Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST

IT is officially reported that 1,256 head
OF cattle died of rinderpest in month
lending September % in the province OF
POdolia, Russia.
COLD weather drives the American In
dian from the warpath to government bar
racks. He surrenders for blanket and
bottle of whisky.
1t is estimated that the ''funny" papers
publish over 100000 witty paragraphs
every year. This amount of humor,''
says the Chicago Sun, ''should keep our
people between a grin and laugh most OF
the time'
II has been discovered that the people
of Cincinnati eat more veal and drink
more beer per head than the people Of any
other American city. The consumption
of beer is $26 worth for each man, woman
and child per year.
STRAw-BOARD manufacture is growing
in Ohio to enormous proportions. Several
large concerns have been built the past
season. 1t is made from wheat straw,
and, therefore, factories require to be To-
Gated in wheat growing regions.
JUDGE INGALLS,, of Troy, y. Y, is said
to have paid over $1,000 recently for a
small piece of ground at his birthplace in
Washington county, y. Y, merely to pre-
vent the cutting down of a stately old elm
that was on the ground and for which he
had conceived an affection when he was a
10y.
THE Connecticut farmer now buys all
the oleomargarine he can find and mixes
it with genuine butter and sells it for but
ter. He is as cunning as the sugar
planter who buys glucose and mixes 1t
with sugar at his sugar mill. The law
does not catch on to such cheats, and pub
lie opinion is slow.
THERE is a lively contest now going on
between the citizens of the little town of
Mary Ann. Ark. A number of the resi-
dents have applied to have the town rein
cOrpOrated and called Mariana" while
the old settlers object and say, in their
paper, that ''if the dudes don't feel salts
fed with Mary Ann they can get up and
git.''
AwRITER in the Providence J0urRdt,r re-
ferring to the efficacy Of the balsamic odor
Of pine for weak lungs, make sthis sugges-
ton: Very probably the day will come
when pine and spruce pillows will be as
frequent a household appurtenance in our
bleak climate as the quinine bottle has
long been IN the Southern and Western
States.
ACRES of lake trout" says the Con-
cord n. H. Monitor, have been seen over
the spawning beds of New Found Lake
recently. and though they were shy of the
hook and line. 'nOt more than 200 having
been caught IN a whole year." they jump
out of the water by hundreds, and many
have been killed by being shot or struck
with oars.
\ LION TANIER, VI. Planet, placed his
head in the mouth Of lioness in French
town recently, and the beast at once shut
her jaws, infiicting such wound on the
mans temples as to cause the blood to
flow and him TO scream out. Upon hear
ing his cries the liOness at once reOpened
her mouth, and, the account adds, NJ.
Planet was not very much hurt, after all.
AMONG recent patents issued is one for
the manufacture Of paper from the COM
mon grasses of this country, and the in
ventor claims that paper made by this
process will be softer, more transparent
and much cheaper than paper made from
linen stock. He estimates that an acre OF
ground will produce from 81, 492 TO 66,54O
pounds Of green grass, and this, IN turn.
Will yield about 3,711 pounds of superior
paper.
- " ALL ID, 49,
authority, money is plentiful, specie is
coming from abroad, the interior is well
supplied with funds, railroad earnings
are large and the prospective tonnage is
heavy, and general business is in a much
healthier condition than for many months.
These are the rosy facts on which the
bulls base their proposed campaign, and
it but remains to be seen when the play
viii begin.
BULWER, who was somewhat of dam
dy, had an ingenious way OF evading all
inquiries relative to the date of his birth.