Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

NEW ORLEANS cotton mill girls have struck
/ against going to work before daylight.
| CANADIAN inventors petition for the acop-
/ ton of the American patent law entire.
/ AMONG the journals recently started in Ger
many is a comic paper called Nteed Pickles.
THE British Columbia Assembly proposes
/ a law limiting the amount Of land that one
/ man can own To $40 acres.
THE ground on which an Iowa man asks for
a divorce is that his wife is a drunkard, and
the REGULARITY OF the complaint is its specf-
| cation that she acquired the habit OF intemy
perance while tending bar IN has own saloon.
AMAN in Nebraska City is actively prOmot-
ing starvation by giving away flour to the
poor. He distributes it in sacks, one to every
purchaser OF 100 drinks at his bar, ana. undef
! the circumstances, the winners are DOund 10
be losers.
SIR LEPEL GRIFFIN, in his articles IN a re-
cent FortnigttIy ReUielo, among other unkind
things SAID about America, declares one may
find more beautiful women in the streets Of
London in one day than IN the broad eXpanse
of the United States in one month.
ALARGE PANTHER is said to have been seen
during the last two months on Willis Noun
tafns from near Ellerslie to Rocky Gap, Md.
So far only one or two sheep nave been carried
on Inv him and he is thought to be subslsting
on wild animals. His haunts are IN the deep
est ravines and very few OF the farmers ven
ture to hunt for the animal.
EImDdrtidI, a journal Of ChauN-de-Fonds,
saws that a quack was lately arrested there IN
whose possession were found letters from
rTouroueniefT asking for advice. The poet was
in constant consultation with the best doctors,
but could not resist an Impulse TO try medl-
cines which were given to him with charm
attached.
AMONG the invitations sent by the Montreal
Carnival Committee for the bali in that city
was one for the Mayor OF Boston. On the
corner of the card appeared the usual letter.,
RS V.P. In politely declining the invita-
ton the Mayors Secretary addressed Mr.. {.
c. ClOustOn, the Secretary OF the Ball Com
mittee. appending the X. ;. '. +. a. a title,
possibly as denOting some high rank only be-
slowed on Her Majesty's subjects.
AN attempt was recently made by a house
holder in an Iowa town to get an injunction
restraining the reading Of the Bible in the
nublic schools OF that State, and also to pro-
hibit the singing Of hymns or repeating the
Lords PRAYER. In a decision rendered last
week however, the court held that such Sc
lections were intended to lnculcate morality.
purity and honesty, and were, therelore,a part
IF the school system. lie refused to grant the
desired order.
ALTHOUGH Indiana has reputation Tor
readiness to sunder marriage ties, her laws do
not recognize the legality of Wedlock mat Is
at all informal For instance, Mr.. Mmtten
and Miss Macarthur signed contract 70 DC
husband and wife ''until God or some compe-
tent legal authority" should part them Ihere
was no further ceremony, and the PAIR re-
fused, on principle, to have any religious rite
performed. They are now being prosecuted
criminally for living together.
INDIANS eat the horns of the deer when in
the velvet. One day, on the Sioux Reserya-
ton, in Dakota, a deer was killed near camp
and brought in entire. AT sight Of it, Pah-
laniote, 4 Alinneccnj0u OF some 90 years.