Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

FROZEN carcases of sheep are now sent by
the hundred from Buenos Ayres to London,
and the business is growing rapidly.
a LADY in a Denver theatre, the other
night, wore in her hair six tiny hummlDg birds
which formed a half wreath about her head.
SEVERAL Western railways which have
heretofore carried clergymen regularly settled
over congregations IN towns on their line i4r
half fare have put up the rate this year to
| two thirds fare.
THE deficit of the last Worlds Exposition
in Paris was upward of $4,000, 600, and that
| of Vienna, in 1873, was over 100000. The
| Philadelphia fair. in 1876, was the only one
| since that of London, in 1852, that paid eX-
| penses.
| A NEVADA PELICAN recently shot measured
feet inches from tip to tip of its wings.
| The breast Of the pelican is covered with
| feathers resembling fine fur, and some of the
other feathers are very beautiful. This is the
/ first one reported killed in Nevada in many
| years.
THE manufacture of needles and pins is
one of the most lourIshing industries in Ger
many. The eight manufactures Of Iserlohn
| consumed in twelve months 600 tons of wire,
| employing 500 male and 200 female operatives,
! besides steam engines and water wheels of
go horse power.
| JOHN MCKINNEY, while on guard at the
mouth of Ray Mica, in Mitchell county, n.
! c., fell asleep and was walked by a noise in
/ the shaft. Springlng up he IN fright jumped
/ down the shaft, which is 200 feet deep. After
| falling 90 feet he caught bucket on wind
| lass, and by great effort climbed back. so
| terrible was his fright that his hair turned
white.
/ FROM single grain of wheat planted in
| 1851, saws the Grass Valley, Cal, Record, grew
% stalks, each bearing a full head. These
/ Welded $50 grains, go of which were planted
| the next year, producing One-ffth of bushel
/ of splencid wheat. This was planted last
| spring, yielding IL bushels, making I,O2O
/ hounds Of wheat from one grain in three
/ years.
HULL is the port from which the greatest
| quantity of rags has been sent to New York
| during 1884, the aggregate shipment exceed
| ing 10000 bales. London sent $4,000 bales, and
/ Hamburg nearly II 900, but only one other port
| shipped more than 5000 bales. The paper and
| paper stock imported into the United States
| during the year ending with May, 1884, were
valued at $l4,7lS,l50.
THE Ottoman Porte, having decided on the
constitution Of an academy for the Turkish
| language. has named some of the members.
These are not known in Western Europe. The
| object of the academy appears chiefly TO be to
/ carry out a system of spelling reform IN the
] department of public NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
| spelling capable of representing scientific
! and geographical terms, IN substitution for
| what may be regarded as a species of stenog-
/ raphy.
ALL the German papers are full of stories
| of Fanny Ellsler, some OF which are interest
ing. One enthusiastic critic said of her in
her prime: "She dances Goethe;" another at
| trtbuted her success to the fact that "she
dances on fairies feet" but by far the pref
| test compliment was paid her at Havana,
where an enthusiastic public expressed its
admiration by letting loose upon the stage
dozen white doves. whose plumage gllttered
with jewels, after witnessing one OF her 1alry
dances.
SKATING RINK floors are now made ofpaper.
1t is done by pasting and pressing straw
boards together under powerful hydraulic
press. in the same way as the dicks OF the
paper car wheels are made. When these
blocks are perfectly seasoned and dried. they
are sawed into flooring boards and laid with
the edge OF the paper forming the surface OF
the floor. This surface is sand-papered until
it is as smooth as one vast sheet OF Ice, ana
the adhesive quality of the paper prevents
any slipping of the roller upon the floor. The
floor is without joints. perfectly smooth and
comparatively noiseless.
HERE is a story about holiday pie, which
was made, baked and eaten in the year l7T0:
| Monday last was brought from Howick to
| Berwick, to be shipped 70 London for Sir Hen