Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Two hundred and forty-One DEGREES were
issued from the divorce courts in Philadelphia
IN 1884.
SEVENTY FIVE YEARS AGO the first toma
toes grown in this country were cultivated as
a strange and snowy horticultural curiosity
in a garden in Salem, Mass. FOrty-fve years
ago. or a little more, they began TO be used as
4 vegetable in the season.
ONE of the Rothschilds was so delighted
with the ballet of 1.-THE Swans" at the Lon
don Alhambra, that he made present of a
crown apiece-that is to say, shillings each
to every one of the ballet girls. They are
now asking if there are more Rothschilds than
one. and if that kind of thing runs IN TIE
family.
TERRIBLE HAVOC, both to life and property,
has been reported from the recent typhOOn in
Japan, and especially on the west coast. At
a place called Kurashiki 500 houses were
DESTROYED and 500 persons killed. AT Tama-
shima the sea walls were carried away, leo
lives lost. and 43O houses blown down; while
at ImabarI, Matsuyama and lyO l5l houses
were wrecked, III junks sunk, and 10 persons
drowned.
4 PARIS JEwELER has been prosecuted for
illegally practiclng surgery. He had pierced
the ears of a child years old for earrings, for
which he charged a franc. The ear became
iudamed the Inflammation spread to The
neck, and the child died, the doctor attribut-
ing death TO the ear having been pierced too
high up. The defense was that all jewelers.
pierced ears. and that the mother must have
used some injurious lotion. The JeWeler was
fined 80 francs for homicide through impru
dence, with 40 francs damages to the parents
DIR. VILLENEUvE, in a paper read before
the Academic dies Sciences, stated that, for
drinking purposes, he had found distilled
water far superior to mineral waters, as the
sources Of the latter are often contaminated.
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and found that there Is no foundation for the
popular notions that it is disagreeable to the
taste, difficult to digest, and does not contain
air. 1t is easily tested; a solution OF nitrate
OF silver gives a precipitate when added TO
ordinary drinking water, but IS dissolved IN
the distilled article.
No class of facts or occurrences is too in
significant for the notice of the modern sta
tistician. A carefully compiled table has just
been issued by one of the Parisian municipal
departments, giving the number OF dead
bodies of animals of every sort found In the
Seine in the neighbOrhOod of the metropolis
during the summer of 1854. The list includes
1929 dogs $40 cats, 1916 rats, III fowls. l3U
rabbits, geese, turkeys, z sheep, goat,
pig. and calf. More remarkable items are
two wild bears ami an ape, but the oldest
SLOT of all Is fish.
A CONNECTION was heard in cell OF the
California state Prison, and then one of the
inmates cried out thai his roommate was muir
dering him. The guards ran to the grating
and saw the assailant using knife quite saw
agey on the body of the other fellow. war;
ness on the part of the omcers maze the res
cue slow. and by the time the cutting was
stopped it had accomplished Its purpose
which was to extract bullet which had been
IN the victims leg since the war. The Wlelder
Of the blade was a surgeon, who, falling TO
get consent for needed operation, had de-
termined to perform 1t by force.
STUDENT life in Germany is no longer what
it was. In small towns the students are still
more or less lords of the situation; but in
Berlin. which nashow the greatest number
OF students they disappear among the multi
tude, and the select brOtherhoods and corps
have no longer their claimed pre-emlnence.
Many people have become prOsalc enough TO
regard duels as a crime rather than an honor.
and the combatants are liable TO arrest;
though, to judge by the scanned, SCARED ana
disfgured physognomles TO be seen IN the
streets the favorite custom OF sword fencing
is bv no means extinct among the rising gen.
Grafton in Germany.
WHEN Alexander H. Stephens used to be
brought up to the House he had to be carried
bv two messengers from his carriage to the
members hall. ChaHneey and messenger
by the name of Joe Reese were detailed to the
task Of carrying Mr.. stephens. Both were
strong men. IN the prime OF lie: one Gay as
Mr.. Stephens was being carried by them,
Reese complained of fatigue ana asked TO stop
and rest. While they were waiting the
querulOus invalid looked at his stout helpers
as he said with a melancholy sigh: 81 Won
der who will carry me when you two are dead
and ne.1-Neto York World.
THE people of Arizona don't like the Nor
mons much, as may be inferred from the fol-
lowing paragraph in a paper published in
that territory: ave understand that two
Mormon missionaries are travelling through
this section seeking whom they may deVour.
to get out as fast as their legs will carry them;
for if they don't it will be worse for them. we
don't want any Mormon funny business In
ours, and we won't have it. There is plenty
of good cold lead for all Mormon missionaries
who monkey with our people, after they have
been told to vamoose the ranch. We are talk