Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A DELEGATION Of Irish prelates will visit
Rome in May, and confer with the Pope in
the same manner that the American Bishops
did recently.
THERE has been much talk about the disap-
pearance from the Museum Of the AcrOpolis,
Athens. of a statuette representing a woman.
The statuette was of great value.
IL SIAM the women are agitatIng the ques-
ton of theirrights. They have gone so far as
to petition the King that their husbands shall
not pledge them for gambling debts. 1t is not
considered probable that the King will grant
such prepOsterOus request.
THERE seems to be a solid foundation for the
habit among sailors of calling British mer-
chantmen slime ULCERS" The Medical Press
saws that 10000 gallons of lime juice from
Montserrat have just been received at Liver
pool, making 10000 gallons thus far in 1884,
The cases of scurvy in hospital are constantly
diminishing under its use.
BOYS intending this summer to emulate the
bold hunters of the prairies, who live on roots
when game is scarce, should take warning
from the boys of the training ship Cumber-
land stationed on the Clyde. Ten of them
were recently reduced to Inconsistencies and
made dangerously i'll by eating bark which
turned out to be a species of hemlOek.
MILNE EDwARDs, the naturalist, is giving
in Paris an interesting exhibition Of sub
marine plants and animals found during his
exploration of the Mediterranean. He took
soundings to the depth of 1865 feet, and
brought up some of the most remarkable or
ganisms ever seen. They are said to have
puzzled the most accomplished naturalists,
some of them being of such a nature as TO
make it difficult to classify them either as be-
longing to a botanical or geological species.
The dreGgings were on a large scale, samples
Of rock weighing over 200 pounds being some
times brought up.
ONE of the few men who ever over reached
gas company has just been arrested in Pc
oria, III. 1t is only just to this ingenious
swndler to mention his name, which is George
Dunbar. Having purchased building with
its gas fixtures and removed it TO a lot for
merry occupied by q residence in which gas
had been used, he connected the m ain with
his own fixtures, upon which he had fitted
metal kerosene lamps. The gas lame rose
through the oil burners and the deception was
so complete that employees of the company,
whose suspicious had been aroused by a local
detective, twice reported that it was all right.
The detective peFseyered, however, and
finally uncovered the fraud.
A GENTLEMAN of Philadelphia, who spent
some time in St. Petersburg during the reign
of Nicholas, relates of that irascible monarch
that he once entered the drawing room ofthe
Winter Palace, where the other members of the
Imperial family were gathered for the usual
evening "tea drinking with q terrible scowl
upon his face; and when the Empress instant
ly arose and, not regarding his black looks,
offered him cup of tea, he fercely dashed it
from her hand to the floor. With no sign Of
emotion she filed a second cup and presented
it to him. Now the cloud had passeu, and he
accepted ii with charming smile, and be-
slowed kiss upon the hand that offered it,
The cause of his rude behavior in the former
instance was a suspicion that the Empress
had been meddling with some political affairs.
OHIO's matrimonial affairs were evidently
not a bit more peaceful than her politics last
year. In the entire State the average was
one divorce to about seventeen marriages,
but for every seven marriages there was one
application for divorce. of the causes of di-
vorce. the largest number, 1929, are for alb
sence and neglect, then follow cruelty, adul-
terv. drunkenness and fraud in their respect
i've order besides lS6 cases with no special
cause assigned. In all these the women are
the most numerous petitioners, except for
adultery and fraud, and in these the males
are only slightly IN excess of the females.
Only twenty-five husbands were divorced on
account OF the cruelty of their wives against
a65 of tha other sex for like cause. Six
husbands were separated from drunken wives
TO l6S wives from drunken husbands.
A DEVICE to turn man-of-war in the small,
est diametred circle and the greatest speed
is to be tested by navy officials. The United
States despatch tug Nina departed for New
port Friday preliminary to the experiment.
Her speed viii be tested on the new mile