Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

OVER 10000 Polish Jews. who fed from Rus
STA because of persecution, are living IN Lon
don.
SYRACUSE, y. Y, claims to have manufac-
tured the first locomotive ever built in the
United States.
THE biggest salt well In the world was
struck at Warsaw, n. Y, recently, l,52O feet
deep. 1t will supply more brine than three
ordinary wells.
on the 10Th of April, at the Manchester
tEngl Royal Inirmary, surgeon removed
the Iarynx of a man aged A years for epithe-
Iona. The patient is out OF danger.
LANDLORDS and shopkeepers are bewail-
ing the economical habits Of tourists this year.
Owing to the baekWardness of the spring few
Of the richer tourists have made their appear
ance. while those who are now IN the Alps
spend little money.
JOSEPH LowREY has just received $4,000
damages from the New York Elevated Rail-
road, because of injuries he received through
being run over bv a horse. One of the engines
of the elevated road dropped hot coal on the
horses back, and the animal ran away ana
injured young Lowrey.
AN English company, says the Sanitary En-
yiaeer, with headquarters at Birmingham, IS
trying to get a charter from Parliament which
will empower it to sell compressed air for
power for small engines. 1t is proposed to
supply the air through mains, IN Whlch the
pressure will be maintained by powerful
pumps at forty -four pounds per square men.
THE observations of two French scientists,
made during passage from Rio Janelro TO
Bordeaux, have done much to confirm the no.
ton that the air above the sea is siDgularly
free from low forms OF animal life. The at
mOsphere Immediately above the vessel prac-
ticaily swarmed with Heterogeneous the
vessel seemed TO be surrounded by an "atmO-
sphere of microbes"
DEVELOPMENTS and illustrations in sanitary
science have everywhere been very marked OF
late. Following upon the opening OF the
health exhibition in London, we hear that the
Prussian Ministry of Public Instruction Is
now considering the establishment OF an IN
stitute OF hygiene, in connection WIN the
University of Berlin, and DIR. Koch, of the
German cholera commission, has been named
as the head OF the new institution.
on May the Austrian tobacco monopoly
celebrated ITS centennial. There had been a
quasi monopoly as early as the middle OF the
seventeenth century, but it was coded to a
private company for a comparatively small
rental. until on May g l1S4, the government,
decming a rental of 1,925000 tlOrins too low,
took the management back into Its own hands.
The profits since then have increased enor-
mOusly, the budget tor 1888 showing net
profit of 100000 HORNS.
THE recent rains swelled the Kennebec
river so that the Somerset boom in Fairfield
was broken repeatedly, and the logs run
through unchecked. The Fairfield boom be-
low is filed and OVERLOOKING. n large jam OF
100000 feet of logs has formed at the head
OF the boom and piled thirty feet high. The
proprietors dare not break the jam for fear II
will 20 through in body and sweep the river
below The high water will leave the logs
high M on the banks, making 1t expensive
driving for the lumbermen.
A HORSE in Switzerland has been running
a strange race. short time ago, when the
passenger train from Berne to Lucerne left
the station at VOlhaussen, four-year-old
horse escaped from its master and ran upon
the track close in front of the engine, gallop-
ing ahead Of the train as far as the next sta
ton. Here, while the train stopped Tor Two
minutes, the horse got ahead. BY the time
the next station was reached the tram
had nearly Overtaken the horse. Soon
after the beast stumbled and lost shoei
nevertheless he managed to pick himself up
and continued to run in front or the tram,
arriving as victor at Lucerne, bathed In sweat,
but quite uninjured. There he was caught
and tended by the station authorities. lie
had run the twelve and tWo-ffth miles IN
thirty-four minutes, besides trayersing two
dark tunnels with perfect safety.