Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

containing seyenty-eight and half acres,
is to be sold at auction September s.
IT Is ESTIMATED that the loss to the
holders Of the trade dollars in circulation,
by their depreciation, is more than $3.50
600.
THE UNIVERSITY Of Milwaukee, re-
Gently incorporated in that city, will
start on a cash foundation of not less
than $l,0O0,000.
A YOUNG New York clerk, convicted of
theft from his employer, was recommend
ed to mercy by the jury because his sala-
ry was only 81 day.
IN 1872 the British national debt stood
at 1865, O00,0 900; in 1882 at $3,545, 100000.
The present Chancellor Of the Exche-
quer favOrs a scheme for more rapid re-
demption.
ANOTHER DOCK, to cost $500, 900, with
water area of thirty-fve acres, is being
built by Lord Butte at Cardiff. The Butte
family has sunk at least $l5,N0,000 IN
such works.
THE STEALING of her face powder by
her husband to shine up his big brass
watch chain was the extreme cruelty
which caused an Indiana woman recently
to apply for a divorce.
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largest number of marriages are by per-
sons under twenty-three years of age,
Philadelphia editor concludes that as peo-
pie grow older they become wiser.
REV. FATHER DE MARIO, of Benicia,
Cal, is experimenting with an automatic
lamp. his own invention, the ultimate
success of which is not questioned by those
who have examined its wonderful mechan-
ism.
MONTREAL SODA WATER has been ana
lived by the government analyst and
found to contain traces of lead, iron or
copper, and one sample was so largely
impregnated with copper as to be danger
Gus.
BEoKwITa, formerly confidential clerk
of B. L. Babbitt, whom he swindled out
of $500, 900, has just served out his seven
years sentence in Sing Sing, and is
going to Mexico to grow up with the
country.
A BUNDLE THIEF" has been at work
in Brooklyn. Meeting children carrying
packages, theAnan would hire them to UNI
dertake errands for him, he agreeing to
hold their bundles while they were gone.
His hold was too firm.
If THE WESTERN UNION succeeds in
leasing the Rapid Telegraph Company by
paving 81 per cent. on the latter's $4,000
600 capital, it will obtain control of certain
valuable patents, which is SAID to be the
Western Unions purpose rather than to
get rid of a rival,
Miss JENNY MARKS, of Baltimore,
guessed there were %, 1870 pills in bottle
in window in that city, and won sew
ing machine by her guess, which was the
nearest correct. There were %, 100 pills
in the bottle. There were over 5000
guesses, and the worst one was a guess of
5000, 600.
TENDING to corroborate the idea that
malaria is caused by any vegetable de-
composition is the case reported by DIR.
EichWald, of ST, Petersburg, of lady who
lived constantly III q room allied with
flowers in pots, and who thus acquired an
intermittent fever with symptoms of true
malaria.
THE SCHoFIELD Norman and Indus
trial School, at Aiken, ;. c.. has closed
after a successful year. 1t was establish
ed fifteen years ago, and is intended for
the training of cOlOred teachers. During
the year just ended, the attendance was
good and regular, the number of pupils
reaching 327. About 100000 has been eX-
pended on the school,
WORTH recently made for one Of his IA
yorite patronesses a really beautiful dress
to be worn at the races at LOngchamps.
The costume was displayed several days
before it was to be worn, and another
woman, seeing it, wanted one like it,
'.You can't have it." said Worth. 81
won't make it. It's a lovely dress; yes,
but ones enough for Paris"
IT is NOTED at White Sulphur Springs
that the Southern planter of the style of
quarter of a century ago is scarce, and
that the place has become the resort of
''those mostly in trade, whom the war
dealt more gently with or who have re-
covered from the blow; and these are
numerous enough with the increasing
body of Northern visitors and the abDn-
dant tide from the West to maintain the
tradition of ancient gayety"
THERE is strong superstition in the
United Kingdom as to the unluckiness of
marriage in May. In ancient Rome mar
riage in that month vas deemed unwise,
because the festival of departed souls was
then held. Referring to the great falling
off in the number of marriages in May, as
compared with other months, the British
Registrar General quotes a line of Ovid
which recalls this superstition, and mem
lions that ii was found written up on the
gate of Hollywood on the morning after
the marriage. in May, of Mary Stuart
with Boutwell,, a circumstance to which
the dislike of the Scotch to May marriages
may possibly be traced.
Mr.. CHARLRs DUDLEY WARNER, writ
ing to the Hartford Coardnt of the natural
bridge of Virginia, says: Exactly over
head. on the highest spring Of the arch, is
the figure of a gigantic spread eagle. 1t
is the eagle of our coat OF arms. The
head. the spread wings, the claws with
the arrows are all perfect. 1t seems to be
formed by discQloration of the rock rather
by than lichen. However ii Is made-and it
could not be more striking If 1t were
painted-it is ancient. The French en-
gineers who made survey and measure
meHt Of the bridge during tie Revolu-
tionary war, noticed il with wonder, and
in their printed report they drew from il
happy augury of the success Of the
Americans in the struggle. What makes
the figure itself more remarkable is that a
discolored patch under it is a very fair
representation of a crouching lionv'
Mr.. l. A. Bacon, Savannah, Ca, says:
81 used Browns Iron Bitters for nervous
ness and Indigestion and found it excel