Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


win the commercial capacities of the Tiber,
NOTHING in real old blue china can be
picked up" in London for less than s.. Blue
emma, like old pictures by OLD masters, never
goes begging; time only adds to its value
ana Ease nation the c0nnoisseurs. 1t is saIC
tnat rich Americans have exhausted the
Londo market of this treasure.
A WOMAN named Kuenze, at Schonbrunn
near Sagan, IN Siesia, has made the village q
present of $4,000 for the purpose of building a
gravel road at Sagap She had been sup
ported for 80 years by public charity. but
labely fell heir to about $1,000, and at once
TOOK the above means to show her gratitude.
A GREEN DINNER is one given to girl who
IS to come out the next winter. The table is
decorated with smilax and green leaves; all
the names are inscribed on green ribbons,
which extend from the centre of the table,
radiaung to each guest, with the name of the
| person to whom it is addressed written in
| & i'd on the ribbon.
THERE is great CONSERVATION among the
Inhabitants Of the lovely villages Of Poissy
on the Seine and of Maisons- Lafitte over the
news that bill for carrying the Paris sewage
mo the st Germain forest and the adjacent
/ pain Is likely to become law. This would
| ruin hundreds of pleasant homes and cause a
J great loss of property.
| THE AVERAGE LIFE of building is rs years
that is, of city buildings with walls of brick
or stone. Very few last longer, but the reason
| why they last no longer is because poor m ate
| rial ami poor work enter into them. A limit
! TO the durability of good brick can scarcely be
/ named, ami good mortar becomes with age
| harder than the brick itself.
GRAssINI was the first female singer who
appeared in the Italian Theatre with cou-
tralto voice, that part having been previously
| sustained by men. Her tones, though purely
feminine, were so new that they were received
| WIN dlstrust and some time elapsed before
| the audience was recnnciled to q voice which
was thought greatly too low for woman.
The FOURTEEN MILES of street railway in
Glasgow are owned by the city, aud bring to
the treasury a rental of $4,000 annually.
There is no uniform rate of fare, but penn,
a nile is charged, with reduced rates morn
! ing and evening, when the working people
travel. The original purpose of the tram
! way, in fact, was to enable workingmen 10
| Inhabit the suburbs.
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY expedi-
ton to Nassau sailed Thursday morning on
the schooner Samuel Wood, from the foot of
the falls, Baltimore. The -chooner will touch
at Beaufort n. c., for members of the par
ana Tor stores, and viii then go to one OF the
Bahamas, In the vicinity of Nassau From
TINS point of landing the party will reach
| Nassau by the mail boat.
a BOX was received at the Government Re.
demption Office the other dav which contained
scraps Of burnt paper, which the sender said
had been bills amounting to $40 900, which had
accidentally been burned and which he
wanted redeemed. 1t did not lake an expert
long to determine that the contents OF the box
were pieces of common writing paper and a
few two-dollar bills that had been burned and
mixed.
A LARGE LAND OWNER in Cheshire, Eng
land, has discharged all his gamekeepers, and
has given permission to his tenants to kill any
me that may be seen on their farms The
| tenants. who are much pleased, have assured
| their landlord that they will take care thai
he IS never without sport. On the Hawarden
estate this system was adopted some time ago
| only the park around the castle being re-
| served
A CORRESPONDENT of the Hartford Times
tries to make out that the name Hartford Is
not English Hartford, but is a corruption OF
| ''Harderwijk Fort" through ssHarterWvcki a
Fort" and Hart'r'k Fort" to Hartford or Hart
ford. This derivation has its basis in the fact
| tn 1t the Dutch from Harderwiik on the Zuy-
der Zee founded col ny at place further
down" than Wethersfeld and called it New
Harderwijk.'
The NEW LINE ROCKET, invented bv Pat
lick Cunningham, of New Bedford, was tried
eXperimentally at the Washington Navy
Yard Wednesday. The distance attained nv
the rocket with line attached, was $50 wards
which beats all former records and the cir
GUMS ances were so unfayOrable that it il be-
lieved much greater range can be obtained.
The rocket carries its own line instead of
dragging the line from the shore. 1t will be
tried before the full life saving inspecting
board soon at Coney Island, by request of Mr.,
kimball.
ONE Of the crimes legally committed mot
often in New England, we are thankfully, is
that Of shutting man up in jail because he
can't pay a debt. John Sherwood, of Dan
bury. Conn, in November, 1884 was put in
jail on account of claim Of 81 40 for legal SER
vices given many years previous by a Lawyer
Taylor. There seems to lie no hope for him ;
he cannot take he poor debtors oath, as he is
entitled to share in an estate. Impoversh-
ed as he Is, he cannot pay the eosts-much less
the Sii0-sO SherwOOd'5 chances OF dying in
jail are about hundred to one, compared
with his prospects for getting out, except by
breaking jail.
The LARGEST SHIPMENT of eggs that ever
went out OF st. Louis was during the last
week in Lent. The eggs were shipped to New
York, and the shipment consisted of $50 cars
| There were LIS barrels in each car ana 75
dozen IN each barrel, making a total of
| 23,6250OO eggs. This food for Easter had to be
in New ork Good Friday, and the cars were
rushed through by fast freight and arri ed
there on time. The most singular feature
about the shipment was that when the eggs
reached their destination and were examined
10y the consignees it was discovered that only
about 800 of the whole lot were broken, or one
barrel out of the $50 cars.
'IHE AGRARlAN RIOTS which IL was feared
were going to break out in Western Galicfa, -
says Vienna correspondent, ''seem to have
been averted by the promptitude OF the gov
eminent in dispalching troops to the dis
turbed districts. The coming OF the soldiers
has mad reassuring effect on the peasants
VINO are not 81 affected lowards the Emperor
but are on'y under he influence OF a foolish
terror as to the sdpp sed intention Of the no.
bllity to restore serfdOm and other feudal
abuses. Inquiries which have been insti-
tuted make IL clear that there was no hing
seditious in the apprehended movement but
that, unfortunately, a very bad feelit z q xistg
between the Polish peasantry and the land
owners"
HERE is description of what they do with
their prisoners in,the Canton of Neufchatel. A
good handicraft is taught 10 every prisoner.
and all who are well behaved are, after a
period, placed with master O. the trade
| which they have severally learned, unde r the
| oversight OF the pc ice and Of a member OF a
VOLUNTARY committee. This committee IA
| composed OF l,f0J active members ont OF A
| total population Of le2,G0O The prisoner
when "proyi-IOnally liberated" has to pre-,
sent himself every week TO his patron, who
receives the reports of his master and OF the
4 police. The patron sends an abstract of these
reports 10 the Governor OF the prison ana in
this way " hts con iuct remains good the
| mans liberty is gradually restored and he
| regaius his position in societv-with the addi-
/ tionat advan age OF experience OF discipline
( and knowledge OF a trade M de Lave eve