Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

As late as 1910 there were but seven voca-
tions into which New England women had
entered: in 1854 the number was BIZ.
PULMONARY CONSUMPTION is the cause Of
one death in twelve in New York State, and
the state Board of Health have laid the cause
to the bad ventilation of school rooms.
A DRAFT on a New York bank for 500,
drawn over thirty years ago. was found
among the effects of a misery old woman who
died in Oswego recently. 1t had been sent by
a son who is now dead.
DURING sudden changes OF temperature
siphons containing mineral water become
dangerous. A rapid rise of the thermometer
will sometimes increase the pressure 100 per
cent, and produce violent explosion.
The revision Of the Old Testament does not
include the Apocrypha. But it Is not i'm
probable that some members Of the committee
will continue to meet and undertake re-
vision of the ApOcrypha on the same prlnci-
pies.
A CABINET, formerly Marie Antoinette's,
which, within a few months, fetched $4,000
at auction in London, was bought afty years
ago at a fair in Professionalism by an
English lady for $40. 1t is believed to have
now gone back to Frankfort TO R0thschlld.
REV. DIR. HENRY VI. SCUDDER, Of Chicago,
who was for many years missionary in In
q.
wickedness and utter moral depraylty no city
of Asia could equal Chic ago or New York"
and that this continent has class OF villains
slower and meaner than the lowest and mean
est in India or China"
CHARLES B. PoORE, of Boise City, Idaho
Territory, claims to be ahead of Pasteur, the
French chemist, in the discovery Of cure for
hydrophObia. He says that the New York Sun,
in June. 1882, published letter written by
him, in which he advanced the same method
Of cure by incubation which this French
man has newly made practical.
The wages Of a gang OF Italian laborers,
near Saratoga, were recently cut down ten
cents dav. Instead of striking they cut an
inch of their shovel blades at night. The boss
asked what it meant. and one OF the men re-
piled: Not so much pay, not so much art
lift; al right, job last the more long; ltallan
no fool like Irishman; he no strike"
IL Minas Geraes, in the district of Dirty
Water. Brazil, female mulatto, who Is said
to be Us years old, aud who had lost her teeth
forty years ago, has recently got part OF new
set of beautiful teeth, not from the hand of
dentist. but from the hand Of nature, and
other teeth are still in the course Of lorna
ton. This fact is testified to by DR.. Felix
DumOnt, of Bagagen, Minas Geraes.
ONa back street in Saratoga is a fiat, mean
little meeting house for Free Methodi-ts, who
aim to be extremely primitive, and who have
undertaken to reform the frivOlities Of fashion
as di played by the summer residents. Every
afternoon a small company OF women. plainly
clad, kneel sOlemnly N prayer for their sisters
who delight in more elaborate clothes. There
IS thus far no perceprlble effect
Land and Water says that the oldest in
habitant in the geological collection in the
Regents Park died the other day. This in
teresting individual was a specimen Of the
black parrot from Madagascar (Cordc0psis
t. tod tot fpaE lot hr-f no
late Mr.. Charles Telfalr, corresponding
member in July, 1880. just two years after the
gardens were opened. This bird has. there
fore, lived for fOrty-fOur years IN the gardens
How old the parrot was when II arrived Is not
known.
CARRYING coal to Newcastle is a proverbial
waste Of effort; but correspondent says: II
would advise all tourists who come to Murren
TO bring their supplies Of ice with them; for,
although in the midst of glaciers, ice is APP
parently so very scarce aud expensive mat
the host of the Grand Hotel found IL neces-
sary to charge me one franc for small bit |
REQUIRED at dinner to temper my tumbler OF
water On remOnstrance he offered TO abate
IS centimes, which, think, was adding insult
TO INJURY.
COMPLAINT is made that early marriages
are becoming common among boys and gir.s
in the east end Of London. Boys and girls OF
y keep company" and at II or Is every lad
die has his lasslc. In Z single NlelEiCt q 10Y "a
Is recently married a girl of the same age. In
a printing Office in this district there are Jour
married boys. The eldest is only 10. and re-
ceives l3s week; the next IS Is, has three
wears Of his apprenticeship still to serve, and
has two children; the youngest is l6, and has
TO Keen a wife and one child on lis. a week.
Another boy is known whose age is between
i6 and L. and he has two children. still an
other boy Of 10 has one child.
GROUSE are found in every county in Scot
land, lowIand as well as highland, the finest
birds being the produce Of Aberdeenshire,
Ayrshire and the county of Caithness respect
lively, the grouse of the latter county in par
ticular being greatly esteemed. what used
to be called the new BIRDS on the Duke OF
Hamilton's shOOtings on the Island OF Arran
were at one time thought TO be the
finest grouse in all Scotland. These birds
were the result of a cross between the ma
tive birds and some others brought from the
Dukes moOrs in LanarkshIre, but no differ
enee is now observable, the birds of Arran
being at present CT a uniform standard.