Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
IN the ifty-four years of which there is any
record the river Hudson opened six times in
February, forty-one times in March and
seven times in April. The latest was in lS43
when it was almost the middle of April be-
fore there was chance of navigation to Al
bany.
PUBLIC PRINTER ROUNDS believes that the
types setting machine lately invented by a
Baltimore German-Am erican, which he pro-
nOunces practical IN every way. will, within
the next five years, revOlutiOniZe the art of
printing in the United States and throughout
the world.
THE old time notion OF one immense central
engine to furnish power for an entire large
establishment is getting out of date The
change is to independent engines for each de-
partment, so that one may be stopped for re-
pairs or from slackness of work, while an
other may be run without carrying the load
of the connecting shaftng and pulleys.
THE Minnesota Legislature has adopted a
resolution asking that a strip of land IN Doug
las county, Wis. In the vicinity of the river
and Bay of st. Louis and the Bays Of st. Louis
and Duluth, be coded to Minnesota. A com
miseion has been appinted by the Minnesota
Legislature to meet q similar commission to
be appointed IN Wisconsin to consider the
project.
The English university constituencies in
clude the whole mass of graduates who
choose to keep their names upon the books
the lawyers ANA the physicians the 'squires
and the parsons, the bankers, merchants and
wrters-men of every trade and Of every
rank in educated E. gland. Oxford has 5.400
| sGch electors, and Cambridge about a thou
sand more.
VERMONT boasts of profitable gold mine
the Rocks. From an annual report, 1t APP
pears that the mine produced from Septem-
er, 1883 to January, 1855, $6S,670 in gold, and
PAID four dividends aggregating sac 600, the
! yield varying between 1873 IS and $50 10 while
! the cost declined from $40 Is to s. 20 per ton
! Tor mining and milling. The mine is located
at Plymouth.
/ THE mother of a family consisting of two
grown-up daughters, living in Gofistown, n.
H., recently died, and when the undertaken
came to perform his duties the father was
| ked the name of his wife. His reply was,
Mother" No other name could he remem-
| Der, and the daughters were equally ignO-
| rant having never known their parent by any
| other name than Mother"
WE hardly credit the report, says the
! Philadelphia Press, that eX-Gov. Click, of
Kansas Is to be made Commissioner Of Agri-
culture. 1t is improbable Click is vastly
! ignorant of farming, his sole experience in
| that industry consisting of the dismal failure
! of pet scheme which he once devised for
! raising succOtash by planting sweet corn and
/ Lima beans in the same hill.
"a - obtAAEc3 bul uGNcIbutl6S u ldCls lHdG
! genuine Perique tobacco only grows on
ridge situated about one mile from the
Mississippi river, in st. James parish, La. and
! that said ridge is only about two miles wide
! and seven miles IN length. Tobacco viii
grow in any part of the state, but it is on
| this patch only that the famous Perique is
cultivated. The average crop is about I5 Geo
pounds.
! Two new steel steamers for the fruit trade
! between the United States and the West In
/ dies are now being butt on the river Clyde, on
American account. They are to be 600 tons
net and about 600 gross, guaranteed to have
/ speed OF twelve knots per hour One of the
! steamers Will arrive early next month. The
! reason given for their being built abroad is
! that the Scotch shipbuilders contracted to
| build them on two years time.
A YOUNG SECRETARY OF LEGATION, whose
/ duties required his attendance at a recent
/ White House reception, was so unwilling to
! lose moment of the opera, with Theo in the
, cast, that he left the theatre, changed his
evening dress for his diplomatic costume in
/ the carriage while driving to the White
/ House, saluted the President, and returned as
/ he had come to the opera. He was absent
! from the theatre just thirty minutes.
/ An item is going the rounds Of the medical
press that forty years ago DR.. Wilkinson King
studied one thousand autopsles at Guys Hos
/ pital. London, to ascertain the proportion of
/ persons who have latent cancer or cancerous
/ groWths, but who die from other causes with
out q suspicion that they have the hidden
germs of that disease. He found that ''Of all
females who die at about 40, nearly One-half
| have cancers; OF males, One-eighth. Of males
above s.. one-ffth of all are cancerous."
THE depopulation of France has been re-
ceiving much attention from the Paris savaDts.
NJ. Luuier proposes that the government take
legal steps to facilitate marriages, to search
out the paternity of infants, to accord prizes
or immunity from taxation to parents having
more than two children, to guarantee secrecy
| to any mother who may wish to leave her
| child at q founding hospital, and to extend
| the protection of the State to all children
"moTaly abandoned. :" Since the year 1900
( the French birth rate has fallen from 1923 to
2j.5 per 1000 inhabitants.
AMOS T. ATwATEB, Secretary of the Ma
tiOnal Cattle Association, who has been max
ing a tour of Texas, estimates the loss of cat
! tie there this season at from to per cent.
! The closing of the old trail north will compel
| the owners to throw much of their surplus
/ stock on the market. which Will depresS the
price of bee. The Texan ranges are over
/ stocked. Last year at this time over $l0CO,
| 600 worth of contracts were held by Texas
/ ranchmen. but this year not a dollar, owing
to the closing of the trail. Mr.. Atwater
! thinks the day of free grazing in Texas is
| about over In the near future stock ra sers
! will have TO pasture their herds on their own
lands and cultivate ground enough for fodder
| to carry their cattle through the winter.
! a VIRGINIA CnuTCuVdfu on SUNDAY feScm-
bles more a race course than a sepulchral
ground. The ladies come to it in carriages
| and the men on horseback, who, after dis
mounting, fasten their steeds to trees. But
/ the steepies TO the Virginia churches are more
| for ornament than use, as the bell is suspend
| ed TO a tree few yards from the church. 1
! was astonshed on entering the churchyard to
! hear ''steed threaten steed with high and
! bOastful neigh" Nor was l less stunned by
! the rafting Of carriage wheels, the cracking
of whips and the vOciferatiOns of the gentle
men to the negroes who accompanied them.
But the discourse of Mr.. Weems Gained every
perturbation, for he preached the great doc
trnes of salvation as one who felt their power.
A YOUNG COUPLE who went to a Methodist
church in Selby, England, to be married
| found TO their great disappointment that the
ceremony could not be performed until two
days afterward, owing to the neglect Of the
! Registrar in not forwarding the required no.
| tiee in time. The young couple had taken
| and furnished house, the wedding breakfast
| was prepared, and ali their friends, many of
whom had come long distances, were present.
| The modification was increased when, after
! two DAYS, the bride-elect and the bridesmaids
| attended the chapel and the bridegroom failed
to appear. When the minister, sympathizing
with the young woman. drove to the residence
of the young man, he found that he had dis,
appeared, leaving word that he had changed
his mind and would not marry.
A CASE with a novel defense to it took
place before Mayor ReInkamr, in Aurora,
o., Wednesday. ''Aunty" Hill, as she is
Familiarity called, caused the arrest of Will
liam swango, Henry Wilman and Lew Carr
on the charge of breaking out her windows.
The defendants are all small boys of from 10
to u years of age, and possessed OF the aver
age American boys idea of fun. When the
trial proceeded the fact of the windows being
broken by the boys was developed. but the
further fact was shown that Dick Ray, the
grandson of Mrs. Hill and of about the same
age as the other boys, has fOndness for chew
Ing tobacco, and had proposed to the defend
ants that if they would accommodate him
| with a chew of tobacco he would grant
them the privilege of throwing Is times
at the glass in his grandmother's win
dow. The BOYS accepted the proposal and
furnished the young hopeful with his wished
for tobacco, and then began the fusilade of
stones on the old woman's windows, while the
grandson stood by counting the throws and
| chewing his tobacco with satisfied air. So
accurate was the aim of the young sports that
p names of glass were broken in the % throws.
| When the court had heard all the facts in the
case he dismissed the suits against the boys.
gave them a proper lecture, and then directed
| ibe parents Of the defendants to pay their
Droportionatc shaFesof the broken windows.
II WoriId occur to the mind OF an outsider
that the old lady could avoid similar trouble
in the future by laying in sufficient supply
of tobacco for the use OF her promising and
! speculative grandson