Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

FIVE THOUSAND hand grenades were burned
IN a Chicago fire the other day.
a CURIOUS legal document, executed by
| Napoleon I.,was sold at public sale in France
| the other day Tor 1914 francs.
SANDWICHES are a great staple in London.
Forty thousand women are daily engaged in
! vending them, not TO mention the thousands
who assist in their preparation.
INvALIDs who depend upon cod-llver oil to
sustain their vital forces should be careful to
get a pure article. Cotton seed oil is now
doing for the cod-liYer product what 1t long
since accomplished in the matter OF olive Oil.
THE Mexican Government has recently per-
fectcd arrangements for a fast mail service
between FL Paso and the City of Mexico, de-
signed more especially for faster transit OF
American papers and letters into Mexico and
the South.
SPANIARD named Phillips, butcher at
Poplar Greek Agency, NJ. L =, recently lost one
OF his children by death, and to commemorate
the event cut OF his left forehnger and sacri-
iced hne mare and q three year-old steer
on the grave of the child.
SEVERAL thousand houses, ranging in size
from eight to twenty rooms. and provided
with every modern convenience, are to be
built in Philadelphia, besides a number of
French Hats, several large and costly churches,
and half dozen or more public institutions.
VI. M n AIlNohl sbdIea IndI the weight Oh Tue
ash is a very fair test of the quality of the
'tea. Good Shanghai teas gave SIC per cent,
green "brlck'' tea 6.S7, and Oreuberg teas,
which we known to have been adulterated
with rose leaves, yielded from .S7 TO lO.42 per
cent. OF ash.
MALARIA is not confined TO low lying dis
tricts. In Italy it rises to the height OF 400 to
800 feet, in California 1000 feet, along the
Appalachiqn chain 5000 feet in the West In
Ia 10 N
the Andes it is sometimes found at the height
of ll,000 feet. Under ordinary circumstance
a moderate altitude will be found compare
lively free from malaria.
AN immense crowd gathered on the banks
of the river at jackson, Tenn, Sunday, to
witness the baphzing of an old coored man,
SAID to be III years of age, named OvertOn.
tie is a well known character, and the Occa-
sion having been published in the city papers.
caused the greatest curiosity among all
classes to see the aged creature tOtter into
the water so feeble that he could scarcely
walk.
IN a communication on the Academic des
Sciences, NJ. Duclaux states that the presence
of Heterogeneous in the earth is essential
to the germnauon of seed. His experiments
were made with plants whose seed grow
the surface as well as those which develop in
the ground. The agricultural Importance of
his researches lies III the fact tnat farmers
VINO understand this principle viii avoid The
Use on planted soils Of any substances mimi
cal to the lower forms Of organic life.
A COLONY of infdes was founded five years
ago in Barton county, Missouri. cores
pondeut who spent a day and half in the
new town called Liberal says thar the ex-
pertinent is a failure; that the town. instead
OF ket ping pace with other towns Of he same
age, has fallen far behind them, and instead
of being the happy, pros perOus community it
promised to be, i shrveled, contracted, torn
in TWO BIZ dissGnsions, and in condition
Whert only prompt action in behalf OF Its
friends toward complete reorganization viii
save 1t from dlslntegratlOn.
IN Mr.. Gladstoue's official residence in
Downing street the drawing room ordinarily
used by the Premier and family il a light and
pleasant apartment overlooking the park and
comfof tably furnished with just about the or
binary style OF furniture and kDick knacks to
be found in most upper class houses. Mr..
Gladstone's working room is a large and
rather spar ely furnished apartment, which,
strictly speaking, belongs to the Chancellor of
the ENchequer's part Of the premises. IL ls
here that the Premier traDsacts business with
his Secretaries or others who may have to do
with him.
ALL the engineers on this end of the Fort
Scott (Kansas) road accompanied the remains
Of AIcDanels to Fort Scott last Saturday On
Sunday it was found necessary to send train
out to the Minnesota bridge with material,
and no engineers being on hand, Mr.. George
y. Bauman put his daughter Bessie, sch1ol-
girl. in charge OF the engine, furni he'd her
with a fireman, and she aid her work nobly.
handling the throttle and guiding the iron
steed as wen as the best man on the road.
Bessie has frequently run the engine about
The yard but never made trip on the road.
We don't know Of any other road having fe-
male engineers.
A MEXICAN walker, hlindfolded and
with large bowie knife tied to his feet, was
giving performance on a rope stretched
about fifty feet above the ground from the
new court house TO fimsily spliced pole on
the opposite side Of the street at Eagle PAss,
Texas. Saturday, when, with a loud crash,
the pole supporting one end Of the rope
snapped and the Mexican started on q head
long Digit for the hard street below amid the
grOans OF his large aWe-stricsen aud ence.
When within about fifteen feet Of the ground,
by an almost miraculous accident, he en-
countered "a swinging rope, which be grasped
with all the tengGty Of life, and which
fortunately swung Ovef some telephone liues,
and he vibrated 10 and fro. head downward,
until relieved by his companions, compare
lively unhurt
CAPT. }. NJ. CoLvOCOREsEs, retired officer
of the navy, was found shot TO death In a
street in Bridgeport, Conn, one night in the
fall OF 1873, and there were varied opinions
as 70 whether he had committed suicide or
been murdered The confession OF Baldwin
Jansen, a sailor, who recently died in the
sandwich Islands, clears up the my stery. Ii
appears IhdJ capt. OQlNOCOreses was flOl
while defending himself from Jansen, who
attempted to rob him Of bag Containing
securities which he was taking 10 New York
Some Of the property which Jansen stole
from his victim he gave to The Captain OF his
snip, and i Will be returned 10 the Cantain's
son, who ia Lieut.. George 2. Colvocoreses, of
the navy, now stationed on the training ship
Saratoga. capt, C0lYOcOres6s was a Greek
and biz peculiar name, which the sailors found
go difficult to remember and pronounce cor
rectly, led to his being called "Crawl-over-
cross-trees."
CAPT. KENNEDY, Of the White Star steam
shin Germanic, which got to New York sun
day, says that when the vessel was struck by
tremendous wave on the night Of May 4,
about 800 miles west Of Fastnet, he wasln the
pilot house. The spray prevented him from
seeing the wave until IL was about 100 feet
nom the ship IL swept over the bow aud
rushed along the deck like a segment of Nj
agara. The top OF the pilot house was crushed
IN and fell on the Captains head, Knocking
him down md stunning him for a moment.
firmly braced winch just abaft OF the fore
castle, weighing a ton, was lifted up and
hurled into the hold; rigging was carried
away. the comuasses were lost, and the
ratings were twisted into fantastic shapes.
Ia his % years experience on the Atlantic, the |
Captain said, he bad never seen such wave.