Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AT san Jose. Cal. has recently been manu-
featured native silk in piece that compares
more than fayOrabiy with the Lyons product.
CHARLES DUNsTER, a Leesville tOhiol
blacksmith, has made a steel clock, which
STRIKE hours. quarters and minutes, and has
II dial= corresponding to the II leading cities
of the United States.
wHEN the Virgin Queen was once revie ~
ing trades procession a particularly fine
body OF men attracted her attention. Asking
who they were she was told hatters. "Hence-
forth thew shall be called gentlemen hat
ters'" said Elizabeth Since that day jour
newman halter has always been called gen
tleman halter, and as his name. so his manners
and customs have been.
REPORT comes from Berlin that the govern
ment intends to establish so-called labor
bureaus, whose duty it shall be to keep an
exact contro! regarding the offers of and the
demand for labor in the different branches Of
industry throughout the country, In order
that EMPLOYERS who need wOrkmen may
know where to find them, and that laboring
men may learn where to get something 10 90.
A STORY came to me the other day of an en-
cheering party in Dakota that had seated
themselves at their dinner table in a tent,
when a marty Of COWBOYS rode up. One of
them dismounted, and thrusting his pistol ID
the middle of rice pudding that was placed
in the centre Of the liable. called out: w no
ever wa Is pudding must ask me- No one
saemod to care for dessert that day.-Chicd9o
Ran6Ier.
AFLocK Of sheep feeding on stubble several
miles west of Gridley, Col, were attacked by
a large band of ravens. Spectators say there
were not less than 300 birds in the band. They
sould flv down at the sheep and alight on
their backs apparently trying to carry of the
mutton eagle style. Many OF the birds got
their talons fastened in the wool so that they
I NO fv- eighteen
captured alive.
THE British Museum collection of SapO-
leon portraits has just been enriched by a
water color drawing Of the captive Emperor
on his voyage to st. Helena. The drawing
was made from life by Lieut.. Skene, OF
his Majesty's ship northumberland, and re-
presents the prisoner leaning sullenly, with
his hands n his pockets, against gun car
riage, while an English officer stands opposite
addressing him.
CHARLES WARREN ADAMS, the plaintiff in
the Coleridge libel case, first came before the
public during the st. GeOrge's-in- the-E East
riots, when he offered his services to the Rev.
| Bryan King, the rector, and his stal wari
/ frame and imposing appearance made him IN
valuable as a lighting churchman. He subse-
quenty was we'll known in the newspaper
and literary world, and was editor for some
time of the Western Mail at Cardlh.
SEBAsTOPOL, the city of the ever-famOus
siege, is rapidly reassumlng Its place among
| commercial cities and &c tres of habitatiOn.
b the terms of the Crimean treaty Russia
was forbidden to attempt the refOrtihcatiOn
or even improvement Of SebastOpOl, and under
that blight the city has lain during the inter-
vening thirty years a mass Of crum5ling ruins
Russia is now said to be dlsregarding the treaty
in rebuilding the place and extending rail
WAYS to it no abrOgatiOn or modification OF
the treaty having been made.
THE privilege of free passes over the rail-
roads, granted heretofore to the members OF
the German Reichstag, has been modified fOI
the approaching legislative period. 1t Will
henceforth be confined to the travel between
Berlin and the actual residence of the respec-
tive members, the lines being specified on the
card. No free pass will be given to those
members who reside either in Berlin or in SO
close a proximity of the capital as not to re-
quire the use of any railroad for their official
l0comOtiOn. Under the old system one Ger
man maker used his pass travelling about
the country selling patent door handles. Some
American legislators do similar things on
their masses.