Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE Cumberland Club, of Nashville, Tenn,
having built itself a splendid new club house,
took formal possession of the same Tuesday
evening last.
THE Italian railway ticket agents seem to
have.hit upon a certain device for preventing
the misuse of season tickets and passes. They
are made to bear the photograph of the person
To whom they are issued. If Italian pho
Biography is good this ought to be effective.
If it is as bad as some done in this country
the owner may frequently be compelled TO
forfeit his ticket.
ST.LoUIs has recently organized secret
society to be known as ''The Mackerel Brig
ade." ''The brigade" the Republican says.
twill be something similar to the Mystic
Krewe in New Orleans, and will have similar
. objects" The brigade expects to have LOCO
members by next fall. The first procession
will take place on one Of the evenings OF
"Fair Week" in October. The initial display
will be of cOmieal nature.
REV. DR. HAMLIN, of Constantinople, saved
hundreds of lives when the cholera was raging
in that city many years ago. 1t is said that
in no case did the remedy fail when the disease
was reached in season. The mixture is COM
pounded as follows: One part laudanum; one
part camphOrated spirits; two parts tlncture
of ginger; two parts capsicum. To be taken
one tablespoonful in a wineglass of water,
and repeated in three or four hours if the case
is obstinate.
THE assessed valuation of real estate in
New York city for the present year is $l,ll9,-
7sl ,597, against $l,O79, $780, 500 last year-an in
crease of $40, $3.50, 900 or per cent. Every one
Of the twenty four wards in the city shows
an increase. The largest return is from the
Nineteenth ward whose valuation is $780,
7g5. O00-mOre than the entire valuation OF
Chicago. The personal property Is returned
at S2lS So, 600. which is an increase OF S2l 045
600, or II per cent. over the return OF last
year. The total valuation, real and personal,
is 81, 1895, 29s, 600, an increase OF S6l,616,OO0.
LAST WEEK sixty-nine pupils were awarded
diplomas on graduating from the Technical
school of the Cigar Manufacturers AssOcia-
ton in San Francisco. There are still 800 in
the school, which was established by the man.
ufacturers for the purpose OF training white
boys and girls 10 take the place of the Chinese
workmen. The diplomas are like college
sheepskin, and bear Latin inscription. The
graduates are to be Immediately given places
in factories. The promoters Of the school want
5000 more operatives, and VIII ulscharge
Chinese as fast as they can secure white work.
men.
AT first the watch was about the size of
dessert plate. 1t had weights and was used
as a s'pocket clock" The earliest known use
Of the modern name occurs in the record Of
1851, which mentions that Edward VI. had
Zone larum or watch OF iron, the case being
likewise of iron gilt, with two plummets OF
lead. The first watch may really be sup
posed to be of rude execution. The first great
Improvement was in 1860. The earliest
springs were not cOiled, but only straight
pieces of steel Early watches had only one
hand, and being wound up twice a day, they
could not be expected to keep the time of day
exactly. The dials were of silver and of brass;
the cases had no crystals, but opened at the
back and front, and were four or five inches
in diameter. A plain watch cost more than
81, soc, and after one was ordered 1t took
year 20 make 1t.
THE cholera panic in France recalls an in
cident Of the elder Dumas in 1882. His SER
want rushed into his room one day, crying:
1.-The cholera is in Paris! "A man has just
fallen dead with it in the Rue Chauehatv
Dumas laughed, incredulOus. "But 1t is per-
fectly true, monsieur.N said the scared
domestic: she is lying stark and stiff and as
black as negro, though they have rubbed
him for more than an hour "Humph. Per-
haps they rubbed him with a backing brush"
retOrted Dumas, carelessiy, but within
week he had the cholera himself severely, and
would probably have died had not the SER
want given him an overdose Of ether by mis-
take. She gave him giassful OF ekper, with
few drops of water. instead Of thcprescribed
glassful of water with a few drops OF ether.
Dumas swallowed it. lay unconscious Tor two
hours, and then awoke conyaleScent
Gov. HUBBARD, of Texas, who was the tenn
perary Chairman Of the convention, isIwell
described as being big. He is tall, but yet
larger in girth than in height; his head is
large, his face broad, and his beard, which is
OF a nOndescript color, is of as generous pro-
portions as the rest of him. and falls down
well over his ample abdomen. Big as he is in
an respects, his voice is in keeping with his
other proportions, and went ringing down the
nall when he spoke, filing every ear and
to the uttermost corner of the
immense hail. Sitting back in the chair,
chair, By the way, which was trine 100
small to be exactly comfortable, Gov. Hub
bard looked like a prosperous brewer pre-
siding over a convention Of old acquaint-
rosifion and satisfied that he could well
carry ont its duties. When the debate
On the unit rule in New York was in progress,
and matters got a tribe hot, the Chairman
was the only man in the convention who