Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS III IN E1ELoA.
THOSE in the sheep business IN Yazoo coun-
ty, Mississippi. realize rs per cent. on the CAPT
tai invested.
GUADALUPE COUNTY. TEXAS, claims the
honor of the first conviction for fence cutting
under the new law. The fence cutter was
tried, convicted and sentenced to one years
Imprisonment in the pententiary.
No effort is being made to develop, at pre-
sent, the tin mine recently discovered at
Kings Mountain. y. c. The mine belongs to
a party who is able to hold it, and it may be
some time before active work begins.
STEAM is said by Berlin paper to be about
to be made most useful agent for extinguish-
ing fires 1t is proposed to use it by means Of
automatic stop-cOcks which Will open at
given temperature and allow the steam to es-
cape upon the names.
The Denver (Col.) Nel5s Of May q contains
this bit Of information: "AmOng all the com
modities and securities quoted IN New York,
silver is the only thing that has held its own
amid the crash Of banks and the wreck OF
brokers. The gold bugs should take tum-
ble."
NOTWITHSTANDING the military and politl-
cal disturbances in Egypt, v hich lower so
Overwhelmingly on the Eastern horizon, work
of peculiar archaeological and religious inter-
est and historical importance IS quietly pro-
crossing in the Delta-the excavation and eX-
ploration of San, the Zoan of the Bible. 1t is
under the ablest management, and hearty
support should be given t.
THE 18th Of june has been decided upon as
the day for unwilling the statue Of Bolivar at
New York. The Mayor, who is to receive the
statue on behalf Of the city, has invited the
Secretaries of the Navy and War Depart
ments to assist in making the event memo
rable one. and the former has already express
ed his intention Of ordering the North Allan
q rendezvous
purposes of salute.
CAPT. WELFARE, master of the bark Oak
land, which arrived at Port Madison, Wash
ingtou Territory, from san Pedro, tells the
following story as a fact: "When in lati-
tude 35 degrees north, longitude III degrees
west, we captured female shark that had
been following the vessel for some time. This
shark measured ii feet in length, aDos pom
being cut open was found to contain torty-
seven young sharks, each about one 1907 IN
length, and four live suckers about ten inches
long.
CREMATIoY1sTs have gained a foothold in
Venezuela. A recent government decree Or
ders the cremation OF the cOrpses of yellow
fever victims. and the necessary apparatus
and an operator are 10 be imported at once
from Europe. 1t is not the unhealthiness OF
burial grounds nor the Objectionable devices
OF those who trade upon the sensibilities of
the bereaved that have prompted the Presl-
dent to such step. cremation Is clalIned
Z Il
infectious disease.
THE New Haven Register says that Mark
Twain has several blank forms pinned over
the table on which he writes. One is a formal
declination Of an invitation to dinner: another
isfOr destinations to give opinions otherwise
condiments, Clemens phrases it, on literary
productions, and another is blank for de-
clining to send articles solicited by this and
that journal. If Twain didn't employ some
system for answering the deluge OF letters OF
this sort he would soon find himself oYerrun
with senselcss correspondence.
THE late Richard G. Roadway lof 'ready
relief fame) died last February, leaving an
estate valued at about $3.50, 900, leaving as next
of kin two grandchildren both under II, chill
dren OF his deceased daughter. Recently a
paper, purpOrting TO be his Will, was offered
for probate, but Its admission was resisted by
the special guardian Of the next Of kin. on the
nd that the teStatOr was Dnntallv fnne-
Facilitated from making will, and that it was
not duly executed. Thursday, however, the
Surrogate rendered a decision affirming its
entire validity.
THERE are in Shakespeare's plays about
ninety deaths taking place either on the stage
or Immediately behind. The modes of death
are various. Cold steel-the dagger or the
swOTd-accounts for about two thirds of the
whole: twelve persons die from; old age or de-
cay; seven are beheaded; five die BY poison.
including the elder Hamlet. whose symptoms
are so minutely described by the ghost: two
Of sufocation. unless, indeed, Desdemona
makes a third; two by stranging; one from a
fall: one is drowned: three die by snake bite.
and one HOrner. the armOrer, is thumped to
death with sand bag.
IRR1G ALTON is a matter Of such consequence
in California that a State convention has Just
been held to consider the subject. Irrigation
is only in its infancy in the State, and yet
there are from 100000 to 10000 acres of irri-
gated landsin the San Joaquin Valley alone,
and there IS no part of the State, except the
extreme northern counties, in which irriga-
tiOn is not a live question. California, says
the san Francisco alta, il more in need of the
fertllizing agency of artificial irrigation than
most of the countries in which the art has
been practiced since the beginning of histori-
cal times. but the matter of accomplishing it
is a difficult one, owing to conflicting interests.
IN reply to the question whether there is
such a thing in real life among criminals as
the wearing of false boards, and that kind Of
disguise a detective is quoted as saying that
the makeup of the stage is not known to the
police IN their dealings with rascals. But
there is a good deal Of Disgusting, and it is
generally done by letting hair grow or cutting
it off, and changing its color. There are bar
ber5 who DO that KIM OF work at nlgh prices.
They got into 1t in the old bounty Jumping
days. A man with long black hair and whis-
kers would enlist, get the bounty, and desert.
Within day or two he would turn up again
with red hair and whiskers little shorter.
Next time, the hair might be yellow, and all
Of it gone from his chin. And so on, If he was
proVident with his stock OF hair, he could be
half dozen very different men before getting
down TO clean face and ciose-cropped head.
THE Indian canals are distinctive feature
Of the country. They are splendidly built,
being intended principally for irrigation, al
though having locks 50 as to make navigation
possible. The largest and most important one
is the Ganges canal, which cost the govern
ment over f2OO0,00O. 1t is about 300 miles
long, runs out of the Ganges and proceeds
into the GangeS again When the subject of
building il was agitated, the interesting ma
tives vowed they would never for an instant
tolerate 1T, tapping as II ana the sacred river
of the Hind0os. Then when the work was
/ actually begun they changed their tactics and
| gravely declared that water would not remain
| in or flow through the canal. When the fall
| lacy of this position was shown. they receded
| from IL and contented themselves with SOL
emily asserting that no native would ever
| avail himself Of the improvement. 1t is now
in full operation, however.
ONE of the last acts of the late Duke of
| Albany was to sign the memorial which is
! being prepared at Cannes for presentation to
| the French Government to pray them not to
/ sell the Island OF st. Marguerite. company
| is being promoted TO buy this beautiful island
for speculative purposes. 1t is proposed tOlay
| the place out in villas and shops, ana TO erect
| restaurants and cafe-chantants. II TINS
| wanton destruction of nature Is allowed to be
| carried out the English residents will pro-
| baby go elsewhere and their villas win be
| thrown upon a market which already con-
4 tains more sellers than buyers. The island
! itself may almost be called historic. Here 1T
| was that the ''Man in the Iron Mask'' was
| confined so many years. and the same place
| did duty as a prison for Marshal BaZaine
! after the Franco -Prussan war. The last
use made Of it by the French Government was
/ as a place OF detention for the Arab prisoners
! Of war.