Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A GOLDFISH D years OF age recently died
in Maryland. 1t is said that during its cap
tivity no appreciable change in its size took
place.
THE big village of New Liberty, Illinois,
made a mistake in locating itself too close
and low by a river, and, therefore, is now
moving itself collectively to site half mile
distant.
SMALL BOYS who are in the habit of tossing
wires over the cables or wires of the electric
companies may well take warning from the
fate of a Connecticut child who was instantly
killed by diverting the current from an cleo
trio light wire.
A MOHAMMEDAN zemindar started three
years ago from a district in the north Of the
Puniaub, and travelling on foot via CONSTANT
nOple. Pesth, and Hamburg, reached London
the other day, his object was to invoke aid
in some land dispute.
In Queensland immunity from punishment
inGuces the white men to think nothing of
taking the lives Of natives, and the latter are
killed for stealing few pieces OF tobacco, as
was the case with a skipper at Dufaure Island.
For a trifling theft, he shot three men whom
he suspected.
EVERY saloon in Des Moines, Ia, has closed,
and no liquor is Obtainable under any pre-
text. News from all parts of the State shows
that the new prohibition law will be obeyed.
unless at some river points. Saloon keepers
generally are either removing their Stocks 10
other states or embarklng in other business.
A DEFENDER of Monaco has appeared in the
person Of a distinguished writer Of the London
Times. He bases his protest against the
crusade now making against this great gam
bling centre, by saying that at Monaco the
tables are conducted with absolute fairness,
while at the hotels and resorts which wish 10
supplant Monaco, all isknavery and deliberate
fraud.
Ara Unitarian Conference in BernardstOn,
Mass, an address by a clergyman made ex-
cltement. He thinks that there is nothing
managed in such utter disregard of true bust
ness principles as the religious interest Of this
country. He holds that every minister should
have at least $50 families in his congregation;
that a church with that number Of families
can be run for about 800 year.
, DURING his sermon Sunday morning Rev.
Henry Ward Beeeher, referring to cremation,
said that the idea of the resurrection of the
body would present lasting objection to the
Pagan custom of burning the dead. There
might be sanitary reasons in crowded popula-
nation, but all the beliefs OF English and Ger
man-speaking people were violated by the
idea of such disposition of bodies.
A NEW novel of Boston make has a heroine
who loses her beauty by disease and spends
years afterward in regretting and idealizing
the woman she was. She inspires a young
relative with this same regard for her former
self. and between them they form the hy
pothesis that there is separate Immortality
for such stages of individual existence as she
passed through before she became plain and
old They then seek to communicate with
the lost one through a trance medium, who
"materialiZes" the lost beauty before their
ewes; then the medium dies in the process,
and the materialized woman is taken home
by the heroine, who treats her as sister. and
is engaged to marry the young man who has
invented this singular theory of separate i'm
mortality.
BOSTON has had in court the case of a gen.
tleman Of high social standing, the son of
great jurist, and an eminent lawyer and
scholar, who had been imprisoned in an in
sane ASYLUM, but had regained his freedom.
His relatives wished to make his confinement
perpetual. and to obtain control of his prop
erty on the ground that he was lunatic. The
belief that he heard ineessantly the voices of
unseen speakers. Two men, he
declares, whom he had disobiged
had eonsplred to annoy him in this
way, and By means Of electrical power con-
veyed the sounds to his ear. He con-
Quoted his own defense, and made plea
so powerful and scholarly that II convinced
his hearers of his sanity. He was dismissed
a free man. But he persisted on bis discharge
that the voices still sounded in his ears.
A SPANISH writer goes into a calculation of
the cost of visiting Paris dressmaker's es-
tablishment. His wife must have a modest
ball dress. not overgarnished with hand
woven felicities, either; but this gown will
cost over $500. Now the husband is the owner
of a vineyard. Wine sells in the crude at
fifty cents the six gallons, and $500 gallons
will be necessary 10 purchase the garment.
Each acre will produce in the moderate sea-
sons GOO gallons year; therefore eight acres
OF grapes will be required. But then consider
the digging. hOeing. rehoeing OF the vine stock,
the sulphuring of the grapes. the salary OF the
superintendent, the cost OF grape picking, the
endless pruning, and the nurturing OF the
vine sprouts. All this will cost perhaps $500,
80 thaf the LIQUID product Of the eight acres
win not, after all, be more than $780, 1tisin~