Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE owner of a vineyard in Fresno, Cal,
has kent his vines clear Of bugs and worms
during the past season by turning 800 turReys
into il.
SINCE the birth OF the first Prince OF Wales
in 1884. more than six centuries ago, the title
has been borne By seventeen persons, but the
present possessOr of II Is the only one VINO
has lived to see a son attain his majority.
THE winter OF 1874 VIII be remembered for
its intense cold. Boston people cut a canal,
seven miles long and one hundred feet wide
in the solid ice sheet covering Boston harb0r,
to permit a Cunard steamer to 60 TO sea on
her appointed sailing day.
\ MODERN scientist has discovered that
mental activity enhances physical beauty,
thus contrOyerting an old theory. He says:
~ handsome man, or woman either, who
does nothing, but lives well or self lndul-
gently. grows fabby, aud all the fine lines OF
the features are lost: but the hard thinker
has an admirable sculptor always at work
Keeping his fine lines in repair and constantly
going over his face to improve the original
design
ONE can put up with the drinking habits OF
France ana Germany, writes Robert Laird
Collier, but decency is SO outraged that one
can only look upon the customs of England
with little less than disgust. In the former
countries there are no classes wholly given
over to drink and its brutalltles; no classes
that spend all they can earn. or beg, or ste Il
on drink. But there are just such classes In
every great town of Great Britain. London,
Liverpool and Glasgow are the cher centres
of this wretched life.
4 MARRIAGE was arranged some time ago
between two persons Of royal rank. Unfor
tunatelY, the male party to the contract was
notnandsome to say the least of it, and when
he travelled across the ocean to meet his bride
the greatest care was taken TO prevent the
friends and advisers of the lady from seeing
him. One of the friends ana advisers, now
ever, removed all perpleNltles Dy oOserNlhS'
lyon need not take so much trouble to keep
your man out OF sight. He may pc ugly
enough. but he can hardly be more thah nan
so ugly as our woman"
AN Iowa farmer has sued some Chicago
LAWYERS who seized his piano, for which he
had partly paid on the installment plan,
alleging as damage the ''mortihcatlon, lgno-
miny and exposure tOgoslp, slurs anu scons OF
the people of Aurora" where, ne auus' ne Is
lint little known, but where his deceased Wiie,
whose people are poor, was reared. anu VINO
was well ard faYOrahly known" lie demands
the surrender OF the notes ana Din OF SdiS on
which Judgment was obtained against MN,
and also damages for the serious JOggle IN
in his financial affairs caused by the seizure,
and which would redress, rebuke and rectlfy
the social ignOminy" which 1t occasioned.
on Friday last lady patient in the West
Philadelphia Hospital of st. Louis, aged 80
operated upon for an abdominal tumOr.
when the abnormal growth was removed ii
was found to be the fully developed body of
female. a foot or more In length, with full
SET OF teeth, hair six or eight inches long, and
Of an age corresponding TO the age OF the
Iadv herself implying, of course, that 1t
sprang into existence at the time OF the Olrth
OF the lady and had been nurtureu Dy her up
to the time of its removal with knIie; IN
other words. it was twin sister which had
become an unknown part OF herseli' nos
pltaI physician claims that there Is but one
similar case on record. The lady IS In fair
way of recovery.
The shipping interests of the country are
pricking up their ears at the signs OF coming
contracts Renewed activity is promised.
noteworthy feature Of the building during the
mast year is she output of lS4 vessels of about
i30 600 tons, built here for foreign account.
A large proportion of them were on colonial
and Canadian orders, and the most OF the
stock in those for Canada is really owned by
citizens of the United states. choice illus
tration of the working OF our navigation laws
Is afforded by the fact that orders are booked
for two new big steamers on the Tyne this
year. to be registered separately under the
Rritish limited liability act, with the seat OF
administration in London, ana 10 be sailed
under the British nag, While every share OF
the stock inboth IS owned Dy American el'l-
Zens.
AN important and picturesque industry is
Cta
tation of cordwood on barges, which was for
merly very profitable business. The decline
is due to the exhaustion Of timber on the
river banks near the city, the intro
duction of Illinois coal and the growth
Of railroads. The most prosperous
neriod of the business was between $50
and 1866, when 75 boats were employed. Inc
boats were originally impelled by sails or
oars. the current of the river being utilized
against an adverse wind. In lS45 the towing
system was introduce, but it did net become
General till 1860. The receipts of wood then
reacbed $50. 600 TO 20O,O00 cords, against 10000
AT this time Two tOwbOats and seven large
model barges serve this trade now, and the
steamers are not employed for more than one
fourth OF the summer season.
SIR FREDERICK BRAMwELL, the President
of the English Institute of Civil Engineering,
declares that for the large steel forgings re-
quired in the present day for engine shafts
and for cannon the operations of light steam
hammers are positively hurtful, tendlng 10
produce internal flaws. and that the blows OF
even the heaviest hammers are less ethcaelous
than pressure applied without blow. lie
thinks the time is not far distant when all
steel in Its molten state will be subjected To
pressure with the object of diminishing the
Size of any cavities containing imprisoned
gases, or else that the same result will be OBJ