Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-25
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ONE COUNTY in Australia has this year paid
bounty on over $4,000 dozens Of sparrows'
eggs.
THE process OF drying lumber by surround
ing it with common salt is just now attract
ing attention. The peculiar power OF salt
for extracting moisture Is ~well-knOTn.
TIE drivers Of herdics in Boston who hire
their coaches from a company. threatened to
strike if their demand for lower rentals was
not compiled with, and the owners have
yielded.
THREE THOUSAND HORSES die each week IN
London. Their carcasses are purchased by a
company which delivers meat for cats and
dogs for many thousand customers. There
are 100000 cats IN the city.
There are now seven mills in Pittsylvania
county, Va, engaged in the manufacture of
sassafras oil. 1t takes seventy-fve pounds Of
roots to make a gallon Of oil, which sells Tor
81 O5 per gallon. 1t is used for havOring
soaps.
WITHIN nineteen months two engineers
have driven engine 567 Of the New York Cen
trail Railroad over 142,OOS miles Of track. The
two engineers alternated from day to day Ia
making the trip between Syracuse and Al
bany.
ANAS started to ride home from San Jose.
Cal. Hi road lay for miles through fields Of
pumpkins and squashes. The constant pump
kin panorama finally dethrOned his reason,
and he reached home a maniac. crying: "See
the squashes! see the squashes!" He had to
be strait-jacketed and sent to the asylum.
JUST before the close Of the last session of
Parliament a granto of $4,000 was obtained for
the express purpose Of protecting the Norman
stone work Of Westminster Hall. which had
become exposed by the pulling down of the
old law courts. Complaint Is made that no
signs are yet to be seen of the work being car
ried put.
some of the fine macadam pavements Of
Paris are being taken up snd wooden blocks
substituted. The secret Of success lies in the
foundation prepared, which Is of broken stone
and cement to the depth OF SIX lnches, Iorm-
ing an immOvable and impenetrable bed.
Upon this are laid the blocks of Norway
spruce. the cracks between which are filled
with pitch, and then a mixture OF gravel and
tar.
THE anniversary of one of the families
whose ancestors were hanged for witchery
has been celebrated in Salem. The houses are
still standing where the Judges of that famous
time lived. and on one of the principal streets
is a quaint old gabled structure where one OF
the supposed witches is supposed TO nave re-
sided. 1t is now occupied by a corn doctor,
who sells WItch-haZel ointment 10 the creuu-
lOus.
KING LUDWIG OF BAVARIA sent for Wagner
after the curtain fell on the first representa-
ton of -''Tannhauser,'' at Munich, and said to
him: wagner, your piece would do very
well, but there are too many phrases In It,"
''There are Just as many as there ought to be-"
replied the father of the music OF the future,
who turned and left His Majesty all broken up
by such t~artness. Mex day King and COM
poser exchanged apologies, and were good
friends again.
THE Colossus Of Rameses II. is gradually
recovering its lost parts. Flinders Petrie,
who has long been excaYating in Lower
Egypt, has just found an ear, a toe and pieces
of an arm, which, though comparatively
chips to the entire statue, weigh over a ton
each. \ Mathematics reconstruction shows
that it was the most stupendOus statue sculp-
tured by man, and 1t was cut from the Obtu-
rate red granite of Es SOuan. The whole
mass would probably weigh 1900 tons.
r. 4. PROCTOR got hold recently of a
wholesale price list OF a firm of d~istillers
which reveals a secret of the trade. Under
the head Of spirit davOrs occurs the following:
The attention Of consumers in Australia and
India is particularly called to these very use
full and excellent havors. One pound OF either
Of these essences to fifty gallons OF plain
spirits will make Immediately a fine brandy
or old tom, and without the use OF a STILL"
This Is followed by a list OF prices of these
havOrs, and a similar one OF wine arenas.
1--WE havors EN- in accordance with the de-
maud.' need not be applied solely to the trade
Of meat pie making.
s. B. ELKINs, of the Republican National
Committee. is the Republican son Of a sturdy
Democratic father Of the Jacksonian type.
While the son was spending his days and the
better part Of his nights at national head
quarters seeking to compass me eleetIon OF
Mr.. Blaine his father was visiting at his home
in Fifty-eighth street. and lnstilllng DemOc-
racy into the heads of his four little grand
sons. By the time the campaign was over the
son discovered an incipIent political rebellion
at home which NJ arts on his part could sub
due. The three older boys were cleveland
men," and bad even induced their three
year-Old brother. Blame by NAME, TO shout
FOR Cleveland. The climax was reached on
the morning before election, when seven
year-old Steven, Jr., announced triumph
altly TO his father thatthey had induced their
gOverness TO promise to vote for Cleveland. a
day or two after election one OF the young
sters was heard announcing, to the utter DIS
cOmfture of his father, that "all the men In
our family voted for Cleveland"
A in West Newton, Pa, takes the bis
cult when it comes to queer ways Of making
a living. The individual in question now
earns his bread and butter by supplying the
good people Of that city with hot water. He
has fitted up an immense iron tank at Mar
kle's paper mill, and into it has run ali the
steam escapes about the place. The steam
soon cOndenses, and makes the sOftest and
purest water in the world. He has also fitted
up a tank-wagOn in which to deliver his
stock. Before commencing operations he
secured nearly 100 customers, whom he has
served regularly from the start. In the morn
ing he comes around early and supplies boil
ing-hOt water for the breakfast, at noon he
makes his second trip, and many a housewife
need not bother roasting herself over a fire
heating her tea-kettle, but have hot water
left at the door when wanted. Another trip
Is made at supper and sometimes IN the even
ing. On wash-days very few ladies bother
heating water, but secure their wash-water
from the vender. His trade has grown so
large that he wiz soon have to put another
wagon at work, and his example VIII no
donhf he Initiated in many other nlanaa.