Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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COLI ECToR HEDDEN, of New York, who has
been in office only one week, has already re-
celved more than 200 applications to ill the
25J vacancies not subject to civil service eX-
animation.
DURING the last year 1858 young women
made use of the beds for working women in
the various homes in London, and since the
homes were founded IN 1878 some All young
women have maze use of them.
SLOWER ZIMMERMAN, a Sullivan county
lInd.) preacher, was on Wednesday indicted
by the grand jury Tor arson. 1t is alleged that
Zimmerman set fire to church because he
was not allowed to preach in 1t.
TUE land belonging to Cornell University
comprises 24O acres, OF which l2O is specially
devoted to the farm Not originally fertile,
IL has been made sufficiently so to yield about
$4,000 annually In gross products.
The giraffe is the most valuable animal ex-
hibited. Little ones, from to 10 feet high,
are estimated to be worth from $4,000 to 5000.
Large ones bring $4,000, and those from 10 TO
20 feet cost from $4,000 to $4,000.
THE deepest coal mine in the world is the
Rose Bridge colliery at Wigan, Lancashire,
which is sos yards deep, or almost half mile.
There is plenty OF coal further down. but the
heat in the solid strata IL $50 deg. Fahren-
helt.
tied with the statement that the age of or 10
years Is the best at which to attempt to &C
quire a knowledge of languages. He main
tains that child of that age can learn more
easily than a man of %.
The meanest practical joke ever perpe-
trated has just come to light in Ottawa,
where burglars who stole a nugget marked
Australian gold" have found out that it
was only a guided fac-simile, in plaster of
Paris, OF a real $4,000 nugget.
A GIRL 10 years of age has just reached San
Francisco safely after having Travelled alone
from Harwich, Eng, via Liverpool, Phia-
delphia, Chicago and Omaha. She tells of
nothing but kndpess experienced at the
hands of the officials all through her long
journey.
THERE Is a currency famine among the
Pttsburg banks. One large city concern had
to pay of its hands Wednesday in $4,000
worth OF gold, although an attempt was made
to get paper at all the leading banks. The
principal cause is the drain on the banks by
the wool dealers.
EXPERIMENTS by means of Photographic
plates in the Mediterranean show that in the
middle of a sunny day in March the rays of
the sun are unable to penetrate the water of
that sea 70 depth much beyond $50 fathoms.
IN September the distance is reduced. The
depression at this depth on the Photographic
plate is not equal to that made by starlight.
SIR PETER LUMsDEN, who Is receiving thigh
honors from the Queen and the new Ministry,
when ordered home from Afghanistan had to
ride all the way from Herat to Asbrabad on
the "vile5t horses" along TraCts almost i'm
passable, and without change of clothing for
days. In one Gay the General who is over 50,
rode over elghty-eight miles. sir Peter is
both physically and morally strong.
AN American tourist who was journeying
through Aberdeenshire, in Scotland, being
struck with the Woe begone aspect OF vii
lage through which he was passing, halted at
the ''smiddy" (blacksmlth's shop and put
this question to the son of Vulcan: Il say,
nay good man, this Is a dreadfully slow spot;
do you ever by chance see anybody here at
all?n "Neel," replied the smith, tits nae
sac dull after a.. There was horse an cart
passed about an hour ago, and we had tWa of
them yesterday"
TIE commanding officer of the Halifax bat
TALON in the Northwest country, writing to
friends at home, reports the men of his com
mand to be "all in rags" It seems that the
provincial troops were sent TO the front in
uniforms already unfit for the light service
of the routine drills, and active campaigning
soon reduced them to tatterdemalions. Ii Is
stated, in addition, that the men in the field
as well as their families At home, have had to
rely largely on the Kindness of friends or the
charity of the public.
THOsE familiar with the history of cholera
among the Mohammedan pilgrims are aware
that since the abolition of caravans, and the
/ transportation OF pilgrims by steamers
much fewer cases of cholera occur at Mecca
and along the land route from Dejeddah. 1t
! is because all are kept, so 10 speak, in a Ger
tain lane. where they are under constant OBJ
servatiOn-thelr food, ny gienc surroundings,
are more carefully regulated, and cases occur
| ring can be promptly treated and guarded.
1 The same Is true of steamers bringing emf
grants to this country.
AS Miss Sa-ah B. Mcdonald, Of NO. Al Rox-
bury street. Boston, Mass, was eat
| ing her dinner, Wednesday, she was
astOnIshed by finding a canary bird in the
| centre of boiled potato which she had cut
| open. The feathered songster was about an
/ inch long, fully developed with beak, body,
wings and tail. DR.. }. Eliot Woodward pro-
| nounced it the greatest curiosity he had seen
| for years. No theory has been advanced as to
/ how the bird was ~ far developed in the pc
4 tatO. 1t was placed in the Natural History
| Rooms on BOylston street for Investigation.
COLLEY DOGS have been trained at the Cape
OF Good Hope to the new service of herding
ostriches and do their work with great ga
! gacty. Two men on horseback and one dog
1 will drive a troop of 100 to 150full-grown birds
with rs much ease six or eight men on
! horseback. These birds are savage when
breeding, and will attack any man or amin al
/ that interferes with them, but are wonder
! fully cOwed IN the presence Of the dogs They
| succumb ut once. and, with duooping wings
/ cluster in a flock like sheep, and when travel
/ ing do not attempt To fight, and SO get scat
/ tered, rs when driven by men alone.
UNITED STATES SENATOR JACKSON author
/ ICES an emphatic denial Of the charge made by
| the st. Louis Republican, that he is connected
with the scheme of the New York syndicate
/ to secure the payment in full of Tennessee
| bonds by inducing Congress tO appropriate
| the surplus Federal revenues 10 the use OF the
/ States. senator Jackson states that he knew
| nothing of the proposition until Its publica-
/ ton, and that he did not favor, under any
| circumstances, the reOpening OF the debt ques-
| ton. The senator further says that his only
] advice to bOudhO ders has been 10 fund their
/ bonds under the provisions Of the 50 and act.
/ ANA forever put to rest the veXatiOus agitation
/ OF the state debt.
THE truth Of the adage, "There's many a
/ slip" etc, has ust been stTikingly exempli-
| fed at "a country town in Carmarthenshire
/ Wales. where bridal couple had met, &C,
/ companied by their friends, for the purpose of
sealing their vows. The bridegroom was Nc .
/ companied by his venerable parent, who
brought u brOugham in which ~ convey the
happy pair 10 the brides house. where A bid
\ ding IN good old Welsh fashion had been pre-
pared. All went well until arriving near the
! church, where the bridegroom and
/ the registrar were met by the bride
and her friends. The fair Juliet
/ here discovered something in the
/ gait or demeanOr OF her ailanced which led
] her TO administer quiet but vigorous chas-
/ tsement. The young man stood abashed and
/ nbstinatelv refused 90 go % step further. He
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