Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-09
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! THERE are four wonderful fur seals now on
exhibition IN Paris. They are trained by a
! Dane, taught to fire gun. lie on their backs
and smoke pipe, play violin and fire a
4 cannon.
! THE ARCHAIC STATUE of a bull which was
/ brought from Athens TO England by Cockrell
/ about 60 years ago has been presented to the
| British Museum by Sir Charles Mills, of Hill
lngdon Court, and Is now on view in the ElgiD
room.
IT is STATED on what seems to be good au-
thority that when President Cleveland as
sumed charge of the White House there was
not single set OF china or crockeryware that
was com plete. The servants under ex- Presi-
/ dent Arthur had broken some pieces of all the
sets.
FIFTY YEARS AGO the city OF Boston was
the scene of a mob directed against William
/ Lloyd Garrison, and he narrowly escaped
hanging, on account of his abolition senti-
ments. The same city has now appropriated
$4,000 for the erection of a monument TO his
memory.
WITTY as we'll as a soft answer will some
times turn away wrath. Charles Burleigh,
the abolitionist, in the midst of an nti-slavery
! speech, was struck by rotten egg full in the
! race. Pauslng, to wipe away the contents OF
the missile, he said, calmly, Il have always
! commended mat pro-slavery arguments were
/ very unsound," The crowd rOared and he
1 was no longer molested.
| GEN. PHIL SHERIDAN and Senator Palmer
sat side by side at table at the Army of the
| Cumberland reunion at Grand Rapids. ''Sen-
ator," said Sheridan. 81 have knife here
/ that I'll sell you for five cents. I cannot give
/ IL to you, because the gift of a knife cuts
friendship. The man of whom l secured it
sold II to me on the same terms and for
| the same reasons" ''Who sold 1t to your
zen. Grant" The Senator bought it, and
says that $1,000 would not buy it.
In his Historical Sketches of the Town OF
| Swampscott" Waldo Thompson, states that
about 1885 John NJ. Ives, of Salem. received
two or three marrow squash seeds from q ne
gress whose husband was a cook upon one of
| the merchants, Capt. Lord, from Valparaiso.
He also obtained the tomato seed. in the same
manner as love APPLE" and, after growing
| them year or two back Of his store, he was
told by sea captain that they were eatable,
and from that time they were used as food.
HUNGARIAN statistician has been study
ing the effect of comfort on longevity. His
tables show that the richest people have an
| average life of 81 years, the middling As, and
| the poor only 4l15. A we'll to- do man is as
liable 10 infectious disease as a pauper, while
! dphtherla, Group, WhOoping cough, and
scarlet fever are more prevalent among the
rich. Consumption and pneumonia claim the
| poor, who are comparatively free from brain
! fever. There Is apparently some advantage
in being rich.
CARRIER pigeons in France are henceforth
like horses and mules, to be registered, so as
to be subject to military acquisitions when
necessary. decree issued recently orders
| owners and breeders to make an annual re-
! turn to the Mayor of the number of their pig
| cons and the Journeys to which they have
| been trained. The information is to be for
warded to the military authorities. These
| formalities, however, will be confined to GER
tain parishes, d list of which is to be settled
! annually, IN November.
In most of the hill towns Of Berkshire and
Franklin counties, Pa, the stern rocks and
the stubborn soil have conquered the settlers,
| the ambitious young people have sought other
! homes, 80 that even the character of the in
| habltants of the hill towns is changed. Oc-
| casionally the establishment of a mill or
| factory has brought IN new population. and
/ the town in which the manufacturing art has
been set up holds its own, or, mayhap, i'm
| proves little. But agriculture has gathered
up her garments and fled TO more kindly re-
| glons.
| A MASSACHUSETTS GARDENER last spring
tried the following experiment in potato Gull
ture: One hill was planted with one good
sized tuber whole, another was given half of
1 O potato as near Ike the first as possible, the
| third had an understood whole potato, and
the fourth hill half of one similar in size to the
! third. The results are as follows: The first
! hill Yielded To- is pounds of Iarge-siZed pota-
!
! l l4-l6 pounds; the third proved almost iden-
| teal with the second, the weight of the yield
| being exactly the same, and the fourth pro-
| duced 10 ounces OF small potatoes. The hills
were near together and their treatment was
the same.
| THE BELLOWS FALLS tVT.) CANAL Com
PANY finished work last week on their massive
head gates, that have been over a year in
building at a cost of nearly 5000, 900. Over the
huge archways and piers forming the gates is
| big building of brick. holding the machinery
| that operates the gates. A thirty live horse
power engine drives 200 feet of main shaftlpg
with thirteen large pulleys, seventy-two and
seventy eight inches in diameter, and eight
counter shafts with thirty -two-inch clutch
| pulleys running III opposite directions, that
| the shaft may be started or stopped either to
/ lower or raise the gates, each gate being moved
! independently of the others. The implements
! for opening the gates consist of big iron
! screws. twenty feet long, passing through the
| hub OF heavy gears connected with the ma
| chinery above. The gates are among the
| finest pieces OF engineering in New England
1T HAS BEEN SHOWN that the odoriferous
molecule Of musk is inhnitesmally small. No
! power has yet been conceived to enable the
human eye TO see one of the atoms of musk,
yet the organs OF smell have the sensitiveness
\ TO detect them. Their smallness cannot even
| be imagined, and the same grain of musk
\ undergoes absolutely no dIminntIon in weight
| A single drop of the oil of thyme, ground down
1 Win d plctc OF sugar anu u lltJie alcohol. will
! communicate it's odor TO rs gallons OF water
| Haller kept for 40 years papers perfume0
/ with one grain OF amberRris. after this time
/ the odor was as strong as ever. Bordenave
| has evaluated a molecule of camphOr sensible
TO the smell to 2,262, So, 0O0th of grain BOYLE
| has observed that one drachm OF assafmtids
| exposed to the open air had lost in six DAYS
the eighth part OF a grain, from which KEEL
! concludes that in one minute IL had lost I-69-
! 10th Of grain.
| As early as the beginning OF this century
The capercailzie, or cock of the woods" was
thought to be virtually extinct in Great Brit
ain. In the time of Berwick il a single speci-
men was obtained 1t was regarded rs great
curiosity. More recently it was alleged. and
| probably with truth, that the bird had en-
| tlrely died out. few years ago, however
! the Duke of Athole and some others imported
! new stock of the capercailzie from Norway
/ The birds have multiplied in Perthshire TO n
| wonderful extent, and IL is said that the land
owners are now as anxious 20 get rid OF them
/ as they we're to acquire them. The caper-
/ cailzie feeds almost entirely on the Young
/ green shoots at the tops Of frs and pnes
| Thus II produces on every tree which IL at
] tacks the effects which gardeners call "stop-
/ ping" OF course the fir Is only useful when
/ II grows into straight spar, and IL therefore
/ follows that the cApercailzie destroys q tree
at every meal. In short, the capercailzie Is
| far too expensive luxury.
UNCLE LEW SIMoNs. a Jolly, big-whiskerod
man who lives at Gouldeboro Station, Pa
near the point where Wayne, Pike, Luzerne
I "a 1 ok