Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IL California, last year, $4,000 pounds OF
salt were extracted from sea water.
FORTY EIGHT shetland ponies have just
been landed at Boston. They were entered
free of duty ''fOr breeding purposes" but
were sold for driving and as pets.
NEARLY 10000 heads of families, represent
ing a population of over 100000 persons, have
been aided with money to emigrate from
Alsace- Lorraine to French territory since that
district was desOlated.
OF the cotton crop of Tennessee 81 per cent.
is grown in the territory between the Missis-
sippi and Tennessee rivers and 20 per cent. in
the two tiers of counties bordering the Missis-
siDDl river. While the total production of the
State is less than half that of Alabama it is
equal per acre to that of Mississippi.
IT has been reported in many papers
lately that GOunod has just composed an all
to ByrOn's ''Maid Of Athens" for the benefit
of the heroine of THOSE verses, who is described
as living in London in great poverty. Mrs.
Black, the Maid of Athens, died neary ten
years ago, and it is thirteen years since GOu-
nod composed the air in question, which pro-
ducCd about f20 towards the fund for the re-
lief of the old lady.
ONE somewhat novel result of the extensive
strike of stove moulders at Quincy. H., is that
prOprietors of four of the foundries have filed
suits for $4,000 damages against each Of the
three men from their foundries who compose
the committee appointed by the union to keep
the non-uniOn men from working when they
arrive. The damage is claimed for interior
ing with their business.
THE sub-pedestal of cement in the centre of
the fort on Bedloes Island, New York harbor,
designed for the Bartholdi statue, is now ris-
ing above the ramparts and is about seventy
feet square. After it is twelve feet higher the
foundation of the pedestal proper will be laid
. 1efrV fab hn @ia1
feet. The committees funds now on hand
will give out in about six weeks.
THE Sunday question has reached Balti-
more. Two young Hebrews were arrested
for working on Sunday in their own room.
Their defense was that they did not disturb
the devotional exercises of their neighbors
and they had observed their Sabbath Satur-
day. The Judge promptly discharged the
prisoners, holding their Offense merely a
technical violation of law and one not deserv-
ing punishment.
SEDAN has now lost the last vestiges of its
standing as a fortified city. Its dismantllng
Is an accomplished fact, the work having been
carried out in virtue of a special law, as the
town was not included in the new defensive
arrangements. All the military Outworks
have disappeared; there only remains keep,
with extensive underground vaults and pass
ages, and some high walls, all of which are
to share the fate of the Notifications.
Mr.. REDMOND, the young Irish NJ. P. who
was recently in this country, IN an interview
published in the Pail Mall Gazette, says, apro-
pos of the dynamiters here: Except a few
fanatics, they only want to get money out of
the business. Ford is the most formidable,
but even he was only able to collect $4,000 inf
four months for his war fund.- As the fund
owed its origin to the execution of O'DOnnell,
so | believe it VIII die out with the remem-
brance of it."
In a paper read before the Edinburgh
Health Society DR.. Almond referred to the
custom of having the head covered out of
doors and uncovered within doors as very in
furious on account of its making people so
sensitive to draughts OF air as to cause them
to take cold. Boys, he said, who went bare
amount of ventilation in school rooms and
sleeping rooms than those who wore head
coverings.
The Memphis Medical Monthly says that the
Missouri Supreme Court has decided that in
formation obtained by a physician from
patient must not be disclosed on the witness
stand, where the information was necessary
to enable the doctor to prescribe as physi-
clan or operate as surgeon. The court held
that il would not do, while the mouth of a
physician is closed as to the actual spoken
words of patient, to open it as to knowledge
acquired from his diagnosis.
The PoEycIinic states that the use of paper
towels in cleansing wounds has been found
very satisfactory. Sponges have always been
regarded with suspicion by surgeons, as 1t is
so difficult to keep them in perfectly purified
condition. But the paper towels are to be
used once only, and, as they cost only from
Sc to 81 so per 1000, are available in the sick
ROOM They are from Japan, and the pale
coIors with which they are decorated are
found to be unObjectiOnable.
A NEW Anacreon is wanted at Epernay, this
time to sing the praises of champagne. 1t is
proposed by some of the wine manufacturers
of the district to offer prizes to the authors of
the best poems in praise of that exhilarating
beverage The poets will be free to choose
their own form of verse, and the illusions
will be received in the shape OF ballads, songs,
or lyrics. The first prize is OF the
value of 1000 francs, and several gold and
silver medals will likewise be awarded.
THE following curious story comes from
Penzance. England: Twenty-three years
ago man was married to a respectable wo-
man, and after leading her a miserable life
for three years he disappeared. Nothing
having been heard of the man for twelve
years, the wife, on receiving an offer from a
well do farmer, married him. and settled
in the same neighborhOod Recently the
farmer was employed to provide turf for
professional man, VINO wished the work to be