Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IT costs over $54,OOO,OOO to run New York
city one year.
ENGLAND yearly pays f1,50O,OOO for water
that is sold for milk. London pays 100000
LADIES are requested to take of their bon
nets" is the sign on the playbills of the new
Berlin theatre.
HERETOFORE the Cunard Line has refused
to carry cattle. but now one of its vessels is to
be fitted up for this freight. and very apprO-
priately the steamer il the Catalonia.
AT THE DINNER of the National Congress of
school Teachers, IN Dublin, the toast of the
Lord Lieutenant" was omitted, which has
led to hot differences that may result in the
disruption of the organization.
DURING the year 1888 there were imported
into the United States 3l,625,0 900 pounds of in
dia rubber 2,542,OOO pounds less than the pre-
ceding year. The total consumption of the
world for last year was 32,OOO,OOO,
THE ROchdale system of cooperation has
been introduced in san Francisco. The CAPT
tai stock OF the first store is 100000, and the
number of shares 10000. Only knights Of
Labor in good standing are eligible TO men,
bership.
THEY had to saw the pipe off from hydrant
in Allentown. Pa, the other day to llberate
a man who had tried to drink from the nozzle
when the thermometer was near zero. With
taken to fire, and there the pipe iell of.
CITY CLERK GOODRICH, of Boston. has been
notified not to destroy the ballots cast in the
recent city election. They are to be placed
on exhibition with the other relics in the old
South Church. They must be great curiosi-
ties, and would look well in dime museum.
SPEAKING of the peculiar power OF the Rus
sian mind, the passionate longing for selfsac
rihce for the purpose of putting theory into
practice. profound observer says that the
true expression of Russian genius Will be
found either in a new form of society, or in
a new birth in religion.
PROF. AYRTON is of the opinion that the day
for electric tricycles has not yet come, be-
cause of the difficulty of getting the supply of
stored electricity replenished, though he be-
lieves that the period is not far distant when
that curious cOntrlVance, an electlc tricycle.,
may be taken on a tour, and the smallest item
of expense will be that chargeable to cleo
tricity.
SPRATs are so numerous in Scottish waters
this season that millions of them have been
sold for manure. Sixty tons of them were
lately caught in the River Tay and put at
once upon the land. As there are about 1900
average sprats in ton the total number de-
strOyed must be enormous. They are whole
some food, but the cost OF getting them to
English markets leaves no profit for the sales
men.
THE fashion of sealing letters with wax,
which is Just looming up again, is a very SEN
sible one. Aside from the pretty sentiment
that makes it the bearer of the sender's mono
gram or other distinctive insignia, it insures
protection against the prylng eyes OF persons
who would not steal letter outright, but who
have small cOmpunctiOns against reading the
contents if they can be as readily got at as in
the case of the gum sealed flap.
\ NOVELTY IN temperance experiments is
that of the rector of a church in Warwick
shire. England who, seven years ago, bought
the only tavern in the village and hired good
man to manage it, Nothing stronger than
beer is sold. and the profits pay the salary of
the church Organist and leave a considerable
sum to be divided among local charities. He
would be brave minister who should dare IN
America to engage in similar enterprise.
COL. KING -HARMAN has solid reasons for
Directing to an extension Of the Irish fran
chise. The county Of Dublin, which he now
represents in Parliament has population of
7O,627, and but 1900 voters. The extension of
the suffrage, it is calculated would increase
the number of voters to 10000, and of the 5, 100
new voters about 5000 would vote against the
reelection of Col. King Hartman. The ma
jority of his party in the present constituency
Is less than 200.
A BRANCH Of the Southern Pacific Railroad
is partly ballasted with salt, a vast bed Of
whichlie in the Colorado desert near IndiO.
In laying track to the salt mine there, says
the Los Angeles Herald, the builders were
obliged to grade the road for l,200 feet with
blocks of beautiful Jumps of crystals The sea
which once rolled over this place, now 26O feet
below the sea level, dried up and left a vast
bed of salt about so miles in length. The
quality is superb and the supply ineXhausti-
bic. GrasshOppers of enormous size and giant
centipedes have been here picked in the chic
ride of sodium, and are to-day, after the lapse
of centuries, of full size and original shape.
The total aggregate income of the various
Tendon companies and guilds is $S,75O,OO0 per
annum from their corporate property. Be-
sides this they derive an income of $l,OOO,OOO
from trust funds. OF the latter income $685.
600 is given to poor members Of the guilds
(they are nearly all rich); $4,000 is spent on
education, and S250000 goes to charitable IN
situations. OF the corporate income 1915, 200 is
spent on entertainments, $780, 900 in improving
property and decorating halls (Of entertain
ment), $750,00O are said to be given away in
charity, $4,000 are spent in plate, furniture,
buildings and for church purposes, while $780,
600 go for salaries to members of the guilds
and their sons. The property was bestowed
on the guilds to aid IN cultivating mechanical
skill among English workingmen and to ex-
tend English commerce.