Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Thames about 81, GOO for the sport.
TEE wheat crop of Oregon this year will be
30 per cent. in excess of last year, and the
harvest will be two weeks earlier.
THERE are but eighteen American exhibit
ors enteret at the Antwerp exposition, ana
the larger proportion of them show agrlcultu-
raj implements.
THE largest Touring mill in France has re-
Gently adopted rollers, fact which has not a
little Disconnected the stone mill advocates, OF
whom IN France there are not few.
ARUssIAN TRAVELLER predicts that Thibet
will prove to be a second California. as during
a recent visit there he found the natives gold
washing IN the crudest way but with the rlch-
est results.
CHINA offers as attractive field for the
work of professional explorers as any other
country on the globe. 1t has recently been
ascertalned that the Chinese coal fields occupy
an area Of 100000 square miles.
MORPHINE and ether are the fashionable
poisons of the day. The little gold syrnges
with which the morphia Is injected into the
veins cost high as $40, and are frequently
given as presents, although 81 so would do the
dreadful work as well.
FATAL bicycle accidents are not the rule,
but they occur every now and then. st.
George Matthews. manager Of the branch ma
tional bank in Waterford, Ireland, collided
falling on his head, broke his neck.
A RECENT TRAVELLER in Corsican village
says he saw troop of young girls carrying
on their heads jars containing five or six gal
Ions of waier. Before them marched their
male relatives bearing flaming torches TO
light the burden bearers on their way.
PARIS possesses one remarkable street
which has neither doors windows, numbers nor
sign posts. 1t runs from the Rue de Clery to
the Rue Beauregard. and has the distinction
of being the shortest street in Paris and
probably in the world. Its total length Is
about l6 feet.
IL Arizona and Northern Mexico expert
ments are making with the castor bean for
the manufacture of oil. The estimates give
l.5o0 plants to the acre, which produce 500
pounds of beans, worth $3.50. An OIL factory
is contemplated at Tucson, Arizona, provided
sufficient beans can be contracted Tor.
DE CANDoLLE, the distinguished Partisan
scholar. has spoken a good word for the chill
dron OF the clergy. He shows that the heredi-
iarY effects of religion on intellect for the last
TWO hundred years has been good. And he
gives a long list Of cleTgymt MS sons and
daughters who have risen TO emlnence.
TIE balloon detachment of the German
army have invented a balloon with electric
light and telephone attachments and capable
of carrying four persons. The light IS suft
discerniblc foc distance of more than mile
Aerial sharp-sbO0ting is to be one of the eX-
citing features OF future wars.
MOTHER OF PEARL, of which ornamental
buttons, buckles, fan sticks, card cases and
other fancy articles are made, is the principal
production Of Tahiti, and makes a commerce
varousiy estimated between $4,000 and
800. 900 year. The lagOons in which the
oysters producing this material are found
are growing poorer every day. and unless
protective measures are adopted, they VIII be
Impoverished, If not ruined, III few years.
THE manufacture of glucose or grape sugar
in this country now employs a capital of $l0,-
0o0O00 employs 4,575 workmen, who are
yearly pad 81, $3.50 IN wages; consumes
Sl3.7 03,C05 worth OF raw and manufactured
material yearly, and in the same time yields
product worth Sls.270.C0o Each year there
can be made about $4,000. 900 pounds Of corn
sugar and $1,000 bushels of corn used daily,
/ each bushel giving % pounds of glucose. The
! glucose sugar can be made with profit, 1t is
| said, at cents pound.
| AN old lady residing at Richmondvlle. n.
! y. has two silver plates appropriately in
/ scrbed that were purchased to be placed on
/ her own coffin. In April. 1916, she lived at
| Central Bridge, and after brief sickness
was supposed TO have died The arrange
/ m nts for the funeral went on. and minis
! ter from CObleskill mad arrived 10 preach the
| seTmOn, when she was noticed to move. Re
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was herself again. In the fali of 1858 she had
/ a similar experience, and this time was
actually placed in her coffin.
RUSSIA has odd modes of carrying on a Cow
eminent. There was a naval Captain called
Barano1I, who one day sailed into Sebastopol,
at the commencement of the Crmean war.
| and announced that he had sunk Turkish
man-of- war. lie and his officers with the
/ exception of one, were decorated. That one,
/ being indignant at his exclusion, let The cat
/ out OF the bag. The Turkish man-of- war had
been an invention of the inge nious Baranoff.
| He was court marualed and dismissed the
service. But he managed to ingratate him
self with the court. was made a Colonel, and
Is now the Governor of st. Petersburg.
ACCORDING to the census tests, the Western
larch, Larie OccideRtdIis, is the most elastic
of the $40 species tried. 1t is not to be in
ferred from the phrase 'mOst elastic" that
this tree has the greatest power and strongest
tendency to recover it, original position when
the pressure which bends 1t is removed, but
that il will bend further without breaking
than any other wood. Next to this larcf
comes the mangroye, then the yellow birch
and following these In order are ranked
/ Pinus COatortd, PirWs CU5ensis. Eu0enid 6ua,i-
fOIia Southern yellow pine, nutmeg hickory
sugar maple, black birch, Spanish oak and
shagbark hickory.
UNDER the elms of Yale fourishes private
detective, who has established bureau of in
formation bnefe Tor the DeneBJ OF parents Of
young men who spend more money there thar
they ought TO. The detective is said to keep 2
number Of books which contain, in regard &c
each victim, "thc precise hummer of marx,
each Of this class Of students has in college
the correct number of times each man has
taken more stimulants than was necessary
and Just how far his sprees extended: the
names OF the city girls he happened tc be
sweet on, his losses at cards. aud how many
times he has visited the faro banks; an est.
mate of the amount of his indebtedness. es.
pecially his saloon bin: whether he is fire.
quenter OF the skating rink or not; whether
he has ever been arrested or not and. II so
how much he was fined, and what his o1ensC
was"
II. w. CourLIN, of Hamburger, n. j., has q
famous trout pond on his farm. a few weeks
ago some one hoisted the gates of the pond
and lowered the water so that he easily
scOoped out several hundred Of the choice
/ In. Coupliu attached a wire to the flood
| gate, AZ err letting the water IN the pond
I again, and carried 10 60 a bell over his he'd. "a
that any disturbance OF the gate would rms
the bell aud alarm him. The other night
about II O'Clock, the bell commenced ringing
COupln jumped from bed. and. without wait.
ing 10 dress, grabbed his gnn and ran for the
pond. Tie surprised a man who was evi.
IDENTIFY waiting while the water ran out. The
man. seeing that he was discovered. turnec
and ran COupln fred both barrels OF his
gun, which were loaded with fine shot, at In,
retreatiug marauder. The man gave how
that couid have been heard y quarter Of I