Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IMMENSE QUANTITIES OF charcoal are Delng
shipped from Stonewall, Miss.
MORE than $1,000 bales Of cotton have been
compressed at Texarkana, Texas, this season.
IT is reported that fine mineral spring has
been discovered near the Cowpens battle
ground, in Spartanburg county, 5. e, which
successfully cures skin diseases ana great
many inward infrmities.
The HALF BREEDS in Alaska who are de-
scended from Russian fathers are called ''cre-
oles., Statistics show that they are slowly
but surely decreasing in number, the rate,
perhaps. being per cent a year
Two DANES are now padding from Alaska
to san Francisco IN a skin-covered canoe.
The distance, following the shore, IS nearly
1880 miles. The canoe is 10 feet long, and
covered with the skin Of sea lions.
CHINESE MINERS in British Columbia are
said to be getting rich on their gold findings.
The grains found are as large as barley corns.
Perhaps, II this luck continues, fewer OF tue
JOhnnies will be smuggled by night across
Puget Sound into Washington Territory.
FURTHER reports are published in Russia
Of brfsandage in the Caucasus by PersIans.
Near June ]. a band Of 60 Persian outlaws,
commanded by two notorious chiefs, attacked
a uatrOl of 30 COssacks. killing the commander.
and wounding three OF his men. Ihey suDse-
uuently pillaged several small villages: we
their homes.
AN Omaha dime museum had a young ele
pbant tied to a stake in front of the tent,
which was lettered hugely, ''Great Meaag-
erie.n Those who entered found triiing
collection Of not remarkable objects. animate
and inanimate, but no beasts or BIRDS.
"Where's the menageriet. was asked. ,.o Ut
menagerie. How much dye want for 10
centsg"
IL 1854 the manufacturing establishments OF
Sweden produced articles to q value OF 1885,
100000 crowns. while in 1870 only 92,OO0,ooO
worth was produced. More than one-sixth OF
this il produced by machine shops and other
iron manufacturers. More artlnclal IS the
production Of sugar cotton and cloth. Then
follow tobacco manufactures and breWerles,
and next the renowned Swedish match Iac-
tories and paper mills.
AT THE RECENT Health Conference in Lon
don DR.. Winter Blyth read paper suggest
ing that if we are to continue burying our
dead that we adopt plan on the principle Of
the rotation Of crops. He would make every
piece OF agricultural land in the country take
its turn as a cemetery, and hve years after the
plot is filed return il to cultivation. Beneath
the waving corn, he argues. the remains OF
the dead would be safe from Dissertation
JAPANESE flowers are too heavily scented
OF Odorless. With each flush OF bloom comes
the fete. Every one then goes into the country
to feter the laburnum, japOnica, the camellia,
or the chrysanthemum, as 1t bursts into
flower. and returns home laden with blossoms.
Then the children go 10 breathe the country
air, families 10 meet and maintain relations.
No servant will do work on such occasions be-
voud carving child on the back. and no one
Will eat until the bantling on the back Is
stuffed with everything it asks for.
THE following good story comes from an au-
thentic source: some years ago the floods
carried away bridge on the Michigan Gen.
tral, and until it could be replaced there was
a suspension OF trafle. said the General SUI
Derintendent to the master bridge DulIQeTs
s-You must put all your men on that bridge:
they must work all night, and the bridge must
be completed by daylight. The Chief Engi-
can 20 right ahead" Early next morning
the General superintendent, in very doubt
full frame Of mind, met the bridge builder
ssWell." said the General, Ibid the engineer
give you plan for the bridge@ General"
returned the old man. slowly. ''the bridge is
done. / don't know whether the picture is or
not"
THE METHODS Of one Of the foremost pool
sellers on American race tracks are described
as strictly business like, and he viii not en-
ploy men who have had experience as game
Eters. His clerks are taken from legitimate
pursuits. He prefers ex-bank clerks, because
they are expert in hguringi but they must
come to him well recommended. No gone
wrong chaps viii answer. A young man who
had for no heinOus fault been out Of employ
ment until he could no longer afford to be
suuer-sensitive as 10 what he did for living.
was advised TO 20 to him for employment as
seller Of pool tickets. Where were you last
employedgr the gambler asked. I'm the -
honesty and capacity from the President or
Cashier OF that bank. and / viii give yOu
iob.r. On presentation OF the requisite docu-
ment the fellow was engaged to 20 on sea;
soma round Of the race courses. He reported
At the end Of the summer that he had never
been held to a more rigidly circumspect stand
ard Of conduct.
SOME mesmeric experiments IN London Of
Herr Carl Hanson. the Danish mesmerist,
have thrown the rivals Cumberland and r.
wing Bishop completely into the shade. On
one occasion, by a simple act Of Tolition, he