Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

] IN Virginia peanuts are now ground into
what proves a very fair flour for making pie
crust and other light pastries.
GREAT BRITAIN imported more leather
from France during February than ever be-
fore IN the same length of time.
a LoNG-HA1RED elephant, larger and more
! perfect than any specimen hitherto Sc
cured. is being extricated from the ice at the
mouth of the Lena delta.
WHEN Japanese girls wish to particularly
flatter gentleman friend they write him a
note, the penmanshiD of which is executed by
their delicately sharpened finger nail.
SEVERAL hundred polo ponies have been
/ sent to the Soudan, the English Government
/ believing them to be the best and hardest
/ chargers to be found for the work there and
! the rough treatment they will get.
| JEALOUS Christian woman in Lowell has
! left her husbands bed and board because he
! viii not be converted. She has reached the
| perfect state" and is so outraged that her
/ husband, otherwise an exemplary man, Will
/ not come to her way of thinking that she will
/ no longer live with him.
NEW YoRK's harbor channel has again to be
improved, and the commission charged with
| the work recommends the construction of
| stone dyke running about south-southeast
! from Coney Island to such distance as shall he
| found necessary, and probably not less than
| four miles; the protection of the head Of San
/ dy Hook, and the dredging Of a thirty foot
! channel from deeper water near Sandy Hook
to deep water below the Narrows: also the
immediate dredging of a channel 1000 feet
| wide and q feet deep through the shOal west
of Hymns knoll.
THE majority of the women in government
/ employ are very quiet. matter of fact, and
are thorough experts in the lines of business
where they are employed. They make good
| type writers, shorthand writers and copyists.
/ The most expert counters of money in the
/ Treasury are women. AS detecters of cOun-
! terfeit money some of the ladies in the Ma
tional Redemption Division of the Treasury
/ have no equals. The presence Of fifteen or
] twenty hystericky women in the department
! is enough to give the chiefs prejudice against
! Womt II clerks as class.
! SEVEN years ago the New York Society of
/ Decorative Art opened its doors for the sale
of "woman's work" During that time 800
women have contributed work. for which
| $234,39S has been paid. The society has now
! organized Gree Industrial Classes" with
/ the main object OF interesting children in
! some useful work. Instruction ia now given
! IN eleven of the mission schools of the city in
| free-hand drawing, modelling, plain and fine
1 sewing and embroidery. These classes are
! in charge Of a special committee and sup
/ ported by special fund.
The discovery of an immense ledge of white
metal in Antelope valley, Cal, is crea-
! ting considerable interest in that
part of Mono county. The char
acter of the stuff puzzles all mining
men to whom it has been submitted. 1t is
fuslble at first, but after the first time it
Yields to nothing except mixture of acids.
/ The whole category OF white metals have been
gone over IN the vain hope Of making il an
swer to some kind. A pound of rock yields
one-haf pound OF the metal, and there are
millions of tons in the plant. 1t appears to
carry percentage Of platinum.
THE report of the superintendent of Public
Schools in Boston discusses the experiment of
manual training for boys. Two hundred boys.
from ten different grammar schools, have
been under instruction in carpentry two
hours a week since September. They were
selected by the masters from among those IA
years Of age or older who had the permission
OF their parents to take the instruction. 'The
experiment has already gone far enough to
prove hat work of lis kind can be Joined to
the ordinary grammar school work with good
| effect" says the superintendent. ana he adj
yOcates the making of provisions for indus
trial training for girls as well as for boys.
THE art of making paper from wood origi-
mated long before man ever dreamed of it,
On a drowsy summers day the wasp alights
| on somebody's front fence and slows away in
his hind leg all the loose fibre he can gather
This he mixes with saliva and forms INTO a
substantial paper covering for his nest The
male wasps usually die in the winter, and the
females, alternating in some warm. sheltered
nook, come out with the sunshine and become
the mothers of new brOOds. Wasps secrete
themselves IN leaves, pounce upon the young
bees that come to gather honey. kill them,
and carry them home to feed their Larvae
The wasp also Kills for the same purpose spi-
ders and caterpllars.
ONE-sEvENTH part of the land surface of
the earth, and one twenty eighth part of its
whole area constitute the dominion of the Car
Of all the Russias More than leo. OOO. 900 people
/ call him father, and are under his absolute
| government. In Russia a child is born on an
! average every eight seconds throughout the
/ year, and death occurs every eleven seconds
! At the present rate OF increase the population
will double in about sixty years. But Russia
| is very far behind most civilized nations i'm the
| care of children and in the preservation Of
! life. Statistics show that go per cent of all
| the children die NJ der the age OF years The
| average duration OF life in Russia is only 26
! years, which is much below the average in
the western countries of Europe and in the
United States.
AN Australian gentleman now visiting San
Francisco says: "There can be no doubt that
! Americans would have better chance of
doing well in Australia than in this country.
J To take one enterprise in which you especially
! excel, the crying want of Australia is rail-
| roads. From the fact that the Governments
| themselves construct the lines, and that after
| the most eNtrayagant plan, the average cost
| being $4,000 mile, they scarcely ever pay
! and the merest fringe of the country is
touched by them. They are also shortsighted
enough TO sell the lands they pass through
| previous to. instead of after. their cOnstrnc-
tiOn, thus losing to the State all the benefits
/ derived from the increased value they give to
! the land. Though averse to making land
grants to companies willing to make the rail-
roads, scheme for transcOntinental line on
! this plan having recently been rejected, there
! Is OF course nothing to prevent a body of
] capitalists buying the land at its unimproved
value and then constructing railroads through
it, and by doing this immense profits could Be
/ made"
THE theatre ticket spectators of New York
are in worse plight than they have ever been
/ on account Of the determined action against
them by many managers, particularly Au-
| gustin Daily, who has fought them constantly
/ from the start. He has stald IN the box Office
] himself and completely changed his method
! OF admission, taking no end OF pains and en-
] during considerable loss. in order 10 thwart
/ the spectators, winch he has done most SUI
| cessiully. Many Of them have gone into
| other employment, and others will fol-
/ low their example, for they have found
their business unremuneratiVe. Where "A
teW months ago spectators were wont 10
/ swarm on the sidewalks in front of the thea
/ tres. very Few are now visible, and they have
| wholly disappeared frpm before some houses.
] Repeated Efforts hayAbeen made at different
/ Times to get rid OF spectators, hut they have
/ neen mainly spasm0dlc until recently. Dalv
has led the opposition most theoretically, and
| mas SHOWN what can be accomplished BY un-