Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-16

IN BEDFORD COUNTY, VA, there stands
a chestnut tree that is q feet around.
Trr,r r-s1, cr, Ap1,TEErrAT ERIrIT DRYERS

IN BEDFORD COUNTY, VA, there STANDS
a chestnut tree that is q feet around.
THE USE oP ARTIFICIAL FRUIT DRYERS
is becoming general throughout Tonnes
see.
A CHINESE YAM in an Ithaca, n. T.,
garden is growing at the rate of five
inches a day.
THE GOVERNMENT of the United States
does not own an acre of public land
within the borders of Tennessee.
SENIAHNdoo, in Whatcom county,
Washington Territory, marks the extreme
Northwestern corner of the United
States.
BLUE, GREEN AND GRAY are the names
of three merchants doing business in the
Bowery, New York, within a block of
each other.
A LARGE FARM near Stockton, CAL, has
been completely cleaned of its crops by
millions of little birds no larger than a
mans thumb.
The ARCTIC RASPBERRY is one of the
smallest plants known. A siX-ounce vial
will hold the whole plant, branches,
leaves and all.
THE LARGEST APPLE ever grown in
America came from Nebraska, and weigh
ed 2915 ounces. The Smithsonian Institu-
ton has model of this apple.
The FAMOUS BIDwELL BAR orange
tree in California is % feet tall, and its
trunk is A. inches in circumference. 1t
bore last year 2,075 oranges.
LAST WINTERS ROMAN BELLE, Miss
Lovey Lee, an appropriate name, is now
Mrs DenisOn, and yet at the same time
she is still Loyey-Lee.
A LONG BRANCH GUEST put two
diamond rings in her umbrella for safe
keeping, and strange to say the umbrella
was not stolen-but the rings were.
INA GARDEN at Bowling Green, KY,
is a bush that bears large deep red rose,
with two perfect small roses in the cen
ire which are miniature copies of the big
one.
FLIES have their uses. Their persist
ency in lighting on unprotected noses
lessons the amount of piano practice in
summer time, when all the windows are
open.
JAMES CAREY's house in Dublin is
completely coated with mud, thrown at it
by passers-by. He must feel almost as
miserable as an American who is running
for office.
THE FIRST BRICK Of the second brick
house that has been built in Edgefield, 5.
c.. within the last half century was laid
last week. Edgfield is the home of the
''red Shirts
ON THE TABLE LANDS OF southwestern
Arizona, at attitudes of 5000 to $4,000
feet, a species of wild potato grows which
is said to be superior in taste and flavor
to the best cultivated potatoes.
THE TOTAL RECEIPTS from duties at
the Chicago custom house for the fiscal
year ending June 80 amounted to 81, H.
619 20: currency and miscellaneous, So
pa 45; fines, 81 26S 81; total, "a, 1863, III 81;
total receipts last year, $3,445, 456 SO.
THE SOUTH TREDEGAR IRON WORKS,
of Chattanooga, have decided to intro
duce Swedish labor altogether in certain
departments of their mill. Seven of these
Swedes have arrived and several NOR e
VIII arrive shortly.
THE UNDERTOOK Rough Notes gives
aid and comfort to Mr.. c. f. Adams, Jr.,
by conyicting the Harvard bigwigs of bad
Latin. In their commencement dinner
programme, having occasion to speak of
that rjT3tm lLluStriSSimUm Ben Butler,
they invented an accusatlYe, BenJdHtiRen1,
whereas Benjamin, being Hebrew pro-
per name, is indeclinable, has no case
endings. and is no where found with one
in the Nulgate.
MINNEAPOLIs is reported to ship an
nually, beyond her local consumption,
1850, so barrels Of flour. "These," said
the Trjbume's statistician, ''if piled one
above the other, end to end, would reach
$50 miles. The flour would make about
495, $50, 900 loaves of bread, the ordinary
size of bakers lOaves. These, piled in a
pyramid, would make, roughly calcu-
feet square and with a height of nearly
1000 feet