Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TYPHOID FEVER, it is estimated, causes Is
per cent. Of the annual deaths in England
and Wales.
A CURIOUS AUCTION SALE is to take place at
the Office Of the Inspector Of Water Works,
No. 5, Rue d'Orleans, Paris. Owing to the
draining of a pond in the neighborhOod some
5000 gold and silver fish are to be brought to
the hammer. They are at present IN temper
ary board and lodging IN the Orangerle BASIN
at st. Cloud. Intending purchasers are IN
formed that they must catch them themselves
and remove them Immediately
FROM New Guinea comes the news Of the
discovery of a river about Il miles inland,
which will probably turn out to be continual
ton of the Hilda, whose mouth was found in
1873, but whose course has ever since re-
manned a matter Of conjecture. The large
village Of Mini, with upward OF hundred
houses, and population OF about COO, gave
recent travellers a most enthusiastic recep-
ton. and no doubt the inhabitants Will long
remember the first white faces they evers saw.
A GIRL on horseback. with her feet on the
unusual side Of the beast, is described by
correspondent of the Omaha Herald. Her
saddle was in reversal OF established usage,
because she is an inveterate hOrsewoman,
and she is convinced that. by spending hours
every day in cramped position, with her
feet always thrown Historically to the same
side, she was getting so that she felt ''lop-
sided" and it took the rest of a day after
long ride for the sensation 70 wear Of that she
was s'wound up and set, like toy locomotive,
to run round and round in a circle"
BISHOP HUGH MILLER THOMPSON has writ
ten letter, in response to inquiries, in which
he vouches for the remarkable healthfulness
OF Mississippi He says his own experience
and that OF men who have removed from the
North to Mississippi is that 1t Is a rarely
healthy climate and country, and that for
delicate people. delicate in lungs or throat,
with catarrhal or bronchial troubles, it is a
home Of health and comfort. And as to ma
laria. Bishop Thompson asserts that 1t is more
to be dreaded in a week on the Hudson than
in all the borders Of MississipplIn lifetime.
BELLE was about to start for SARATOGA.
She had peered into the baggage room to see
that her trunks were there. She came back
in agitation. "Blest if I'll ever believe a line
read again. she said. ssThe paper said there
was a new law fOrbidding anybody to smash
baggage. It's lie. One of my trunks out
there's got the lid whacked right OF.
couldn't say q word. because couldn't iden-
tlfv myself with the contents. / had trusted
in the newspaper. don't you see, and packed
some Of the most interesting parts Of my
wardrobe right on top; and there they are,
burst into full view. Oh. ] wouldn't claim
them for 3 thousand dollars"
STORY is imported from Paris about Mr..
Vanderbilt. Some canes attracted his atten-
ton on a street stand. They were common
things. hut the wood was strange to him, and
he stopped to buy one. He Is known 70 a
great many people in Paris, and the amount
Of his wealth is exaggerated, immense as Il
is. The salesgirl smilingly replied. when ne
asked the price Of the cane he had selected
Twenty francs Sir VANDERBILT" Iheprice