Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Crow Indians are estimated 10 De
worth $500 each 10 land.
SOME friend Of mankind has invented a
alarm by which the clerk in the
office can wake a guest at any hour with
out sending a stalwart porter 70 alarm the
entire hall.
Berlin tradesmen are 50 excited by
the proposed opening Of cooperative
stores that they have asked the Emperor
% forbid members Of the army and navy
to have anything 70 DO with them.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL diggers at Canterbury,
England. found a score Of ancient skele-
tons. some Roman urns Of red ware. a
fragment Of a highly decorated Roman
bowl. and curious flint instruments.
THE progress Of the MeTsey tunnel is
continuous and rapid. During a single
week 3 yards have been pierced. The
two approaching headings are now only
40 yards apart. The rock under the river
i still sound and dry.
THE city Of Vienna mas presented the
Princess Imperial, on the occasion Of the
birth Of her first born. with a splendid
bracelet. Ii consists Of one large sup
ported by two smaller diamonds, and $50
brilliants IN arabesque.
II WARSAW ladies' school, which is
under the patronage Of the Empress, has
been searched by the police, and one
Russian teacher and eight pupils were
arrested on the charge Of having helped
10 propagate Nihilist writings.
..ELT0PAI'' is a station on the Northern
Pacific road. This designation, however,
is a modern euphemism. The name was
originally "Hel 10 Pay" and aptly indi-
Gated the feelings Of the settlers, who
found themselves in the midst Of sand
heaps and sage brush.
II Is now promised that the comet
Brooks viii become visible to the naked
eve bv the night Of the 2lst inst, and that
its intensity viii continue 10 increase
until about the middle Of January, bat at
its best il VIII not be a very brilliant OBJ
iect in the heavens.
APPEALS against Justices convictions
in England and Wales appear TO result in
nearly half the number Of instances m
condemnation Of their decisions by the
superior tribunals. In y per cent. only
Of such appeals last year We're the JUS
tees convictions affirmed.
THE imprOyidence Ofmany small towns
in matters relating to the eXtinguishment
Of fires has another pointed illustration
in the destruction Of GrOtOn, Conn. The
town had no fire apparatus. The cost Of
one Of the houses destroyed would have
bought an engine and provided ire els
terms.
NJ. SMITH has just become Chief Of
the Mountain CherOkees Of North Caro-
lima and Tennessee for a term Of four
wears. In his inaugural he says some
scathing things about white rOgues, who
have been trying to get the Cherokee
moneys. Chief Smith, who is educated
viii pass the winter in Washington.
VINE CULTURE ceases at various points
Of altitude in various countries. In Wur-
temberg at 900 TO loo feet; in Switzer-
land and the TyrOl II reaches LOO feet,
owing TO the heat-attracting, narrow val
leys: on the southern slope Of the Alps,
200 feet: in Sicily. :. 200 feet; in Teneriffe,
5000 feet; on the Himalayas, 10000 feet.
THE experiment of ostrich farming
which Is about to be made in Florida is
not the first ever tried IN this country.
There Is a very successful ostrich ranch,
with twenty birds, now in operation in
Southern California. The projectors only
fear is not that the birds Will not thrive,
but that they will eat him out Of house
and home.
Al. Gurteen, Secretary of the charity
organization movement in Chicago, there
are in that city 10000 paupers, which is
equivalent to one in every twenty Of her
population, and a leading paper Of that
city. while cOufessing its inability to dis
pute the correctness OF the figures, says
1.-THE facts are undesirably bad"
SINGAPORE. on the Straits Of Malacca,
is connected with Johore, a town fourteen
miles inland, by a telephone. On August
p. the day of the Java earthquake and
volcanic eruption. any one taking up the
telephOne-tubes was assailed by noise
like the roar of Niagara. COmmunica-
ton was impossible, and even listening
AT the tubes was painful, as sounds like
pistOl-shots were audible at intervals.
Java is more than 300 miles from Slnga-
pore.
a GERMAN savant named Gruselbach,
Professor Of Chemical Science in the Uni
versity Of Upsala, has been devOting a
considerable time to perfecting an appa-
ratus to freeze living people, and keep
them in a torpid state for year or two.
In any case he announces that be will
undertake by his process TO freeze up any
lady or gentleman willing to submit
to the experiment, and benumb
them. deprive them to all appearances Of
vitality. pledging his word to bring them
round again at the expiration Of a couple
Of years, with no prejudicial effects to
mind or body. As no adventurous per-
son has come forward to supply the sa-
want with the desired opportunity, he
has submitted his invention TO the Swedish
Government. with the request that "A
criminal condemned to death shall be
provided 10 enable him TO demonstrate
the efficacy Of his discovery.