Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


have recently been bedded near East Provi-
| deGce, X. J..
A CONNECTICUT WOMAN, with nothing more
useful to do has made lst of 2.24S words
! from the letters IN the word ''incomPrehen-
/ sibility."
THE famous old English watering place of
| Bath has not been so crowded since the days Of
/ Jane Austin, fashionable doctors having again
/ discovered the virtues OF Its waters.
TIE old war horse rode by Gen. Grant when
he entered Vicksburg at the time Of the sur
render OF that place has been kept at the
/ National Cemetery ever since until last week,
| when he was sold to Manuel Howthal.
Five hundred and thirty enumerators will
go forth through Massachusetts, on May ! to
collect information for the new census. The
nature OF the inquiries viii be the same as
formerly, with the addition of question re-
garding parent nativity.
GUM ARABIC is rapidly rising in price. The
average annual consumption is 100000
pounds; the amount in market is only 4,000.-
600 pounds. ana even if the war in the SOudan
should be over in few months. no part of the
new crop could be received in Alexandria I'M
til next December.
THE President Of Costa RIGA lives in the
finest house in the capital city, and his resi-
dence and the Palacio Federal, which is near
1t, are about the only two-stOry structures in
the place. lie receives house rent free, the
use Of two horses and q carriage, a salary Of
$4,000 a year, and uses soldiers for his
servants.
BLOCK ISLAND, Is miles of the Rhode Island
shore, is a miniature world, in which the
habits and customs are those of 1870 years ago.
| The income of resident physician in 1881 from
medical attendance on the l4OO inhabitants
was 81 %. Before quitting the island at the
end Of the year, he told an islander that he
had lost his own health trying to work up
practice.
THE bear at Quinsgamond Park, Worcester,
Mass, has begun to move around in the cellar
of the cook house, where she has passed the
winter alone She ceased eating about
week before Christmas, and did not taste of
food again until ten days ago, when she began
on a small quantity Of corn. During the
period of alternating she dld not drink more
than q quart Of water, and so far as the
owner, j. Fl&gg, knows, passed the time in
sleep.
GEN. BUELL. has written description of the
battle Of Shiloh for publication in the Century
series at the request of number of his friends
To the same series will also be added articles
on the peninsular campaign from the pens Of
Gems. Fltz John Porter, Longstreet, Franklin
and d. II. Hill. Gen. Porter has also written
a paper on the second battle of Bull Run, to
be published simultaneously with an account
of the Bun Run campaign from the pen OF
Gen. Pope.
the immense accommodations of waste sand at
glass factories is likely to prove valuable in
dustry. The process of production consists in
subjecting the sand to an immense hydraulic
pressure and then baking in furnaces at a
high temperature, so as to produce blocks of
various forms and dimensions, of a uniform
white color. and of almost pure slick. The
product is unaffected by the heaviest frOsts or
by the sun or rain.
ABOUT a year ago a traveller in Germany
came across an officer employed in superin-
tending some details of military railroad
transport. He had been a Captain during the
Franco-German war, and had allowed his
company TO be surprised. After being inn
prisOned for eighteen months he was placed
in the military railroed transport service, and
told that he was never to receive promotion.
Being surprised by an enemy is regarded as
the one objectionable sin by the Germans.
A PEPPER FAMINE is said to be imminent.
For the past two years the average consump-
ton of the world has been 22,30O tons, almost
the whole of which came from Malabar, Lam
pang, the Straits and other points of the East.
During the coming year the supply available
will not exceed 20,500 tons, or, if account be
taken of the probable result OF the blockade by
the Dutch Government of the Acheen coast. it
will not exceed from 10, 500 TO 1850 tons. The
prediction that Singapore black pepper will
sell at 10 cents is made, and there can be little
doubt that the pepper-bOX Will for the next
twelve months, require an extra shake.
NOTWITHSTANDING the precautions that
have been taken to make the Sub-Treasury at
New York inyulnerable against rioters and
vault breakers, there are some people who
are apprehensVe. An anonymous letter was
received by one of the officials recently citing
suspicious circumstances connected with the
employees. The statements were to the effect
| that one of the custOdians had been seen to
exchange signals with persons on the oppo-
/ site corner, The investigation made by Mr..
! Acton showed that the custodian had simply
! exchanged salutatiOns with some of the de-
/ tectives employed about the Stock Exchange.
The Waldensian Church is the oldest Sepa-
ratist Church in Europe. 1t has had long
! career of sorrow and trial, but it has been
almost miraculously preserved. Since the
/ establishment Of the Italian kingdom the
/ Waldenses have had larger freedom of action,
/ and have revealed becoming energy, with en-
| couragng results. For some time past the
/ Free Church of Italy and the Waldenses have
| been feeling their way to incorporate union.
| 1t is now announced that the committees of
| the two churches have unanimously adopted
| basis of union which it is expected will be
! ratified by their respective synOds next au-
tumn. The united bodies VIII take the name
! Of the Evangelical Church of Italy.
A FLoRENTINE PUBLISHER, who was able
to find complete postal statistics Of the world
no later than 1888, has just issued them in
book form. In that year there were IN Eu-
rome $500 receiving offices, Al 800 telegraph
Offices and 225,OOO letter boxes. The total
| number OF persons employed by the various
| post Offices was $4,000, and in the twelve
/ months there were transmitted 8,Gs3.000 let
tiers, 546,000,000 postcards, l,046,00O 600 books
| and parcels 1872 100000 newspapers and
| lH00O,000 kilograms, the gross weight of the
/ matter sent through the post being estimated
| at about 100000 tons. The lowest charge for
! the conveyance Of any letter or postcard was
| one Genuine, the highest was is. The total
receipts of the various Offices amounted to
E3S, $50. coo and their expenditure to f3lg $50,
! 600. These figures are surprising when one
remembers that less than half century ago
the number Of packages OF all kinds that
passed through the post offices Of the world
was under 100000.
A WRITER in a London journal SAYS that the
leaders Of the English bar make very large
incomes. "But," he adds, ~ doubt at this
moment if there is any man who is really
making more than 100000 year. 1t is with
in my knowledge that the late Mr.. BENJAMIN
considered IL very good average wear when
! he had cleared fl5,00O. But there are men at
/ present, without mentioning names. who GER
/ tainly make more than did Mr.. BENJAMIN.
who was not greedy over fees, aud who would
not take cases to which he could not attend,
/ other men are not so scrupulous; and I dare
say there may be hve-and-twenty counsel
who are clearing from 10000 to 100000 a
year. There are az least twice as many
who VIII be making from $4,000 10 100000
II incomes Of This kind were not to be made
few men Of talent would 90 the bar at all,
But little moderate calculation will show