Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


dent Of Danbury, Conn, swallowed small
live frog the other day.
IT IS given out from an authentic Chinese
source that the imperial revenues OF the
entire Chinese empire are only $S1,5OO,OOO per
annum.
TIE average Sunday plate collections of
Rev. Newman Halls church, in Westminster
Bridge Road London, is Sl75, and Of Rev G.
II. SpurEeon's congregation, IN the great
Tsberna ,e, S355.
A cURBANT-GRAPE that has no seeds is
grown to a very great extent in many parts
of Greece, the annual product being $4,000
tons, OF which the United states buys annu-
ally about 10000 tons.
THE honey bees cultivated in the United
States are principally of the German and
Italian varieties, though within the past five
years many of them have been brought from
Syria and cyprus. The honey bee Is not lndl-
genOus TO America.
THERE are in the human voice about nine
perfect tones. Thus, IA direct muscles, alone
or together, produce $685. 30 indirect mus
cles produce l73,74l,S2S and all in co opera
ton produce the large total of IL ,592, AIS
different but clearly defined sounds.
TIE long contemplated ship anal from the
Baltic through Holstein to the North Sea is at
last likely to be made. The cost of the under
taking is estimated at $4G,000,0o0, OF which
one third is to be borne by Prussia, the re-
mainder being distributed over the other parts
OF the German empire.
THE church authorities in Prussia are be-
Coming alarmed at the growth of the dissent
ing spirit in the national church. The mp
per consistory of Berlin has recently issued
declaration, directing the pastors and the
people Of the State church what position to
take over against the inroads OF sect and
sChlsm.
LAST year was a toleraby productive one
for the collectors of prehistoric remains IN
Switzerland. The remains discovered belong
mostly to the bronze period, and the chief To-
calities IN which they were found were Lake
Neuchatel and the settlement OF Wallishofen,
near Zurich, the latter OF which is the only
station of the bronze period yet known in
Eastern switzerland.
OF the 100 suspects who we're in Kilmain-
ham jail, Dublin, with Mr.. Parnell three
years ago, three have been hanged seven are
dead, 10 have been sent to penal servltude for
life, and so are car conductors and drivers in
New York, Brooklyn and Chicago. All Of
them had good businesses or professions. put
had TO leave Ireland in consequence of the
severity of the crimes act.
CHOLERA GERMS show decided affinity for
human lips, therefore fruit from infected dis
rcts is dangerous. The orange especially, or
any fruit which, like it, is washed with water
before shipment. is very likely to transmit the
germs To touch the body of cholera pa
uent and afterward accidentally TO touch
ones own lips with the same hand would prob
ably cause cholera to the person SO doing.
The epidemic attacks no special trade, but
poverty always. Even street sweepers are
not specially liable to an attack.
4 FLORIDA ORANGE GROWER writes to a
friend at Lincoln, Ncb., as follows: 81 want
somebody to eat up all my oranges and gar
den stuff. Last season ] shipped so crates of
oranges and about a carlOard of truck and
melons. My commission merchant al the end
OF the season sent me a bill Of S53 IS to bal
ance accounts. Now, am not discouraged.
This IS lovely country, and propose to stay
here, but, by thunder, propose to economic.
So / want enough good fellows to come down
here to eat my stun and saYe the expense Of
selling it,
WHEN an important division is expected in
the British Parliament certain members on
each SIDE are charged with the duty of get
ting their respective partisans to the cham
Der. These members are called "whips," and
the importance of the notice served is indI-
Gated by the number of lines employed in the
underscOring always beneath the words OF
the message. The excuses given by the alb
sent Liberals upon their party's recent defeat
are beng published. Eight say they were ill,
four were out of the country, one missed the
train, and no less than four were on wedding
tours.
In Naples, according to Ouida, "horses,
lambs, dogs, cats and rats are skinned alive
because the skin when removed from the
living creature is considered more supple, and
sells for a somewhat higher price. Dogs are
seized by legallZed municipal dOg-stealers
twice day; are thrust pell mel into a court;
kept two DAYS without food, and then half
stunned with stick, and while living flayed
from head to tail. Horses in the knacker's
yard there are allowed to drop from hunger
as being less trouble than killing them, and
when utterly exhausted are nailed on planks
and fayed."
A LADY in Bath, Me-. who is a firm believer
in spiritualism, was short time ago paper
ing her room, and had completed her task all
but in one corner. 1t was difficult place to
match and put the paper on smoothly, and il
did not appear that the paper would hold out
to do the work. The lady was standing think
ing she could do it, when the spirit OF a de
ceased and Well-known painter and paperer
las she alleges appeared, and on recovering
from her surprise al the strange appearance
of the spirit IL had disappeared, and the paper
was on the wall ms neatly and as nice as if she
lad put 1t there herself.
THAT charming summer resort of the cow
boys Dodge City, Kan, Is not very hOspitable
to temperance reformers. Two visitors of
aid class arrived there the other day armed
with authority from the Attorney General of
The State to prosecute the whisky sellers of
that locality under the prOhibItory liquor
law, and they were allowed to remain in town
only until the arrival OF the next tram. Dodge
CITY Is the place, IL will be remembered,
where purse was raised soon after the pas
sage OF the law in question and deposited
with the local banker "for the benefit of the
the widow of the first id scOuudrel who
makes complaint against saloon
REV. MR.. POWELL, in charge of the Baptist
missionary work at saltillo, Mex, complains
bitterly Of the action Of the Federal Judge in
that city in the matter of opposing the eree-
tiOn Of a Baptist church uPon'a piece Of prop
erty bought by the Baptists from the Stata of
Coahulla, and for which they paid the sum of
$4,000. II seems that this property was the
site of the ruins OF an ancient Catholic church
and the partisan courts of the country will
hold that the ground having once been used
for Catholic church can never be used for
any other purpose. The question raised will
become an International one, because the
Baptist church will appeal with all the infu-
ence its powerful organization can bring TO
bear upon the State Department at Washing
ton TO protect its rlghtss
DURING q period Of Is or 30 years, ending
about 1910, the markets Of philadelphia, VIII
mngtOn and Baltimore were almost exclu-
siyely supplied with screw augers made in
the northern part of Cecil county, Md,
whence IS shops and 100 persons supplied the
trade. Thomas Garrett learned the mystery
Of auger making from Miles Standish "a lineal
descendant OF the Miles Standish who came
over 20 New England in the May Flower,
who, ia company. with Ebepezer Alden Ia de-