Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-14
ITEMS OF INTEREsT.

THE Chicago cable roads draw $50 cars. car
rying 100000 passengers yearly, on twenty
miles of roadway.
CHILDREN employed in the lace making
schools in Belgium work twelve hours, and
some times earn six cents per day.
THE Secretaries of State, War and the Navy
have ordered the removal of all wires on the
roof of the new State. War and Navy Depart
ment buildings. The wires will be at once
put under ground.
FREDERICK RIETBROCK, of Milwaukee, Is the
pOssessOr of a turning lathe with which,
family tradition says, Macmillan l., of Ger
many, used to divert his thoughts from his
matrimonial complications.
OVER 200 wild ducks were trapped in a
warehouse near Chico, California, recently,
one Of the doors having been left open long
enough for the ducks to 90 inside for grain.
The warehouse owners make a big haul of
game in this manner every year.
AT NORFOLK, in England, a fortnight ago,
there was wedding at which the officiating
clergyman was gentleman 90 years of age.
lie has held the living he now holds for
seventy-One years. 1t is believed that this
tenure of a parish is unequaled for length IN
the history Of the English church. =
COMPLAINT is made in Paris papers of the
injuries done to pictures in the Louvre by
careless and ignorant treatment. A Gerard
Dow. worth once a million francs, is now
hardly worth thirty, because IN cleaning the
frame alcohol was poured over the whole pic
ture sPoussin's shepherds of Already" has
been repainted TO such degree that it is now
anything but Poussin. 1t IS suggested that
a committee of amateurs be appointed to
watch over the safety of the art treasures Of
the Louvre.
A NEW steel is said to have been produced
at Sheffield, Eng, which is expected to be of
incalculable value to the manufacturing and
railroad world. 1t is said to be made Shy
adding from to 20 per cent. of the ordinary
ferrO-manganese of commerce to iron either
wholly or to good extent decarbonized and
refined and treated by any OF the ordinary
processes, or to steel produced by such pro-
cesses." It is stated that a small test bar
containing u per cent. of manganese was
bent double when cold, and was sufficiently
hard to turn iron.
EDITORS in German Poland are learng
with vengeance what is meant by liberty of
the press under Prince Bismarck. One of
them has spent five months of the past year
in prison and has SIX months more in pros
pect. Another has been condemned to ln%
months Imprisonment. a third is now in
prison for fifteen months, a fourth for three
months, and a fifth for four months. A total
in figures of three years and eight and one
third months imprisonment for editors in one
year. Only two political papers exist in Po-
sen with editors not in prison.
AN extraordinary general meeting of the
city authorities and representatives was held
at Odessa, IN Russia, on February %, conven-
ed for the adoption of special measures in or
der TO arrest the alarming mortality from
diphtheria in Odessa and its enylfons. 1t is an
indisputable fact that this disease has been. in
a greater or lesser degree, epidemic in that
city for the last twelve years, One Of the
speakers, physician and city representative,
declared that the only thoroughly efficient
means of arresting the progress of the disease
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roundings and domestic accessories.
A CASE of remarkable longevity has just
come to light in Fayette county, Indiana.
About a month ago Mrs. Hannah McFeeley
died at the County Poor Asylum, where she
had been almost from time Immemorial.
Thursday an old family Bible was found in
her room, containing a record of the birth and
marriage Of all her brothers and sisters and
father and mother. 1t shows that she was
born IN 1860, thus making her l24 years old.
She has q sister now residing somewhere IN
Ohio, who frequently visited her Of late, and