Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Boston WOMAN who invented a corsFs
has made $4,000 an thres years.

n DOSlON MoMAN VINO invented cor5F.s
has made $4,000 IN thres years.
THE Commissioner of Education reports
that IN the South the school enrolment of
white children has increased 297. l65, and OF
the coored children 1921 during the past
! two years. The total expenditure for public
schools "a lSS was $l7, O5S. 49, an increase of
/ S1,232,49 over that Of 1852
BICYCLING is Just now the rage in France,
though bicycle clubs are there called ''velOce
clubs and their members ''velocemen." The
President OF the ''Yeloce Club" OF Bordeaux,
recently performed the feat of $50 miles on
/ hlgd roads N y hOurs-not 8 miles an hour
and be Is now called record man III conse-
quence.
CoNcH SHELLS come from the West Indies.
The natives who gather them are called
"Cooks.' They brlug these shells to this
country only in the months OF May, June and
+ July using them to iii out a cargo. COnch
shclls were formerly used for making jewelry,
but they nave now gone out Of style even for
house and lawn decorations.
A GIRL at Harvard, Miss Brown, of the An
neX has led the entire college in all ils depart
ments. She passed the examinations to enter
I on an equal footing with her brothers. hos
taken instructions from the anne professors,
though at separate recitatious, ami heads
them all IN rank. She cannot take diploma,
hut she can have certificate OF testimony OF
what she has done.
AN English cutler now makes what he call
hsherman's knife, which weighs less than a
pound and Is carried at the belt. yet contains
gan, scissors, weighing scale up TO twenty
pounds, large and small blade. screwdriver
ana lie, a long oisgorger and file. a tin-open-
err, q corkscrew, a gimlet. an eight inch
measueIi tweezers and pricker.
THE instrumental music question, which
has been debated annually for fifteen years
by the Presbyterians of ireland, but never
satisfactorily settled, well nigh caused a
chlsm this year. Indeed, a number of minis
ters and elders did secede from the assembly
Tor short time and held an opposition meet
I ing. In few hours, however, a truce was
/ arranged. but such was the tension of feeling
that 1t was deemed eXpedient TO continue de-
bate on the subject. which was accordingly
postponed till next year.
1T seldom happens that fire is put out
/ with champagne; but this literally happened
at ball given by Mrs. Lawson, wife Of the
/ proprietor OF the London Tslegrdgh. Down
the centre of the long tent where the supper
was laid hung electric lights Embedded in
/ punches of flowers One of the tiny globes
cracked, and flames rose on all sides along the
linz of wire. The servants were paralyzed
/ ny the confagration, and 1t was due to a very
/ lavish use of wine by some of the guests pres
enC that serious damage was averted.
OLIVE LOGAN writes of poor Nelson: "This
beautiful woman and fine artist used to tell
me that she and the admiral were going to be
married as soon as his daughter welded and
so released her father from the chaperonship.
She little thought that both the admiral and
/ herself would be IN their graves before the
/ daughter married The event is now an
] nounced, however. NJ ISIS Carr Glvn is To wed
/ Lord NOrreys, man about IS or 80 years Old,
and she will be his third wife-the last Lady
| Norreys having dled about two years ago.
T. c. CRAWFORD tells queer little story as
illustrating Ferdinand Wards rapacIty. Gen.
Grant, he says, was accustomed to 60 up TO
/ New York to attend board meeting from
/ Long Branch, and when he aid he received
! The usual directors fee Of Il $40 gold piece,
/ This he always gave to Mrs. Grant until she
/ had some seventy or eighty of them. Ward
heard of this and got hold of them. He had
! 80 cOaXed the remote savings OF every lnGl-
yldual member Of the family that when the
| failure came there was not a single member
OF the family who had 500 at his command.
AN iron fence has been recently put be-
tween the Childs and the Grant cottages at
Long Branch. During Grants occupancy of
this cottage there was no fence. The lawns
of the two cottages were used in common.
| The fepce has been put up since the doctors
! in New ork told Mr.. Cblds that Gen. Grant
could never come to Long Branch again. The
title TO this cottage property is IN Mrs. Grants
/ possession. IL was not included in the
property turned over to Vanderbilt to secure
the loan of $4,000 made to Gen. Grant the
| sunday before the firm of Grant Il Ward
| failed.
THE limitation of yellow fever to restricted
areas is one of the characteristics of this dis
ease, even when epidemic, and it takes some
curious phases. The specific gravity of the
bison Is great, and 1t cHngs to surfaces.
| "Frequently its rate Of progress may he
automatically Defined says DR.. Y. W.
Reilly, $50 many feet per day independent Of
| any recognized influence. except perpen-
dicular obstacle" In Mobile "A board fence
| stopped its progress, and bluff bank held 1t
at bay for weeks IN Memphis. Hence the
| value of removal and the sanitary line, when
this disease appears.
The amount OF literary activity in India
can, to certain extent, be gagged by the
number of publications registered in the diff
ferent provinces. From the recently publish
4 ed returns for 1888 il appears that in that year
IN Madras 763 books and pamphlets and 50
] periodicals were registered, an increase Of a.
| over the previous year; in Bombay 1884
works were registered, an increase of 2j3; in
| Bengal the number OF works was 2.2lS, an in
! crease of no fewer than $50, the greatest IN
| crease being in books of Bengal, in which.
moreover, a higher standard OF excellence is
| noted In the northwestern provinces the
| publications decreased from LIB in 1882 to
| 800 in lSS3,but in the PuDjaub they increased
| from ], 1888 to l,7S6.
OUR esteemed fellow -townsman, the Hon.
Lambert Tree. returned to Chicago Thursday
says the Chicago Ne,os, to make preparations
| with " marked accent since his appointment
to the diplomatic service, aud as he sat chat
! ting with re IN our Office last evening IL was
! only with the assistance of French dictona-
| ~ that we were able 10 follow his converse
tion with any degree II certainty.
"Jedge. said we, 1.-THE Belgian mission is a
! daisy, chr"
. Ii is alleged to be tres jolie," he replied.
/ 1.-The advantages OF SAID mission are recher-
che-that is 10 say, to wit, creme de la
| creme
I'VE have often heard it spoken Of as SUCH"
| SAID we.
"Oui," said the Judge, "c'est tres jolie, as
hereinbeiOre stated
CURES, charms. and all kinds Of good luck
are believed by peasants IN France and Bel
GUM 10 lie concealed in the strands Of a rope
| that has hanged man. Some time ago a
wOodchopper in forest near Gand, in Bel
| GUM, found the body Of a suicide who had
shot himself lie Immediately went home
| procured a long rope, tied 10 round the dead
mans neck. and made it fest to a limb OF "A
tree, su-pending the body. Then he called ali
( his ueighbors 60 the spot, cut down the body
aud proceeded 10 auction the rope. The affair
was a great success, and the woOdchopper
/ pOcketed the price OF several sprees The
| Official investigation into the afair. however
/ put him IN y nX. He was Obliged 20 confess
| and now, on the ground that the rope is
( worthless because 10 did not suspend tho man