Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-05-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IL the city of New York alone it is esti-
mated that there are at present no fewer than
400 mIllionaires. thirty of whom own from
s., 100000 to S50O0O,OOO apiece, while there are
about ten who possess from $780, 600 to $780,
10000 each.
Monte Carlo newspaper says; FIFTY SUI
icides and 100000 francs lost. Sucliis the
yearly balance-sheet Of this shameful enter
prise. which Europe, and France in particu-
lar, wrongly tolerate, but of which we are
sure they will speedily rid themselves"
IT appears from recent lawsuit in the
Paris Civil Court, brought against Mile. Mar
guerite Ugalde of the Nouveautes Theatre by
a ladies' shoemaker, that the only difference
between kid and suede shoe IS that one Is
made of the right and the other Of the wrong
side Of the same kind Of leather.
\ VESSEL of Para reports falling in with
mass of spiders floating in the air. The rig
ging and sails were covered with the web, the
long threads OF which formed the balloon for
the tiny aerOnauts. For several miles this
spider swarm continued, the Captain esti-
mating that there were millions blown from
land.
NOTING the suspension of the Greenock Id
gertiser, paper started in 1902, an English
newspaper says the most notable incident in
its history was its rejection of one of the finest
poems of Campbell, sent by the youthful au-
thor Of 1.-The Pleasures Of Hope" for insertion
in the poets corner. The editor put in no.
tice to the poet that his attempt was not sup
to the mark of the AdUertiser.
TEA DRINKERS should be grateful for the in
terest the government is showing in them.
There have been 100000 pounds of tea i'm
ported into New York since the law requiring
inspection went into effect a year ago. In
that time 650000 pounds OF adulterated tea
have been condemned. These have been most
ly green teas, and as result their importation
has fallen of over 100000 pounds from the
previous year.
London has a Woman's Trades Union
which is useful in various ways. 1t furnishes
rooms in which women may examine adver-
tisements in the different papers, and in
which monthly social evening meetings are
held. 1t has established circulating libra
nv, a seaside house subscription, a swimming
club and a women's f-penny bank. There
are three and One-haf millions of working
women in London, and the union is move
mentToward help in the best way.
LARGE families are SO rare in France that
when they are to be found they deserve to be
mentioned. Pere Morand has just died at
NIegreve in Upper Savoy. leaving behind him
fifteen children, sixty-fve grandchildren, and
thirty-one great grandchildren. AS an en-
enlargement to others, 1t Is said that the gov
eminent, who are aggrleyed at the increasing
depOpulation Of France compared with her
neighbors. propose to present medal to the
family, with an inscription to the effect that
"Citoven MOrand ben merite de la patrie."
CHILD marriages were common in the mid
die ages among the royalty and nobility. In
l477, for instance, Richard, Duke of York,
second son OF Edward ", was married to
Anne MOwbray, Duchess of Norfolk in her
own right. The bridegroom was not years
old, and the bride scarcely 3. They were very
pretty children, and the ceremony is described
as most affecting and beautiful. About a
wear later the child-bride died, and at the age
OF the boy bridegroom was smOthered in the
Tower by the uncle for whom he had been
named.
a RETURN relating TO the tramway system
in France gives the total length Of lines at
about 3S2 miles. The department containing
the longest mileage is, of course, that of the
Seine. which includes Paris. Here the length
is about 100 miles, Besides Paris, the towns
which have tramways running are Lyons,
Marseilles, Havre, ROuen, Bezlers, Tours,
Nantes. Orleans, Rheims, Nancy, Cambral,
Dunkirk Lille. RoubaiX, TOurcolng, halen-
ciennes, BOulOene-sur- Mer, Calais ana YER
sailles The total receipts for all the lines
during 1888 were about 81, 10000.
SPEAKING Of the return of Gen. Henry 5.
Taylor, who has been visiting the insane asy-
lums of Ohio in company with Superintend-
ent Gundry, Of a Maryland asylum, the Bal
timore american says that he found in the
idiOtic department Of one of them the two
children who for many years Travelled with
Barnum's circus as the great and only gen.
uine Aztec children. He was told that the
pseudo AZtecs were idiots, who, before Bar
mum got them, were in the idiotic department
OF one of the Ohio asylums, and after they no
longer proved curiosity were returned.