Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


ITEMS OF INTEREST.
ICE is piled 40 feet high in the Straits OF
Mackinac, Michigan.
GOLD NUGGETS are being found in the noun
tajns near Marshall, Ark.
THE New Orleans Lumber Exchange has
adopted the plan of selling futures
NUMEROUS purchases of cart horses in Eng
land for American account are reported.
THE southern California Orange Company
has been formed IN Los Angeles, with capt.
tai of 100000, to deal in citrus fruits
THERE are 10 "factory mutual insurance
companies now doing business. They take
risks only on factories, mainly textile, and
they took risks last year amounting to rising
$35O0OO,0 900.
If a razor, after being exposed to the cold,
be placed under strong magnifying glass, II
is said that the edge would seem like saw.
Dippfng il in hot water throws the little par
ticies back INTO place and makes the edge
smooth.
AN Iowa bow, aged 10, worked a month for
the physician of the neighborhood, and was
given. instead of the $40 which he expected,
receipted bill for professional services when
the doctor had rendered on the occasion OF
his BIRTH
received during the month of December at
Huntsville. Texas. The total number on hand
January !. 1884, was 3,447. Since the LIST OF
January, 1888, there was only one death ana
no escapes
1T is said that the Government Of India has
bought up nearly the whole of the pottery ana
fine art specimens in the Calcutta exhibition
in order to provide models Tor the schools OF
design which it is intended to establish III all
parts of India.
THE response to the appeal which was made
by the Boston press for subscriptions to fund
in recognition of the bravery of the Gay Head
Indians has been so prompt ana generous that
the amount received IS ample Tor the pur-
poses. 1t is about $1,000.
THE King of Italy intends to form at the
Quirinal Victor Emmanuel Museum, in
which shall be gathered together all records
of the eminent man, such as the Illuminated
documents, crowns, banners, and other OBJ
iects presented to him by pilgrims, cities and
provinces.
AN Illinois philanthrOpist wishes to benefit
the poor by teaching them TO eat their bread
and butter with the butter side down. He
saws that the sense of taste is most acute on
the tongue, and that very small amount OF
! butter is satisfactory If put IN the obviously
! right spot.
ACCORDING to the cable correspondent of
the New York sun, it turns out that the
ghostly white lady Of Berlin this time was
only an inquisitive scullion wandering AROUND
in his white jacket and apron. The weather
is bad, and the German Emperor stays IN
doors The "white lady has had nothing to
do with it.
ONE of the best known historical rOmances
of Japan is THE Loyal Ronins," by Tamena-
ga shunsul. Mr.. Edward Greey has made
translation of it, assisted by Shiuichlra Saito,
| and G. p. Putnams Sons will publish the
/ frqOeIafion carly This y gentleman OF
| Yeddo Kei-sai Yei-sen, has prepared illus
| trations for it, which will appear IN the Put-
nam edition.
| Truth, of London, reports that some very i'm
! portant correspondence, comprising conhden-
| tial letters exchanged between the late Due
! de Morny and Napoleon III. was recently
/ stolen from the house of deceased statesman
| in Paris, and that the fear OF its publication
! is causing quite tlutter of excitement IN
| BOnapartlSt circles
! TITS gwen out that Lolita is actually en-
| gagged to marry Mr.. Cecil Rayne, who is de-
! scribed by a writer in the New York Times as
a gorgeous dude" He was engaged to play
! juvenile parts in her company because he
| could not act. and also because he wore good
clothes" However, as two years or so are to
elapse 'twiXt now and wedding day, Lottas
/ good sense may rescue her mature years from
such fate.
SOME practical joker connected the metal
/
change brokers are prone to lay hold OF when
thew buy and sell with the electric batteries
| OF the telegraph Office. Every broker VINO
/ undertook to do business In the usual form
| received shock. III was very lunny 70 ent
outsiders. The discovery of method TO get
| even with broker during business hours
ought TO be patented.
OK the east wall of the Paris corn market
has been set up an inscription recording that
on the same site formerly stood the Hotel OF
| the Queen, afterward called the Hotel de
! scissors, which was erected for Catherine dc
MedicIs in 1872 by Philibert Delorme. The
| last remains of this hotel, the Astronomical
1 column. were purchased in l74S for $1,000 by
| Petit de Rachaumont, who gave the column TO
| the town OF Paris
! ACCORDING to statistics collected by the
Trade and Labor Assembly of Chicago, the
average daily wages of stonemasons and
bricklayers there are 81, of job printers So,
stove -mounters receive from 81 to 81 50, lith-
! ographers and engravers (fOr eight hours
work. 81, cabinetmaKers 50 to "a, clothing
cutters 50 to 81, cigarmakers ~ to " 80, black
SIN this and hOrseshOers IS to 50 so, plumbers
! and gasfiters So to SO 80.
THE Spanish Cortes have just voted the sum
of $4,000 for the purchase of the Duke of
Osuna's library. The manuscripts number
! 2.77O volumes, and the printed books 80, 567
| volumes besides 669 separate sheets and
number of prints arranged IN series. Inc
! commission appointed to consider the pur-
/ chase valued the books at nearly 0,OOO, Whlle
it declared the manuscripts to be of inestina-
| BILE worth.
| A MORMON elder was PROSECUTING in Indiana,
and plot was formed to seize him while he
was addressing public meeting, take him to
a secluded spot, and maltreat him with tar
and feathers. Being informed of his peril in
| advance, he did not run away, but boldly APP
| peared according to appointment, preached
| Mormonism in his most eloquent manner, and
| by his oratory so impressed the conspiratOrs
! that they gave up the intention OF mobblng
| him.
SOME idea of the magnitude of the business
Of raising sweet SCENTED flowers for their per-
fume alone, may be gathered from the fact
that Europe and British India consume about
! $50 900 gallons of handkerchief perfumes year
| ": that the English revenue from eau de CO.
| logne is $4,000 annually, and that the total
OF other perfumes Is gstmaseG AZ
distillery at Cannes, in France, which uses
yearly 100000 pounds of acacia flowers, no.,
0GO pounds OF rare hover o leaves: 5000 pounds
of Jasmine blossoms, 10000 OF tuberose bios
sOms and an immense quantity of other ma
terial.
THE manufacture of rope from asbestos is
likely to become an industry Of considerable
Importance in England, the strength Of the
article being estimated at about one fourth
that of ordinary hemp rope of the same
diameter. hope Oh thlS ihdteiidi Ot one anu Il
half inches in diameter is stated to have n
! breaking strength of one ton, and twenty feet
of it are calculated TO represent a weight Of
thirteen and one fourth pounds Some OF the
purposes, as enumerated, to which this kind
of rope is especially adapted are theatres, fire
briqades and means Of escapes from dwell
ings and public buildings, its advantages be-
ing that it will not break and drop its burden
If the flame bears upon 1t. 1t IS made like or
binary rope, and is spun from Italian asbestos
thread.
BRIGHT BITS.
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