Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ALL the life-saving stations on the Jersey
coast between Sandy Hook and Barnegat In
let will shortly be connected by telephone.
A BowERY museum has among its wonders
glass half filled with whisky labelled, Gre
fused by Gen. Grant IN 1873" 1t is a real Gu
riOslty.
GREELEY, Col, rejOices in the distinction
of being probably the one mining settlement
in the West in which there is not at least one
liquor saloon.
A SALESMAN in COvent Garden market,
London, recently advertised for few pounds
of ripe strawberries, stating that he had
special order and could get Is per pound.
SWITZERLAND is indignant because the
French have taken to establishing recruiting
stations along her border, and have succeeded
in taking off good many of her unemployed
young men.
SANDY HOOK, it is said, is fast being washed
away by the waves. With each recurring
winter the water makes further inrOads, and
the last heavy surf cut deep channel III to-
ward the fort wall undermined the concrete
ietties built last summer and washed away
the fog signal station building.
THE Vatican gardens in their greatest eX-
tent are only $50 yards by 400, less than thirty
acres. and are much smaller than that if re-
duced to rectangular form. However, by
doubling and twisting the Pope can get drive
out Of these gardens, hidden away under the
northern walls OF 81. Peter 5 ana the western
side of the Vatican.
THE Ice Palace at Montreal is fast proving
to be a thing of naught. Forty eight hours of
thaw have been too much for it, The struc
ture totters on a weak foundation, and the
Is OO0- blocks of ice that but few days ago
glittered in pearlY refulgency, now threaten
to swell the streams that race in every direc
ton about the surrounding square.
int I,a Do
pal Guard. Applicants must be 81 and of
good height. There are As regular men and
who are termed ''eXemDts," and who are
called upon emily on state occasions, besides
cadets The pay is $500 a year, and each man
is expected to possess $3.50 OF his own. The
service demanded is by no means arduous.
IL the island of san Domingo there is a re-
markable salt mountain, mass Of crystalline
salt nearly four miles long, estimated to con-
tain s., 1897 $50 tons, and so clear that type can
he read through block foot thick. The
mountain. biologists say, was once plain at
the bottom of the sea, and, as the island rose
from the ocean, this PLAIN formed the bottom
Of a shallow lagoon, where the salt was de-
posted.
NO Southern State has made greater pro-
qress in manufacturing for the past three
years than virginia, and, if we are to accept
tho authority of the Baltimore Manufacture
inn RecOrd She stands second IN the list, Ken
tuckv coming first In a recent issue of that
Journal it is stated that the value OF Nlrglnla's
manufactures increased from $5l,SlO,69z IN
1880 to sos, 90, 1884 in 1888, while kentucky
manufactured SIS, 4S3,377 worth OF goods.
THE Self acting Sewing Machine Company,
of Leadenhan street, London, has taken out
and is working a patent which will save the
necessity for the use of either hands or feet.
The new motor drives the sewing machine by
a process of clock work-nelther bulky nor
complicated. The motive power is completely
under control, so that while 1t can be maze 70
drive a needle at the rate Of about thousand
stitches minute, it can also be worked
slowly.
THE amount Of gold used for other than