Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THIS country controls three-quarters of the
cornnelds of the whole world.
AMAYITOBA FARMER who till 1900 acres Of
land, communicates with his employees by
the use OF the telephone.
THERE is said to be more crime in Rome and
vicinity than in any other region of the globe
having the same population.
TEE will of an over-sensitive musician in
Wisconsin contained the request that the viii
lage brass band should not play 1t his funeral.
HOTELS on the Continent Of Europe COM
pei the estate Of such persons as chance to die
in them to pay for the refurnishing Of the
apartment IN which the person died.
LAWN TENNIS is said to have brought in,
like roller skating, a new and peculiar dis
ease. 1t is a rupture of muscle in the arm.
The ailment has already been dignlhed by a
name.
BALTIMORE is TO have an electric railway
between Huntington avenue and the Union
Passenger Station. The electric conductor
will be o third rail, and the speed ten miles
per hour.
SMYRNA, DEL, has a public school building
costing $4,000 which was so poorly planned
and constructed that during this cold weather
the schools have to be closed, because it was
found impossible TO keep the building warm.
A ARGENT TRAVELLER says that should the
immunity from phylloxerS which Algeria has
hitherto enjoyed continue 1t would not be sur
prisng il in ten years there were from $4,000
to 100000 acres OF vineyard in the country
with an annual production OF l5O,O0O,OO0 TO
,0C0 gallons.
EVERY stop Of train costs money to a
railway company. Recent statistics kept on
a certain trunk line showed that during a
given year the $50 daily trains made 1908 ex-
ira stops every twenty-four hours, the traffic
being largely suburban. Experiments showed
also that each stop cost AZ cents, reckoned
that number OF stops put in the aggregate $50
extra hours per day, making a total loss TO
the company OF nearly $4,000 year.
1T is said that the transposition Of one word
was the foundation of Daniel Clark's great
fortune. He had bought 800 square toises OF
land in that part Of New Orleans that after
ward became its commercial centre. In the
expressing OF the deed the 1920 square
toises'' was csrelessly made to read 1920
tOises square," and increased the value of
$4,000 to $2a.000,000. Mr.. Clark took ad-
vantage of the error, and the law of New
Orleans was powerless to prevent him.
THE aggregate number of carloads of
peaches shipped out Of Delaware from 1867 to
1854 was IS, O63, the greatest year being 1875.
with 9.O72 carloads, and the smallest 1881,
with only IS. A carload is $50 baskets. The
bnlk of the crop is shipped by vessel to Balti-
more. During the past year evaporators
have been erected throughout Delaware and
Maryland, which are both profitable IN them
selves and useful IN preventing gluts IN the
market. The crop for 1885 promises in both
States to be large.
81 BELIEVE" writes a Pal Mall Gdsette cor
respondent, "thst the connection of the Hitt-
ties with the blameless Philippians of Homer
is the really important factor in the Soudan
question, and believe Mr.. Gladstone agrees
with me. believe that Prince Bismarck's
transitory policy is less momentous than the