Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TIE mines Of Tombstone, Arizona, are said
10 have yielded S5,G00.O0O worth Of metal since
their opening in ls7s-79.
FOR some inexplicable reason eight Of the
sixteen ostrich chicks at the ostrich farm at
Anaheim, Cal, have recently died.
ST. CLAIR. MICH, lies on bed of rock salt
five feet in thickness. 1t is not easy Of access,
however, as 1852 feet of earth and rock are on
top of 1t.
A PHILADELPHIAN has shown the Secret
Service officers at Chicago $50 Treasury note
made wholly with the pen, its execution be-
ing so complete as to deceive keen expert.
BLAINE is the name of new post Office in
Logan county, Ark. There is only one Hend-
ricks county in the United States, and Il is
situated in Indiana. There is a post Office
named Tllden near Memphis.
THE Pail Nal Gazette recently called the
attention OF its philanthropic readers to the
methodical and simple wav in which AmeFi-
can fruit and flower missions do their work.
No unnecessary fuss, no long names; nothing
but quiet cooperation, giving DOundless COM
fort to the poor and sick Of the great cities.
w. ZIMMERMAN, owner of a creamery near
Clockville, Madison county, n. Y, is the
owner Of an immense snowbank which lies on
his farm, and from which he Is still getting
snow in quantities sufficient to cool all the milk
used in his creamery. The snow VIII last but
"A few days longer. The snOwbank was not IN
gorge, but on land that could be plowed.
A FARMER near the Cypress river, Mani
toba, recently let loose several calves, which
had until then been kept in an enclosure. Re-
iaicing in their new found liberty they ran
into the woods near the river, where four
deer were spending the summer day IN the
cool recess furnished by the bending branches
Of the trees. The calves and the deer seemed
to form a friendship as they went oil To-
Vather and il was several DAYS before the
runaways were recovered.
THOSE who have studied the fish supply Of
Western Maryland have become alarmed at
the results which have been produced by the
introduction Of bass into the Potomac and the
neighbOring streams. The bass are very yo-
racIous in their habits, and attack all kinds OF
aquatic life for food. They nave elther ue-
voUred or driven away most of the falfish. the
sunfish. the catfish and other native fish, ana
thew have very greatly diminished the num-
Der of cells, and have even destroyed many OF
the turtles and water-snakes.
HEAVY snow storms, covering the noun
tains with a wintry mantle, and vast ice
bergs and icefelds, miles in length, filling up
the strait, are reported from the Straits of
Belle Isle. This strait, one of the outlets OF
the Gulf of st. Lawrence, is on the north and
northeast coast of Newfoundland, and sep
arates that great island from the mainland OF
Labrador. 1t is twelve miles wide and eighty
miles long. continuous tempest had pre-
vailed there. from July to 20; sometimes of
sleet. sometimes of snow, and at all times the
weather was very cold.
PROF. DOUGLASS, of the Michigan State
University, it is said, produces amateur cy-
clones at will He does it by suspending
large copper plate by silken cords. This plate is
charged heavily with electricity, which hangs
down like a bag underneath, and is rendered
visible by the use of arsenlOus acld gas, Whlch
gives il a green color. The formation Is
miniature cyclone as perfect as any started IN
the clouds. 1t is funnel-shaped and whirls
around rapidly. Passing this plate over
table. the cyclone snatches up copper cents,
pens, pith balls and other objects ana scatters
them on all sides.
SOME specimens of the peculiar germ which
the now famous DR.. Koch has discovered in
India, Egypt and latterly in France, in the
bodies Of persons who have died OF the
cholera and to the presence of which he at
tributes that terrible scOurge, were eXhlDited
for the first time in public in London on July
Il, at the Imperial Theatre, by the aid OF a
gigantic n horoscope. The germs-nO longer
in an active state-had been specially pro-
cured from the cholera district in the South
of France. AS magnifled some two million
times, and shown by the and OF the electTlc
light they appeared nearly of the size OF the
palm of ones hand. They were quite color
less and the shape of coils representing
circles and shapes not unlike the figure 8, pre-
cisely as described in DR.. koch's work on the
subject.
A PHILADELPHIA HOTEL CLERK philoso-
phizes as follows: II have found in my quar-
ter of a century experience behind the hotel
desk a queer class of travellers, who are al
WAYS expecting letters and kilograms, and
vet have never been known to receive a single
one There is an important look about fel-
low who steps up to the register and puts MS
name down, and then with a pOmpOus air in
Guires: ANY letters for mel? He knows as
well as the clerk does that he never expected
any, but then it impresses the man behind the
desk with the idea that he has great man
under his roof / have seen guests who were
in the habit of inquiriDg every couple OF hours
for letters; but they never received any. The
business man steps up to the desk anu waits
0uires in a low tone of voice: Anything for
me?"
THE receipts on the East river bridge now
average about $l.4OO per day, which the Su-
periptendent of Tolls says, is decrease of
$50 to 5000 compared with earlier in the sea-
son. He explains this decrease by the sum-
mer exodus from New \ Ork and Brooklyn and
the absence of mere sight-seers. Since the
opening of the structure the enormous num-
Der of IA, 900 persons have crossed It, The
total receipts to date are $4s2,30 or about
$50, 900 since the annual report In May: Inc
foot passengers numbered Z 100000 and those
who crossed in the cars 6,125,O0O. There is
record of 1859 funerals, averaging twelve car
riages each, with four persons occupying
carriage. inns udkCs OVosOuV ISIsOha W ~
crossed the bridge in that way. The superln-
tendent also states that the present number
of employees on and about the bridge is not far
from 800 including policemen. ana the latter
are peculiarly serviceable for the information
which they furnish at the ends Of the struc-
ture to inquiring strangers and others. AS to
the bridge ITSELF it is worth adding that, not
withstanding the great strain to which Il Is
frequently subjected, there is no perceptible
evidence Of the slightest relaxation of its pow
ers Of resistance.