Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TdF German Reichstag will discuss this win
ter the abolitiou OF capital punishment.
A RECENT CENSUS OF Paris shows that only
100000 of the 2,739, 1928 Inhabitants were Born
within its limits, show ing that the metropolis
drains the smaller towns Of the republic to
remarkable extent.
A NOVEL charity plan has been adopted in
the Kansas City schools. Each pupil was re-
quested to bring one potato. The result was
five barrels of potatoes to send to the Home
for the Frlendless for Christmas gift.
NONE of the astronomers of the Naval OBJ
servatory have yet found Encke's comet,
which Professor Young, of Princeton, OBJ
served on the night of Dec. 10. 1t makes Its
appearance every three and quarter years.
WITHIN four years past, in Tazewell, Rus
sell and Washington counties, Virginia, l,5OO
men and 5000 horses have been engaged in
the walnut lumber trade, bringing into these
counties Sl,5OO,O0O. one walnut tree redlAeu
5000.
MUNICH BREwERIFs have reduced the price
of beer I cent a htre, and every body in Ba-
varia wears broad grin in consequence. 1t
is said the reduction means, to only one OF the
breweries a falling OF in revenue OF $4,000
a year.
The sorreI plant was recently brought from
the Bahamas to Florida, where it is now
ripening its fruit, and promises to become
valuable plant 10 small farmers. 1t IS pre-
pared in preserves, jam and jelly. IL Is SINH
lar, but superior TO cranberrles.
FRENCH BIOLOGISTS bid fair to give us
means Of determining cases Of actual death.
Their researches have proved that while in
tense electrical currents directed upon per
son still living produced an effect painful TO
the touch OF the eXperimentalist. no such re-
suit was obtained in the case OF dead BODY.
liz the lead production of different countries
a. aal
ing some p, goo tons in one year, or One-sixth
more than America, which comes next on the
list. while Germany follows with $4,000. OF
Spain's total production, some 1000 tons are
derived from one district, that OF Llnares, IN
which more than s 0 mines are registered.
THE "a O'Clock system, which goes into use
in Greenwich Observatory and among sailors
and most railroads throughout the world on
Jan. l next is not an entirely new thing. 1t
has been used in Southern Italy for several
years, and an Italian physician, writing IN
the wear 1852. mentions having had friend
call on him at y O'Clock, IAN hour when
both l and he should be in bed"
A BAGFUL of historical documents, relating
to the proceeding which led to the siege OF
Carlisle by the Scots after the battle OF Mar
ston Moor. has been found under a beam in
the trifOrium Of Carlisle Cathedral by some
wOrkmen vino were doing repairs. The doc
uments bear the dates 1912 and l643, and they
must have been hidden under the beam 24O
wears ago They have been taken possession
Of by the Dean and Chapter, who intend 10
have them examined by experts.
THE room in the Tower of London, in which
Sir Walter Raleigh was so long imprisoned is
S by IA feet in size, and so low that it was i'm
possible for Raleigh to stand erect in it. The.
walls Of the room are Is feet in thickness, and
there is only one window an opening 10 by 20
inChes-frOm which the only thing that can lie
IL ha blank wall Of adjoining bUIiQ-
ing. Here Raleigh lived for IA years, never
beng once out of the room until the day on
which he was taken to Great Tower Hill TO be
beheaded.
THE New Orleans Times Democrat prints
the following: "There is a very absurd idea
current here among some persons that Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe is a sister OF Henry Ward
Beecher-an idea which Mrs. Howe wishes
corrected. She was a Miss Ward, and the
celebrated sam Ward, Of New York, so noted
as literateur, bon ylvant and connoisseur,
and whose recent death was so deeply re-
GREETED in the highest social circles of the Old
and New Worlds, was her brother. Her sister
married Crawford, the sculptor, and the well
known novelist, Marion Crawford, is her
nephew"
AMONG the articles on sale from Connecti-
cut at the New Orleans Exposition will be 100
wooden nutmegs, lOrded over by a solitary
giant specimen foot or Whereabouts in height.
.
a wooden nutmeg" said j. II. Most, of Hart
ford. to q visitor from the POst. Il cannot
tel you the year, but il was long ago. When
| made the first il was commented on eN-
tensively in the newspapers and shown to an
old dealer in spices, who said, without smell
ing OF 1t, that il was a very good nutmeg. or
course, you can detect them by their ligh-
ness OF weight and puncturing them, but not
always by the lack of OdOr, for l sometimes
CRATE little real nutmeg upon them and
Keep them wrapped up in it until the aroma Is
confirmed. The whiteness is chalk. The
real nutmeg is not streaked with white in its
native state. Being very oily kernel, the
exporters rub it with whitening or some
other white powder. In making the imita-
ton first turn them out roughly in lathe
Then have to score and rub them by hand,
holding them between my thumb and finger.
This is a very trying task. / had an order
for making some for the Southern military
visitors, and the time was so short that had
to work nights. My hands became so cramped
that | could hardly use them for some days."