Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

OLD Cambridge has it, Bow and lis Arrow
street. and BOston it, MIX and its Bread
street.
EsGusH parers charge American wheat
SPECTATORS with attempting % starve the Eu-
ropean markets.
Two shopkeepers in Boston have been fined
SO each for keeping their clerks employed
more than 10 hours 10 day.
srRAxBERRIEs from Sew Jersey hot
house sell Tor s. dozen. Peaches may be or
dered Tor g each 10 very small quantities.
PEoPLK in Orange county, X J., are con-
sidera8iy exercised over reports Of the ap-
pearauce o. panthers in tie surrounding
woods.
is Maple the drinking water. except that
from the lion fountain, is unwbolesome.
For piece u ice, which in the market costs
. cents, the hotels charge 81.
TIE search fer pearls in the mnssels Of Ohio
has been z considerable industry for years.
Pearl hunting he's lately been reported IN Ten
nessee with favorable results.
TnE Jews are more numerous in Hamburg,
Frankfort. Amsterdam, and Warsaw than ia
any other European towns. Of al European
countries, ireland has the least number Of
jews ia 10.
Is Sweden at one time thirty-dye gallons
d brandy fell annually 70 the share Of each
inhabitaut. The custom was discontinued
many years ago. hence American lmmi grafton
into sweden ls unknown.
A SEw YORK builder u repute says that,
owing 10 the erection Of many large and eX-
tensive fate, the building u small three story
houses has decreased. The effect VIII be an
increased demand for them IN the spriug.
TIE British AedicaE Journat advises that
All books used b. patients suffering from in
.Fs. g.sHr ffsfff
cOnvalescence, and that the secondhand
book shops and circulating libraries be occa-
siOnally subjected 10 disinfection-
HIS estimated that fully four-nfths Of the
merchants and professional men doug bust
ness in London reside at least twenty miles
from their place Of business, going 70 and re-
turning from the city on the elevated and
underground roads.
sPKAKISG Of the intense irritation 10 horses
Of the bearing rein, the Medical Times says:
.'Many well-meaning owner Of horses
allOws his animals 10 be tortured for SIX days
iu every week, who would shudder at the
thought Of the decapltauon Of 1rog.'
IT is a curious and important fact that
pieces Of wire cable Of the Paramount Suspen-
[ sion Bridge, recently taken down at Philadel-
/ phia. after being IN use some forty years, were
/ found % be fully equal in tenacIty elasticity
and ductility TO the best wire OF that size now
I IN the market.
FREsH-w ATER FISH are reared in every
japanese farm where there - a pool or brook,
/ with as much care as poultry are in French
! cottage yards. Girls in the evening go with
/ long wands to drive the fish into rooted tanks,
| where they are locked in for the night to keep
/ them from birds Of prey.
| A FRENCH meteorologist has, in the exposed
/ court Of his house, two bars Of iron planted IN
the earth. to each Of which is fixed a conductor
. .r min faf4 ali N "a fa1enbQui
1 receiver. His practice Is to consult the appa-
ratus twice or thrice every day. and 1t never
fails, through its ndicationsof earth currents
Z TO give notice Of the approach OF a storm
I twelve to fifteen hours ahead.
! LLOYD LoGAN, Of Winchester, Va, received
/ by express from Cincinnati, Ohio, on the day
/ after Christmas, eight silver dessert spoons
which were taken from his house while occu-
/ pied as a Union headquarters during the war.
! No name accompanied the package, and 50
/ Mr.. Logan does not know TO whom TO feel
grateful for this tardy return Of these sOve-
/ mrs. which have been owned by the family
/ since 1892.
! ON New Years day, in Japan, there is great
/ emulation among the merchants Of sound
/ credit to make the first sale Of goods. Ac-
cordng to law, all japanese merchants arc
/ required 10 settle their accounts and pay their
/ debts by the Dist OF December, and are not
allowed 10 buy or sell goods until they have
I done so. If goods are sold on the lst OF jan
uary, the merchandise is piled conspIcuOusly
on draws drawn by coolies. The merchant
/ receives the congratulations Of his friends,
and together they follow the goods 70 their
/ destination.
Is LoNDON, lately, two well-dressed men
entered the shop Of fashionable tradesman
aud asked 10 Sec the chief Of the establish
ment, whom they privately informed that
/ they were detectives from Scotland Yard.
| The men said that from information received
/ they knew that two "swell women" would
/ drive up TO the shop in brougham and order
l drapery to a large amount, paying for the
| same with "a forged check for go, bearing the
name Of "A well-knOwn nObleman. IL would.
I however, be necessary, in order to properly
/ convict the women, 20 allow them to carry
/ the goods of with them, and take the change
/ OF the check. But in order that they should
/ not escape the detectives were TO have a
/ hanson with a fast horse to follow the
/ brougham and take the ladies into custody.
/ The officers took their stand behind the coun-
4 ter: the ladies came. ordered the goods, and
1 rendered the check. They received the change
| and goods, and drove on. The detectives i'm
| mediately followed in their hanson with the
''fast horse" The tradesman is still waiting
/ for the goods.