Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ OF peanuts IS an experiment.
THERE is a salt lake in Hidalgo county.
/ Texas, whah ia one mile in length five miles
I i'm circumference, and from three to four feet
deep. It's led consists Of crystals of pure
/ saI:.
THE street cries so piercing and so numer-
/ Gus which one hears every morning In the city
of Paris are taught by a professor, who in
/ stFucts his pupils from a work published in
/ the time OF Francois L.
! OUT Of a lake-like cavity, south Of Port Of
Spain. at Trinidad Venezuela, $4,000 tons Of
pitch are annually taken without seeming 70
7 decrease the contents Of the cavity, which has
! an area OF about 100 acres, ana depth as yet
/ unascertalned.
| u the Tuireries Garden is a chestnut
/ which is said to always open its leaves on
] March 20 tocommemorate the return of Roma
| partc from Elba. This year. however, 1t was
/ beaten by two other trees in the garden by
/ nearly week.
TIE popularity of a worker in German sill
yer spoons in Walungford, Conn, IS the color
of his hair. Years Of labor in the trimming
or hUliug-room Of a sponge factory dyes the
hair of the operative pale green, which II
! takes years 20 change.
THAT pegacd shoes and boots are still quito
extensively used might be inferred from the
fact that peg manufacturing company At
Bartlett, N. H., is turning out the little
wooden articles at the rate Of $500 bushels
day, aud has orders on hand that viii require
several months to fill.
ELECTRICITY has proved great adjunct to
photography The other night the President
of France, while attending a sOiree, was pho
tOEr9phed from twelve different positions,
and knew nothing of il until the close OF The
evening. when an album was presented him
containing the pictures.
IN reply to d question of 2 reporter as to
whether any further action had been taken
in the case of Miss Sweet. the pension agent
/ at Chicago. whose resignation 5 been asked
! for. the Commissioner of Pensions said that
nothing further had been done. He said tina,
he did not know thet ANYTHING further was
required from his office. Wien asked If the
/ resignation would forthcoming, Gen. Black
smiled and SAID: "The LORD made women"
THE latest phase of French fashion is the
invention by q society leader OF what he calls
the rrico.Or quadTiie. OF the eight couples
composing the quadrlle half the gentlemen
wear red Goa s, the other half blue coat, and
an Of them white knee breeches, while all the
ladies' are IA white. This presents a perfectly
prism3tic picture. which the quadrille move
ment makes ka'eidoscopIc. II is proposed to
get up cosmopolitan ban where the dancers
shall represent the national colors of every
government in Europe.
THE tug war has commenced in earnest in
Chicago. All of the lines that have boats in
I
duccd rates. One line has publicly declared
Itself as cutting the regular tariff 50 per cent.
/ Another has offered to knock of 90 or even 40
/ per cent. S,ill another has informed its pat
/ rOns to SET their own price. The war is an
/ pareutly carried on by the three leading lines.
/ the small concerns keeping in the back
/ ground and taxing no part in the conflict. In
/ fact, the lines controlling but two or three
/ boats bave made no preparations for the sea
son several small owners announce their
I intention Of keeping their boats tied up until
the tarh is restored. and some arc so COM
/ p'eteiy dlsheartcned that they have about de-
! cldet 10 dispose Of their boats and abandon
| the nus mesa. OF course vessel owners enjoy
watching the various phases of the warfare,
40 cheap towing rates means TO them larger
profits on fire ghts.
president GREEN, of the Western Union
/ Tclegr phi Company, desires to have it under
! stood that the company does not intend to re-
/ 5ist the New Y ork law cOmpellipg them to put
! thclr wires under ground reXt autumn. but
/ at the same time he asserts that in case of its
/ enforcement they VIII he com PEELED to aban-
( 0on about three-quartcrs of their stations in
| that city on acc 'un oil the expense in sinking
I their wires, and the heavy increase in the
cost OF the service where underground wires
| are employed. This increase arises from the
! retardlng of currents, owing to the GROWING
! of the wires, and from the greater size Of the
| wire that VIII he necessary. Besides. in IN
| derSround cables. from the fact of the insula-
] tluH Dclig continuous. ne SAYS. the danger of
/ interruption for repairs is incessant, In auv
/ event, however, he declares the company is
/ law-abdlng, but before the law is obeyed
/ we must first be assured of its validity"
which implies that the company is making a
case Tor The courts as against the Legislature.
IL 1913 Congress passed an act allowing all
officers who had served in the Mexican war
three months extra pay which was then de-
cldet by the accounting officers OF the Treas
I ury 10 apply only to Off ers Of the volunteer
service. and not to officers of the regular
IA no Ysla
/ 0Pred without additional Conversation The
! question has been agitate ever since, and in
/ lN'9 congress pa sed an act defining the act
or 1913 10 include both regular and Voluntper
officers, which was again disputed bv the
Treasury officials. The parties interested
have since, through legal decision estab-
llshed their claims and with a view of and
before commencing payment, the Treasury
department has furnished the Secretary Of
w ar with a list OF the claimants, to ascertain
II they are in any way indehtei to the gov
ernment, This list comprises many names
prominent IN military history, such as Gems
Winfield scott, Robert L. Lee. Perslver
Smhh, David r. Twiggs, Albert sydney John
ston, Gideon ). Pillow. James Longstreet and
others. Payment is to be made to the suryi-
yOrs or established heirs.
AT a sale lately held in London a wax taper
sold for GO 1t was declared to be the identi-
cal one carried in penance by Henry II. to the
shrine OF Thomas a Beckett in Canterbury Ca
thedral. 1t was found in the year 1873 in the
shrine, and by some means WAS obtained NV
l'r. Men!.h. of Chelmsford. in whose museum
10 remained for many years until it pa-s-d
into the hands OF the late owner Whether IL
Is the identical taDar may he a question bnt
10 Is remarkable that IL should bear the arms
OF thglH embossed upon 10. NJ .ttheW Par,
relates that he King did penance to expiate
his participation n the murder OF the Arch
bishop, bearing taper and laying it upou the
shrine, and that afterwards he was scourped
on the Dar' back by many clergy assemb Ell
for the purpose. The other antiquities of m
crest were q fine square bell of bronze with
Stone clappcr, found at klgOrt Parish Of
I Flntona, County Tyrone, Ireland in ISgO
viii n sold for c. l0s.: and an aucfent SYRIA
| tal7man OF bronze, engraved with figures and
| characters, originally glt. IL was brought
/ from syria, and 10 supposed TO be Chsldean
I work. II sold for a Is. Two Babvloninn
tablets lAcised Of the date OF the sixth cen
I iury b c., sold for Il los.
MISS CLEVELAND, says a Washington cor.
respondent has not worn the same dress
twice. so far, in all her social ceremonies. and
women who notice such things augur that il
/ Is going 60 be marvelously well-drcssed
/ administration. There has been lately n
/ laughabe hurry ing-up OF dress. makers
among me families who felt their warrirobes
/ were not quite up 10 the eNireucies ~ mo
situation, but Miss Cleveland came wen ures
! pared Tor the spring campaign. The i'm
I preston had gained wide cre1ence somchow,
! that her tuilettes would be her least worries
ana that good clOt es would be rather
/ irowned down. While she iR not what a
modesto would cal q STYLISH woman nor
/ gowns are of the richest materials. ana her
/ tore ol lace would be q treasure 10 auybodv