Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
BLAINE is the name of new county in I
State of Nebraska.


needles tipped with pearls.
THE ARTISTS of New Orleans have decided
to found a school OF design in that city.
THE house in which Handel was born at
Halle, 200 years ago. still stands in a narrow
street, and bears the name and efigy of the
yellow Stag"
MOST persons think of Cambridge, Mass,
as mere college town-a mellow apple. OF
which Harvard is the core-but according to
a census just taken the population is $4,000.
f. HOUGHToN, of Corning, Tehama county,
CAL, will soon have probably the largest poul-
try farm in the world. He has nearly 5000
hens, and has his henhouse on seds, so that he
can move them from place to place on his
wheat stubble.
The CANADIAN GOVERNMENT has reserved
a large quantity OF land near WhltewoOd in
the district of Assiniboien, Canadian North
west, Tor the settlement of certain number
OF swiss families, who viii enter upon the
manufacture of cheese. The leader, DIR. My
ers, is to eXpend NOT less than $1,000 in the es-
Enlistment of dairy on the 5 Eiss method
Operatlons VIII be begun in the spring OF
1856.
THE CHOKING UP of San Francisco harbor
by the debris from the mines washed down
the Sacramento river, is intensifying the bit
ter feeling against the miners. The claim is
made by the merchants that the mines are in
the hands of foreigners, that large per cent.
| OF the prOntS go abroad and, tnally-the in
vncible argument in California--that ma
Jority OF the employees in the mines are Chi
nese.
The SEVERN TUNNEL in England, four miles
and half long, was opened on Sept {. The
distance was made by five carriages in eigh-
teen minutes. 1t can scarcely be called one
oil the great tunnels. These are Mount Gents,
otherwise Freius, about eight miles long,
which took fourteen years to make: st.
Gothard, nine miles long, which took eight
years to make and the recently finished Sept.
| 1854 Arlberg, about ST. miles long, " hich took
only TWO years to make.
PARIS appears to be Overstocked with
American dentists at present. The other day
a recently established dentist brought COM
plant In court against his servant for having
lett him suddenly without giving notice. The
servant justified his conduct by explaining
that all the while he was in the doctors house
not single patient made his appearance,
while he was obliged to sit near the window
ana scream by the hour, to make people be-
hevc that teeth were being pulled inside by
wholesale. The court acquitted the servant.
IN the manufacture of axes the material
passes through twelve different operations
before it is ready for labelling and boxing. At
first 1t Is rectangular piece of iron about
| three fOurths of an inch thick, three and one
| half inches wide and about SIX inches long.
The bit is of steel, and IN some instances is
inserted in slit made in the iron, and in
| others it is drawn over the edge of the iron
There Is growing demand foraxes made en-
| tlrely OF steel. The most important part of
the process OF manufacture Is the tempering.
CHRISTIANS with q little knowledge of
medicine used to be in great demand as mis-
| sonaries, but now doctors with smatterng
OF religion have the call. The EdInburg Med
| ical Missionary Society advertIses for ''doc-
| tors who have some regard for religion, or
q llEy M roll ms cor
! vices in New Zealand. The advertiser says
| that the people of Wairarapu are prepared 10
| give $1,000 year to "a young medical man
| VINO has character for piety or even a re-
gard for religion" and that he would be able
| TO make $4,000 year out Of it.
AT the recent French Conference for the
| advancement of science, some interesting ex-
| periments were made on hysterical patients
| with drugs which were not actually admins
| tered, but were placed at the back of patients
| heads, and were used without their knowl-
| edge. Under these circumstances opium pro-
/ duced sleep, alcohol caused drunkenness, and
| absnthe brought on paralysis of the legs. In
! women camphor gave rise to ellgious ecstasy,
and In men commissions; many drugs were
| employed, and all of them gave their charac-
| teristic effects, though they were all con-
tanned in phials or wrapped in paper.
VERY CAREFUL is Lester Wallack about the
usages of good society. He ran away with
the daughter of an English nObleman. whose
| acquaintance he had made while an officer in
| a crack regiment of the English army. When
| Wallack lost Montague, who gave him entire
| satisfaction, he was compelled to take OsmOnd
! Tearle. One morning at rehearsal Tearle COM
! mitted the faus pas of lifting his cOat-tails as
| he sat down to make love to young lady in her
| drawing room. Wallack was disgusted with
| the act. "Let me tell you, Mr.. Tearle, that
| genteman's wardrobe is sufficiently large to
| permit OF his rumpling as many cOat-tails a
| day as he pleases.'
| INN ro1;ro-,;o NF;-,.-- - -
presented by j. Z. Davis, one of the directors,
with plaster models of the Aztec calendar
and saerifcIal stones found in Mexico. The
models were made at Mexico and are exact
| copies, the size oHlY being reduced. The cal
| endar stone when found was estimated to
! weigh a tons. The stone has been for many
years built into the wall of a cathedral at
| Mexico, at its base, and exposed TO the view
| of passers-by. The sacrifcal stene consists
| of a bowl from which channel runs to the
| edge of the stone, whore the blood was
| allowed to flow. Besides these Mr.. Davis has
| donated several obsidlan sacriicial knives
| and the cores OF obsidian from which the i'm
plements were taken.
| Mr.. GRIMoND, q nurseryman from near
London, was on journey OF business in Nor
folk, England, exactly 10 years ago, when,
| riding esurely along the road, her nerceived
! n rose of great wilderness in a mill. He alight-
ed, and. on close inspection, discovered II to
| be a Provence rose. He sought an old lady
! who was the inmate of the mill, and begged a
! flower, which was given to him. for which he
| presented her, to her surprise, with guinea,
| In cutting OF the flower he cut three buds
j which he sent at once TO his nursery. Two OF
! the buds grew, and in the autumn he sent and
| bought the whole stock for S25. In three wears
| the plants, known now as the white Provence
! were sold at IS each. The old lady received a
| present of silver to the amount OF $500.
A YOUNG GENTLEMAN of Leicester, Eng,
decided to go TO California and learn fruit
farming. He fell in with a circular of a
seemingly respectable London firm, Offering
| to place gentlemen's sons as pupils on farms
| confederation of which the pupil was To he
| taken TO farm, boarded, and taught fruit
| growing IN all its branches. and receive s. n
| month for three or six months. The SlO0 was
! paid. but there was no agent Co meet the
/ young man AZ Los Angeles. The latter hav-
! ing fort nately found the agents address, an
| piled to HIM for the fulhlment Of the contract
! but was derlsively dismissed. The Young
/ Mems Christian Association took the case uD
and compelled the agent to ful1l the contract.
FOU2 MILES west of Thomaston, Mass, on
an unfrequented road stands a house which
/ shows evident signs OF age. In front, beneath
shady maple. are two tombstones of persons
who died IN l77e and 1918. long. Iank indi-
| vldual named Worrall lives sort Of hermit
1 lie In the house, which Is REACHED IN long
! pair Of etairs. The house wiHln IL a Verita-
! bic curiosity shop, the walls being covered
] with huge hornet nests, wreaths made from
! innumerable butterflies and insects fastened
! n a a ia Nlaas "a