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

\ FRENcHMAN, who died recently. left
$1,000 to be given to the wounded ''in the next
war with Germany"
THE number OF deaf mutes in the world is
estimated at 100000. or these So per cent.
were born deaf, the others losing their hear
ing by accident or other causes.
COLOGNE, the great perfume water, comes
from the dirtiest city in all Europe, Cologne,
Of whom Coleridge wrote that while there ne
counted 20 clearly defined and quite distinct
stinks."
THE room at Worms, Germany, in which
Martin Luther made his famous speech before
Emperor Charles V. is now a beer saloon, in
front Of which wooden Burgundian King,
with a very red nose, stands as a sign.
IT has been discovered that a Michigan
teacher, by a misunderstanding of an ana
tOmical model used in public school, taught
his hundreds of pupils during several years
that the heart was the liver, and vice versa,
besides making other radical transpositions of
internal organs
THE Department of Agriculture is carry ing
on an extended inquiry in the progress Of
Western land reclamation through the in
crease OF atmospheric humidity and rainfall,
as well as by irrigation. The facts are all
against the cattemen and ranch holders as
sumptiOns that west of the 9Sth meridian the
land in the main Is only fit for pasturage.
Drought
over in the steamship Oranmore by Mr.. AL
colt. Of Ursina. Pa, weighs 2,24O pounds, and
is of mammoth proportions. watch was
kent on him night and day on the passage so
he would not lie down. lie was so big that
he could not be accommodated between decks,
and box stall had to be built Tor nm on the
main deck. He viii be used for breeding pur-
poses.
1T has been recently shown that flying fish
do not fv at all, their wings and tail being
employed merely to sustain their owner while
he is in the air. The wings produce a curved
COMPRESSION in the water from y to Is inches
apart. while the tail produces almost no effect
save that of prOpellIng force. After the fish
leaves the water both wings anu tan are rigid,
and so remain until the fish falls back by its
own weight.
THE fabulous estimate of the wealth of ex-
Gov. English, of Connecticut, which has been
going the rounds, results in a propOrtionate
increase in his mail. He says he is begged to
s'lift caravan of church debts. build an in
hnity Of sacred edihees,' and even requested
''tO establish donation fund for the subjec-
ton OF Siberian fever" One woman has
asked him to take g, 500 worth of deprecated
securities of her hands.
MARX TWAIN had a funny experience in Al
bany lately, entirely unprecedented by the
humOrist. In making a tour Of the capitol
he, with his party, entered the Adjutant-
Generals Office to pay respects to that official.
The Adjutant-General being away for the
moment, the party ehatted cheerfully, and
Mark Twain. with his usual eases down care
lessly on one of the Adjutant- Generals tables
A few minutes dozen clerks and deputies of
the departments rushed in and vehemently
demanded what was wanted. None of the
visitors could understand the intrusion. until
1t was discovered that Mark Twain had plant
ed himself squarely on a long row of electric
buttons, and thus set ringing as many call
bells.