Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-12-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

After a recent tornado on Mono Lake, in
California, the foam on the lee shore was
piled up twenty feet high in places, ana IN II
were hundreds of dead and wild ducks, Whlcn
had been killed by being dashed against the
rocks.
\ COURSE Of ''object lessons in cookery Is
to be given before the young women of Lasell
Seminary at Auburndale. Mass, this winter.
Three of the lessons will be as follows: Roast
turkey; cranberry sauce; boiled turnlps.-
salt fish, with dropped eggs; tish balls; orange
sherbet: coffee.-Oyster salad; potato salad'
sponge cake; lee cream.
THE rulers of the SOcietyO Friends in Eng
land have just issued revised edition of the
Oual,er regulations to the members of their
body. such "fOOlish and wicked pastlmes' as
.sballs. gambling places, horse races ana play
houses" are strongly denounced; but need
ful recreation" is prescribed as "a duty
Music is now permitted, but "muslcat enter
taiuments' are still forbidden.
THERE is a sheet of water known as DEVILS
Pond at Rehoboth. r. l., to which there is
said TO be no bottom. 1t is related that many
years ago A clergyman there had incurred the
wrath of a ScOtchman. who, meeting hlm, SAID
that there was a talk of throwing him INTO the
DEVILS Pond to which the minister replied
that if he was thrown therein he would be de-
livered, as was Daniel or the three Hebrew
children. ''Ah, no." replied the ScOtchman.
''there are some mighty big turtles IN that
pond"
IT Is reported that Mr.. Willard has given a
commission to a Berlin painter mined Conrad
Dielitz. for monster painting, % by 10 feet,
containing sixty figures. The scene IS be that
of driving the last spike on the Northern Pa
cifc Besides Mr.. Willard, his wife, daughter,
two sons and baby, there will be Gen Grant,
Iron Bull. Crow chleftaln, Carl ScnufZ, zen
Herman Haupt, lately the CHIEF engineer OIL
the road. and others of note, as well as GER
tain foreigners who were present onthe occa-
sion. The price Is given-S2o,OoO.
IL one of the Lofoden Islands, off the coast
of Norway, is a deep and tideless lake of con-
siderable extent. connected with an inlet from
the ocean bv short and shallow ditch. The
imDortapt discovery has lately been made
THAI this lake. though it contains SO little SAT-
that the water Is not unpleasant TO the TASTE,
is stocked with herrings, which not only thrive
but breed there. They are so numerous that
thirty tons of them were netted IN rev gay 5
this season The story is that they multiply
faster and flourish better than IN the sea, lor
the reason that the lake contains none OF thelr
natural enemies.
A NINTH part of the surface of the Sahara is
occupied by sand dunes, which are in some
places piled into chains of sand mountains 500
to 500 feet in height. The shape of simple
dune is an elongated ellipse, with concaylty
cut out of the leeward side. The sand driven
| by the wind climbs up the long gradual slope
Of the elliDse. and falls over the abrupt tolus
of tn cOncaVe side, which Is bounded above
by sharp edge. The chief causes Of rock
disintegration in the Sahara are the great DIFF
ferences of temperature, amounting often to
100 degrees c. between day and night, ana
the action of wind blown sand upon the rocks
ONED DAY pompous little fellow at dinner
table was boasting of the great men with
whom he was on intimate terms. lie had
been in constant correspondence with Long
fellow. had lunched with TennysOn, was in
friendly relations with the Prince of Wales
and, in short, knew everything and every
BODY. At length a quiet individual at the
yersation with the question: MY dear sir
did YOU happen to know the Siamese Twins,
when they were in this country Our hero,
who evidently had a talent for lying. but no
real genius at once replied: 1.-The Siamese
Twins sirs Yes, sir; became very intimate
with one of them, but l never had the good
fortune to meet the other