invent
ed a baby which nc ordinary traveller
could distinguish from the usual infant.
1t cries at any moment desired without
the aid of pins or collie, and is used by
women desiring to have railway car
riage all to themselves.
MATTHEW ARNOLD's failure to get
dined and wined by the "best'' people of
New York is said to be due to the fact
that he brought no letters of introduction
with him, but simply relied upon his repu-
tation. Most of the New York million
aires had never heard of him.
THE largest and finest bridge span in
America is at Cabin John Bridge, six
miles from Washington, over the Aque-
duct road. The name of the Secretary of
War is left blank on the inscription. 1t
was Jefferson Davis. Why history should
be mutilated to Oblige somebody's preIu-
dice is hard to see.
THE French have trusted too much to
the traditions of the Chinese people. They
said that the Chinese had not declared
war against anybody for 5000 years or so,
and they did not believe the unbrOken
peaceful policy of the Celestial Empire
would be Violated. But they have found
themselves mistaken at last.
For the first time since the invention of
printing, German book has reached its
| one-thousandth edition, each of them
numbering 5000 copies, thus making in
all 100000 copies. 1t is a primer of
Haester, published by G. d. Baedecker of
Essen, which first appeared in 1858, and
reached its One-hundredth edition in 1868.
FEW people reflect upon the fact that
the Indians are the richest landhOlders in
the United States. We have 237,0G6 of
| them. exclusive of the Alaska Indians,
holding 151 1897, 7GS acres of land. Some
l-of the tribes own 5000 acres per Indian
The average is about one square mile to
each Indian, while a white man is not al
| lowed to pre-empt more than 100 acres OF
the public land.
A FRENCHMAN named Borniche has
lately died, leaving a collection of 1900
paintings. He was a retired merchant of
great wealth, and bought more for guam
| tity than quality. Part of this accumula-
ton is to be sold in Paris this season. The
pictures will be divided into lots of $50
each, and four sales will be held each
week. There is canvas enough in the pic
lures to make sails for a full-rigged ship.
A WRITER in the New York Tribune
contends that sewer pipes can only be
properly ventilated by downward
draughts, produced by heat. He says
''Sewer gas is uniformly treated as if its
natural tendency were to rise. But as it
is constantly loaded with carbonic acid,
which is heavier than air, it would seem
difficult for it to do so. The carbOnic acid
ALWAYS lies at the bottom of pits and I'M
used wells, even when quite open to the
air.
A BODY of 175 New Jersey teachers
were lately questioned as to their views
on corporal punishment. This form of
correction was used by eighty-twO, but
only sixty-fOur thought that better re-
suits were secured by the use of the rod,
and the proposed repeal of the law for
bidding corporal punishment was de-
clared wise by only thirty-nine. These
are gentler days for children than their
fathers knew.
a NEW YORK EXCHANGE a few days
ago published a communication from
lady writing from Philadelphia, relative to
the annoyance some ladies are subjected
to by the growth of hair on their upper
lips: at is quite true,' she said, 'Hthat
most of the depilatories advertised are
worthless, because if they are strong
enough to remove the hair they will also
destroy the texture of the skin. Shaving
will not do either, because it promotes a
more active growth of hair. This is the
remedy have tried myself, and would it
were more generally known, for am sure
it would lessen perceptibly the sum of
misery in this world. Let cold cream be
first applied to soften the skin, and then
let every obnoxious hair be separately
drawn out by the roots with good fine
pair of tweezers in a good light before
iOOking-glass. The cold cream can be APP
piled again, and will allay any irritation.
The hair will reappear after awhile, but
once a week is often enough. j have done
it for fifteen years, and am quite sure
that no one suspects me of having NOUS
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