Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| in Paris
THREE female dentists have opened Offices
in Chicago.
AN oCULIsT tells a Boston reporter that
every yard Of dotted veil that is sold is at least
$40 in the pockets of his brethren.
PROF. HUXLEY says that in his voyage
around the world. and in all his studies of
savage life. he found no people so miserable,
wretched and degraded as those who exist IN
the poorer quarters of London.
IN the British Episcopal and Presbyterian
Churches at Naples the ministers pray for the
President Of the United States as well as for
the Queen Naples has a Young Mems Chris
tian Association where all the lectures are in
English.
IT has been claimed by the apOlogists OF the
Mormons that the children of their polyga-
nous wives are remarkably healthy. This is
denied by a writer in the salt Lake City
Tribune. who says that IN southern Ctah the
reverse is true.
\ COMPANY of twelve Vennese swords
women. who are said to be as remarkable for
their beauty as their skill, viii shortly arrive
in Paris to give a series of entertainments
and try their strength with some of the lead
ing French amateurs.
APATENT granted this year to Grunzwelg
and Hartman. in igshafen -On-the Rhine,
covers a process of making artificial cork by
Z
or powdered cork chips with $50 parts of boil
ing starch paste. The resulting plastic mass
is pressed into forms and then dried IN hot
rooms
PLANS have been prepared for the construc-
ton of a large hall, to be called the sale du
Travail, in Paris, close to the Hotel de Nllle'
where men can meet employers and arrange
their terms There will be- besides the cen
trial hall, so rooms for the syndicates of differ
ent trades. The cost of construction Is borne
by the city.
A NOVEL SUIT for damages has been brought
by a waiter in one of the hotels on the Rhine
He attempted some time ago to hang himself,
but guest of the hotel cut him down in time
| to save his life. The migrate brings suit for
undue interference and for damages sustained
/ by the unauthorized cutting Of the rope, which
| happened to be new one.
BISMARCK has carried his point in the mat
ter of having the Manual" of the empire for
the year 1888 printed in Gothic type instead OF
| German. What is more, his example has been
| followed bv the Ministers of War and the
Navy in their annual reports and rank lists.
Some sharp comment has enSued upon the
fact that the head of the Interior Department
adheres to the old custom of printing IN Ger
man type.
IT costs % cents to send a letter ten miles in
the Republic OF Mexico, or any distance with
in the country. 1t takes about Two days to
get a letter through the post office. When a
mail arrives it is opened and distributed, and
then a list is made and posted of all letters
received If you have letter you must in
qure for it. giving the date OF the list. You
are not allowed to ask il letter IS there for
you; If you do you viii be referred TO the llst.
THERE are one or two very nice points to
settle in connection with the recent burning
of a barn in WestborO, Mass. The fire was
discovered at II :55 a. m. At noon an insurance
policy in one company expired and one in
f,.,,. fooI- aiaaf NpKVp
the destruction was accomplished before II
O'Clock. for which the first company Is re-
sponsiblef Also, viii the new standard of
time 1.-THE fire originating at 12:ll old tlme)
affect the legal point involved.
DURING the trial of a recent divorce suit in
Ogden. Utah, the husband, who wished the
separation because his wife was a 'scold,"
explained to the court rather ingenious
means he had devised to silence her when she
was quarresOme, and by which he had been
enabled to live with her for ten years. lie
knew that she had a perfect horror Tor rats.
and soon after their marriage he kept sup
ply OF them on hand. When her temper got
the better of her he would let one out OF It's
cage into the room, and 1t always slenced
her.
THE amount of property insured against
fire in London during 1882 was within a frac
ton of 50 500, 600, 900. OF this enormous sum
the following named companies carried the
amount Of business set opposite their names:
sun 1855 900 GOO: Phoenix, $3.50 600, 900; North
British and Mercantile, $2l6,000,000; Liver
pool and London and Globe, SlS6,OOO,000;
Royal, Sl67 100000; imperial, Sl5361O,OOO;
Commercial Union, Sll0,7 100000; London AS
surance, SlO0,000,000; Northern, S6S,64O,O00;
Norwich Union, S53, 100000; Queen. S43, 10000;
London and Lancashire, Sal, 100000; Fire In /
surance Association, S3l, 100000.
THE first great irrigation work in South
Africa is now in course of construction at Van
Wyk's Wei. The Parliament granted 100000
for the work. The water damned in will
cover an area of 10 square miles, with an aver
age depth of 10 feet. and for % miles the
deDth will be q feet. This lake will be as
large as Loeb Katrine, Scotland, and viii,
when at the depths given, be a sheet Of water
equal to $50, 900 000, 600 gallons and capable OF
irrigating for many months thousands of
acres. One rainfall such as was experienced
in April would have kept the dam going for
the purpose for which it was constructed for
a whole year.
THE President Of the United States Crema
ton Society says that there are 5000 persons
in this country pledged to have their bodies
burned. There is as yet only one crematory-
that at Washington, Pa.-but the plans are
drawn for another, and the society is raising
the money to build it. Fifteen thousand dol
lars have been subscribed. The building WILL
besides the furnace, contain room Tor the
resuscitation Of persons who would otherwise
be burned or buried alive; another for the
keeping of bodies by refrigeration until the
arrival of distant mOurnerS, who might wish
to take part in funeral ceremonies; and a
third in which any desired rites may be held.
He also SAYS that the principal opposition is
bv Christians and that their dislike OF crema-
tion arises from a belief in the doctrine Of