Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

MAINE farmers are selling potatoes at 30
cents a barrel
CITIZENS of Boston have contributed Sl9, AS
for the sufferers by the Western floods.
THE Boston Globe says that the Office boy
may never be told the proverb that there Is
luck in leisure.
OWING to the snow blockade in Northern
New York, $4,000 Young trout, intended for
Lake George, are delayed and viii probably
die.
THE latest theory about the interior of the
earth is that it is twice as dense as the solid
materials OF the surface, and, though very
hot, no portion of it is in liquid condition.
THE United Empire LOyalists, descendants
OF the Tories OF the Revolution, are to cele
brate in Toronto IN June the centennial of
their fathers settlement IN the Upper PROV
ince of Canada.
THE Chemist and Druggist (Eng.) states that
in twenty years the sales Of single packages of
patent medicines in Great Britain have in
creased from 500. $50 to lS,457 800. The num-
Der OF vendors, formerly l0, 1873, is now 19,404.
A MINNEsoTA JOURNAL says that the pleas
ing old country custom OF placing a sheaf Of
oats upon a long pole for small birds to feast
on during the holidays, was quite generally
observed throughout the western part OF that
State.
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blers at Monaco are the most determined, and
lose She most. = is said that each day when
the play begins the bank has in hand 100000;
as play becomes brisker this is sometimes
raised o $500tCJ more.
ACCORDING 70 The Lyoa Hedic0l, women
practc ed medicine and surgery over cen
tury and a hal1 ago. There were then in
Lyons forty-tbree master surgeons and thir
teen widows o. surgeons IN regular practlce.
AL doctors widows hau the right TO practice
medicine and surgery.
AT o'clock on recent evening Parision
policeman observed valise on the bench near
the starting point OF q line Of omnibusses, and
supposed that an intending passenger had
laid it down there FOR minute. Finding ii
there an hour later. he took it to the police
station. It contained wearing apparel, notes
valuable iewelry. The eXtrai !iEary clreum-
stance is that no one should have touched it
during SO long a time in so public place.
A WRITER in London paper says: "In
sSartoc Resartua there is mention of Dutch
COWS, which. during the wet season may be
seen grazing in jackets and pettcoats Of
striped saeking in the meadows Of Gouda, and
one feels on reading II as u tne assertion Is
incredible: yet in Sussex to-day COWS are
carefully gr0Omed and cOmbed, and their feet
shOd with double GhQss. II is fact. OF which
plentiful proof could be given, that such care
sheen in former times to make the wool grow
finer and keep it from impurities.
The business Of detecting crime in London
is admitted to be badly done. The precincts
of the savoy and Thames Embankment are
not SAFER now than Hounsow Heath in the
day. OF Jonathan Wild. One hundred and
twentv-fOur persons disappeared in London
last wear, of whom no trace has ever been
found, and each week numbers Of dead bodies
known as ''stiM uns. are brought In by toilefs
Of the Thames with marks of violence on
them since the time of the late Inspector
Field. no one of the detective order has won
an established fame but DruscOWitCh, and he
ruined great career by being nYeigled into
the De GancOmt betting frauds.
THOMAS HUNTER, OF Shanes Crossing. OHIO,
advises that in order to prevent the disastrous
floods in the Ohio river in future an enormous
ditch be constructed from the river at Wells
vile. Ohio. to Lake Erie, ana thus the flood
water be diverted into the lake. He asserts
that at that point In times OF treshet, the
river is considerably more than lOo Feet higher
than the lake, and that the recent great
floods have done damage to an amount that
would IN a great measure cover the cost Of
making his proposed drain. MIR. Hunter re-
marks: lone difficulty in the way Is lhat the
country along the river is hllly, but mis- nave
valleys between them through when an OUT
let NAV be found" Any one wanting 'fur-
ther views" as he says, can apply to MN
TwENTY-EIGHT Cardinals have died since
the accession of Leo KILL, and twelve hats
are at this moment at his disposal. OF the
hfty-eight existing members OF the college,
one was created by Gregory XU.-Cardinal
SchWartzenberg, Archbishop Of Prague; thir
ty-seven were created by Plus TX, and the
remaining twenty be the present Pope. OF
these last, three are German, two French, one
English, one Irish, one an Armenian, and one
q Pole, Nearly half Of them, therefore. now
are not Italians, and the whole number of for
eign members of the existing college is TWEEN
ty-six as against thirty-two Italians, pro-
portion unprecedented for very leng time