Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-12-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE scenery in "Herodiade," the new
italian opera just produced in Paris, Is mace
entirely of paper, and cost only $1,000;
whereas, if it had been painted IL coulu not
have been mounted for less thah SoV,oUo'
DURING some festivities at Duff House, the
Earl of Flies seat IN Scotland, Count Herbert
Won bismarck. while out shooting with the
Prince of Wales. peppered the Princes legs
with shot, but the damage was only trlillhs'
BEGINNING January Is there will be ma
tional cooking main at Chillcothe, o., which
will last five DAYS. 1t is asserted that Dlrds
from New York, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee,
Georgia. Virginia and other States VIII be
entered.
on the State railways in Sweden, says the,
Engineering, there is generally doctor Tor
every thirty-twO miles of line, and in this
way forty-four doctors are employed by the
government. The private railways have a
similar system.
THE Public Printer of the United States is
at the head of the biggest printing establish
ment in the world, employing over 2.2O0 men
and turning out annually about zO9,O9o,O11 JO
blanks. envelopes, etc, $4,000 plank DOCKS
and 100000 pamphlets and DOCKS. lie uses
up every year about $2,5O0,OOO.
THE intensity of the anti-Chnese feeling in
Portland, Oregon. may be inferred from the
refusal of the owners of the Centennial block
in that city to sell to Cinnamon for $4,000 more
than any other persons will pay for 1t, ana the
refusal also Of the Methodist Church to lease
their property to Cinnamon even at $3.50
month more than others VIII pay
HOLLOW steel shafting, which has come very
generally into use in Europe, even for such
heavy work as steamship propeller shafts, Is
found to very much lessen the weight in pro-
portion to the decreased strength. 1t appears,
for example, that l0-inch SHAFT; with q mole
inches in diameter, has Its weight reduced
l6 per cent, with loss of only 2.56 per cent.
of strength.
In ADDITION to drawing heavy loads the
Daft electric motor of the Saratoga and Lake
George Railroad is more useful in saving out
boards, current of electricity being run for
that purpose from the rails to an adjacent
saw-mil. 1t would appear that there Is noun
ing daft about the motor except It's name,
which is more than can be said of certain
other schemes for developing power
THE New York Central Railroad has estab-
lished the lowest rates of fare for passengers
that are known in the world. 1t has reduced
rates on all fares between New York ard
Poughkeepsie. 1t sells 624 trips lone each way
for every day in the year, for $40. The dis
lance is seventy three miles, and the rate,
therefore. is little over three mills mile.
Tickets to Yonkers, fifteen miles, are sold at
the rate of about six mills mile.
A NEW MINE of ''china stone'' has been dis
covered on a farm at Hinsdale, Mass, The
stone is the same as the English zeOlite used
for making china ware. Parties from Port
Morris, n. J., have tried to buy 1T, but the
owner refuses to sell. Preparations will be
made.to get out enough of the stone for eX-
periments, and If 1t proves to be as good as IL
appears, it will be mined for the market IN
New Jersey There seems to be an mex
haustible amount of 1T.
THE Calcutta Englishn'an. referring to the
Exhibition building in that city. says: "At
the west end of the restaurant is refrigera-
ting room. 1t is not intended for meat or any
such corpus vile; it is intended for visitors,
who, when they become heated and tired from
sightseeing. can rest and recruit themselves
bodily and physically in temperature of 55
degrees. The walls are being hung with APP
subjects, such as the snowy Range
sSpitzbergen, in the Winter and the Home |
of the Laplander.' The service of the table |
will be in frosted glass, and visitors will greet
each other in the glacial tones OF convention
al politeness."
DoN MIGUEL WHITE, whom the Los Angeles
Herald calls the first English speaking settler
in California, was born in Chlselhurst Eng
land, in 1901. He landed in the Golden State
IN 1917. His first venture was. in a schooner, |
in which he traded with the Sandwich Islands |
until the California revolution of 1880 diverted |
his enterprise to the coast trade. firing OF |
the sea- he resumed his trade of carpenterlng |
in Alta, Carfornia and later he settled on a |
ranch in San Diego county. Thence he moved. |
IN 1880, to Los Angeles, where he and his wife |
are surrounded by their Sranuchllureh anu |
great grandchildren.
ONE of the defunct industries of Detroit is
the manufacture of dog oil, which. it is only |
fair to say, never reached colossal proper
tions. 1t was made by man named Blake
". under arrangement with the guardians
Of the dog pound, and was purchased chiefly |
bv veterinary surgeons, who used it in the
of a lIniment. But SO a gall
lon was ali they would pay for it, and at
that price the business did not prosper. 1t
MIGHT be supposed that the dogs of Detroit
would breathe freer, now that this enter
prise has collapsed, but in reality IL makes
little difference 10 them, for they, were al
WAYS drowned before their surrender to Mr..
Blakely.
BONDS worth 81, 400, stolen from the Wood
bury. Conn, bank last June, have been found
in an old stone wall near Bridgeport. Had
lev and Howard, two of the bank burglars,
were afterward lodged in Litchfield jail. They
retained a lawyer to help them out, but ne
would not work without pay. and, having no
money, Hadley at last told him OF the bonds
and made a rough drawing OF their hiding /
place. The lawyer undertook to find them,
hunting at night. He failed, and the matter
came to the ears of a nephew of a man who
owned 81. 500 OF the bonds, and he got admls-
sion to the Jail aud obtained the drawing and
description of the hiding place, from which he
found q glass jar with-the bonds in 1t.