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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-13
Over the Fence.

Mrs. Slingonin put her head over the
fence and thus addressed her neighbor,
who was hanging out her weeks washing:
ga family has moved into the empty
house across the way, Mrs. Clothesline.'
eyes, l know"
Ibid you notice their furniture?''
"Not particularly
1.-TWO loads, and 1 wouldn't give dol
lar load for it. Carpets I wouldn't
put 'em down in my kitchen. And the
chidrenl | won't allow mine to associate
with 'em, you bet. And the motherl She
looks as if she had never known days
happiness; The father drinks, expect.
Too bad that such people should come in
to this neighborhoOd. l wonder who they
are?v
81 know them"
"Do you? Well, l declare. Who are
theyr'
''The mother is my sister, and the father
is the Superintendent of the Methodist
Sunday SCHOOL,
A painful pause ensues.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-13

A Lowell Mass. dispatch to the New
York Herald states that Arthur Legrand
Stafford, who claimed to be a natural son
of distinguished English Earl, landed in
New York from an Inman steamer during
the latter part of November last. At the
st. Nicholas Hotel he met a sporting
Southerner named Schwartz, and they de-
cided to go to Lake Pamadumcook, in
Maine, hunting and fishing. On the way
they stopped at Bangor, Me-, where Stat
ford made the acquaintance Of a Miss
Grace, of New York. They became sim
cerely attached to each other, and when
Stafford left for the woods they had
pllghted trOth. On the afternoon of De-.
cember 81 Stafford left the camp with his
rifle for stroll. Shortly after a severe
snOw-storm set in, and Stafford did not re-
turn. Schwartz and the guide went to find
him, but were then unsuccessful. Early
in the morning of New Years Day, about
three miles from camp, they found Stat
ford in the firm embrace of a she bear,
both frozen stiff. A knife was sticking in
the left fore shoulder of the bear. A short
distance away half-grOwn cub, with
knife wound in its heart, was discovered.
The guide said Stafford had attacked the
cub first, and was then set upon by the
she bear. Schwartz went to Bangor and
told his fate to Miss Grace. The poor
girl lost her reason, and will be sent to an
insane asylum.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-13
Wholesale Poisoning at Leiden.


A married woman, called Van der Lin
den, aged 40 years, mother of three child
rem, is charged at Leiden with having
murdered l6 persons in the course of a few
years. The victims were nearly all men,
bers of her family, on whose lives she had
effected assurances in burial and life
insurance companies, without their con-
sent, with the intention of poisoning them
and receiving the money at their deaths.
The crimes were discovered under the fol-
lowing circumstances: Some days ago a
family named FrankhuyZen, at Leiden,
lost in one day the mother and a child offs
months. The father was also taken i'll and
removed to hospital. In each case there
were symptoms Of poisoning, and the ex-
animation OF the bodies proved this to be
really the fact. 1t was ascertained that
Mrs. Van der Linden came into the house
OF her relatives and put poison in milk
which was being made hot on the fire.
After the death of the woman and her
child it was remembered that during the
last two or three years a member Of the
family had died under the same circum-
stances, and the bodies of two other child
rem having been exhumed, showed traces
ofpOisOn. A cousin of Mrs: Van der Lin
den, a soldier, whom she tried to poison Is
months ago, is very i'll, and Frankuyzen
is in great danger. The accused has con-
fessed her guilt. Her husband is innO-
cent. The prisoner has herself lost five
children, and it IS presumed that they
have also been poisoned. She has been
lodged in prison at The Hague.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-13
AMERICAN GEMS
Number and Variety and the Places
Where They are Enund

Who're They are Found.
Mr.. George f. Kunz has contributed to
THE Mineral Resources of the United
states" published by the government, an
article on American gems and precious
stones. he says systematic mining for
gems and precious stones is carried on
only at Paris, Me-, and Stony Point, n.
W put they are gathered on the surface
IN many places, as sapphires in Montana,
moss agate in Colorado and agate at Lake
Superior.
Some lightweight different minerals oc-
cur in the United States which have been
used as gems. Twelve of these occur in
the United States only. Diamonds are not
mined In this country, although they have
occasionally been found at a number of
localities. A large diamond was found
az Manchester, opposite Richmond, Va,
by IabOrer employed in grading one of
the streets. 1t was an OctahedrOn, and
weighed, after it was cut, over ten carats.
1t was worth $4,000 before cutting. The
principal localities for sapphires and ru-
pies are in New Mexico, Arizona and
southern Colorado, where they occur in
the sand, often on ant-hills. Garnets &C.
cur In the same region, about So, 900 worth
Oh cut stones being annually produced.
LII is estimated that the value of the
tOGrn1GttneS taken from Nit. Mica. Maine.
Is between $4,000 and So, 700. Tourma-
line and blddenite are being regularly
mined at Stony Point, n. g., some 81. 500
worth having already been sold. Rock
crystal is gathered and cut in large
quantities, the sales at different localities
probably amounting to SAC, 900 annually,
Much of it is cut for jeweIry, as oLake
George" or "Cape May'' diamonds. -
The clear crystal for optical purposes is
almost entirely Brazilian, as the good ma
terial found here rarely reaches tho
proper channels. Although agates are
abundant here, nearly all the Polish speci-
mems sold in America have been polished
in Germany, having originally come from
Brazil and Uruguay. Moss agates, how
ever, are collected here in large quanti-
ties, although the cutting is done abroad.
The sunstone and mOOnstone from Penn
sylvania and Virginia is of good quality,
although as yet used but little. The
American turquoise is of much interest,
but is not much used by jewellers. 1t is
frequently blue when found, but soon
turns green on exposure. Jet occurs in
Colorado and Texas, and will probably
soon be utilized in the arts. The Bowen
lite of Rhode Island, Williamsite of Penn
sylvania are used as a substitute for Jade
the american Naturalist points out that
in stating that sphene does not occur as
gem in the United States, Mr.. Kunz has
evidently not been aware of the beautiful
transparent yellow crystal, often of large
size, which occur in Delaware county. Pa.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-13
The American Girl.
Italian Paper.


The American girl is champagny. She
is glitiering, foamy, hubby, sweet, dry,
tart-in word, tiZZyl
She has not that dreamy, magical. muir
injury lOVableneSs of our Italian girl. And
yet there is a cosmopolitan combination
in the American girl that makes her a
most attractive cOquet in her frankness,
IN her pardOnable friYOlity, in her being
phenomenon OF verbal intrigued
You may lose your head with her easily
in u week, and in the way of recollecting
what you had said to her yesterday, for
she is gifted with memory; but your heart
-.j0mdlS!
l takes a longer time for thatl But be
sure she will have both sooner or later,
and like true belle will sing to you amid
signs and smiles:
Be glad while we may,
Nor take heed of the morrow;
The sweets of to-day
Let us taste while they last;
For life is too short
From the future TO borrow;
Dull care, like an ort,
Fling away to the past!
/ dOn't believe she is half as mercenary
as she talks, in the vein of "what female
heart can gold despise." Yet she gives
you strong impression that the alpha
and omega of life is a modiste and a
millionaire. My impression of the Ameri-
can girl is one never to be forgotten. She
is bright, brisk and business-like.
To be concise, would call the Ameri-
can girl a sort of social catechism-full Of
questions and answers. In many instan-
ces she Omits the answers, and becomes
an incarnate "T'. / never experienced
such a pleasurable witneSs-box position
III all my life.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-13
A GAMBLERS IDEA.
A Plan to Evade the Law Against the
Craft.


The other day leading gambler of this
place was complaining of the manner in
which the fraternity are treated in Erie,
and cOntrasted it with the reception given
to oil, grain and stock gambling. "Now,
have scheme," said he, ''to evade the
law. l am having engraved new kind
of card. Here, l will show you some of
the designs. You see, here are some
stacks of wheat. At the bottom of the
card are the figures 10. That means
that wheat is 81 10. There are 10 wheat
cards altogether, and the prices range
from 81 up. Now, here is a corn card.
Thirteen Of them are arranged in
the same way. Then have pork
cards and oil cards. Now, the game
l propose to play with this pack of fifty
two cards will be as near like the reguia-
ton grain and oil speculation as posi-
BILE. The cards will all be shuffied up and
dealt out face up till one of each kind has
been found. These first cards fix the
price to start on. The cards are then
shuffled and the players proceed to make
their bets that wheat or corn or pork or
oil will either rise or fall. The cards are
then dealt out, the bets decided,
and / collect my commission just
like any other broker. Do you
think they can stop me from doing
this? The only difference, as | see it,
between me and the brokers, will be that
they sometimes corner the market and
compel prices to rise, while l trust to
chance and play a square game. L mean
TO try it anyhow and test the matter.'
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-13
TIE ACCURATE MAIDEN.

Turn back the clock, o pa turn back
The rapid hands, tor don't you know
The time is changed; that we shall lack
Correctness if 1t isn't slow.
Turn back the clock, my papa dear,
For Billy's coming here tonight,
And | would have our time as near
AS il can be to what is right.
For Billy, pa. observes the clock,
And he will know if it do err;
'TwOuld give him. am sure, a shock
To see il fast, and he'd demur-
The men of science, dear papa,
Say eighteen minutes 1t must lose;
And Billy, when he says ta-ta,
Should have a little while to muse.
And, dear papa, you know our clock,
Besides, is always gaining speed.
/ think you should a little block
It's hasty hands, | do indeed!
. pa. if You will set the hands
As they should be, with all my soul
T'u heed the least of your commands,
And be so saving with the coal
-IOuyieFa- .(O1tTUNT-
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-13
A Train Delayed by AnteIopes.

The west bound train between Green
river and Granger, on the Union Pacific,
recently encountered a flock of 1920 or
1900 antelopes. The snow was quite deep,
and drifted in places, and the aEtelopes
were running on the roadbed, finding that
the easiest road to travel in. When they
were first encountered many of them were
killed, and the engineer, seeing at once
that the train might be derailed unless it
were slowed up, decreased the speed. The
antelopes kept a short distance ahead of
the engine, and were strung along the
road for quarter of mile. They would
occasionally get some distance from the
engine, and then they would stop, turn
round and watch the headlight until the
engine was fairly upon them. They de-
layed the train half OF three-quarters of
an hour.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-13
BACK TO THE FLOATING CHIP.
Makers of ships COmpasses Come Round
to the Practice of the Ancients.
Nelo York Sun.

Makers of ships COmpasses Come Round
to the Practice of the Ancients.
Nelo York Sun.
One of the earliest English poets has a
stanZa like this:
- Ye lOdestone on We little chippe
Doth serve to guide we mighty shippe
By ever pointing to We pole;
Thus conscience serves to guide tn soul"
SIS it true that the original ships COM
pass was made of 'lOdestOneP" was asked
of dealer in cOmpasses and chronOme-
ters.
eyes. Magnetic iron ore on a bit Of
wood floating in a bowl of water is said
to have been the original compass. There
are old sailors living now who can re-
member when the needle was attached to
piece of wood floating in a bowl. The
first attempt at improvement was to at
tach thu needle to a card on which the
thirty-twO points of the compass were
marked. The card was balanced at its
centre on a hardened steel point or pivot,
the cap that rested on the point
being made of agate, garnet, or
sapphire. to reduce the friction.
The pivot was erected from the
centre OF the bottom of a bowl that was
suspended in what are called gimbals, an
arrangement of rings and pivots which
kept the top of the bowl, and therefore the
compass card, always horizontal, what
ever the ships position. The great point
at which the manufacturer hoped to ar
rive was such an arrangement of the va
rious parts of the compass as would leave
the needle in its position undisturbed
when the ship swung around. The most
perfect construction of the pivot and its
cap was found faulty in that the point
eventually wore down collar, so that the
card moved with the ship.
''The latest device for a compass is a
return to the old 'lOdestOne' and chip prin-
ciple. Instead of a single bit OF steel,
there are six ribbons OF cast steel secured
to a card that is made of tin with air COM
partments in it. This card is flOated on a
bowl of water tinctured with spirits. The
spirits are to prevent freezing. The card
revOlves on pivot of the best construc-
ton. The pivot is to keep the card from
touching the sides of the bowl. The wa
ter supports all the weight of the card,
except a few grains, so that no wear
comes on the pivot. II you ever whirled
a pail of water with stick in it you no.
ticed that the stick remained stationary
while the pail went round. The card in
the bowl remains on the meridian while
the ship jibes about or comes up into the
wind
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-13
Popularity of the Venus De Milo.
yoodo, Fj01ro

OF all the classic Venuses known to us
in modern times, this Venus of Milo is
certainly the most popular. 1t is calcu-
lated that every year some $4,000 repro
auctions of it i'll marble, plaster, terra
Gotta, etc., are sold IN Europe; while for
its photographs it can claim a greater
sale than even Mrs. Langtry or Miss Mary
Anderson in the zenith of her fame. In
the recent inventory Of State property
made by the French Government this
matchless statue was computed to be
worth 100000 francs, or 100000.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-13
THE COMING RAILROAD.
Operated by Electricity-2OO Miles an
HOur-Packages to be Transported
First-Then Persons.
LOnd0n Iail'eS.


An electric railway, differing in several
respects from ordinary electric railways.
bias been invented by Mr.. f. Hahn Dan
chell, chief engineer, and is being eXhib-
tied by a working model at the offices of
Messrs. Bauer e. Co., No. Union Court
Chambers. old Broad street. The main
object of the inventor is to obtain high
rate Of speed with light load, and this
system has been specially designed for
the transportation Of letters, parcels and
light weight goods. The distinguishing
feature in the construction iss that the
train runs on one rail only instead of two,
and it is balanced by another rail over
head, which is embraced by pairs of side
guide wheels attached to the upper part
of the train. This upper rail is made to
act as the conductor of the electric cur
rent from the generating station, the cur
rent being transmitted to the driving ma
chinery on the engine, which runs upon
a pair of central grOOVed wheels of large
diameter. The object of this construction
is to reduce friction to a minimum, and
thus to facilitate the attainment OF high
speed. which Mr.. Danchell proposes
should be $50 to 200 miles per hour. The
speed attainable will, of course, depend
chiefly on the power that can be obtained
from the motor. The working model con-
ssts OF a circular railway about feet in
diameter, the engine being about II
inches long by s inches high, and the
power being furnished by an ordinary
bIchromate battery. The speed obtained
is very great, and Mr.. Danchell states
that experiments on much larger scale
have already been carried out at Maid
stone. He proposes primarily to apply
the system to the transmission of letters
and parcels-in fact, for postal purposes,
for which it would appear to be adapted.
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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-13

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"Brown's Iron Bitters has quite relieved
me of rheumatism with which long suf-
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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-06-06
How to Transplant.

There is no part in gardening that
requires more skill than the transplant
ing of plants so as to retard their
growth as little as possible. AS a pre-
liminary to this operation, the young
plants should be uncovered if in hot
beds and exposed to the full power of
the light air that they may be harden
ed and ready for the change. The
ground about the roots should be kept
thoroughly wet for a short time before
the plants are removed, as this causes
the earth to cling TO the roots more
firmly, aud gives them life and vigor
Most plants do better if transpauted
in cloudy or rainv weather, but if this
cannot be done they should be set cut
at nightfall and shielded for few days
from the direct rays of the sun. The
cavity for the roots should be made
large enough to admit of their inser-
tion without craming or crowdiug to-
gether. Let the soil around be tho
roughly loosened and pulyerized so that
the new roots to be- formed will have a
free growth. When the roots have
been set in the cavity pack some fine
soil directly abou. them nearly to the
surface and fill on top with rich, loose
earth. Water frequently until the
plants begin to grow again. BY exer-
oising little care, such plants as cab
bages, celery, ru,abagas and tomatoes
may be transferred TO open ground
with no perceptible change in their
rate of growth.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-06-06
Pumpkins among Corn.

Although some farmers reject the
long and well sustained practice of
planting pumpkin seed among corn, on
the ground that it detracts as much
from the corn product as in the profit
it adds to the stock of provender, still
i. is the general method pursued to get
a crop of pumpkins. Besides, from our
own experience and observation, we
have had and seen as good crops of
corn with as without pumpkins. 1t
may appear at first though as if the
land could not sustain two full crops
of anything but this is not so in all
cases, as in those where the two crops
do not require the same manurial stun
ulants, inasmuch as portion, at least,
that one will take up will not be re-
quired by the other. OF course it re-
quires very good land to raise pump
kins but even in this case, though an
extra crop of manure may be needed
TO be applied to the corn ground where
pumpkins are to be planted, there will
be a saving in the element of time, and
instead of one crop from the land in a
year, we gather two. The objection
that some make, that the vines shade
the ground, while the ground requires
all the heat it can get, is not well
founded, as the corn itself furnishes
perfect shade without the vines, which
really can add little more to injure the
crop. 1t is far more probable that the
objectors to this double crop, who fail
in getting all they want, owe their lack
of success to poor land or negligent
cultivation, and we suggest that they
should change their system of manur-
ing and cultivating more, and ther
wait and Germantown Iete
graph. n
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-06-06
FARM NOTES.

Use the knife at once on the appear.
auce of black knot on plum or cherry
tree
Rich ground, strong plants and
good culture are the surest remedies
against lice and worms infesting cab
bagc.
1t is claimed that three fifths of all
the cattle in this country, outside of
milch-cows, are west of the Mississippi
river
In the western part Of Florida 5O0,-
600 acres of land haye been secured by
company of Scotch capitalists.
Set tomato plant in the center
of cucumber, squash and melon hills,
and it will keep off many varments.
Growing Strawberries by the matted
row, and raspberries by the hedge
row system, is safest for northern sec
tlons.
If you would have quick and efficient
work, use good tools aud keep them
clean.
A little oatmeal added to water
makes it little more palatable for man
and beast.
Where field is overrun with weeds
frequent summer plowipg is the only
remedy.
1t is estimated that seventy five per
cent. of the cattle in America are scrubs
or natives.
Do not set out verbena plants so
that they are too close. -Four or five
feet should be given to them. They are
wonderful spreaders.
Some years the Summer is none too
long for Lima beans. A start of sever.
al weeks may be secured for them by
planting the seed under glass, or in.
verted sods foot square, transferring
them to the garden, when hot weather
sets in.
The best Western farmers, instead
Of planting pumpkins among corn, "de
vote all acre or more to pumpkin:
and cultivate them with two horse
cultivator as long as possible and ther
let them rum 1t is beautiful sight
to see field "all pumpkins whe,,
they lay so close that man could walk
over the whole patch without once put.
ting foot on the ground. They grow
better, larger ripen earlier, are sweetel
and more solid than when shaded BY
the corn, and can be gathered by
driving around and around tht
field"
THINNING FRUIT.-Mr. B. Hatha
way, one of Michigan's most success
full fruit-growers, speaks thus in regard
to thinning fruit: 81 have much faith
in the effect of thinning fruit as tend
ing to equalize the productivensss, OIL
rather the production, of fruit every
year. The same end may, in meas
ure, be attained by judicious pruning
and it is more generally practised, pro
badly will be dope, ten times where
thinning is attempted once. Either
from my thorough pruning, or other
cause not apparent, | have always been
what is called fortunate in having a
fair crop OF apples, even in seasons Of
comparative failure.
Plum ON PEACL-A writer in Rura
World says "One-half the plum trees
now handled are on peach roots, bu,
they are worked under ground. II
grated in the nursery they should be
grated one or two inches below the
surface, and when transplanted, set 9
little deeper so as to avoid the peach
borer, which does not bother the plum
wood. l once had Imperial Gage or
peach stocks, planted deep, that grew
to be very large trees and bore well.
Even our wild varieties will take on
the peach, sure as the Wild Goose
Weaver, Forest Garden, etc. 1t is said
that Wild Goose plum does better OF
peach than on plum root, and have
reason to believe it from experience.