Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ROUMANIA has made the metric system OBJ
ligatOry.
THREE Virginia papers have declared for
Bayard for President.
EASTERN MONTANA will, in the spring, re-
ceive 81, 200 head of cattle from Texas.
Two members of party of burglars re-
Gently apprehended in London were women.
THE Mississippi Legislature has passed an
agricultural lien law, to take eject in Janu-
airy, 1885.
THE twelve doctors sent from England to
the Egyptian cholera districts, received $500
per month.
A Mr.. SALISBURY, of Beloit, Wis, has be-
gun suit against a local minister for marrying
his runaway son.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, is being flooded with
Mexican nickles. There is said to be profit
of ten cents thousand to operators.
TwENTY-FRANc PIECES. very skilfully made
of gilt platina, have been discovered to be in
circulation in Belgium. They are said to
have been struck on board small steamer
which is continually travelling from one port
to another.
THE municipal schools in Paris are now
visited regularly twice a month by medical
inspectors, who also are required to attend in
urgent cases. 1t is hoped by these means to
limit the spread of contagious diseases. There
are 1875 of these doctors, and they receive $50
year each.
4 WORK called Industrial Surgery will
soon be undertaken n France. 1t is said that
wounds made by many of the new tools and
machines used in the arts in France are often
of a nature to require a special treatment, the
principles of which are not laid down in the
current books.
WHAT the Soudan Is worth may be gath
cred from some PUBLISHED statistics, according
to which there are $1,000 Christians and 10000
Egyptians in the province; 1000 commercial
houses owned by Europeans and 5000 by Egyp-
tians, and the import and export trade is val
ued at fl3,000,000 annually.
ENGLIsHMEN like their strawberries very
fresh. Frenchmen wisely believe that
they are improved by a days staleness,
and prefer to send them to market in jars
rather than IN baskets. The shaking up in
jars brings out their flavor, just as frying
brings out that of a banana.
TROUBLE is in preparation for England in
India. The new ruler of Hyderabad, prac-
tically independent but always friendly State,
is not vet IS, and Is an lmpasslve YOluptuary;
the new Premier is not %, and naughty and
lndlscreet, while the always turbulent MOBILES
have already begun to fight among them
selves.
THE wire-fence controversy in Nebraska is
the antithesis of that in Texas. In Nebraska
tits ranch company which has fenced in, as it
is alleged, $4,000 acres OF grazing land belong
ing to the public domain, and the United
States District Attorney has begun suit for
the removal of the fence, averring that set
tiers have been prevented from taking up the
land.
THE latest thing in Partisan millinery is the
cat adornment. Small stuffed kittens are now
fashionable as the ornaments of the prevail
ing large brimmed mats, and the effect of
these tiny tigerish animals is striking. At
present only one cat at time is worn, but
after a little while, when embOldcned by sue
cess, a family group OF cat and kittens may be
looked for.
Tho Recue HensueUe de Nedecine notices
case in which a woman who was entirely
helpless from chOrea and hystera, was told to
take her medicine very cautiously. as It was
very powerful. She thereupOn took the whole
of il, with the intention Of poisoning herself.
Two days later she began to assist the nurses
in the hospital. and in month was discharged
cured. The medicine was bread pills.
ENGINEERING claims that telephone COM
munieatiOn has been successfully established
between moving vessels, and quotes recent
experiment on a French river. As one vessel
was towing the other the wire was carried
along one of the hawsers and the circuit was
through the copper on the bottom
of the ships and the water. Conversation
was carried on in plain and audible tones.
SIR SAMUEL BAKER writes: "There is no
country in the world 50 favorable to the Guilt
walton Of cotton as that portion Of the Soudan
within the rainy zone, where showers from
May to the middle of September insure the
growth of the cotton plant. and a crop time
absolutely free from moisture, where not
one drop of dew descends by night, assists
the planter to collect his harvest in the best
condition"
The Moniteur des Fills ct Tissus protests
against the use of the oil cloths ordinarily en-
ployed IN covering tables and in lining chill
dren's carriages, as such fabrics, coming in
contact with vinegar, would form soluble
acetates of a dangerous character. The writer
advises manufacturers to make these articles
without using white lead; nine ounces of ii
were found in square yard of one sample of
the fabric.
A THRILLING STORY is told of the narrow
escape of Peter ScanlOn and Tim Horn from
being swept over the American Falls at Mag
ara They were at work in a mill race trying
to raise an ice blockade, when they were
thrown by the springing of some planks into
the water. In moment they were carried
in the swift current above the Goat Island
bridge toward the Falls. Near where the
men were working and below the bridge was
a large cake of ice, towards which they were
carried. In their desperation they attempted
to catch hold of the ice cake, and when found
half an hour later they were hanging on to it
for dear life. Ropes were procured and they
we're hauled ashore.
WITH view to decorating the hitherto bare
walls of the Senate chamber, two portraits
have been hung IN the vacant panels on either
side of the Vice Presidents chair for the in |
spectiOn and decision of the Senators. On the !
right is a well executed bust of Washington
and on the left one of John Adams, the first |
President and Vice President of the United |
States. 1t is designed eventually to fill the |
panels of the chamber with portraits by emil |
nent artists OF representative Americans and |
these two pictures are the first to be placed |
in position. They have, for several years been |
N the possession of the Senate Library Com |
mittee, and adorned the walls OF the room oc- |
,upied by the latter. Now they are to divide |
he honors with the two small, black snuff /
boxes, which have been the sole ornaments of |
he Senate chamber for many years, but