Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-09
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ground in English cities.
THE PIG IRON TRADE is looking up, as
well as other branches of the iron trade.
THE RECEIPTS of the big Saratoga hotels
must be $4,000 day to make any kind of
profit.
SCIENTISTS now claim that white is the
proper color for winter garments and dark
for summer.
EFFORTS are being made to construct
narrow gauge railroad from Gallatin to
Carthage, Tenn.
EVERY other man one meets at the
Clifton House, Niagara Falls, has title
and is a foreign tourist.
THE BARRIERS of Chattanooga have all
been arrested on warrants charging them
with violating the Sabbath.
1t COSTS s., 800 to give a garden party
at the Grand Union, Saratoga, and some
afternoons they are omitted.
A SHIP LOAD of steel rails arrived at
New Orleans last week from England for
the Alabama Great Southern Road.
\ FINE marble monument will be erect
ed to the Confederate dead in the public
square at Edgefield, South Carolina.
\ VERY lively discussion is going on
among the Methodists over the limiting
rule which restricts a pastors term to
three years.
THE FARMERS about Newport are de-
termined and have taken a firm stand that
the fox hunters shall not cross their prem
ises this season.
THE total funded debt of the city of
New York is S131, POI ,004, not including
So, sos. T04 revenue bonds issued in anti
cipatiOn of taxes.
A LOT of white oak and black gum
timber from Escambia county, Alabama,
has Just been shipped to Europe for ship
building purposes.
THE ATToCH BRIDGE, in British India,
when completed. will have five spans, two
of 30S feet each and three of 25l feet. 1t
will be entirely Of iron.
THERE are so many railroads up the
CatskilIs now that unsophisticated tour
lists and travellers are apt to become both
confused and bewIldered.
s.ALL the girls here" writes a cores
pondent at Mount Desert, 'aTe as brown
as berries and covered with sun blisters."
What wretched sight they must pre-
sent!
IT is so quiet at Ocean Grove after 8 p.
m. that one can hear pin drop. Any
one who sneezes after 10 o'clock is liable
to be arrested as ''creating disturb
ance."
IF any one doubts that this is a great
corn country, all he has to do to be con-
WINGED is to 20 down to the seashOre and
watch the barefOOted bathers going into
the surf.
CHILDREN at a Cape May hotel raised
$50 by holding fair for the benefit Of the
Seaside Home. 1t should be stated, how
ever. that one good old lady gave them
800 to begin with.
ANOTHER YEAR will see a beautiful
Gothic Episcopal church on the grounds
of the Hotel Kaaterskil, Catskill, to be
built by a Philadelphia lady noted for her
noble works and deeds.
ELBERON tennis players are said to be
the best on the Atlantic coast, and it is
further said that the lady players are
lust too lovely for anything" This
probably includes tennis, too.
THE PROPER way to hang hammock,
according to the Boston Herald, is to fas-
ten the head six feet three inches from
the ground and the foot three feet three
inches-the longer stretch of rope at the
foot.
THE CENSUS of inhabitable houses in
Kansas City, recently taken by the Super
intendent of the Mail Carrying Service,
shows a total OF 11.9Ss, from which it is
estimated that the city's population is
$500.
SUPERINTENDENT MARTIN, of the
Brooklyn bridge, blames the hot weather
for the decrease of travel over that struc-
ture. but looks for better business in the
fall. The falling off from June to July
was fully 80 per cent.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, is a cOsmO-
politan and polyglot town. The Critic re-
norris A quarrel between an irate Teuton
and an indignant DagO, in which six Ian
guages were used. But all the profanity
was in English.
THE REDUCTION of the telegraph rate
in England has enormously increased
telegraphic business. A firm of soap
makers sent out $4,000 kilograms by way
of advertisement on the day the cheap
rate went into effect.
ANOTHER successful trial with an cleo
trio street car has been made in Paris.
1t made the difficult trip from TrocaderO
to the Louvre and thence to Place des
Nations by the Bastile to show what could
be done with bad grades.
A RICHMOND, VA, boy, aged ten years,
followed a monkey and music box out Of
the city. and in starting back home took
the wrong direction, and went twenty
seven miles before he knew he was going
wrong. He was absent three days.
AT the Pennsylvania steel works, Har-
red-hot rails are pushed to saw
by hydraulic pressure. A workman at
tempting the other day to make snort
cut had a red-hOt rail run into his Fitals
before the machinery could be stopped.
Mr.. WILLIAM CIRCUIT, of Hudson, n.
Y, who had been afflicted with a painful
disease of the eyes for four years, has
just been cured by an application of clay.
He used it in obedience to instructions
which he received while praying for re-
lief.
The aged veteran, the war-horse of
General StOneWall Jackson, the same he
was riding the day ne received his DEATH
wound, is on his way from North Carolina