Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

4 FOUR-YEAR-OLD BOY at Felicity, Ohio, is
the sensation of that town, as he can or is al
legged to be able to read books and papers at
sight, though he was never instructed.
DOCTORS will disagree, and so will other
men. Sir Lepel Griffin could find no hand
some or healthy women in America. Lord
Coleridge, on the contrary, insists upon their
superior beauty and intellect.
AT a meeting of the Academy of Science in
St. Louis few days ago there was exhibited
a specimen of natural coke taken from mine
of Ignite coal in L tab. The coke had been
made, it was stated, hy volcanic action, two
volumes of. volcanic rock having passed
directly through the mine.
FORTRESS MONROE VA is the largest fort
in the world, covering an area of seventy
acres. 1t was built in 1917, and to the unini
tiated looks almost impregnable. In shape
the fort is an irregular heXagOn, two sides
fronting the water, while the other four COM
mand the land approaches.
THE most crushing objection thus far re-
corded to the scheme for converting the Sa-
hara into a sea has just dropped from the pen
Of a statistician, who calculates that a canal
100 fe wide and % feet deep, with flow OF
four miles an hour. would require several
thousand years 70 food the Gesert.
THE worshipers at a church III Solano. Col,
went on Sunday night as usual to service,
but found that the bats had taken possession OF
the house, and were so thick and aggressive
that the service was necessarily postponed.
On Tuesday the deacOns naugurated bat
hunt. and behind one of the window castings
found and killed 24l Of them.
STRYCHNINE having been called the ''medi-
cine for alcoholism" an Over-enthusiastic
French writer demands that the government
compel the introduction OF small quantity
Of the drug into all OF the alcohol likely to be
IL tn ROM la1s I
harmless as a beverage. DR.. Duiardm Reau-
matt. in the BulZefin de TheFdpeutiqWe, shows
that wholesale dOctoring Of this kind would
not do lie also points out the important fact
that while strychnine is an excellent remedy
in delirium tremens, 1t Is OF no value what
ever in alcoholism.
On the fern of John Reese, near KimbertOn,
East Pikeland township, Chester county. Pa,
is plot of ground which, it is thought, VIII
petrify things buried in il. A quantity OF
petriied chips was recently picked up there
which still bear the marks of an AK. In that
spOt the earth is of an entirely different char
acter from that found in other parts of the
farm. The soil is of a rather gummy nature,
and il differs in color from the surrounding
dirt In order to test whether the soil Will
petrify foreign substances, pieces of wood and
the carcass Of a small animal are TO be buried
there and examined after the lapse OF four
years. Near Spring CITY, chester county, a
body recently eXhumed IN cemetery was
found to be entirely petriied, having been
taken from piece of ground resembling that
at KimbertOn.
WITH regard to the G9ur d'Alene excite
ment, which threatened to be epidemic, de-
cided reaction has set in. This will prevent
many of the intending miners from setting
out. Recent reports from Eagle City repre-
sent that many of the gold seekers already
have left the country and have gone to their
homes. The population is melting faster than
the snow drifts. Every day these disappointed
men fold their tents (all they had to live IN at
the ''metrOpoiis''l and steal away-aI that Is
worth stealing In that Wretched region. IL Is
fortunate that this bubble has burst so early
in the season, before many of the would-be
miners and prOspeCtOrs, especially from the
who do 20 are likely to meet a returning
stream of disheartened, disappointed men,
who have made no money and who have spent
all they carried there in buying bad food at
famine prices.
THEY are learning how to advertise in
Paris. A curious scene was witnessed the
other day in a fashionable quarter. 4 fash
ionably dressed young man walked into
well known cafe; then, having managed to
attract some attention, he sauntered up and
down the garden, finally seating himself at
small table. To him came person who,
from the conversation, proved to be tailor,
and who accused him in warm words OF Delng
ungrateful, stating that he had dressed him
on credit for five years. The young 1elloW
fred up and declared himself insuted. A
crowd gathered and eager ears listened to the
high words. Finally, to convince ms quOn-
dam tailor that another house was cheaper
and better, the late client pulled out the bill
for the garments he wore. The name, price,
address, etc, were read aloud, and the OPEN
mouthed crowd drank it in. The enterprising
tailor who got up this little drama found his
profit.