Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


cred IN the suburbs of Cleveland.
IT is said that the crime of parricide was
unknown in one of the States Of ancient
Greece until a law was enacted for the special
punishment of such crime, should IL occur.
ACCORDING to the views of a number of
men in the rubber business the factories of
the United States could easily double their
yearly production without increasing their
plant.
CONGRESSMAN KING, of Louisiana. has been
notified that the geological survey party, re-
Gently at work in the Territories, will visit
his State next month to examine and report
on Inc iron fields known to exist in certain
parishes lying between Red river and Bayou
Bartholomew.
FOR years one of the wonderful stories OF
insect life has been the one about the fertili-
cation by them Of the female flowers of the fig
with the pollen of the male flower but, like
SO many other pretty theories, this one has
come to grief through the raising of perfect
figs on solitary trees, where cross-fertiliza-
ton by insects was impossible.
JUDGING from the experience of the Odd
Fellows, it is reasonable conclusion that the
average sickness of the better class of the
adult male population of the United States
and Canada Is one week and half each
year. This is equivalent to an income tax of
0 per cent, and the greater share of 1t could
PARIS is cleared of rats by her Municipal
Council offering premium for their skins.
Two years ago the premium was So per 1000,
but it has recently been raised to $40 per 200,
IN order to get the city cleared OF the pests.
The rats are of the Norway kind, and breed
four times year. The skins when collected
are sod to glove makers for four cents each,
and 10000 skins are SAID to have been made
into genuine kid gloves last year.
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Jules Sandeau calls up memories of the cir
cumstances under which she first met the
author of ''MarIanue" Sandeau, having
parted from George Sand, had retired to
village IN La Vendee to brood over his sorrows
and finish his great work. Walking in the
fields one day he saw savage bull about to
gore and trample young girl. He rushed
forward and saved her life at the risk of his
own. A few weeks later she became his wife.
LIKE many from her own country, the wife
of the japanese Minister at Washington has
trouble with her eyes, and the best oculists
fear that in few years she may lose her
sight. One who has lived in Japan many
years says that the women of that country
njure their eyes by their habits Of working at
fine embroidery by imperfect lights. Their
houses are comparatively dark, and they do
not understand that it is injurious to work
f'cing the light. Ophthalmla is a national
disease IN both China and Japan.
THERE have recently been made in St
Petersburg some experiments with pyronaph-
tina, an illumnatOr which Beilstein, the cele-
brated Russian chemist, thinks Will super
sede kerosene. 1t is said to be wholly free
from danger of fire. and burning kerosene is
easily eXtinguished by it. Pyronaptha itself
can be readily put out by water. 1t burns
with bright light and gives off no smoke or
vapor. while the fact that it is a residual
product OF the Baku distillation of petro-
leum makes It's cost in Russia less than kero-
sene.
OVER 100 Paris tailoring establishments
have been obliged to close their doors the
jOurneymen having struck work. Eighteen
cents an hour Is the rate of pay insisted upon,
and this is two cents more than the employ
ers are willing to concede. The number of
men who have stopped work is about 1000,
and 1t Is feared that the strike will become
general. The more elegant of Paris gentle
men are not alarmed. however, for. it is as
serted, nineteen out of every twenty of that
q ass invariably get their clothes made In
London.
THE Little Sisters of the Poor have now $50
houses in France, Belgium, Spain, Switzer-
land, England, Ireland, Scotland, Italy,
America, Africa and Asia. Many thousands
of respectable but destitute old people are
thus provided for by body Of women who
have no income, but who support the aged in
mates of their houses by collecting daily from
house to house scraps of food, old clothing,
aims in money, or anything that may be Of
fer to them. The institution is a Roman
Catholic one, but the destitute and aged of all
creeds are admitted therein.
EXPERIMENTS are shortly to be made in
Russia with an American submarine boat,
which is to be driven by electricity. The
boat Is TO be IS feet long and to have speed
Of 10 knots, and is stated to be capable of
travelling for distance of Is knots under
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the Captain and an electrician. The Can
taln's position viii be at the stern, where the
apparatus fOr steering the boat is placed The
ventilation will be effected BY comnressed
air. The mines are 10 be towed. and, in case
of the boat beng pursued, they can be dis
charged by electricity, so as to blow up the
enemy.
IN Sardinia, Sicily, and the region around
Naples large cork plantations are being de-
strOyed in the improvidcnt haste of their
owners to realize profit from the superior
quality of tannin afforded by the bark. and
from the carbonate of sofia made out of the
ashes OF the wood. The French have planted
this valuable oak largely in Alglers, where
there Is now oyer 100000 acres in good con-
dtion. The number OF trees in Spain is also
wears, ana reaches the height of some fifty
feet. The wood is not valuable, except for
fuel. 1t is thought that the tree would thrive
in California.
SAYS Vienna correspondent: The Vienna
seml-oficials who, scarcely fortnight ago,
positively contradicted my information about
the meeting Of the three Emperors have had
TO withdraw their denial rather sooner than
was expected. now hear that the meeting
VIII probably take place after the Emperor's
return TO Berlin, which will, perhaps, be ear
ller this wear than usual Hence il is itnpro-
hable thar lschl viii be the place OF meeting.
The Car was the FIRST 10 propose the meeting
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communicated TO Berlin and Vienna bv a for
eign diplomatst but it cannot say whether
this is correct.
IT seems that the Suakin- Berber railw is
TO be abandoned. The navvies have already
stopped work, and the seventeen miles Of rail-
way constructed are. therefore, to remain an
appropriate memorial Of British Intervention
IN the soudah Political philosophers ask
what more fitting monument OF ill-considered
ana resultless action there could be than A
railway begun IN Ignorance dropped in few
miles and Leading nowhere. such gigantic
absurdlty IL TOO RrOleequely farcical for farce
IL Is now Known that the evacuation OF the
Soudan Will De attended with an immediate
relapse OF the country into it, former condi-
ton. The effect Of English Interference will
pass from the native mind with the departure
Of the English troops, and leave no more trace
than their footsteps.
The cycle thief now appears TO be a recog-
nized member Of the profession, Judging by
the frequency with which his performances
are chronicled in the English press. Like the
confidence game people here, he never VA