Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The TRANsPosITIos OF quotation marks In
recent music catalogue caused the following
astounding announcement: she HeaVeu
Sign IN L Hat for 35 cents"
RUSSIAN violets have found new use
Two or three Of them are placed IN each nm
ger bowl al dinner parties and luke warm
rose water is poured over them before tue
So"ls are passed.
Tue Massachusetts town meetings. attend
ing to skating Kinks as well as TO dram selling
The se'ectmen Of Provincetown have Just
oeen instructed, by vote Of IS TO 30, not 70
incense skating rink.
The SUPREME COURT Of Connecticut holds
that where minor is sent by an adult for
liquor, tells the dealer it is for an adu t, re-
celyes II from the dealer for the adult, and &C
tually delivers it to the adult, the minor using
none OF II, the dealer does not violate the law
against selling 70 minors.
PENNsYLvEkIA, in the "shoe and Leather
Annual" holds the lead in the number If tan
ners and leather dealers within her borders.
Ihere are 725,a slight addition since last year.
IN the cities the roll OF the trade shows some
increase, especially among makers of light
ieather. Ten pages are filed with the names
OF the principal retail shoe dealers OF thab
state.
NOVA SCOTIA is the only place under the
British nag where Imprisonment for debt is
canadian provinces a creditor can sue
debtor that resides in Nova scotia. but NO
va Scotlan creditor cannot return the compi-
Itent. The manifest unjustness OF tins law
receives occasional spasmOdic agitation, but
the Objectionable law still exists.
THE SEVERITY of the agricultural distress
In Kent. Eng, was exempihed by the result
OF 1.-THE rent audit held in the eastern divs-
ION If that county a week ago. For many
wears past It has been usual for the agent to
receive at the audit about fl,200. This year,
however, the sum collected was only f30O,
and the amount Of arrears stands at { 200,
or more than double The sum ordinarily left
unpaid after the audit.
COCAINE has been much recommended as
remedy for sea-sIckness, for which its pecu-
liar anaest hetic influence. when applied to the
mucous membranes, appears to offer plausi-
Die prospect of success. More recent reports
81 trials DO not, however confirm this mop.
valuable in many other ways, IL appears to be
as poWerless age inst sea-sickuess Is any of
the long list OF remedies which have pre-
coded 1t in short-lIved reputation for the
purpose.
TOBoGGANING ought at once to become
fayOrite sport with the deaf, if the experience
OF Charles A. Moulton, of stanstead. Can, is
worth anything. Dashing down the hill. his
tohoggan upset, and he was thrown headhrst
into heap Of snow and dirt piled alongside
OfThe slide. When he recovered conscious
ne7s he found that he could hear sounds with
his LETT ~, In which he hsd been deaf for IL
years. The next day he heard dist nctly with
| that ear, and has had perfect hearing ever
since.
In NORWAY it is believed that wolves are
frightened away by telegraph lines. While
vote was pending on grant to a new line,
member OF the Storthing remarked that, while
his constituents had no direct interest in it,
they uld support the grant, because the
wires would drive away the wolves. 1t is
said that. however hungry a wolf may be, it
Will never go into spot that Is enclosed by
ropes stretched on posts. It is statrd, as a re-
markablc fact, that since the arst telegraphic
line was established, twenty years ago, wolves
have never peared in its neighbOrnood.
PRISONERS in the Benton. No.. jail the other
night thought that they had good chance to
escape. They sprung one of the doors at the
bottom enough to permit the smallest of them.
John Rlne, to crawl through. He then climbed
to the attic over the cells and hid until the
ia Ter had locked un. Then he came down,
prlrd open an outer door, ana was free. The
plan WAS Tor him 20 get tools, and come back
and hberate his fellows. But the night wa
30 intensely cold that il was not long before
Rine was back without the tools, begg ng the
jailer to put him in his cell before he froze to
death.
THE Indian government has assigned Cas-
tie Rene in Ballygunge. a suburb of Calcutta,
as the residence of King Theebaw. The cas-
tie Is one OF the. m st luxurious of the many
luxurious mansions Of the ''CitV Of Palaces"
and WAS built by Gen Rene, a French adyen-
turer in the service of the naWab OF Oudh. 1t
was subsequently sold the ia her If the
wife OF Capt. BellaiTs Of the St. Louis RsDub-
lcan. VINO again disposed Of it after the great
mUtIny to the Indian government for Occuua-
ton by state ri>oners such as King TheebaW.
Bal ygunge is a heaut ful part OF the Indian
{, pital, and is headquarters Of the Viceroy's
cavalry body guaro.
IN A REPORT recently transmitted to the
Conseil Academique Of Paris, the dean of the
medical faculty refers in a rather curious way
to The mental AID moral status or women
graduates OF medicine. He observes that
many who enter do not gradua e; i've years
study proves too long. ami some l AIRY or en-
ter other occupations. NJ. Beclard calls par
ticular attention to the statistics regarding
lady practitioners IN England. Ii is asserted
that One-tniri Of he number become insane.
ami he draws thence the following curious
conclusion: 1T is not probable that the sta
tisticlan who compiled this table considers
the practice of medicine as predispOsing
women t. insanity, but he Is perhaps OF Cd n
ion tnUt these women are originally OF an &c
centric turn Of mind to adopt the profession
at all"
The MOVEMENT for purifying the German
language rom foreign words which are used
unnecessarily has secured good advocate IN
the Grand Duke of Weimar, who has issued
TO all his officials an index eNpurgator Us. to
which careful attention Is enjOinrd. The pro-
scriDed words comprise Well-nigh sill foreign
intTuder- for which proper German equiva-
Tents exist. and the Grand Dukes order
extends to the Official language, the court and
the theatre. 1t may be expected that 10 viii 20
far towards et1ecting It's purpose So far as the
sphere Of " eimaT's influence goes. Weimar
too. has lately established a German Lam
guage Association, whose roll OF Nom bers in
cludes all sorts ard conditions OF educated
men-profess1rs. c!erfymen, teachers, on
GERS and 80 forth-the Grand DIXIE giving
his especial protection. It Is gratifying that
this movement for GermAnizing German rs
maKing such good progress.
COMPARATIVELY few States are fully repre-
sented in the -enate by citizens born within
their own bOriers. New York gave Leland
Stanford to California, Teller to Co iorado. Con-
ger to Michigan, Van Wyck to Nebraska a, Dolph
10 oregon aud Payne 10 Ohio. Ohio gave
Voorhees, and Harrison 10 Indiana, Allison
and Wilson to Iowa ana Plumb a. Kansas
Kentucky gave Cullom 10 n in0is Gibson 10
Louisiana, Vest 70 Missouri, Maxey TO Texas
aud Call 10 Flor da. Massachusetts gave In
gals 20 Kansas and Evarts to New York
Among the states which send only native
born citizens TO the Senate sre Delaware.
Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts. New Harm. |
shire North Carolina, Pennsylvania, south |
Carolipa. Tennessee, vermont, Virginia and /
West Virginia. zones, OF Florida. Fair and |
sewen are Irshmcn; Beck o. sco.chman.
and Ione s. OF n vadg, rs Welshmaa. Ne
vada is the only STATE represented by two
aliens namely, j ones, born Ia Wales, and FAIR,
born la Ireland.