Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE manufacture Of artificial ivory from
bones ard scraps of sheepskin is new in
dustry.
AN EXPERT purchased the other day of an
itinerant book peddler in London, for six
cents, rare volume by Increase Mather,
published in Boston in 1893, the real value OF
which is estimated at 900.
IT is claimed that the highest railroad via
duct in the world is that of the Garabt
Bridge, France. That remarkable structure
is l,SJO feet long, and near the middle OF tine
great central arch the distance from the bed
Of the river to the rail is Alb feet.
THE Washington monument has had strange
visitors since its erection. A gaunt and hum
grv cat climbed to TIE top; five rats have
made the ascent to get the crumbs from the
workingmen's lunches; wasps build their
nests and pigeons roost at night 454 ieet
above the habltatlon OF man.
ABANK in a small town in Orange county,
\. y, suspended payment last week. 1t sus-
pended because the clock of the time lock IN
its safe door ran down at O'Clock in the
morning, and, consequently, never reached
o'clock, when the lock was set TO open. IL
took five days to get into the safe.
To test the purity of water there has been
found no better or simpler way than to fill
clean pint bottle three-fourths fun OF the
water to be tested, and dissolve in the water
half a teaspOOnful of the purest sugar-loat or
gTanUlated will answer-cork the bottle and
place it in a warm place for two days. II In
"a to IS hours the water becomes cloudy or
milky il is unfit for domestic use.
1T Is proposed to inform the farmers of
Vermont each morning what the weather
probabilities for the next seventeen hours are,
by system of whistles, blown from stationary
steam whistles distributed in the rural dis
tricts OF the State. One blast, for instance,
will signify fair weather, two blasts foul
81 Aanf no GNvcfa IN a rna Y
operation in the town of Randolph.
APEcULIAR SPECIES of national selfshness
has been developed in Paris in consequence of
the proposal made to give gala fetes at the
onera for the benefit Of the sufferers by the
earthouake in Spain. Suggestions were i'm
mediately made that large portion OF the
REGENTS should be applied to the poor of Paris,
followed by strong protests against sendlng
anv money out Of the country at all.
BY means of a simple and conveniently
worked device of coiled spring, an English
inventor has succeeded in dispensing with the
need of driving sewing machines by hand or
foot: a few turns of a handle WINDS up sur
ficient power to keep machine going az IuI
speed over an hour. 1t is completely unuer
control as TO the rate Of stitching ana stop
ping, and can be applied TO any existing ma
chine at moderate cost.
LAST YEAR there were in the city of New
York IL sos marriages. OF these 10 were OF
eOlored men to white women and one of
oolored woman to white man. Two men
were married for the fifth time, 8 men and
women for the fourth 100 men ana Al women
for the third, and l,545 widowers and l,2l0
yTidows az the first power remarked. Eleven
brides rooms and one bride were between 20
and So years of age, u bridegrooms and
brides between 6 and 20, and so bridegrcoms
and brides between 60 and IS. The number
of men who married under. 20 was 2ls; that
OF women. 29l9. The number OF men who
married between 20 and % years OF age was
4lIs: Of women, 6,O3l; 1895 men and 2,i1o
women married between rs and 30 years OF
age.
AMONG the more ignorant classes IN Rome
the Holy Bambino is still supposed to work
miracles. The delusIon Is kept up by very
clever stage effects. The beholder sees the
Virgin, the elderly Joseph, OF Arimatheai the