Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


after to be required to be able to speak Doth
English and French.
THERE will be but half so much fruit canned
in California this year as last, because the
business was overdone last season and result
ed in loss.
THE Galveston Nslos predicates upon Texas
making anywhere between 100000 and
100000 bales of cotton, of which Galveston
may receive gross, perhaps, 100000 bales.
DURING the present harvest season in Italy
the reapers have earned 81 so per day, which
they consider extraordinary wages. Their
work lasted II hours daily, from a. m. to
u. m. with intervals for meals, which con-
sisted of mush and oil, Bologna sausage, rice:
beans, cheese and wine, taken at Z, Il and
O'Clock.
THE Fiji Islanders, who were formerly saw
ages. and who now have about 10000 church
members among them, are sending missiona-
ries to the heather of New Guinea. The New
Guinea people are worse heather than ever
the Fills were, ana nave an GU olu P[aCtI NC ~, ol
abusing and numbering missionaries VINO go
to convert them.
sold BROwNLow," the famous horse rode
by Gen. G. G. Dibrell during the entire four
wears Of the war, died at Gen. Dibrell's farm,
near Sparta, on Aug. p, aged 80 years. For
many wears he has been atlectionately regard
ed and most tenderly cared for by his owner
meadow near the family residence.
AT the state Convention at Houston, Tex,
the younger element was conspicuOusly in
the majority. though many old men with
wTinkled faces and scanty hair were notice
able. Tasteful, if not elegant apparel, was
the general rule; plug hats were plenty, but
light, comfortable straw head pieces Were
there too. There were not twenty bald heads
in the entire body.
\ CASE under the civil damages liquor act
in Syracuse has been decided against the de-
PENDANT. Jacob Neu, while drunk. killed his
wife and himself. leaving a boy Is years old
without means of support. SUIT was brought
against the man who sold the liquor to Neu to
recover support for the boy. On the trial 1t
appeared that the liquor was sold without
Ii,ense. hence the court awarded exemplary
damages.
THE claims for damages by the September
riots Of 1888 at Port au-Prince, Hayti, have
been agreed upon in readiness for the action
Of the Chambers. The Spanish claims,
amounting to S10.3s6, have been reduced to
81 $50 and the English claims, $226, 49O, re-
duced to sS7, 4O3. The figures of the claims of
the other nations are not known. some OF the
British losers, especially, are not satisfied
and have applied TO the home government for
redress.
IT is a common thing for professional crab
bers in New York Bay and around Long Is
land to get caught by the nose by savage
crabs while STOPPING down in their boats.
They never attempt to break the animals
hold They Immediately jumb overheard IN
their clothes. and the moment he feels salt
water the crab saws good by and sails away
smiling. The fishermen believe the CRABS
tweak their noses on purpose to secure their
freedom.
PROBABLY the most cherries light station
on the California coast is the FarallOn light.
Thomas owen, W. II. Rugg, David r. Splan,
Philip Savage and an army mule are the &C
credited government forces at that place. The
following story is told about the mule: 'ie
has been at FarallOn several years. All his
work consists i'll hosting up twice year the
provisions brought over by the Lighthouse In
spectOr in a steamer. He has learned The
sound of the whistle, and when he hears IL,
hides to shirk work. At the last visit of the
inspector the mule hid and had to be hunted
for two hours in the rocks before he could be
found"
ONE of the builders Of the Washington mon
ument told reporter how the men who finish
the top Of the shaft will be able to get down.
you see that platform or scaffolding uD there
where the roof begins? Well, that will re-
main until the work is completed. AS the
men ascend trestlewOrk resting on this plat
form will be laid, and the stones viii be placed
in position as they come up on the derrick.
When the last stone is laid the men Will clam
Der down this trestlewOrk to the windows
there are two on each side-thrOugh which
they will pass to the elevator. The scafold-
ing is so arranged that it can be lowered piece
by piece to the windows in the roof and sent
down by the elevator"
A DISPUTE having arisen in Paris between
two well known operate tenors as to which
has been applauded most this season, an in
genious Journalist suggests the manufactur-
ing of an apparatus by which the exact
quantity of applause shall be measured.
Every handle APP, he observes, causes GER
tain atmospheric disturbance and agitates
certain quantity Of air. Into this apparatus,
then it might be called an "ApplaumetrO-
graph"-he proposes that all the air so dis
turbed shall be passed and registered, so that
the quantity Of applause given to certain
artist on a stated night might be computed TO
a fractional part of peck or pound, accord
ing as its volume or its weight is to be asceF-
tanned.
SHE was a very pretty girl, tastefully
dressed, and her brown hair curled and rolled
about her low white forehead in way that.
was enhancing, considering how hot the
weather was, and how many fair locks that
had been curled that morning were hanging
in straight strings over the fair owners eyes.
tt was warm in church, too, and fans were
rafting in every seat. There were lots OF
flies about, but people seated in her lmmedl-
ate Vicinity were pleased to notice tnat lhey
all assembled and lowered around the pretty
girl, and only the young man who sat beside
her was troubled occasionally BY the little
pesterers that she impatiently brushed from
her face when they became unbearably an
moving. At the conclusion of the service the
pretty girl and her escort walked out with
the rest of the congregation, and the young
man was heard to eXclaim: "By George! did
YOU ever see so many flies, Nell?" and Nell
replied, in smothered and remorseful tones
"Did you notice them, Fred? declare /
with sugar and water thiS morning" And
then the flies discovered their departing
victim in the throng, and, with a buzz, made