Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-07
ITEMS or INTEREST.

ELECTRIC LIGHTS are now IN use on most
ocean passenger steamships.
SIX THOUSAND vendors of fruits and vege-
tables are licensed to walk the streets of Paris.
THE shaft Of Gen. Suffers old mill at Colo
ma, Cal. where gold was first discovered by
Marshall, in 1913, has just been placed IN
museum in san Francisco.
RECENTLY two Boston brides have appro-
priately chosen the apple blossom as their
floral decoration, in place OF the orange BIOS
som or the graceful white lilac. One bride
carried a basket of these blossoms In her hand
to the altar, and another received congratula-
tiOps in a bower of the same, while her white
satin gown was trimmed with them in eombl-
nation with tulle.
THE Sultan OF Zanzibar is about to make
great effort to free his people, and all East
Africa, from drunkenness. At the present
moment he is bound by commercial treaties TO
let European traders import just what they
please, and it has pleased certain German
houses and others to import stuff from Ham
burg which they call brandy. The Sultan
proposes a revision of the treaty.
THE s.kids fund" was established by the
pioneers of Eagle City, Montana, for the en-
dOwment OF the first native C9ur dAlener.
The fund had just reached the comfortable
sum Of 5000 when it was appropriated by an
enterprising son of the soil, whose mother had
walked thirty-five miles through snow, In
order to give him birth within the confines of
Eagle. The woman was living with her hus-
banda freight hand on the Northern Pacific
ROad-in cabin near the mann line when she
heard of the premium.
DIR. FAIR, an English scientist, says that if
one could watch the march Of 100000 through
life the following result would be observable:
Nearly $780, 600 will die the first year, 3d. 900 the
second year, $4,000 the third year, and less
than 1000 in the thirteenth year. At the end
y. wr~fl1 how nd
the end of sixty years 100000 will be still
living; at the end of eighty years, 1900; at
eighty-fiye years, $1,000, and at nlnety-hVe
years, 2IOO. At the end of 100 years there will
be 223, and at the end Of los years there VIII
be one survivor.
PEOPLE who possess rare furniture and ar
tlcles of virtu had better send them to Paris
il they want money. At the sale OF the Baron
d'Ivry's collection, a suite of Louis XVI.
furniture Fifteen pieces) covered with GObe-
Inns, fetched f3,440. a tapestry screen went
for ESQ. A writing table of satin wood, pro-
fuseiy ornamented in the Louis Nv. style, re-
allied f 800 A pair OF bronze candelabra,
fISS0. OF the pictures, a small head, by Fra
gOnard. went for $40. The sale realised
about G42, 900, which was fully third more
than had been anticipated by even the most
sanguine critics.
APRoPos of a remarkable whist hand re-
Gently held by four players in Cincinnati, in
which each player received thirteen cards Of
one suit a correspondent writes: "Your
Cincinnati whist curiosity reminds me of a
circumstance that happened to me some
years ago when playing in London. Upon
taking up my hand, / found it to consist
entirely OF one suit, rs occurred in Cincln-
natl; but upon taking up my hand after
another deal by the same dealer, 1t contained
four kings, four queens, four knaves and an
acel The name of the dealer was Wijalba
FrIkell."
THE Scientific american has an illustration
OF new car starter which, if it really an
swers its purpose, will be boon not only to
horses that suffer from the strain Of starting
our street cars. but TO the railroad companies,
who are especially interested in lessening the
wear and tear of their live stock. The power
employed to stop the car is in this invention
stored up IN springs and utilized for starting
it. Friction drums are arranged on the car
aXles, and connected with other drums, on
one of which the spring attached to the
treadle above the platform is wound up, and
made to act as brake,
THREE HUNDRED Columbia College students,
in tall white beavers and nightgowns. gath
cred around the Worth monument, New York,
Wednesday night. Preceded by a squad of
policemen and a brass band, they marched up
Fifth avenue, with grotesque e1hgy Of Legen-
DIRE, faring torches and spark splitting Roman
candles Several residents displayed cOlored
lights on their window -sills and Tired Roman
candle balls into the procession. The stu
dents shouted. yelled and sang college songs
until they reached the campus. There they
burnt the effigy and eXecrated things mathe-
NAUTICAL. They then went to a west side gar
den, where they wrestled with problems re-
lating to the number of schOoners constituting
suficiency, and demolished the geOmetrie
newness of their tall white hats.