Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

GEORGE NJ. PULLMAN complains that there
are in this country 100 railway directors
Drivate palace cars " hich cost -, 500 900 and
which he prOnOunces wholly unnecessary.
Is Plumas county, Cal, the quail are so
plentiful that they run around like chickens,
csme into door-yards, and even enter the
houses. and a number have recently been
caught in this way and are kept as pets.
THE Jewish citizens of San Francisco have
had to organize to break up a curious monOp-
oly, namely, one that controlled the price OF
matzOs or Passover bread. The price has
| been reduced from Y to cents pound.
REV. WILLIAM TAYLOR, the newly elected
MehOdist Missionary Bishop to Africa, when
asked the other day where he VIII live when
he goes to the dark continent, answered, sin a
row. boat, perhaps. l shall go there trusting
wholly in God, and know l shall succeed"
WHILE saving log recently in a Missis-
sippi mill the wOrkmen were astonished TO
see the log suddenly take fire and the ma
| chinery stop. examining the saw they dis-
covered that every tooth was gone, and on
splitting the log cannon ball was found
buried in the heart.
IL Northern Michigan there is a large area
of land known as ''plains," which is said to be
Door land and not tillable. A movement is on
foot to induce the Legislature to establish an
experimental farm at Baldwin. Lake county,
and determine by experiment what can be
done with the land and what can be raised
upon 1t.
THERE is a large rock in the twin lakes near
Salisbury, Conn.,, which is called the "moving
rock" from the fact that within the last
twenty years it has moved a quarter of a mile.
| 1t weighs more than thirty tons, is of porous
| formation, and the channel it has made for
| itself along the bottom of the lake clearly in
dicates the progress 1t has made.
ward, has sailed for England on an interesting
mission. He goes to represent Harvard at the
| tercentenary celebration of Emmanuel Col
lege at Cambridge, that takes place on June
| a. This college was the alma mater Of John
Harvard the founder of Harvard University.
| and of Henry Dunster, its first President, and
| il was Mr.. Dunster who brought the name
Cambridge from the old English town to the
one of New England.
AT a recent meeting of the California
Academy of Sciences, Il. f. G. Stearns, Phi.
D., spoke of the rapid increase Of the soft
shelled or lOng-necked clans in the Pacific
| BAYS. Some Oregon CLANS weighing fifteen
pounds with necks three feet long. require
| three men to dig them. They are only Access
sible at extremely low tides. Their delicate
white meat, when boiled, cut in strips, and
fried in batter, is exceedingly good. 1t is the
largest edible clam known. CLANS weighing
| 800 pounds, found among the South Pacific
Islands. are too tough to eat.
AT at the Memorial day services at Forest
| Hills, Boston, Lieut.. /. /. Polk, a Confeder-
ate soldier, appeared on the scene with lady
and little girl, and a small party of comrades.
The officer requested the privilege OF placinO
a Dgautffuf tyUuqu ob, which lac had lsIorr M,
on the grave Of some member of the Sixth
COrps As q member of Rodes' division he
had often been engaged against that corps in
the war, and he and his associates had come
to admire greatly the qualities OF its men.
The request was Of course granted, and the
whole party afterWard joined the comrades OF
the Grand Army Post in the exercises at the
soldiers lot.
A REMARKABLE statement was recently
made to one of the editors of the RdiJtcdy 4 "a
with reference to the close application to his
business Of the Treasurer Of the Providence
and Worcester Railroad Company. This gen.
tleman, it is stated, accompanied a party Of
officials Of the road and others who made the
inaugural trip on the occasion of opening the
road in lS41, and. although he mas been con-
nected with il during all the years since, has
not ridden mile on its rails from that day to
the present. He has not been outside the city
limits Of Providence in thirty years, and to-
day carries watch which he has carried fifty
years, and which he has in all that time al
lowed to run down but twice.
DIR. GROSS, Of Phiade phia, left an estate of
$25O.OOO. He leaves 5000 to the jefferson
Medical College, or the Philadelphia Academy
of Surgery, or the the College Of Physicians of
PHILADELPHIA. at the discretion Of the execu-
tor. The accumulated interest Of this amount
is to De paid every five years, under the name
Of the samuel ID. Gross prize, TO the writer of
the best essay illustrative of some subject in
surgical pathology or surgical practice,
founded upon original investigation. The
essayist must be an American citizen. DIR.
Gross medical library, museum and diagrams
are left to the executors choice of the same
three institutions. on condition that ire
proof apartment be provided for the reception
OF the bequest.
A NEVADA paper says: "a man who had
been but a few days in the country brought
in piece of ore the other day, which he
showed to a man on the street and asked him
what it contained. The party addressed said
Il would 60 5000 in silver and $50 in gold. The
man asked him how long he had been in Ari-
IONA. ana where he came from. Il am from
Kansas, and have been here a week. The
mineral hunter while going up Logan
avenue struck another party and wanted
his advice on the rock. .Ah, said expert
No. 2, this is pretty good looking
ORE and probably contains silver and gOld'
How long have you been in ArlzonaP About
a month"; replied the expert. The next man
the prospector met was asked what he thought
of the mineral 4 don't know anything about
it; you 20 and have it assayed, and the assayer
viii tell you all about It., Have you been
long in the country inquired the mineral
hunter. About fifteen years. replied the
man, This little incident thoroughly illus
trates the stages through which a person has
| TO pass before he has the coDceit taken out Of
him in regard to Ores"