Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
THE Black sea is covered by a very efficient
life saving service, which is manned by
Turks, under command of an Englishman.
THE newly discovered tin mines of Rock
bridge county, Va. extend over an area eight
miles in length by one in width, and some of
the ore taken out has yielded from 80 to 90 per
cent. of metal.
THE approaching completion of the Indiana
State House has developed a startling condi-
ton of things. The original appropriation
for building the structure was S2,O0O,OOO, but
the prospect is that the cost will be $4,000
less than this amount.
NOT long ago the Anchor Line tried the ex-
pertinent of a direct line from Calcutta to
New York via the Suez canal, and it has
been so successful that the fleet will be in
creased. The cargOes consist of linseed, in
digo. hides, jute and coffee from CeylOn.
DR.. PRICE, the Welsh Druid, is at it again.
Having satisfactorily established his legal
right TO cremate his own children, he has now
cremated a favorite bull, called Morgan Apis.
to which, il is said, he was peculiarly at
tached. The cremation occupied nine hours,
and was largely attended
THE Siam Weekly A dUertiser, of issue of Nov.
l6.twelve days after the date of our late general
election, has just reached this country, and
contains the SpeClnc lnIOrmaLlOn budL 'eiLner
MIR Blaine or Mr.. Cleveland has been elected
President OF the United States" To get such
definite news the Slamese are compelled to
pay 30 cents per copy, or $l2 per year for this
live" weekly paper.
TIE Chicago Herald claims to have discov-
cred the meanest man on earth in the person
of a fellow who goes among the starving poor
in the guise of missionary, tells the women
that he can obtain work for them to do, and
makes a trlfling advance OF money OR &C
count. He is really an agent OF clothing
manufacturer, and he gets garments made at
rates which none other than hungry wretch
would accept.
JUDGING from the number of people who are
to take part in escorting the old Independence
bell of Philadelphia to the New Orleans Ex-
position, the authorities must have an idea
that some dreadful danger menaces it. Some
one meanly suggests that they are afraid the
bell will get drunk and disOrderly; but that
is not true Although it is somewhat cracked,
it has more sense than to act so. It's temper
ance principles are sound.
WHILE the Japanese have long been IA
nous for their superior MANILA papers, they
have not vet been able to make good note
paper. Their material is most unique, and
has been recently purchased in considerable
quantities by two Yankees, who hope with 1t
to make paper that will take London. Paris
and New York. which are always running
wild after oddities in this line, by storm.
AN old country squire, who never looked at
newspapers came up all the way from Corn
wall recently to attend the seXcentenary of
his college at oxford. As he entered the col
lege gates he was politely presented with a
bill for goods that had b en- supple d to him
as an Undergraduate forty-fve years pre-
yiOusly He turned on the DIM with indigna-
ton. not altogether speechless. God bless
you, sIr.' he roared, lord love your heart.
do you think | come up here once in every
six hundred wears To be uunneuI'
DURING the last few years the Marquis of
Bute has been engaged an an interesting ex-
periment on his estate near Cardiff. In 1875
some 1000 vines were planted for vintage
purposes, and in 1877 the first WINE was made.
Though small in quantity, 1t was good enough
to justify further experiment. owing 10 the
wretched weather the succeeding years were
nostlv failures; but the splendid weather of
last summer produced a capital crop, and
Lord Butte can now boast of having grown
four hOgsheads OF genuine british wlne."
ALLthe poor of Naples who die on a certain
dav are buried on the same evening in pit
inst outside the city, the innocent child beng
thrown in with the dead convict. a recent
writer tells Of seeing bodies brought by dozens
TO the pits naked on wheelbarrOws and the
backs Of their friends. On one occasion, after
the lid Of the pit had been closed, two cOrpses
were found living outs lie that had been missed
bv the workmen. To avoid opening the pit
they were left to be put into the one to be
opened next day. In the morning, however,
they were nowhere to be found, dogs during
the night having eaten them up. Italy Is put
down on the map as a civilized country.
APART,cULARLY keen critic writes to one
of the Partisan papers to complain of an an
achronism which he has detected in the jew
elry worn by Sarah Bernhardt in Theodore"
The emeralds composing the ''pendeloques'
which she wears in the imperial lodge at the
Hippodrome are, it seems, of dark hue; and
4 hn nFufH ne
Enown IN Europe in the Byzantine period
They have never been found IN any other mine
than that of MuzO, in Colombia, South Ameri-
ca which only began TO be worked about a
cenntnry after the Spanish conquest. The
only emeralds Byzantine lady could have
worn are the pale stones from the mines OF
lower Egypt. several OF when are 10 be seen
among the BYZANTINE jewels IN the treasury
Of inc Church of st. Mark at Venice.
IN Horticultural Hall, New Orleans Ex-
nosition. the grand and varied display of fruit
is reaching completion. Among these exhibits
are: Arkansas-5OO plates of apples, embrace
ing 900 varieties, and remarkable for their i'm
mense size; Kansas-300 plates OF apples, 10
varieties, extremely large, coming from all
parts Of the state; MlsslsslpplT,1Iapes, ap 3D.
plates of apples, $50 varieties, OF nne quallty,
Missouri 900 plates OF apples, 2OO varieties,
large and beautiful. OF the foreign exhibits
France has 400 varieties OF apples, ana ZOU
varieties Of pears were sent by the Orleans
horticultural Society and the French Ma
tionsl Horticultural Society. NOtwithstand.
ing the long trip over the sea the fruit is well
preserved and of high naVor. RUSSIA also
sends apples, large, bright, and in good con-
diti0n.
PAxPAs GRASS must now be put with the
snowy anton-fannel hangings as things
beautiful in their place, but requiring eau
ton in placing either of them near light, or
in striking match too near their vicinity. An
example Of recent conflagratlon Dy pampas
grass is sent us by a Philadelphia VINO haq
received large packet of these snowy ana
feathery grasses from California in CHRIST
mas box. The grasses were laid on the table
under a shaded lamp, whose flame was coy
cred by a chimney. In moving them about a
sort of light dust or down is released from the
plumes, and so, in the most unexpected way,
the grasses caught fire when they were sim
pIy lifted from the table. The floating cot
tony substances from the pampas must have
settled over the fame OF the lamp, or IN some