Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE Sultan of Turkey has bought in Lon
don ga tricycle. for the use Of the ladies of the
harem."
THE san Francisco market is glutted with
California oranges. Street vendors are crying
them at ten cents a dozen, or SIX dozen for
fifty cents.
4 PROCESS for deodorzing crude petrole-
um and converting it into domestic soap has
been introduced by a New York inventor. He
claims that the cost viii not exceed One-half
that Of ordinary soap.
THE fund raised by subscription, mostly
among the Spanish and SDanish-Amer
lean residents of New York, for the relief of
the sufferers by the earthquakes in Spain,
now amounts to Sll,2l5.
THREE libel suits were brought Tuesday
against the Nashville BanRUr for 100000 each
nv the superintendent, warden and physician
of the penitentiary. An editorial IN Monday
evenings edition precipltated the suits.
1T Is like a story OF 40 to read that at a re-
cent performance at the Standard Theatre,
san Francisco, an appreciative man became
so Enthusiastic over the Introductory portion
of the performance that he began throwing
money on the stage.
A PROPERLY developed, full-grOwn man
weighing l54 pounds ought. according to Prof.
Huxley, consume daily 5000 grams Of lean
heefsteak. 5000 grains OF bread, f,OOl grams OF
milk. 5000 grains Of potatoes, 800 grains OF
butter, aud $4,000 grains OF water
TIE Boston Mugwump Committee of 100
publishes its receipts and expenditures dur
ing the recent campaign. The receipts were
$4,000. The regular Republican committee
in the state expended 50 ,066. and the Mug
wumps spent S20,9S9 and have $l,0l9 on hand.
The principal items were: Postage, $l422;
clerks wages, S2,272; printing pamphlets,
S3.646: printing ballots, l,l6l; travelling eX-
penses, etc. Sl,77I; to Young Mems Club,
Boston. $:,5l5; TO national committee, $1,000.
GAMBEfTA's cottage at Vile de Away, to
which he loved to retire from the worry and
turmoil OF political life, has been restored to
the condition in which it was during Gam
betta's lifetime. and will henceforth be pre-
served from all interference. Inc articles OF
furniture, pictures and ornaments are again
in the old corners and hang on the walls, and
the admirers Of the departed statesman are
allowed access to the place where they may
see how the man who was accused by his adj
versaries of lndulging in every kind OF eX-
travagance really lived in great simplicity.
MARX TWAIN is an inveterate smoker. He
smokes constantly while at his work, and,
indeed, all the time, from S 80 10 the morning
to lO:3O at night, stopping only when at his
meals. A cigar lasts him about forty minutes,
now that he has reduced to an exact science
the art of reducing the weed to ashes. SO he
smokes from fifteen to twenty cigars every
dav some time agOhe was persuaded to stop
tbS nracticp and went year and more with
ont Tobacco: but he found himself unable
to carry along important work which he
undcrtook and il was not until he resumed
smoking that he could dc it. Since then his
faith in his cigar has not Wayered.
OK the day of the assembling of the Massa-
chusetts Legislature a rural gentleman,
carving a large black glazed cloth valise of
the STYLE known as "Kennebeckers." on which
was strapped a bed quilt, appeared 10 the
shoeblack's room in the state House base
ment. Depositing his baggage by the side OF
the chair, he allowed his large boots TO be
made presentable. Then he requested the
nov TO send his valise to his room. ITO your
committee roOm?" inquired the boy. mo, to
vouth. "members don't sleep at the State
House - ssYes. they do" said the new MEM
Der, land be sure to have my quilt laid on the
bed. - After repeated inquiries the new mem
her found that il was as the shoe sinner had
said that members did not lodge at the State
House, and he went out in quest OF cheap
boarding house.
1T will be remembered that in october last
Vienna was startled by two murders COM
mitted in broad daylight, one case being that
of an author named Kostler, and the other
that of woman who kept q secondhand
shop. At the time the police had no clue, put
they have now succeeded in discovering that
a Young tinsmith, who had been arrested Tor
a small theft. committed both crimes At |
first he denied energetically; but he confessed
when a scrap of paper which ne leIt Dehlnu |
him when he offered to sell his watch as a |
for Rntering the secondhand shop,