Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

SUMNER VISITORS 10 Denver VIII leave
sz-Oo0,0QO there
ENGLISH WOMEN are growing 70 look
with favor on the tricycle..
Ak Iowa TRAMP left the smallpox with
a family who gave him his dinner.
THREE BISHOPS Of the Church Of Eng
land are over ~. and nine are over %
years old.
THK AVERAGE life OF French women Is
said 70 be thirteen years longer than that
81 FreuchDen-
The DELAWARE output this year Of
canned fruit and vegetables Is estimated
al 4.0o1. 600 cans.
TIE ISLAND Of Anticosti, in the Gulf Of
-. Lawrence, is 10 Be sold IN September
70 pay mortgage
IN SPITE Of 300 Iife-boats and 2s3 rocket
stations. about 100 lives were lost on the
British coasts in year.
The MILNER coal mines, near Birming-
ham. Alabama. are believed 70 Be capable
q turning out Loo tons day
SENATOR TABOR has given Denver a
free drinking fountain. but Denver L dis
gusted because II doesn't gush cocktails
SAN FRANCISCO physicians have dis
covered I01 cases OF leprOsy among the
h00dlum class Of boys who smoke cigar
cites made by Cinnamon.
WHILE England Is fearful Of the chan
mel tunnel. spain receives enthusiastlcal-
IL a proposition 70 cut q tunnel under the
Straits Of Gibraltar n Africa.
The AMERICAN printing house for the
blind Just dedicated at Louisville l. the
first building ever erected in the world
TOR that sole purpose.
THEY HAVE caught a veritable VAN
pire in santa Barbara. II Is real
bRod-sucker. with the head Of kitten.
BODY Of a gopher and the wings OF bat.
The ENTIRE COST Of the trip recently
made BIZ the Continental Guards. Of View
Z Orleans was about S20,eyo. and the re-
ceipts from their tableauN exhibitions
were less than 5000.
4 STEAMSHIP COMPANY proposes 10 -
tablish a fortnightly line between sydney
and Fiji. The rise Of the Cannibal Islands
/ in civilization has been 50 rapid that it
/ can scarcely be realized. II Il less than
/ ten wears since they were annexed by
Great Britain.
THE REPORT on the working OF the new
+ Post ONCE savings Banks in France dur
in ISS3. shows that 473, 000depOsits were
paid in. making a total Of 1854. 900 francs.
+ The Withdrawals amounted 10 90
4 francs. - that there was an OYerplus I0I
/ the wear Of 81. -. 900 francs left deposited
Z The deposits average 156 francs each. the
I Withdrawals 80 francs.
THE STATE Of Virginia expended more
I than a million dollars in lSS- for the sup
port other common schools. OF these j. 90
are white schools, and 1.525 colOred. The
+ state Superintendent Of schools strongly
4 ur-eS increased facilities Tor the colored
+ children. The white population between
+ the ages Of ) and p, was. in ESQ 3l4-e2'
E while the c0IOred population between the
. same age Is 204. ~.
+ THE Gurdiqa gives two reasons why
i there are 80 many unemployed clergymer
+ in cities: -. Wrong men for the minis
F rrv. though right and good men for other
) callin.-s. are among the ordained, and the
/ Church cannot afford 70 place incompe
I tent officers in authority. = All Vestrle-
{ and congregations have not churchly
E views Of the ministerial office: and the
man more than the office i made the
qualification
LORD SUDELY is building a large jam
i mandatory on his estate at ToddingtoD.
1 in Worcestershire. Two years ago he
PLANTED there 5000 go0seberry trees.
I 5000 black currauts. 30,000 plum. 3.oll
i annie. % pear. g.0VJ damsOn. 800 cherry.
T 1000 red curTant. 2j.0p0 Taspberries and
100 cob nut. and - acres were planted
with strawberries. Al the same time l4
scotch fr- and 10000 p0plars were plant
i ed for shelteTing purposes.
( A GERMAN JEW named Bamberger
F having written and published a series OF
I newspaper articles rejecting upon the
swiss inhabitants Of -. Gall. they tool
the law into their own hands on the early
{ DAYS II this week. broke into MS OWE
+ hoil1e and wrecked it. and engaged in
/ sundrT conflicts with the German resi-
+ dents Of the town. The police who inter
fered with their exploits were stoned: but
/ their anger having spent itself, peace has
= been restored.
NEARLY ALL the submarine cables
have been made bv English workmen
bought with English money and laid d0wr
by English engineers. The capital II thf
three companies reaching from London Z
. the countries Of the last represents more
( than 81 600 miles Of submarine cables
. The English companies own 5000 miles
against 1000 miles owned by others d
! the cables between Europe and America
I Not more than a tenth Of the 1000 miles
OF cable connecting Europe and Brazil
T with the West India Islands j. OWneC
outside q Great Britain.
Az AMERICAN ACTRESS. who went L
see Irving and Miss Terry in London
and who is not enyious a bit. says: well
I saw him in Romeo. and / laughed all
I the wav through. it was 80 funny. Oh
dear, Ineyer shall forget how be hoped
about the stage. And Ellen Ferry. She
i very languid and very lean. she D.
cIfnes 70 the aesthetic. and she clings aRC
. yearns about the stage IN very dOleltl
manner. I should never dream OF play
ipg Juliet but ] know / could not plal
il worse than she. Her Juliet Is awomal
OF 80 if she Is a day. Her balcony seem
is a travesty on Shakespeare.
/ VIRGINIA CITY. NEv.. is 100 feet aboy,
the level Of the sea. and it is difficult Il
cook meat and vegetables by boiling. a:
water boils at low temperature, owing
to the light atmospheric pressure. There
has been a great deal Of discussion re
Gently as to the altitude at which human
beings can exist. In South America there
are towns. such as POtOsi. placed IS b gh
as the top Of Mont Blanc. the inhabitants
Of which feel no Inconvenience The
highest inhabited spot in the word l.
however. the Buddhist cloIster OF Hanle
in Tibet. where twenty-One priests Nv
Al an altitude Of 5000 feet. The brother
Scbiaginweit. when they explored ID
/ gIaciers Of the Ibc Gemin- IN the sam
( country, encamped al 2l,W0 Ieet- IN
highest altitude at which an European
ever passed the night. Even at the top Q
Mont Blanc Professor Tyndafs part.
found il very unpleasant 10 do tins
though the Professor himself did not cor
fess 10 feeling as bad as they. The higf
ast mountain in the world Is Mount Eyel
est (Himalaya), 29,003 feet. and the col
dor has been seen winging the blue al
5p0 feet higher.