Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! A MASSACHUSETTS woman is suing her
mother-in-law for $4,000 damages for alleged
| SANDER.
/ \ SCIENTIST Of Texas, who has seen the big
meteor that has been dug up in Los Angeles,
/ describes it as about the size Of trunk"
| PROF. COOK, of the Agricultural College Of
| Lansing, Michigan, says that glucose may be
wholesome. but it kills bees. Bees live and
| thrive on graduated sugar.
| THE Boston Post says that the Maine Dem
ocrats are for Tilden on revenue reform
platform. but that, much as they admire the
Sage of Greystone, they couldn't swallow him
on a tariff-straddle platform.
THE salt Lake Tribune disputes the correct
ness of the police statistics frequently paraded
to prove the superior virtue Of the Mormons
The Tribune explains by saying that when
policeman finds an intoxicated SAINT he kindly
escorts him TO his house, while Gentle is
run into the station house.
A LECTURER at Edinburgh, on the shetland
Isles, said lately: ''Of the hundred islands
and islets which constitute the Shetland group
not more than about twenty eight are said to
be inhabited. Washed on their western sides
by the wild waves Of the Atlantic ocean, and
on their eastern coasts by the no less tempes-
tuOus pillows of the Northern sea, they look
like what perhaps they are-the skeleton Of
long since buried peninsula.
A-Al bhEEDlNb - DClh1 tahtu hp dNblfCAl III
England, not only for the comfortable cloak
Innings its fur affords, but article Of food,
the fecundity, quick growth, and really palat-
able properties Of our familiar hearth-rug
friend pointing out staple resource. The
remembrance OF this and the present activity
IN the eat market are suggestive. IL has long
been suspected that among the millions OF
rabbits imported from Ostend a few stray
ones have known in their time how to make
night hideous.
HAMILTON DIssTON stopped for an hour at
the Union League last night TO say: ave Just
returned from Florida, after looking over my
land scheme there. Our drainage system
covers an area Of 200 miles north and south,
and eighty miles east and west We have re
claimed nearly million acres OF land. half
OF which we get under our contract with the
state. We are now planting sugar cane on
land that. a year ago, was two feet under
water 1t is now four feet above the level Of
the lake. -PAilddelDhia Press.
SPEAKER MARDEN, Of the Massachusetts
House, told good story at the New England
Club dinner recently about the results of the
popular petition signing mania. petition
was recently received in the House praying
for legislation to fix more definitely the rights
Of colored children in the public schools. it
being claimed that there was occasional dis
elimination against them in some places. The
DetitiOn had been widely circulated by cOlOred
people and it bore the signatures of Judges,
prominent business G n and various public
officials. without IcHdffi 70 tolOIs Dut WHICH
the petition was presented its preamble was
found to read: I'VE. the undersigned, parents
of colored children" etc.
THE Chinese custom of decapitating their
enemies slain in war is explained by the state
ment that they believe that the appearance Of
a person in the spirit world without head is
prima facic evidence of having committed
some crime, and punishment Is awarded ac-
cOrdingly. Hence the horrible mutations
which took place on the evacuation OF Shang-
hal by the Taipings, when the imperial Of
1cers gave orders for the decapitatOn of
every rebel body; and even the collins con-
tanning the remains of prominent rebel lead
ers were broken open and dishOnOred to insure
their punishment hereafter. Hence, also, the
anxiety displayed by the friends Of officers
who lost their heads during the rebellion to
recover them and stitch them on to the bodies
again. as much as fl33 having been paid by
the officers of the imperial army for the head
OF a friend.
EDMUND YATES, in the London World, says
it is a mistake to suppose that the American
ladies who marry Englishmen are all wealthy.
A few are well TODD and about half dozen
are rich. He says: Lady Harcourt (Motley's
daughter) has a large life incOme-a jointure;
but her sister, Mrs. sheridan, mas no cOnsid-
cradle fortune. Mrs. Arthur Paget VIII prob
abIv some day have 10000 sterling year.
a son az Lord Augustus LOTUS is married to
the daughter of a very rlch Fhuauelphla lauy.
Lady Hesketh will, suppose, nave very
large fortune, and Mrs. EDWARD DallouI PIOD-
ably has fIOO,0 600. Lady Mandevllle ana Lady
Lister Kaye assuredly were not married Tor
money. Indeed, of the numberless American
ladies married to Englishmen can think OF
no others now living who had fortunes. Inc
first wife of Sir Charles Murray had fortune,
now some $4,000 sterling year probably,
which is enjoyed by her SON."
TIE coming of the hero of the Fortescue-
Garmoyle affair to this country to enlarge his
mind hasexcited considerable hutter in what
in the good old days of the drama used to be
called the Hobbies, but what since the passion
for purloining French plays set in are styled