Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS III IN
IT is claimed as one of the advantages
possessed by Florida that it is south of the
| tornado belt.
ELMIRA. \. Y. has a factory which
turns out daily between 200 and 300 au
gers. 1t is the only industry OF its KIND
in that state.
TWENTY THOUSAND FLORINs were PAID
for sending telegraphic dispatches at the
office at NyiregypaZa during the recent
Jewish trials.
4 CHARLEY Ross CASE, in which
Scotch lad was stolen from a wealthy
family. has come to a conclusion in his
identification. thirty years later. In the
BuenOs Avres army. ON beng restored
to his aged parents he could not speak
their language, and was far removed by
coarse experience from the retinements 10
which he had been born. But they were
overioyed.
PORTLAND. OREGON. has a troublesome
amazon whose most recent arrest was for
entering a house not her own and for car
| rving concealed weapons. Her armOry
/ comprised a pistol of the pattern known
as the Rocky Mountain giant. which is
I conceded to be quite as effective IN the
/ hand-tO-hand en- counters of the Western
| pioneers as a Calling gun.
A VETERAN OYsTERMAN. of Baltimore,
SAYS that one of the principal causes of
disaster to the oyster yield is the practice
/ of catching and bedding the oysters in the
| Spawning season. At the annual picnic
| of the Connecticut Oyster Growers AsSO-
| citation a speaker said that sew load OF
mud dumped on an oyster bed would de-
/ stroy over thousand dollars worth Of
1 oysters.
THEJEws in Vienna have anindustrial
school. in which children of their race are
I taught the mechanical and artisan trades.
| 1t has already turned out 1,500 skilled
mechanics. Last year the school had
| over 80 pupils, Of whom forty were learn
/ inc to be carpenters or cabinet-makers,
| siXtv-fiVe blacksmiths. sixty shOemakers,
twenty-five turner's of wood and metal,
and forty whitesmiths. Others were being
trained as wheelwrights and designers.
4 CORRESPONDENT in Ell Paso writes:
Il sat on the Plaza this afternoon, and
saw approaching a Chinaman whose face
was disfigured bv a long, CHASTITY looking
scar. 1t was sam Hing, the richest Chi
naman in America, who is said to have
sailed down four millions. RumOr has it
that all the Cinnamon employed IN con-
structing the Mexican and Texas rail-
roads get their employment through sam
Hing and that each Chinaman about 3d.
600 paws him s a month. besides bonus
for the job of WORK obtained through
Sam"
THE Oregon editors make haste to cor
rect their published statements rejecting
upon the purpose of ''a lOng-haired stran-
ger from the wilds of Idaho" who recent
ly visited Portland on business that he
sr,n1 fhpIF
reporters. There was a whole volume Of
meaning in the closing sentence of his
card. in which he said that they ''had better
leave the 'long-haired stranger alone or
il might be found that lit is not good
policy to judge people by their appear
ance."
IT'S REPORTED that the Spanish Gov
eminent, taking a hint from English pro-
ceedings during the late Egyptian cam
paign. have ordered the construction Of
an armored train of special design for use
in time of war. 1t is to consist of twen-
ty-siX trucks, containing ammunition,
stores and food; engineers workshop
and telegraph plant, and several field
guns. 1t will be propelled bytwo heavily
armOred locomotives, one at each end,
and will have a crew Of nearly two hun
dred men, who VIII sleep on board their
strange craft if required.
The influence Of social position on the
death rate is shown in the second quar-
terlv return of the Dublin registration
district,the area of which is S24, 71Gstatute
acres. with a population of 349,6S5.
Deaths in the families of the professional
and independent class" were equal to an
annual rate of 24.3 per 1000; in the enid
die class the rate was 2S.6; among arti-
sans and small shOpkeepers 23.6. In the
general service and wOrkhOuse class it
was $50, and in the latter alone 43.6.
Among persons Of rank and property,
not otherwise described" it was only 1873.
IT is some satisfaction to know upon
good authority that our enemies, the flies,
are having a bad time of it this year.
They are afflicted with parasites in the
brain, which result in making them mad.
Ii they We're ants they would at once es-
tablish hospitals in every settlement, but
as they are only flies they take it out in
buZZing and making themselves a greater
nuisance than ever. They have developed
the sticking period unusually early. and
possibly owing TO the madness in their
brains. they are dying on every hand, and
electing burial places in soup plates, cof-
fee cups and beer glasses with great per-
sstency.
EXTENSIVE forest fires have been raging
wind blew the flames down the mountain
side toward the hotel, and for time it
looked as though a slight change in the
direction of the wind would be sufficient
to cause the summer visitors to make a
hurried change of quarters. A tract of
low land three miles by five in extent was
burned over. Not far away a hundred
men were fighting the flames all night.
Many visitors assembled the mountain In
the evening to obtain better views Of the
blazing tracts below. The attraction was
something novel in the way of summer
resort inducements.
IT APPEARS that the Germans are not
the largest consumers of beer and other
malt liquors, as has generally been sup
posed. The Chemical ReUielC figures out |
that the production Of beer in the German |
Empire amounts to ~ quarts per capita, |