Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ MANY manufacturers declare that paper Is
the coming king that is destined in great
measure to drive wood and iron to q very
| great extent out OF general use.
APAIe of the finest black eyes did not sat-
isfy Miss Casey of Iowa, aud in trying to turn
/ them to blue by means of chemicals she has
ruined both their usefulness and beauty.
DRoNEDARIEs were expected to make rare
! sport in races with horses in Vienna, but they
| proved so slow that the meanest cart drawers
! brought IN from the street beat them easily.
TIE Iowa Supreme Court has decided that
hotel keeper who receives guests knowing
! that there is a contagious disease in his house
/ is liable for damage to any guest who may
contract The disease.
| TIE stages which have been run for a gen.
Grafton on Broadway have just been sold at
auction, bringing prices ranging from $50 so
! 10 Sl45 each. the average being s35 each. When
new they cost $500 each
Is q grove on the banks of the Mississippi,
near the mouth of the Illinois river, there has
recently been established, at an outlay Of $780,,
600, an institution similar in scope and ends
to the great assembly ut Chautauqua. 1t is
to be called the Pisa Bluffs assembly.
THE summit of Cotopaxi, the Hottest of ac-
tive volcanoes, has never been reached This
greatest of mountain wonders is $4,000 feet
higher than Vesuvius, and shoots forth its fire
/ from Il crest covered by 1000 feet of snow,
with voice that has been heard 600 miles.
a LEADING OPTICIAN says he would not adj
wise any person to wear tinted glasses with
out first consulting an ocuist, in order to get
as nearly as possible the precise shade to be
worn. People are not so cautious as they
ought to be about the treatment of their eyes.
SIR HENRY THOMPSON says that from long
course Of observation he is forced to the con-
clusion that more mischief in the form of ac-
tual disease, Of impaired vigor, and of short
ened life accrues to civilized man from erro-
neous habits OF eating than from the use of al
C0hollc drink.
WATERMELON POOLS are the newest
style Of gambling. Each player puts in
quarter, or any other sum agreed upon, and
makes his guess. Then the melon is cut and
the seeds are connted. and the best guesser
takes the nool. Something over 600 seems to
be the average number.
IN North Borneo and Western Texas are
the two greatest deposits of bats guano in
the world, that in the latter place covering
an area of more than two square miles to the
depth of 50 feet. This guano is as rich in
ammonia as the best Peruvian, and Is now be-
ing shipped to England and France in vast
quantities.
NEBRASKA, scarcely settled at all by white
people only thirty years ago, has now about
=
been set about 600, 0GO 600 young trees. Be-
sides this there have been planted over H.
goo. 600 fruit trees, over $500, 900 grapevnes,
vast number Of berry bushes and plants, or
namental shrubs, etc.
ALL STUDENTS in Russian universities are
now compelled to wear, on ceremonious oc-
casions, uniform consisting of blue cap,
gray coat. and green trousers. all plentifully
embellished with gold lace. The suit will be
so costly that poor boys can hardly buy it, and
the belief is that the requiem ent ia intended
to hinder the impoverished masses IN educat-
ing their sons.
THE German government has discharged all
women who were employed in its postal,
telegraph and railway service as clerks and
in other capacities. as during the last
twenty years they have nearly mono "Olized
such service in some towns, much suffering
has ensued among the discharged The mo-
tive alleged is, that woman Is unit for such
public service.
SEVERAL Washingtonians, commenting
upon the erection of an Arch de Triomphe in
their city, say the "only triumphal arch that
should be built in Washington to commence
rate the perpetuity of the Union of the States
is a bridge of stone arches over the river
Potomac. of Roman soldity and magnid-
cence, giving a splendid highway for rail,
horse and foot, between Washington and Yir-
GINA, and c!asping the States in bonds of en-
during steel and stone"
BELFAST, IRELAND. has now population
of 100000 people. The site of the city for
merly belonged to the Chichester family, and
Lord Donegal is still the ground landlord of
the greater part. but most was let on per
petual lease by a reckless predecessor In the
last century. Had the Chichester family re-
tanned the property and managed 1t judicious
", their income from it to-day could scarcely
have been less than Sl,250.000 per annum. AS
it is, Lord ponegals whole Irish property is
put down at $zO5,OOO.
NEXT to Rome, COnstantinople is the most
interesting city of Europe, ana the greatest
scene of remarkable events affecting the des-
TIMES of mankind. 1t occupies the site of
! ancient Byzantium. which was founded by n
/ DOric colony from Megara, in the year 667 +.
/ G. After passing through many fortunes, il
was attacked by Philip OF Macedon, whose
/ soldiers were silently approaching the town
| on a dark night, when suddenly a light shOne
| from the North, and revealed the dan
ger by which the citizens were
/ threatened. II was believed that this was a
/ miracle wrought by the Goddess Diana to
whom the inhabitants built an altar as an ex-
/ preston Of gratitude. at the same time as
/ sumng the crescent as the emblem of their
| city. The crescent Is now the emblem of the
! Turks, and 1t has been thought that they
! adopted 1t on taking possession of COnstanti-
nOple; but there lie reason TO believe that this
! figure had long been the symbol of the Moslem
! faith.
ALMOST every one who has ridden out to-
/ ward the Bots, in Paris, has seen the old man
in the little carriage drawn by sheep potter
ing along in the Avenue dc Bots de BoulOgne.
/ These sheep are two as fine, fat Southdowns
] as YOU ever saw, but the occupant is a cripple
! ny the name OF De Keroy He has been in
/ turn a soldier, "A traveller, a politician,
! journalist, and man of letters. A nephew OF
! the Able Lammaenais, he was for n while
| private secretary to Lamartine, also an init
mate friend Of the Marquis of Hereford, at
/ whose place in the Bois abe frequently met
! Louis Napoleon. During the war he volun-
teered to carry important dispatches out Of
/ Paris for the government OF the De-
! Tense Rationale. He started alone in q
balloon, which was caught in a hurricane,
carried into switzerland, and came down in
/ the midst of the Mer de Glace glacier. whore
/ his legs were so badly frost bitten that they
! both had TO be amputated. Besides his legs,
/ he lost his fortune by the war, and It Is his
( poverty that cOmpels him to make use of a
! sheep instead Of a pony cart. Before the sheep
were presented to him by a friend he used TO
/ 20 about in little wagon propelled by a ma
chine worked by hand. Bahylas and Rahette,
! as they are called, draw their master az safely
/ II not as swiftly as pony could. The "SOli-
/ taire dc Party" as Nj. dc keroy calls himself
/ aud Victor Hugo We're fast friends: the lat
ter often walked alCuglde the mutton
coach" talking with It's occupant and caress-
ing the sheep.
In 1890, when the whole tract OF country
now included within the limits Of Cambria