Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-13
ITEMS OLE INTEREST.

WHEELING's beer breweries turn out
33s, 900 kegs year.
ONE of the Judges appointed by Gov
ernor Butler finds that woman came to
her death by being struck by a ''cillender'
of a locomotive engine.
OVER 700 miles of subterranean tele-
graph lines are completed in France, and
1900 miles are in course of construction,
to be completed by the end of this year.
THE POSTMASTER at Portland, Oregon,
has received explicit orders from the de-
partment to keep himself supplied with
One-cent pieces, that he may be enabled
to make exact change whenever necessary
when he issues a money order for sum
less than $40, the fee for which is cents.
THE most recent sales of slave&in Tan
gier were as follows: A negro boy, aged
eight, S38, and girl, who sold for $24.
These were sold the same day. On. the
following morning a girl was exposed for
sale in the market place, and was sold for
$35. and two days afterwards young
mulattO realized 500. Since April L, forty
two persons have been publicly sold in
Tangier.
SHAKESPEARE uses more different words
than any other writer in the English lam
words in his plays and sonnets, while no
other writer uses as many as 10000. A
few writers use 1900 words, but the great
majority do not employ more than 5000.
In conversation, only from 5000 to 5000
different words are used.
THE English Post Office Savings Bank
continues to be a most successful institu-
ton. A quarter of million additional
IN,
during the year 1882. The total number
of depOsitors at the end of the year was
thus nearly 100000, the amount of their
deposits being over f39, 1000, 000-an in
crease of nearly three millions during the
year. the largest annual increase vet re-
corded.
IN MEXICO nearly every one is a
smoker. The school children who have
done well in their studies are rewarded
by being allowed to smoke cigar as they
stand or sit at their lessons. The school
master is seldom without a cigar in his
mouth. In the law courts all persons
commonly enjoy their tobacco freely, and
even the accused in criminal trial is not
denied this indulgence, but is allowed, if
his cigarette goes out in the heat of the
argument, to light it again by borrowing
that of the officer who stands at his side
to guard him.
JOHN Browns grave at North Elba,
n. Y, is close by the old, weather-beaten
farm house that was once his home. 1t is
in corner of the dOoryard, and fenced off
by white paling, the gate of which is
carefully locked, In like manner the
tombstone is covered by wooden box,
chained and padlOcked to the ground.
When this is removed one sees a blue
ctr hn md Of no Of
Brown, his father and three sons. At the
foot of the grave stands huge boulder,
into which are deeply cut the letters.
'JOhn Brown, 1859"
A FEW NIGHTS AGO Mr.. Gilbert, the
actor, was standing at the gate of his
house with his hat Off. He had, in fact,
seen some ladies to their carriage, they
had driven off and he remained standing
on the sidewalk, enjoying the cool of the
evening. out of neigEbOring house
where he had been dining stepped gen.
tleman, who, after walking a few PAGES,
became aware of Mr.. Gilbert, whom he
mistoOk for the butler of the establish
ment. Addressing him at once, with an
air of polite superiority, he said: "Will
you call me a Hanson cabf' .Certain-
ly," replied Mr.. Gilbert, you are Ham
som cab.n
THE LATEST utterance of the Louisville
Courier-Journdl concerning the Speaker
ship Is as follows; ''The election of Mr..
Randall to the Speakership means the dis
solution and the ultimate ex tinction of
the Democratic party, In order to elect
him the democratic party has to reverse its
entire policy and put its foot on its course
in the last Congress, approve the keiter
and Robson combination as to the Ways
and Means Committee, and take its cOun-
sells right out of the hands of the Republic
cans. This the party has no thought of
doing, and hence we have said, and we re-
peat, that Mr.. Randall has no earthly
show of election"
"A RAILROAD OPERATOR" writes thus
to the Baltimore Ndy: .'ln 1873 Frederick
Junction office paid to four men, two train
dispatchers and two operators. COM
bined salary of $240per month. Pursuing
its policy of ecOnOmOy p so ably set it
bV rival trunk lines, it reduced the force
to two men, doubled their duties and paid
them $40 each per month, thus effecting a
reduction of 500, subsequently the
duties of these two men were increased
by the establishment Of a ticket and eX-
press agency. In consideration of their
increased duties the salary of these two
men now is $50 for the day man and $40
for the night man. The night man is on
duty thirteen hours. In face of these facts
comment it unnecessary.
THE NEW CREMATORY in the Campo
Verano at Rome, the fourth in the world
at present, burned its first body recently.
In Rome, the body, envelGped in a ape
cially-made shroud, rests on an iron frame
above fire of wood and coal, and it is
believed that no other method of crema-
ton is so simple, and at the same time so
cheap and so unObjectionable. The new
crematory is handsome building in the
Egyptian style, and c0n9iste Of three
chambers, two of which are above ground.
In one of these latter the actual incinera-
ton takes place, and in the other is kept
register for the preservation of full par
ticulars of every corpse that is burned.
Beneath these rooms is a spacious vault,
in which On shelves are ranged Qrnamen-
tai urns of porcelain, bronze ana silver,
to contain the ashes OF the dead.
Mrs. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON and
Miss Susan B. Anthony are in England
doing missionary work for wOman's rights.
Miss Anthony is giving to brilliant au-
diences glowing accounts of the rapid
progress made by women in this country
in gaining admission into occupations
long monOpOlized by men. She says that
forty years. ago there were but four en-
pIoyments open to Misunderstanding
sewing, cooking, and factory work. One
woman was physician and one was a
preacher, There are now thousand
woman practicipg medicine, and, as far
as she has be6n able TO learn, ''they kill
as large proportion of their patients and
receive as eXOrbitant fees for so doing as
male practitioners dO.' The Professor
of Greek in a Kansas college is woman,
and every law school in the country is
open to members of her sex. Women not
only set type and read proof, but edit and
publish papers,
BRIGHT BITS.
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