Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

PRETTY little baskets for sending flowers by
post are the latest novelty in English fash
ionable circles. They fasteu with paddock,
and tue sender and receiver each keep q key.
IT can be shown, says the Boston Post, that
aside from the aggregate Of mental and bodily
suffering arising therefrom. the annual pecu-
mary loss IN our country on account Of pre-
Ventdbie sickness isover SlOo,o0O,Ooo.
IT Is said at Washington that Don Cameron
in lSSo at Chicago used to cut a 500 bin in
half and give one-half to a colored delegate TO
vote for Grant. and when he had done 50 he
thin.
REV. ADIRONDACK MURRAY is selling death
dealing sandwiches in a Montreal restaurant
and his divorced wife IS practicing medicine
IN New Haven. If they were only together
now they might work into each others
hands.
a KENTUCKY MAN telling Of an early ex-
perience he had in the wilderness said he was
so thirsty he would have given 30 cents for all
tne water ne could drink. " hen one con-
siders the small amount of waters Kentucky
man drinks, this is pretty high Price.
THE old market sheds in Harrisburg, Pa,
are very unsightly. Gen. SIMON Cameron first
saw the present market houses in lSl7, when
as bow he visited Harrisburg. They have
grown a little in length since then by reason
Of an addition placed TO them TO give more
facilities TO the sellers, but they are the same
old sheds.
THE French Government is seriously con-
sidering what steps to take to prevent the i'm
pOrtation Of deleterious articles of food and
drink, or, at all events, to limit it as far as
possible. Among the the latest systems Of
adulteratlon brought to light Is that Of trans
forming balm Of Peru" -four, chestnuts, and
chalk into chocolate: and the manufacture of
wine without the Intervention Of the grape.
The manufacturer. in the latter instance.
pours into the cask quantity of water, to
which he adds potato juice. barley-juice, su-
gar, yeast. vinegar, cream Of tartar, violet
roots, and elder blossoms Dust to give il a
bouquet, bleaching liquid, and glyeeriae. The
name Of the wine depends upon the varying
proportion in which these ingredients are used.
"DID you ever hear the secret about the
Arthur business mems trainsn asked a New
Yorker of a representative Of the Chicago
Tribune. "Well, III tell you about it. The
scheme, YOU know, was to boom their man all
the way from New York to Chicago. They
had the train fixed up in grand style. and
wherever they stopped they tried to force the
claims Of their candidate upon the people,
but the people would not have it. When any
body tried TO talk for Arthur he was inyari-
ably met by shouts for Blaine. All along the
way the people gathered IN great crowds at
the stations. not 10 honor the choice Of the
people Of New York city, but to express their
fayOrltism for Blaine. They imagined their
they cared more for the effect along the way
than almost anything else, but the whole
scheme was an utter failure, and that's why
they all looked so sad and whE they wore the
dark lines under their eyes during the con-
venuon."
THE feet Of elephants kept for show pur-
poses are trimmed two or three times year.
The sole Of an elephants foot is heavily COW
cred with a thick, horny substance Of mate
rial similar to the three toe mails on each foot
and as it grows thicker it tends to contract
and crack. often tanning the animal. Barnum,
the American Snowman, recently subjected
his elephants to the trimming process at one
Of the towns where he was exhibiting. With
a knife about two feet long, great pieces Of
horn. six inches by four, and a quarter of an
inch thick. were shaved OF. often pieces of
glass. wire. nails and other things are found
embedded in the foot, which have been picked
up during street parades. Sometimes these
irritating mOrsels work up into the leg and
produce fostering sore. A large nail was
found embedded in the foot of one of the ele-
plants, which had 10 be extracted with a
pair of pincers and the wound syringed with
warm water. During the operation the huge
creature appeared to suffer great pain, but
seemed to know that it would afterwards OBJ
tain relief and. therefore, bore il patiently
and trumpeted Its pleasure atthe close. Three
times around an elephants front foot Is said
to be its exact height.