Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

INDIANS have killed deer about 1900 IN
johnson county, Wyoming, during the past
winter.
THE steamer Beaver, which was launched
in 1885, and was the first steam vessel ever in
the Pacific. was pronounced Perfectly sound
by the inspector at Victoria, British Column
bia, Tuesday, Feb. "A.
A NUMBER Of Cape May county Oystermen,
says a New Jersey paper, are going to quit
the business. They claim nothing has been
made at it during the past few years. on &C
count OF the severe winters with which they
have had to contend. the high price of plants,
and the small price obtained for them when
shipped to market.
MEAGHER COUNTY. Mon, has a resident
who commenced the cattle business fifteen
years ago with sixty dairy COWS, who mar
keted $l9. 900 worth of beeves last year, the re-
suit of two years. growth, and whose herd is
now worth fully $15O,OCO. the annual product
of which may be set down at $l2 600 for the
next five years. and then raised to $4,000 for
the succeeding five years.
AN sO-year-old farmer in Union county, N.
c., was attacked and killed few days ago by
one of his bears. The old man usually car
RED heavy stick, but on this occasion he left
lt at home. The animal took advantage Of
his defcnseless condition, charged upon him,
and in an instant felled him to the ground
and inflicted wounds which resulted in his
NNleIttl Mllulu hMGub1 -AoNA AOuAo-
IN several South American countries it is
customary to have those attending the funeral
of any prominent citizen sign testimonial
to the worth Of the deceased, or pass a series
of resolutions setting forth his merits and dis
tinguished traits. These tributes are placed
in the coffin in order that, in case the remains
should ever be dislnterred. future generations
would know the character Of him whose bones
they were handling.
A WRITER IN the st. Louis Medical Journal
advises Young practitioners never to make fun
of an old wOman's remedy. They will not
only give OfTense, but may miss a valuable aid
i'm practice. The writer adds: I'm $50, while
practicing in Madison county, ILL.,, was in
duced, by the representations OF an old wOm-
an to make the trial, in dysentery and diar-
rhRa of Tablespoonful doses OF pure cider
vinegar, with the addition of sufficient salt TO
he noticeable, and it acted so charnlnSly that
/ have never used anything else."
A MYSTERY Of India is thus explained by
writer in Nature: tunnel is dug from the
grave to the ncighboring jungle; the grave
itself is partly prepared. The subject is then,
in sight of the spectators, prepared by having
his ears and n0strils filed with wax and his
tongue turned black. He is then apparently
buried. creeps through the tunnel and gets
away. After six months, or any other inter
val he creeps back again, is dug up appar-
entity lifeless, and restored with Infinite pains.
A NEW order of physicians IN Boston holds
that mind has control over matter, and that
all diseases will yield TO mental force in the
physician. 1t is popularity called the mind
cure." and marvellous stories are told of the
working of this new process in Graduating the
most obstinate diseases. A scientific training
is said to be needed for effective work along
this line. and its advocates have little sympa-
tny with Christianity or its supernatural
forces. But there is another party who aim
to combine science and Christianity, holding
that all disesse is unnatural and the result OF
sin. No Christian wbO aItsinsithe true stand
ard of piety need suffer from illness, much
less be the victim of painful disease. Boston
is wrought up considerably over these mat
tiers.
WHEN young Duval, the son of the million
aire and founder of the famous cheap restau-
rant of Paris, was wasting his substance IN
riotous living and on that pearl Of great price,
IN one sense, at least, Cora PEARL his rela-