Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1T costs not less than 100000 annually
says the New York Truth, to support the dOgi
Of the United States.
IT is gratifying to learn that the electrical
railway at Portrush, ireland, has proved botl
a scientific and financial success.
snow is fifty feet deep in some of the gorges
/ Of the san Francisco Mountains, Arizona
I which rear their heads more than 1900 feet
above sea level.
THERE are 30 hod-carriers IN Germany
l They hoist the mortar in a pail with pulley
/ and the bricks are passed along in a line Of
men from hand to hand.
/ 4 sTEAMTUG sailed recently from Empire
/ City, Oregon, for San Francisco, with five
/ large RATS Of logs and piles in tow. This i:
/ the first attempt on that asst to tow a raft
| at sea.
THERE is a popularity in camers haiI
which is worthy eff scientific investigation
1t continues to grow after 1t is cut of. While
I attached to the animal it grows in length, and
! when cut it grows in value.
/ A LYNN MAN has perfected a device for fas-
| tening buttons on shoes by machinery, doing
the work Of eight girls and effecting a net
/ saving of from So to 81 a day. 4 single ma
chine will fasten buttons on some 600 or 7C0
! pairs daily. The labor Of the operator does
I not differ materially from the feeder of a
sewing machine, as the buttons are fed and
! fastened automatically.
THE food reform movement is not one of re-
cent beginning, there beng about twenty So
cieties in active operation in Great Britain
/ and Europe. Many restaurants and boarding
/ houses are now open IN London, Manchester
/ and other places in England, Germany and
/ France, where neither flesh, fowl nor fish is
served, the varieties of dishes of cereals, vege-
\ tables and fruits extending to several hun
1 dreds, and ranging in price from penny up
1 ward.
/ THE frame structure of the Schuylkiu VAL
/ ley Railroad Co. was removed Sunday and an
/ iron bridge put in its place. All the work
was performed IN IS minutes. The IRON
/ bridge was built upon temporary trestllDg
north of the frame structure, and as soon as
! the old bridge was removed the new slid
gracefully down creased tracks to the posi-
/ ton which il now occupies. This feat in en-
/ gineering was witnessed by large gathering
/ of persons. The structure Is 30 feet long and
weighs about % tons.
/ ONE Of the stories told about Gen. Gordon
/ is that his military operations are directed by
/ a method similar to what in olden times was
/ known as the sortes Virgilana, with the Bible
substituted for the Eneid. If the General, in
! his morning Bible reading, chances on a war
like passage, such as the exploits of Joshua or
! David. there is warm work round about
/ Khartoum before nightfall. If, on the con
l trary, the morning lesson suggest peaceful
1 thoughts, then for the rest of the day the
garrison, like Dan, abides in its breaches.
TRICYCLING is beginning to be the fashion
among Washington women. For a long time
Mrs. Lockwood, who has lawyers license
to practice, has bowled over the smooth as
phalt street on tricycle.; but latterly two or
three ladies have appeared, one riding tri-
cycle while her husband accompanied her on
bicycle. Two young women recently
appeared on Pennsylvania avenue mounted
on a double tricycle., and the wife Of an Adj
miral is trying to form club of well known
society women to bring the machine in fash
ion. She viii, in all probability, succeed.
WITHIN the past two months there has been
an enormous influx of Americans into London; ;
the city, indeed, is SAID to swarm with them.
The traffic officials there and in Paris aver
that in all their experience they have never
known anything like it, the tidal tram leay-
ing the French metropolis about a. m. hay-
ing been crOwdeE by Americans during the
whole period. The American pervades every
place of entertainment IN London, but is es-
pecialy to the fore at the fret class restau-
rants. He spends money in the lavish style
which has spoiled so many Continental haunts
for people who wish to see the world in a more
economical fashion, or who cannot afford to
squander in style which only travelling
Russians parallel.
THE Japanese do not use a pillow in our
sense of the word. They have a small piece of
wood something like dog in shape, on which
they lay their heads. the girls and women
serene in the consciousness that their hair
will not be disarranged. The wonderful
structure of a japanese hair dress is usually
made up once in four days. 1t is evident that
if it were tOuZled on a down pillow. it would
have to be dealt with every day. Children in
some cases have the head closely shaved but
more often the hair Is Enthusiastically cultivated.
4 favOrite style is to shave the head all
around the crown, leaving that covered with
hair shaped like a skull-capt Sometimes all
is shaved save a few locks over the forehead.
Another rather fetching design is to leave a
couple of Well-dehned locks over either ear,
Just enough to hold the child up by If that
were deemed a desirable disciplinary process
IT is the declaration of a Chicago detective,
locally famous, that no more than one murder
in ten ever comes out. think over the re-
cent known cases." he says. "Can you recall
one in which the life wasn't taken with shot
or blade?" In other words, the means Of kill
ing were such that there could not possibly be
any concealment of the crime itself, though
the criminal might escape. He held that to
prove beyond doubt that the commonest form
Of Dremeditated murder-by pols0nlng-ls
practised to a dreadful extent without detec-
| ton. About the only murders that do come
out. he thinks, are those sudden, Implanted
ones that arise from passion. 1T may not be
a pleasant thing to think off, he remarks,
shut it can't be denied, that any cool, intelli-
| gent person can murder member OF his
| family by using poison that doesn't produce
violent symptoms, and run very slight risk OF
/ being caught at II. 1t Is my firm conviction
that only small percentage of the murders
are distinguished from ordinary Deaths"
! La Lanterne has a remarkable story about the
| tsSunsbeam" diamond, suggested by the exhi-
bltion Of precious stones at Paris. In 1866 a
! diamond valued at over 5000, 900 was found in
a Gillian mine near Caracotes. Its owner,
/ Mr.. joan Pareso, hawked it about RrOpe,
and at length found purchaser IN Queen
/ Victoria. 1t was put into the hands Of Bond
/ street, London, jeweler to be set, and for
1 eight days was exhibited in his window. One
which it was specially set apart broken and
/ the Jewel gone. No trace of the thief could be
I found. and the jeweler partially Unidentified
1 the Queen for her loss. On May there died
| 70 named Julian Partridge. His landlord was
| amazed to find in Partridge's pocket huge
diamond, wrapped up in letter, telling that
| he, finding himself dying, wished to explain
/ that the diamond IN his pocket was the ''Suns-
| BEAM" which he had stolen. but, knowing
| that Mr.. Pareso had shown it all over Europe,
| he had not, after all, dared to attempt to sell
it. The diamond was returned to the Queen,
who, of course, repaid the jeweler.
A COL. HENNEBERT, French professor, has
compiled some appalling statistics in regard
to the immense Continental armies that could
be put into the field in case Of European
war. Not mere armies, but armed nations, be
| SAYS, will hereafter meet on the battlefield
and the battles OF the future VIII be gigantic
| massacres. By the law OF May 2, 1874, the
German Government is authorized TO call out
I in case Of war, 6,000, 600 men. By the ukase
I Of Jan. !, Of the same year, Russia is per-
mitted to arm nearly l3,o00,e00 OF course
| these numbers are only on paper; but deduct
| ing everything, taking the real number avail
| able in the two empires, and 1t is positive thai
1 Germany can put into the field 1850, 900 and
1 Russia 2,5Oo,000 fighting men, thoroughly
/ drilled and disciplined, while, as Austria, by
\ her law of Dec. 5, 1868, is permitted to put on
\ a war footing 1895, 900 soldiers. an Austro-
! German Russian alliance represents, in round
/ numbers, !, 500, 900 combatants. Join to these,
/ as may be considered certain, Italy's contin-
gent, assured by her laws of 1875, 1876 and 1851
| at $50, 900 men, and the qaadruple league can
DISPOSE Of a mass Of troops of all arms ex-
ceeding 10, GEO. 900, with 1000 batteries Of field
guns.