Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-05-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THOUGH the population Of Colon, which is
sprnging into Importance as the starting
point Of the Panama canal, is only 1900, yet
the death rate averages 80 per month.
THERE seems to be room for a few girls in
Illinois. According to the report Of the SUI
perintendent Of Schools, there appears to be a
superluity Of about $4,000 boys under q years
OF age.
IL village in Sussex, England, some eight
miles from Worthing, a robin has chosen the
lectern Of the church as the place for her nest,
and the other day she had a brood Of young
birds chirping away.
a BERLIN correspondent writes: "a singu-
lar light is thrown on the moral condition OF
the Berlin population. from the fact that on
Wednesday of last week no fewer than five
| trials came of IN three different law courts
| which necessltated the strict exclusion Of the
| publc.'
ONE OF the Boston papers says that the
weekly sales OF oleomargarine in that city
amount to IO0,O 600 or 1901 900 pounds that all
| the regular jobbing stores down town keep it
| FOR sale for just what II Is. at prices ranging
| from y to 20 cents pound. y choice article
| can be bought for 10 cents, and 1t Is largely
consumed 10 manufacturing communities.
sIGNoR sELLA, the late Italian statesman,
would never receive gift, even from the
King. Heonce declined a snuff box sent him
| by the Emperor Of Austria, and valued at
| $4,000. He even refused horse that Victor
Emanuel once offered him, saying, laughing
| ~, that he had one already, and that II he ac-
ceptcd this one he would have to sell his own
horse TO buy food for the other.
THE judicial statistics Of France for the last
five years show that there has been a yearly
average of over 500 men tried for murder in
various degrees; but, thanks TO juries finding
eNtenuatng circumstances, and to the leni-
ency which NJ. Grevy has shown, the average
OF executions has not amounted to five year.
over a thousand murderers have found their
way to New Caledonia since NJ. Greyy became
President.
Cor. CHARLES G. HAMMOND was conversing
in Chicago with two friends. He expressed
the opinion that it was better to give to char
liable objects during life than by requests
after ones death. He referred also to the de-
mise Of a friend, which had occurred recent
ly. just As he did so his head dropped sud-
denly upon his breast. This was first inter-
preted as a sign OF grief. The next instant it
was seen that he had tainted. Help was call
ed, but he was dead in five minutes.
AT the Blue Boars Head Inn, at Leicester,
there is still shown the four-pOstbed on which
Richard III. slept the night of August q,
1855, his last on earth, for nextoday he was
defeated and slain on BoswOrth Field. In the
reign pr Elizabeth the house was kept by
man named Clark, whose wife one day OBJ
served gold coin roll from the bed; this led
TO an invest cation, when 1t was found that
the double bottom concealed large mass Of
gold, partly coined by Richard and partly Of
earlier date.
one of the best stories told of the late Duke
OF Buccleuch was his rebuke to the servant of
gentleman who was staying at DalkeIth on
a visit. The proud stomach of the gentleman's
gentleman would not sit at table with the
lower servants. He complained to the Duke
that ne was accustomed only to mix with the
upper servants. every WE'LL" said the Duke,
ASK your master to lei. you dine with him
and me. You may, for all 1 care" The gen
tleman's gentleman ceased to grumble at
having to dine in common with the lesser
dOmestics after that.
ONEOf our popular doctors was not long ago
much pleased with a certain aerated water,
and, by his assiduous recommendations, pro-
cured for it a celebrity itjustly deserved. The
doctor acted solely in the interests Of human
ity generally, and expected no re, urn. To
his surprise there came one morning an effu-
sive letter from the company saving that his
recommendations had done them so much
good that they ''ventured to send him a hun
dred -" Here the page came to an end.
This will never do" said the doctor; lit is
very kind. but 1 could not think OF accepting
found the sentence ran: ''Of our circulars for
distribution"
THE introduction of steam pipes into en-
closed spaces for the purpose of extinguishing
fires has been successfully tried in Berlin. The
owner of a steel pen factory in that city, in
/ consequence of the repeated outbreaks of fire
in the drying room, had steam pipes placed in
three of the rooms, this appliance being shut
of by short, sOldered pipes Of an easily flow
ing alloy Of lead and tin, arranged to work
automatically. One day a Kissing noise made
the foreman aware that one Of these appli-
ances had been called into action. 1t was
found, on investigation. that the contents Of
the drying room had become ignited, but that
the steam thus set free had eXtinguished the
fire before it could spread.
Ex-Gov. HUBBARD, of Texas, takes a rose
colored view of his States progress and pros
perity. He says, in a recent review, that
Galveston invites the grain tonnage Of the en-
tire West to be brought to her gates for foreign
shipment. The export trade is just waking
up to the fact that Galveston Is 500 miles
nearer Kansas City than New York Is. 1--WE
raise now one-quarter of the cotton crop Of
the United States" continues the eX-GOYer-
nor, SIN a few years we shall double our
present production. Manufactures are
sprInging up on every side. We shall get the
cream of the rich trade now beginning to flow
between this country and Mexico. We used
to spend 100000 annually in protecting our
frontier, but that money now goes to the en-
dOWment of free schools
IN the base of the capitol at Washington is
the enginery by which the House, the Senate
and the committee rooms are warmed and
ventilated, and the gas lighted by electricity.
1t is altogether big apparatus. consisting Of
three immense fans, four engines and eight