Savannah morning news., 1886-06-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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ENGLAND has mile of railway for every
six square miles, capitalized at $4,000 per
mile. while in this country there is mile of
| railway to every twenty-seven square miles,
constructed at cost Of 100000 per mile.
ROMAN villa has been discovered in the
course of some excavations at Chamlers, near
| PerigueuX. Among the objects found are
coins bearing the efiiges of Nero and Faus-
tina, and a fine bronze statuette of Mercury.
ACCOUNTS begin to come in Of girls who
Kill themselves jumping the rope. The
l1-year-old daughter Of Andrew Bosemer, of
Louisville, has lust died tier matching her
self against some playmates at picnic She
jumped until she brought on heart pal lpitatlon
that could not be controlled.
1T costs Maine farmers no small amount Of
hard work and sweat to feed the crows. They
have had to repant hundreds of acres Of corn
TINS season. The country landscapes are popu-
lous with scarecrOws, just now; but these
dummies do not work half so well as a smart
boy with gun. The more smart boys
farmer raises the more corn he can raise.
WRITER In the Bee Journal says that bees
have strong antipathy to dark-colored OBJ
jects. A brood of chickens ran about his
hives. The bees stung one of the dark ones
70 death, and did not molesJ the lght-cOlOred
ones. lie says that man with black plug
nat rarely gets stung, the bees devoting their
entire attention TO shooting the hat.
LARGE FLoCKs of beautiful -plumaged birds
have recently gone to Arizona Territory,
which have been strangers there before. 1t
is said that they are from Florida and other
southern states, arriving in the southern part
of the Territory shortly after the cold spell in
the former places last winter. Large num-
bers of them can be seen in the trees in and
around Prescott.
THERE is cave about four miles from
Houston, Tex, about 100 feet long, 60 feet
broad, and from four to Is feet in height,
where numberless bats roost by day. 1t is
! said that there are so many that it takes them
| nearly an hour to get into the cave each
morning, and In the rush hundreds are killed.
! lt is proposed to form a company to collect
and utilize batskins.
On recent night the garden of Joseph Tex
ter. in Fetterman, Pa, was visited by a Sc
we're frost that destroyed his early vegetables,
blistered his fruit trees, and froze his grape
vines. Gardens lying near, and some adjOin-
| ing his, and quite as exposed, were not in
| jured in the least. The reporter who tells Of
| this suggestivey says: "Mr TeXter is an hon
est CITIZEN, has no bad habits, and is a moral
| person."
THK most remarkable instance Of absent
mindedness on record was that of a prominent
farmer living near Davisville, Cal, who act
ually forgot the day fixed TOR his marriage
| and was compelled to offer the most humble
| apologies to his intended. To these, however.
| she lent gracious ear, and the gentleman. at
| her suggestion, now wears string around
| his finger to remind him that June S8 has
| been liked for the interesting event.
PRINCE wALDEMAR, of Denmark. has Just
started on board the Fylla on an expedition
to the coast of Greenland. His object is to
complete the photographed researches be-
! gun by the yearly expeditions sent out by the
| Royal Geographical Society. Princess Walte-
mar. his wife, nee Marie d'Orleans, and
| daughter of the Due dc Chartres. will spend
the summer al the Castle of Bernstaf, the
summer residence of the King of Denmark.
AT CHEMNITz, in Saxony, an epidemic has
broken out, owing to the practice of eating
raw beef, The number of sufferers is con-
| tinually on the increase. Already there are
| l23 patients, whose symptoms are very severe.
1t Is believed tnat they have been poisoned
| by arsenicated anallne, but there is no
foundation for the rumor that the cause of the
| epidemic is cholera. The Chief Public Pros
ecutor Of SaXony is making a thorough inves-
tlgatlon OF the matter
THE liquor business liability bill reported
in the Massachusetts, Legislature recently is a
noteworthy departure from customary lines
OF liquor legislation. 1t proposes to make all
| the parties prolting by the traffic, from the
| seller to the real estate owner. Jointly and
severally liable for some of Its deplorable con-
| sequences. An action is authorized against
either or all of these parties for the recovery
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OF life through intOxication.
THE special delivery service OF the post
Office is declining in all the leading cities. In
| New York and Chicago the service has been
almost abandoned, only sub letter carriers
| being employed TO deliver the letters bearing
! special delivery stamps. In Philadelphia
| when the service began 100 boys were en-
| ployed; now "A boys attend to the work, and
! they are only kept busy a portion of the time
| AS against some 10000 and more letters de-
| lvered in that city last October there were
only about 5000 delivered in May.
THE King of a German State is worse of
even than an English constitutional sovereign
by reason that he is exposed not ouly to the
| Jealousy of his own subjects, bat to discipline
| from the imperial authorities. He cannot
| nave any policy Tor his own kingdom. nor any
| dlgnihed occupation for himself. Soldering
| is the only emploj ment to which he can de-
! vote himself, ana the privilege of devoting
| himself to soldering is much abridged when
\ he Is not at liberty TO pick his own quarrels,
but must wait for orders at Berlin.
JOURNALISM Is taking spurt in Italy. In
Naples there is a regular newspaper reading
craze, and even the beggars gather around
some fortunate possessOr of daily paper as
| he reads aloud in the street. But the people
soon get ured OF any one paper and clamor for
new one. Ihe consequence is that almost
| every day some paper dies and another takes
It's place. One of the most certain ways of
killing newspaper in Italy, by the way, is
/ TO fill 1t with news. What they want is good
local lies and blood curding sensations.
MONDAY MORNING while several of the
party Of the Brazilian Prince were paradinR
the corridor OF Baltimore hotel, one Of them
was noticed to be in an apparent state of
misery. A glance at the pedal extremit lee
explained the situation. The cause of the
trouble was that the gentleman. had for the
/ hrst time purchased here pair OF buttoned
] CATERS, and, not knowing that there was n
/ right and left, placed them on his feet with
the buttons on the inside. His mistake was
soon discovered. and afterward he said he felt
more comfortable.
ACCORDING TO the latest reports, the fire IN
surance companies doing business IN London
have at risk In that city more than So, 100000,
coo. If this is any fair indication of value
London il, proport0nately, a considerably
Weather city than Boston. We have here
about one-tenth OF the population OF London.
SAYS Boston paper but, 81 far as Insurance.
estimates can 20, the amount that the insur-
hnce companies have at risk In this CITY
would probably not exceed 5000, ,00p. 600 or con
sderably less than one-tenth Of the amo1nt
at risk In the capital OF England. Another
noteworthy fact Is that, in spite of this enur-
nous aggregation OF capital and a by no
means efficient fire department. the average
annual hre los in Lonh0n ia not very much
IN excess Of the annual average hrc loss OF
our own city.
HERR ]. Won Fake, the custodian OF the
Vienna Industrial Museum, enters a protest
against the modern japanese craze, which. in
hie OpniOp. hag aRsumad "a aorio,,a o.....4.