Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Roman invasion has just been discovered in
the city Of Lincoln, England.
THE city of St. Paul, Mimi. has police
force numbering 70 men, and licenses 5eT
liquor shops. which yield it an annual income
Of over $4,000.
THE orange tree at Versailles, known as the
Great Constable, is nearly 500 years old. 1t
was PLANTED in 1923 by Eleanor Of Carlisle,
wife OF Charles ILL.,, King Of Navarro.
ST. LOUIS is suffering from an odd kind Of
MONOPOLY. The sand sellers have combined,
and charge builders and masons four times as
much for each load Of sand as was charged
last year. Dirt is no longer cheap.
PROP. FRANCIS G. PEABODY, Of Harvard.
declares for the belief in God as lone Of the
ineradicable intuitions Of the mind" He
thinks that the Office Of philosophy to justify
and verify the natural conceptions OF plain
minds, that is, ito renew the natural point OF
view st point higher up"
THE taking of shad in Connecticut for arti-
fetal propagation closed last week. The
number Matched will exceed 100000. Half
this number have been put in the Connecticut
river. and the remainder in the Housatonic.
The United States Fish Commissioner mas
also placed 100000 in the Housatonlc.
TIE city Of Bamberg is first to practically
apply the law against the public disturbance
Of piano playing at untimely hours in the case
OF a girl who. greatly to the annoyance Of the
neiChbOrs. praetised at an open window. The
code prescribes fine or adequate lmprlson-
ment The municipal court let the fair eul-
prIt of with dollar and costs.
IN tearing down the old Western peniten-
tiarv in Pennsylvania recently toad was
found in an open space in one Of the walls,
where it had apparently been purposely
placed by the workmen. Although the wall
was built over fifty years ago, and the luckless
animal had evidently been a prisoner all that
time. il hoped oTquite lively when released.
a JERSEY dealer who buys them by thou
sands say horses were not so scarce or dear
since war times as they arc at present. Or
binary draught horses Of sound condition
bring $500 without any difficulty. Sueh Is the
scarcity that many farmers and others are
substituting mules. which are now being
brought East in large quantities from Texas
JOAQUIN MILLER attracts attention in
Washington by means Of his log cabin. In
corner as you enter the room is an eagle nest
containing six eggs. over the mantel are
hung photographs. The logs are gayly 1es-
TONED with bowie knives, nrearms, sW9Ias,
hornet nests, wild flowers. Mexican saddles
and hunting paraphernalia, letters from
noted personages, and Indian trophies.
NEW YORK police cannot have benefited, as
was expected. from the emergency lectures,
when they failed to distinguish case Of by
drophObIa from epilepsy the other day. Per-
sonal security suggested the "Worser" evil.
and the poor epileptic was bound, gagged and
threateningly watched over by three clnb-
swinging patrolman, until an ambulance had
found him a Samaritan in the New York Hos
pital.
IT is estimated that $500 people were dam
aged physically on the GLORIOUS fourth" If
ali the eyes, ears, hair, fragments Of skin,
nails. fingers, and even lives that have been
sacrificed during the past century in celebrat-
ing our national independence had been IN
condition to serve under the immortal george;
the whole revolution might have been settled
at Bunker Hill.
A LONDON scientific paper is not sanguine
as to the success of the new Russian scheme
for reaching the North Pole by means Of sled
ees. starting from the Siberian island and
having depOts at intervals, inasmuch as the
most northern part Of the islands IS sO9 nau-
teal miles from the pole; and Judging by the
appearance in other parts, il would be no
easy matter to haul sledges over the hum
mocky ice.
SIR JAMES PAGET estimates that in England
the whole popul alton between Is and 65 years
old do in each year q, 0O0, 900 weeks work less
than they might doif it were not for sickness.
Typhoid fever has OF late destroyed in Eng
land and Wales, among persons IN the Work Ht.
ing time of life, nearly 1000 in year. Here,
therefore. from one disease alone, and that
preyentable, results an annual loss OF 10000
weeks work. without reckoning what Is lost
with those who die.
THE monk does not always cease to be
man. The members of an pathological con-
gress that was lately held at Vienna visited.
with their wives, the wealthy Beaedictine
monastery at Melk, on the Donau. The spa
cious clOisters, rich dining hall, well-hlled
library, scientific collections, gardens. PARK,
the lovely view and generous collatlon
raised their admiration TO the utmost. AS
sri lu sail IN n
the Younger monks: "YOu are in heaven
here'i He was equal to the occasion. I'VE
would be- he replied, "but that we lack the
angels"
TIE Liverpool Mercurv Of June % says: A
singular accident, through the break
ing OF q telephone wire connecting the North
Stafrordshire Indrmary with the surgeries Of
the various visiting surgeons Of the district 1.
occurred at Hanley. The wire broke IN Can
non street, Hanley, and knocked down q
chimney of a house to which II was attached,
the chimney and the brickwork falling on the
roof OF kitchen and demOlishing 1t. The wire
rebOunding and curling up IN the street,
caught hold Of a child years OF age. lifted 1t
mp in the air some distance and dashed it to
the ground. rendering IT insenslble and lnJur-
ing one of its legs severely
DIR. w. ST. CLAIR, Of Brooklyn. has con-
nected small incandescent lamp with por-
table electric battery. The apparatus is in
tended to be used in surgery for the illumina-
tion of cavities in the body. Many operations
in surgery are difficult or impossible on &C
count of the impossibility OF lig1ung up me
cavity to be operated upon. Win THIS m
strument combined with the laryngoscope,
the throat may be explored to greater depth
than heretofore has been deemed possible.
The lamp viii be very aseful also IN dental
surgery. It is very small, hardly larger than
the head Of 4 pencil. 1t has even been pro-
posed 70 use tie light for the purpose of pho
togssp,sipg aEIties OF the body. The whole
:Il5p., .lIis i s1-s5ut the size of cigar box.