Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

\ FARMER in Northern Mississippi has
cleared SIG an acre from his watermelon
crop.
\ YAZOO CITY doctor has raised to-
mato this season that weighed one and
half pounds.
TIE GRADING is finished on the lazoo
and Mississippi Valley Railroad and
thirteen miles Of track have been laid on
the Jackson end of the line.
THE CONTRACT for building the Army
and NAVY Hospital at Hot Springs. Ark.
has been awarded to Cyrus Fristol, OF
that place. His bid was SS6,33j.
\ WIND STORM in Ellis county. Texas.
last Wednesday, stirred up the sand and
waited it about in such dense clouds rs
10 not only blind those who were caught
in il. but to make breathing very diff
cult.
ATARECENT meeting Of the New Or
leans Board Of Health it was stated that
the drainage system Of the city had
steadily degenerated for the past four
years. and that some steps must be taken
to improve it.
ANOTHER Largest tannery in the
world" is being built by a Philadelphia
comDanv at Johnson CITY. Tennessee. II
will cover several acres. The oak bark
supply. around there, is believed 10 be in
eXhaustible.
ALEXANDER Lutte. Of Dutton Greek,
Wyoming. came upon a queer scene on
prairie the other day. There was a ring
Of rock nearly breast high. The diane
ter Of the ring was about three feet. out
side the circle were the skeletons of two
Indians. Within the ring was the skele-
ton Of man-eYidently a white man.
The story was told in grim characters and
il needed little fancy to picture the thrill
ing matter enacted there.
THIS STORY, which shoots a moral any
way YOU wish to point it. is being told:
Prof. Morse became 50 tired Of the veXa-
tious suits that he exclaimed to his friend:
CLARK. whatever YOU do, never get pat
ent. It's more trouble than its worth.
Never get a patent" shortly after Clark
made an improvement on one Of the IN
struments. bv which it worked much bet
ter. and on showing lit to Morse the old
mans face lighted up. "Clark, get
patent on it, said he, seeming to forget
his own troubles. Clark did get his pat
ent and realized handsomely on it.
DEVILS LAKE CITY is about three
months old. On May l. its population
numbered u persons: on July u it had
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the liveliest place in Dakota. 1t has two
hotels. two banks. two newspapers and
TWENTY-FIVE saloons. The houses are
built upon blocks Of wood or stumps Of
trees. Around the town are scattered the
white. sun-bleached bones of thousands
of buffaloes. At Q 80 in the evening day
light still streams in through the roots Of
turf. and at midday in July it is often
cool enough to wear an OyercOat.
ACCORDING TO an old sailor a good
swimmer cannot commit suicide by
arOwning. because he will inyOluntarily
begin to strike out the minute he begins
TO choke He adds: How many times
we hear of folks changing their minds
after they get under water, and OF course
there's lots that never let on what they
meant TO do. W hen you read ABOUT SUI
eide weighing himself down with lead or
something. and the paper says il was
done to hide the corpse, don't you believe
il. such persons are good swimmers.
who know-perhaps from experience
that they've got to have heft 10 keep them
under
One Of the wealthiest men in Texas is
Captain Hlliard, who is now visiting in
st. Louis. Last Thursday he received a
letter from his Overseer on the Nueces
river. telling him Of a remarkable flood
there. \ goat herder drove about 700
goats to water in the river. and while
the goats were drinking just below bend
i'm the stream. mountain rise came down
like a solid wall Of water from ten to tif-
teen feet high. On one side Of the stream
was a perpendicular bluff and on the other
a gradual incline. but before the active
goats could get out of the way 200 out Of
the 700 were drowned, and the herder
only escaped by swinging himself into
tree. where be was compelled to remain
on his unpleasant perch for twenty-fOur
hours. when the river went down as rap
idly as il had risen.
A SUIT Of armor that originally be-
Ionged to King Francis L. Of France, has
had strange history in modern times. 1t
was bought, says a correspondent of the
81. James Gazette. by the late sir An
thony ROthschild for E100. and sold by him
to the late Lord Ashburnham for $1,000.
Some years afterward il was sold by Lord
Ashburnham for $4,000 to dealer IN
clIriosities. who resOld it within twenty
four hours to a wealthy customer for no
less a sum than $1,000. The subsequent
history of the armOr is even more re-
markable. 1t was deposited by the pur-
chaser in the Belgraye Square Pantech-
nicOn. and when that unfortunate build
ing was destroyed by fire the armOr was
buried beneath the ruins. Dug out Of the
debris. it was sold for few pounds as old
iron. 1t survived, however, even this
degradation: for, after undergoing pro-
cess Of renovation. il was subsequently
sold for $4,000 to VI. Splitter, Of Paris,
where it is said to be now on sale for 500
600