Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

WHITE stockings are coming once again IN
to fashion in London, from the crusade by the
doctors against colored wear as slow poison
ers.
THE first Republican newspaper ever
printed in Texas is to be established shortly at
Austin. There is a Republican vote OF $1,000
in the State.
THE register of Hyde Abbey. Winchester,
written in the reign of Canute, is still in ex-
istence, and forms part OF the Ashburnham
collection.
AMONG the odd things made in England for
the Indian and African trade are locks and
keys which are sold for a half penny, and are
worn by HindOos and Africans as charms.
Mrs. MARY MAGELLAN, of Wales, bv royal
request, is struggling with translation of the
Queens little book into Gaelic, and in that
langua &c it may possibly be readable.
THE hazards of the diamond trade have be-
come so great and are so well understood by
jewellers that only e.. 900 has been offered for
the 302-carot diamond recently found in the
Kimberley mines.
W. d. HOARD, the father Of Wisconsin's
dairy interests, says that ''the logic OF sound
breeding teaches that no breed has yet been
discovered which Will combine and transmit
Jersey results in butter, Ayrshire or H0lstein
results in cheese and Durham results IN beef.'
TIE reports that Mary Anderson is worth
half a million dollars appear to have been
greatly exaggerated. A careful investigator
says her fortune is probably in the neighbor-
hood of sos, 900. As actresses accommodations
go, however. she is very rich, for, after Lolita,
She is the wealthiest woman in her profession.
TEN YEARS hence, a cattle king predicts,
Omaha, Neb., will be the cattle centre Of the
country. Already, one Of the finest abattoirs
in the world is being built there, covering 400
acres of land and at a cost of S750,000. st.
hos the nOmnlpfn VRrd1
ering some GOO acres. which were built in 1878
at a cost OF 100000. The yards in Chicago
are $40 acres IN extent, and have already cost
about Sl5,OOO,000.
THE Argentine Confederation has had, like
Mexico. period of extraordinary expansion
during the last four years, but it appears, like
the republic south of US, to be approaching a
reaction: with this difference the Argentine
railroads have developed wheat lands which
produce something to sell the Mexican lines
have not. The land boom on the pampas has,
however, advanced land from $500 square
league TO $4,000. and rise Of this order is al
ways followed by long period Of depression.
GERMANS and Frenchmen still take advan-
tage of every opportunity to show their mu-
tual luminosity. At fair recently held at
Nancy, a large crowd made hostile demon
stratiOn against a Prussian, who had estab-
lished merry go round They joined in one
great chorus, bOisterOusly singing the MAR
seillaise," and constant shouts OF "Down with
the Prussian" followed the clamorous out
bursts of ''YIye Ia France" 1t was only by
the strenuous efforts Of the police that the
Prussian's merry go-round escaped the fate
OF kindling wood.
THE new models of the carriage and pom
toons of the Eads Ship Railway have started
for London. Nearly all the capital for the
enterprise is being subscribed in that city.
Chief Engineer COrthell says 100 men are at
work, and that the first half mile of track has
been completed. This, with the river course,
which admits three of the largest ships
abreast. completes twenty-five and One-ehalf
miles of the Tehuantepec route. The new
pontOOn system Of raising vessels from the
water upon the railway carriage is to be sub
stituted for the hydraullc system hrst con-
templated. 1t was conceived by London en-
gineers and adopted by Eads, and will raise
ship out of water and upon the carriage in
twenty minutes.
THE effect that the disappearance Of forests
has upon climate receives new illustration
every day. In Italy the clearing of the Apen-
mines is believed to have seriously changed the
climate Of the Pc valley, and now the African
siroccO, never known TO the armies of ancient
Rome. breathes its hot. blighting breath over
the right bank Of the river in the territory of
Parma. The removal Of the pine forests near
RaVenna induced the same desolating wind;
and the same destruction OF the old forests OF
Vosges and of the Ceyennes has had like de-
teriorating influences upon the climate. In
Egypt, where during the french occupation
in i7gS not a drop of rain fell for sixteen
months and where from time immemorial the
country has been a raiRless bed OF sand,
Mohammed Ali. by planting his millions of fig
and orange trees, has seen his country blessed
with an annual rainfall of several inches.
President LINCOLN created what the re-
porters called a sensation" late in June OF
1862, by unexpectedly going to West Point to
confer with Gen. Scott. On his return he
was called upon by an assembled crowd at
Jersey City for a speech, and going out on the
rear platform Of the car, he said: when
birds and animals are looked at through q
fog they are seen to disadvantage. and so it
might be with You if / were 10 attempt TO tell
Won why went TO see Gen. Scott. can only
saw that my visit to West Point did not have
the importance which has been attached TO II;
but il concerned matters that you understand
quite as well as if / were to tell you all about
them. Now, / can only remark that 1t had
nothing whatever to do with making or un-
making any General in the country. The
of War, you know, holds pretty
tight rein on the press, so that they shall not
tell more than they ought to, and am afraid
that il blab too much he might draw tight
rein on me- Before the laughter and APP
Dlause with which this was greeted had sub
sided. the President entered the car and the
trained moved OF.