Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

station in Hartford, Conn.,, has almost
entirely lost her voice, and is now unable
TO speak above whisper.
In Lee, Mass, on election day the Sc
lectmen enforced the law prohibiting any
person going nearer the ballot boxes than
10 feet to see how another casts his vote.
THE most important and valuable
stamp collection in the world belongs TO
a son of the Duchess of Galliera. Though
it is vet incomplete, the stamps alone
have cost $4,000
THE President of the Middlebury Col
lege, Vermont, proposes to weigh the
boarders at the beginning and end Of ev-
erv term. 4 record of the weights will,
it is supposed, establish the nutrltIye
value of the various food used.
TIE ANNUAL REPORT of the Health OIL
Ger of the District of Columbia for the
fiscal year ended June so, 1888, shows that
the total number OF deaths for the year
reached 4,2S6, a decrease, as compared
with the previous year, of 30, or at the
rate Of 1.4S% per LOCO per annum.
A BUTTONwOOD that was a vigorous
tree during the revolution still stands on
the farm of Geo. Sanger, Canterbury, CT.
1t is 30 feet high, the trunk measuring IL
ground, and it is the same size around %
feet above, where the branches first pro-
ject.
PEARL STREET, New York, is the crook
eldest street in the world. 1t is mile and
a halt in extent, and yet its curves are so
incessant that you cannot in any place
see more than two squares ahead. 1t
intersects Broadway twice, forming a
half circle whose arc is nearly one mile IN
length.
AN official paper of India asserts that
the number of wild animals killed in the
Madras Presidency during 1892 was 2,055,
which largely exceeded the number of the
previous year, which was only l, 429. The
items were composed of elephants, 21S
tigers, LOS panthers and leopards, 10
bears, "A wolves, 2S9hyenas, Al not named.
THE students in a female college in Mil
waukee, Wis, are in rebellion because
the authorities have forbidden the wear
ing of hoops and bangs. They have drawn
up a set of resolutions, stating that,
though teachers might have some control
over the education of their pupils, they
had nothing whatever to do with their
personal tastes or wishes.
How the world has progressed within
a century! George Washington, the first
President of the United States, never saw
a steamboat. John Adams, the second
President of the United States, never saw
a railroad. Andrew jackson, the seventh
President, knew nothing about the tCle-
graph. Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth
President, never dreamed of such thing
as the telephone.
A GERMAN PAPER, the WuStrirte ZeH-
ana, reports that German emigrants re-
turn weekly in great numbers from Amer
lea. One hundred agricultural laborers
returned recently from Chicago 20 their
old homes in East Prussia. They eX-
planned their i'll success by the much
quicker. but less thorough work of the
Americans, with whom they had to COM
pete. They had with difficulty earned
their passage money.
DOCTOR STEFAN, a well-knOwn Oculist
of Main, has recently
called attention to the injurious character
of many of the occupations of children in
the kindergarten, such as sewing ON per-
fOrated cardboard, tracing figures on
punctured paper, etc. Work of this kind
is not only very hurtful TO the eyes, but
also to the spine, curvatures of which
NAV be brought on by the positions as
sumed by near-sighted children thus Oc-
cupied.
MISS ANDERSON is not likely to be
readily forgotten in England. Twenty
five thousand of her photographs, taken
since her arrival in England, have been
sold. and Mr.. Van der Weyde, to whom
alone she has sat, has prepared a photo
graph of heroic size of the ''Grecian
maiden" This measures feet by ., ana
permanent. This enlargement ON the
greatest scale ever taken, Is remarkable
for perfection of the half tones and purity
of the light.
AN Irish parish priest, Father Douey,
of LOughrea, on removing TO another
parish, sold his farm to one of his old
flock named Dervin. The new priest,
Father Callahan, fancied it, and, the pur-
chaser being unwilling to give it up, large
numbers of people collected and stoned
Deryin out of the place, shouting that the
priest should have the land. The military
were called out and arrests made. The
farmers sided with Dervin.