Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

JAMES L. EDWARDS, then OF Virginia, was
the first Commissioner Of Pensions, serving
from 1888 until 1850, when his Office force con-
sisted OF fifteen clerks, where there is now an
annual payroll of 81, 100000.
BARON LIEBIG claims that the downfall Of
Rome really began with the building of the
great sewers that detected the enormous
sewage OF the imperial city into the Tiber,
where 1t became pollution and waste.
ONE thousand women belong to the Kappa
Kappa Gamma secret society, which has
chapters in a score of institutions in the
Northwest and West called colleges. There
is no similar organization of women in the
world.
A NEBRASKA GIRL writes from California:
''A woman is of less consequence here than
anywhere else IN the world. The Chinese do
most Of the washing and housekeeping, and
work at about the same wages that women
and girls would ind necessary. This is no
place for a girl who intends to marry, and 1
am coming back to Nebraska this fall"
THE passengers on night car which ran out
Of Bowdoin square, Boston, recently, inclu-
ded, in addition to a large number of self
possessed citizens, one intoxicated German
bar tender, two intoxicated cOlored men,
three very sober Hebrews, four hilarious
Hibernians, five disguised Yankees, six of
Buffalo Bills Indians, all happy, one cowboy
and one Chinaman, limp with fright.
SCHOOLS Of voracious bluefish have driven
the mackerel along the coast Of Connections
out to sea. Blueflsh are plentiful at Block
Island, but they viii not bite. Boatloads of.
the fish average nine pounds in weight apiece.
Hundreds of guests at Block Island hunt the
fish daily. and old bOatmen say that the
passing OF so many boats across the water
frightens the fish SO that they go to the bottom
and sulk.
AFTER much research a lady physician has
4F,.a 4oI,,
ces, because it affects the nerves that control
the heart. With the nerves of the heart par
alyzed, affection dies as matter of course.
There may not be much in this, but it sounds
AS near right as some of the cholera talk Of
European saYants. It may at least serve to
explain the instructive dislike of most women
for the narcotic Indian weed.
MOSQUITO BITES are said to be good for fever
patients. Be this as it may, the reason why
the mosquito prefers a fevered PERSONS blood
is that il is warmer than healthy PERSONS.
Female mosquitoes alone are said to draw
blood, needing such nourlshment to enable
them to lay eggs. DIR. FInlay, OF Havana, in
Inmates that mosquito having been inter
rupted feeding on a fever patient may inocu-
late with fever germs healthy person.
WATERS at COney Island are said to have
developed great ingenuity in defrauding hotel
keepers this season. The last device adopted
by them is to change the written orders of
customers. Thus, If person orders an extra
steak, price 81 %, the waiter erases the sex
tra," brings back an ordinary 60-cent steak,
and pockets the difference. In one day, eight
walters who were receiving 81 a day pay
were dismissed for this sort of knavery. but
the offenders are apt to be re-engaged from
the difficulty of identifying them.
A CARPENTER in Central Mexico earns from
60 to rs cents day; a mason the same; COM
mon day laborer from % to 50 ce nts; a farm
laborer who works by the month from 81 to
IS a month and 'found." They work from
daylight until sunset, with half an hour at
O'Clock and again at 8 for breakfast and sup
per. These hours are very long, but they take
it easy, stopping every little while to smoke
their cgarros, and accomplishing less than an
American laborer will in six or seven hours
work. Their earnings are barely sufficient to
keep them in food and clothes of the Coarsest
kind, with an occasional real" over for the
bull fight at Pulke but they are the happiest
people on the face of the earth.
THE original "Blue Book" was the work Of
Peter Force, New York, a journeyman
printer, who came to Washington in 1915. be-
came the proprietor of printing Office, and
for some time compiled without charge the
biennial Register" better known, from the
color of its binding, as the 'Blue Book" of
which the government purchased small
number of copies. He in time collected a
large quantity of rare books and pamphlets,
many of which had been thrown away from
the executive departments as rubbish, and
purchased by HIM of the dealers in waste
paper.