Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

on a Delaware river excursion steamer,
| Sunday evening, a man fell overheard, but
| the steamer kept on. and the Captain gave as
an excuse for not stopping that he was afraid
a panic would result.
THE bread eaten at table in Turin is a yard
long and an eighth OF an inch in diameter, Of
a pipe-ste form, very crisp, and exceed
ingly palatable. 1t is called ''grisslni," after
the doctor who invented it on hygienic princi-
pies.
A LONDON PERIODICAL for August contains
an article entitled, Americans as Pictured
| by Themselves" simultaneously the North
American RsgieaC OF Boston announces a con-
tributiOn entitled, Are We Nation of Ras-
cals:'
IIYGIENIC PILLOWS are now in vogue. Three
form a full equipment for a bed, of which one
is filed with hops, a second with pine needles
and a third with marine moss. They are be-
Ieved to cure sleeplessness and nervous dis
orders.
Four slight earthquake shocks occurred
near Rome on Aug. :, three days before
Boston and the Allegheny region were
shaken. On about the same day Massowah, a
seaport near Suakin, on the Red Sea, was
shaken by six FAM shocks.
Two London bakers have lately been con-
demned to pay fines for violating an old stat
ute OF George ". against baking or selling
any bread or cake on the Lords day"
within ten miles of the Royal Exchange, ex-
cept between the hours of a. m. and D. N.
Wv. FLICKER, farming the Scott Ranch,
IN California, killed squirrel, from whose
mouth he took SCI kernels Of fine and large
wheat, their actual weight being two ounces
less two draChms. Eight such mOuthfuls are
about equal to q pound. Here Is a lesson to
the farmer who has 900 squirrels on his farm.
A RESIDENT Of New York state is said to
have discovered a process for utilizing the
stalks and stems Of the tobacco plant as a
substitute for wood pulp in the manufacture
Of paper. 1t is claimed that the process is
comparatively simple, and that the tobacco
pulp produces q much stronger paper than
wood at much smaller cost.
In Massachusetts women and children are
driving men out Of many industries. The
trades in which the former are a very large
majority are awnings and tents, buttons,
dress trimmings, carpetings, clothing. cotton
goods, wOOlcns, fancy goods, fax and linen,
HAIR work. hose, rubber, mixed textiles, pa
per, silks, sporting goods, straw goods, and
WOrsteds-twentY in all. Sixty trades snow
pTepOnderance OF men.
NEARLY forty years ago, when the Queen
was staying at Ardyerikie, Sir John Rams
denis beautiful place in Inverness-shire, her
Majesty planted a spruce on one of the islands
in Loeb Laggan. The tree grew and Hour
ished until quite recently, when 1t began TO
decay mysteriOuSly. ana IN course OF time IL
died. A careful inspection by the forester
has revealed the fact that it was killed by
tourists. The tree had been literally whit
tled' to death.
THE last name for the health exhibition in
London is the Christian Young Mans Gre
morne. The Cremorne was an al frescO place
of amusement which was shut up some years
ago in one of LOndOn's periodic fits OF severe
virtue, because Of the number of questionable
women who went there. The health exhibit
ton, meantime, has come at the moment of
the reaction against the rigid puFltanlsm Of a
decade ago. and eyeryb body is joining in the
cry for permanent place OF Open-air amuse-
ment.
4 PIECE of work of unparalleled patience
and ingenuity is reported from Karthaus, in
Bohemia, the wonderful workman being
youth in durance for five years for theft. He
has turned his enforced leisure TO use. and
manufactured a straw watch five centlmetres
in diameter by two in thickness. The works
comprise a few bits of straw, some cotton two
needles, and a pin, small piece OF paper
forming the dial. 1t Is said to go for six
hours, and could be made to go twelve with
few improvements.
AT the annual cattle fair held in the
Croatlan village of Bokuko terrible disaster
took place under very extraordinary circum-
stances. A pig which is described as having
gone mad suddenly commenced, in a savage
fashion, biting all the persons and cattle it
approached. Some of the oxen broke loose
from their fastenngs and began rushing
through the crowd. A panic ensued, in tue
course Of which many persons were trOdden
under foot, and no fewer than SIX men ana
one woman trampled to death. while numer-
GUS other persons had broken limbs, or other
more or less severe injuries. In the rush OF
the animals twenty-nine oxen were also
crushed TO death. The pig when Was tns
cause Of the disaster was at last caught and
killed.