Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TEMPERANCE men in England complain
that at bars ginger ale costs twice as much
as the same quantity OF beer.
UPwARD Of five thousand persons slept on
EPSON Downs on the night preceding the re-
cent Derby race.
THE sale Of illustrated police newspapers,
in accordance with a recent act Of the Legis-
lature, is now prohibited in the State Of Ken
lucky.
THE new organ in Westminster Abbey is
blown by gas engine. While retaining the
Its action is on the tubular pneumatic prin-
ciple, and it has no truckers.
A GROCER in Laurens county, Mass, owns
half bushel measure that was used before and
after the revolutionary war. The Boston
Globe says that of course it is valuable to him
now only as a curiosity, for it holds full half
bushel.
SOMETIME AGO Mr.. Ellis Lever, Of Man
chester, Eng, offered a prize Of $4,000 for the
best safety lamp for use in mines. Over
ninety lamps have been sent IN. many coming
from the United States and Others from the
Continent.
A SIGN Of the impecunious times ia London
is the substitution at the clubs Of a nip Of
whisky for cents in lieu of sherry and bitters
for L. The receipts for wine and liquors in
most clubs have, by reason of blue ribbonism
going hand in hand with hard times, sensibly
decreased.
ACCORDING to recent developments made by
the New York Board Of Health, the brass
faucets Of saloons might well be discarded.
The free acid OF the beer acts upon the metal,
deposits of 0erdigris are formed, with the
poison of which tie beer. unless the hoW from
the keg is steady, is pretty sure to be impreg-
mated.
THREE new species Of flora are reported to
have been discovered by the Rev. E. s. Green,
a botanist Of Santa Barbara. California. In
the middle of San Luis, Obispo county, he dis
covered a new species of g0Oseberry wholly
unknown to science. Near Soledad he came
upon a new species of olive tree, peculiar in
California.
IT is said that only one small herd of buffa-
loes remains in Texas. This has been feeding
on the Pecos river, in the Staked Plains re-
gon but a band of hunters is lowering about
it continually, killing the animals as fast as
the meat can be cared for, and its days are
numbered. This is the remnant of what was
known a few years ago as ''the great Southern
herd"
NEWS comes by telegraph from Mexico that
an academy for teaching the language of the
Aztecs has been instituted in the City Of Tez-
| coco. As it is hardly probable that the acad-
envy will be patronized by native MeXicans,
the suppOsitiOn is that it will aim at instruct
ing American students in the language of the
abOrigines. If such is the case 1T may lead to
the discovery of important facts connected
with the history of Central America before
the arrival OF the Spaniards. The field is
fruitful one for psychologists.
THE representative Of the United States
| Fish Commission on the Pacific says that the
| depletion Of salmon in the Columbia river is
| so great that now these fishes do not go to
more than one or two Of their original spawn
| ing places in sufficient numbers to make it an
| easy thing to get eggs or spawners with which
| to begin artificial spawning operations on
large SCALE He urged upon the government
| the need of experimenting the decrease Of
| this great food supply by instituting Matching
works at the earliest possible moment.
AN EMINENT English mint official, who
prides himself on his ability a coiner. states
| that England at the present time is losing a
million a year on silver money, ana that the
| calling in of the condemned half sovereign
| will cost her $l5G,000 year for some years.
| The recOining of old sOvereigns into new ones
| also entails a heavy loss. The only paving
| department at the Royal mint is that from
which the bronze coinage is issued, and that
shows an annual profit of 100000. While
| England is thus losing in gold and silver, 1t
must be satisfactory to feel that, IN what
| one of her Alderman called the other day
| the ''merry, merry brown" she is doing
money making business in more senses than
| one.