Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-15
ITENIs OLE INTEREST.

DRAM SHOPS are defined by the new legisla-
ton of Kansas as common nuisGnces."
A VENETIAN GoNDoLIEE makes, on an aver
age. francs tahout so cents day the year
round. on this he will marry, rear family
and put some money by.
TELEGRAPH WIRES have to be renewed every
five or seven years. The Western Union Tele-
gr ph Company exchange about 1000 tons of
old wire for new every year.
RECENTLY high PontiGcial mass was cele-
brated in Copenhagen for the first time since
the DAYS of the Reformation, such a service
having heretofore been forbidden by law. The
Cat olCs in Denmark now number about
1900 souls, with 2j priests, of whom seven are
Danes.
MRS. NIuER, of Silver Lake, w. T., died re-
Gently of trichlnosjs, and her daughter, aged
70 wears, is critically in of the same disease.
This is the first case of the kind ever reported
in OREGON or Washington Terri DRY. and 1t Is
supposed the disease was contracted by eatlng
Eastern porK.
TIE word Venezuela means Little Venice.
The explorers of old, Ike tourists of modern
times were given tracing resf mblances in
America to what they were familiar with IN
Europe, and they imagined That the nuts or
Laracabo, rising on piles above the water
looked like the city of canals and gondolas.
ACCORDING to the Medical Record, per
cent. of all cancers are situated upon the
tongue. The average duration of life in can
Ger of the tongue is, without operation, stated
to be ten and a half months; with operation,
sixteen months In some cases-after opera
tlons-patients have lived from two TO five,
ana even ten years.
THE new dag of the Congo State was first
used on a mournful occasion, namely, the
burial of a young Swedish officer, Lieut..
Of flaa
Gorge Company, who died from the bite of
snake. nd whose coffin, in the absence of
SVedi h flag, was covered with that OF the
Congo state on being carried to the grave.
AN American Phiistine has built himself a
house on the topmost peak of Biblical Mount
Carmel. He went to dig cistern anu found
one already hewn in the living rock fourteen
feet deep and two feet three inches square.
He needed wine-cellar and found an old
tomb under his house, IN the tOcUH or collins,
in which the irreverent wretch slowed his
bottles.
TIE Boston police and fremen are now
regularly instructed and examined on emer-
gency su jects, and the instances recorded of
splints carefully adjusted before the sufferers
were nveyed to the hospital, of hemOrThages
arrested, and of resuscitatlOn from drowning,
afforded evidence of the good hat IL being ac-
cumpnshed. Official records of such cases are
kept at the police stations.
THE eX-director of the CONSUMPTION under
the ii ST empire computed the actual loss of
men born within the old limits of France, and
destroyed in the imperial wars from 1901 to
Is 3, at 100000. This estimate does not in
cude the wars of the republic, or he loss of
men nor born IN the kingdom of France, and
90 far 10 explain how population III France
mas kept low.
4 srATIsTICAN has figured out the expen-
ditures for various purposes in the United
States approXim tely as follows: Drink,
50 0,O000Oo; missions, home and foreign,
IS 100000; bread. $685. 100000; meat. 50 ,0O0,-
600: non and steel, - 0.0O0OO0; wooden goods
$237.00J 100; sawed lumber. 1928, 1000 GOO; cot
ton goods. $4,000. 600; boots and Shoes $780,
100000; sugar and m lasses, $4,000. 900;
educational purposes, $4,000 000 According
to these 6gu es drink costs more than bread
and meat, anu but little less than food and
raiment.
CARACAS CHOCOLATE, as all the product Of
Venezuelais termed. is considered the best in
the world. 1t cost 65 cents a pound at the
factories there, but can be purchased for As
or so cents "a pound in New York. The best
coe beans are 40 cents pound. tut the
YAM ee manufacturer has a way of increas-
ing their weight and reducing their value
by aduitera ION. Pipe clay l. cheap and
heavy. ana it IS supposed TO be harmless. 1t
weighs about five times much as cocoa,
and as the profit in lager beer Is IN the foam,
50 is The profit in chocolate IN the pipe clay.
TELEGRAPH OPERATORS in Austria are over
worked and underpaid to a greater extent
than in any other country. The statement is
made that within thirteen months no less than
nine of 500 operators have become lunatics
Fifteen years ago telegraphers in Au tria
after service of twenty Years. were ad-
vanced TO be officials of the ninth class, while
to day there is large number who, although
they h We served as long As seventeen wears
are still in the eleventh class and have ! 500 to
2c0G col eagues ahead Of them Tor promotion
In other countries operators are treated bet
ter. and even in Russia they are paid an adj
ditional annual sum Of 100 rOubles for every
language they acquire, and also receive extra
compensation when working intricate instru-
ments.
THE scheme Of seventy picked river miners,
who intend to engage in the mining business
on the MOnOngahe d, is novel. 1t is the in
tention to do an independent business as far
as the shippers of the river are concerned.
The company VIII own boats and barges. will
lease a toWboat, and, while it Is not the inten-
ton to make war on the operators, viii be
entirely Independent of the coal kings Those
at the head of the movement saw that an
order for 500 900 bushels of coal has already
been received. Two coal yards are under
negotiation for purchase, ana 800 families
within the city limits have agreed to pur
chase their coal. Enough money and men
have alre idy been secured to assure the
Oi tidLlO OF one NINE. III is Lne intention.
case enough miners can be secured with the
required amoant Of apital. {" pur base three
mi Is on the MOnongahela during the coming
summer.
THE use of water in connection with blast
ing in mines and quarres IS rapidly extend
ing in this country and in Europe. A tube
filed with water is inserted IN the bore-hole
uext the powder cartridge. the tube being of
thin plate; or even of paper. The usual
tamplng follows, and when the explosion Oc-
ours the tube containing the water is
burst, The explosive violence be.
ing increased by the presence
OF water and extended over the enlarged in
terror of the bore hole, due to the space Occu-
pied By the water tule. a much larger
quantity Of the m tera to be mined or quar-
RED - thereby brought down or looseped
with smaller quantity of explosive used
While the heat of the explosion converts n
portion Of the water into steam, which. with
the remaining wafer eXlingui-hes the Il mo
and ab5orbs and neutraliZes the gases and
smoke generated.
THIS IS what sometimes happens at the ele
waited railway ticket Offices in New York dur-
Ing commission hours" Passenger in
hurry PUSHES up to the ticket agent and laws
down o two-dollar bill. Ticket agent looks NJ
it. -h0ves out ticket and four dimes. and
thinks Of hs boyhood for a little while. Then
he shoVCs out TO quarters and looks at the
stove. Then he elects dollar bin and deftlv
picks mp anickel, holding it concealed be.
tween his thumb and foredngcr, close TO inc
ticket orilce. Then he waits To see what the
passenger viii do. Generally he rusbes Tor
the train. which he hears Gaming and mo