Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

NEBRAsKA's MennOnites dam the ravines on
their farms, and thus store water for their
stock.
THREE days Imprisonment was the fate Of
mdn who called to a German Judge to speak
louder.
AMAN in Volinia, Mich, pays SO go tax this
year-G0 cents on his house and lot, and SO on
his dog:
IL Europe the States which have most
women are Portugal and Germany. Greece
has few more men than women.
PEOPLE living on the banks of the Missis-
sippi reap profitable living by selling the
drift wood boating down the river.
PENNSYLVANIA is recklessly destroying her
timber Her shipments, as reckOned in VIII
Transport, footed up at more than 100000
feet last year.
1T has been calculated, says NJ. de Lava
lave, the French economist, that the amount
spent by daily laborers in intoxicating liquors
would suffice in a very few years to buy up all
the factories in England.
THERE were something like 1,5l7 murders in
the United States, reported by telegraph, for
the year past. Only 90 persons were legally
hanged, while Judge Lynch attended to lis,
making total Of 2ll executions.
ACCORDING to the KnicEerbscker more acct
dents happen on the twenty five miles of
elevated railroad in New York city than on
the London Underground with its l,4OO trains
daily crossing each other in all directions.
THERE is an apparent apathy OF the million
odd people ironically described as ''citizens"
of London to exercise their privileges at the
polls. At a recent contest at Battersea only
600 votes were cast out of population OF
10000.
IN ROCHESTER,. Mimi, the ladies made the
New Years calls. Sixteenth gentlemen re-
ceived in the parlOrs Of Cooks Hotel The
Youns Ladies' Cooking Club made calls in
body. The gentlemen wore badges with Inc
legend, ''Barkls WillIn' u.
II rehearsing the many advantages Of Man
itoba for immigrants, a Canadian paper gives
these statistics: The average yield per acre OF
wheat in Manitoba during the past i've years
was over 20 bushels; barley, 81 bushels; oats,
81 bushels; potatoes, $50 bushels.
KINDERGARTENs being under discussion in
the California School Teachers Convention,
Mrs. A. Grifiths said that in her experience
the kindergarten children had proved to be
the most unmanageable youngsters of any
that she had ever tried to teach.
1T was discovered in Cincinnati that the
numerous chorus Of a genuine negro minstrel
FESTIVAL" show was in a large part composed
of fellows who were not singers at al, put
were put on the stage with intent to de-
ceive,o while the real vocalism was by inter-
spersed professionals.
a YOUNG LADY living in Baltimore injured
herself in a severe and shocking way a few
days ago by pouring some nitric acid upon
her tooth brush and using it on her teeth be-
fore she discovered her mistake. She stated
that she thought it was a tooth wash which
she kept in bottle about the same size.
JONKoPING, Sweden, has eXcslled itself. On
November p the world famed match factory
in tnat town, owing to a new set Of improved
Of
matches, the huge logs of wood going in at
one end and coming out at the other In an
endless row Of well-packed boxes. On the
succeeding days the Out-turn averaged 1884,
900 boxes.
THE Parnell fund was started IN February
by a letter from the Rev. J. Kavanagh, Ro-
man Catholic clergyman, suggesting it and en-
closing s25. Other priests followed, but for
long time the subscription Jagged. The POpes
letter on May l6, rebuking the course pursued
by the agitators, gave the movement marked
impetus. Catholic COnnaught gave about nan
what Protestant Ulster gave.
BISHOP HENNEssY, of Dubuque, and Father
Ryan, one of his priests, denounced the Irish
American Club of that city from the pulpit
Sunday morning. They declared the club
secret and irreligiOus society, and warned
Catholic young ladies against attending ball
to be given under its auspices next week.
Nearly all the members of the club are men,
beers OF Bishop Hennessy's flock.
THE exports of wool from the Australian
colonies during the first ten months of last
year were 10000 bales, being $4,000 more than
for the corresponding period Of last year. An
increased quantity was also shipped to Ameri-
can and other points. The new clip Is said to
be even better than that Of year ago. and
the exports for this year will show decided
increase as compared with last year.
RETURNS published in the London EconO-
mist reveal the singular fact that the con-
sumption Of coffee in England has declined
during the last four years from 100000 cwt. to
200 cwt., which allows considerably less
than one pound per capita annually, as
against more than five pounds Of tea. The
annual consumption per capita in France is
three and half pounds; in Germany, five
pounds; in the Scandinavian countries, six
bounds; in the United States, eight and
quarter pounds. and in Belgium nine pounds.
Holland probably surpasses Belgium, but
the statistics on that point are not satisfac-