Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

uHtht ~ 0ehs GIahts great loEtIeeS-Aih7
armOry.
IN the new town of Chappell, Neb., that
palladium of liberty, the local paper, is named
the Rtstier.
STATIsTICIANs state that out of 600 gradu-
ates OLA well-known ladies' college, scarcely
One-thrd have entered the holy state OF
matrlmOny.
AT Mt. Mansfield, Vt, monument to Gen.
Grant has been started in the shape Of
simple pile of stones. Each visitor till dooms-
day is asked to add one rock to the pile.
STATE SENATOR BOONE, of California, said
before meeting of San Francisco inventors
that lit is pity the great art of printing,
which has reached such perfection in its other
departments, should still he bound down to
manual labor IN its chief department-that OF
setting ana distributing the types"
ACCORDING to official reports made to the
Italian government, one avalanche in the Val
d Susa destroyed "A houses and killed 6 per-
sons II weighed 100000 tons. Another
weighed 5000 tons, destroyed is houses and
kllle persons. Still another, weighing only
1000 tons, killed II persons and destroyed Is
houses.
I'VE forecasts OF the weather bureau of
France were verified last year in ninety cases
out Of every hundred, the percentage having
steadily risen from 81 in 1881 10 50 in 1882, and
TO 81 IN 1898. Our OF ls9 alarm signals sent to
fairly correct, 81 were incorrect and only two
gales were not ioreseen.
NEAR Astoria, Ore, may be seen a depOsit
OF clam shells, which cover an area of four
acres, and in places they are piled ten feet
deep. A thousand loads taken away seemed
to make no impression on the heap. A clam
opener made OF the tooth of a whale was re.
Gently found among Them. Over these shells
mere are 10 inches of soil in which fir trees 400
years old are growing.
THE decline of paupe rism in London is re-
markable, when it is remem bered how rapidly
the city IS growing year by year. Thus in
the second week in July the total number of
indoor and outdoor paupers relieved in the
metropolis was 5000. against So Dos in the
corresponding week last year. e 1858 in the
corresponding week Of the ear before, and
as many as S6,40S in the corresponding week
OF 1857. The extremely low prices Of food
may account for this.
1T is stated that whereas IN 1867 and 1860
Eugland's part in the trade of the world was
20 per cent, in 1882 it had fallen to 1917. and in
the latter year her share in the export trade
OF Europe was per cent. less than it had
been elghteen years before. 1t is also shown
that IN S3 England furnished only 40 per
cent. of the coal used in the world, while in
1868 she supplied 81 per cent of 1t. In cotton
koods ana iron produce n similar decline OF
over per cent. is shown to have occurred
during the last fifteen years.
THE Duke Of Cambridge has left London for
his annual visit to Hamburg for relef of govt,
and questions are asked if the people are to
pay IN future for his trips Two hundred
dollars were charged in the last estimates for
hls conveyance from Dover to Calais. He
draws 100000 year out Of the public pocket
ana first class passage from Dover to Calais
is only So. but his Grace of Cafnb nre
ferred that the public should pay. There is a
teoilng growing up against the outrageous de-
manqs OF these serene hlghnesses and others
who have descended like lOcusts on the land
because they are the Queens cousins, uncles
aud aunts
A FEW freaks Of lightning, as noted by ex-
changes, within the last two or three days.
At Scotland Neck, n. c.. zig-zag streak
struck the house of J. P. Savage. and, work
ing its way to a back room DESTROYED Mrs.
Savage's brand new best bonnet. no other
damage being done. At Covington, La, q
pecan tree Smelled of sulphur twelve hours
after II had been strnck. At Monticello IN
thunder bolt from the clear sky aug hole
four feet deep in the soil. At Rockingham N
C., boy named Quick, was slain by light
nlng ana some one more witty than consider
ate. wants his eD.taph to be: "Wflnam Quick
Killed by something quicker"
THE Boston Terra Gotta Company have inst
conducted what is said to be the largest terra
Gotta frieze in America, " hich is to be placed
on the memorial arch now in course OF con-
structiOn in Hartford in honor of the sailors
anu HpluitTb OF tllAb CITY VINO served in the
ciyll war. IL measures $50 feet in length and
Z rect vertically. Its sen pture, which is in
full relief, presents nearly 100 ful length
human figures. besides which there are figures
OF horses and the various parapheFnslia Of
war on land and sea. The frieze will be
placed at an elevation of 50 feet from the
ground, and the figures are moulded to adapt
Ihem 10 the vision under these circumstances
THE latest thing in New York is the s'elec-
trio party" 1t is held at any house where
there Is heavy carpet, and the fun consists
in shutting rapidly oven the floor, to generate
electricity in the person, and then discharglno
it through the fingers, nose or Inns againsi
some other person or metallic object When
TWO well -charged persons Hiss, "the snap''
may be heard IN the next room, and when a
young man holds his nose near gas burner
sparks hy from II and ignite the gas These
parties are becoming popular on Murray Mn
grown people taxing a lively interest IN them
ana when the lords OF the household come in
late with red noses they say they have been
at an electric party.
AN old superstition exists in Indiana thu.
when farmer accidentally misses planting a
row OF corn, wheat or other grain in field.
member Of his family VIII be called to the
grave within twelve months. case of this
sort was related recently. which may prove
10 the superstlti0us the truthfulneas Of the old
saying. Last fall - farmer residing near
Sc0ttsboro named Tunis House discovered
that IN sowing his wheat he had missed two
AoHcs AmttifAldlbiN ne lIttlcLfft Enat he and
ms Oldest daughter, young lady, would Ice
called away, according TO the euperstltiOn
His pre- dlctons proved correct for on March
u the daughter died. and on the % of the fol-
lowing month Mr.. House passed silently to
the Other shore.
The system carried out in Vienna for edu-
eating girls is certainly worthy of notice
They are kept at their studies until they are
IS years Of age. They then go through a
course Of teaching in the pantry and tho
kitchen under some member Of the family. or
sometimes under trained cooks for wear or
two years. Thus they learn TO do oyeTvthine
themselYes, and tO know the value Of things
long before thcy commence housekeeping on
iheT own account; and though they may
never be required 30 cook a dinner thcv he
come independent OF cooks and servants. The
Austrian women are most anectiopaie wives
and mothers. They are as accomplished and
learned as any English govorness, are ms witty
/ Ia socicly a. % Partisan. ard are some of the
most beautiful women Ia Europe.
ABOUT 500 vessels have been wholly or mar
TALLY wrecked about Nautusket since the fret
settlement; and the timbers OF sunken sbips
are 10 be frequently seen along the ooasts and
ON the shoals. Twenty years ago one vessel
was found como ashore all incAsed with lee 4
ana not o Poul could be found: they had takaF
To their boats and gone down Ia the ocean /
The shin Newton. bound from New York o |
Hamburg. was wrecked here with Ia droW I'd /
LA NH had .HHHIH LIFT z aH