Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THERE are said to be about 1000 dem
lists in this country, who put $l,0O0,O0O OF
metal into teeth each year, and about one
ton of pure gold is used annually. The
making of artificial teeth is a large in
dustry also. about 100000 being made
annually. Only one American in eighty
has teeth perfectly free from decay.
ONE of the most singular sentences ever
imposed was by Judge Krekele. Of the
United States District Court of Missouri,
recently. Anilliterate prisoner was SEN
fenced to iail till he could learn to read
and write, and another offender was sem
fenced till he could teach the former the
art. In a little over three weeks the pris-
oner appeared. able to write a fair letter
at dictatiOn. and both men were dis
charged,
MILES of spruce forest in Maine are
dead Lumbermen are not agreed as to
the cause. About eight years ago the
heavy autumn rain lOOsened the earth
and that was followed by terrible gales
and a severe winter. The theory, how
ever. generally accepted by the best
Judges is that the trees died from old age
The decay is mainly in sections which
have not been cut over. The age of the
spruce is from sixty to ninety years.
The Bell Farming COmpany's farm is
said to be the second largest in the world.
1t is in the Qu' Appellee valley, Manitoba,
and is about ten miles square. The CAPT
tai is $500, 900. of which 30 per cent. has
been expended. and the stock is held en-
tirelv i'm Canada and England. Last fall,
before the railroad reached there, the COM
pany broke several hundred acres Ofland,
and added to it largely in the spring, now
having a growing crop Of l,60O acres Of
wheat and l,sO0 of oats.
WHEN William Black, who wrote the
socialistic novel surprise" was asked if
there were any InternatiOnalists in Lon
dan he replied that he really did not
know, but he thought not, A Boston
Herald correspondent says there are many
of them. and by InternatiOnalists he does
not mean the ordinary members of the
conventional English wOrkingmen's So
cialistic organic cations, but the more
picturesque refugees from France, Italy,
Germany and Russia.
AMONG the passengers of a crowded
steamboat was a man with delirium ire
mems. In the midst of his frightful Wis
ions and cries for help he turned to his
attendants and begged piteOusly for a
Bible. One was carried to the staterOOm
Of the frantic sufferer, and eagerly seized
bv him. Then, laying ii on the bed above
his breast, with a wild laugh he eX-
claimed There, devils, You are beaten
now: you can't get over that book" A
strange calm came. over him as he lay
with his wild eye fixed intently on the
book. The COngregdtiO8dttst tells this as
a true incident Of travel on the Sound.
SoAE months ago Queen Margherita
asked little girl to knit her par of silk
stockings as birthday gift, and gave her
20 lire to buy the material. The Queen
forgot the circumstance till her birthday
came. when che was reminded Of it by
the arrival OF a pair Of well-knit stock
ings and the makers best wishes. Not to
be OutdOne, Queen Margherita sent pair
to her Young friend as a return gift, one
stocking being full Of lire-pieces and the
other of bon-bOns. They were accom-
panied by a little note: ''rell Inc, my
dear, whicn ysa liked bestW A reply
reached the palace next day dearest
Queen-Both the stockings have made me
shed many bitter tears. Papa took the
one with the money, and my brother the
other"
FORTY-sIX years ago, two little children,
brother aud sister, became separated from
their parents In Eastern Pennsylvania,
the family at the time removing by canal
and such other conveyance as they could
find, to one of the Western Territories.
Through accident Mr.. William II. Love,
one of these children, vas recently APP
prised Of the whereabouts Of his mother,
now IS years old, also Of. other members
of the family. His mother is living at
Winona, Mimi, with two stepdaughters.
Mr.. Love. who is a clever gentleman,
good business man, and as honest as he is
pleasant and agreeable, went to attend
family reunion. His sister in Pittsburg
is detained BY sickness and cannot be
present. Imagination can pictqre The
iOy of such a reunion.
CALIFORNIA; wheat crop for the present
year is estimated to be worth $6O,OOO,OOO.
One-third of this will be retained in the
state for home consumption and seed, and
the rest will be exported to foreign coun,
tries. The wheat product Of the other
Pacific coast States and Territories will
be worth $4,000, 900 more, making the
value Of the total wheat crop OF the Pa
cific coast $50. 000. 600, which is more than
the entire value of all the precious metals
mined in the United States during 1882.
These figures show the monstrOus folly of
which the people of the Pacific coast were
guilty I'm past years when they pinned
their faith and their hopes OF future pros
perity upon tneil gold and silver mines
and in a great measure ignored and neg
lected their far more valuable agrlcui-
urai resources.
A STRANGE advertisement in the Lon
don Times; "Alone, yet not alone. To him
or her who is desolate, lonely or forsaken,
4 clergyman Of the Church of England,
who for nearly fifty years has observed
and experienced the hardness Of mankind,
and in many cases of people protesting
20 be religious, yearns to give counsel and
d broLheT's sympathy to those who sOrely
need it. He has no money to best0w, but
the most detected ana dispiIited, those
who rightly or wrongly feel themselves to