Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

COLEMAN, the great mustard man, says
! that he has not made his fortune out of mus
tard eaten, but out OF mustard wasted on
| plates.
OLD AGE seems to be impaning the enter
prise of the great Snowman, p. T. Barnum,
/ little Otherwise he would hive asked Gen.
| Grant to place himself on exhibition.
AMAN in Montana publishes a card in the
local paper stating that he has a cancer, and
is satisfied that he cannot be cured by human
agency. He therefore requests the public to
pray for him, as last resort
ELEVEN DIsTILLERIEs nave been running IN
the Nashville, Tenn, district during the past
month. producing 46,S37 gallons of whisky.
| The amount withdrawn from bond was ll2,S4S
gallons; now on hand, l.2S6,566 gallons.
To illustrate the changes in New Hampshire
weather the Dover Republican says that NJ.
/ Y. b. FeIker plOwed on Jan. 1 with pair
| Of 900 pound horses, doing the work as easily
/ as in May, the ground being IN hne condition.
! The next day the mercury was below zero.
INapapcr upon butterine, read before the
Society of Arts, it is stated that IN 1888 over
| 40. OCO tons of that product were imported into
England from Holland, the factories at Oss
sending $50 tons a week. The latest improved
| butterine consists of OleOmargarine, milk,
vegetable oil and real butter.
NEW and important discovery of borax
! has lust been made near San Bernardino, Cal.
1t is a very large ledge, and Assays 81 per
cent. of pure borate of lime. The discOv
| cry is likely 10 interfere with the monopoly
| hitherto maintained by wealthy San Fran
cisco firm, which has succeeded in controlling
the supply of bOraX.
SOME of the stockholders in the New York
Elevated we're little surprised the other day
when they opposed the reduction of dividends
and saw their own certificates of stock voted
against them. One of the numerous Field
| family had borrowed them from broker at
| J. per cent. a day, and had them transferred
| in his name, the stockholders never once part
| ing with the stocks.
THE pawnbrokers of Boston are consid-
erably agltated and fear a loss of patronage
! in consequence Of an order issued recently by
| the Police Commission compelling them to
send to headquarters at the close of each day
a description OF each article presented to
them, the amount Of money loaned on the
| same, together with the name and description
of each person Offering IT.
THE camphor laurel, a native Of China, and
the tree from which most OF the camphOr of
commerce is obtained, seems to have been in
trOduced successfully into California, one
| tree in Sacramento having attained height
of 80 feet. The wood, every part OF whlch
smells strongly of camphor, is light and dura
| bic not liable to injury from insects, and
much favored by cabinet makers,
A LITTLE STRIP of sidewalk, about live feet
wide. in front of the United States court
house in Boston, is costantly the refuge of the
| street pedders of bouquets who wish to evade
| the payment of the license fee which the city
ordinances require. As the strip is the prop
| erty of the United States, they can here bid
defiance to the police, but 1t not infrequently
happens that their eagerness to sell lures
| them out, and then. if caught, they are
| brought to court and lined.
HERE is a description of a Chinese brides
dress: 1t was of pale blue hi; long, trimmed
with rare old toyah. while the trousers were
| If six fun lengths of yellow sigee. Her hair
was dressed Ia Hong Kong, there being no
| hangs OF any description. Her charming
little feet were half hidden IN bewitching
| nsir Of siIk shippers, with the heels knocked
| of The vision of lOveliness was placed in a
closed carriage and driven to the apartments
of the bridegroom, who was wondering what
sort of a companion his relatives ana ifenus
| had selected for him. He, of course, had never
seen her.
AT the late meeting of the California state
Teachers Association, A. l.. Bancroft dellv-
cred a lecture on proposed new alphabet.
The Sacramento Union says: previous TO
the address charts were distributed showing
the proposed san Francisco Alphabet Tor he
yised English Spelling, lSSi.' inns SHOWS
scheme of thirteen vowels,t0ur dlphthOhgs anu
fwentv-four cOnsOnants. The system may be
summed mn practically in the statement that
if is shorthand written in long way. The
characters apart from the ordinary alphabet.
resemble ordinary letters now IN use gener-
ally. Mr.. Bancroft explained the chart AT
length. and claimed for the san Francisco
AIphabeti a variety of advantages"
PROF. TYNDALL told this anecdote in the
course of his third lecture on ''The Sources of
Electricity" in London. He was working
with battery equivalent to Is large Leyden
Jars, IN one of his former discOurses, ana by
chance he touched the arm OF the machine. IL
had long been an earnest desire of the learned
gentleman to see the effect of this force upon
a human being, and be must have felt pc
culiar qualification in experimenting upon
himself. The whole charge was instantly
poured into his b0dy-and nobody knew any
thing about it except himself. He found,
however, that his optic nerves were so Curl
oUslv affected that for some time his limbs
seemed to him to be separated from his body;
otherwise he felt nothing at all,