Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


cotton tree seed. This has been ind by re-
cent analysis to excel any known grain in
I mtfOgenOus matter.
FROM Germany comes the rumOr that the
meeting Of the three Emperors this year will
tske place at the castle of a Galcian noble
/ man IN Austrian territory, but close to the
/ russian frontier.
Two years ago Prof. o. Ssrs Of Christi
ania, received some mud taken from the bot
tom Of an Australian lake. Recently he
/ paced the mud in a small aquarium, and pro-
/ duced from It quite a fauna OF fresh water
/ invertebrates.
a PHILADELPHIA DOCTOR, being questioned
as to the shininess of his shoes, stated as
scientific fact that the human skin tanned
/ takes high polish. It developed that by way
/ OF experiment he had caused the skin Of "a
/ subject to be dressed and made into shoes.
/ NEARLY all the sheep -shearers of California
come from santa Rosa, and travel in bands
during the shearing season, many hands max
/ ing quick work, even with the large nOcks.
/ Tney rise at daylight, work till dark, sleep on
/ the hay at night, and win on no account eat
mutton at mta ais.
FROM some experiments made at the Uni
versity Of Kansas, it appears that the average
/ person can taste the bitter Of quinine when
one part is dissolved in $4,000 of water. Salt
+ was detected with one part IN $40 OF water.
sugar in 2SS of water, baking soda in As of
water. In nearly all cases, females could de-
tect smaller quantity than males.
TIE client of Pittsburg lawyer has OBJ
/ jected to the bill for eXpenPes rendered for
going to Kansas and attending to a suit there.
1t seems that the lawyer had a sweetheart in
| Illinois. and stopping there he married the
/ girl and utilized the journey to Kansas as a
wedding trip. The client resists the charge Of
SIS a day, and the lawyer has entered suit for
! the amount.
THE rural population of Illinois Is at stand
! still, and in some counties has actually fallen
| OFF since 1870. Farmers children flock to the
cities and manufacturing regions. or emigrate
| still further West; and yet the price OF land
| has risen and the big stock men continue to
! move out the line fences of their already i'm
| mense estates. Grain may be low and crops
! poor, but so long as 81 cents per month is paid
for pasturlng cattle per head land is worth
! money.
SOME Of the London manufacturers COM
plain that the great Health exhibition was by
| no means free from the kind of charlatanism
so often observed in such affairs. A filter
| manufacturer says that the committee sent
| for several of their articles ito he tested -
The awards were made, and-after seven
| months-the filters were returned. A little
| scientific examination of the machines re
vealed the fact that not one Of them had been
subjected to any test.
AT a recent meeting of the Boston Society
for Medical Observation, DIR. Folsom cited
the vital statistics Of Massachusetts for forty
years, as showing a decrease in the number
/ Of deaths from consumption in that State
| Only about One-sixth of the total death rate
! is now caused by the disease. The doctor
thought the physicians were too much in
| clined to give unfavOrable prOgnOstics in such
| cases, ana he advised keeping patients quiet
! ly In one place, rather than shifting them
about in search OF more favorable climate.
A TOws in Buffalo county, Dakota, has been
named after the first lady resident, Slade.
Mrs. Slade was nearly killed in a cyclone
there in 1883. 1t has just been organized, and
held its first election. No such rudeness of
| the elements is expected again. 1t is related
| that in that county Gen. Grant has special adj
| mirers. One town was named after him. and
| another wanted the name so bad that it used
/ it. and man walked to the county seat ten
miles-befOre daylight and stole a march on
the slower town, securing record of the
same.
JUST above the corporation line of Catletts-
burg, w. Va, stands a house known as the
White Bear. 1t is inhabited by women of
| questionable character. Friday night party
| Of men demanded admittance, which was re-
| fused. A parley ensued, during which Henry
| Freeze, negro who has been calling himself
the Jesse James of Virginia." rushed out
| from behind the house and fired five shots,
| wounding Dave Stewart and Peter Canter
| berry in the legs, and Charles Honaker, of
| ter has since died. The negro was arrested
| and is now in jail.
ONE Of the characters of Kennabac county,
Maine, is smart lady peddler, who does a
thriving business driving about the country
and dickering with the farmers wives along
the highway. Her stock in trade is a trunk
| filed with kniek- knacks and Yankee notions
| of various descriptions, which she barters for
paper rags as a rule, although other articles
| are received when a favorable trade can be
! made. Recently she drove home with a hen
among the proceeds of her days work. She
| almost invariably secures good-sized load Of
| paper rags, which are disposed OF at a paying
advance on the purchasing price.
DIR. HOLLAND relates that one of his lady
patients once called ON a "psychometric
healer" who greatly impressed her by his pre-
science in telling her that she suffered from
occasional headache and pain in the side due
to the fact that her liver was bound back to
her diaphragm. The lady thought that only
| a man Of diabOlical insight could have dis
| covered her symptoms without an examina-
ton, and she fastened neryously to her physi-
clan. There she was informed that almost
every woman patient doctor has is a sufferer
| from headache and sideache, and that she
would be in a bad way indeed if her liver
| were not anchored IN the manner stated by
| the charlatan.
A HORRIBLE CASE OF Wholesale poisoning at
| Leyden came before the Criminal Court of
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woman of 49, named Van de Linden
She married and has several children. IL
/ appears that since 1869 she has attempted to
/ poison no less than l02 persons. and that she
/ tried to olson every body who came in her
| wy. l. is prov that she killed twenty
Sc en- OF her victims. aud that forty five others
became dangerously III. Six times she en-
deaVred TO poison on Of her
/ s.sfers-ln-laW. The prisoner how
.Aoer, rs indicted for numbering
three ersnns only The Public Prosecutor
| ma utain th't he motive Of the criminal
WAS The obtaining Of money which insurance
-ocletcs would have 70 pay in case Of illness
or death.
AT Charlotte, n. c., workmen are moving a
historic house. 10 ia plain dwelling, two
stories high, and built Of wood. II is one Of
several historic houses Of Charlotte. II was
. tie stopping place of Jefferson Davis, and It
was from the steps of this use that he made
/ the apeech IN which he refe red TO the assas-
/ siuat0n OF President Lincoln ms an act deepl
] To ercgrctted. and proclaiming TO the people
/ that 10 was deplor bic AMIR. This speech
! was greatly distorted by s.me Northern pa
+ pers. There rye some who may vet believe
T th1t DAVIS spoke exu tingly Of the killing OF
Lincoln. There are those still living who
/ heard the memorable speech, aud whose testi-
monY has indicated DAVIS from the false
charges anu statem' nts made against him
/ AZ the time Davis stopped at the house 10 WIS
T OeruUpd hV MIR Bates. agent OF "A southern