Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


over $4,000 lives have been lost, and during
the last ten years upward of I2.O00 lives have
! been lost, giving an average of more than
| l,2OO year.
Tue highest villages in Vermont are Lunen-
/ burg, Danville and Randolph. The highest
cultivated land Is in those towns. 1t is cul-
/ tiyated IN Lunenburg to the height of about
/ 5000 feet. The lowest land is about Lake
/ Champlain.
THE Goshen On police force has been
supplied with rawhide whips, to be carried
during the daytime instead of the ordinary
| locust clubs. Owing TO the ease and safety
| with which they can be welded. II Is SAID
! they inspire more terror among evildoers than
! the old fashioned clubs.
| In favorable seasons California counts it's
honey crop by the thousand tons, and bee
geepers find a good profit when extracted
| honey commands no more than &c. or &c. per
| pound, and comb honey &c. or Sc. This year,
1 however. the honey yield viii be light-fow-
! ers are few and nectar scant,
OUR government recently forwarded a con-
signment of catfish to the National Fish Cul-
ture Association Of Great Britain, with q
| view to their being acclimatised to the waters
/ OF tbat country. They arrived in perfect con-
I ditlon. all being alive, which. considering the
\ lon1 voyage they had been subjected to, If re-
| markable.
THE experiment that was tried by Califor-
MIA fruit growers two years ago in the ship
ment of apples to China and Australia has
! produced results most favorable The ship
! ments were of good quality. and took 80 well
| That orders were repeated and increased, and
\ the exports to China in the past slX months
have assumed large proportions.
WHEN members of the Royal family attend
Divine service at Whippingham, where the
wedding took place the other day, they reach
their pews, which are In the chancel. by a
! raHf " atsa. tfwor IN fhA - at hn
| chancel arch, and within her Majesty's pew,
! Is " hite marble monument, embellished with
gold. erected by the Queen to the memory Of
the Prince.
THIRTEEN OFFICERS sat down to breakfast
recently on board the Vermont, although no
Que was aware of the fact until the meal " a,
nearly finished. The names OF all were taken,
40 there viii be gcod chance to see if there
is anything in the old superstl ton. The party
was composed of one lieutenant commander,
! i've 1eutenants, one junior lieutenant, one
en- Is n onej marine officer, and four medicSl
officers.
THE International Telegraph Congress,
which meets in Berlin on aug. 10. viii be at
tended by delegates from all the European
! states, and from Brazil, British India, Dutch
India, Egypt, Algeria, Cochin China, Japan,
Natal, New Zealand, Persia, lam, Cape Col
ony, south Australia and NictOria, as well as
IRON all the great cable companies. The chief
subjects OF deliberatiOn will consist of various
| technical questions. including more especially
general reduction of tariffs
AT the Durbar at Rawal Pindi an amusing
incident occurred which some regarded as
symbolical of the whole Durbar. Among the
| presents given for the Ameer's son was me
| chaniCal bird, but when wound up it refused
| 10 sing. In the press of other matters il was
| forgotten, but in the middle OF the Ameer's
| speech protesting to Lord Dutfenn his deVO-
| ton to England, the bird, having recovered
from hn off nf ~sxrfn ifnr 10
! tune, and Abdurrahman' expressions were
| delivered to the accompaniment of the sham
| canary.
THE most successful rod fishers at Noyes
| Beach, II. l., are two Brooklyn girls, Theodore
Thomas most reliable cOntraltOs When they
| start off across the fields in their picturesque
/ beach suits, with their implements of destruc-
/ ton over their shoulders, a basket containing
I extra reels. lines and sinkers on their arms,
/ there Is excitement among the cOttagers, and
| all rush down who can to witness the sport.
| Last Friday one of these young ladies, who
/ cut up her own bait Of live Holsters landed a
! l2-pOund BLACKLIST, took it from the HOOK,
! carried it home, dressed it, and then stuffed
! and baked 1t.
ONE of the most noticeable persons at Long
Branch now is Mrs. Stuart, OF New York, the
widow of Stuart, the sugar re6ner. She Is in
| the neighboFhOOd OF 20 years of age and is not
| in the best OF health. She is at the West End,
| but is rarely seen out of her room. She has
/ property worth between S,00O000 and $S.-
| 100000 She has not relative or an heir in the
| world. She intends to leave this great
| fortune to the public institutions of the
/ country. She intends to superintend 30 far
! as she can the distribution OF this property
| before her death. 1t was only the other day
! that she gave several hundred thousand dol
| lars to Princeton,
AT the Cedar Grove plantation, Jefferson
parish, La, the curious phenomenon Of the
| occurrence of native mercury in the deep al
! luvlum has received a partial investigation.
| The mercury is distributed in small giobues
! Of varying size and is visible to the naked eye
! in some OF the upper strata of the alluviuD,
| he large quantity of the mercury. the great
| area over which 1t is scattered, the situation
/ above the most fFequented resort Of com
! merce, the protection from OverfiOwing by
| levees, and she absence of any appearance Of
! history Of any large cargo OF mercury being
wrecked in that vicinity, axe il improbable
! that the mercury came there through human
agency.
THE botanist of the Ohio A agricultural Sta
! ZION has been making estimates OF the num-
Der of seeds found upon single plant Of sew
eral of the most obnoxious weeds grown in
that State. In the shepherds purse he found
that the number OF seeds in each silicle or
! seed vessel varied from IS TO 34-average
| about 25-and ls50O silicles we're counted upOn
| a medium sized plant, making the total num-
! berO seeds per plant $1,000. Computing in
| the same manner, he estimated the dandelOn
! 10 CONTAIN lEslNo bSeus III eaCn plant, wild
pepper grass Is, 400. wheat thief (L5fhOsDsr7au1,
| drrs1se) 1000, the common thistle (CirciNDl
! IGaceOi1fWDa, 50, 36i, Camomile 1890, butter
! weed I, 81. rag weed 1896, common puPslane
| 3SS, 300 common plantain 43, 300 burdock IS 0s6
Mr.. WHITTIER laughed heartily on being
told that "A good deacon of Hampton town,
who looked with disgust upon works of the
| imagination. didn't believe word of his
poem entitled 1.-THE Old Wife and the New
in which he has 30 ingemously incorporated
! the famous ghost story and that of the
| haunted house at Hampton, and proceeded TO
| give further particulars of the episode re-
! latng tn the aale OF the soul OF Gen. Jonathan
/ Moulton 10 his satanic Majesty for AS much
! gold as the Evil One couid pour down the
| chimney into the Generals boot. The General
true specimen OF the shrewd, money,
making Eew england Yankee. cut the leg
/ from the boot. and so the devil had rather n
| hard bargain Of IL, ns he nearly filled the
! room with gold before he found out the de-
! ception praciiced on him By the unscrnpulous
! hero of the revolution.
THE Meteorological Council which has been
studying the effect Of rain upon the air in
London. found that the rain IN the city con
tanned twice as much impurity as that VIII ch
! fell at the suburban stations, and the Impuri-
! ties gathered at all the stations were In the
! same proportion. The chief impurities were
/ found TO be sulphAtes and chlorides The
summer ram was more impure than that Of
/ winter, and IN the mixture OF London rain
| and SCOT trace Of arsenic wac found In
D aasaHN H. aua..