Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

\ PARTISAN ladies' rowing club has chal-
lenged a gentlemen's club for siX-Oared
barge race.
TIE brokers of Mark Lane, London, say
that people want 20 per cent. more bread
when the weather IS cold than when it is mild
and muggy.
ALL the horses, carriages and farming uten-
sis belonging to Mary Anderson, at Long
Branch, are to be sold, as she Will stay abroad
another year.
MR.. HOGAN, an aerOnaut, made balloon
trip in Michigan the other day and for the
whole hundred miles of the voyage the air
ships course was in the exact form of the let
ter W.
WHEN the Washington monument IS com
pleted great American eagle is to be perched
in dgniied security 500 feet in the air and on
a chimney weighing more than i5,OOO tons,
and costing 100000.
THE German Government has forbidden the
transit through German territory of early
fruits and vegetables from France, the reason
assigned for this measure being the desire to
prevent the importation of phylloNera.
Col. PRJEvALSKY, who is doing good deal
to make immortal even such breaking
surname as his parents gave him, has been
heard from. The great explorer IS Tor the
fourth time attempting to penetrate IN I'M, Ihl-
bet On January he was at ALASKAN, about
to start, with high hopes, into unknown re-
giOns.
4 ROMANTIC New Yorker and his BRIDE will
make their bridal trip this summer in canoe.
The canoe is to be made on purpose for the
trip and will be nickel-plated in its appoint
ments with hand painted paddle. Ihey VIII
90 up the Hudson to Lake Champlaln and
down the Connecticut. Their wedding occurs
in May.
THE rush of miners to Canon City,Colorado,
where rich gold deposits were reported to
have been found. has developed into sense
less stampede. in view of the fact that it has
since been proved that the placer ground con-
tanned nothing but saline deposits OF no ap-
parent value. The daily arrivals average hye
hundred, and half a dozen stores nave already
been erected.
THE Security Life Insurance and Annuity
Company, of New York, which once did bust
ness enough to fail on liabilities of $4,000 900,
with only 100000 of assets, has been about
eight wears in the hands of a receiver. and the
last page of its crooked history is approaching
a dismal fms. The lHckless policy holders or
their administrators are consoling themselves,
as best they may, with a seven per cent. dlvl-
dend.
BISMARCK is guarded as closely as the Car
when going to the Reichstag. Police agents
in plain clothes are posted all along the way
from his house and even in the chamber ITSELF
and no one-nOt even regular government
EMPLOYEES admitted to any part of the
building without a special permit As soon
rs the Chancellor reaches his desk, attendants
Mace before him half dozen well sharpened
pencIls and large glass of Moselle wine.
THE Parisians will soon have an opprotu-
nitv of witnessing a bull fight at a charity
fete to be held at the Hippodrome. Frascuelo,
tho xvorld-renOwned loreadOr, himself viii
take part in it. He refused at nrst, the pro-
moters of the festival having refused to per
init the usual tragic denOuement. Frascuelo;
though against his principles, finally waived
the point II the BUN, however, Is fiery, he
will probably forget this.
A NEW native Indian journal has, accord
ing to the Madras AthenGuHa, been started for
the express purpose of advocating the remar-
riage of Indian widows and the reduction of
the wedding expenses, which Indian custom
renders costly. In recent number of the
new organ we are told seven HindoO widows
announce their readiness to re-enter the
marriage state. In one case the widow is
only u years OF age, and her father is anxious
to betroth her to Bengal gentleman.
hi recent trial on the Thames of an cleo
trio launch forty feet long, with a storage