Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A GENUINE vampire was recently captured
in Los Angeles, Cal.
THE salary Of the Mayor of sioux Falls.
OAK, is 81 pc. annum.
CALLED TO HIS ROAST" is the farlng
head line in Detroit paper announcing a
death.
AMERICAN CATARRH," so-called, is, &C
cOrding to the opinion of an eminent English
specialist, disease mainly caused by con
slant irritation OF the mucous membrane Of
the respiratory passages, provoked by the
clouds OF dust that we breathe.
Is the current FortnfghtIy Mr.. W. j. Cor
bet, NJ. p, answers the question, SIS insanity
on the increase?' in the affirmative on the
evidence OF $4,000 new witnesses, "a new eX-
penditure of f7.000,0O0 for asylums, ana an
increased annual cost of over 100000 for
maintenance in a few years"
A FRENcHMAN has suggested the following
method Of detecting Internal machines: All
luggage to be placed on wooden tables sup
/ ported by iron feet, but not nailed to them
A microphone to be placed on each of the ia
bles, when any ticking or other noise pro-
| ceedlng from the baggage would at once be-
come audible.
THE sternness Of England's criminal laws is
again exemplifed in the case of John Minis,
aged 81. who was charged at StratfOrd, re-
Gently, with stealing one peunywOrth of coke
he had been already a week in jail, and,
though he was man Of good character, the
Magistrates sentenced him to a months i'm
Z prlsonment with hard labor.
THE process of raisin making as described
[ by Miss Emily Faithful, is very simple. The
vines planted are of the sweet Muscat variety
The punches Of grapes are cut from the vines
and laid down in trays in the open air for
! about fortnight, being duly turned at inter
walls Then they are removed to the barn.
TO- WI
remain till all the moisture is extracted. They
| are pressed and put into boxes.
THERE are Just ten libraries in this country
which contain over 100000 books, and Phila-
delphia furnishes two of them. The Wash
ington Library has 100000 volumes, the Bos-
ton Public Library 29,S69, Harvard College
277,7O0, AstOr Library Dos 299 Yale College
I 100000, Mercantile New York 100000, the
Mercantile (PhiladelphIa) rs. $50, the Congress
siOnal Library 125000, the Boston Atheneum
10000, and the Library Company Of this city
| 100000.
RECENTLY fox hound was missed from
the market in Halifax. lie had been brought
from town los miles distant a few days pre-
yi0us, shut in a box car. He did not appear
to be restless while in the city. No trace of
him could be found until few DAYS later
when word was received that he had arrived
at his old home two days after he disappeared
lie must nave retraced the distance on foot
at the rate of about fifty miles a day. with
probably an incidental fox hunt en- route.
4 NEWSPAPER correspondent writes that
there Is OF a chimney anywhere in Mexico
as far as he has seen, and their absence gives
an odd aspect to the architecture, like that of
Arabian towns. No house has fire place or
stove, for it is never cold, but the kitchen is
equipped with a sort of ungainly brick or
stone range, ten or fifteen feet long, having
holes for pots and kettles and in which char
| coal is burned. The fumes escape by the open
doors and windows. Charcoal is almost the
only fuel in Mexico, except in the Northern
/ States.
HARRISON, the boy lecturer on temperance.
seems to be getting plenty of encouragement
from the Western newspapers. a sample of
it is contained in the following headlines over
the announcement Of his arrival in Evans
vile, Ind. as printed in the local paper;
''HALLELUJAH! - Brother Harrison Gets
Here IL Fine Feather for the Fray-Satdn
| Trying to Find Hole in the Ground That
Ife Can Crawl into and Pun in After Him
| But He VIII Not be Allowed to Get AWAY
with an Uuabbreylated Tail-Beelzebub to Be
Laid Out Too Dead to Skin IN No Time-The
Racket to Begin at Once"
THE government has just made an appro-
pration for the publishing OF most interest
ing souvenir Of President Lincoln. Il consists
OF a book containing fac SMILES of all the let
tiers of coincidence received from the different
governments OF the world on his assassina-
ton. and will be accompanied by brief bio
graphical sketch and a frOntispiece in the
shape of fine steel engraving taken from
Frank B. Carpenters well known and faith
full portraits in oils. The letter press, paper
and binding of this work will be of the best
/ the Government Printing Office can produce
and the edition limited to 90 copies, one be-
ing sent to every foreign government.
: The Boston public library has received a
! gift Of many valuable papers from Abbott
/ Lawrence, the substance Of discovery among
the waste stock Of a Boston Junk shop, to
which they had been sent by their stupid own
! ers. DR.. Charles E. Clarke discovered them:
! and the town of Taunton has had parts Of its
records and other important municipal papers
/ restored TO its archives from this lot, while
I the papers given to the Boston library include
/ a cOnsitera Bile lot Of brOadsides, many Of them
( now unique one is a proclamation by Lieut..
GOV. William StOughtOn. the Council, and the
Assembly in May, 1885. the last years Of King
Williams war, in which there was offered
! head money for dead Indians. Fifty pounds
: for every Indian man and 25 pounds for any
Indian woman or child lmale or female) under
II taken or brought in prisoners; 1.-THE scalps
OF all Indians slain to be produced and dellV-
cred to the Commissioner for War. as the law
in that case provides and the benefit Of Plum
der
MANY worthy Americans who have been
for a season in Paris, and who may be blame
lessly free from pride IN all other particulars,
are exceedingly sensitive to any hint at i'm
perfection in their mastery OF the French
tongue. One OF these gentlemen was recently
introduced at a great gathering in Washing
ton to a distinguished foreign diplomat, and
Immediately assailed him with a flood OF what
he considered to be the most exquisite French
Of Paris. Taking breath for moment, he
apolOgized with an air of bland self-cOnceit
for his imperfect command of the French
tongue, but he was a little taken aback when
the diplomat, with what was meant to be
complimentary smile, replied: mot at all,
a understand " ~
less fortunate in inquiring OF one Of the French
Legation with whom he was converting.
How much would ! have to say before You
knew by my pronunciation that I was not
trenchman.' "One wOrd,'' was the prompt
and decisive reply.