Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THIRTY-sEvEN RAILROADS, embracing H.
O0O miles, or nearly One-tenth Of the mileage
of the country. were taken in charge by re-
ceivers last year
THE Supreme Court n Tennessee has de-
cided that trainer has lien upon horse
for his services, time and expense in prepar-
ing the horse for his races.
OVER 5000 women are employed IN the rail-
way Offices of Austria. They get from SIS to
$50 a month. Nearly all of them are widows
of men who have died in railroad service
EVERY English Lord Chancellor gets a pen
sion OF S25, 900 a year, and sometimes there
have been as many as five in receipt of such
pensions. Lord Cairn Is now the only one.
WASHINGTON post Office sold last year SS74
worth of drop-letter stamps for valentines.
This year the sales reached nearly $500. Con-
gressmen get large proportion OF the mis-
sives.
OF the seventy-six United States Senators.
at least thirty two are professors of religion,
including one Jew, one Roman Catholic, and
two Unitarians. Uf these, sixteen, or Just
half are Presbyterians.>
DIR. LANPHERE, of Bay City, Michigan, has
a COW which sports sixty well developed
horns, and the animal recently gave birth to
Il calf whose backbone showed indications OF
turning out fully as many horns as the
mother possesses.
THE suit brought at san Diego, Cal, against
the keeper Of an aviary because he located
his hives close to another persons orchard,
on the ground that the bees were an injury to
the latter, has been terminated by the bee
keeper Withdrawing his hives.
AN idea Of how quickly gossip flies may he
gained from a little incident that occurred IN
birmingham, Ala. recently, where a rumor
ssgot OUT that one of the female school teach
eTs was TO be married, and in a few hours no
less than fifty applications for her place were
made.
A COLONY Of English and Scotch has been
settled upon lands bordering on the Mojave
Desert. in California. Their water supply is
obtained from one aTtesian well, 235 feet deep,
costing, including piping, 1871. flow OF 1900
600 gallons per day. During the coming sea
son from 10000 to 1000 acres, it is estimated,
viii be s0Wn IN wheat.
THE reindeer skin suits for the Greedy relief
expedition were made in Norway at a cost to
this government of $55 apiece At recent
sale speculator of New York bought them
for IS apiece, and il is said he has now sold
almost all OF them at from $40 to $50 piece.
They have been bought as curiosities and also
TO be converted into rugs.
IOWA CAPITALISTS own rich iron mine in
Durango, Mexico, 600 miles south of El Paso.
For decades past the mine has been worked
bv natives, who were hired to bring the ore
out of the pockets, toiling up the aft from
900 feet below the surface with $50 pounds of
ore on their backs. They started up the shaft
without lights, and by means OF notched logs,
placed crossWays of the shaft, reached the top.
a single misstep would hurl them hundreds
of feet below. The Iowa Company is putting
in extensive machinery.
IN the United IrishmdR this week Rosa
wants to know why Mr.. Pierrepont Ed
wards, the British Consul. has not been ar
rested for conspiracy to murder him. He says
he docs not intend to waste time ION a worth
less tool. but he will make application for a
warrant for the arrest of j. Pierrepont Ed
wards. IL remains to be seen If citizen of
the United States and of the State of New
York is to be protected by the state from the
murder cOnspiracies of the official agents OF
an alien government" A rumor that Ell
Mahdi is an Irishman named OSulllyan in
spires Rosa to write half a column about
Irish names. He says: "Our name is O'DonO-
van. In a similar fashion there is branch
family of the O'Sullivans, called Muintirna-
Mdhdi (the people of the sticks, because IN
those unfortunate faction fights OF Olden days
these OiSulllvans never made their appear
auce at pattern fair or market without bring
ing their backthorns with them. Long life to
our eNiled cOuntryman, FL Mahdi. and thatit
might not be long ill he gives the cursed
English invaders of his land a better cudgel-
ing than he gave them lately"