Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a SCHOOL of dentistry is to be added to the
University of Berlin.
THE opera season of four weeks cost New
York upward of S75O,O00.
COINAGE of Mexican nlckels has ceased.
Five hundred and sixty tons of metal have
been converted into l90,000,0O0 coins.
DR.. JOHN HALL affrms, on the authority OF
a prominent publisher, that ministers pur-
chase the largest part of the scientific books
written by speculative writers.
THE cellars under Philadelphia's new City
Hall are the largest in America, their area
being AZ acres The first cellar is 10 feet deep,
and the cellar under that is of like depth.
A WRITER in the New York Times under
takes to show that diphtheria is filth dis
ease, and is almost certain to be propagated
by the large masses of filthy snow now lying
IN city Streets
Mr.. TYLER, the Zulu missionary, says that
when he first went to South Africa thirty-four
years ago, the people wore nothing but the
skins of cows and other animals. Now few of
them appear in town without civilized dress.
THE Mapleson Opera Troupe met with poor
success at Montreal last week. The enter
prise was well heralded, with Patti as the
prima donna, beforehand. and prices were
raised to eXOrbitant rates. Boxes were placed
at $50 for each performance, single seats at 81
and standing room at ST.
THE War CRY, the official gazette of Gen.
Booths Salvation Army, is published in Eng
guages They sent out last year 25O,00O,000
copies, and $4,000 worth OF musical instru-
ments uniforms and badges. The grand army
comprises 630 corps, $50 of which are abroad.
THE latest exhibition of Newspaper "enter-
prise comes-of course-from Chicago, where
the Inter ocean recently printed the names of
several hundred of tine eligible bachelors of
the city, with a description of their personal
appearance. their business ana family con-
nections their social relations, habits of life;
incomes, prospects and other information.
MRS. EMMA HOPKINS, of Spring Lake,
Mich. thinks she possesses the sword of Ethan
Allen. and she would like to sell it to the State
of Vermont for an even $1,000. If il can be
established beyond doubt that the clam is a
valid one the State will doubtless take the
sword. 1t would give $1,000 Tor par OF
Ethan Aliens old suspenders to say nothing
of his sword.
Mr.. BURT, the English NJ, p. who has been
recently visiting the mining districts of this
country. writes that the wages Of wOrkmen
connected with the iron trade is 50 so day,
and of ordinary labOrers 81 Is to 81 so, but that
work is irregular. Trades unions are not
strong, and Cooperation, which has taken
such deep root among the golfers in England,
does not flourish here.
Foes, pure and simple, says an English
writer, are not caused by smoke, but by dust,
not the dust of the streets or chimneys, but by
the dust Of invisible atmospheric molecules.
Hence we must look upon our breath as seen
on cold morning as evidence of the dusty
state of the air, and every puff of steam as it
escapes into the atmosphere will remind US
still more powerfully of the same disagree
able fact.
AFTER the alarmed bystanders had almost !
frozen their fingers in rescuing an inebriate
who had fallen overheard from wharf in
Baltimore, he took up collection. and with |
70 cents that he got he sided of to the |
nearest barrOOm. A merchant who had been /
a quiet spectator said: "This makes the fifth |
time that fellow has fallen into the water this |
MONTH | fancy it's his last resort when he |
wants money to get a drink. as he always |
takes up a collection afterward.
1T has been said that because cattle some-
times prefer impure water to pure drinking
water no pains should be taken to supply them
with pure water. The British Medical Jour
qdE explains to agriculturists that the rea-
son for this fact is that cattle when given
.ank water are not kept properly supplied
with rock salt. In their desire for saline food
animals will drink the most impure fluids,
md will even eat earth. The writer thinks
[ both iniudiciOus and cruel to deprive cattle
# salt and thus compel them TO seek 1t IN
efuse.