Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

WHEN a house is to be let in Mexico the
owner sticks an old newspaper in the window.
| 1t isn't very tasteful and seldom improves the
appearance of the house, but il Is economical
| and is understood by the community.
AT an egg-eating match at Peterborough,
| Canada. a short time since, one man ate forty
one eggs and the other forty. The eggs were
raw, and taken from a BASKET in a grocery
/ store. The basket was emptted, and the wln-
ner said he could eat dozen more.
THE largest bridge in the world crosses
Lake PonchartraIn at New Orleans, and is p
miles in length. 1t is trestle-work on piles,
| and is made OF cypress wood Wnlch was nrst
/ saturated with creos0te oil, which renders IL
| imperviOus to moisture and proof against the
/ attack of Darnacles.
THE number of plant specimens known to
botanists has been placed at 100000, but it
seems there are many still unknown. Last
| summer an English bOtanist made an excur-
| sion of but so miles into the mountains from
Canton China, and of the 800 specimens he
| procured, Is proved wholly new to science.
PORTUGAL outrivals Italy itself in the num-
Der and the righteousness of her professional
beggars. While the cities are bad in this re-
spect, the country is far worse. There is no
law against mendicants. Lisbon has but ore
founding hospital, and that receives Tor It's
support only Is per cent. on the sales OF lot
terry tickets.
BISHOP LYMAN, of North Carolina, takes
exception to the statement of DIR. Thompson,
Bishop of Mississippi, that negro rectors are
not desirable in the Protestant Episcopal
Church through the South. He says that ten
blacks are in his State satisfactorily minister
ing to congregations Of their own color. and
he would not like to see any other system
tried.
A SAN FRANCISCO PAPER relates that cou-
pie of weeks or more ago Gov. Adams, OF Ne
vada, while looking among some old, papers,
discovered three valuable diamonds that were
presents to Mrs. Adams by her father, and
were supposed to have been stolen years ago.
The Governor kept the discovery quiet and
hung the diamonds on the Christmas tree,
where the delighted eyes Of his wife first be-
held them.
AFTER much discussion of late, it has been
settled that the house IN which the Duchess of
Richmond gave the ball, immortalized by By
ron in his battle of Waterloo" was a small
one in the Rue de la Blanchisserie and not,
as has been heretofore claimed, in the Palais
d'Aes, adjoining the Royal Palace. 1t is found
that Byron's reference to a ''high hall'' really
referred to a drawing room neither high nor
over we'll furnished.
AMACHINE which threatens TO revolution
ize boot and shoe manufacturing has been in
vented and set up in Marlboro, Mass, by Mr.:
Samuel Shepard, Of Nashua, \. h., who is 81
wears Of age. The machine will drive $50 wedge
shaped headless nails per minute, on from fOO
to 1000 pairs of boots or shoes in a working
persons. A stock company has been formed
fer manufacturing the machines.
CHICAGO has 5000 persons, or about one in
every 100 of its population. who constitute
the select social circles represented in the new
s.Elite Directory for 1885. The book is printed
on gilt-edged paper, and is SAID to be entirely
worthy OF place beside Shakespeare and the
family album. which form the library Of the
marbie-top table of the Chicago parlOr. The
leading streets in which society" lives are
Michiran and Washington boulevards, Indi-
ana. Wabash, Prairie and Dearborn avenues.
some Aldermen are in the fashionable direc-
tory, and, to keep up its tone, list Is given
Of elite tradesmen, dentists, doctors, ana
churches.
1T APPEARS that impure drinking waters
contain bacteria in numbers prOportioned to
their degree of impurity. Acting upon ms
fact, NM. Proust and Fauvel have been cultl-
waiting various river waters in gelatlnes ana
afterward, bv the use of a microscope con-
structed for the purpose, have succeeded IN
counting the number OF microscopic organ
isms in each cubic centimetre of the fluid. The
water OF the Vanne, which is considered good,
contained Il, 600 bacteria. The Seineo water
was found to contain 242, 900 of the org aisms,
thus justifying the serious complaining made
against il, The results arrived at by the mi
crOscope are in exact accord with those OBJ
tanned by the ordinary complicated ana eX-
pensive chemical analyses.