Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


THE wheat harvest in Austria and Hun
gary promises to be q fair one, recent rains
having greatly improved the crops.
THERE are between So, 900 and 81 600 Indians
on reservations in Arizona, About 1900
square miles or II, 900 acres of land are set
apart for them.
HosEFLEsH is sold wholesale at the PARIS
abattoirs at &c. pound up, and Is retail
ed at from &c. to zoe, according as the pur-
chaser desires soup meat or fllyet-that is TO
say. hlet. Very tough animals are ground
into Lorraine sausages.
BREAKFAST ROLLS are used for small
change Ia Ecuador, where the quartillo is the
smallest coin in circulation. On his way to
market the purchaser stops at the bakery and
gets dozen or twenty rolls, which cost ABOUT
] cent each and the market women give them
as change for small purchases.
TIE Dutch Chamber has voted IN favor of
the maintenance of the public lottery. This
will bear henceforth the name of estate Lot
terry the King being opposed to it on prlncl-
! pie, and not wishing to have IL called any
/ longer Royal Lottery" Ithas hitherto yield
/ ed to the government an annual profit of $780,
! 600 forms. -4I0- 9sta.1..
! ONE CONNER O'DoNNELL,'of san Francisco,
the successor Of Denis Kearney, Of sand lots
fame. has been preaching an anti-Chinese
/ crusade with such vlgor that one OF ms
hearers took him at ms word, went aud
/ burned down the dwelling of one of the OBJ
/ noXiOus heather, and stralghtway was sent to
/ the state prison for twenty years.
Two ALMANAcs of the years IsOs and 1920
! are curlosIues owned by a resident of Lewis
ton. Ne. They were published by Lincoln &
! Edmands, Boston, and are styled HIhe Cler-
| gyman's Minor Aimanack or Astronomical
! Diary and Serious MONITOR They are yellow
| and dog-eared, and contain, among other
matter, the time tables Of the old stage lines
between the larger New England towns.
/ THE century people say that the extracts
! from Gen. Grants book recently published in
! the newspapers included only a very small
part of the material written by him for their
/ magazine, not more than one twentieth; that
/ his promised articles will appear in due time;
! and that they have not demanded Ieln-
/ bursement of the money already paid, and
| have not contemplated suit for damages.
AN EXPEDITION recently sent from San
! Francisco to obtain skins and skeletons for the
National Museum of the almost extinct sea
elephant. once enormously abundant on the
Pacific coast, was able, after a long cruise, to
/ get only dozen or more specimens, though
1 they visited haunts which only two or three
years ago were the resorts of hundreds of
| these unwedlJ seals, whose valuable oil has
/ made them an object Of eXtermlnatlng pur-
| suit.
THE other day a cricket match took place
between il of well known girls school in
surrey, England, and II of the ladies of the
neighbOrhOod. The ladies wore their usual
costumes, and the schoolgirls were attired
in white tunics Elton blue caps and sashe to
match. black stockings and white knicker-
! bockers. They also wore red roses as badge,
! while their opponents wore white. The
/ schoolgirls were the victOrs, and retired amid
great applause, wearing the white roses OF
their opponents.
ACCORDING to official statistics, recently
/ published, the city of Constantnople contains
/ 1886 habitations, which are thus divided:
| 67.4l4 houses, 81, 1856 shops. counting houses
l and depOts of commerce. 1854 khan, IT'S baths,
[ 80 palaces and kiOsks 27S ministries, admins
/ trations, etc, 1873 barrack and guardhOuses,
/ GA mosques, $40 Mussulman schools. l46 me-
/ dresses (semlnariesl, 65 libraries, 23l mOnas-
! teries (tekes), 10 hospitals, 1859 churches and
/ synagogues, of which 60 are Greek, 40 Arme-
/ pIan, 10 Latin, and converts.
THE National Museum at Washington has
received some relics of the first iron furnace
| in America. This was at Falling Greek,
/ Chesterfield county, Va, few miles below
/ Richmond, but on the opposite side of the
/ James. The works were begun in 1913, but
! IN 1922 were destroyed IN an Indian massa-
! ere. They were never renewed, and the next
| attempt TO manufacture iron was made by
| GOV; Spottswood, near the present file of
| Fredericksburg. about l726. To this the plan
/ tation of George WasbngtOn's father, Au-
! gustine, contributed much ore.
WHEN the Highland bagpipers marched by
the orphan asylum, in Newark. Monday night
| PLAYING THE CampOells are Comm, " four
teen youngsters crept down the back stairs
! and into the street. They were hatless, coat
| less. and barefoOted, and they had on only
! night shirts and trousers. They stepped of
in double file and had a parade OF their own.
! They soon met "A police officer and suddenly
! brose ranks. Richard Hewitt, Joseph Ham
nell, James Mead, and John Geisert were ar
I rested and locked
boys got into the asylum again and went into
bed.
MORE than half the sugar now used in
France is made from beets in her own facto-
ries, a total of $4,000 tons, and large amounts
are made in Germany, Belgium and other
continental countries. The kind of beet pre-
| ferred is the white Silesian, Of which there
are several varieties, all Of large size, and
I Welding juice very rich in the saccharlne
quality. The yield per acre in Europe is
from twelve to fifteen tons; it requires light,
| dry soil. aud p dry atmosphere Five tons OF
roots produce about 800 pounds Of coarse SUI
gar; about one half can be made into the re-
fined product, the rest is used for molass6s.
THE making of cheese is a very important
occupation in Switzerland, where the riches
Of a man are estimated according to the num-
Der Of cheeses he possesses. A strange Gus
tom IN the Nalais Is to make a cheese when a
| child is horn, which is left untouched during
time &C his funeral feast. A rich man stores
up wine as well as cheese for his own funeral.
and when that event takes place goblet Of
this dead wine." as it Is called. is placed on
the coffin, the mOurners approach, take the
goblet IN their hand touch the coffin with it,
and drink the contents to a future meeting
with their departed friend.
THE unwilling OF the restored tombstones Of
the ancestors OF Burns, the poet, took place
recently in the kirkyard Of Glenbevie, Kin
cardineshire. The monuments which have
been re- tored are those Of the poets great
1 grandparents, aud OF his great granduncle.
Round the pedestal Of the new monument TO
the grandparents the following inscription
has been placed: "James Burnes, tenant, in
Brawlinmur. died Jan. %, l7l3. Margaret
Falconer. his wife, died Dec Is. lT49. This
tomb of the great grandparents OF the poet
Burns restored by subscription 1885" The
ceremony was attended by a large number OF
people, many Of whom came from long dis
tances.
Two INDIANS jim a village near Quebec
were recently discussing the form of the
earth. one affirmed that it was round be-
csuse men had traveledtn straight line and
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