Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

WILLIAM PLATT PEPPER, of Sussex county,
n. J., writes to the Philadelphia Board of
Health urging the institution of a system of
quarantine against leprosy.
THE bows Of the Sacramento Cali High
school. believing their principal to have been
harshly used by the Board of Education,
which had dismissed him from his post, pack
ed up their books and left the schools in body.
THE Prince of Monaco's yacht, LHiron-
dele lately foundered off the coast of Sweden.
The vessel was lost and the crew, but the
Prince, a brother-in-law of the Duke of Ham
iltOn and famous throughout Europe for his
brutality to his wife. was saved.
The latest fashionable affectation in Lon
don is to have negro minstrels. who have for
years been confined to the variety shows of the
metropolis, appear at select parties in Bel
gravia where the banjo and the bones are
more in favor than the violin or piano.
CHOLERA is not always bearish influence
on breadstufrs. In 1866, when the death rate
reached 100 a day in Chicago and 600 day in
New York, wheat advanced from 20 cents in
January to 81 O2 in November. There may be
coincident influences in cholera of greater
potency than panic.
A KNIFE-GRINDER who for years has been
grinding knives and scissors in the streets Of
Geneva was taken i'll three months ago. and
went to his home in Savoy, where he died.
The fortune which he left to be divided be-
tween three poor parishes for the clothing of
poor school children amounted to $4,000.
CLIMATE and directness, say the cattle men
of Montana, give the preference to the Cana
dian route: and. if they can secure the re-
moval of the stringent regulations regarding
the inspection of stock, Montreal expects to
become the shipping port OF the East for the
cattle of the Western and Northwestern
States.
A CONTRIBUTOR to "Science" tells Of a cat
fish found in the Mississippi, near Clinton, Ia,
which had land tortoise, measuring five
inches across the back in its mouth. The tor
toise was fast in the jaws of the fish and
dead and the finny captOr was so democrat
lied that 1t allowed itself to be taken with
the hands.
IFiscommonly thought that Germany has the
largest consumption of tobacco, but the Ham
burger Hachrichten shows that this is an error,
for both Turkey and Holland surpass, rela-
lively to their population, the German con-
sumption. Even in Switzerland the con-
sumption has risen to 2.S kilOgrammes per
head, while in Germany it is only is, and In
France 1.3.
THE business of making wooden houses in
the United States for custom sale is stimulated
by brisk demand for these products in Bra
I'll. Several large shipments have been made
to Rio JaneirO. and they were all sold soon
after their arrival. Fifteen hundred of them
have already been erected in the new city OF
La Plata. inc new CdpAtdA VI TIC pAOfAhOC VI
Buenos Ayres.
THE wholesale destruction Of forests along
the Ohio valley. within the past ten years,
may have had something to do with the
alarming drought that is said to prevail
within radius of $50 miles from Cincinnati.
The grain fields and pastures are parched.
There are signs Of an almnst complete 1allure
in the crops of the Kentucky tobacco fields;
and the corn of southern Ohio, Indiana and
northern Kentucky is sadly inferior to that OF
previous years.
THE work of retaining the Potomac fats
along the front of Washington is proceeding
satisfactorily, and 40 acres of marsh have al
ready been filed with dredgings from the river
bottom. Contrary to expectation these dredg-
ings do not give out malarial etiiuvla, but are
of sand, gravel and shells. The eXhalatlons
from the marshes, which were formerly very
offensive. have ceased. Ultimately park of
s0O acres will be formed along the river front.
on one of the many official excursions made
bv boat to Fortress Monroe and Chesapeake
Raw. Chief Justice Waite, Of the Supreme
Court. Judge Hall, Of North Carolina. aud
other dignitaries OF the BENCH were partlci-
pants. When the government steamer nau
fairly got out Of the Potomac and into the At
lanfic, the sea was very rough, and the Vessei
pitched fearfully. Judge Hall was taken ylo-
lently with sea sickness. - nc was retening