Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AT the north end Of the oonsstOck lode the
Mexican Wine has just reached the s,ZOO level
the greatest depth ever attained in North or
South America.
STUDENTS SwearInger and Underwood have
disappeared fEOm the University of Virginia
for the supposed purpose OF Hghtihs q dHel.
The young men had quarrel Tuesday, re-
sulting in Swearinger striking Underwood
with cane.
Ten Of Rlaine's relatives and eighteen Of
Logan's are in the enjoyment OF profitable
government Jobs. One good thing might be
said of the ticket, perhaps. As the relatives
OF the candidates are already provided for,
there might be some show for the outsiders.
THERE is an anagGal number of century
plants now in bloom IN California. Fhe samR
abundance occurred ten or twelve years ago,
which leads the cal to believe that there Is
some cause for this unanlmlty IN poisoning
not entirely dependent upon the age OF the
plants.
THE Minister of the Interior of the Hawaiian
Government offers to furnish Japanese immi-
grants who. son arrival will be ready to
enter into an engagement, service for three
years at $40 per month for males, and 80 per
month for females, with food and lodging Tor
plantation laborers, and Sl5 per month ana
found for domestic servants"
MINISTER MORTON win formally receive, on
behalf of the United States Government, the
Bartholdi statue of Liberty Enlightening the
World" from the Franc0=Amerloan commit
tee on July 8. Prime Minister Ferry and a
. delegate representing President Crew will
be present during the ceremony. The statue
will be shipped to New York late in July.
GERMAN manufacturers are congratulating
themselves over a scheme which proposes to
install IN Berlin a japanese colony Of forty
artisans, comprising workers IN metals and
lacquers, pOtters. painters, enamellers. WeaV-
ers etc. The village destined to receive the
workmen is to be entirely built according 10
the plans Of an architect from the land OF the
MIkadO.
FROM investigations of the quality of sea
air which have been made from time to time
scientists no W believe that none of the germs
Of an epidemic can cross the ocean with the
wind. but that all low forms of life which are
thus carried out to sea must soon reach the
water and die. This being the case, the
cholera can only cross the ocean from Europe
by steam or sail ships, and If quarantine regu-
latiOns are enforced the danger is remote.
Two thousand francs, divided into five
prizes, have been offered by a rich wine mer
chant Of Epernay, France, for the best poem
on champagne. Eleven hundred poems were
sent in. Clovis Hughes was awarded the first
prize OF fifteen hundred francs and CASTOR
eeived the second, Twenty-Five others were
hOnOrably mentioned and received basket OF
wine to encourage them.
A CURIOUS historical procession will be or
ganized in Belgium next August during the
fetes concentrating the fftieth anniversary
of the Introduce on of railways into the cOun-
try. The procession will represent all known
means of transport, from the ancient Roman
chariot to the modern electric railway, and
will include the engine and carriage of the
first train which ran in Belgium in 1884,
manned by those officials and workmen en-
gagged on the line who still survive.
AN English agricultural publication reports
that among the pets of provincial poultry
dealer were a parrot, cOckatoo and a
monkey. Returning from church on Sunday
the dealer found that in his absence the
monkey had broken his chain and seized the
parrot, which. having killed, he plucked.
trussed and laid out precisely as his master
handled a spring chicken. The cuckOtOO and
other pathological pets were treated In the
same manner.