Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


! THERE is still living in Manchester, Eng. a
woman born in 1885, whose husband belonged
| to the Twelfth light dragons. She accom-
| panied the regiment to the field of w Waterloo,
! and attended the wounded during the battle.
! EXCLUDING KEY WEST, where southern
! Florida reaches into the tropics, the hottest
part of the United S ates Is the lower Rio
/ Grande valley. The hottest point whore reg
| ular data are kept is Fort Ringgnld, which
| mas mean annual temperature of 1914 deg.
Next to RlDgg0ld comes Laredo with ~ deg:
/ Brownsville, 724 deg. and Fort Yuma, at
the mouth Of the Rio Colorado. 1913 deg.
| THE National Museum IS SAID to have been
a great gamer by the New Orleans exhibition
! where il had large representation. About
LOCO boxes were sent there as a part of the gov
ernments display; but over 1000 boxes came
/ back, the collections having been greatly aug
| mented by gifts from foreign governments
! amt from private sources. The museum staff
| nave been busily arranging these during the
| summer, and all are now IN place.
Do YOU never get tired?" asked visitor
! the other day Of Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Stevenson, whom he found in his shirt
! sleeves, wIping out his Booth offensive par
! tlsan for the day. THE same question:"
/ replied Mr.. Stevenson, ''was asked of "A Scotch
| clergyman who used to preach three hours at
a time. With the clergyman, l NAV say that
! Il do find it a wee DIT wearisome, but Ell !!
| mona you sh'd see how tired the other folks
| be!
REVOLUTION in the tea trade is promised
from Ceylon, where the growth of the plant
has been unprecedented. The acreage already
/ planted with tea in that island may, three
years hence, be expected 30 yield over 100000
| 900 pounds for export. The statement made
| by many Ceylon planters that they can lay
| down their tea IN England at Cd. (l2c.) per
| pound, against an ordinary cost with Indian
| tea OF Id (22c,l per pound. CeylOn tea is said
| to be of superior quality to all others.
TIE day after Mary Anderson made her
! debut in New ! ork. a friend congratulated
! her upon the elf-possession she displayed on
| the stage. "Ah," said the pre- ty, enthusiast
| tic girl, who had not yet recovered from the
| excitement of the previous evening, If you
| could only have known how my poor knees
| trembied and shook under me while Claude
| MelDotte' was nervousy picturng his lovely
| home on the fair lake of Como you would
| have pitied me-" On returning home that
! evening she fell in a dead faint as she entered
the door.
POSTAL CLERKS and postmen in Arabia
must have great deal of time to spare If they
can read the full directions on the letters
| placed in their hands. A writer gives the fol-
| owing specimen address on letter direct ed
| to him: "ln the name OF the merciful God, the
| benehcent This writing is from one who
| serves his Lord, from X. the son of Y. 4; and if
| God wills u will get into the hands of our
| TREND oIdl Mu5a, the son OF Hamdalia. the
| Persian, the Christian, in the city of Tiara
boios, Irpoli, the illusIriOus, the famous"
JOHN BLOCKER, a boot and shoe merchant
of Buffalo, has decided to build costly mau-
solemn. The contract for the stone has been
| given TO a firm at Quincy. The features of
the tomb will be the immense blocks with
| which 1t will be constructed, one of them
| weighing eighty and the other sixty tons 1t
| IL impossible to carry them to the loading
/ place on cars, so an immense wooden railway
! Is being built from the quarries through the
/ q IN nir r.Krrbf
| the stones Will be moved on rollers. A vessel
Will transport them to New York.
ACCORDING to Prof. Peter, cholera Is con-
| tagious, but its contagiousness is relative.
To take effect it must meet with subjects who
| are prepared for it either by congenital or &C
! CURED debility, or by long sojOurn in an in
| Iected loca lty. An epidemic of cholera may
| originate spontaneously, as was established
! this year at Marseilles; it then becomes in
| fictitious, when it 10 transmissible and I'M
1 portable. To the question, What is cholera?
| Prof.. Peter replies that 1t is poisoning by
! uT3mia, by chll9mia, by eXtracthamia,
| analogous to what is produced by ptomaines.
! analogous to ''cholera stibie," or to 'cholera
| arsenlcal."
NJ. PLATEAU, the Psychologist of Client, has
been occupied upon some interesting expert
ments to solve the question whether insects
| can distinguish the shapes of objects with
! their eyes. Can fly recognize the person
| who is bent upon destroying it? Or does a
| wasp exactly know which Of group of per-
sons II intends to stIngp M. Plateau replies
| No" The result of his experiment. goes to
| confirm the theory already laid down by Elk
/ ner, namely, that an insect perceives with its
| eyes the I'M ensitv of the light upon an object
| and also takes note of the movements Of an
| object but that 1t is not able to distinguish
one object from another by its outward shape
SINCE Stockholm went wild over the return
Of Nordenskjold after ne made the northeast
! passage, no successful explorer has received
such an ovation as Lisbon has given to Capello
| and Ivens, who reached home on Sept II,
1 after tramping across Africa. A procession
! 81 steamboats, met them at the mouth of the
| TagHs, the quays Of the river were covered
with crowds, and the explorers were formally
] welcomed by repreeent atives of the general
| and city governments and the commercial as
| sociatlOns. At the arsenal they were received
| by the King and his family. His Majesty
made them members of thr two HI. hest orders
| IN Portugal A banquet was given in their
honor at the Ho. i de Vile, and the city was
| Illuminated.
AN ACCIDENT recalling the legendary 'Mis-
| tletoe Bough" was brought to light on recent
| ly, at No. Impasse Molin, Pars. car
man, having had occasion to rummage among
| some lumber in a shed, moSed an old trunk
aside. Surprised at the weight, he lifted The
| Id and was startled at the discovery Of the
| BODY OF little boy in a state of decomposi-
/ ton. An inquiry instituted on the spOt bv the
police elected the fact that the child, aged 6.
an orphan, who lived on the premises with
an uncle, blacksmith, disappeared the
other day while at play with oth r children
IN the yard IL is supposed that the bov he
thought himself Of playing at e-and.s seek
and got inside the trunk unnoticed, and. the
lid becoming fastened on being closed, he was
sunocated.
AT THE MOUTH of Cosonwood creek, in
Gentle Valley, Idaho, md about ten miles
east OF Oxford, there are some half dozen
warm springs. One of these has been used
for bathing purposes for many years by those
| living In the vicinity and al~o by pleasure
seekers IL ws.s about 100 feet in diameter
and circular in form and very deep. and the
temperature OF the water made it delightful
Tor bathing purposes. Recently the people
living near 1t were startled by a loud roaring
noise like the rushing Of a huge body of water
over cataract, anr IN the morning il was
found that the bottom had dropped ont OF
their bathtub. All that remained of the
spring was hole in the shape of a gigantic
basin about fifty feet deep and containing
about four feet Of boiling water at the bottom
THE iN1aREsrING QUESTION OF the habitat.
or range, the antediluvian monster known
as the mastoron, and whose bones are now
frequently unear. he'd in various parts of this
eountrj, received new light from an unex-
prcted quarter when, about year age, the
skeleton OF one Of these great beasts was ex-
humed from peaty meadow in irewsbury
near Worcester. Mass. II WAS tue arst case
OF the discovery OF New England mastodon
Now comes another revelation, show uQ that
not only did the mARtOuOn extend his range