Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


TIE Alpine flower, edelweiss. has been
found in the Tocoma Range, Washington Ter
ritory, at an altitude above the sea of 5000
! feet.
TRAVELLING men complain that Inaugural
| tion week and its excitements ruined their
! business throughout the South for the first
/ two weeks IN March.
THE power OF Niagara Falls, exclusive Of
the velocity with which the water reaches
/ the brink, is lculated to be 5000. 600 horse
/ power or nearly one-fourth of the whole
steam power of the earth.
THERE are plantations in Ceylon producing
sol pounds to 1000 pounds Of tea per acre
! yearly. and the majority produce from 500
| pounds TO 600 pounds, and this tea is being
lad down IN the London docks at ED. to Sd.
per pound.
IN one Indiana town there are over 1000
ren engaged in the manufacture of roller
skates, and in another. of only 2,eOo inhabi-
| tants, Blk inventions have been patented. An
| attempt IS making to substitute buck wood
for lockwood, and if successful the cost Of
skates will be reduced one-half.
TIE supplement to the Paris newspaper Gil
| Bias, issued IN commemoration of the eighty
third anniversary Of the birth O. Victor Hugo,
| is veritable curiosity of literature. Some
$50 admirers OF the great French poet con-
| tribute to the general expression of homage,
! and the contributions, in every European and
duced in fac smile, with the autographs of
! The several authors.
THE Technical School of Moscow has an en-
dowment of 100000. 1t has all the appli-
| ances and facilities considered necessary for
a first class mechanical school. st. Peters
! burg has a similar school. Yet both COM
| bi1ed have had no marked effect upon civil or
| mechanical industry or upon manufacturing.
| That at Moscow was intended to be a Russian
Elton, but it is not appreciated, and, although
| possessing accommodations for 600, is at
! tended by barely 100 pupils.
AN official report of the director Of the Paris
Municipal Laboratory makes some very inter-
esting disclosures. Out of ninety-one sam
pies of coffee analysed during one month IN
| Paris, thirteen only were pronounced pure.
One specimen packet is said to have contained
| the following ingredients: Red EARTH flour,
| coffee grounds caramel, tale, plumbago, YER
micelli, semolina powder, bean dust, carrots,
| bread crusts, acorns, sawdust, red ochre,
! brick dust, ashes, mahogany shavings. vege-
/ table earth, and sand.
! FRENCH EDITORS, it is said, although pro-
curing their news from an agency at a cost Of
| 81 or IS day, do not scruple to display it in
| their papers as I" from our special cOrrespon-
dent" and do not seem to understand that
! they are lying when they do so. Every paper
! in Paris of any pretensions as a newspaper
| publishes daily special " matter from China
| and the East, when the truth is not single
| French paper has had the enterprise to send
| or to secure correspondent at the seat of the
| French complications in and around Shang-
! hal and Hanoi.
SAID popular pugilist once: SIT doesn't
| hurt much to get beaten, but to get beaten
! and lose our money too, breaks a man all
up" So long as the loser is guaranteed
| 35 per cent. of the gate receipts Sullivan VIII
| never lack opponents, however manifest their
| pugllistlc lnferiorlty may be. No one sup
| poses, for instance, that DOmnick Mccartney
] q chance CulIi
| the latter Is sober when they meet in Phila-
| dephia on March 30. But Mccartney is quite
| willing to submit to licking for 35 per cent |
of the receipts, especially as the police will
| probably see to 1T that the drubbing is not
severe one.
AN Arizona editor discourses thus on the
| foOishness of office seeking 1--WE don't want
any office. We try to give our readers bang
up paper every week, and$we find that doing
this takes all our time. When an editor has
made the round of all the saloons for items
digested all the war news from the Soudan
and classified all the paid locals, he has dope
a good weeks work and should not be called
III on to bear the responsibilities of any Office
| We are confident that President Cleveland
will find men to fill ali the offices without TAX
| ing us. II we did not believe SO we would |
| gladly sacrifice our private business for the
| good OF the country"
MISS SARTORIUs, in her book on the Soudan
and Egypt says every village has Its
| pigeon houses, looking like great mud cones,
| and in the evening the owners go out and call |
| them in. But when a man wants to get hold
! Of extra pigeons, instead of calling them he
| frightens the pigeons away. They do not I'M |
| derstand this, keep circling above, and swOoD
| down now and then toward their houses |
| Other pigeons, seeing this commotiOn, join |
| them, and as soon as the man sees there are |
| enough he hides. The whole of the birds, old |
| and new, then go into the house, and the man |
| returning shuts them in. This would be a
| fine business if it were not that all of them
! do the same thing, and, therefore, each gets
| caught in his turn. They know this perfectly
well, but no Egyptian fellah could resist the
| temptation of cheating his neighbor."
REV. w. s. RAINsFoRD, discussing ''The
Battle Cry of Outcast New York." before the
| Con gregational Club, a few evenings ago,
! presented a few undenable and unsavory
facts with regard to the cause of immortality
and criminality in that city, especially among |
| the working girls. Among these reasons was |
| the seeming unWelcOme of the churches to |
! the poor. The motto of ancient theology |
! he said, twas, Como ye all that are weary
J and heavy laden and l will give you rest3
| but modern theology says Come ye that are
| weary and heavy laden and able to pay pew
rents.'" He maintained that when church
! slttings are made free, when the poor are
/ made to feel that in the church all are
| then wonld the rosnei he snreed amop 20 the
| lowly. and the immoral and the criminal
would be lifted up to better life.
PEOPLE who lay down carpets across the
| pave cnt for the convenience of their guests
| will do we'll to note the case of Watson vs.
Ellis, decided in England by Lord Coleridge
and Mr.. Justice A. L. Smith, on appeal from
the Bloomsbury County Court. Col. Ellis
gave a dinner party in Portland place and
laid a strip of carpet from his house to the
roadway for the benefit of those hidden to the
feast. Mrs. Watson fell over the carpet and
hurt herself, and jury awarded her ESQ
| damages. The Colonel appealed but the de-
cision was upheld, the Lord Chief Justice re-
aryr fnnf hn 1oTIbl haA IIo
BILE right to use the high way, and that those
who laid down carpets the .eoE must take the
consequences. As Lord Coleridge observed,
this adds new terror to dinner parties, or
rather to the responsibilities of those who
give them.
AN ottawa letter represents that the Mar
quis of Lansdowne, the Governor General
and his cOnsort endeavor to make themselves
popular with the Canadians, and all local
celebrities are pretty sure Of gratifying at
tentiOns from them. Not long since the Mar
auis saw IN the local newspaper that certain
gentleman, whose name cOrrespOnded with |
that of native author, was registered at an
Ottawa hotel. Believing it to be the author
their EXcellencies invited him to dine. Din
ner was announced for half past seven; but |
at a quarter OF s a telephone message came:
Cant go; Pm stuck for a pair Of evening |
boots" "Come on; never mind that" was
the reply. He did come, but he was not the |
author. "Good heavens! we've got the |
wrong man." whispered an aide. "But we
must make the best of it now," was the hosts |
reply. He was bOisterous commercial trav- !
eler, driver OF fast horses, arrayed in mas
sive chains and elaborate rings.
THEY tell "short-haul'' story, says the
Hartford Comm COurant, about prominent
railroad freight agent in that State which is
worth repeating. He is an active Episcopa-
liam and a vestryman In the church in the lit
tie town where ne lives, which is not very far
from the city where he has his Office a. d |
spends his busy hours. One day, when bust
ORC a N a N IN rhn
posed starting q mill at a small town along |
the road which had to pay much more for |
freight than towns further along the route |
paid-in other words, 1t suffered the usual |
shOrt-haul discrimination. The visitor |
pleaded and argued, but, of course, in vain. |
Still he held on, and with his persistency The |
pretty well wore out the limited patience of |
the agent besides keeping other people wait
ing who had also called on business. Finally, |
he left, and the next man steppedup s'We1I, |
SIR" said the irritated agent, whereabouts |
is your id grist- ~ ~, sir" was the
meek reply, 'am the rector to whom you
wrote about conducting service next sun
day" His Odd grist milf was the church