Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

SOME parts of Arkansas are flooded with
counterfeit nickels, made from substance
found in the mOuntains.
A WOMAN has been arrested in Holland on
her voluntary confession of having murdered
sixteen persons within a few years. Charm
ing creature!
CHINA now manufactures firearms of all
kinds and of superior workmanship. Their
breech-loading rifle is just like that of the
"Melican man."
THE receipts of the New York charity ball
were $4,000. OF which three-fou was spent
for supper, flowers, music, etc, and one
fourth given to the poor.
THREE boys in Northumberland, N. H., have
this season shot 2S5 partridges, for which they
obtained 40 cents each, ten foxes, besides
several mink and other game.
THE surprising sunsets of November, which
reached around the world, created superstl-
tIOus fear in India, and numbers of holy men
went about preaching impending disaster.
MIR. DALEY, the English aurlst, finds that
cOngenital deafness is commOner among the
offspring CT cousins who marry than among
the offspring of unrelated persons of whom
one or both are conSenltally deaf,
CONNECTICUT lawyers are credited with
the expression of the opinion that the State
tramp law Is not a success, as a tramp has
trying to work his way home, to escape con-
viction by jury.
A RECENT LETTER from Salt Lake, Utah,
says that within a few years past 80 schools
with 100 teachers have been planted in the
stronghOlds of MormondOm by money from
New England and elsewhere, and that The
number is rapidly increasing.
AN OLD COLoRED MAN in Cincinnati has
made himself rich in a curious way. When
ever a man bought a building lot the darkey
would buy a strip of ground next door and
begin to build a cabin. The rich man would
buy the darkeY's land for ten prices.
THE old house selected by Dickens as the
scene of many of the incidents recorded in
the "Old Curiosity Shop" is now about to be
demolished in consequence of its dangerous
condition. The house is fourteen Portsmouth
street, Lincolnshire Fields, in London.
THE ivory market of the world is London.
The product is brought from the East and the
western coast of Africa, Cape Colony, Ceylon,
India and the countries east of the straits of
Malacca. But by far the largest amount is
imported from Africa, and the total weight
given by the British Board of Trade returns
for two or three years ago was 9,4.4 hundred
weight.
THE population of London has almost
exactly doubled itself in the course of forty
one years, whereas the population of the rest
multiply in an equal degree. At the begin
ming of the present century out of every nine
inhabitants of England and Wales one only
lived in London. Now the proportion has
risen to one out of seven.
The LONGEVITY of medical men is well IL
lustrated by some figures in the London Ian
GET. The year now drawing to a close has
witnessed the death of thirty-five more or less
eminent members Of the profession, of whom
two were IS years of age, two "a, two %, one
81. two 80, one SO, three IS, three 81, five So,
two So three 81 four So, one 81 and four 50.
The two seniors in this list began their career
as army surgeons, and served IN the Spanish
anu Belgian wars.
NJ. DU SOMMERARD, the founder of the Gu
nv Museum in Paris, was one day in com
mon public house in st. Denis, where, on the
wall. he noticed a brass frying-pan of a some
what uncommon shape. He took it down to
examine il more particularly, and discovered
some engraved letters under thick crust of
coal and SCOT. Without saying anything about
his discovery, he bought the pan from the as
tonished owner, and, after process OF clean
ing il appeared that il was the plate from the
coffin of Louis XIV. The three legs were
taken out and the original shape restored, but
the holes into which the legs had been fasten-
ed remain until this day. 1t Is now IN the
Cluny Museum
DIR. JAMES FRASER, in the Edinburgh Chi
,,,raictI and Pathological journal, gives the
results of a series of experiments to determine
the effect of the ordinary infused beverages,
tea coffee and cocoa, on the digestion Of albU.
men He finds that all retard digestion eX-
cent in four instances, viz, ham and white Of
egg with coffee, and fish with cocoatlna ana
cocoa. Salt meats are less retarded IN ulges-
tion than fresh. The retardatiOn is greatest
with cocoa, less so with tea, and least with
coffee. Tea causes flatulence. Cream and
sugar reduce the retarding effect of tea, but
increase that of cocoa. He recommends as a
practical conclusion that albumin0ids, especi-
aIlv fresh meats, should not be taken with IN
fused beverages, and therefore condemns meat
teas.
A TRAIN Of cars in Buffalo has become Q
wall Of ice. The Buffalo Express describes it:
zone Of the most striking things on the lake
front Il long train OF cars on siding next
the open lake. They were hauled out there