Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

]
/ within 80 or 40 years.
/ OMAHA, NEB., claims TO be the best paved
/ city in the United States, and to have found
! that claim paying one.
A FARMER near Sacramento says his crop of
asparagus this season will bring him $4,000,
/ Of which $4,000 will be profit. He has twelve
acres of it.
FARMERS WIFE in Indiana. who runs the
vegetable garden Of half an acre, not only
kept large table bountifully supplied, but
sold last year more than 500 worth Of yege-
tables to the town folks q few miles away
rms half acre was of more profit than any
four acres which the husband cultivated.
A FRENCH mineral water firm has begun to
supply Paris dinner tables with distilled wa
ter charged with oxygen. The beverage is
mildly eXhllarating, and Is likely to be popu-
lar. DR.. Beaumett stated in q recent address
to the Societe Therapeutique that he found 1t
very servlceable in cases of loss OF appetite
and certain disorders of digestion.
THE largest herd of high bred cattle in
England is to be brought to the hammer April
81 and %. This is the stock of Herefords be-
| longing to Mr. Knight of Dowton Castle,
numbering 22l head. and containing many
splendid animals. Lord Spencer's choice
herd of shorthorns was the latest auction sale
Of thoroughbred cattle in England.
HEAVY TIMBERs made of the chestnut oak
are sad to possess much merit IN the con-
stractOn of buildings where great rigidity
and strength are demanded. The gram Of
this wood is close and its density is perhaps
greater than that of the white oak while its
/ indispOsitiOn to bend under heavy pressure is
perhaps unequaled by any other tree in our
forests.
SOME TIME AGO L. W. johnson advertised
for the last will of Robert E. Perley, OF Big
| Spring Texas. offering $1,000 to the finder.
Mrs. +. A. MOreland, of EmpOria, Kansas.
has the will IN her possession, her little son
| having picked it up in the street, but she can
not find the advertiser. The will bequeaths
5.OO0-acre ranch and 10000 cattle to Maud
Perley but her residence is unknown.
IN speaking of minor ailments connected
with digestion. DR.. Lander Brunton said re-
Gently that headaches were usually depend
ent either upon the presence of decayed
teeth or of some irrcgularity in the eyes. more
especially in the difference of focal lengths be-
tween the two. Al persons who were subject
to headaches in their youth grew older, bilious
headache was very apt to be replaced by gid
dlness and this change came when people
needed spectacles.
LARGE sections of channel steel are now
used for roof beams in cOllieries, and these
are supported by steel props. Steel beams
and props are more costly than those of wood,
but the increased outlay is supposed to be
more than cOunterbalanced by the fact that
they can be easily removed uninjured for fu-
ture use. and by the further advantage that
their comparative lightness permits of q bet
Ter working headway than Is possible with
the old cumbrous wooden timbering.
NEW tanning agent has been discovered.
The statement is made that a tanner at
Tempe, Arizona, two or three years ago dis
covered plant which carried a large proper
ton of tannin, and which, when used in the
manufacture OF leather, gave extra weight
TO the product. The plant is of annual
growth, indigenous to the deserts and dry
uplands, and is known to the MeXIcans and
Indians as "gOnagra." 1t has a root some
what longer and more scraggv than the Gull
tivated beet, though resembling it in appear
auce.
AS AN inevitable consequence of their col
onial expansion, the Germans are beginning
to realize that the necessity of maintaining
small and movable colonial army, indepen-
dent of their territorial organization, win be
forced upon them. Proposals of this nature
are being ventilated in that section of the
German press which usually fOreshadows
official determinations. The contemplated
force will be exceedingly small to begin with:
it is estimated at a battalion of 1000 men,
with 20 officers and two or three light noun
tain guns
THERE are plenty of dirty faces to be seen
in the streets of Dublin, says London paper,
and yet Lady Morgan was right in saying
that the Dublin folks are the ''mOst sea-bath-
INCEST as well as car drvingest people in the
world" In the summer bathing is the order
!
courageous swimmers than their English sis
Jers; they take to the water like ducks, and
dive, float and swim as to the manner born.
1t is a positive reprOach not to swim Crowds
flock to the water, and lines of bathing places
stretch along the coast as far as Bray.
A ROME correspondent in describing the
ceremonies of laying the corner stone of the
monument of Victor Emanuel, refers to an
accident that ''made cold chills run down
every back" The King and Queen, the
Duchess of Genoa, the Prince of Naples and
the Ministers and Ambassadors having signed
! the document that was to be placed under the
stone, Gen. Pasi started to take the hammer
when ne upset the ink and pulled the table
cloth and everything on it to the floor. He is
sad to nave looked as If he had rather lost a
battle. The articles were soon gathered up
and the cornerstone was laid without further
mishap.
A NOAH's ARK RACE was introduced at a
recent Madras fair. and was handicap for
all animals bred in the country, the competi-
tors including buffaloes, elephants. goat,
ram, emu and elk and other creatures, be-
/ sides ponies and horses. The elephants were
| as placid as II moving in a marriage process
sion, and went over the course at a quick
| walk. The ram and goat. ridden by little
/ boys, ran well, and the buraloes went at a
good gallop but the emu would not stir,
neither would the elk until the end of the
race, when it took fright and darted down
the course at great speed. Finally, ram was
the winner. horse coming second and q
buffalo third.
THE Beriners consider it part and parcel
OF the Easter celebrations to fuddle them
selves with the strong beer prepared for the
occasion. The Spandauer Book has from time
immemOrial been the chief scene of those
revelrie5. The Book, or he goat, is the patron
saint or emblem of this enormous brewery, of
which the numerous advertisements never
fail TO attract the attention of strangers Ii
IS 10 be seen IN every shop window. cutting
the most remarkable capers, with beer mug
IN ITS hand. and IS true picture of the up-
roarlous condition Of its followers. No sooner
are the morning duties ended in the small
! burghcr families than the whole party, hav-
ing safely secured their doors, betake them
selves to the much-lOyed resort. As soon as
they arrive beer is ordered, and before the
evening closes the place becomes scene of
riot.
TIE Baltimore appetite for terrapin is of
recent growth. "Thirty years ago, with the
hardest kind Of labor" says dealer, 81 sue
cceded in selling $1,000 worth Of diamond
back terrapin nc from s. to $40 a dozen. In
the season, which closed on April ], sold over
100000 worth. and my sales would have
reached 100000 IL ! could have gotten the
terrapln.n There are several methods of
catching the terrapn. One is by n dredre
another by seine, another by q net and still
another by three pronged stick. with the
latter the catcher prOds in the mud until he
feels something move, and then he reaches
down for the diamond back. The element of
luck enters largely into tcrrapin. catching