Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A WHOLE ROW Of dwellings in Montreal
have been vacated because the tenants be-
| lieved them haunted.
A Boston FIRM has an order for shoes for
colored preacher at the South that will be
numbered twenty -fours."
A SERIES of sharp earthquakes have been
felt in Central Asia. Tashkend, Tiflis and
Gosh all report them during January
AN official commission in Belgium is seri-
ously considering the proposals to replace the
wooden sleepers now used in railway con-
structiOn by steel ones.
OF 500 members of the New Gork Stock
Exchange it is estimated 500 are not worth
$500 and have mortgaged their memberships,
which are worth $4,000.
IL spite of business depression in Holland
company has recently been formed at the
Hague with a subscribed capital of 100000
1Orins to construct railways IN Java.
IL FNGLAND two weeks ago butterflies were
numerous. peas were above ground, and fuch-
sIas and roses were in leaf, some of the former
having made vigorous shoots from four to SIX
inches long.
W. W. CORCORAN has presented to the
Southern Society the original draft Of the
s'Constitution for the Provisional Government
Of the Confederate States" bearing date
February S. 1861. and signed by the represen-
tatives af the seeding states
THE census of sporting men and athletes
has been taken in Canada, and the yield Is
$1,000 lacrosse players, 5000 curriers', 1900
snowshoes, 5000 or 1000 crcketers, 1000 foot
ball players. 1000 rowing men, LOU Dalllsts,
LOCO bicyclists and 10000 given to otherspOrts'
DURING the last scene of Richard Ill" at
a Portland (Me.) theatre, recently, in the
combat with ''Rlchmond," "Richard's'' sword
broke, swapping Off some six inches from the
hilt. The piece flew directly INTO the audience
striking a gentleman on the bridge OF the
nose. cutting a cash which extended nearly to
the eye.
THERE are now As lady students in the Har-
ward Annex, and it is the testimony of some
of the Harvard professors that the average
scholarship of the classes in the Annex is
above that of the classes in the college. rms
wear 30 out of the IS ladies have chosen Greek
electives. Two enthusiastic girls from Texas
sold land and Travelled 1900 miles to get to the
college
DURING a speech in defending one of the sa-
loon keepers indicted at Quincy, H., for sell
ing liquors TO minors recently, one of the
counsel said: ''Now. gentlemen of the jury,
YOU need not believe what Mr.. Covert, the
prosecuting attorney, says. He IS talking
for a pecuniary fee-and SO am /: inns
convinced the jury that the defendant was not
guilty, and verdict to that effect was rem
dered.
THE massachusetts, Legislature is consider
ing bill prohibiting the locking or boiling OF
factory entrances during the hours the en-
ployes are at work. Many mills lock their
doors in the morning and do not open them
until evening, so that the work people cannot
slip in and out when they like. In case OF a
fire or panic, however, great loss of life would
doubtless occur through this practice.
ONE Of the Rothschild ladies went lately to
Montmartre to relieve in person some of the
ragpickers who were deprived of their hyell-
hood by NJ. POubelles decree ordering the
rubbish from houses to be transferred directly
to the dustmen by the porters. The distress
was great, and many families were being
evicted. The large number of children about
elected the fact that, with the singular KIND
ness shown by the poor to one anOthef, lhey
were in many cases the adopted orphans OF
ragpickers deceased.
OF the Central Pacific snow sheds the Reno
New Gazette says: THE snow sheds are
really beautiful now. sufficient snow has
sifted through the cracks to cover the track
several feet The ploughs have showed It
down and packed it into a solid white marble
pavement with only two streaks OF steel 10
afford contrast. The sides of the sneds are
banked up on the outside. and through the
cracks the sunlight is strained through snow
enough to color it an exquisite blue; TOO den-
cate and transparent for imitation"
A TELEGRAM from Kingston, Ont, to the
Toronto Nail, tells this story: "a resident of
Coninsby objected to young man paying his
respects to his daughter, and set large rat
trap at the spot over which the lover would
surely pass. The parent was not aware that
his wife was visiting when he set the trap.
About IL O'Clock at night he was aroused by
the screams of his wife, who had one OF her
feet caught in the trap, but she was released
bv the lover, who was in the parl0r at the
time before the husband arrived. Inc
Young man is now welcome visitor at the
house."
THE most exciting Leap Year incident so
far reported is that which comes from st. Ell
mo, III. 1t appears that on Sunday last
while the Rev. Mr. Pierce, young divine,
was occupying his pulpit in that city, Mrs.
Mary Smith, dashing young widow, left her
seat in the body of the church and went up
and stood beside HIM. To the astonishment OF
the congregation she announced that she was
about to become Mrs. Pierce. She had, 1t Is
rumOred. become infatuated with the Young
divine, and to this and the excitement OF re-
ligiOus revival, at which she was converted,
her temporary insanity is attributed.
A NEW and dangerous development of mes
merism was displayed the other day at Paris
to an admiring and sympathizing public by a
well-known mesmerist, who at the same time
is a lion tanner a certain menagerie. A
beautiful Young girl, on whom the Spiritualist
generally practices. was brought into a cage
of lions. and. after being thrown into cata-
leptic sleep. was submitted to the most fright
full ordeals. In one of these the head ana
arm of the girl were put into the mouth OF
the lion, which had previously been Wturl-
atpd nv lashes from its masters whip. But
the apparently dead body did not excite the
animals appetite. At the end of the scene
the girl went smiling away, While the mes
merist earned rich laurels. But suppose the
lion had eaten the maiden-what them