Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-12-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THERE are over 100000 horses and lOO,OOO
vehicles of all kinds licensed in New York
city.
THE material for Floods palace in san
Francisco is to be brown stone quarried and
dressed in Connecticut.
4 RECENT storm melted the telephone lines
between Waco and HillsbOrO, Texas, and
knocked down number OF poles.
MISSISSIPPI has gained 100 per cent. in five
wears in manufacturing industries, having at
this time S7,0OO0OO invested IN such enter
prises.
About 100000 acres will be added to the
eultivatahe lands Of Arizona next year by
canals and irrigating bitches, at an expense
OF 100000.
THE Democrat, of Leadville, Col, prints the
names Of 100 persons who have died by vio-
lence in and near the city since Its existence
as mining camp.
OVER 10000 women are engaged in the SHIRT
and collar manufactures at Troy, \. Y, and
the pay roll of one concern alone averages
over $1,000 per day
THE Crown Prince of Portugal Is able to
converse in fourteen languages, and already
has private library of 10000 volumes. lie
is a youth oI twenty years.
A.D. KEYS, Of Rice county, Mimi, declined
A certificate of election as County Attorney
because he believed that his competitor had
got q majority Ol TIC fOtcc'
GREAT quantity of human hair has been
recently exported to France and England
from Russia, and the suspicion of the police
authorities Of the province OF Pskoy having
been aroused priest named Seraphin was
month ago arrested on a charge OF fraud.
IL was then discovered that this man last year
founded a religious sect, every member OF
which, on joining II. had to sacrifice ms or her
hair as a symbol Of obedience to the superior
Seraphin has a brother, fashionable mar
dresser in st. Petersburg, and to this man the
priest consigned the locks of the faithful.
Seraphin is now in Jail; the new sect OF the
SeraphinOvski has been untimely eXtlngulsh-
ed: and the shorn sheep are consolng them
selves rs best they may upon the money Cd
tanned from a sale Of the effects OF their TOO
ingenious pastor.
THERE are queer stories circulating with
regard to sir John Pope Hennessey's first
levce in Mauritius. No official notice init
mated that uniform or evening-dress was to
be worn. Natives OF European descent pre-
scented themselves in pot-hats, light trousers
and gaudy ncektes, and some Of them were
even provided with alpaca umbrellas. Inc
Ofientals all came with covered feet, grossest
of insults in the East; but this may have been
unintentiOnal. One dusky gentleman IN
turban had on pair of Engllsh-cut duck IN
expressibes, and patent leather SHOES an
other carried n big straw hat into the pres
enoe; and a third was fearfully and wonder
fully arrayed in a night gown of chlntz OF the
window curtain pattern. The sumptuafy
notions of that island need reformation.
THE RIO GRANDE SUGAR COMPANY. at Rio
Grande, Cape May county, Will shortly receive
from the state of New Jersey good round
sum Of money as IFS share Of the bounty for
fostering the sorghum industry. The state
gives 81 per ton for sugar cane crushed and
treated and ! per cent. per pounu upon the
sugar. Last year the company received
$500. \ short time ago the corporation eN-
Ia ffrHl.s a
pose Of making sugar from II. Inc result OF
this has been kept secret, and VIII not be
made known until next spring, when turtner
trials will be made. Experiments have also
been made with few hogs, the idea being to
ascertain whether they could he FED upon tie
refuse Of the mills and fattcned cheaply. If
this turns out successful large droyes VIII be
utilized in the same manner.
The Bangor Commercial says it is thought
the numbering operations all over Maine will
be considerably smaller than those of last
winter, and it is certain that the provincial
cut will be much smaller than for some years
past. The reasons for this are numerous. In
the first place may be mentioned the TACT that
prices Of nearly all kinds OF lumber nave been
low for several years, ana Whlle lately there
has been a considerable increase in the cost OF
getting lumber out. the increase IN the price
OF the product has been small. Then many
operators have been unsuccessful In business
lately on account of unfavorable conditions
for hauling and driving, and are not able,
financially, to conduct business this winter.
But more than those mentioned above, there
is another reason. one lately developed, which
must be considered as tending to reduce the
amount of Names lumber cut this season,
particularly that of the Penobscot. We refer
to the havoc wrought by the recent terrible
cyclone. which, it is safe to say, did more
harm than all the storms of quarter of
century past combined.
How to divide five eggs between three peO-
pie is a problem which might fairly puzzle
philosopher, but the practical genius of Prince
Bismarck has solved that, as it has many 9TH
er difficulties which have proved to much for
profound thinkers. The only wonder is that.
as he made the great discovery as many as
thirteen years age, it should only now have
been given to the world in the pages Of the
Deutsche RerUe. 1t appears that il was on the
evening of GravelOtte, after day when the
Prince, like everybody else, had had nothing
to eat and was hungry-hungrler, we may
presume, than anybody. He had, however,
the good fortune to secure five eggs for twenty
francs and the generosity to share them with
two Of his companions. But, fOreseelng the
mathematical difficulty which would arise if
he were to attempt an equal division, he took
the precautiOn to eat two OF the five himself
first and then dashed of to his comrades, and
with a great show of magnanimity made
fair distribution of the remaining three, keep
ing to himself all knowledge of the two that
he had so conveniently got rid Of.