Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| habitants OF Sierra Leone, II Western Africa,
to dispense with all bamboo matched houses
on account Of their liability to fire.
TIE West Africa Reporter cries out
/ against the umbrella tree planted in great
/ quantities by the government. 1t says they
are unhealthy and serve 10 harbor thieves.
THE banking firm Of Rothschfld, in London
| employ women exclusively as coupon count
| ers, and experience shows that they are far
! more reliable and intelligent than male en-
! plOyes.
| SOME Of the teachers in the public schools Of
| St. JOhnsbury, Vt, have been noticed by the
| school committee that attendance at the skat-
/ ing rink will 0e considered equivalent to a
| resignation.
THE CLAM is gradually propagating itself
| all along the California coast. 1t is only 10
/ wears since the bivalve became common on
/ the shores Of san Francisco Bay. and now it
| bara.
THE LARGEST DOG to be exhibited at Che
| New York bench show, St. Bernard,
/ owned by G. r. Gilderseeye. is 30 inches high
| and feet inches from the point of the nose
! to the tip of the tail, thus being larger than
1 Joe Emmet's famous dog.
on THE OCCASION Of the festivities of Cour-
BAN Bairam in Turkey, the Sultan ordered
/ that a number of sheep killed in sacrifice at
]
rie5 Of STEAMBOAT for the use of the poor stu
dents living on the premises.
II DIGGING a hole to plant St. John nag
pole in Indiana the workmen struck spring
of water. 4 hole was bored in the pole and
il was transformed into a pump, where the
faithful can Stake their thirst and show their
respect fer the cause at the same time.
THE forty. ninth annual convention of the
Baptist Association of Maryland was thrown
TWO ladies' were going to take seats. 1t was
found, however, that they simply wanted to
make a report on some missionary work.
AN old soldier writes to the London Truth
that the survivors OF Havelock's column,
which saved the Presidency of Lucknow with
the loss OF 60 officers and 200 men. have never
received clasp. Truth ASS if this does not
contrast strangely with the medals and deco
ratOns which have been lavished upon
troops in Egypt for putting to night few
trembling ieilahs."
THE great Nadeau vineyard at Florence,
Cal, containing ?, 900 acres of vines, % years
old, is doing remarkably well this year. Sew
eral tons of sugar have been imported at St.
Helena, Cal, by Wine makers to use in their
business, because of the absence of the usual
quantity Of saccharine matter in the grapes.
The grape crop in upper Napa valley has been
remarkable this season.
a CALIFORNIA man has discovered a new
way to kill cat" Near Chico he freed a
large wildcat, and, having no firearms, set
his wits to work for means to kill it. He went
to camp and got rope, found 2 fOrked limb
that would serve as q pulley, passed the rope
over it, lassoed the cat and lowered him with
in a few feet of the ground, where he killed
the animal with club.
ALONG the coast of the Alaska peninsula the
bears have been unusually plentiful and fero-
cious this season. In the neighborhood Of
Bel1OYsky one man was disembOweled in his
tent and lacerated to such an extent that the
remains had to be buried on the spot. An
other man had his arm crushed by the fangs
OF one Of these animals. Women and children
did not dare to take their usual share in the
labor Of fishing along the river banks.
IT Is a common mistake to assume that Aus
tralia is a country destitute Of large rivers;
on the contrary, it possesses ore of the long
est in the world, viz, the Darling, which is
navigable for 2345 miles, placing it third in
rank among the rivers of the world, estimated
by their navigabe length, and considerably
above the Nile, navigable for 1900 miles; the
Danube, navigable for LOO miles; the Rhine,
navlgaOle for 600 miles, and the Thames, naVi-
gable for lSS miles.
a CERTAIN clergyman. who would probably
classify himself as an "impressionist," hap
pened to be passing a shop of parlshioner,
and, being DESTROYS of emphasizing great
moral lesson, bounds lightly in through the
QOuAs IHilttluA q W ikh WLutps NdluIdflJ Ihe
parlshiOner starts. You didn't expect me
you weren't prepared for me-" questions the
clergyman. Il as not" Then suppose 1
had been death-where would you have been,
eh:' yells the clergyman, and vanishes.
'PHIL" ARMOUR, the pork king, has with
drawn from the firm of Plankinton & Armour
of Milwaukee, of which he has been mem
Der for 20 years. 1t appears that Plankinton
is quite as remarkable an example of money
making as Armour. He came to Milwaukee
in 1884, doing business as retail butcher in a
building which he constructed for the modest
sum of SlCS. But his fortune grew apace;
venture after venture pTOspered, and in 1850
he was a member Of a firm whose business
amounted to So, 100000 annually.
CERTAIN ingenious Parisians are expert
menting with an apparatus for utilizing solar
heat and using it in lieu of coal. To affect
this the suns rays are concentrated by re-
Hector, which so moves as to keep the rays
fOcassed on vertical boiler, which is thus
heated producing steam enough to drive a
press. In a recent experiment the sun-made
steam drove large press, which struck off
several thousand copies of a specimen news
paper. Parties interested in thus obtaining
the cheapest attainable heat profess them
selves as well satisfied with the first test. and
are IN high hopes of soon being able to gener-
ate steam without coal or any other mundane
fuel.
VICE ADMIRAL CLOSE, Of the British Navy,
has offered a singular explanation about the
loss of the gunboat Wasp recently off the Irish
coast. There exists, it seems, a form of de-
fective sight known as "mOon blindness"
persons afflicted with which are unable to
perceive light shining in darkness. tits easy
to see the consequences of this infifmitY in the
navigating officer of a ship. Admiral Close
says he nearly lost the man-of- war Trident
once from this cause, only discovering in the
nick of time that his navigating officer was
unable to see the light of a lighthouse half a
mile distant. IL "moOn blindness is an es-
tablished fact in medical science, the sooner
provision for detecting 1t is made the better.
A BOULOGNE CORRESPONDENT writes that
the cook at a school in the Glronde, having
gathered a quantity of poisonous mushrooms
in the vicinity, served them to the boys, IS in
number, for breakfast. The whole of them
were seized with most violent pains. Several
doctors attended them. but in vain. Eleven
of the children died. In cooking this treach-
erOus food il is generally believed that If a
silver coin placed in the saucepan Is not dis
colored, the mushrooms are wholesome. The
test was resOrted to on this occasion. but sig
naily failed. month ago two little girls
were poisoned at Arras through a similar
misadventure, and further case took place
near Lyons, when r whole family were
attacked-the father, mother and children.
THE dramatist, NJ SardOu, has interviewed
and describes Nine. Bernhardt as really ill.,
and her nerves are unstrung and Frustrated.
Besides her artistic cares, she is subject to
money anxieties arising from frightful negli-
gences of her pecuniary affairs. She exag-
gerates everything in life, from grief to joy.
She deals in money matters in breaKneck
fashion. making her money fly to the right
and left. She has eXhaustlDg angers and
furious hates NJ Sardou visited her recent
lY, when he found her prey to the most vio-
lent excitement. twisting her body and rolling
about the carpet, biting the rug, soDDlng, and
in a high state of evaporation. A domestic
drama had evidently just been finished; there
were blows in the air. NJ. SardOu expects a
speedy recovery of Nine. Bernhardt, and only
the magnetizing doctor is now permitted TO
see her.