Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AN Englishman succeeded in reducing his
weight five and half pounds IN one week by
dieting.
TWENTY YEARS AGO the number of Protest
ants Of all denominations in Paris was $4,000;
the total at present is 1900.
NJ. LEON ROCKIES, who has done the pill
grImage to Mecca, estimates the pilgrims at
90 600 and the camels at 10000.
THERE Is one cattle ranch in Texas which
contains $4,000 acres more than the entire
State OF Rhode Island contains in territory.
\ Boston FISHERMAN tells about catching
eight trout in Lake Winnepiseogee that
weighed seventy -four pounds, the largest one
weighing fourteen pounds.
4 RESIDENT of ottawa, Canada, says he has
| discovered a compound, the principal ingre-
dent of which is oyster shells, which will alb
sOrb daylight or gaslight and reflect IN the
| absence of light.
| A CURIOUS PUNISHMENT wasrecently infict-
ed on private in the English army. The
mans oTense was splitting on parade, for
/ which the Adjutant ordered HIM an extra
| half hours drill with a stone in his mouth.
EVENING art schools for the special instruc-
ton of artisans who work by day exert a
strong influence on the art industries of
| France. No less than sixty-five of these
purely municipal evening classes flourish In
/ Paris with over $500 scholars.
AN operation was performed Friday on the
child of Mrs. Grey. of West Troy, New York,
/ born five weeks ago with three legs. The
/ protuberance was removed without much
| loss of blood. The amputated part weighed
/ one pound. The child was doing well at last
/ accounts.
| IT is asserted that the Maine First Heavy
| Artillery lost more in "killed and died of
wounds in the war than any other Union
regiment, the exact figures being 2,202 men
enrolled. and AIS killed and died of wounds,
| or lS.S per cent. Ire Wisconsin Second Regi-
/ ment came next, with 10 per cent, and the
| PENNSYLVANIA One Hundred and FOrtieth
i Regiment next, with 1914 per cent.
EVEN though France has attained foothold
| in China, it has yet to build up a trade IN that
/ land In 1880 China imported French goods
| for 500, 900 francs; France imported Chinese
| products for lOl. 600, 000 of which $1,000, 900
| were for raw silk and 100000 for teas. The
/ English totals were six times greater than
/ those of France. In 1882 England was repre-
| sented in China by 80 firms and 2,292 English
| clerks; Germany 50, and 40S; the United
| States, q firms; France s, and ga employees.
| and Spain commercial houses. In the total
1 tonnage of imports to China, England repre-
| sented 6j.05 per cent; France, O.S2.
Two tricyclists have been making a run
| from Paris to Geneva, a distance OF 325 miles,
| in six DAYS with delightful ease. They never
| tasted spirits, beer or wine, but drank coffee,
| chocolate. and occasionally aerated water
| with fruit syrup. They had breakfasts for
| which they paid fifteen cents each, and
| charming country dinner for which they were
| charged thirty cents, syrup and aerated water
| included. They ran on the national roads. kept
by government, with surface like billiard
table and net a single rut, and, though they
only carried a small tourist map, never went
a hundred yards out of the way, thanks to
the sign posts and the directions on the wall
OF the first house and last OF every village.
IN a friendly E9lnfaflOn.
a kindly Eau revoir'' was constantly called
out as they dashed by.
Mrs. GRUNDY would be at home in the
Grand Canon Of the Colorado, which is con-
sidered the greatest whispering gallery in the
world. For years this chasm has been
matter of surprise to prospectOrs and miners.
on account Of its wonderful transmission OF
sound, and il has only been since the advent
OF the railroad that any definite idea has been
entertained of the great distance 1t travels
within its walls. A train of cars crossing the
bridge at the Needles can be plainly heard on
a quiet day at Cottonwood Island, distance
OF eighty-four miles. The fife and drum at
Head, a distance of eighty-four miles. The
report Of the sunrise gun at Fort MOjaVe can
be heard at FL Dorado Canon, distance of
ninety-six miles. 1t is the greatest whisper
ing gallery in the world.
A VERY able correspondent writes from
Paris to a London paper: ''There is a wide
spread feeling Of uneasiness, in Paris espe-
eially. which nothing can allay. Not that
people apprehend immediate trouble, but
they feel that though the republic is estab-
Iished it offers no security for the future.
Consequently there is disinclinatiDn to en-
bark upon new commercial and industrial
enterDrIses and the hOped-for revival of
business in the spring is still to come.
Curously enough, the stagnation extends to
matters artistic aud theatrical. The latter
phenomenon is well worthy of notice, seeing
that IN the most stormy days of the First
Revolution the theatres displayed the great
est activity Paris rarely deprives itself Of
OF the fictitious drama, whatever may be the
real ones performed there. But though the
situation is strained enough, we have not
reached so acute a period, and still there is
little novelty"
BOOK is about to appear in Vienna called
Fourteen Years with Adelina Patti" Its
authoress is her former companion, Louise
Lauw. The book will disappoint those who
look for scandal. Adelna's first love was a
Young MIanese merchant whom she met first
in London. Her father made no objection to
her marriage with him, but SAID that they
must wait until his daughter had made some
money. But the young Milanese, who was of
a jealous temperament, was so disguised at
seeing his adOred embraced nightly Dy tenOrs
that he said he could not wait, and thus the
marriage went of. The Marquis de Caux was
first attracted by Adelipa at a concert at the
TuileFies and an evening stroll at Baden Ba-
den brought the matter to climax; The au-
were his only attractions in Adelna's eyes,
and saws that she herself did all in her power
TO prevent their separation.
A SPANISH newspaper. published on the
northern frontier, states that canal from
the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, which is
to convert the Iberian Peninsula into an
island, appears now to be in fair way to be-
come an accomplished fact. Starting from
the Glronde. the proposed canal is intended to
touch Toulouse, continuing through Langue-
doc. and joining the Mediterranean near Mar
bonnie As the site for a commercial empo-
rum Narbonne holds a position second to
none in France. being placed at an angle OF
the Gulf OF LpOns, and in the valley OF tine
Aude. The contract for the works Is signed
between the founders and the contractors OF
the Suez canal for a canal capable of taking
vessels Of the largest size. The founders have
asked the French Government for guarantee
of lO.OOO,0O0 francs annually, to begin from
1889, when the works are expected to be COM
pleted.
The fact that Photographic portraits are so
rarely good hkenesses is attributed by writer