Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ABOUT 1000 barrels of -four were under
water in Montreal. but only small part OF u
was injured, because a thin coating of paste
forms around the outside OF the packages anu
the great LUX of the -four remains sweet ana
dry within.
In view of the great distress among the I'M
employed at Liverpool a wel-known firm
provides free breakfast daily to 800 deserv-
ing men. In order to prevent imposition and
insure the beuefit being enjoved by those Tor
whom it was intended. the distribution of the
tickets has been undertaken by several leau-
ing ministers of different denominations.
THE only hand painted lace IN this country
is imported direct to New York from India
and sold at from So to 81 80 a yard. The work
is eXquisitelv done. A front for a lady's dress
Of velvet and hand painted Is offered for 500,
beautiful black satin scarf, also hand
painted, can be purchased for $50. A table or
piano cover, hand-painted, is marked for S5u.
A PARTY of Quincy. ILL.,, gentlemen went
duck hunting. Before they left home they
invited some friends to their camp to feast on
ducks. The hunters found nothing to shoot
at except owls. In desperation they bagged
some fat owls broled them, and served them
up to their friends as pheasants. Several OF
the credulOus feasters are now i'll from the
effects of broiled owl.
IT is REPORTED that Lord Kingston fixes
the rent to be paid by his Irish tenants not
upon the value of the property but upon the
number and reputed prosperity of their rela-
tives in this country; so that these same rela
uves are practically blackmailed by the noble
Lord under the threat of eviction of the old
folks. And when he is short in his receipts
from America he evicts.
IN MAGNIFICENT VILLA on the Italian
frontier lived an English Baronet, OF about
s. years of age, well known to the English
colony which passes the winter at Mentone
and Nice. Ten days ago the Baronet COM
mitted suicide In his villa by dscharglng
revolver placed against his head. This sui
eide was attributed TO serious losses sustained
at the gaming tables at Monte Carlo, to which
the Baronet was accustomed to go daily. On
Tuesday the housekeeper of the deceased,
named Mary Burton, poisoned herself with
laudanum.
THERE are over 200 900 women employed in
about ninety trades in New York city. The
wages run from s. so to 81 q week, learners
getting 81 so a week less. The better class of
workers get from IS to SIS a week, while
few heads of departments receive from 325 to
$50 The hours in factories and large work
shops are from to 80 in the morning until
to 80 in the evening; but in bakeries, candy
shops ana millinery ana fancy stores the hours
are much longer, and generally without any
increase of pay.
NIGHT REFUGEES IN Paris occupy a position
which has no parallel in this country The
annual meeting of those interested in l'Hospi-
talite de Mutt in the French capital has just
been held, and the reports give details of a
very extensive work of philanthropy. The
objects of the institution are first to offer
free temporary shelter for the night to all
outcasts, without a distinction of age, nation
ality or religion; and, secondly, to relieve so
far as possible their most pressing wants.
| There are three separate establishments in
inherent localities devoted TO the work. and
in these no fewer than 81, 290 paupers found
refuge during last year.
THE folks of County Glare, ireland, have a
rather unpleasant way of celebrating what is
there known as ''Puss" Sunday-the first
Sunday in Lent-by making general sport of
all young women who failed to get husbands
before Ash Wednesday, and are. consequently,
left over for another season, and are known
as pussy girls 1t seems to be a local April
FOOLS day for the spinsters. with whom the
small boys have good deal OF fun, it being
one Of their favorlte amusements to dip their
hands in Hour and leave the imprint of their
fingers on the backs Of these lu' kless ones, or
to mark them with chalk, as they appear in
the street, "a unm sJakable signs that they are
still in the market.
SIR JAMES CARD states that there are $751;
900 small tenants in Ireland who will be IN
able to pay any rent if the present low prices
of produce continue. He ciasslies Irish hold
ings under nine heads. as follows: 21S 600 av-
eraging f2 rental. 10000 averaging Fl rental,
IS $50 averaging fl2 rental, $4,000 averaging
Els rental, 1900 averaging CPS rental, "A. 900
averaging f35 rental, 1000 averaging f45
rental, $4,000 averaging Els rental, 10000 av-
eraging GOO rental. This makes a total of
659, $50 holdings. on which the annual rent is
! $52.OS5.0 0. Many tenants farm two or more
no dings, and r James estim ates the number
OF Irish bona eide agriculturIsts at 4000 900.
"FRoM what have myself seen of it In Lon
don,'' writes a correspondent, al have no hes
itation IN declaring that domestic service is
/ frequentlynothing else than domestic slavery.
/ have at this moment under my observation
/ a Migrant case of a servant who is treated
and made to work like negro slave. In the
! private hotel where | am now staying, and
which provides bed and board for at least 20
people, the house and kitchen worl is done v
a no means athletic though healthy German
| girl 10 years # age. she rises at and goes
to bed at II, com pletely tagged out. She Is
| recOmpeused for all this drudgery, hardsh D.
and toll with the magnificent wages of fl2 a
| year"
THERE are numbers of towns in Vermont
where no Democratic vote was ever cast.
Lincoln belonged for years 10 this class. But
| one year as they were counting the vote, the
| old citizens who had control OF the ballot box
were amazed and horrihed to discover in it a
| Democratic ballot for Governor. There was
] a hasty consultation among the judges, who
| were all staid and conservative men. Then
| one OF them rose up sOlemnly, and holding up
the ballot TO sight said lmpressiveiy: 1--WE
| have found in the box ballot for the Demo-
l cratic candidate for Governor. Did anyone
| ca.titY' Their was no answer. "We thought
| it was a mistake" said the judge, and he
| threw it on the floor.
TIE New York Sun says the con-
test between the Vets and the Drys
is now going on with much yirulence in the
! S nth, where the Prohibition wave is rolling
| in with power AT Richmond there has been
| a war OF words between the editor of the
| State newspaper and clergyman of the name
| of Hawthorne. The editor OF the State mas
| observed that he would crush Hawthorne IL
| that person did not belong to a peaceful pro-
| lession, and the uncrushed Hawthorne has
| observed that There Is not salt enough IN tho
Atlantic ocean to save the man that puts his
! hands on me" him. Certainly all the salt
! in the Atlantic Is insufficient to alleviate the
fire. hness of the man who threatens clergy
man, or of the clergyman who makes an ass
/ of him self, and belize the gospel by Boosting
/ of his merits as a lighter.
! IT is GENERALLY BELIEVED that Daniel De
| Foe took the adventuresof Alexander Selkirk
for the canvass of his Robinson Crusoe. The
island on which selkrk lived for ave years
belongs to Chill, and has remained uninhab-
tied until 1872, when a Swiss named Rodt
rented it from the Gillian government. aud
/ established on 10 an agricultural colony.
which now in a lourishing condition. NJ
] kOdt. who is about 40 years Old, entered the
sia IN 1866, WAS at Paris during the siege OF
IL md & narhf ana Dtf A IL IL. 4.