Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-24
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LIcORICE is proftably cultivated in Sacra-
mento county, Cal.
JADE is the precious stone most in favor
with Chinese bellies.
UMATILLA Indians are setting out fruit
trees on their farms on the reservation in
Eastern Oregon.
TIE Cmur d'Alene Indians have all left the
reservation. and are now at the lake catching
bull trout. They catch thousands OF pounds
daily.
THE difficulty with the torpedo as an in
strument Of oIense on shipboard, has been to
launch il properly from the beam when the
vessel is going at a high rate of speed.
HIGH ~TIQUET says that ladies who are
still single and have reached 25 have their
own cards, but previous to this independent
state their names are written on the calling
cards of their mother.
A BRASS STREET BAND wandered into a
large park in Cincinnati the other day, and,
after PLAYING for three hours without either
being paid or kicked out, they discovered
they were serenading an institute for the deaf
and dumb.
THE Lancet states that some families in
Lesignan, France, have shown symptoms of
poisoning. which were proved to have been
caused By eating salads from vineyards
treated with IN products which mao
been employed against the phylloXera.
4 DEAF family in New Hampshire has been
traced back to the Fourteenth century in En-
gland, and in all that time has regularly
shown a succession of deaf mutes. In Maine
there is a family in which there are 80 deaf
mutes, all Of them connected by blood or
marriage.
AN inventor Of Parkesburg, w. Va, is re-
ported to have discovered a substance that is
as imperviOus and durable as glass, and, like
II. "nOn-cOnductOr of electricity and useIul
for many purposes. 1t cannot be broken by
ordinary means. acids have no effect upon 1t,
and it can be used as a substitute for india
rubber.
THE death of the late DIR. Samuel Rabbeth,
Of London, caused by clearing, by means of
suction. a tracheOtOmy tube he had introduced
into the throat of a diphtheritic child, is exelt-
ing much comment. The heroism of the act
is conceded, but the question Is asked IL a
man has A right to bring misfortune to his
own family for the sake OF an isolated case OF
disease.
SPECIAL ceremonies are observed in France
at the execution of a parrIcide, and these
were carefully observed lately in the case of a
soldier at ROuen. Before the whole garrison
the criminal. clad in his shirt, feet bare, and
a black veil over his head, advanced to a
stake, At the word Fire" eleven bullets en-
tered the mans body. The troops then
marched past the corpse
THE old homestead where Whittier was
born in 1907 is still standing, and, although
built more than 200 years ago, it is in good
condition. Little boxes and paper weights
are made from he boards OF the garrett moor,
and tWigs OF the O~vershadOWlng elm are var
nished and sold for penhOlders. but the whole
house would have to 20 to the lathe TO meet the
demand if it were answered generally, ior IL
is the old farmhouse celebrated by SNOW
bound"
WoRKMEN in Leeds, Eng, have come upon
two iron implements, in use probably prior to
1850. They were used in the working of the
iron beds Of the locality. In both there is a
sickle-shaped blade, five inches in length, of
verv thin iron, fixed in a wooden handle of
about four inches in length, while half way
up the back of the blade is a slug or projec-
ton of iron, curving in the reverse direction.
1t is believed that these tools were used TO
press out the nOdules of ironstone, which in
some places lay very near TO each other, from
their resting place in the shale.
\ WRITER in the New York CAurchman
boldly breaches the gospel of astheticism. His
experience on taking charge Of his parish was
that, ''success, under God, depended largely
mon the proper identifying of the church.
Preaching to the ears only has had its day.
When one is to be so influenced. ten or a dozen
are to be e~fectually impressed through the
eyes. As my church decoration has pro-
crossed, so the attendance upon services has
increased. And the more the Puritan old
women have turned up their dear eyesin holy
horror, exclaiming: Awful! Shockingl
POpery.' the more the young folks say:
we don't see itP"
AN aide-de-camp to the Duke OF Yelling
ton had, at the peace preceding the escape of
Napoleon from Elba, gone to Torquay for the
of his health, being in an advanced
stage Of consumption. On hearing that Bo-
naparte was again in Paris, the Captain sent
for his medical attendant, and asked MN
how long, with care, be might hope to hYe.