Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AN Indian recently found pocket on the
mountain IN Shasta county, Cal, and in
short time PANIED out over $1,000.
MR.. HOE, the inventor, hopes soo1 to give
the public an invention in the way of pho
tographic press that will turn out 100000 pa
pers an hour.
one of the most accomplished writers and
artists Of England has recently been spending
a short period at Holloway Jail as an I'M
prsoned debtor, in order to expose the gross
iniquties of English law under which debt is
still treated as a crime.
THE deep sea is illuminated only by the
deep green sunlight that has passed through
a vast stratum of water and therefore lost all
the red and orange rays by absorption. The
deep sea star fishes are nearly all orange,
orange red or scarlet, even down to 3,OOO
fathOms.
THE Puget Sound oysters are sometimes two
feet in diameter, and weigh, inclusive of the
she'll as much as 60 pounds. Two of these gil
gantic mollusks were lately transported and
planted in the South Bay. Either the trip or
the new habitat disagreed with them, as both
died few days afterward.
MARMosET monkeys were sold not long ago
in the Bahia market for a half milres Us
cents. The price is now two and three mil
reis on account of the demand in Europe and
elsewhere. The marmOset is the most deli
more than three months in a cold climate.
THE number of dogs kept in Great Britain
appears from the returns Of the dog licenses
to be decreasing. Last year, as compared
with 1882, the licenses fell from 1850 to
Sg4 SOB. Since the increase in the amount of
this tax and its more systematic enforcement,
the keeping of dog has become luxury.
APARTY of Yale students, enjoying a canoe
trip down the HousatOnic river from Pitts
Lovers Leap Gorge below New Milford,
Conn the other day, a feat that no human
being since Indian days at least. has ever &C
complished. Their two canoes were swamped,
but being powerful swimmers, all escaped
with their lives. and they even succeeded in
saving part Of their outfit.
THE CHINESE ARMY, which looks sufficiently
formidable on paper, is divided into three
classes-namely, the Bannermen, the Troops
of the Green Standard the Volunteers, or
"Braves." The Bannermen are the descend
ants of the Manchu Tartars who conquered
the country in the seventeenth century, and
number about 100000. The Troops of the
Green Standard number $4,000, but it is on
the Volunteers that the authorities rely
ELEVEN YEARS AGO the condition of the
timbers supporting the dome of st. Peters
was such as to excite alarm for the safety of
the structure. Since then repairs have been
going on with as much steadlness as the de-
allow The work of restoration has just been
COMPLETED The great cupola has been Sc
cured with lead which was chiefly the gift of
SDsniards among whom the Pope numbers
his most faithful adherents.
A SMALL PIECE of looking-glass was placed
in an upright position about week ago on
picket fence in Leomi nster, Mass, and for
about three hours every day since then
sparrow has been seen fitting about the mir
rOr. The bird will stand and peck away at It's
reflected self until it gets thoroughly excited,
and then it will run back and forth along the
fence fly about the mirror, then return and
peck away again, and this order is kept up
until il s completely exhausted, when it de-
parts to reappear the next day.
THE capercallzie, or great cock Of the
woods, was once a common bird in the wood
land solitudes of the north of Scotland. 1t
became extinct about the year l7SO, but it
continued to exist in Scandinavia, and it is
nleasapt to hear that it Is once again becom-
ING quite a common bird in all the more large
Iy wooded districts north of the Tweed. Ae-
cording to the Whitehall ReUfsao tins revival,
after an extinction of about fifty years, is
mainly due to the reintroduction OF the bird
into the plymouth woods from Sweden, IN
the year 1888, by the late Marquis Of Breadal-
bane,