Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TIE California orange crop will not be
as short as expected.
THERE are 10j unused burying grounds
within the corporate limits of London.
THE Alaska seal hunters have killed
over 10000 animals during the present
| season.
IT is said that sparrOws and swallows
! forsake district when cholera is about
| to make its advent.
A NEW ORLEANS drummer named Mis-
troll was recently married in Brownsville,
Texas, to SenOrita Sofia Celaya, wealthy
lady of that city.
1t was a pet monkey that struck a
match and fired the British bark Mar
1 qurite at BayOnne, \. j., laden with 1875
barrels Of naphtha and 1000 of petroleum.
/ THE Philadelphia Bulletin strenuously
/ object to drOves of hogs passing through
! the streets of that city. even if the animal
/ in the aggregate does represent SIC, 000,0 900
/ of capital.
THE Little Rock University, now APP
preaching completion, will be the finest
brick building In the State of Arkansas,
/ and one of the largest and most cOnven-
lent in the Southwest.
THE Arkansas and Mississippi Timber
Land Association bought at an overdue
tax sale 5000 acres of timber land, and
they are negotiating with private parties
for the purchase of y, 900 more.
THE introduction of the Pullman cars
in England has damaged the Liverpool
hotels very greatly. The countless Ameri-
cans who cross the Atlantic now 90 di-
rectly to London, instead of spending the
night in Liverpool.
ACCORDING to recently-published sta
tistics, there are at present 1871 ,365 bee
hives in France, from which this autumn
1889, 2S4 pounds of honey and 1901, 59S
pounds of wax havebeen taken, the value
of which amounts to about f93S, $50.
THE Boston Traveller is reminded by
the remark of a lady, who says that Mat
thew Arnold lifted his eye-g glasses 30
times during a lecture, of the experience
of IxiOn, who dined with the gods and re-
membered only the pattern of the table
cloth.
THERE are two things" says a patent
lawyer, 'sthat have absorbed more brain
tissue from the heads of inventive
geniuses than would be necessary to out
weigh all the gold that has been in conse-
quence put into their pOckets-railroad
couplings and bedsteads."
THE sea swallowed up last year more
lives and vessels on the British coasts
than usual. according to the Wreck Regis-
ter. Altogether 1907 persons perished-
I13 more than during the previous twelve
months, while the $500 disasters to YES
sells exceeded the preceding years roll
by So.
THE longest ride made by any of the
Baltimore Suns special election couriers
was in Dorchester county, Nd. 1t was a
forty-mile dash from HoOper's Island TO
Cambridge. He met cOuriers from inter-
mediate districts on his way, and gath
cred up all the returns from that part of
the county as he came along. At every
ten miles a swift, fresh horse was in wait
ing, upon which he sped away.
RUMMELsBURG, near Berlin, boasts of
the largest goose market probably in the
world. There arrive daily at that station
on an average forty cars with geese and
ducks. Every car contains about loo,
thus making about 900 birds shipped
every week, or an annual total OF 20,OOO,-
900. The largest portion OF these birds
are reared and fattened in the surround
ing provinces and thence despatched to
all parts of Germany, England, Belgium,
France, Switzerland and other European
countries.
The statement is made in Engineering |
that in recent trials of the speed of work
ing on the Jay Gould cables laid across
the Atlantic from Penzanee to Canso, in |
Nova Scotia, 1000 code words were sent |
from Penzance, and received at the Can
so station, in 81 minutes, including all |
repetitions and corrections. The thous- |
and words consisted Of 7.2SS letters, which |
is about equivalent to /, ASS words OF five |
letters each, the average number for the |
English language, or eighteen words per |
minute.