Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-12-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE total number Of sailing vessels OF all
the world Is 1904, gauging So,6is,S17 tons.
NASUFAcTURERs of fancy articles have al
ready begun work in anticipation Of the holt
day trade OF 1881.
SOME of the Louisiana planters along the
Texas and Pacific railroad are already pre-
pairing for another crop
A CHILD was born in the eastern part OF
Escambia county, Ala, last week, with full
set OF upper teeth. 1t lived three dasy.
JUDGE MORRILL,, of the United States Court
in Galveston. recently decided that a seaman's
wages were not liable to garnishment.
NELLIE, the oldest horse in Connecticut, has
inst died at the age of 50. On the day of her
death she helped her son pull load seven
miles.
ONE HUNDRED incandescent electric hghts
have been placed at the Howard Cotton Seed
Oil Works in Houston, Tex They are the first
of the kind used IN that city.
ON December the total number Of distil-
leries in the country was SOS, against S65 at
the same time last year. with total daily
producing capacity Of 2S9,0OO gallons, against
263 600 the year before.
DICTATED hose are a reality, and are for
sale by a few of the leading furnishing houses.
The price is high, as they are all imported, but
the comfort TO persons with tender feet Is said
to be in proportion 10 the price.
Books are at last the best companions:
they instruct Us in silence without any display
of superiority, and they attend the pace of
each mans capacity without reproachlng MN
for his want Of comprehension
4 SCOTCH immigration scheme, assisted by
Miss NJ. d. Mcleod, of Dundee, Scotland, will
20 into practical operation soon, and party
of l25 souls VIII arrive in North Carolina
about the last Of January. The state authori-
ties have promised to assist in settling the
strangers.
THE Portland OregOnida warns immigrants
against coming to Oregon during the winter
unless they are well provided for and can az
ford to remain idle until the spring, as me
towns are now thrOnged with men searehlhg
for work, and in the country very little Is
being done.
THE rise and fan of the great lakes is
puzzling the old settlers. At Grand Traverse
Bav the water slowly rises for seven years,
and then recedes for the same length OF Tune.
The Sault ste. Marie Democrat says mat tne
water in the 800" is lowering every DAY. Al
Traverse CITY the water Is encr0achlng on tue
west side of the bay.
THE London Aldermen have set all London
laughing by engaging in acOntroversy with
pushing young lawyer, who declared, during
the election contest at Ipswich, that he had
seen Aldermen at civic banqueis so drunk
that they had TO be helped 10 their Carriages
/ by their servants. and that next morning they
had. as Magistrates, fined less fortunate lne-
! briates.
THE use of whisky among the Loss patients
! in the Indiana Asylum for the Insane has
been reduced from three gallons to one pint
| dav. with marked benefit, it IS said. to those
| who require a stimulant for the appetite. Re
| garding moral force methods as better than
[ physical restraint, DIR. Fletcher, the Superln-
| tendent has forbidden the use OF restraint
| chairs, cribs, restraint straps, waistlets ana
anklets.
WHEN the Swedish ship Monark was leay-
ing sweden last year for Australia the second
officer on board applied to the Geological Mu-
scum at Upsala for the loan OF trawl and
some vessels for preserving natural history
objects. The results have been collection OF
some l2O species Of fish, 80 of insects, some
birds and about 100 varieties of the lower sea
fauna of the Pacific, which have arrived at
/ Upsala.
ANXIETY for the poor has been transformed
into an amusement for the fashionable. as
well as a topic for the philanthropist and the
politician. by the recent outburst Of talk on
workmen's dwellings. The papers report
fully meetings in which cergymen and their
wives converse with convicted thieves and
| the lowest class of frail women, and appalling
details are given of the drunkenness, the Igno-
rance and the wretched wages OF the London
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