Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

DURING the last ten years the French speak
ing population of Canada has increased at
much greater ratio than the English.
THE salaries of English Deans were much
reduced thirty years ago, but they retain the
deanery houses of their more affiuent prede-
cessors, many Of which mansions are vast and
utterly ont Of proportion to the salary at
tached to the office.
NEARLY every citizen of WOODBURY.. Iowa,
was fined by the Mayor few days since for
neglecting to clean the sidewalks after snow
storm. The amount in the treasury of the
town has been materially increased. The
lowest line was one dollar.
NOETREAL people are apprehensive of seri-
GUS damage to their city by flood now that the
huge banks Of snow along the st. Lawrence
have begun TO melt and are swelling the river
up to unusual proportions. Measures are
now being taken TO withstand the flow Of
water.
a TOWEL folded several times and dipped,
in hot water and quickly wrung, and then ap
piled over the seat of the pain in toothache or
neuralgia, will generally afford prompt relief.
Headaches almost always yield to the stimuli.
taneOus application Of hot water to the Ieet
and the back Of the neck.
THE Chattanooga Times says that that city
is now really but nineteen years old. The
war left it a wreck. In 1867 it had not
wholesale house. Iron mills and furnaces be-
gan in 1871. In 1872 the population was 5000,
now $4,000; manufactured capital IN 1851,
S2,5S9, 600; in 1881, 100000.
THE Illinois statute book has valuable law
known as the habitual burglars act On the
third conviction for the ofTense the burglar is
sentenced for twenty years with which the
Governor cannot interfere. 1t is deemed as
'holy terror" and burglary, since its passage,
has greatly diminished even in Chicago.
A NOVEL lottery scheme is in progress at
/ BOyerford Carbon county, Pa. Twenty
young men have formed a cooperative society
to which each member binds himself to con-
tribute one dollar a week for a year. Every
two weeks a fifty-dOllar gold watch, con-
tracted for by a local jeweler, is rallied for.
| The three watches thus far put up have been
drawn by one man.
PRINCE CHIGI, one of the Clerical Aldermen
of Rome. has called the attention of the police
to the fact that many children, wandering in
the streets Of Rome, have been cruelty
abandoned by their parents who come from
the provinces and leave their children to take
care of themselves. Rome Is infested by these
little ones, who make a living by selling
matches and help to swell the ranks of the
vicious classes.
NEW attention is being given to the valu-
able properties possessed by the species of
nettle known as rheea grass, and which here
tofore it has been a difficult thing to prepare
for the market. Recent experiments, how
ever, have helped to solve this problem so far
that it is proposed to form a public company
to acquire land in the territory of the Mana
rajah Of Johore for the cultivation Of the
plant 1t Is now possible to secure 2lO0O acres
Of freehold at Il an acre.
THE Reno New Gazette made recently this
announcement: "By special request, Rev.
| George w. James will recite SOuthey's cele-
brated Cataract of LOdOre in the Methodist
! Church. This is said to be the most difficult
poem in the English language to memOrize,
but Mr.. James Will recite it forward and
| backward, give any line asked for, or give
! the number Of any line that's read. Copies of
( the poem VIII be distributed throughout the
! audience, SO that all may thoroughly test the
/ lecturers memory power. Mr.. james assures
I us that he has not given more than an hour
and half to the mastery Of this poem.
STREET robberies in London are local and
I epidemic. a neighborhood is found to pre-
cent special facilities, the thievIng ground be-
comes popular, and till the police at last in
tertere the public suffer. The public are Just
new suffering in the Strand. Tae space
covered by the depredators is but single
thOroughfare, and the period of their opera
tons less than half an hour. Some years ago
the happy hunting ground was the Charing
cross platform Of the Underground Railway.
Gaiety and still later Of the Lyceum Theatre.
In all three instances, when the detectives
were in earnest, the thieves were dispersed
A BOHEMIAN observer, Mr.. Robert Haensel,
Of Reichenberg, has succeeded in accurately
photographing a flash OF lightning. His pic
lures, of which he has taken several, show
the light of the flash, under the form of long,
continuous sparks, traversing the atmosphere.
With the spark the landscape also is well pro-
duced, and means is given for estimating
the length of the luminous tram, which in
one instance is calculated to be 100 metres,
or more than a mile WheatstOne demon
strated by direct experiments Of great in
genuity that single flashes Of lightning do not
last more than miliOnth of a second. We
may judge from this of the wonderful sensi-
bility Of the new gelatne bromide plates
which permit the taking Of correct views
under these conditions.
"NEvER was Boston in so lively a state of
culture" writes a newspaper correspondent
at the Hub. ''NOthing less learned enters into
current conversation than comparative esti-
mates Of Arnold and Emerson, the Importance
OfrevclatiOn to natural religion; the views
held by PythagOras, Plato and St. Augustine;
or the dramatic ideal as it is in Irying-an
ideal Of which the purity is doubted by the
disciples Of the drama as it Is in Booth. You
20 out to make calls and Madame at once in
augurates conversation by informing you that
she has been rejecting deeply over the inabili-
ty Of Mr.. Arnold to fully comprehend Emer-
son, and she has concluded that this defect in
him results from note of hesitation IN his
mental scale. Where Emerson would swiftly
and surely hitch his wagon to a star, Arnold
would be studying to find the star. The fact
is Boston has not had in years so much to
talk about IN a purely intellectual and artis-