Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE project of an American exposition in
London in 1886 attracts more attention in the
press Of England than in that Of this coun-
try.
PROF. HAKCKEL. the Darwin of Germany,
If studying the embryology of the chicken,
has, with his assistants, Matched and dissected
5000 eggs.
TIN MINES of great richness have been dis
covered not far from Pinal, in Arizona. Those
of Cornwall, England, become poorer and less
remunerative every year.
THE electric light is said to be fiat failure
in London, where $25,OOo,oO0 have been in
vested by g. companies, all founded in 1882.
The promoters got 100000.
ONE animal in ten dies in the cattle cars
between Chicago and New York. When the
beasts arrive they are slaughtered IN their
feverish and emaciated condition.
GANDER AVENUE and Goose Lane, in New
York. are portions of Ludlow and Hester
streets, where Polish Jews live in the midst Of
TOtting fruit, decompOsing vegetables a1d de-
cayed fowl and fish.
LOUISVILLE PAPERS are protesting against
the loan of the Henry Clay statue to the Ex-
position. II statues can be thus banded about
why not mausOleumsy A good many of his
victims would travel q long distance TO look
on the intended sarcOphagus OF Mr.. Jay
Gould.
SENATOR FRYE, who is a mighty hunter as
well as an angler Of high repute, asserts that
there is, notwithstanding popular notion, no
animal living-elephant, rhinoceros, cayman
or crOcodile-with skin so tough that 1t Is i'm
pervious to the modern cOnical rife bullet,
driven by a generous charge OF powder.
OF the III sessions Of Congress, p have
lasted over 200 days, the last one included.
The longest was the first session Of the Thirty
first-352 DAYS, from Dec. 8. 1919, to
sept. 30 1850. There have been thirteen
special sessions, nearly all short. The FOrtieth
Congress held five sessions, and is the only
one that ever held more than three.
THE statue to Margaret Haughery, in New
Orleans, was not the first monument raised to
a woman in the United states. In the public
square in the city of Haverhill, Mass, stands
q granite monument erected to commemorate
the capture Of Hannah Dustin by the Indians,
and her escape from them, which she effected
after killing the whole band of her captors.
EDWARD DETAILLE, who shares with De
Neufville the hOnOrs Of military painting in
France, has been invited by the Car Of Russia
to Peterhon. This is considered high COM
pliment 10 the brilliant young artist, and II IS
expected that he VIII bring home life-llke
sketches and studies Of MuscOvite camps and
vivid Representations of the man@uYres of the
Russian Imperial Guard.
PROF. +. S. MORSE, OF Salem, writes as fol-
lows: 1t may be interesting to record an
earth tremor noticed on the night of Aug. s
on the island Of Tuckernuck, near Nantucket.
Being intently engaged in writing at the
time, my attention was not sufficiently ar
rested 70 make record Of the time, but be-
lieve il was about II O'Clock. The phenome-
non consisted Of two short, distinct and light
vibrations.
BY the last census there is one Protestant
Evangelical Church to every 5T3 Of the pOpu-
latiOn in the South, while in the West the
average is about one to every 1000. and in the
great cities OF the North one to about every
5000. In view Of this show the Nashville
Christian AdUOedte pronounces it ''a curious
view Of the matter that induces our brethren
IN the North to expend a large amount Of
money on the South as a mission field "
A DEPARTMENT Of growing trees and plants
has been created for the Minnesota exhibits at
New Orleans. The design is to plant in the
Minnesota garden at the exposition speci-
mems OF all nursery and forest trees and plants
OF economic value growing IN that state, ana
as many others for botanical study as may be
practical Planted in December, the follage
and blossoms will come out in January there
the same as in May in Minnesota latitude.