Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

MAINE has 3, 900 miles of wildernesses
and the whole State of Massachusetts
could be set down in the middle of them
and not be able to find its way out.
THE Granite States Matching house in
Plymouth. n. H., has about 40, 600 salmon
eggs that were taken from twelve fish.
The house has also about $4,000 trout
eggs.
THE United States has 16L doctors to
every 10000 persons. In England the
proportion is to 10000; in France, 3;
Germany, 3 and a fraction; Hungary and
Italy, 6, and Switzerland !.
ONE of the most recent inventions in
the matter of electric lighting is a ''trav-
cling electric light, machine and light
tower 1t can easily be drawn anywhere
by a single horse and the tower can be
raised as high as eight meters.
THE first bag of flour ever made of Cali
fornia wheat, and exhibited at a public
fair. was the one made by John NJ. HOr
ner, of Horner's Mills, at union Clty, Al
VaradO, in 1853, and shown at the fair in
Music Hall, in that year. That bag of
flour is now on exhibition In the rooms of
the California Farmer.
VIENNA, exclusive of its suburbs, con-
sumes daily 800 tons of bread, making
nearly 10000 tons per annum, which, at
the wholesale price of Is kreutzers per
kilOg. represents a daily value OF 04,OOO
fiOrins. and an annual consumption OF
round 100000 of florins, which are
equal to $S,50O,00O.
AN OFFICER of school in Boston for
the blind says that sightless persons may
become the most expert piano tuners.
ln nj
ty of hearing becomes so acute that inter-
walls i'm the scale of sounds which are so
slight as to be unnOticed by other persons
are readily detected bv the blind.
SEVERAL instances are quoted in re-
cent issue OF the Salt Lake Tribune of the
futile efforts of Gentiles to engage in bust
ness in Utah with success. The Mormons,
even if they want to trade elsewhere, are
compelled topatrOniZe the ''LOrd's Store"
run by the church, and every effort is
made in underhand ways to break up non
Mormon stores.
4 CLOSE OBSERVER says when you see
man operating with needle and thread
on a pair of pants you can easily tell
whether he is married or single. If he
uses a tumble he is married, but If he
pushes the needle against the wall and
draws the needle through the cloth with
his teeth, you can lay ten to one every
time that he is a single man.
JUDGE SWAN, who has passed some
months on the Queen Charlotte Islands in
the interest of the United States Fish
Commission, reports the discovery of
new food fish, which he calls the black
cod. He says it is one of the finest fish
he has ever seen, and is caught in great
numbers by dredging in deep water, and,
when sailed, is more tender and palatable
than the Goldfish.
A CHICAGOAN has invented a new
means of locomotion which he call ''rail-
boat He refuses, however, to make ms
invention known to the outside public
further than to say that it is after the
style OF an icebOat that he can fasten IL
to the tracks of railroad, hoist the sails,
and whirl along at rate of speed which
would surprise any one used to travelling
on the fastest trains in the country.
THROUGHOUT the empire of Morocco
there are villages where the eldest men,
bers of the adult population follow pro-
fessionally the pursuit of fattening young
girls for the matrimonial market of Bar
barry. The Moors, like the Turks, give