Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE red flannel shirt which, tied to an oar,
" as used as a distress signal by the Greedy
party in the Arctic regions will be on exhibit
| ton at the Cincinnati Exposition.
AN English scientist has discovered an ami
NAL with 1000 eyes. He thinks there is no
doubt it saw him before he saw it, but he has
not yet named 1t.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY, the African explorer,
recommended from experience that the Nile
soldiers should have daily ratIons of wine and
spirits, and the British Government meanly
proposes pickles as substitute.
THE latest cause given for Indian famine is
the existence of an excessive number of goats.
The theory is that the goats destroy the trees,
and the consequent decay of forests decreases
the average rainfall. There are 100000
goats in the Madras Presidency alone.
SKELETON CORAL is produced by sleeping
ordinary coral in dilute murlatic acid for
long time. The lime is dissolved and deli
cate framework of silica left. Some of these
skeletons are so delicate that they break in
drying. All should be kept under glass.
THE managers of the Century magazine say
that their new dictionary. while dropping
some words as obsolete and some participates as
unnecessary, will introduce thousands of
words which have never before been in any
dictionary, but which by use have demon
strated their right to ADOPTION. Some 10000
of these have been received.
A DISPATCH announcing that the new Phil
lips well in Butler county, Pa, had flowed 40
barrels Of oil in four hours created panic
in the Pittsburg Oil Exchange on Saturday.
When il was ascertained that the telegraph
operator had made mistake of 200 barrels
the we'll only furnishing 30 barrels in four
hOurs-there was recovery OF confidence,
but not of money lost or of temper. The mis-
chief could not be repaired.
THE faces of Europeans, as a rule, are
broader than those of Americans. The COM
mon distance in this country between the
centres of the eyes is three and three -eighths
inches. but among foreigners it is three inches
and half. Sometimes this is increased from
one to thFee-eghths of an inch more. II spec
tacles are worn with the frames too narrow,
the focus of one eye conflicts with that of the
other, and an effect is produced very similar
to that Of being crOss-eyed.
AT a recent meeting of one of our medical
societies a list of more than one hundred
remedies for cholera was presented. Yet a
distinguished doctor stated that probably no
real Improvement had been made upon the
remedies of sixty years ago, which consisted
almost wholly of calomeI and opium. The
French doctors are experimenting with doses
of sulphate Of copper as a cure. 1t appears
that workers in coal mines have had an al
most complete immunity from the disease.
THE seasons catch Of seal skins from Alaska
has arrived overland in New York, and 10
ready for trans-shipment to London, their
usual destination. The invoice includes ,6eS
casks. each containing from so to 81 packages
mack ed in salt; the finest packages are valued
Al $500 The correct chemical process for
dressing and dveing this fur seems to be well
kept secret in England. as the many attempts
to compete with that country that have been
made here have failed, although the services
OF London artisans have been enlisted.
DIR. FELIX FREMONT has written an article
for the Journal a. Hygiene, in which he gives
tobacco smokers this good advice: Cigar
smokers should always use long holder and
renew it frequently. Havana cigars are by
far the least hurtful. Dry cigars contain less
nicotine than damp ones. it is better to
smoke slowly than quickly. Cigarette smOk-
ing is the most perniciOus form of smoking;
while the smoking of pure dry tobacco from
a porous pipe, frequently renewed, Is the
nearest possible approach to hygienic excel
lence.
THERE is a deep lake of about ten acres on
little tributary of the Salmon river, Utah,
not far from the SawtOoth mines and towns,
which suddenly, about Aug. !, appears to
become one dense shoal of red fish, probably
salmon trout, weighing from two to eight
pounds, fat but not saucy on their first ap-
pearance. They can be lifted out with hay
fork by the wagon load, as deer, driven down
bv the first SHOWS. can be killed by the score
with hatchet. After about six weeks, the
lake fish growing thinner all the time, they
suddenly disappear until the next year.
FROM the days OF Cortez, in 1921, down to
the beginning Of this century, and even to the
present time, except when interrupted by
revolution. the Mexican silver mines have
poured forth.an unceasng stream Of silver,
such as the world has never seen. 1t IS esti-
mated that the value of the silver coin and
bullion produced in that country since the
conquest is over $1,000, 000, 600, and 1t is well
known that some of the mines have been
probably worked almost without interruption
from that day to this. and that one OF them, at
least, Is still running out silver at the rate OF
over $5,O00,C00 per year.
TIE great remedy for rattlesnake's bite
at LOng Eddy, y. Y, was learned eighty years
ago from a half breed Indian by Joseph Geer
the first settler. 1t is as follows: Apply to
the wound poultice Of one-half each Of COM
mon salt and indigo, mixed with cold water.
and renew every two hours. Eat freely OF
Inc leaves. or drink often of a tea made from
them. OF a variety of blue violet, commonly
known as the arrow leaved violet ". Saglt-
tala1. II the bite be upon leg or an arm
bind the leaves in a circle around II, ahoVe
and inst beyond the swelling. Molsten Win
cold water as often as they get dry from the
gever created by the poison and renew TWO or |
three times q day,