Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

WOMEN and girls own nearly one-half oil
the deposits in the savings banks of Massachu-
sets, having to their credit SLY 1928
THE United States possess $4,000 clergy
men, who yearly preach e,76O,O0O sermons.
Their talk in book form would make 1920
70 umes Of 800 pages each,
4 REMARKABLE GRANT in Mexico Is to Will
liam Zimmerman, of San Francisco, for an
ostrich farm. This concession consists Of TO-
600 acres Of land, within 10 miles of railway
line, and Of a bonus of 500 apiece for the first
200 Ostriches imported into Mexico.
THE Boys silk Culture Association Of Phil
adelphia makes an elaborate display and
shows the process of reeling the silk from the
cocoon. Scattered here and there, embellish-
isg the display Of machinery, are pyramldal
exhibits OF preserved fruits. flour in fancy
pack ages, perlumery, household articles and
japanese goods.
THE consumption of the native coal of the
Missouri slope is growing rapidly. The fol-
lowing figures are from Sims: Coal shipped
from November, 1882, to July, 1888, y, 40 tons;
from November. 1883, TO July, 1881, 22,33O tons;
or an increase in the latter period OF $50 tons.
People are learning to use this coal, and many
Of the leading business houses aud hotels are
using it Exclusively for fuel.
POPE LEO KITS recent bull against the
Masonic fraternity has had an unexpected
after-play. The still existing congregation of
the InQusition at Rome has decided to sus-
pend the effect of the bull until April 20, 1883.
The Catholic priests throughout the world are
authorized to grant abSOlutiOn to all members
Of Masonic lodges who, repentinS Of their
former errors, will manifest their readiness to
make peace with the church.
FATHER HYACINTHE says that the cODdi-
tions in which the American and French re-
publics were founded and developed are abso-
lutely unlike each other. For the United
states these were exceptionally favorable.
without neighbOrs, as without history, TINS
vast country seems reserved for new expert
ment of human things" To found republic,
the Frenchmen were forced to break, not only
from the past of France, but from the present
Of Europe.
ACCORDING to the recent school census Of
Chicago, its total population of whites is &c.
323. OF these about one-third are American
born. There are $4,000 Americans, 2O9.6Sl
Germans, ia COS Irish. 2S,28l BOhemIans, 49,
500 POlanders, 20,l42 English, 1880 SWedes,
Is 800 NOrWegians, and the remainder are dI-
yfded in smaller numbers between the French,
Danes, Italians. Scotch Canadians. Holland
ers, Russians, Welsh. etc. There IS not ma
tional1tv of whites on the face of tie earth
that is not represented in ChIcagO's popula-
ton.
THE French Government pays q sum of $40
for every wolf which has attacked human
being. and nine were killed last year in three
Of the central departments of France. A re-
ward Of $50 is given for every she wolf with
Young, and thirty-twO of them were killed
last year A sum of $40 is given for every
other wolf killed, and IA were killed, this
being exclusive of 493 cubs, for each of which
a reward of IS is given. Altogether 1,30S
head were destroyed last year at a cost to the
government of S20,750 in fees alone. The
greatest number of VOLTS were killed in the
Northern and Eastern departments, border
ing upoa Belgium and Germany.
SOME few years ago an account of gigantic
creature supposed to be an earthworm APP
peared in the columns of Nature. The natives
of Brazil called it the OIinhocao; it's size and
strength were so great that it was able to up
root trees in its passage through the ground.
Whatever may be the truth about the Mlnh0-
Gao, it is perfectly certain that genuine earth
worms do exist in many parts of the world
which are giants of their kind. An example
Of one of these has just been received at the
London Geological Gardens from the Cape Of
Good Hope. It measures between four and
five feet in length and about half an inch
across the body, and it has been stated that
this particular species sometimes attains to
lenutb of six feet.