Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
BosroN has 2,1OO barroms.

BOSTON has :, 100 barroms.
ARTIFICIAL eggs are on sale in New
Haven at S13 a thousand.
CONSIDERABLE money has been raised
in China to work gold and silver mines in
COrea.
WE censure the Inconsistency of women
when we are the victims; we find it charm
ing when we are the objects.
POLICEMEN in various cities in Europe
receive paw ranging from 40 cents in Con-
stantinOple to 81 in Edinburgh.
SEVEN years ago the United Kingdom
had $40 packs of hounds, against 324 to-
day. Ireland now has SO, as against 70.
A CLEVER New York architect works
his fire escapes out of sight by building
them into ornamental turrets or bay win
dOws.
The same christening robe of drdp Tar
qent, which was worn by the Crown Prince
of Germany, has served for all the christen-
ing in his family.
ALL the great English cities, save Lon
don and Birkenhead, chose Liberals for
Mayor this year. The Mayor of North
ampt0n is an ultra Radical.
PRINCESS LOUISE and Lord Lorne took
home with them a rare and beautiful col
lection of Canadian birds. There are eight
cases, containing about 100 varieties.
DIGGING out tarantulas has become an
industry in Santa Barbara, Cal. The in
sects are suffocated with gas, and then
stuffed and dried and fastened to card.
They sell at 30 cents each.
AT recent auction sale in Worcester
shire, England, some old tankards and
spoons of the period of James ii. and
Anne were bought in at the almost in
credible rate of 80 shillings per ounce.
THE newest challenge in walking is
that of James Bison to DR.. W. l.. White,
of Bellows Falls, vt. DR.. Whites horse
is to walk UP Sand Hill, a steep ACTIVITY
half mile long, and Bison is to walk up
the same hill backward.
IN the whole Russian empire of nearly
10O,OOO,000 persons, there are only 776
Journals and periodicals of all kinds.
Eighty-twO of these are government ga
zettes and fOrty-four are organs of the
official ecclesiastical authorities.
ONE of the most interesting of the eX-
hIbits at the recent London Fisheries Ex-
position was the boat in which Grace
Darling, the lighthouse keepers daugh-
ter. saved nine lives from wreck of the
Forfarshire coast, some forty years ago.
THE Penobscot Indians, who have been
a part of the history of Maine for 800
wears. have intermarried until they have
become almost white. OldtOwn. the seat
of their mission. has decreased from a
population of 5000 in 1926 to a mere ham,
let of few hundred souls in 1888.
DAKOTA advertises her railroad re-
sources by means of a chartered railroad
car fitted UP with specimens of grain and
minerals, and labelled 1.-THE Products of
Dakota 1t keeps this running between
Chicago and Pittsburg to attract emil
grants.
A RECENT official report says that the
mercury in South Australia often rises in
summer to 115 degrees in the shade, and
this has been exceeded on several occa-
sions. In January, 1862, it reached 1l6
degrees, and in January, 1882, it was $50
degrees only 30 degrees below boiling
in the sun.
In a recent speech at Liverpool, men,
Der of Parliament advocating the emigra-
tion of pauper children said that 80 per
cent. of those sent to Canada by the Shell
tering Home were known to be doing well.
The sending them had cost $50 head,
while the cost of pauper children at home
was 5000 a head.
THE Countess Gabrielle-Sybil-Aimee
Marie Antoinette de Riquitti de Mira
beau de Martel de Janville the rest OF her
name will arrive by freight), who writes
in the Vie PdrisieRne under the nom dc
plume of ''Gyp," has sued an illustrated
paper in Paris for daring to publish her
portrait. We infer the Countess has passed
her meridian.
IT is stated that a 12-year old girl,
living on First street, Jersey City, is a
natural curiosity. She has a foot where
one of her hands ought to be, and a hand
in the place of one of her feet. She can