Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE constitution of New Jersey IOrDlds inc
Governor to make any appointments during
the last week of his term.
IT is estimated that the United States SEN
ate is the wealthiest deliberative body in the
world. the seventy-six members of that body
representing $lsO,00O,GOO.
SLAVES in the Soudan are taken down to
the coast, put on board a vessel, and shipped
by night to Arabia. whence they are distrlbu-
ted to all parts of the Turkish Empire.
OF the ,. 100000 packages of seed distributed
by the United States Agricultural Depart
ment during last year more than 100000
packages were furnished to Congressman.
THERE is a reversion Of the general order of
some things in Norway. For instance, a man
and his wife travelling are charged only one
fare and half, the half fare, according to
Rev. DR.. Tiffany, being for the man.
TwENTY-sEvEN young women have just
been graduated from the Training School for
Nurses attached to Bellevue Hospital. New
York Two hundred and twenty-five skllled
nurses have received diplomas since 1873 from
this institution.
DR. MORTIMER GRANVILLE, of London,
says that the man who thinks he has caught
cold should take large pinch of pungent
snuff, like the rapee fine scotch, and wrap
his coat around him. while he has big fit Of
sneeZlng. This, he says, Is NATURE re'N'als
for a chill.
Hoes sent to the market from California
have to be trapped in the woods in about the
same manner as bears. On most Of the
ranches, it is said, the swine are as wild as
deer through the woods, and il cOrnered they
will place themselves on the defensive and
fight like tigers.
EDWARD ADAMS, of Richmond, Mo, Y years
of age, went hunting with two dogs, and some
hours later one of the animals returned home
and barked and whined until Mr.. Adams fol-
lowed him to the spot where the boy lay de3u,
with his gun by his side and the other dog
watching him. The gun was discharged WINE
the boy was climbing fence.
SENATOR GEORGE II. PENDLEToN's defeat
will prObably.thrOw another fine Washington
residence on the market. 1t was only finished
couple of years ago, and it Is one OF the
pleasantest homes in the capital CITY MT
PendietOn Is q rich man, but ne VIII naIuly
be able to keep up his Washington estabush-
ment unless he gives up his home in Cincln-
natl entirely.
THE Mexican Government has made con-
tract with Mr.. Oscar A. Droege to plant p
OOO, 600 trees in the Valley of Mexico within
four years. The contractor pledges himself
to $4,000 ash, $4,000 willows, I2O,UO0 poplars'
&C, 600 eucalyptus trees, $4,000 trUnOsapOhes'
so. 900 mountain cypress cedars, 10000 acaclas
and 10000 OF miscellaneous varieties. Inc
trees must be in plantations OF from 9o,OoO 10
100000 each@
Is a recent lecture on "Carniyorous Plants
in Cincinnati the lecturer exhibited small
but complete specimen from the Malay Archl-
pelago. The cups of these sometimes attain
/ such enormous proportions as to swallow and
digest small birds The edges OF the bowl arr
ser~ated and the feathered wanderer havl'P
put his head in to sip the water Is capiiggs 49,
lutters helplessly for little While On" -
DURING the late excavations dnd'rtahen III
a hoo M a
| containing 500 old Auglo-Saxop coins of the
time of Pope Marirus III. (SS2-SSD. They are
of English coinage and rare value, most of
them showing heals of the English Kings of
the period, and one having the head Of an
Archbishop of Canterbury. The probabilities
are that the money belonged TO the Saxon
school then in Rome, the existence of which
renders it pobable that there were many
Englishmen il Rome in those days.
EXPERIMENTS have been made at the Signal
Service statiOn in Cleveland, Ohio, for sew
eral months past to see if the wind had any
eject on tie mercury, and during December
observations were taken daily upon two Their
mometers, placed upon the north side of the
station, one OF which was completely exposed
TO the sCOrms and the winds, and the other
equally exposed TO the cold, but shielded from
the wind. The final summing up shows that
the exposed thermometer varied but two
tenthS Of a degree from the sheltered one.
THEY are exhibiting now in London a Nea-
politan lady of %, Signora Nanatelli, as near
a parody of the living skeleton as is possible
to look at. She is about middle height, with
Ratchet edged face, ridged with nose large
enough for Goliath. This is her great feature,
and suggests that she has run into prOboscis
as the Thibet sheep run into tail. She might
be packed in a section of water pipe. She is
shaped from shoulder to toe like four-square
timber jOst. The exhibitors says it is neces-
sary to stuff her ankle boots with cotton wool
to Keep the bones from slipping or grating at
the joints.
THE intense cold, which has driven every
north of Florida, has made the Kennebec
river a scene of great activity. Men are gath
ering with teams and machinery to cut out
the annual ice crop. The ice was ten inches
thick last week, and is expected to be of the
required thickness-ffteen inches-this week.
Then the laborers will begin to cut it in cakes
OF 22X32 inches, for storage in the ice houses.
These have capacity of about 1000, 900
tons Between HallOwel and Richmond over
5000 laborers and 500 horses Will work until
they fill these houses.
THERE was a sad ending to an elopement of
young couple in Gloversyille, \. Y, last
week. At midnight, on Thursday last the
young lover arrived at the house of a wealthy
by appointment, and carried
the daughter away with HIM in his cutter.
The family were aroused, however, and the
irate father took one of his horses from his
stable and followed the runaways. He over
took them about ten miles from the town,
dumped the Young man out into the snow.
took a scat in the sleigh beside his daughter,
and drove home. while the young Romeo was
compelled to wend his weary way back
through the snow and wind and darkness.