Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the Jordan. opposite Salt Lake City, and
propose starting a new town there.
PENNSYLVANIA as a rule generally fol-
lows Ohio in Democratic victories. In
1852, in war times, Ohio went Democratic,
Pennsylvania the same; so II was IN 1914,
in 1877, in 1882.
LAWN SKITTLEs'' is the name OF a
new English pastime. 1t is played with
skittles on stands, and against a sort OF
cricket net. Lawn skittles, its admirers
say, will supersede lawn tennis as
fashionable game.
JUDGING from the steadily increasing
number of immigrants landed on the Pa
cific Coast from Japan, California pa
per predicts that the government Will IN
a few years be called upon to deal Win
the japanese as it has with the Chinese
BETWEEN East and West Pearl rivers,
on the borders of Mississippi and Louisi-
ana, is territory called Honey Island,
with 800 inhabitants, located in numerous
small towns. who claim that they are on
neutral ground and belong to no State,
though they belong, in point OF tact, TO
Louisiana.
IT is understood that large interest in
the Upper AppomattoX canal property
has recently been sold to Petersburg and
Northern capitalists, with a view TO i'm
proving the property and building num-
Der of large mills and factories along its
line. The property comprises some of the
finest water-pOwer in the State.
STATISTICS of Pennsylvania schools
show among other things that there are
1885 school buildings having suitable fur
niture. and 1851 ''badly ventilated" Con-
sidering the small cost of getting good
ventilation, it looks as though directors
and architects paid too much attention to
stately edifices and things that show, and
too little to the almost unnOticeable things
that 20 to make school quarters healthful.
INSTANTANEOUS who have visited the
old country during the summer report
that the farming class has not been for
years in so prosperous a condition. The
report of Sir Rivers Wilson, Comptroller
General of Savings Banks, just issued,
confirms this. Last year the average of
deposits in Ireland was larger than in
England or Scotland, reaching f6 Is. Id,
while in England and Wales it was "a
S., and in Scotland 43 As. 1Od.
ACCORDING to Professor Farrar, the
counting of the rings added by Oxogenous
trees every year to their circumference
can only, without risk Of great error, be
dDpllcU 10 trees cut uOMn III iu6lI PRIME,
and hence is useless for the older trees
which are hollow and decayed. Trees,
moreover, often develop themselves so un-
equally from their centre that, as in the
case of specimen in the museum at
Kew. there may be about 80 rings on one
side to fifty on the other.
THE river Congo is the most magnifi-
cent waterway in Africa, draining wa
tershed of 900 square miles and OPEN
ing highway for European commerce to
the whole of the equatorial region. The
imports of English manufactures are said
to amount to 100000 per annum. Two
British steam companies call regularly
at the mouth of the river, and the gross
exports aud imports are stated to amount
to $4,000, 900 per annum. Mr.. Stanley de-
clared that whatever power could possess
itself of the river would absorb to itself
the trade of the whole OF the enormous
basin behind.
A SINGULAR CASE of the effect of imagi-
nation is reported in Elizabeth, y. j.
Samuel Morgan, an employe IN the Singer
sewing machine works, recently had his
arm caught in the machinery, and the
limb was amputated He afterwards
complained of a sensation in the shoulder
as if the amputated limb was still on and
the hand cramped and aching. He caused
the arm to be dug up a few days ago,
when it was found that it was bent at the
elbow and the hand partly closed. The
arm and hand were Strengthened out and
buried again. Since then he says the
unpleasant sensation has disappeared.
Philip de Confines gave a significant
account of the medical treatment in vogue
in his days, when he described the attack
of illness which at length terminated
fatally for Louis NJ. The fit seized the
King while at dinner, and he 'endeavOred
to get to the windows for the benefit of the
air, but those about him, imagining for
the best, took him from the table, held
him up to the fire, shut up the windows,
and would not suffer him to STIR" 1t is
little wonder that the King never recOv-
cred his health. Yet when one looks back
to the sick rooms of not so many years
ago, with their rigidly closed windows,
sitting feather beds and fOur-pOst bed
steads with drawn curtains. the fifteenth
century terror of fresh air was by no
means obsolete IN the nineteenth. Mod
eru sanItarians still find the ventilation
question the most difficult to solve, and
many educated people still hold that 1t is
better to breathe the most vitiated atmos-
phere than to open window.
THE American bark 5. Il. Hearse, Cap
tain Barnard, which arrived at Baltimore
recently from Peru, has had a cruise of
two years, during which time she has
sailed over $4,000 miles and spent 4S1 days
at sea. The Hearse first sailed from
Melbourne, Australia, then to New Castle,
New South Wales, and there loaded with
coal for Hong Kong, China; there she
loaded for Peru, the greater portion of her
cargo being made up of joss sticks and
sacrIficial paper for the Chinese colonists
in Peru. Fourteen Cinnamon were pas
sengers to Callao, of whom eight died
during the passage and were buried at sea
with the ceremonies of the COnfucian
ritual. During the Gains which pre-
vailed in the Pacific the Chinamen gath
cred in group on the tOpgallant fore
castle, and falling upon their knees buried
their faces in their hands. They would
then thump on the deck to summon the
gods and make known their desires for a
fair wind, accompanying their appeals by
burning joss sticks and making profound
salaams. At st. Thomas, native divers,
securing an anchor lost by the bark, in
several Instances remained under water,
five fathoms deep, over four minutes.