Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

HAND-PAINTED bonnets are the latest Pari-
sian novelties.
CALIFORNIA now produces over 100000 boxes
Of raisins per year.
ST. LOUIS manufactured 23,OOO,OOO pounds
of tobacco last year, the largest amount for
any one city.
IT is calculated by a statistcian that the
average amount of railway travelling done by
every man, woman and child Is ia miles each
year.
OVER $4,000 of the 4,44O,S82 pieces Of mail
matter that were sent to the dead letter Office
/ last year contained checks, money, etc, to the
amount of about 81, 100000.
ENGLISH RAILROADS are adopting ears in
which there are boxes fitted up inside with
india-rubber paneling and flOOr-cOvering,
for the transportation of valuable race
horses.
THE Italian government has determined to
offer on the occasion of opening the Turin
Exhibition a prize of 10000 francs for the most
practical process for the transmission of cleo
tricity.
SPANISH newspapers are agtated by fears
OF increasing French influence in Morocco. 1t
is not a new idea in Spain that the south side
OF this part of the Mediterranean should be-
long to the crown of Madrid
ELECTRIC LIGHTS have been introduced into
a gunpowder mandatory in England. The
buildings are scattered over two miles Of ter
ritory, and the wires are carried above
ground, from dynamo near the centre OF the
enclosure.
4 NEW territorial settlement in the far
East is the nearly perfected recognition by
England and Germany of the sovereignty OF
Spain over the SOoloO Islands, IN the Phillip
pine archipelago, and the abandonment by
Spain of all claims TO the northern portion OF
BOrneO.
IT is on the cards that Arab Will be back
In Egypt before long, the views held by him
for the permanent improvement Of his cOun-
try being identical with those of Gen Gordon
The latter thoroughly believes in Arab, and
never conceals his opinion. He subscribed to
she fund raised for his defence.
THE Brooklyn Bridge Railway can only
accommodate about 5000 passengers an hour,
and it Is urged by many that this capacity
should be increased ten times, and earn nearly
all the bridge income, while tolls for the foot
bridge should be abolished, and those for the
carriage ways reduced one-halt.
THE Chicago Tri5pn says that there are
3I3 bakeries in Chicago, and ''there is not
bread manufacturer in this city who does not
violate city ordinance every time he sells
a loaf, by giving light weight and inferior
flour" There are 10000 loaves of bread sold
every day in that city and, therefore, 10000
violations OF law.
THE latest development OF fashion in
France concerns the announcement of births
invariably sent out by French parents. For
a boy they are pale blue, for a girl delicate
pink: in the left-hand corner is the fathers
coat of arms or monogram, and underneath
the sign Of the zodiac which was paramount
when the babe first saw the light.
IT requires a slight mental effort to recall
the fact that this was the winter which the
weather wise feared would produce water
famine. If the moist performances of the past
nineteen DAYS are continued much longer the
New England rivers will postpone their dry
ing up. and the mills viii buy no more steam
engines, but cling to their water-whees.
ARCHIBALD FORBES says that the great weak
ness OF the Australian character is the hunger
after titles and decorations. Mr.. Goodall
Francis, the eminent and popular statesman
of Victoria. just deceased, was an exception.
He three times refused a knighthOOd Sir
Charles Gavan Duffy, the irish patriot, who
at one time affected to despise such thugs,
now wears the honors of the British Crown.
SPA, in Belgium, has not Of late years been
very prosperous as a bathing place. The
Communal Council, which has till now adj
ministered the springs and baths itself, is now
in treaty with company which will take
over the working Of them, paying $4,000 francs
a wear to the town. create other attractions
for visitors and construct in the Pare de Sept
Heures buildings of the value OF 100000 francs
for public use
EVEN in Russia public opinion is beginning
to wake up to the Importance of preserving
ancient buildings intact. The Institute OF Ar
chitects at St. Petersburg has been consider
ing the best means of preventing the Chinese
from continuing their present reckless qe-
struction of the remarkable archaic archl-
lecture Of Central Asia. 1t has even been sug-
gestcd that the Russian government shoulu
send a committee of antlquarlans 10 the court
of Pol 10 QnnpaVOr interest
own ancient relics,
BALTIMORE oyster dealers do an annual.
business of about Sl4.OOO,OOO. The largest
house in that city, land in the whole world also,
onens L. 600 bushels per daywh the average
trading house opens $500. From 10000 to
u 600 men ard women are employed as
''shuckers,n and make from 81 to IS per day at