Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a TAME SQUIRREL, released from captivity
by Cape May county N. j. family while
moving, came back when the household re-
/ turned after an absence of six months.
IT is said that scales may be removed from
boiler by keeping the poles of ten or
twelve-cell Bunsen battery connected with
the ends of the boiler for thirty or forty hours,
and that weaker current similarly applied
/ VIII prevent the formation of scales.
HAIL STORM at Corsicana, Tex, week
/ or two ago dropped hailstones that are de-
| clared to have weighed nearly u ounces, and
p wild geese and small birds were shOwered
around town promiscuously. A local paper
| Innks that, I'm competition with other
! States" Texas could do even better than this.
! THE manufacture and sale of tobacco in
! France is government monopoly, the supply
/ OF the weed being under the control Of the
/ Minister of Finance. Within the past year
| It's use has so greatly increased that the Min
lister has lately added to his annual supply by
/ purchasing from three American firms up
wards of ll,000 600 kilogrammes.
IN Jamaica collins are often brought to the
house before the sick person is dead. Re-
Gently an American actor, who was travelling
/ there, was taken sick at 10 a. m. and was
/ buried at the same day. His companion on
/ the next day but one was taken i'll at a. M,
! ana by the same morning had begun his last
! long sleep in the cemetery just out of the
! town.
IT is the opinion of many eminent British
/ engineers that the English Goals will gradu-
] ally cease to be sent to the Black Sea or to the
Mediterranean, and even the Red Sea. as the
/ use of petroleum refuse IN engines becomes
| better understood. Already it is the only fuel
| in use on the Caspian, either in the mercantile
| Marine, in the Russian gunboat flotilla, or on
/ the railways, and even in domestic stoves it is
in favor throughout the Caucasus. At pres
! ent, IN the countries of the East. much oil re-
| fuse is poured into the sea, as the only way to
/ dispose Of it.
! AT the close Of the lecture by Carl Schurz
! at Lewiston, Me-, Thursday evening, he
| turned to gentleman who escorted him to
| the hotel and remarked that during his lee
! tUre his wonder had been largely aroused by
/ two plainly marked black circles that he
/ could see on the 1Oor Of the nall. Gould you
| tell me what they mean?" asked Mr.. Schurz.
| The gentleman confessed that the black cir
! Giles marked the bounds of exciting polo con-
| hicts that had taken place during the past
/ winter. Mr.. Schurz's reply was brief and ex-
| clamatory. but characteristic. "Ah. yes"
| said he with a smile, II see, the irrepressible
/ conflict"
LIEUT.. WILLIAM H. SCHUETZE, United
| States navy. who has been selected to carry
| the presents ordered by Congress to the Sibe-
rian natives who aided the Jeanette survi-
| vOrs, will sail in a couple of weeks. The pres
! ents Will consist OF IA rifles, supply of
/ knives and axes, cooking utensils, clothing,
| tea and tobacco. The knives, axes and rifle
| barrels will be made of wrought iron, as the
/ intense cold does not affect that metal as it
/ does steel. In delivering these articles to the
| natives Lieut.. Schuetze will have to travel
/ about $4,000 miles on sledges, drawn by horses
/ and reindeer, after leaving the terminus of
the railway.
IN personal appearance the Cossack is not
heroic. He is clumsy, with the coarse and
common features of the Tartar type, and his
shambllng air and manner do not compensate
for his want of fine proportions. But he has
courage, endurance and fidelity. On service
the Cossacks sleep in the open air, and are
capital scouts, as their predatory habits.
quick eyesight, and familiarity with wide
tracts of country enable them to discern with
great readiness the features of the ground
they are traversing, to fan unexpectedly on
small detachments OF the enemy, and to dis
| appear with rapidity as soon as the desired
mischief has been effected.
I GEN. GRANT was the first President who
/ had summer residence away from the Dis
! trict of Columbia. His departure for his
/ villa at Long Branch was the signal for a
/ general official exodus from Washington. be-
/ ginning with members of the Cabinet. and in
/ cluulng cOmptrOlleTs, auditors. registers,
/ chief clerks, and others charged with carry
/ ing on and supervising the great business of
! the country In point OF fact, while these
/ officers were paid large annual salaries, they
/ only gave about eight months out of the
! twelve to their duties. Except for mere rou-
/ tine the departments might as well have been
| closed from June to December.
THE Bartholdi statue, which is constructed
/ of sheet copper, has inside it very strong
framework of wrought iron, consisting of
four large angular pillars braced with iron
from bottom to top. This iron structure is to
/ come from France with the statue and weighs
/ about l20 tons-much more, In fact, than the
! statue Itself This iron framework will rest
upon and be attached to two strong steel
! grders placed on the top of the pedestal, and
! these two orders Will have two others direct
/ ly under them at right angles. About 60 feet
below the top OF the pedestal there will be two
other pairs of steel eirders, which will be
! connected with those on top by steekeye bars,
so that the glrders which support the weight
/ Of the statue and its framework will be an
chored to the masonry and held securely by
! the weight of the pedestal itself. The weight
| OF the steel system viii be $50 tons.
SOME MEN show curious traits upon their
deathbed. Rear Admiral Powell, of the
navy, died recently in Washington. As usual,
some of his relatives are contesting his will,
making claims OF undue influence, etc. His
| requests to a school for the education OF
/ young men for the navy and merchant marine
| Is one OF the causes OF the ''kick." The evil
dence now beng given in this notable case
| develops the old mariners peculiarItcs. Rev.
/ DR.. Addison, an EpiscOpalan minister, with
/ his associate, called to administer communion
/ to the old Admiral He was a little shy Of
| the sacrament being administered. When
| asked why, he said: Lets to business first -
| called for blank check. filed il out for SlOO
signed and handed it to one of the divines.
| aud then said, in a commanding tone of voice:
/ $50 ahead" Communion was at once ad-
| mulstered. and at the close of the PRAYERS
the veteran responded. with fervor "Amen.V
| Not long thereafter he passed to his final rest
! 10 does not look as though the contending
| heirs VIII he apt TO disturb the validity OF the
final testimony.
| THERE are mosquitoes even in cold Alaska
/ Speaking Of them. recent traveller in that
part OF Uncle Sans domain says: ~ camped
for some days on the Kenai river near Lake
skeloka, Of which it is the outlet, and of all
the poisonous, persistent, unsuitable pests that
ever lived found there in the form OF mos
! qutOes and black flies. The mosquitoes re-
semhle those we have East, but TO correspond
I win everything else ma that land OF wonders,
+ they are Dullt on much grander scale. They
/ have probOscis that ! viii wager could drill,
saw ana chop hole through the hide of jun
4 DO ia less time than the most expert and ahe-
/ bodied Jersey mosquito could tap the cuticle
/ OF B. mOntns-Old baby. The moment the
! Alaska mosquito lights on you you begin 10
/ ltch ana swell. His bite on me was 30 poison
/ Gus that ~ er my first hours experience with
/ him was taken % camp III, ana for two days
/ | was unable TO get around. The Indian who
was with me burned some native herb which
/ had "a puugent OdOr and Amounted me with
some kind Of oil. The smoke kept the mos
quitOeH away from me aud the oil removed
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