Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE Connecticut river is said to be drying
up.
THE New York Commercial Travellers As
ISOLATION numbers 3, 1911 members.
NIHILIsTIC activity is said to be increasing
among the upper classes in Russia.
THE mortgage of $67, 800 on Mr.. Parnells
estate has been paid of, but the petition for
its sale in the Land Court has not been with
drawn.
SIGNoR GIRO, a well-knOwn italian practi-
cal economist, las addressed himself to ex-
tend and improve the cultivation of the potato
in Italy.
a PETROLEUM well lately sunk in the Baku
district of Russia. promises to surpass the
most famous ''gushers" OF TINS country. IL Is
said to be yielding from 1000 to 5000 barrels
day.
THE Paris police have lately spotted an
enormous system of fraud in cigars by which
Belgian 3-centimes cigars have been SOLD as
Havanas at IS centime. Twenty thousand
boxes were seized, and eight depOts for sale
were found. The game has been played for
some time,
THE Rev, DR.. Newman Smyth says that in
the ministerial almanac for the year this entry
might be made: about this time pastors in
Eastern cities may expect visits from Presi-
dents OF Western colleges" Last winter SIX
representatives OF educational enterprises IN
the West and South visited him in their search
through New England for money.
THE origin of the Speakership of the House
of Commons, now about to be vacant, is lost
in the dim historic mists in the reign of Henry
III when simon de Montfort acted as spokes-
man OF Parliament. But his claim as hrst
Speaker of the House yields probably to that
of Sir Thomas HungerfOrd, who seems to have
first borne the title and discharged the duties
in the time of Edward III,
THERE is now in the registry of the United
States Circuit Court in New York awaiting
claimants upwards of $4,000, wages due
sailors who have died on shipboard or been
lost at sea. which has been deposited, in ac-
cOrdance with the United States statutes, in
the court These dead seamen hailed from
all parts OF the world, and the money IN ques-
ton can only be paid to their next OF kin.
THE walls of ST. Sophia. as we'll as those of
st. Marks, are in need of restoration. NJ. Ed
mond About, who was recently in CONSTANT
nople. repOrts that the cubes of Mosaic con-
stantly fail out or are picked out of the walls
and sold to strangers. In fact the whole
mosque. according to Nj. About, is in bad
way, and nothing but thorough work can ar
rest the progress of the evil. Some Of the ar
cades and walls are now roughly shored up.
THE Psychical Research Society have now
taken up the cause Of Emma Davis, the girl
in Shropshire, England, who made the tables
and chairs dance about in so lively way.
The girl now denies her reported confession,
and Sir Charles lsham, rather cranky coun-
try baronet, has been to see her and written
to the Medium and Day5reab that her ''confes-
sion" was extorted by threats Music hall
proprietors are alleged TO be competing for
her services.
DIR. CORNERSTONE calls attention in the
London Times to the fact that the "experi-
enced surgeon advertised as accompanying
a ship is sometimes entirely destitute of all
professional qualifications, and at other times
most moderately qualified, and devoid of ex-
perience The pay is too low, and the accom-
mediation for the surgeon usually so bad that
doctors will only take such work when they
can 40 nothing else. He excerpts the Cunard,
Inman, White Star, and Allan lines.
A CITIZEN of Unity, Me-, now IS years old,
''points with pride" to a stump near his house
from which was cut one of the masts Of the
Constitution. A tree that was intended to
furnish mast lodged and broke, and there
fore was not a partaker in the glory OF the
frigate. The mast finally secured cost, ac-
cording to this tradition, $500. This sum
seems paltry enough when compared with