Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE cOmpilers OF the Australian census re-
port that Australia could furnish 100000 men
from 20 to 10 capable of bearing arms.
A JEWISH GIRL has recently taken the veil
in an Austrian convent, in spite Of the appeal
OF Bohemian rabbis to obtain an official in
junction from Court Taaffe.
CORRESPONDENTS CLUB Is the name of an
organization in Paris, composed of English
and American newspaper men, who meet
once week at an informal dinner.
OK the arrival Of the United states ship
Brooklyn at Tamatave salute of 81 guns was
fired. out of compliment to the French officers
and flag. The marine band also played the
Marselllalse.
TWENTY deaf mutes in Norwich, Conn, are
members of a Congregational church, and they
have formed a Bible class under the charge Of
4 teacher familiar with their method Of con-
yersatiOn.
FOR offenses against Prince Bismarck"
the editor of the Berlin Tolks- Zejtung will
pass the next nine months in prison. In point
Of tyranny there is little to choose between
St. Petersburg and Berlin.
IT is said that two prisoners, who were
placed in separate cells in the jail in Dallas,
Texas, that they might not communicate,
frustrated the object Of the separation at night
by means Of paper speaklng-tube made OF
strips OF newspapers.
A STEAMBOAT named the Stanley has re-
Gently been shipped in sections by the British
and African steamship Senegal for the Congo
river. On arrival the sections will be
viewed to stanley Pool. and will be used on the
waters of the Congo between that point and
Stanley Fails.
SARAH BERNHARDT's la Vie de Marie
Pigeonnier'' has the advantage of only cover
inc half the number of pages Of COlombier's
4Sarah Barnum," but it has not had the same
sale. This gutter war between the two act
resses has excited the envy OF the fish hags
the world over.
THE Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
saws there is now living in Penn Yam man
who. for two years, has had a bullet embedded
in his brain. Before receiving the shot he
was dissOlute. mOrOse and quarrelsome, but
has now become peaceable, SOBER, ana IN
dustrious citizen. The records show analog-
Gus cases, but few that are so well marked.
THE gregarious tendency is almost as strong
in man as in any other animal. Its said there
are 100000 idle workmen in Paris who could
get emplovment in the provinces if they could
be prevailed upon to live IN the provinces.
But they prefer the city and discomfort. They
wish to live in flocks, and. like "Dundreary,"
they don't see how it Is possible to flock by
themselves.
THE following are some recent estimates of
the number of viable germs found by Prof.
Koch in the waters around Berlin. The
amount of water used in each case was one
cubic centimeter: Water Of the Rummels
See. 90 600; the Wuhle, $4,000; the Spree, u.s.,
COO; Stralau water WORKS, unfiltered, l25,O0O;
altered 100; good spring waters, 90 10 lOy; us
titled water. 5. The number OF germs found
in an equal quantity of Berlin sewerage was
IS, 100000.
TIE statistics Of Maine, just issued by the
Secretary of state, are noticeable in showing
that the state, county and municipal debts
are being rapidly liquidated. This IS par
ticularlv the fact in regard TO munlcipal
debts. Ten or fifteen years ago three fourtns
of the agricultural towns were heavily IN
debt on account of war expenditures Now
a large number Of these towns have compare
lively no debt at all.
AYEssEL is loading in New York with agri-
cultural implements for Odessa and sebasto-
pol, Russia. Agricultural implements have
now been sent to Russia from this country for
some eight years. Previous TO that time the
oonsignments were very small. They embrace
reapers. mowers and haryesters. Ihe total
amount sent TO Russia IS perhaps Sl5O,VVO q