Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Two women in Buffalo have gone crazy Oyel
the story told them by a fOrtune-teller.
THE repairs to the Tower of London, re-
Gently damaged by dynamite explosions, have
been completed.
IT pays Western farmers to shell their corr
and sell the cobs separately. The demand
for cOrn-cOb pipes has raised the price Of
hitherto worthless cObs to $2i wagon load
ANOTHER company has been formed in
New York for the purpose Of Rrial naviga-
ton. The capital stock is 100000. Peter
sons sectional air ship is the one to be tried
RICHMOND. VA, according to a published
report, furnished gas from its gas work;
lowned by the city at less than so cents per
1000 cubic feet last year. and had a net profit
LETT OF $4,000.
HAWAIIAN NEWSPAPERS are appealing for
popular subscriptions in aid Of leper children,
the number of whom are said to be largely on
the increase. The government, 1t is explained
is so nearly bankrupt that it has no money to
appropriate toward the home for leper chill
dren which it is proposed to build.
ACCORDING to correspondent, sanitary i'm
provements on a large scale are to be under
taken at Naples. The town is TO be supplied
with good water, a whole urban district is
to be pulled down, and building society,
including some or the first banks in Italy,
anu dispOsIng of capital Of from 10000,
0C0 to 30 00G,0 900 lire, ls in course Of forma-
ton.
THE last Of the prisoners taken during the
Franco German war have just left Germany.
some TurcOs, who, during their imprison-
ment, had killed a keeper by whom they had
been baLly used, and who, in consequence,
had been condemned to Imprisonment in a
fortress, reached Cologne the other day from
Vessel. They were dresse in new uniforms.
which had been sent to them by the French
Government.
THE New Orleans States says: The robbery
Of the slaughter house reminds us Of an at
tempt made some months ago by burglars TO
cut an entrance into its safe. While the
burglars were thus occupied wild Attakapas
bull broke out OF pen and furiOusly rushed
in the direction of the predatory rascas,
frightening them away. Had 1t not been Tor
the interruption caused by the bull the rob-
beTs would have succeeded in securing nice
little sum of $4,000 then deposited In the safe.
A CONsIDERABLE PART of the American pc
troleum shipped to Europe is, after being
deodorized, made into butter and snet, which
are used by the poorer classes to some extent,
but very largely by bakers in the large cities,
who use 1t in making cake. The confection-
ers also employ 1t. lt has great advantage
over butter in that IN store cakes or candy the
Detroleum not only does not become rancid
and betray the age of the article, but acts as
q preservatiYe in keeping the other ingredients
of the cake or candy from spOlllDk. a recent
hygienic council, sitting IN Paris, protested
against this use Of our oil, bnt 1t is not thought
its consumption in this way Will be lessened.
APARTY of five men while hunting deer
about three weeks ago discovered a cave near
Mace's Hole, on the Hardscrabble, in the
Whitestone range, \. NJ, and proceeded TO
explore it, They found large. roomy cave,
and inside a mare and sucking colt. They
could not capture the mare and killed her.
Rr,es 10 ali rr~ae fol RnnUnVnn
the ranch of Mr.. Robinson, miles from the
city, where it is doing well. The colt bias
not a particle Of hair on her body, has eyes
like globes of glass, and cannot see in day
light, bat distinguishes everything in the
DIRK. It IS a great curiosity. The impress
sion of Mr.. Robinson is that it was born IN
the cave, and never saw daylight until taken
out by the hunters.
When Wores was painting the Chinese pic
ture he sold to Lord ROseberry, he borrowed
from A Chinese restaurant a lot of Chinese
provisions, such as are usually found there,
to copy for hls painting Inese nc never
showed. but when he heard visitors approach
ing he would stuff them behind the canvas.
One day three ladies came In and sat down to
examine the picture. isn't 1t clever" said
one ~ think it is so clever" said another.
The third had risen and gone close to the can
vas. WE'LL declare. / never saw anything so
realistic. Those eatables are so reaIlstleaiy
painted that can smell them. Inc artst
everybody smelt them after that and they
made great reputation for his picture.
THE effect of music on the senses was Won
derfully verified during the mourning for the
Duke of Cumberland, uncle of George III. A
tailor had great number OF black suits which
were TO be finished in a very short space of
time. Among his workmen there was fell
low who was always singing "Rule Britain
mia. " and the rest of the countrymen Joined
in the chorus. The tailor made his Observa-
lions and found that the slow time of the tune
retarded the work; in consequence ne en-
gagged a blind fiddler, and, placing him near
the workshop. made him play constantly the
lively tune Of Nancy Dawson Inc design
had the desired effect, the :ailors elbows
moved obediently to the melody. and the
clothes were sent home in ample time.
THE story that Mr.. Bayard is hesitatIng
about going into the cabinet, because OF the
expense attending the social requirements OF
the position, has brought out something inter-
esting in regard to his home habits. He is
famous cook. his intimates say. One of his
specialties in the culinary art is terrapin