Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

GIN. >LOCUN says that the Brooklyn E1gie
clears for ITS owners S250OO0 a year.
COUNTERFEIT 25c. pieces, Of lead. are eXas-
peratingly plentiful in Boston and vicinity.
AT a recent fashionable wedding IN Boston
the bridesmaids carried baskets ofwhite lilacs
and wall flowers. while velvet was the domi-
nant dress.
THE Buddhist craze has spread from London
to Paris. There are now 800 Buddhists there.
and probably their demand for temple will
be granted.
THE London Medical TIMES says that a hum
bred deaths have been probably caused by
carelessness as to dairy drainage and water
supply, for one that is traceable to adultera-
ton.
CIRCUS PARTIES now engage the attention
Of the elite Of New York city Though they
are not attractive in themselves. their visits
TO the circus are considered excellent ex-
cuses for a dinner at DelmonicO's and not a
little Irritation among the young folk.
THERE are i've spintualistic organs in
France. four in Belgium, two in Holland.
eight in spain. two in Italy, and three in Ger
mapv In addition to several Journals de-
voted 10 the cause in England and the United
states, II has one organ each in Austria, Rus
sia Mexico. the Antilles. Chilli, Brazil. IRA
quay. the Argentine Republic. Australia, In
dia. and Cape Colony.
The Chicago Live STOCK Exchange has
solved that there Is no such disease as cOnta-
giOus pleurO- pneumonia in the United States
no food and mouth disease in Illinois. Iowa or
Kansas. and that at no time within twenty
wears have the cattle. hogs and sheep of this
country been so healthy as now. 1t has alss
sent delegation to Washington to lobby
against all cattle disease legislation.
ACCORDING to the Je,ois1 Tribune. manual
training is rapidly becoming the chief feature
- ;,.srrsaf5o, Iva TIahraYr schools 2 avar
looked upon as the "most sensible solution of
the difficult problem how to elevate the jew
ish race" The Guardian Home in London Is
cited az an example Of extraordinary success
in this regard. and the New York School OF
Technology affords brilliant promise for the
future.
AMONG the inscriptions on pedestals of stat
utes to yestal virgins recently found in Rome
Is one from which the name Of the virgin has
been erased. The date is june Q. A. ID. 36i.
or the two probable reasons for such disfig-
urement. fOrgetfulness OF VOWS or Lapse from
Paganism TO Christianity. SignOr Lanciani
argues strongly in favor Of the latter. Pru-
dentius mentions the conversion one OF the
Vestals.
THE urchins Of Brazos county. Tex, know
how to make life interesting for the school
master. The Plot tells Of one who was called
up TO be logged, but just as the hickory was
raised over his head butted his teacher in the
stomach. knocking him over table and
bench into remote corner OF the room. Be
fore the astOnished pedagOgue had recovered
his wind the young goat was gone, and the
rest OF the class were scampering over the
fields intent upon holiday.
THE wholesale butchers Of New York hope
10 find profit in the loud cries Of complaint
that they are raising against the Western
dressed beef. They say that it Is poisonous,
that ether and Ammonia a re used IN Its pre-
paratiOn. While the Chicago men do not de-
nv this. they claim. at least. that no chemicals
come in contact with the meat; nothing but
''puFe atmosphere" says the representative
pork packer and beef dresser, Mr.. f. q. Ar
mouF.
MANAGERS Of Italian as Of German op-
eras," says the 81. James Gazette, ''have at
present this difficulty 10 deal with-that nei-
Their in Italy nor in Germany are there any
composers OF eminence who can be counted
upon for new works. IL is suggested in this
connection, by the Gazette, that il might be