Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


DR.. JOHN HALL, Of New York city, has
only missed two Sundays from sickness dur
ing the sixteen years of his American minis
/ .'ry.
Tue Bishop of Paris intends to build float
! ing Ca thedral, to be propelled by steam. and
/ to be us,Hd for Romish service ou the river
/ Amazon.
7 TUE s@o.%:..n is not exempt. Snow lay foot
! and n half deep in some parts OF Guilford
county, North Carolina, last Saturday, after
six DAYS ofsnow storms.
IN New York 1905 signs, ], lO3 signs on drop
awnings, $50 wooden Indians, 1898 exhibits OF
goods, 1874 show cases, 1,l0l stands, 53l coal
1 boxes and 1925 awnings were licensed to OBJ
struct the streets last year.
IT is said that people in Christian COZ. otv
KY have lost 100000 within two Years
| specializing in Chicago grain and w all street
! stocks, an amount equaling IA Oer cent
of the assessed value of all properly there.
THE De Paw University. In GreencastIe.
Ind, is to have eight more buildings-a law
college, a medical college, a theological col
legc, an observatory, two dormitories and
other structures-to be erected witout delay
THE following ages have, on the authority
Of skilled arboriculturists, been attained bv
trees; Yew, 5000 years; schubertia. 1900:
cedar. 1000; oak, 1900; spruce, 200: lime, l. =
100: Oriental plane, 1000; walnut, 900: olive
and cypress, 800; orange, $50; maple, 500; ;
elm, 800.
WHILE on his way from England to Aus
tralia, Mr.. 1. ID. Conway, who is making a
tour around the world, saw a very peculiar
/ sun. One morning. he SAYS, that in the place
Of the usual orb, an intense blue sun rose
above the horizon and maintained its startling
color the entire day.
STATIONS for observing the habits, migra-
ton and Matching OF birds were some years
/ ago established in Austro- Hungary at the
instance Of the Prince ImDeTiaI and II ie
hoped that at the OrnitholOgical Congress Of
Vienna, IN April, arrangements will be made
/ for establishing such stations in many other
countries
/ THE ostriches on the Anaheim farm, Cali
fornia, laid 305 eggs during the season from
the lst OF May last until the lst of October.
The birds have been plucked twice since their
arrival o. the farm. The first clip in Nav
last, yielded $500. The clip in December
yielded 1000 quilts Of all kinds from IS birds
and is valued at $1,000.
ACCORDING TO the Constantinople CORE
spondent OF the London Standard a Pan
fsgEic cruire'p- fs'ry ~~p.'.-
At a recent meeting of UiGlnas It was decided.
in order to further their views to send ennis
saries, 90 be chosen from among the most in
telgent and educated classes, to all countries
where there is s. Mussulman population, India
included
CENTURIES ago oak was by far the most
valuable forest tree in England on account
OF acorns fattenng hogs. IN ancient records
it is put down how many hogs such and such
woods would carry. PannaGe was the right
OF feeding swine. and to this day persons ad-
Joining the New Forest have the right of
pannage for six weeks there on paying a
small fee.
A LARGE number Of people recently as
enflblad in a CSuN4arv n yroland Ia pOint
the graves OF relatives for the purpose of
registration. The place was piled up with
human bodies. there being scarcely yard Of
free earth left. People disputed the owner
ship OF the CFaEes, and blows were exchanged.
Relatives claimed the graves where members
OF different families were inferred, and the
most painful aud violent scenes took place.
CALIFORNIA newspapers, summing up the
statistics Of the Golden States progress in the
&c years since Suffer electrified the world with
his wonderful discovery, say that the States
agricultural product has risen until it has
thrown the aurferOVs metal into tae shade,
being now about SiGO, 000, 900 year. The fruit
product alone almost equals that Of the mines,
and now that court has decided against hy-
draulic mining, ii may be prOphesied that
wine making and silk culture viii ere long be
more important industries than gold seeking
BUNDLES of Confederate script new adorn
the tray of every pcddler from Union
y.
ayes. we sell good deal Of it,"
said one OF these. II have bills of almost
every denomination. They sell for 3 cents
each. and $40 bill sells for the same price
that 81 does' 1t is said that $4,000 pieces OF
this money have been sold in this way during
the past fortnight. The price at which il was
sold was 81 800, half Of which goes - the ped
:.3ar Vi many places where Sales were made
the sidewalks became 90 blocked that the ped
lers were arrested.
sGYcE the retirement Of Charles 0'CQn9:,
tic most prominent figure at the New York
bar ia unQuestionably William II. Eya.ta He
can outeat. outdrink aud outtalk any three
! men, and all at once, too. A the Beecher
! trial. Judge, jury. and counsel, at one time or
/ another, all succumbed to illness except Ey-
arts ne continued without intermissOn to
( spjn his diurnal sentences, starting with the
/ subject in the morning and closing with the
predicate in the evening, the two hyphened
/ through the MONDAY by chapter OF cicero.
/ And a murderer in Texas IS said TO have late
" received regular VIM. Nj. EYarts SEN
tence, ninety nine years.
THE ANALYSIS Of snake pois0ns, made last
summer by Drs. Mitchell and Reichert, have
| been fully confirmed by other investigators.
| All Of the venoms examined are essentially
! alike: in every case they are made up ofthree
proteid bodies. The frat reduces the blood
1 pressure, induces swelling (oeuumal, ana
finally brings about putrefactlye effects. me
second Is a virulent substance, one twentieth
OF a grain OF which will Kill pigeon in two
hours IL gives rise in a few minutes after IN
lection to enormous inhltration of blood into
the neighbOring tissues. The poisonous prop
critics OF the third substance are doubtful.
The object Of the analysis 10 TO eliminate the
venomOus principle, 50 that experiments can
be made az to what drug can ne used 10 the
best advantage in neutralzing 1t.
A CLEAR example of the ease with which
some writer's may be mislcd by perfectly
sound statistics is shown in the following: DIR.
Guy, the English statistcian, calculated with
reason that the actual mean age at death,
which is 20 years in England, IS only 1Oyearf
in America A careless writer at once made
up his mind that America WAS very un-
healthy place to live in, as compared VIII
England, and II was necessary TO inform MIN
that the mean age at death depends upon the
proportion OF old and Young in population
, and that this varies in different places ana II
the same place at different timea. II was als<
exDlained that the mean age OF death Is use.
less as q test OF the healthfulness OF trades GnC
professions unless the age distribution OF thu
living persons engaged in them il known.
THE remains of two Hungarian mobiles tina
were famous in the seventeenth century were
; exhumed at Wiener, Neustadt, few weeks
l ago, while some wOrkmen were fixing tbs
! scadOlding against the damaged towers OF the
} old parish church. One OF the noblemen wa
| | Count Banus OF CrOStla, and the other th'
| Narkgraf Franz Frangepani. Both were de
! CAplLhbeu WIN tue SWORN AOi lUDOtivh az 4Vf =
: Their families long since died out. In fact
the tWo men were the last male scions OF theil
: ! powerful houses. No traces OF coIhnB WeT'
I ! noticed in the grave, but come buttons OF I
r | dOlman or Hungarian tunic, clasp for keep
| ing cloak together and some faded medal
lions were found. Tablets that were nxed IL
: the church wall bearing the inscription hat
[ fallen into the earth. They viii be used u
3 mark the new resting place OF the two bodies
SENATOR EDMUNDs and several Of his asso
ciates were Friday returning from the Senate
after the long discussion on the Mexican
treaty, the party OF seDasors nearly filling tn
street car in which they were riding. The,
8 were all about as happy "a boys just let ont 0
!, | school after an unusually tedious day, and Mr.
Edmunds was in peculiarly humorous franz