Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IT is said that in Lye Waste, England,
where smithies abound, the work with sledge
and anvil is mostly done by women.
TYPE WRITING has been introduced in the
Chicago public schools in an experimental
way. and a class of twenty-five has Two hours
a week on the machines.
MANSFIELD, IN Holland county, Conn.,, once
the head Of the silkworm industry, has still
some vigorous trees of the old white mulberry
sort, dating back to Jackson's day.
AT Thurles, TipDerary. six men have been
committed for trial. charged with having car
ried away the daughter of a rich farmer;
They intended to force her to marry one of
them, and thus gain her inheritance.
THE recently announced silver deposits near
Oneonta, Otsego county, n. Y, have been
the subject of scientific assays and the result
is a great lowering of the pretensions of the
discoveries. No assay indicated more than W
of silver to the ton of ore, IN when occurs q
small amount Of galena. No gold whatever
was discernible.
LAST SATURDAY an insect known as the
SCAR fly, entered the ear Of Mr.. Robert shu-
mate. Of Nelson county, KY, while he was
fishing. and he removed it as quickly as he
could. but not before it had deposited eggs in
his ear. Being troubled with earaehe, Dr;
Crawford made an examination ana remover
nine "screw worms" from his ear. Ihey are
about a half inch in length.
IN 1881 Lewis Saloshin, an Atlanta printer,
inclosed 81 in a letter sent to Il. NJ. Board
man. who was running a lottery scheme in
Louisville. Saturday the letter was returned
to him from the Dead Letter Office. Stamped
across the face of the envelope was the word
fraudulent" Written upon its back, IN
Postmaster General Gresham's hanu writing,
were the words: 'Young man. the advice OF
post Office official is. If you earn your money
keep it," Enclosed was the dollar.
THE late Charles O'Conor was man Of
strong and impulsive convictions. When the
celebrated Forrest divorce case was about to
be instituted Mrs. Forrest endeavored te Sc
cure him in her behalf, but he retased. For
rest believing, however. that he was so en-
gagged, deliberately tTod on Mr.. O'COnor's
toes in a street car. Two hours afterward
thelaWyer wrote Mrs. Forrest that he would
take her case without retainer. How well
he served her during the trial Is known TO
every one and he took almost as much inter-
est in the ultimate success Of his client as she
herself did.
SIR TITUS SALT, of Saltaire, Eng, has closed
A contract for the establishment of an iron
plant at Dayton, Tenn, involving an invest
ment of nearly f 100000. Sir Titus repre-
sents a syndicate of Englishmen who, several
wears ago, secured a tract OF 43,OO0 acres OF
land forty miles north Of Chattanooga, on the
Cincinnati Southern Railroad. This land has
been surveyed, iron and coal deposits being
found underlying most OF IL. Here Two large
Tennessee river are being constructed, ana II
is expected that part Of Tennessee will speed
lily be opened up to general traffic and settle
ment,
AT the American Office, Waterbury, Conn,
is a curiosity. Several experts have
examined it and have declared
it mouse hair, silk plush, beaver, and every
thing else. And its appearance would lead
any one to this conclusion. 1t is a piece of
cloth some Xxi feet in size, with delicate
soft, d0wny surface of light mouse color, rlch
enough for the throne of monarch. But
turn il over, and behold it is nothing but
piece of common bed ticking. The other
morning Mrs. Harry WOlcott ripped open for
renovation an old feather pillow which she
had. She found that the feathers adhered to
the interior Of the case and defed the closest
application of her brush On examination,
she found the whole pillow case coated with
the feather down as above described. Inere
was regular nap to the down, and 1t had all
the appearance of having been woven INTO
the fabric by the most cunning artisan. 1t is
something for scientific men to puzzle their
brains over. and find ont how the action of the
feathers made SO beautiful coating.
Cor. J. A. EDGE, of Bradford, Pa. who
commanded a regiment at the battle Of the
Wilderness before he was twenty-one years
of age, tells how he had to compromise with
Confederate. He was shot in several places,
and. going home to recruit carried his arm in
4 sling. He was lionized. of course, and
ball given in his honor. He says; "Among
the bright-eyed damsels who attended it was
one who seemed to me the ideal of woman
hood. II was a case Of love at first sight, and
was reciprOcated. When i came to make her
acquaintance, however, found that she was
a hlgh-strung little Confederate. She be-
lIeved with her people that darkey was no
more than a stick of wood or piece of putty.
ono day / said to her: See here, can't
stand this: if we are going to be married you
must make a contract with me; you must
agree to be n Republican, She was silent for
a while while her cheeks blazed. Then she
seemed to soften down, and she saidquite low,
but clear: I'll do it if you join my church,
She was an Eplseopalian, and ! agreed. 1t
was the best contract ever made in my life.
She has made the best Republican in all
Pennsylvania, and / have made-well, the
church costs me 5000 year."