Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THIRTY EIGHT MEN on the Kennebee river
loaded %, 600 tons of ice in five days and eight
hours last week, and this is said to be the
largest amount of work ever done on the
river in the same time.
THERE are about a thousand eonvicts in the
Kentucky State penitentiary; their labor is
leased at forty cents per day to firm that has
permission to employ a certain portion Of
them in constructing railroads. About 500
of them are SO employed at that low rate Of
wages.
SENSITIVE travellers viii be pleased to learn
that Jersey City ferryb0ats now have their
cabins marked ''men" and women" instead
of ''gents" and ''ladies." To be called ''gent"
before breakfast, and after nights ride in a
Pullman, has proved too much for many
aesthetic souls.
Mr.. EDWARD ATKINSON has written letter
advocating the construction of one-story
factories. He claims that his plan is cheaper,
lessons the risk Of fire, decreases the rate of
insurance, reduces the number of overseers,
cuts down the gas bills, aud is cheaper and
more convenient in every way.
THE Comte de Paris has not suspended his
work on the "History Of the Civil War in
America" On the contrary, he has
the manuscript of volume French
for volume French edition. in such
condition that he can finish it an early date.
These volumes will be translated and pub
lished by the American publishers on the same
day they are issued in France, and will
make the fourth volume of the American
edition.
THE Gillian newspapers contain some Curl
Gus statistics concerning the occupation Of
Lima by their country's troops. They estimate
at 1900 the number of children born there Of
Peruvian mothers and Gillian soldiers during
thirty-three months, and as a great part of
the troops have gone home already, and in
many cases have taken these mothers and
children along with them by perm ssion Of the
Gillian Government, and the occupation is
expected to cease altogether in August, they
compute the accession to the population of
Chilli from this source at $4,000.
THE clergy in the west Of England were
formerly devoted to whist. About the begin
ming of the century there was whist club in
a country town of Somersetshire, composed
mostly of clergymen, that met every Sunday
evening in the back parlOr of BARRIERS.
Four of these were acting as pail bearers at
the funeral of a reverend brother, when
delay occurred from the grave not being
ready, and the coffin was put down in the
chancel. By way of Willing away their time,
one of them produced pack Of cards from
his pocket and proposed a rubber. hen the
sexton came to announce that the prepara-
tons were complete, he found them deep in
their game, using the coffin as their table.
THIS is what the San Francisco Arg0naut
says happens with certain class of newspa-
pers Of the padding fort, if barn blows
down: "There will be diagram of the prem
ises; view of the barn before being blown
down; view of the barn while being blown
down; view of the ruins; interview with the
hired man. who said he always knOwed 1t was
agOing TO blow down: interview with the
owner, with his and other theories on barns
blowing down; interview with Prof. Mug
wump, the distinguished Chicago savant, with
his views as to the reason why barns blow
down rather than up; comparative table OF
barn mortality in this and other States for the
last forty years, showing percentage Of barns
blowing down compared with the llliterate
vote; history of barns from the earliest times
to the present; statement of loss-$500."
TIE popular notion that the remains of By
ron were refused a resting place in Westmin-
ster Abbey requires some qualification. TIE
precise facts are given in the appendix to
Lord Broughton's ''Tour in Albania" The
body was brought to London in July, 1924, and
a rumor prevailed at the time that formal
application had been made by his executors to
the Dean and Chapter of Westminster for
permission to bury him in Poets Corner. But
no such formal application was made. An in
quiry was indeed made of DR.. Ireland, Dean
of Westminster, without instructions from
the executors, whether the permission, if
asked for, would be granted; and an answer
was given in the negative. Byron was ac-
cOrdiDgly buried at Hucknall Church, near
Newstead Abbey. Ten years later DR.. Ire
a place in the Abbey. Il do,
indeed" he said, greatly wish for figure by
Thorwaldsen here; but no taste ought to be
INDUCED to the prejudice of a duty.D