Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
THE applications for divorce under the new
French law have now amounted to nearly H.,
900.
AMERICAN BEEF in the English markets is
now sold as Scotch, and as such brings four
cents more per pound than under its true
name.
a SCIENTIFIC wag at a Newport lawn party
put salt on the carbons of the electric lights.
The effect was to discolor the faces Of the
guests.
THE city of Brooklyn, n. Y, is supposed to
have been named after Breukelen, IN Hol-
land, quaint old town near Utrecht and
HARLEM.
A GERMAN PHILOLOGIsT has detected a
strong resemblance between the language of
the hill tribes in Northern India and of the
Basques, or Euskaldunes, OF Spain.
AT PernambucO a snake of the boa class is
largely employed to drive rats out Of houses.
It costs so cents to 81, and requires only
saucer Of milk once or twice week.
THE blue pencil in journalism has more than
counterpart in China, where the red, or
vermilion. pencil is synonymous with the eX-
ercise Of the highest official authority.
CASES of metallic poisoning have been
traced to cheap silver-plated pitchers. Where
the lining is broken or worn, galvanic action
is set up and the base metal rapidly OXidiZed.
UNDERGROUND telegraph conduits become
dangerous when struck by lightning. heavy
current is suddenly started that in several in
stances has destroyed switch boards and in
jured bystanders in the operating room.
An idea Of the extent to which women bet
at horse races may be gained from the fact
that during the season at Saratoga the French
pool boys collected 81. 900 from them, and their
judgment was generally bad, for they won
back only 81 600.
OF go illuminate factories started in
Europe during the present century, 26l have
disappeared by explosion. Eliminates are
now made in small quantity at time In low
sheds. These are so arranged that an eX-
plOsiOn throws them over, and little damage
is done.
LARGE numbers of dried and smoked
lizards are imported by the Chinese physl-
clans. They are used in cases of consump-
tion and anamia with considerable success.
Their virtue seems to be in the large amount
Of heterogeneous compounds and phOsphates
they contain.
Loco, a Western weed, acts upon horses and
cattle Just as alcohol does on man. They lose
all appetite for normal food, become appar-
emily intoxicated at times, and finally die
from a disease strangely like delirium tre-
mems. From the vice comes the California
expression "as bad as locoed horse"
OK the two fields of waterloo and Linden
splendid crops of crimson peoples appear
every year. The ground which nOurishes
them is packed with the remains of soldiers.
The PREPARATIONS of opium derived from these
peoples have been used in the form OF lauda-
mum and paregOric.
AMONG the notable bridges in the world is
the one at Langang, China. 1t crosses an arm
OF the China Sea This structure is some five
miles long, and has 800 arches. Over the pill
lar of each arch reclines a lion made out OF
single block of marble, and yet twenty-one
feet long. The roadway of this bridge IS
seventy-fye feet wide.
IL the Northeastern Island of Terra del Fue-
60, the Ia people who inteImarry frequently
with the more Southern Yahgans las they are
frequently called by the English mission1ariesl
are the tallest race on the globe, according TO
the report of the French mission to Cape
Horn, presented to the Academy OF Science,
Paris, by DR.. Hahn. In stock ana speech
these tall people appear closely related to the
PatagOnians Of the continent.
AN advertisement which appears in Lon
don morning paper points pretty plainly In
one direction. 1t is that "Butlers and house
keepers in good families who can influence
the sale of tea will receive handsome COM
mission" The employers OF buffers anu
hOusekeepers who may answer TINS ADVERTISE
ment will have to pay the "haudsome COM
mission'' IN question, as many OF them have
had TO do before. The tipping sYstem by
which tradesmen induce servants to bring
them custom is widely ramlhed one.
SEVERAL hundred small frame houses are
now building in Belgium for use at Vivi and
other stations established by Stanley along
the Congo. AS Stanley possessed no facilities
for making lumber, his European assistants
were compelled to live in'tents or nuts, anu
the discomfort of living IN that way addeu
- N.r.n GUn-Ur fna Int
s citation is building at Bona, 80 miles above
the mouth Of the Congo, sanltarium, 70
which it proposes to send It's Invalid agents
for treatment. Better faculties Ior preserN-
ing health and caring for the sick are among
the innovations to be introduced on the
Congo.
WITH three exceptions, all China's newspa-
pers are published at four of the treaty ports
open to foreigners. Shanghai has given birth
to fifteen; Ningpo, Foo-Chow and Annoy are
answerable for the others. OF the three eX-
ceptiops two are published at HankOw, 200
miles from the mouth Of the great river Yang
tse- kiang-a waterway which, by opening
communication with the seap0rts, has per-
haps tended to introduce this ephemeral liter
AZURE. Even Canton $50 near the British col
Ony Of Hong Kong, where cm ancipated China
men attain to many enlarged ideas. and which
publishes ten English and four Chinese pa
pers), with its population OF l,50o,OOO, mas not
one publication OF any sort.
Mr.. WALTON, locsmaker, Great Russell
street, Birmingham, is about to exhibit at the
Wolverhampton Exhibition. in case PAT.
master key which he claims is capable of
opening p, 500 patent lever locks, all the locks
TO he different-that is to say, each OF the ~
600 locks NAV be different in their WARDS ana
combinations. The key weighs three ounces,
and Is nickel-plated. 1t has taken Mr.. wal
ton, the inventor. three years TO complete the
drawings Of the different wards and comblna-
tiOns which enable this eNtra9ralnRary proauct
of human ingenuity to be made. Master keys
canable of opening lG0 different combinations
have been known to the trade for many years,
but nothing approaching the key IN question
has ever been accomplished oeIOre'
AT Lake George the water is so clear and
the sand at the bottom so clean that the depth
can be appreciated, and the ease Of drowning
is apparent there. a mother of 6-year-old
boy, while averse TO denying to him the plea
sure of boating, sought TO rob it Of its perils.
She said to herself that he would be safe II he
couldn't fall overheard; and sO,hayIng set him
carefully IN the exact centre of the broadcast
seat In the craft, she fastened him down by
driving 4 series Of tacks through the slack OF
his trousers. Having thus satisfied herseu OF
his security. she returned to her 1aVorlte
book and corner OF the piazza. soon there
arose an outcrv that a boat had capsized IN
the lake. The scream with when sne recelV-
ed the news was quite artlculate; IL called
franticaly for a tack hammer Win Whlcn TO
arm the man who should dive ior ner Ooy.
ssGracious meI' she remarked, after the
alarm was found to have been baselesS; Il
guess my inventive genius isn't eomprehen-
sive enough to be reliable"
BRIGHT BITS.
NEVER startle the girl who Is in love. It's
dangerous to friqhten people who have affec-
fSnuG e tho hPgrr-ROSfOn .Sf1T