Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


PAY your taxes or get into the army is
the law in Madagascar.
4 WHALING COMPANY with Sl,OOO,OO0
capital has been started in san Francisco.
GREEN TEA affects the nerves much
more than black. Germans and Russians
prefer black tea.
THE agile starfish has knocked a cool
$4,000 out Of the value Of an oyster bed
at Stratford, Conn.
The entire leaf OF a Methodist hymn
book was found in the spiral Of a cOnch
shell fshed up at jacksonville, Fla.
THE Hotel Hall says that titled people
who visit the United States are frequently
very small in their dealings with hotels.
The London Medical Times recommends
a light. bitter beer, brewed from malt and
hops, as the best thing IN the way Of
beverage.
A BALTIMORE firm Of hOrticulturists
have gone into the business Of importing
and growing the japanese persimmOn.
They have planted 100000 trees.
BLANKETS take their name from Sir
Thomas Blanket Of Bristol. who first
made them in 1910; while worsted is so
called from the town Of WOrsted, in Nor
folk, where it was first manufactured.
HORSES" says the London Truth, run
straight a great deal oftener than is
generally believed, although the common
idea is that every second beast that runs
is pulled and that every favOrite which is
beaten has not tried"
SIT is well known" says the London
World, ''that the great West of America
Is seriously exercised by the gradual re-
ductiOn in the number Of young gentle
men from England who cannot dig, and
who are not in the slightest degree
ashamed TO beg
A PAIR Of Queen EIizabeth's gloves can
be seen in an English museum. She had
a hand like a brakeman. The thumb Of
the glove is five inches long and the palm
measures three and a half inches across.
No wonder the kingdom trembled when
she brought it down.
THE stone upon which Gen. Washing
ton stood when he took the oath of office
as the first President Of the United States
j. now set in the wall Of the main corridor
of Bellevue hospital, New York, but it is
10 be incorporated into the monument
now in course Of erection on the steps of
the sub-treasury building.
UNITED STATES CONSUL kAHLO re-
ports that large delegation Of Australian
merchants and manufacturers will visit
this country next spring to ascertain its
business advantages. The mercantile
and manufacturing associations in the
principal cities viii give the visitors
cordial reception and entertain them in
royal manner.
Long BRANCH, y. J., is the residence
Of Jason Butler, aged 100, and his wife.
who is %. Mr.. Butler proudly claims to
be represented in all parts of the world,
as he has one son doing missionary work
in China. another a sailor now whaling
in the Pacific. grandchild in England,
and a granddaughter married TO a trader
in Rio de JaneirO, Brazil.
ENGLISH CORoNETs encircles caps Of
crimson velvet edged with ermine. That
Of Il Duke Is marked by eight strawberry
leaves. the Marquis wears four leaves
and four pearls, the Earl eight pearls and
eight leaves. the pearls rising above the
leaves. the NiscOunt has many pearls but
no leaves, and the Baron has six pearls
at regular intervals, and no leaves.
THERE is a disposition in some of the
London society" journals not to favor
professional sporting men by prefXing
Mr." to their names. On the other hand,
English sporting men are tenacious in
showing respect toward one anOther's
names. "Mr." Mace seldom speaks Of an
enemy in his own sphere without giving
him the honor of the Mister while it is
not unusual to hear sporting men speak
of statesmen as cold bilks" and journal
lists as ''hOwln' scribes.'
THE proposition to abolish the contract
system Of convict labor in the New York
state prisons was carried last Tuesday on
a light vote by a majority somewhere be-
tween 10000 and 100000. The country
districts generally voted against it, but
the cities and large towns gave over
whelming majOrities IN its favor. The
new Legislature will probably be gov
erned by the vote and do away with the
system during the coming session.
A NEW pest has come to trouble the far
mers of the Guadalupe and OsO FlacO re-
gion, San Luis Obispo county, Nevada,
which they call the ''bean Bird as it is
very destructive to the fields of that plant,
and in the past season has totally de-
strOved the beans of some fields and
greatly injured all. The bird resembles
the wren. is a tiny little animated lump
of gray feathers, appearing in great num-
bers.sbut not in dense flOcks, never alight
in trees, but make their nests and rOost in
the ground.
THE committee which had charge Of the
recent bi-centennial celebration in Rich
mond county. n. V, has resolved that a
large copper box shall be purchased IN
which will be deposited complete reports
Of the bi-centennial celebration, together
with newspapers, coins, photographs Of
local objects of current interest and all
other matter that will be of historical
value. The box is to be placed in the
County Clerks office and remain until
November l, 1888, when it shall be opened
at the tri-centennial anniversary of the
county.
VARIOUS are the methods of initiating
Harvard students into the secret societies.
All aspiring young men are put through,
for two weeks, a series Of mental and hu-
initiating drudgery and subsection. One
New Yorker is said to have been lately
made to sell papers for a week, dressed in
striped bed-ticking. A well-dressed young
man obediently dashed through Har-
ward Square. holding out lOng-handled
tin dipper. and pathetically implorlng,
Won't YOU give me a little something's"
at the same time devOutly crossing him.
self. Others were Enthusiastically dressed
and placarded, and sent on ridiculous
errands. The penalty of dis0bedience is
a closing of the doors Of the societies for
ever to the candidate. Violence is not
resOrted to in the limitations, which are
curious and ingenious methods for max
ing the candidate ridiculous.