Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-30

The Kentucky penitentiary numbers among
its inmates ten children under the age OF
fifteen years. These children associate, as
do the other prisoners, with the abandoned
and the vicious.
Ex-Governor Randolph, Of New Jersey,
while visiting in Richmond, Va, recently
bought a silver watch supposed to have at
one time belonged to Aaron Burr, several
pieces Of Continental money, and an origl-
nal order for a pound Of nails written by
Thomas jefferson.
On the American side of Niagara, mills.
factories and other industrial edifces are
so rapidly encroaching upon the American
falls that the beauty Of the shore Is destroy
ed. The evil results from the individual
ownership of the lands contiguous to the
river. Unless the State interposes Niagara
will soon be memory. We buy antiquities
from Cyprus, but let the grandest waterfall
in the world be deprived Of It's charms by
the destruction of the natural features That
surround and frame it.
1t is said that the late General Burnside's
uniform and equipments, including the
costly sword and acc0utrements presented
to him by the State Of Rhode Island, are in
the hands of a Boston artist, held as securi-
tV for payment for work done six years ago
on statue OF Mrs. Burnside. The statue
was completed, but never paid for or de-
livered, and still lies in the foundry In
Paris where 1t was cast. The same artist is
said to have in his studio a clay model of
heroic sized statue Of Gen. Burnside, for the
preparation of which the arms and uniform
alluded to were furnished.
1t is announced that the French scheme
for creating an inland sea in the low ground
to the south of Tunis and Constantine, in
North Africa, has been definitely abandon
ed. A commission appointed to examine
the plans has reported that they involve an
expenditure of upwards Of l, 300, GOO 900
francs, instead ef 200 900 coo francs report
ed by the promoters OF the scheme. The
commission is OF further opinion that an in
land sea would not materially contribute to
the strength of the military defense Of Tu-
MS and Algeria, while there is no reason to
hope that it would assist trade. The gov
eminent is strongly recommended not to
undertake the work.
Science has laid its remorseless ban upon
another very general custom-that OF wear
ing false hair. According to the London
Lancet the demand for false hair exceeds the
supply. Europeans will not sell their hair,
or have not enough to SELL Dealers, there
fore, go for the material to Asia Minor,
India, China and Japan. But the hair to
be had there is mostly black, and to fit 1t for
the Western market 1t is first boiled In
dilute nitric acid to deprive 1t Of It's original
color, and ii is then dyed to suit the fashion
Of the time. This operation has been found
to give rise'to severe coughs, bronchitis and
other complaints, as the WOrkmen breathe
-, 4sN. Il. flI Na1vr kEn
caldrons. The Lancet strongly objects to
haiTdressers indulging in amateur dsbbling
with dangerous chemicals, especially nitric
acid.
According to the reports given out from
the Agricultural Bureau at Washington, the
Texas cattle fever is quite widely spreading
this year, and seems to be more destructive
than it has been heretofore. The singularity
of this fever is that, while the cattle do not
themselves show any evidence of disease as
they are driven north, the native local cattle
passing over the roads by which the Texas
cattle are driven become infected, and death
follows very rapidly. Equally strange is the
fact that the disease runs out after one in
lection, and that it can only pass from
Southern to Northern cattle. The nature of
the disease has not yet been determined by
the experts Of the Agricultural Department,
but 1t is supposed to be splenic fever. II this
supposition should prove to be correct, the
application Of the pastern system of inocu-
latiOn will In most cases, and perhaps all,
effect cure.
A new kind OF steam engine has been re-
Gently patented by Professor Wellner, of
Brunn. The SOL called "steam wheel" con-
sists of simple water wheel mostly i'm
mersed In hot water in a closed vessel.
Steam is admitted at the lower part and
forces the cells of the wheel upward, pro-
ducing rotation. The steam fills more and
more OF the cells on the rising side, and at
length begins to escape into the steam space
above the water. Steam may either be pro-
duced directly at the lower part or con
Quoted to the vessel from elsewhere
The upper tube for outlet of steam
may lead either into the open air
or into a condenser. The mechanical
work consists IN the ascent of the specif-
cally lighter steam in the heavier liquid.
These steam wheels may either be used as
independent motors or in connection with
ordinary steam engines. In the latter case
the escape steam of one kind of machine Ia
utilized for the other.
Miss Alice G. Fletcher, well known in
connection with Indian ethnOlogy and as
the champion of the Omahas in their ap-
peals to Congress for lands in severalty
which Congress conceded to them at its re-
cent session, reached Carlisle, Pa, several
days ago, with thirty-six Omaha children.
Thirty-one are for the Carlisle Indian school
and five for Hampton Institute, Virginia.
Thirteen OF the party are girls. The children
range from ten to fifteen years Of age and will
enter the school at Carlisle for five years Miss
Fletcher visited Sitting Bull at Fl Randolph,
D. T., and selected ten children for Carlisle
from his band. Sitting Bull is very anxious
to have all the children Of his party placed
in industrial schools. Capt. Pratt goes to
Dakota in September for these ten children
and sixty more from the Rosebud and Pine
Ridge agencies. When his party reaches
the school there will be about $50 pupils,
representing twenty-nine different tribes.
Congress has appropriated several hundred
thousand dollars for Indian schools, and has
authorized the use of vacant military posts
for the establishment Of additional schools.
Mr.. Balm, President of the st. Louis Mil
lers Association, who is In New York, gives
some information in regard to the develop
ment Of the barge transportation on the
Mississippi river, between st. Louis and New
Orleans, which is worthy of the considera-
ton of the Trunk Line Railroad managers in
fixing their freight rates between St. Louis
and the seaboard cities. Mr.. Balm saws this
barge transportation is attracting great pub
lie attention, especially in the West, and
that with the facilities multiplied there can
be moved from the towns on the upper
Mississippi from 1000, 900 to 1000, GOO bush
els per week, at cost, taking the river and
ocean freight through to Liverpool, of seVe-
raj cents per bushel less than the charge for
the same service through the direct routes
eastward by way OF North Atlantic ports.
The movement OF grain down the Missis-
sippi to New Orleans, even with short crops,
was as nearly great last year as in 1889.
Still the business is In almost an inchoate
iou.-BdltimOre San.
An agent of an Aberdeen linen manufac-
tory is about to bring over some skilled men
and the necessary machinery for the pur-
pose of seeing whether a new proc ess of
converting coarse fax straw into the reaui-
site shape for spinning can be successfully
introduced at Storm Lake, Iowa. At pres
ent the only use made OF this AK straw is
to feed It to stock or to make it into coarse
tow, used only by upholsterers or cotton
batting manufacturers. 1t is now hoped
that iJ may be made available for Irvine,
coarse toweling and rougher kinds Of linen
If the process OF separating the fbrous and
woody parts of the straw by a chemical
change while rotting can be made to work,
a great benefit will be conferred upon the
farmers Of the Northwest. Not only will
this straw be made a source of profit to the
growers, but, where 1t now costs wheat
raisers seVenty-fve cents an acre for tWlre
to bind their grain. 1t will hereafter only
cost them twenty-five cents, still leaving a
good profit to the fl AK straw grower and the