Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Two creeks, named s'Froze to Death" and
s'Starved to Death" are on the new map OF
Custer county, Montana.
DURING the first twenty-four weeks Of the
present year the eighteen chief English rail-
roads earned almost exactly million week.
FROM recently published tables 1t appears
that the average time of sickness among males
is about nine days ia each of their working
years. In women 1t is tribe more.
NJ. CHARToN's proposal IN the French Sen
ate to abolish the guillotine and substitute for
it some more scientific mode Of capital pun
ishment does not seem to meet with much
favor.
APARsEE GIRL has astonished her race in
India by bringing suit for breach of promise
of marriage. 1t is the first instance Of the
kind known IN that land, and it has created a
great scandal.
THE French Government encourages emil
grafton to her colonies by offering passage and
food to such as have satisfied the law on the
recruitment for the army and are able TO pro-
duce a certificate of good character.
ENGINEER MELVILLE, remembered in con-
nection with the various Jeanette distresses.
was with the Schley rescuing party and bore
a part in the Portsmouth jubilee on Monday.
To a group of friends he said: Il received a
telegram from Rev. Mr.. Talmage, of Brook
lyn, opening his tabernacle to me and offering
goo for nine months if | would lecture.
But Melville don't do that. hey? Melville
don't sell the blood and toll OF his comrades
for $4,000 or any other sum. No, not il he
hadn't dollar"
IN MISSOURI huggIng societies have been
introduced to swell the church treasures, and
a paper gives the following scale of prices !:
Girls under l6 twenty-five cents for each hug
of two minutes; from Is to % years of age.
fifty cents; from 20 to ., seyenty-fiVe cents;
school ma ams, forty cents; widows. accord
ing to looks, from ten cents to 81; old maids,
three cents apiece, or two FOR nickel. and not
any limit Of time. Ministers are not charged.
Editors pay in advertisements, but are not
allowed to participate until everybody else is
through,
TALKING in verse was one of the amuse-
ments introduced at a Paris dinner the other
day, in revival of an old custom. The exer-
else lasted but quarter of an hour, during
which some very. pretty and ingenious
speeches were made. The French heroic
metre is not very difficult for Improvisation,
hut ii "a not so easy as the Hawaiian meas
ure, and not much more so than that other
trochaic measure in which the alternate
verses are catalectic and rhymed. Why should
not talking in rhyme become pastime Tor the
ready tongued and ready witted American
women2
THz cost Of electric light for the illumina-
ton Of cities, as compared with gas, has been
computed by Hartford, Conn.,, where arc
lights have been in use for about year. The
report states that each electric light in use
dispIaces six and one-half street gas burners.
besides giving at the same time at least ten
times as much light. The gas lamps cost S35
per burner per annum, kept burning 320
nights in the year, while for the electric lights
65 cents a night is paid. The electric light
being equal to SIX ana one-halI gas burners;
d saving of SIS 60 per lamp per year IS effected
by the use of electricity. besides the cost of
lighting and extinguishing the gas lamps.
AMONG the miseries endured by the victims
Of fumigation in the cholera districts, there
are some that have humorous side to them.
he ar of a case at Irun, where, while passen-
gers. luggage, and the contents of goods
train were all being submitted to the process
together. several persons tainted from the re-
markablY intense fumes, and others shrieked
for air and liberty. It was afterward dlsc0V-
cred that among other things about ton OF
quickIme had been disinfected. At Geneva,
last week, a lady and her parrot were put in
the box together, but as the latter could not
get its head out it succum bed, amid the walls OF
It's owner. Another case, not quite so anus
ing, is OF lady and her daughters, VINO mad
the whole Of their seasons dresses destroyed
by the efects OF the aeid.
AN electric woman in France has awakened
much interest lately. She has been under
observation for about 3 years, and 10 now
about 20 years OF age. While girl she
noticed that at certain times her hair pro-
duced crepitation and emitted sparks in the
dark. She can attract light bodies. such as
pieces of paper, ribbons, etc, with her I'm
tiers, and her hairs not only produce sparks
when combed, but stand apart. When her
clothing is put upon her there is produced not
only a luminous crepitation, but it even adj
heres to the body; sometimes 80 closely that
it ipterferes with the movements OF the body.
She has also the power OF charging bodies
with electricity, The amount and intensity
of the electricity generated by her depends
upon the state OF her MIND, a. also upon the
state OF the atmosphere.
A CALIFORNIA newspaper says: new nltra
beds are constantly being found in Nevada,