Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

NIOpuODld IN manu.
THE KIT-KAT is New York sketch club,
with membership equal to that of Ali Baba's
band of thieves.
DEcHINITE or vanadate OF lead and zinc has
been discovered in Montana. Ore of this ma
ture Is worth $4,000 pound.
In PORTUGAL nowadays the ballot takes
place IN the churches, and the box generally
stanus between pair OF saints.
at is absolutely impossible" said Lord
Kosebery in recent address in Scotland,
that In the future war could ever take place
between the United States and England"
AMERICAN CHEEsEMAKERs are not the only
sufferers from the low price Of their product.
In France, Germany, Italyand Holland prices
range from 20 to % per cent. lower than they
did last year.
ONE OF our American sojourners IN a Ger
man university town was startled the other
day to hear this question seriously put and
hotly debated by party Of students: NV as
shakespeare drunk when he made his willp'
A CALIFORNIA RANcHER has discovered an
easy way of shooting rabbits, which. In that
State, as in some parts of Utah, are quite a
pest TO growing vegetation. He goes out at
night with lantern and a shotgun, and the
rabbits are attracted by the light and easily
shot.
THIS is wonderful city OF over $50, 900
souls, and revelation to me-" writes Min
lister Hanna from Buenos Ayres. There IS
more money here than in any place | ever
saw, but Just now they are having our green
back days over again, gold being worth Az.
III IS the most eNtravagant government on
earth.H
AT the sale of a collection of old plate, which
took place a few days ago at country house
in Bedfordshire, the extraordinary price of
SOS. per ounce was paid for a pair Of old Eng
fish sconces dated Ils. Nearly as much was
obtained for true Queen Anne loving cup,
with double handles and cover, dated l7l3. A
quaint old heater, with gridiron, dated 1879,
realized no less than EOS.
A JACK TRAIN passing along a Cliff near the
Newma1, Col, the other day crowded one of
the burr0s over precipice. The animal must
have fallen sixty feet perpendicularly, and
then struck on its back, the ore with which it
was packed serving to turn Its feet heaven
ward. The packers looked expecting to see
the arlmal broken into three or four sections,
but he got up, snOrted once or twice, and
STRUCK out for the valley.
1T is NOTED that the advance Of 81 80 per
ton in the price of pig iron has set all the
furnaces OF Tennessee and Alabama going
on full time. Indeed. some of the Southern
iron masters are far behind their orders The
difference between North and South in cost of
production is about So per ton IN favor of the
latter. There are too many furnaces North
and too few South, but it will not be long ere
the latter sections advantages are better APP
preclated, as they must be as they become the
better known.
THE BREWERS of Western Germany are Just
now, like their beverage. in a ferment. 1t s
the founding of the German Maltese Stock
Company" at Cologne which has excited them
to this extent. Maltese is the brand new title
OF a new ingredient to be introduced largely
into the manufacture of beer. According to
the prospectus of the company his stuff con-
slsts of SO per cent. of maize and Il Der cent.
of sO-caled green malt. The brewers intend
to petition the Imperial Government to forbid
the use of any substitute for brewing pur-
poses.
LAST summer stiles H. Whiting, of Bridge
port, Conn.,, secured two skate fishes and,
with the aid of some of his friends twisted
and arranged the dried carcasses so that they
have close resemblance to mermaid as that
my thical creature is portrayed by pictures on
the front OF dime museums. Mr.. Whiting
sent the bogus mermaid to friend in SYRIA
cuse, \. Y. Several articles published by the
New York papers during the last few weeks
have described the strange creature with
much elaboration, and styled it, if not genuine
mermaid, as a marine mystery past finding
out, and so high an authority as professor
connected with the High School in Syracuse
would not say that the specimen was not
real mermaid.
NJ. JEAN DOLLFUs, president Of the as ocia-
ton for building workmen's dwellings at
Mulhausen, states IN his report for the current
year that 20 new houses have been built within
the past - months, making a total since the
association was founded of l.060, out of which
715 have been purchased outright by their Oc-
cupiers, while the Occupers of the 285 others
still owe 6,13S, and the total amount re-
celved from the occupicrs has been EI70,440
of which about two thirds has been for pur-
chase money and the remainder for interest
r1gf aaf rr.raf rraEUr
ard wash houses are much appreciated, and
during the past twelve months 1886 persons
nave taken baths, and Is, 764 persons have
used the wash houses.
PRESIDENT CREWS life at the Palace of the
Elysee, Paris, has been HOMOGENEOUS but easy
one. His daily routine is about this: He rises
at and takes for breakfast roll and a cupof
chocolate Then he goes down stairs aud re-
ceives visitors in the great East parlor He
receives them, seated in capacious cushioned
chair. II the weather is cold he is seated
close by the fire, with his feet buried in a
huge fur rug. AT noon he has plain but sub
stantial lunch. sometimes with few friends
at table. After this he repairs to the bill ard
room and spends an hour or two at his favor
tie game. The rest of the afternoon he de-
votes to his private business affairs, talking
with his agents in the garden--lf the weather
Ia pleasant. Then comes dinner, and after
that the President reads an hour or two and
goes to bed before 9.
A NEW BOOK has appeared in Paris which
may give rise to mild sensation OF the
sort created By "John Bull ct Son ne." al
though it is by no means equal to that clever
volume IL Is written in a style similar to
that assumed by Max O'Rell, and ia entitled
LA Muslque au Pays des BrOui lsrds" BY
Felix Reno. IL purports TO be. and is in its
way, an exhaustive description of the musical
life Of England, 1.-The country of fogsp and
embraces every department of musical ex-
preston, from the street TO the court, IL
contains numerous inaccuracies which are
Anderson and Miss Forteseue as leading
musical stars of Great Britain. These errors
are too absurd to arouse any feeling but riqi
Guile; and the book Is altogether very amusing
and instructive.
IN cunningly systematic robbing which
has been going ON for some time past at Chi
cago, Jack Flatters, a teamster in tue employ
of Roos, Henshaw 4 Co., butterine mapufac-
turers, was supported by Thomas Parker. a
butcher on West Taylor street. Harry Evans
and John curtin. ROOs, Henshaw & Co, have
Company, OF the stock yard. for ID, 900 pounds
OF lard aud beef day. IL has been Flatteris
business TO drive out to the stock yards and
bring IN the daily consignment Of lard To
prevent crooked work the lard was weighed
al the STOCK wards and re-wei ghpd on the
city scales. Stopping every day on his waV
back from the yards at Parker's butcher shoD.
Flatlcrs took ont between 300 an 400 pounds
Evans and Curtin doubled themselves IN i'm
the hole thus made in the load, and were ef
iectaaly concealed by the heavy tarpaulin