Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

engaged in the manufacture of clocks and
watches.
A ''wIsH-BONE" wedding is now the
proper way to tie Hymen's rosy letters.
The couple stand under a floral piece
shaped in the form of a wish-bOne.
THE Russian authorities detained Tour
gueneff's body four days at the frontier
and finally levied tax of eighteen rOu-
bles on the funeral wreaths and on the
coffin.
MASSACHUSETTS and Rhode Island are
the only States which now elect all State
officers and Legislature every year, and
only six States have sessions of the Legis-
lature every year.
Some patent medicine vendors who re-
Gently invaded Vicksburg, Miss, were
driven out by the enforcement of q State
law which prohibits any one but grad
uated physicians from recommending
patent medicines.
WHITE ANTS in the old State House in
Boston are causing considerable alarm.
The little pests have attacked the wooden
girders and eaten their way so far into
them that it is believed that the house is
in danger of tumbling over.
IT is now proposed to use the enormous
water power of the Alps to work electric
railways in Switzerland. Operations are
already begun to connect the towns of
st. MOritZ and POntresina by an electric
railway, motive power beng supplied by
mountain streams.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE has won its battle in
the Territory of Washington, as both
Houses of the Legislature have voted to
strike the word "male' from the election
laws, and the Governors expected to sign
the bill. If so, the new law will go into
operation in sixty days.
IT is expected that 100000 Young cod
fish will be thrown into Long Island Sound
from the New York State Hatchery, at Cold
Spring HarbOr, before the winter freeze
up sets in. The Legislature appropriated
only 81 900 for the Cold Spring Hatchery
in 1852, and only $4,000 was asked for it
in 1888.
y CONNECTICUT MAN buried his wife
last Saturday, heard of an estimable
widow in Brewsters, y. Y, on Sunday,
came for her and took her to Danbury on
Monday, and married her on Tuesday.
The paper that tells this story speaks of
it as ''tolerably romantic"
The Thanksgiving proclamation of Gov.
Ireland, of Texas, is shorter even than
Gov. Walters, of Connecticut He merely
says that he makes the appointment lin
conformity to a custom Of our fathers"
and invites the people of the State ito
proper observance thereof" The date is
Thursday, November %.
THE steamships of the COmpagnie
Generate Transatlantique, which have
been running between Havre and Balti-
more, have been withdrawn. This has
been found necessary, as the company
need these steamers to fulfill contracts
with the French Government for trans
porting troops and provisions to the seat
of the Chinese difficulties.
YALE's CLASS of 'S3 loses its first men,
Der since graduation by the death of Mr..
Yum Few Tan, at Colebrook, Conn.,, on
Tuesday last. He was the only one of the
five Chinese students that entered with
his class who completed the four years
course. Since his graduation he has been
employed at the office of the Chinese
Consulate in New York.
WEATHER PROPHETS who draw conclu-
siOns from the actions of animals are
now denounced by DR.. Abbott, of Tren-
ton, n. j., who asserts that for 30 years
he has watched the habits of muskrats,
SQUIRRELS and other animals, and has
found that their preparations for winter
have no connection whatever with the
mildness or rigOr of the approaching sea-
son.
SINCE the reciprocity treaty with the
Sandwich Islands has been in operation
we learn from the Hdlvdiidn Gazette that
the imports from the United States have
reached the value of $l5, 723, 36I. From all
other countries during the same time the
imports amounted to Sc. SIG, 093. The aye
rage of importation from this country
since the treaty has more than doubled.
OWING to the sudden collapse of the
Egyptian war at Tel-el-Kebir, the English
Government had no use for the mules it
bought in the United States. and a con-
siderable number of them were sold in
London at prices ranging from $40 to $50.
The testimony of the purchasers is strongly
IN favor of the mules, and ii would not be
strange if demand sprung up1n England
for the hardy hybrids.
IT'S SAID that an old fellow living at
the foot of Reelfoot Lake, Tenn, has &C
cumulated handsome sum in the past
- or Ii years by collecting the feathers
which in shedding time cover the surface
of the water and float down into sort OF
pocket near his cabin. To this he has
added by hunting and trapping, saving
the feathers and shipping the fowls TO the
city dressed.
FORTY-Two MILLION ACRES of land in
Texas have been devoted to the use of
schools and asylums. The extent of this
generous provision will be better cOmpre-
hended by comparison: The State of Penn
svlvania. for instance, has not quite o.
100000 acres of surface. Texas is the true
Empire State of the Union, and has an I'M