Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

JUMBO is the suggestive name Of town
recently incorporated in Texas.
PLATINUM wire has been drawn so fine as
to be absolutely invisible to the naked eye.
THERE is a rumor in the Pan Nan Gazette
that an American morning newspaper is to be
started in London.
THE Mexican Government Is importuning
Flemish people TO introduce into that country
the cultivation of flax.
Is tearing down a house 80 years old in
Rhode Island lately the workmen found a lot
Of leaf tobacco and 100 Old-fashiOned cigars.
AT the sale in Paris Of the effects OF the
late C0mte de Lagrange, the bride worn by
Gladiator when he won the Derby races
brought 626 francs.
4 PAPER in Minnesota starts out with, "Our
platform is the abolition of poverty, ignor-
ance. wickedness, unchastity, drunkenness.
injustice. peryersiOn OF law. oppression and
evil" Its success Is looked for with feverish
interest.
4 sARDoNIc English writer has brought out
a book called aThe Wife Beaters' Manual"
giving a horrible list of attacks by men on
women in England. The book is intended to
help Baron de Worms, legislator who pro-
poses bill inflicting hogging on W heaters.
A CRUEL enemy-one more to be dreaded
than the Congo-trespassers-ha invaded
little Portugal. The phylloxera has made its
appearance in the wine growing districts,
and Is already causing such devastation as
10 threaten the very existence OF the vine
yards.
\ FEW MINUTES before the dynamite eXplO-
sion at Victoria station. London, recently. T.
d. Sullivan and Nicholas Lynch. two Parnell
tie members Of Parliament. were in one Of the
waiting rooms Of the buildings, and had the
cl0ckwork machinery worked as It was in
tended the two gentlemen would have been
blown to atoms.
A GENTLEMAN writes to the Elmira 4 drer-
tiser Of the prosperity OF some newsboys he
has known: mot many years ago, in the little
village of Lima, in this State, young lad
could be seen every morning delivering the
Rochester papers from house TO house He is
now drawing big salary as head contracting
agent for one Of the largest circuses that
travel. Another former newsbOy that know
OF Is now a prominent conductor on the New
FORK Central. Another has become famous
Dutch comedian; another prominent grain
Spectator in Chicago; another owns well
known restaurant in the city OF New York"
SOME recently compiled dairy statistics
may prove interesting: About s., 900, OOO. 900 is
invested in the dairy business in the United
States; 100000 cows supply the milk, and it
takes 6O.O00. 600 acres OF land to feed them.
and 100, 600 men and 1000 900 horses TO attend
to them and the milk they produce. These
tons OF hay, 9e,o0O,000 bushels Of cOrnmeal
and oatmeal, 275,0O0, 900 bushels Of oats and
various other grams, the total cost Of which
is about $400, 000, 900 per year, while the hired
help costs $l6S. 900. Tho yearly return for
this investment Is 100000 gallons Of milk,
which. at average OF twelve cents per
gallon, would bring $sl0,00G,OO0.
EVERYBODY has heard of Beadle, the dime
novel man. and most of US, in our vealy days,
have looked upon him as public benefactor.
This gentleman has a son, whose marital ex
perience would form the basis for one Of his
lives in New York, after being married nine
years, abandoned his wife for another
woman. After two weeks search the wife
found him. and he returned home pentent.
Not long afterward he said he was uneasy
and his mind could not rest until his wife had
called upon the other woman and forgiven
her. Mrs Beadle did so. But even that did
not make Be2dle happy. for in week or
longer he informed his wife that there was no
use in their trying TO live together, for he
loved the otter woman, and he offered TO bring
to her a friend of his with whom she might
live. This arrangement was finally made, but
IN a few weeks Mrs. Beadle says her con-
science told her she was acting improperly,
and she abandoned the new lover Now she
sues for support from Beadle. He set up the
claim Of fnfldelity on her part, but the judge
would not accept that plea. Beadle then re-
fused point blank TO support his wife, and was
sent to jail.
A PARTY OF 30 women arc this week leaving
Bordeaux for New Caledonia under peculiar
circumstances. They are, in fact, women
sentenced to a heightened term Of imprison-
ment fer grave Ofenses, who have elected to
20 to the French penal colony, where they
will each find husband in one OF the "cOn-
victs OF the first class''-that is, those con-
victs who have, by their good behavior. enti-
tied themselves to government grant Of
land and obtained permission 10 marry. An
inspectress of prisons recently made the round
of the six central female prisons, and selected
the 30 inmates-all Of them described as young
and good looking-whO are now going abroad
to make fresh start in the world. Once out
they will be housed IN a religious establish
ment at Noumea. managed by community
of Sisters, where bachelor cOnvicts Of the
privileged class will be permitted to visit
them. and as often as a marriage is arranged
the Colonial Government will provide the
bride with a trosseau and set the couple up in
housekeeping in a small way. IL was Prince
Napoleon. who. when he was Minister for Al
geria and the Colonies, introduced this sys-
tenn of convict marriages, which has gwen
excellent results so far.