Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! FOURTEEN MILLIONS worth of diamond:
were exported from the Cape last year.
| TIE government envelope factory at Hart
ford, Conn, uses a ton of gum arabic every
| year.
| THE following curiously worded advertise
ment appeared in a recent issue of st. Louis
paper: "Wanted-A comfortable room for a
| young man four feet by ten"
Ara funeral of a Mexican child in SOcorro
| New Mexico, the other day, eight Mexican
women bore the coffin, which was open, on
/ their shoulders to the cemetery, While an
| other walked behind carrying the III.
| JAY-EYE-SEE was put in harness one day
last week, for the first time since last fall, and
driven about Ed. Bither, who has sole charge
| of the animal, says nc is in perfect heaItn
now. and will certainly beat 2:lOneXt summer
THE movement to reopen the Louisville Ex-
position next winter has received slight set
| back bv the complaints of Tennessee and
| Kentucky merchants, that 1t had a dlsas-
| trOus effect on their business during the past
| season.
| ONE of the best Greek scholars in this coun-
| try, during a recent lecture on the benefits OF
| a classical education, stated that there does
not exist n graduate OF an American coIIege
| who can properly afliX the accents to page
| of printed Greek.
SIX little stowaways, ranging in age from
| to I3. were landed at San Francisco recently,
having been brought over from Liverpool on a
sailing vessel. They professed to be orphans,
and wanted "tO come to the States to earn a
| fortune as bOOtblacks." They have started in
| the business.
THE Cincinnati Commercial GGsette says:
.An old steamboatman says that an inch rise
of water is equal TO the entire volume of wa
ter in the Ohio river ut an ordinary stage.
| The average rise at this point for several days
| has averaged one inch every two hours. From
this an adequate idea OF the volume OF water
| contributed to the river may be estimated"
BASE BALL is paying investment. The
Providence Base Ball Club last year received
So. 1913, and expended $4l,65l, leaving bal
| ance of nearly $4,000. President Won der Abe,
l of the St. Louis Club, is building eight brown
stone houses with his share of the profits OF
| the club games The Athletic Club, of Phila-
delphia, cleared over $4,000, and several other
! clubs made as high as $4,000.
THE Commercial Club, of Chicago, has
| nearly completed a building to be used by the
Manual Training School, which will accom-
modate $50 pupils. The school has opened
with 6j bows. Practical instruction is to be
given in the use of tools, combined with draw
ing and the English branches OF the high
school course The examination is rigid, less
than one-third of those presenting themselves
having been accepted.
Two prominent shipbuilding firms of Bath,
Me, have united with some capitalists of that
city in forming joint stock company, with a
capital of $500. 600, with the intention OF car
rying on the business of shlpbulldlng there on
! a larger scale than ever. They already have
contracts to build to the amount OF more than
$500, OOO and they expect to be able to secure
sufficient capical for the equipment OF an iron
shipyard, and thus inaugurate new era In
building on the banks of the kennebec.
GOVERNOR CLEVELAND, of New York, dis
courses upon the methods of newspaper men
in marrying him. 'They work it very nicely.
They got a new point every day. First, am
going South, then l am going to call on lady,
and next am going to be married. After a
day or two they discover that the lady lives in
New Orleans, and now believe they call her
Marsh. 1t saves me great deal OF trouble,
but I'd rather take hand IN the matter my
self"
THE management of the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton and Dayton lines deserve great credit for
having kept their tracks above water. 1t was
really a trestle of tracks. layer of cross
ties was laid across the original track and
fastened by iron straps, then rams lald there-
on When the water covered the second track
a third was laid in the same manner. The
water finally covered this third track, and the
management thought it imprudent To lay
fourth.
A LAWYER tells the New York Tribune that
s'the practice of fixing juries is more COM
mon than most people would believe. Inc
man who does this kind of business does not
20 direct to the jurymen. His metnou OF work
IS something like this: lie goes to some person
who knows the juryman and asks what KIND
of a man he is. III the answer Is satisfactory,
he inquiries il $50 or $75, or some oIher amount,
would be of any assistance to him. If the
juryman bites. all right. If he does not, there
is no damage done"
SIR STAFFORD NORTHCoTE has been amusing
a literary society by lecturing upon the sub
iect of "Nothing," though he reminded them
that he was not the first person who had at