Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


FOR the past thirty years Denmark has con-
tributed a yearly average Of 1900 people to
MormOndom.
THE converts to Christianity in Japan the
past year equal in number the converts Of the
previous twenty years.
TORONTO is the best Sabbath keeping city
in the world. The only stores open on the
Sabbath there are those for selling milk and
medicine, and these for only an hour or two
in the morning and evening.
MARRIAGE SUGGESTIONS hold a great sway
in Philadelphia, and the number of people
| who fear to violate them is large. June
always sees a great increase in the number of
weddings because May is not considered so
I lucky.
LARGE quantities Of luminous paint are
| shipped to countries in which earthquakes are
prevalent. The paint is used in the interior
of houses to guide the inmates when hurrying
out in the air. In these days science seems
| equal to any emergency.
WITHIN twelve hours S20,000,000 was sub
| scribed by the Manchester capitalists as
the sum fixed by the recent decision Of the
select committee of the House Of Lords as the
necessary condition to the carrying out of the
work of the Manchester ship canal.
JOURNALISM has its drawbacks. The Hin
ton wv. Va Weekly Republican failed to ap-
pear the other day, and the next week it was
explained that the failure was ''on account of
the junior editor being compelled to 90 to
Charleston to answer United States warrants
sworn out against him by the senior edltor.'
AN INSTANCE Of the cruel superstition and
the ignorance that are still to be found in Ire
land was recently shown in the case of two
women, who were accused Of having placed a
child three years of age. naked, on a hot
shovel. 1t appears that they were guilty of
this cruelty IN the belief that the child was
an old man or fairy, left as a substitute for
the real child, whom they had received to
take care Of.
THE Medical Journal states that at a recent
trial in this city, an expert, under cross
examination, was asked if he recognized GER
tain books as authoritie concerning the mat
ter in hand. He replied that he was familiar
with all the books mentioned, and considered
them as authorities. The witness was then
allowed to leave the stand, and the LAWYERS
clerk was sworn. He testified that the titles
of the works in question were fictitious, hav-
ing been concocted in the Office to which he
was attached.
THE Paris Journal des Debats publishes an
article from the pen of NJ. Molinari ridiculing
the apprehensions expressed in England re-
garding the Channel tunnel project The
writer declares that sooner or later the use
fulness of this tunnel will become evident, as
much for the supply Of provisions to England
should, for example, maritime war break
out between that country and the United
States, as for the interests of English COM
merce, which will meet with competition at
Continental ports.
FISHERMEN around Fulton Market. New
York, crowded around a big lobster on Fish
Commissioner Blackford's fish stand Wednes-
day morning. she is one OF the biggest |
ever see," said a grizzly old coast fisherman.
The lobster was two feet long, and his tail
spread out as large as a lady's fan. His ewes
stuck out like marbles glued to the end of two
sticks. From the point of one claw across his
back to the tip of the other claw he measured
AZ inches. The claw was inches across and
nearly foot long. The lobster was from
Boston.
THE Russian General, Safonowitch con-
ceved plan for enabling cavalry regiments
to cross rivers without making bridges or
seeking fordable places. His soldiers carried
rubber bags, which were attached to the sad
dies on each side and inflated as soon as the
horses reached the water. The experiment
resulted IN a queer discovery. When the
horses found themselves buoyed up, they re-
fused to make use of their legs, and simply
drifted along with the current. This was a
strike against kicking for which the General
was totally unprepared. Now, however, the
rubber bags are tied together and used to
carry the saddles, arms, etc, which are
hauled across while the unencumbered horses
swim over easily.
EVERYONE knows the reverence with which
a French novelist generally speaks of a stock
broker. In France, where there are only
sixty of them permitted by law, the novelists
in question are perfectly justified. Some
interesting details published in the journal
des Econoapistes show this more fully. In 1915, |
when there were only five securities ouotad on |
the French Bourse the position was worth /
$4,000: now the price ranges between $500. 600 /
and 100000. This, however, does not repre- /
sent the total capital sunk IN the business. |
The intending stock broker has to give securi- |
ty to the extent of 1000, then to pay $780, 600 /
to the Committee of Stock Brokers, and the |
transfer stamp of $1,000, besides providing |
about $4,000 to carry on the business, or a /
total of 100000. People with half a million |
dollars to spare, or who wish to provide |
decently for their children, might do worse. |
however. than buy them seat on the French |
Bourse, for the profits are very large, amount |
ing to perhaps $4,000 year, which, after de- |
Quoting the somewhat heavy expenses, leaves |
a very fair income.
IN the show given by a Chicago spiritualis- |
tic medium, well known to believers and in |
vestigators, the performance was in a room |
dimly lighted, as usual, and the re-embodied |
spirits emerged shyIy from cabinet in which |
the medium presumably set, inert and en- I
tranced. There were occasional flashes of |
electric light, and suddenly an inscription an |
peared, as though written with phosphorus /
on black surface. The medium at the same |
instant gave blood-curdling shrek. ssHe is |
the conductor of the show ex- I
planned, 'but this particular phenomenon |
causes painful shock to his nervous system, |
and makes him cry out, just as person does |
when tooth is pulled, although under the in |
fluence of laughing gas" The words en-
blazoned were these: EsFor President and /
Vice President, Abraham Lincoln and SON" /
A tall figure emerged from the cabinet. The /
light was sufficient to disclose a face family /
resembling that of the martyr President, but I
the voice was entirely unlike Mr.. Lincoln's. |
''If my son Robert becomes the nominee for |
Vice President" the figure said, II shall in
effect be the candidate for President, because |
l shall control the mortal chosen for that /
place."