Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1 on May %, 1856, and the City Council are al
ready taking measures for the celebration of
/ the birthday.
/ CHILDREN were born to a mother and daughte
ct the same time and in the came house out In
] Illinois the other day. The babies were dress
/ ed and put in the cradle together. When they
7 were taken up soon after netlher motheI Knew
/ her own child. and to-day they are still Won
! derlng which is which.
IT is estimated that 1000 Danes will come
to this country this year, most of whom will
| settle in the Northwest. Most of the immi-
1 grants from Denmark are farmers in good
circumstances. The majority own farms. and
when they come TO this country they bring
! considerable money with them.
/ THE ideal Christian community would seem
! to be IN Iowa, where, under one pastor, Pres
/ byterians, Baptists, Congregationalsts and
/ others are tremendously working together.
The sunday school superintendent and two of
the Bible class teachers are Baptists, one of
the elders is Congregationalist and another
/ is Lutheran.
AT the late Virginia Baptist (colored) Con-
vention an enthusiastic member said; Let
/ every one here who takes a Baptist paper
/ hold up his hand" Up went the hands, and
/ just then the editor of the Baptist Companion
/ cried out: Now let those who pay for their
/ papers hold up their hands" This time fewer
/ hands went up.
/ HoTHoUsE FLOWERS are rare in New Or
| leans, because the winters are so short it
/ wouldn't pay to build and keep up expensive
greenhouses. When a Northern visitor orders
a dollhouse bouquet he is astonished at the an
nouncement that he must wait until it can be
ordered from Louisville, Cincinnati or New
! York. In mid winter there are no flowers in
the city.
SEVERAL YEARS AGO salmon fry were
planted in the Potomac, but the experiment
has always been regarded as failure. Fri
day, however, magnificent salmon, weigh
ing nlnc pounds, was caught in a net at Stony
Point, little below GlymOnt. AS this is the
first salmon known to have been caught in the
Potomac, II has aroused considerable interest
among fishermen.
WALNUT, once so much in demand for fur
niture, has lost its prominence, and dealers
in wood report a large falling off in the de-
mand Mahogany is coming again into its
old-time prominence. and Boston dealers say
| that the demand IA Increasing daily. Stained
/ cherry is much used for limitations of ma
/ hOgeny in furniture. but this wood in its
natural color is handsome enough, and is at
! present very popular.
A SUCCESSFUL TEST was made at the mint
/ at Washington Friday of an invention of
superintendent SnowdeD. intended to pre-
vent the cOunterleiting of coins. Instead of
the edges being milled the words ''E Pluribus
Unum" and thirteen stars were stamped upon
the coins by an ingenious machine worked in
connection with the dies. The mechanism OF
the new contrivance is so complicated that it
Is beneNed no counterfelters could duplicate
1t. Two dozen silver dollars were successfully
stamped by the machine,
CHARLES r. ZACHARIAs and Miss Adelaide
Marsh, both residents of Newark, n. j., when
they concluded to Join in matrimony's bonds,
decided to have the affair attended with some
novelties Both are skillful bicyclers, and
when all was in readiness the groom mounted
a bicycle and the bride elm bed into a tricycle.
and, waving cheerful adieu to theHr friends.
they started for the ministers house in
Orange. They were accompanied by numer
GUS friends in coaches. Upon arriving In
Orange they were quickly united and started
off on their wedding tour which viii extend
over a month. and will ''take M all the best
| bicycling roads in Pennsylvania.
FOLLOWING Is the inscription on the tomb of
the frat husband of Martha Washington at
darlington" the original seat Of the Gusts
amily, on the Eastern shore of Virginia:
''Bene tn this marble tomb lies ye body
of the Honorable John Custis, Esq.
Of the City of Williamsburg and Parish of
Boston,
! Formerly of Hangers Parish on the Eastern
Shore of
| Virginia, and the County Of Northampton, the
| place Of his nativity.
Aged 4 years, and yet lived but seven years,
Which was the space of time he kept
Bachelors House at Arlington,
On the Eastern Shore of Virginia"
| THE police of St. Petersburg have been for
some time puzzled by the conduct of remark
able class of thieves, who committed robbery
! not only in the open day, but, moreover, with
/ Ostentation. They were Firms, and were all
! young men. When arrested, they calmly
/ pleaded guilty and were sentenced to imprs-
/ Onment for terms varying from one to three
| months. At the expiration of the sentence
| they promptly disappeared. II turned ont
| that they had returned to their own country.
/ ana had there resumed their several avOca-
1 lions without loss OF social position. The law
/ OF Finland forbids the enrolment in the army
OF any persons who have undo rgone impris-
| Onment for civil Ofenses, so these enterprise
| ing Firms had deliberately sought imprison-
ment in order to avoid CONSUMPTION.
THE United States has more than three
times as many miles Of telegraph line, double
the number of telegraph Offices and forwards
/ twice as many kilograms annually as any
other country on the globe. The figures for
the United states are: Length of line, 1853, 94O
miles; number of Offices. IA, 402; messages sent
last year, 57,9l2,247. Russia comes next in
miles of lines. with So, 1876, but is far behind In
! number OF offices and kilograms sent France
Germany, Austria and Australia rank ahead
| OF Great Britain in miles Of line, having As
S7S, 5000 8l.l2l and p, S3l miles respectively
! though Great Britain, with 3l.B45 s6l tele-
grams forwarded, sends few more than one
! half the number sent last year in the United
States. In number of Offices in Europe Ger
many, with 1886, has the most, and Bulgaria,
/ with 81, the least.
| TIRE village Of Shoebeck is known through
out the whole of Germany as the chess play
ing village. For centuries every native of
/ that village, from the prosperous freebooter
! down to the poor village shepherd, has been
/ an enthusiastic and tmOre or less eficieut
! chess player. From time immemorial the
l knowledge and love of the game have been
handed down from one generation to another,
and parents are still in the habit OF teachippit
to their children as soon almost as thew are
able to walk. IL Is one OF the subjects taught
at the village school. At Easter IS OF the
scholars are selected by lot and matched
against each other. The "a winners in the Sc
ries Of single combats then enter on second
struggle, and then y on a third. The six win
ners IN the three contests are declared the
champions and Toasted,
THERE was no pool selling or book making
at the Sheepshead Bay races Saturday, a
large number Of officers being present TO en-
force the law, under the direction Of Chief
McKane, Of the Coney Island police. A new
plan of betting on the races has been devised
by the managers Of the Coney Island Jockey
Club who claim that II will be entirely legal
Leonard W. Jerome, Pre- .ident Of the club.
saws OF this arrangement: "The law under
which our association is incorporated au-
thorizes the club to give premiums and have
races, and the owner or owners 81 successful
horses may lawfully receive the premiums