Savannah weekly echo., 1884-02-10
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A GERMAN has patented artificial cork.

A GERMAN has patented artificial cork.
EVERY member Of the present Utah legis-
lature is q Mormon.
THE Florida sponge crop now amounts to
about S1G0, 900 year.
THE Oldest opera house in the United
States is in Savannah.
FLORIDA alligator hunters earn, when sue
cessful, from 81, 800 to $1,000 a season.
THE aggregate wealth of the seventy-six
United States senators is said to be $1SO.0JO,-
100
MISSOURI fruit growers estimate their loss
81 So The recent cold sn'p 7 'ha' state At ''00
THE talk about dividing California into two
States is again revived in the Southern sec
lion.
A FLORIDA truck farmer has contracted
for the sale Of his strawberry crop at So per
quart.
THE season in the lumber regions of Wis
consin has been prolific in accidents to the
men.
THERE were 4, ,732 books published in Great
Britain last year. Theology headed the list
with 704 volumes.
OVER 21 100000 pounds of India rubber
we're imported into this country last year. a
falling off Of about 100000.
MINNESOTA where a Sunday-schOol was
| first es tablishel thirty seven years ago, has
now .444 schools, with 10000 scholars and
| II, ,OC0 teachers and officers.
THE railway foreclosures in 1888 covered
eighteen lines, with a total Of 1854 miles OF
track, Sls, S25.OtO capital stock, and approxi-
mately So. .50j, 900 bonds and debt
QUITE number Of toothless individuals in
Iowa are out cunning for travelling dentist
vino pulled out their teeth free, and collected
Lalf the price OF new sets which he forgot tC
oring around.
| In Ne \ York CITY 1906 signs, !, ,103 signs on
drop awnings. $50 wooden Indians, 1898 ex-
hibits Of goods, ,734 showcases, 1Ol stands,
| 53l coal boxes and ,325 awnings were Ii
| censed to obstruct the streets last year.
| MAYOR ScovII LIE has signed the new rules
| for conducting the civil service of Buffalo, n
/ Y. Buffalo is thus the third city in New
York which has applied to itself the provis
| ions made by the State act. The expenses o1
the first years operation will be paid by the
| local civil service reform association.
| Mr. D. r. LOCKE (Nasbyl, who is writing
| letters from the South, say: 'If was TWEEN
| ty-five years old and had $1,000 to start life
with, ha rather risk my chances in Atlantis
than any city in the world. The four bes
| cities in this country are Toledo, Kansas City
| Minneapolis, and Atlanta
THE American Grocer finds that in 16S;
| BOO D.0e0 cases of tomatoes were packed ir
the United States, each containing two
dozen tins The exact figures are 70,645, S9t
cans. Their value at wholesale was proba
bly S6,OO0,C00 Maryland puts up about one
ha of the product, and New Jersey over {
| fifth.
In the Cherry Lake settlement, Florida
recently, while the mourners were singing
and praying around colored woman fol
whom an undertaken was dig igg grave
she sprang from her coffin shouting: 81 aint
dead vet! amt dead YETI" But the shocl
was too much for her, and she IS now lu
natic
THE ostriches of the Anaheim farm il
California laid 305 eggs during the season
from the lst of May last until the 1st of Octo
Der. The birds have heen plucked twc'
since their arrival. The first clip in May las
Welded $500 The clip in December yielded
$500 quills Of all kinds from eighteen birds
! and Is valued at 81 COO.