Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE Hudson river is now frozen solidly
across from Staatsburgh, Duchess county,
north to Albany.
THE past season Montana shipped l,25s,OS4
pounds OF wool, an increase of 9,sO9 pounds
over the shipments OF 1888.
A WRITER in the Texas Courier Of Medicine
saws that anything which will cause man to
sneeze Will cure him of hiccOugh.
AT New London, while repairing a vessel
recently, divers, who worked in the water
underneath 1t, used the electric light with
perfect success.
ADAKoTA JUDGE at jamestown the other
dav left the bench and knocked down a law
yer who intimated that one of his statements
in ruling was lie.
ILLUMINATING a bakers oven so that the
process of baking may be watched is new
use to which the electric light has been put in
London. The oven door contains sheet of
plate glass. Civilization is thus enlightenlng
the subject of heavy bread.
THE wen-bred man who smokes only for
the love of it, pats but as much of his cigar
into his mouth as is necessary in order to
draw it, keeps il in his mouth no longer than
is necessary, and never fails to remove 1t
when ne talks or passes any one toward
whom he would be respectful, especially
lady. Further, our best bred men never
smoke in any street at an hour when il is much
frequented, nor In any pubic place Wnere
smoking is likely to be offensive to others.
IN the marble memorial to Shakespeare in
the Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey, the
bard, as is well known, has one arm thrown
carelessly over pile of bound volumes of his
works. When David Garrick, the great
Shakespearian actor, died he was Inferred
underneath the floor IN the Poets Corner,
and q few days afterward 1t was discovered
that the fOrefnger OF Shakespeare's ef1gy
inf Tod n " IN
purely accidental, yet nothing could be more
appropriate.
IN a recent work on alcoholic drinks, DR..
Thudichum states that sherry and port wines
are made by methods so crude and foul as to
be almost incredible. He condemns the habit
of "plastering sherries, y that IS, covering the
grapes with plaster IF Paris just before press
ing. 1t is done to prevent certain bacterial
lamentations to which the dirty modes OF
manufacture make the wines OF Spain and
Portugal peculiarly liable. The wines or Ma
deira and Sicily (Marsala). which resemble
sherry, are said to be free from this objection.
FoRrY-FIvE years ago the Britannia was
considered a remarkable ship. She was 2O7
feet long and her tonnage l,l55. The new
Cunarder, the Etruria. is $40 feet long and
her tonnage nearly 5000. The Britannia had
engines of $50 horse power; the horse power of
the Etruria is 1000. The Britannia carried
go tons of cargo and i20 passengers; the Etru-
The Britannia carried 500 tons of coal and
her speed was So knots per hour; the Etruria
carries 2, 500 tons and makes 10 knots per hour.
Five years ago the Arizona made the passage
in days and hours. The builder of the
Etruria SAYS she will do it in one day less,
and in another five years it will be done in
five days.
TIE latest bill that has been introduced into
the House is No. 1913. The latest introduced
into the Senate is No. 2435. Here we have an
aggregate of 10, lib bills in the two branches,
besides lol joint resolutions introduced into
the Senate and 300 in the House. 1t is true
that hundreds of the bills have become laws,
or else did not reach the calendars, or have
been removed from the calendars by adverse
votes or by indefinite postponements. Hun
dreds more are substantially duplicates in the
two branches, or are bills of sort in which
the fate of one settles whole class. Never
theless, the statistics of the bills and resolu-
lions introduced are astonishing. and, with
thousands of them not yet finally acted upon,
the chances of those still to be introduced, un-
less taken up by agreement out Of turn, may
be imagined. 1t should be said, however, that
bills have come in very moderately thus far
in the present session. There have been but
1859 introduced this winter in the House and
sc in the Senate.