Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-12-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE survey of the Warrior coal fields,
in Alabama, is progressing favorably.
TIE revolutionary tendencies in Cuba
are bringing number of the natives to
Florida.
SEVERAL of the strongest and most en-
terprising capitalists of Cincinnati have
projected a cotton mill of 1000 loom ca
paciUy, and will proceed to build at once
\ FEMALE miser, IS years Of age, was
found dead in London n few days ago.
She owned several houses, 100 acres of
land and $4,000 in cash. She had written
the Lords Prayer on both posts of the gar
den gate as charm against thieves.
THE Texas Penitentiary Board pro-
poses having cane and farm wagons made
in the penitentiary on limited scale,
and furniture also, as an experiment. If
successful, it is thought the Legislature
will be asked for an appropriation to en-
ter into these industries extensively.
THE celebrated beach at Galveston is
being rapidly washed away. In some
places there is actually nothing to prevent
a heavy swell of water from emptying
over the adjacent portion of the island,
and at other points the waves have even
begun to encrOach on the natural soil.
A NEVADA woman has a novel way of
preserving eggs. During the summer she
breaks the eggs, pours the contents into
bottles, which are tightly cOrked and
sealed, when they are placed in the cellar,
neck down. She claims the contents Of
the bottles come out as fresh as when put
in.
SEVERAL public cotton weighers for
| Galveston county have filed suits against
merchants in the city of GalvestOn, claim
ing damages because the merchants had
employed private parties to do their
weighing Of cotton. The cases VIII be
watched with interest, as they involve
some very important points.
THERE are nineteen railroad Presidents
and Directors in the new House of Repre-
| sentatives. One Of these gentlemen is a
| director of eight railroad companies.
/ There are five Congressman who are at
| tornevs for railroad companies. Twenty
! four are either Presidents or Directors of
national banks. Five are interested III
! other large corporations. Among two
| thirds of the members of the House, not
/ including any Of the above, there are 14j
/ lawyers.
PROSPECTIVE brides may be interested
/ to learn that there are thirty two days in
the year on which it is unlucky to marry,
| according to the authority of manuscript
| dated in the fifteenth century. These
| days are January l, ,, 1, ., :, 10, 10; Feb
ruary 6, I, IS; March l, 6, s; April 6, II;
| MAY ), 6. Z; June :, 10; July 3, 10;
| August 10, 10; September 6, Z; October 8;
| November ID, IS, and December 10, 16, Il.
! Consequently January is the worst month
| and October the best month in the year
| for marriage.
WHEN an Iowa man was in Russia last
| year he discovered new and choice va
riety Of musk melon, known as the ''Per-
SIAN" Bringing home seeds, he distri-
| buted them among his friends, who Guilt
waited them diligently and when fruitage
came. were filled with great expectations.
| Just now he is loaded with queries as to
what he has been giving them. The mel
| Ons were not fit to eat. He forgot to tell
his friends that they were to be gathered
and packed away in straw in cool, dry
/ place, and eaten in winter, when they are
delicious