Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

anu has stopped growing.
IT is SAID that about 100000 crowns
! yearly are sent home to the faterland by
o"eaes dwelling in America.
A CHINAMAN walked into the pubic school
at Ellensburg, Ore, the other day With books
and slate, and wished to be enroledas stu
dent. The teacher permitted him tOstay un--
III noon, and then the directors told i'm that
the Chinese must go.
THE TYPEWRITER dates from IVA, wlen one
Henry Mill obtained In England a pabnt for
a device TO write in printed charactes. one
at time and one after another" but was
not until 1867 that it was improved 80 hat 1t
would work satisfactorily.
PROF. HUGO MAGAs, in recent lecture in
Berlin on The Speech Of the Eyes," lmlarted
the Information that "a peculiar abrillE-like
movement of the lids, the orbiuflaris papeb-
rarum and the parts around the nose together
form what we are in the habit of ealing
merry twinkle.'"
A COLUMBUS, W. T., man and wife drove
several miles TO a grist mill carrying with
them several sacks of corn and tneirchlld,
which had case of whooplng cough. While
the corn was being ground the child wal kept
IN the hopper until the grain all ran out.They
had heard that such treatment would cure
whoOping cough.
AT WASHINGTON MARKET, n. Y, Welnes-
day, it was reported that the heavy winds Of
the past day or two had driven the water
from many of the Long Island bays, andthat
the cold weather was disastrous to the cams
ana oysters thus exposed: also, that may of
the hsh IN the bays had been frozen and we're
/ being washed upon shore.
PLINY MARTINDALE, OF Kirkland, o., is a
ell-to-do, but apparently very lazy, nit to
say heartless farmer. He had 800 sheep when
winter set IN, and plenty of grain and fodder,
| but the other day an agent for the Humane
Society found II of the sheep dead, 40 bling
| pied In the basement of one barn. and IN
another, and others scattered about the pAce.
They had all starved to death.
BosTON drummer ordered plate oihis
native fodder In Brandon, Vt, the other lay,
and was charged twenty-five cents. Heob-
jected to paying fifteen cents more thanthe
/ Boston price, but without avail. The mkt
! day the bean seller received telegram ay-
| ing; Don't you think that was too muchfor
| those beans" The restaurant M an paid twsn-
! ty-hVe cents for the message and swOre.
"GOD nelp the stranger that is taken 4ck
there, writes an officer of the United Staes
steamship Galena. speaking of Aspinwlll.
1T is not uncommon for people to lie downin
the street and die IN broad daylight, and
| when dying receive no offer of assistance,
/ even IN answer to an appeal for drinl of
water. The people appear to be heartless, as
!
! caous."
WONG All WoKG, said in the Shanghai
newspapers to be one o. the Chinese students
who were educated in this country, has been
arrested for getting money on a forged order
He got only about 81 In court he pieadedfor
mercy on the ground that his relations had
! dlsOWned him, that his wife had been taken
| from him. and that he was without home and
| money. He was sentenced to one month 3
| imprisonment and to receive 200 blows.
MONDAY MORNING, Peter, one of the Indians
who ferries the mails across from Cauglna-
waga to Lachine, Canada, had his cheek Sc
| verely frozen, burned black to the bone,' as
| the saying is. He has padded the canoe
/ across for years, in all weathers, and has
never been frozen before. The face is the
! only part OF the body that can well be frozen,
/ as every part of the clothing gets quickly
| coated with ice in padding across. wal CHI
acts as an alright protection against wind.
THE family of j. W. johnson, living near
| Christian, Tenn. have been afflicted recently
with strange and peculiar disease, which
has proven fatal to several members Of the
family. Last week one of the little boys, a
son of Mr.. johnson, and a Mr.. Townsend, q
young minister of the Methodist church who
alsOJaught school in the neigh bOrhood, took the
| disease and died In very short time. Two
daughters OF Mr.. Johnson are very Ill, with
! no prospects for recovery. The physicians in
| attendance on the family cannot give the dis
ease a name, nor can they account for 1t In
any way.
| TREASURY OFFICIALS are confident il the
assertion that there are strong indications of
a revival of business. They notice this in
many quarters, aud are particularly encOur-
| aged by the prospect of improvement OF the
| iron trade, which, they say, Is the most hope
! full indication of all. They say that a great
| deal of apprehension prevailed in some quart
! ers in regard to MOrrison's tariff tinkering,
/ but now that his bill has been announced and
| verybody sees that it is not so radical as it
was expected to be, the relief is Immediately
felt. A good deal Of the alleged depression
came from the low prices and slow movement
of the crops. Many spectators who held for
/ rise have been badly punched, and 1t is
soon. The amount of business done last week
\ as compared with that of the same week in
1885 Is said to show quite hopeful increase
! In many directions. The great money CEN
! tres, of course. feel this improvement first
! but it is believed that business will move
of lively with the spring opening.
IT TAKES a tremendous amount of beef to
supply the markets of New York and its i'm
mediate vicinity On an average 10000 head
OF cattle, either alive or dressed, are received
here every week. OF these about 1000 head
are shipped to Europe, leaving 1000 head, or
about 5,6y0,000 pounds TO supply the domestic
| consumption Of New York and vicinity for
one week. This makes a total of nearly 300
| 100000 pounds a year, an average of 100
| pounds for each of the 100000 INHABITANTS Of
New y Ork, Brooklyn. Jersey City, Newark
! and other minor towns within the reach Of
that market. The slaughter houses and alb
attolrs OF New FORK and Jersey City have of
late years been constructed and conducted
on the most approved plans. For the last ten
! years at least there have been few, il any,
complaints from the health authorities They
! are under no restrictions prescribed by
law that are exceptional or oppressive in
! tier character. The cattle inspectors
have little to do so far as the abattoirs are
concerned. Mr.. T. c. Eastman, who is prob
! ably the largest slaughterer in the country
has an abattoirin New York which is dee AIRED
to be the best in this country. MIR. Eastman
inspected the slaughter houses of Europe be-
fore building, and then expended an immense
sum in constructing an abattoir that should
| be as near perfection rs money and science
could make IL. Their slaughtering IS cOnduc-
ted without any Objectionable features The
cattle are butChered in the most humane
way. They are strung up by machinery, "A
blow on the head stuns them, and one plunge
OF the knife ends their lives. There is no cut
ting Of the throat as in other slaughter
houses. A thousand cattle may hang from
the wall, but the floor Is clean and white.
Every drop OF blood ~ saved and the whole of
the slaughtered OK Is used for some purpose.
HU-Tow-TAI, great Chinese speculator.
and probably the richest merchant in the en-
pire, died recently at Hang Chow. His pro-
gress through life may have been as prosy and
uninteresting as that Of any other common
millionaire. but his funeral was the loudest
and on Of the grandest on record, AT Inc
head OF the procession number OF coolies
trudged along carrying little scraps OF paper
unou which short aputpnrog full ~