Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS NJE' LNlE1REIOls
10000 SPINDLE cotton mill, to employ 500
hands, is about beng COMPLETED in Selma,
Ala.
AN insurance company to indemnity bicycle
riders for injuries received, has been organ
lied IN London.
IT is reported that Chinese bank with a
| capital of 100000 viii shortly be opened at
Victoria, b. c., by Hong Kong firm.
A CRANK who represented himself to be the
slayer of President Lincoln, and who said he
was then on his wav to see President Arthur
to recover 81 900, 600 due HIM, was recently ar
rested at the White House.
THE raising of sugar beets in Denmark
proves now to be an undisputed success. In
late years many factories are established,
chiefly by the mOnOpOliZing company OF the
Amalgamated DANISH Sugar Factories.
Is an article by Charles F. living on "Gifts
to Colleges and Universities" recently pub
lished, it is stated that the amount con-
tributed to college and university education
in the United states during the past ten
years is 49,, 622, 900, and since lS47 the total
amount given has not been less than S5O,0OO,-
600.
AN item in q Western medical journal, from
n Paris correspondent who introduces more
French into his writings than he can well take
care oil. mas Deen several times GODlcO as con-
tanning a recipe for hldtddte du mere. one
critic thinks the writer refers to a remedy for
seasickness; another finds in il dark design
for poisoning mOthefS-ln-laW.
THE interesting incidents" accompanying
the recent heavy winds are beginning to
come in. A North Carolina man. whose
house was demolished afterwards found his
watch hanging on a small limb OF tree that
had blown down in the yard, the chain
wrapped several times around the limb. 1t
was ticking away as if nothing had happened.
A COUNCIL BLUFFS editor made arrange
ments to hear an Italian opera by telephone,
and was delighted with the evenings per-
Torrance. He was not so well pleased, how
ever, to read in a rival paper next morning
that the people at the telephone Office "set up
a job and entertained him with their own
vocal gymnastics and execution on a mouth
! organ.
CURIOUS FETE is to be held at Pompeii at
the beginning of May The first day, it is sup
posed, there is a visit from the Emperor of
Rome to POmpeii; there will be circus games,
chariot races, procession, and a number of
shops will be decked out as they would have
appeared eighteen hundred years ago. On
the second day viii be a marriage and flu
neral with their respective rites. The third
day are promised gladlatOrial games and a
gladiator fete.
THE QuinoEOgi8t announces that the numer
GUS cinchOna gardens commenced five or six
years ago in Java will soon begin to yield, and
bark may be expected to take prominent pO-
sition in the list of exports from that island.
In 1881 the number of new trees IN the nur-
series was 736,600. and in 1882. ,205,S00. The
trees in the plantations numbered 2,207 $50 in
1881 and 1903, 400 in 1882 There are nine va
rieties in all; the ledgerianas have proved sue
cessful. and contain from 9 to ll34 per cent OF
alkalOid.
GEN. r. +. COLsTON, who for six years was
a hey on the staff of the Khedive and who
commanded expeditions to Suakin, Khartoum
and Eel Obeid, has poor opinion of the Brit
ish operations in the SOudan. Il think the
campaign is a failure" he said on Saturday
to an interviewer in Washington, land 1t
makes me laugh to read the dispatches to the
IEnglish press. Ha, hal" laughed Gen. Col
| son, once a slashing sabre of the rebellious
Suth, "the yarn about so much bloOdshed at
| IdmanIeb was all stuff"
According to the Toltairs, French doctor
has lade a discovery calculated to bring
down he price of tenors, and furnish an un-
limiteo1uantity of masculine sopranos. The
| operatorqpplies his surgical skill to the hui
man throt in such a manner that he can pro-
duce at vii frst-class bass, baritone, tenor,
or soprano singer, and the operation is-of
cOurse-Yery simple and almost painless. 1t
was thought hat the limit of folly was reach
cd by the MN who lately manufactured
Italian atmoslheres'' for English singers.
A NEW ORDER ras been formed in England
on the basis of he old knights Templar,
whose members are called Primrose Knights,
in remembrance. Oh their great chieftain,
| Beaconsfield, who lo,ed the flower so well,
| and each knight as he r enrolled must make
| the following declaration: 81 declare on my
| faith and honor that l will devote my best
| ability to the maintenance # religion and the
estate OF the imperial asc6ldany of Great
| Britain, and that consistently with my al
| legance to the sovereign of this realm, | will
| promote with discretion and fideEty the above
| objects"
THE German admiralty intends " estab-
lish naval station in Western Africa. Thus
far a fleet of twenty vessels, ten gunboats and
4 few dispatch boats have been employed IN
the diplomatic and pOliticO- commercial ser
vice. Although of comparatively little use
| ia a fight against armOred ships, these vessels
| are well qualified to represent the German
nag in the execution of the sea police service.
| In the course of the coming summer the i'm =
per1al navy viii increase the number OF tor
/ pedo boats to thirty-hve; the supplementary
| budget asks Tor seventy more, while the re-
| cent memorial considers total OF $50 as alb
| solutely necessary for coast defense.
THE yearly cost of the French Academy to
the State amounts to $1,000 francs, made up as
follows: Each of the forty members receives
1900 francs, say total of 10000 francs; the
! permanent Secretary, 5000 francs; the five
members forming the Dictionary Committee,
| each loo francs, say 5000 francs in all: ma
/ terials and labor attending the making up OF
/ the dictionary, 10000 francs: printing of pa
pers and speeches, 5000 francs, and the bal
! ance. II 900 francs, goes for general expenses.
| The yearly charges ON the State for the other
/ academies are: 15l,000 for the Academic des
/ Inscriptions ct Belle Lettres; Academic des
| Sciences. 203, 500 francs: academic des BeauX
| Arts, 10000 francs, and $4,000 francs for the
| Academic dies Sciences Morales ct Politiques.
Two of the three huge fortified places
] ddrmes destined 10 constitute the front lines.
| so to speak, of Germany's eastern frontier
/ defenses, are now virtually completed. Posen,
| like Konigsberg, has been engirdled by a
! number Of powerful outlying forts, connected
| with one another and with the citadel by sub
| terranean Geographic wires. The works have
| Just been finished and will shortly be armed.
| BY the end of the year Thorn will also be
| belted with forts, and as a stronghold will be
| entitled to rank with POsen, kOnigsbeEg,
| StrassbOurg and Metz. To the second line of
| eastern defenses, the principal fOrtresses of
| which are Glogau and kuestrin, it is intended
| to add Danzig, where dockyards and arsenals
for the use of the German imperial navy are
to be constructed, as well as a splendid forth