Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE total number of spindles added to
cotton machinery in the United States
last year was 100000. of which 10000
We're taken by Southern states.
4 CORRESPONDENT of Nature holds that
such vast quantities of gas as must have
been freed by the Java catastrophe must
have affected the earth's atmosphere. ana
believes that the fine weather OF Septem-
Der, prevalent over a large part of the
earth, may have been a result of the great
eruption.
RECEIPTS of cotton at New Orleans in
one day this week were 1890 bales against
S.03l same day last year. Total receipts
there this season reach 49,, 3j3 bales, and
are 90. 700 in excess of last year to the
same date. The receipts at Galveston
show a decrease this season of nearly
5000 bales. Mobile is nearly 20,OC0 bales
short. while Charleston and savannah
show but little change.
AN Englishman named Graham, who
has been making ascents of the Himalayas,
has d;sproved the general impression
that life at an elevation of 10000 feet is
almost impossible. He has demonstrated
the possibility of both breathing and liy-
ing at an elevation several thousand feet
higher than Mont Blanc and of undergo
trying ascents than those from ChemOuniX
or Zermatt.
JOHN w. MACKEY said TO a reporter
for the st. Paul Pioneer Press: Mining
is the most precariOus business in the
world.' you can well afford to say it,
the reporter retOrted. with $50 0CO, 900 TO
your credit. But did you think so in
1859. when you were pushing an ore car
in the Ophir mine!" IL knew il then only
in theory, for my salary of 81 a day was
always sure, and my wants were simple.
You ALWAYS hear of the successful miners
The men who disappear and are lost in
Pauper alley are not so often quoted"
SINCE the days of the Stuarts the in
crease of wealth in England has been
more rapid than the increase of pOpula-
ton. In 1860 the wealth of England and
Wales was equal to { 10 per head i'm 1872
it was 912I, and last year, E249. Public
wealth had quadrupled since the Water
loo epoch, and doubled since the accession
of Queen Victoria. Since 1910 wealth had
increased four times more rapidly than
population, which led Professor Levi to
remark that they disprOved the Malthu-
sian theory, SO far'as England was con-
cerned.
ABRAHAM KREIsER's two daughters
have dwelt in a small log hut in the noun
tains near IndiantOWn, Penn, for IS
years past, alOOf from all other human
beings. The two hermits are about 90
years of age. In speaking to each other
for they never speak to Others-they sing
their words with lOng-drawn drawls.
They are hard workers, and can swing the
axe and fell large trees. They have no
fear of anything. from tramp to bear.
They sleep with their axes by the bedside.
1t is said that both were disappointed in
love about 10 years ago.
A FRENCH journalist gives some in
teresting personal details as to the late
Admiral Pierre. He was the son of an
attorney whose business did not prosper,
and who accepted clerkship at Rouen
in the English firm of Hall n Scott. The
elder Pierre had sufficient influence to
procure a naval cadetshlp for the future
Admiral. who received his first commits
sion when he was 80. The younger
Pierre always looked on England as his
country's hereditary enemy; and once
when dining at the table of his fathers
employers he refused to drink Queen Vic
t)ria's health, at the invitation of one Of
his English hosts. and walked out Of the
room, to the horror of his father. The
Englishmen, however, were above the
meanness of visiting the sons boorish-
ness on the head of the father. As was
the boy, so, we are told, was the man.
Admiral Pierre had all his life breathed
fire and flame against the English, and
lOnged for an AnglO-French naval war.