Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-09-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Phil ADELPHIA is 10 have street car
/ with a patent spring motor. The inyen-
! tor saws that after the spring Is Wouhu
/ up il will prOpel the car eIght miles,
DR.. NILES. Of Jacksonville, does not I'M
/ derstand his well. 1t is 300 feet above the
higb-water mark Of the Florida coast, Is
/ but sixteen feet deep. yields full supply
Of pure, cold, fresh water, ana YET IL rises
and falls with the ocean tides. lie wants
/ il explained.
WITHIN the past week Philadelphia's
. Postmaster has detained 1900 packages
under the departments order that mail
matter on which insufficient postage mas
been paid shall be held until notice IS
given the sender that he must pay full
postage if he wants the package 10 20 70
its destination.
I THE Galveston Netrs Dem. says Of
Postmaster General Gresham: Mr.
Gresham's acts recall the days Of the
early Presidents. when honesty, capacity
and business qualifications were made the
standard for entrance TO the pubic ser
vice, and when mere party service and
partisan activity did not qualify citizen
for important public duues.'
WRITER in the PoOutdr Science Month";
F ly propounds the theory that a change Of
climate is taking place in this country
from electrical disturbances. He believes
that radical changes are taking place IN
our atmosphere and climate; that the con-
structiOn Of great railroad belts across the
continent and the erection Of vast net
work Of telegraph and telephone wires eX-
ert an influence upon the atmosphere by
disturbing the equilibrium OF electric
forces"
. 20 tt.9f n \ 1plrica
is the afternoon express on the Canada
/ Atlantic Railway, which leaves Coteau
station at J:3j and reaches Ottawa, dis
tant 7S.4 miles, at :O3, having made one
stop Of three minutes at Alexandra.
I This is almost exactly 80 miles an hour.
The fastest train in the world is probably
the Flving Dutchman," which runs
without stopping from London to Bristol,
a distance Of l1Sl4 miles, in just two
hours, a rate Of j91z miles an hour.
s.WHAT are buttered eggs:' inquired
/ the reporter. Somewhat Of fancy ar
I ticle. ] imagine. because but few are
I sold. There are old women in New York
/ who get from the authorities the right to
keep hens. these they keep in the cock
/ loft of the house, and keep boys watching
them until they lay an egg. No sooner Is IL
laid than il is dipped in melted butter,
and the shell. which is yet warm and sus-
ceptible, absOrbs the flavor Of the butter,
ana they are said TO be very fine. They
bring from 80 10 80 cents dozen.
THE cod fishermen Of the Banks will
hereafter endeavOr to 90 to sea provided
with a liberal allowance Of oil with which
10 calm troubled waters. There is no
+ doubt about its efficacy. The plan was
tried bv many vessels Of the Gloucester
fleet during the recent heavy gales, ana
/ probably saved many OF them from Delhg
I badly damaged, if not entirely wrecked
/ by the terrible seas. Inc eHect - almost
I magical. as the oil dripping into the
/ water prevents the sea from breaking,
and the vessel is enabled to ride safely on
I the waves.
ONE day last week, says the Portland
/ Me. Argus, Mrs. Annie Cary Raymond
and her husband assembled Mount Wash
inoton. There was "A heavy fcg hanging
/ over the top. and Mrs. Raymond, turning
I To her husband, remarked: "lf this fOS
would only lift ! would give 500 TO the
l Maine General Hospital 1t was but
/ short time before the fog lifted, and they
had a delightful view. Descending to the
/ Glen House, Mrs. Raymond was remind
/ ed of her remark, and Immediately drew
her check and sent it to a physician IN
Portland for the benefit Of the hospital.
\ CORRESPONDENT of the Philadelphia
Press, noting the sudden rise and rapid
growth Of towns along the line OF the
Northern Pacific Railroad, says: ''Ten
wears ago there was hardly hut on the
LONG Fine through Dakota. The great ma
iOrIty of settlers came on the railroad, not
as the first pioneers. The pioneers Of to-
day cross the Alleghenies and the valley
Of the Mississippi with all their Eastern
/ civilization as thoroughly developed as at
LII Il in II
the dav Their chinaware and glassware
are fine, and they eat with silver forks.
some pianOfOrtes have already arrived
and others are coming
IL the island of Java vessels are loaded
with bananas by negroes marching IN
single file. each with bunch on his head.
The lines often number nearly hundred
men and women. AS they 20 to and from
the vessel a negro with a loud, mel0dl0us
voice. sits on the deck and calls off the
tally in a singing, drawing tone, as fol-
lows: Banana da one, one, one; banana
da two. two. two: banana da free, free
free: mark me down fOah, foah. toah; five
and tally. five. five: banana da five, five,
five: banana da five, five, five, five, and
tally five, five" They can count only up
10 five. so white man of superior attain
ments sits near and keeps the tally by
fives while the negro repeats his count.
1t appears that the high rate Of wages
which prevails on the Isthmus of Panama
is attracting labor and making the pro-
duction of coffee Improbable in Costa
Rica, Colombia, Venezuela and even Bra
iii. Only in Spanish Honduras and Brit
ish Guatemala can coffee now be said to
be profitable. The planters in Nicaragua,
according TO latest reports, have a am
Guilty i'm clearing their expenses. In coun-
tries further south an annual loss is IN
CURED, while in Brazil the shrinkage Of
the crop has attracted the serious atten-
ton of the government. Wages have
zone down in Honduras and Guatemala,
and if the present depression in the price
of coffee continues, the coffee planters of
Brazil Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica,
and Nicaragua will be ruined, while the
more fortunate planters of Mexico, Guate-
maIa and Honduras will have all they can
do to hold their own. notwithstanding
this gloomy outlook, however. coffee IN
Mexico is still believed to be the coming
industry, because the railways running
from the United States will bring the plan
tatIons into direct communication with
the consumers. This advantage, together
with fairly cheap labor, should prove de-
cisiye in the trade, supposing Mexico to
have equal facilities with other coffee
growing countries, such as Costa Rica,