Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-29
GENERAL NOTES.


was INDUCING in an extended yswn her jaw
slipped out of place, leaving her mouth opeI
| to such an extent that she inserted ne
closed fist to hide 1t. A commercial travel
Ter who was on the train snapped the jaw
back into position.
Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, that be
witching widower, is said to be making bu
slow progress in his attentions to the Widow
Victoria on account Of the opposition Of hel
/ family. The Chicago papers are naturally
| indignant, and assert that any Mayor Of {
| Western Metropolis is good enough for the
Queen of an effete despotism.
American vines are not, after all, PROOF
against attacks of phylloxera. On the island
of Monte Cristo, where the Italian Govern
ment established depot for the growth OF
| American seeds and transplanting and accu
mutation of American vines, seven hundred
vines out Of the first years shoots were
found to be fatally affected with phylloxera
During the past six months twelve arte-
sian wells have been sunk in Tulare county,
| CAL, with astonishing results. These wells
flow from 200 900 to !, 100000 gallons daily,
and where once were barren plains the fields
are a succession of vineyards, orchards and
waving wheat fields. Arizona, Nevada and
New Mexico are also rapidly filling up with
| these wells
Hartford Times: "For improving Broad
creek, and also Duck creek, Delaware, the
river and harbor bill appropriates $1,000
Did Senator Hoar ever navigate either OF
| those creeks? Ii so, upon what crafti
| Could anything except narrow vessels"
navigate the great Kanawha river, in West
| Virginia, for which 100000 were appropri-
| ated over the Presidents veto? What sort
of an arm of the sea is fl?
| The wine business of California is no small
item in the resources of that State. About
10, 100000 gallons of wine are produced
annually, and about 1900, 900 gallons are
yearly sent eastward, where it is adorned
| with foreign labels and sold as an imported
| article. The quality is said to be good, and
/ even some prOfessed connoisseurs are
| deceived when California wine Is offered
| them under the guise OF well known foreign
| names.
There is quite a demand" says the Mon
treal Gazette, "for mechanics aud laborers in
Winnipeg at present. Farmers want men
to help with the harvest, but it is almost an
| impossibility to get them. AS high as $40
per month and board is being paid to farm
hands. In the city good wages are paid to
| any one who can lay any claim to being any
| sort of a mechanic. The clerkships, how
ever, are crowded to excess, and young men
| destitute of means and unskilled In trade
Will do we'll to reach slowly determination
to move West"
! The potato crop is said to be almost as
much of failure this year in Western New
York as it was last. New York produced
last wear q, 600, 900 bushels and the rest Of
the country 80, GOO, OO0-in all 115, 100000, or
fully &c. O0O, 900 less than the average for the
past ten years. If, as is reported, the New
| York crop is only 22,000,000, or less than
| last year, the high price of potatoes is likely
| to last for another twelvemonth, to the very
serious loss of the community. In the last
| fiscal year over 81, 800 600 of potatoes were
| imported, against 1914 ,0l9 in 1881, 1914, 220
| in iSsO, and 81 ,345, 9I9'i in 1879, another bad
potato year. In spite of cheap breadstutfs,
poor potato crop is likely to continue this
large import of an article of food.
Mr.. Edward Atkinson has found new
element of value in the cotton crop, and
one which promises TO advance materially
the prosperity OF Southern farmers. It ap
pears that for each bale Of lint there are
800 pounds of stems, which are very rich
| IN DQO6DQab6b VI lliIlc anu pObdSAs MN
| ground and mixed with ensilage or cotton
seed meal (Which is too rich for use as fod-
| der in large quantities., the stem mixture
makes a superior cattle food, rich in all the
| elements needed for the production OF
milk, meat and bone. Il is believed that
| this utilization of the cotton stems will
greatly facilitate the raising OF stock by
| furnishing a substitute for grain, which
now has to be brought from the West.
III in ho
Cornell scandal is a story that comes from
Saratoga to the effect that 1t was ex-senator
Blaine who first diVulged the allegation that
| Conkling had endeavcr red to bride the Gov
ernCr-the latter having made cOntdant
| of the ex-Secretary. The latter, however,
| thinking 1t too good thing to be kept
secret, communicated 1t to a prominent
| Halt. breed politician, who in turn cOmmu-
nicated it to the Albany EUeH1n9 Journal!
| Governor Cornell is said to be very Wroth
| that publicity should have been given to
| the statement without the editor OF the
| Journal consulting him about 1t; neverthe-
| less he affirms his readiness to stand by the
original charges ION all essential points"
Papered veneers have come to be an
! important article OF manufacture, the extern
sion OF the industry being largely due to the
new and wonderful processes Of cutting.
The mechanism cuts the logs to lengths Of
twelve feet, which are then hslved or quar-
| tered and bolted securely on q revolving
iron table. AS the table and wood revolve
| the surface OF the latter comes in contact
| with a knife twelve feet long, ground to a
razor edge and perfectly true, secured on
| lieid iron frame, the entire cutting appa-
ratus weighing about thirty tons. The
| veneers roll off in sheets at every revolution
| OF from one ninetieth to one one; hundredth-
| and-seventy-ff part of an inch In thick
ness, and OF the width and length CT the
| log. There is not the slightest vibration OF
either the knife or log, as the sheet of wood
| In such case would be either broken or take
up the spring like wedge. The sheets are
backed with paper.
The death of a remarkable reGluse is
reported to have occurred in the Grecian
monastery on Mount Athos, in Macedonia.
He was ninetY-four years of age at his
death. and for sixty-eight years had been
| an inmate Of a solitary sell, from which he
| never emerged exceptto attend chapel SER
| vices morning and evening, anu ne there
| always provided himself with the food
needed for the following day. He passed
| his time in devotions and in painting pic
| turps of the Virgin, which the officials of
| the monastery then sold. His body, pursu
ami to his wishes, was buried before the
door of his cell. The Oldest among his
brother monks could not remember ever to
| have seen him receive communication or
visitor from the outside world. For sixty
| eight wears ne was practically buried In the
monastery. He died with reputation for
great sauctity, and his body will be treas
| ure to the monastery as his history was
while he lived.
Captain Paul Boyton, the aquatic voyager,
has returned from Toronto. He stated to a
| Democrat and Chronicle reporter that he had
| Just inspected the Niagara rapids, and had
! made up his mind that he would navigate
the stream, providing the people at the
bridge would make it an object for him to
| do so. He says that he fully realizes the
| danger and risks of such an attempt, and
had not come to the conclusion he had in
regard to the matter, without considerable
elaboration and calm reflection. He will
take the water Just below the great falls,
and endeavor to reach Lewiston. ae says
| he is not particularly afraid of the whirl-
| pools, as there are two places on the route
which are far more dangerous than the ed
dies. He believes ne VIII be drawn under
the water at different points, bat not at any
| time longer than two minutes, and he says
he can hold his breath for this length Of
! time. Should he make the attempt he will
| have new rgbher suit made especially for
| the trial. He has inToTHed tlsss iaterested
at Niagara Falls that he will make the voy-
age for 81, O00.-R0cheSter Democrat.
The rumor that the Arabs are eptrench-
ing at Hellipolis, few miles east OF Cairo,
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