Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE Chinese war has already affected the
price of tea. In New FORK 10000 chests were
! recently sold at an advance of cents pound.
I In London the prices have gone up cents.
The island of FOrmOsa. II Is said. supplies tins
I country annually with 100000 chests OF tea,
/ and we get as many as $4,000 every year from
/ Foo Chow.
POSTAGE STAMP COLLECTORS will be inter
I ested to learn that their "hobby'' is now rep
resented by a special organ of the press, pub
( lished at Halifax, and called the PhiIGte1ic
I Courier and Stamp COlIectors' Journal. One
Of its AIMS is ''tO make Its Office central PM
iatelic bareau OF information, with view 10
bringing about a union OF correspondence
throughout the world"
A WASHINGTON TERRITORY newspaper
saws: "a strange sight was witnessed of
Cape FIattery recently. The water, as far as
could be seen, was thick with plentiful show
OF herring. in the midst Of which, spouting
and diving. was a school of large whale,
about forty in number. ranging from ~ TO 100
feet long. Diving down with parting whisp
Of the tail and coming up again with wide
omen mouths. they would capture immense
quantities Of the fnny tribe"
THE action OF the Chinese sailors at Foo
Chow in jumping overheard in preference to
surrendering, revives the stories Of the ex-
traordinary WAYS these Celestials have de-
strOved themselves in former campaigns.
Sometimes a whole garrison swallows gald
leaf. At other times their commander has
them All beheaded. At Chinhai, in 1883, 1850
OF them threw themselves into the water and
we're drowned When Gordon entered 500
chow during the Tapping rebellion, he found
the heads of all the Wangs of the town stuck
upon poles over triumphal arch.
AT the sixteenth annual Congress of Eng
glish Co-operationists, held at Wardwick,
Derby, last June, 1912 societies were repre-
sented with a membership of 66S,000. Their
sales during 1883 aggregated FL, .O54. Many
societies were unrepresented. The growth OF
cO-operatiOn in England is well illustrated by
the figures in table prepared by II. *. BAL
lev. Secretary of the Cooperative Board. In
1853 there were $50 societies. 9l.5OO members.
e. 200 600 sales: in 1866 these had increased TO
$751; I4S5S0 f3 $4,000; in 1874 to l,026, All 250,
and { 1850, COO; and in 1888 to Zap, 66S,OOO,
and f27, $4,000.
THE fortune Of the Orleans family is esti
mated at 6OO,OOO,o 600 francs, which, at 3 per
cent. would yield an income OF 100000
francs Some Reactlonist journals, which
have made much Of the recent gift OF $1,000
francs 10y the COmte de Paris and his family
to the cholera sufferers at TOulOn and Mar
seliles. have also lost no opportunity to be-
little the generosity of President Grevy, who
devoted $1,000 francs to the same worthy OBJ
iect NJ Grew IS fortune and his salary are
estimated to yield him only about 100000
francs annually. 1t is easy to demonstrate
with these figures that NJ. Grevy has been far
more liberal than the Orleans Princes.
4 QUEER STORY Of a lady attending a part
of her own funeral has leaked out in Oakland.
The lady in question was resident of San
Francisco. and early in May had one Of her
legs amputated for a tumor. y burial permit
was procured as shown by the health Office rec
ords. in proper order, and the lonely llmD placed
in a handsome casket. The hearse which
conveyed her t.remain'' to its grave in Noun
tain View Cemetery was followed by single
carriage containing the balance OF the lady.
1t was there buried with solemn ceremony.
The unfortunate lady herself died on july 10.
and on the following day was taken across the
bay and bun led alongside her one foot In the
grave.
THE Portsmouth Royal Dockyard regatta
was held OF southsea beach, England, a few
DAYS ago. For an ''sll con ers race fourteen
boats started. Thirteen of these were manned
either by men -of-war's men or dockyard Ia
borers The prize was Won by boat OF an
American man-of-var, which was lying IN
SOUTHAMPTON Water. The only boat that
could come near the Uncle sam was one
manned by t'sh0Velers.1 me TACT bnat at
tho beadonarters OF the British navy YAM
kee shin strayed into the neighborhoOd and
one Of her boats beat thirteen others, repre-
sentatives Of British skill and proves, rather
disgusts the Britlshers, who ask; "DOes Brit
ANNA rule the wayesY
AN Italian doctor, who accepts the theory
that diphtheria is an acute, infectious general
disease, with a tendency to produce local
SYMPTOMS has method of treating 1t which
has been highly successful, and which consists
in wrapping the patient in cold wet sheet
and repeating the packing three or four
times day according TO the height of the fe-
yer. Cold congresses are kept continually
at the throat. He uses gargles OF the alkaline
sulphites. carbOlic acid, etc. as disinfectants.
buf never caustics. In 1875 six cases so treated
All recovered. the disease lasting on an aver
age ten DAYS. This treatment is well borne
a. tho same time are freely administered.
The duration OF the disease is not shortened,
hnt conyalescence is shortened and strength
more quickly restored
ALADY was arraigned before Judge Chitty
IN London the other day to answer charge
OF having sent 10 one OF the junior clerks in
Chambers a letter inclosing a check and con-