Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

FIVE HUNDRED artists now have studios in
New York city.
THERE were -, $50 more emigrants left Irish
ports in 1888 than in 1882.
II describing the crowd at one of John l..
Sullivans entertainments in San Francisco a
local reporter said: occasionally a man
tainted and was carried out by the police
ONE of Davy Crockett's old hunting knives,
with 4-inch wooden handle and 6-inch
blade, with a silver band around the handle,
has been presented to the Tennessee HistOr-
cal Society.
ALMOND GROWING is declared to be a fail
ure in Northern California, the fruit blossom
ing too early and not bearing a full crop Gen.
Bidwell has recently grated his almond
orchard to prunes.
THE evidence of relieving officers at Bir-
mingham, England, discloses a dreadful state
of things. In some eases two families, in
Guiding children, occupy one room; in others
one small house contains several families
mixed up in most demOra!iZing way.
WHALING days have gone by. and yet this
seems strange alongside of the report of
Captain Roche, of the schooner LizzieP. sum
mons, who tells that 1853 barrels of oil and
$500 pounds of bone, that a single whale
yielded, brought him in between $4,000 and
$4,000.
NJ. TISsANDIER calls the attention of the
Academie les Sciences to the fact that Arago,
in an astronomical treatise, described a series
of red twlllghts occurring IN 1881, and &C
counted for them by the existence at that
time of a volcanic eruption in the Mediter-
ranean sea near Sicily.
IT has been noticed in Washington that all
the deaths which have taken place among
members of the House during the sessions
since the Forty fifth Congress. on both the
MI nap,oaraffe ciH
from the middle or fourth row. Thatro has,
therefore, been called Fatality Row."
THE New York drug business is apparently
undergoing a sweeping reform. The recent
action on the part of the employers against
''scalpers' and cutters" is now followed by a
movement on the part Of the registered en-
plOyes to preserve the prestige of their pro-
fession by securing the enforcement of the
pharmacy law against ''unskilled and I'M
licensed clerks"
ENGLAND is losing many of its choicest
works Of art, and at the great sales foreign
dealers, many with American commissions,
carry OF the best examples. Recently, a
Well-knOwn dealer at foreign capital had
magnificent Rembrandt in mis- rooms On be-
ing asked where he found it. he replied, "In
England" adding, that he took over modern
works and brought away old masters-an eX-
change of old lamps for new.
ROBERT SMITH, brother of Sydney, and
Familiarity called "Bobus," was lawyer and
eX-advocate general, and happened, on one
OccasiOn, TO be engaged in an argument with
an excellent physician touching the merits of
their respective profession. "YOu must adj
nit urged Dr.. Y, THAT your profession
does not make angels of men," No." was the
retOrt. there you have the best of it; YOURS
certainly gives them the first chance"
THE excavations now being made among the
remains Of a Roman villa at II sassone, close
under the Alban Hills, have already brought
to light some very valuable pieces of ancient
sculpture. Among these are a life-size statue
of Marsyas and of an athlete, faun, Silva
nus, and copy of the LaOcOOn-the first
ancient copy of this group that has yet been
fOund-Gve candelabra, bust with a curious
kind of Phryglan cap, an eagle devOuring a
lamb, and several vases and bas-reliefs.
GUBERNAToRIAL SALARIES are not particu-
larly attractive or tempting 20 successful
business or professional men. New York and
Pennsylvania pay their Governors the largest
salaries-SlO, OOO-and the amount in other
states ranges from that figure down to 1880.
Illinois and California pay $4,000; Colorado,
Kentucky, Nevada and New Jersey, $1,000:
MARYLAND. 100; Louisiana, Massac husetts.
Mississippi. Tennessee and Texas. 81, 900; North
Carolina. Kansas, Iowa, Georgia and Arkan-
sas, $1,000; Connecticut, Delaware and Maine,
5000; New Hampshire, Michigan and Yer
mont, $4,000; Oregon, $1,000.
THE PaH Nal Gazette relates the following
as an illustration of the absurdity of the ex-
isting marriage laws in England: A parish
iener at Epping and his wife were refused the
holy communion by the vicar on the ground
that the woman was the mans deceased Wifes
sister. The husband was 81 years old and the
wife Il, and they had been married 50 wears.
but DR.. ClaughtOn, the Bishop of the diocese
apparently held that they both came within
the definition of notorious evil livers," and
sustained the vicar in his action. The AttOr-
new General, however, has now pointed out
that the marriage, having been contracted
before Lord Lyndhursts act, is strictly valid,
and the vicar has been ADVISED by the Bishop
that the two parishiOners "cannot legally be
repealed from the holy communion"
IN 1912 there stood, and there is every reason
to believe still stands, at Vostiza, on the Gulf
of Lepanto, Greece, an Orienta, plane tree,
whose girth was, in 1912, at five feet from the
ground. thirtv-seven feet. The tree, situated
in the middle Of the village, on gradual
slope, standing on a raised platform of nat
stones, evidently for protection 70 the roots,
is a striking object on entering the village,
and especially noteworthy as existing in the
DAYS OF Pausanias, the Greek historian, who,
living in the second century, makes mention
of it in his travels; and the tree must ha'
been of considerable size and age at that tin
to have made it worthy of remark, its as
dating considerably before the
Christian era, making it more than 1000 years
OLD. 1t was in full vigor in 1912. The villagers
hold 1t in high respect.
SOUTHERN travellers tell almost incredible
stories Of the extravaganza and improvidence
of the negroes. They take as little thought OF
the future as grasshoppers or butterflies. The
ether day a negrc, just paid of from long work
on the railroad Win w, came lnto store,
turned round and bought Sis 80 trunk toput