Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

WELL-DIGGERs in Dakota hunt for ant hills.
The wise insects always locate over vein Of
water
TAN is the only game OF hazard which the
Chinese on the Pacific coast indulge in. A
genuine lottery is just now fouTishing in Port
| land, Ore.
SOME French green grocers have just been
convicted and fined for using dye called
eosine to make their stock of tomatoes a deep
red, and, therefore. more saleable.
PEACH TREES in Western Pennsylvania ap-
pear winter-killed, but the yield of straw
1 berries, currants, apples, gooseberries and
/ plums promises to be the largest in many
| years.
IN some parts of Northern New York the
farmers are getting on slowly with the sea-
| sons work on account of disease among
! their horses. THE vets attribute the malady
to the snddenchange to warm weather from
/ a long, hard Winter-a Kind of spring fever.
ABOUT the same preparations are made by
the government telegraph department in
England for dlepatching the budget as is here
| madeb by private companies for transmitting
/ the Presidents message. Budget night in
| England is looked forward TO for weeks, and
| all the telegraphers expect to make extra
! wages.
THE game and fish laws are being enforced
vigorously in Maine. The Warden at Booth
bay has seized 400 9-inch Holsters at the can
ming factory and fined the manager 81 for
/ each. A Warden in Wesley was seriously
/ hurt IN a deadtal put in front of his own door
/ recently by an aggrieved poacher.
THE New York city debt attained It's maxi
mum in 1876, after the obligation left by the
Tweed ring had been mostly funded. 1t was
/ then very nearly $l20O00, 900, while on Dec. 81
/ last it was only S94, 400. 900. At the close of
1876 the net city debt of Brooklyn was $35, $751;
| $50 while at the close of last year it was $685.
! S05,630.
! THE business OF the railway across the
! Isthmus of Panama is steadily increasing.
! During the past five years the freight traffic
| increased from l67, 432 tons to 297243 tons. In
lSoOt the mum Derof passengers carried was 26,
| 0Sl, while last year the number was 5l5, $40.
During 1854 10000 tons of bananas formed
part of the freight forwarded.
RTTUALIsM doesn't suit the plain people of
st. James Episcopal Church in Chicago, and
the rector, DR.. Vibbert, after trying it lit
tie in tentative way, promises that he will
| cease informing the morning Psalms. and will
| do away with the afternoon choral service.
1.-THE boy choir will continue, but will take no
| part in the lessons, the congregation reading
them as formerly"
SIR HENRY THOMPSON, the eminent physi-
clan, says, concerning the middle classes of
people, that three-fourths of the nutrient
matters they eat are from the animal king
dom, and that a reversal of these proportions
/ i. e., One-fourth only from this source and
three fourths from vegetable sOurces-would
tend to maintain cleaner palate, lighter
and more active brain, and better state of
health for most people not engaged on the
mostlaborious employments of active life"
! SPEAKING of cigars, that luxury is remark
| ably cheap in Italy, where the government
has a monopoly of their manufacture and
sale, as well as a monopoly of the salt trade.
! One can buy better cigar there for Is cen
. A g.
cents, or two for 25 cents. A long Swiss cigar,
| with tiny straw running through it, which
is pulled out before the weed ishghted, is a
great favOrlte with Italians. They are sold
for two for l cent, and the tobacco in them is
| excellent.
A SALT LAKE jeweler has invented a novel
time piece in the shape of a steel wire
| stretched across his show window, on which
a stuffed canary hops from left to right, indi-
eating as it goes the hours of the day by point
/ ing with its beak at a dial stretched beneath
| the wire and having the figures from to a.
! When it reaches the latter figures it gldes
across the window to l again. There is no
mechanism whatever that can be seen, it all
/ being inside the bird. The inventor says he
was three years in studying it out.
THE number of persons killed by wild
beasts and poisonous snakes in India in 1888
was 22,905. against 22.l25 in 1882. Twenty
thousand and ffty-s deaths were due to
| the bites of poisonous animals; QS5 persons
were devOured by tigers, 2S7 by wolves. and
! 2l7 by leOpards. The loss Of cattle amounted
! to Al AIS animals, an increase of M over the
! preceding year. While most of the deaths of
/ human beings were due to the bite of snakes,
| only 1914 cattle were thus poisoned More
| than three quarters of the deaths took place
/ in Bengal and in the provinces of the North
| west. Nineteen thousand eight hundred and
ninety dangerous animals were killed during
\ the year.
! BILLY MASCOT, of the lower divide, Arizona
has an old gander that beats the Dutch.
! Every Thursday morning he the gander)
! goes out to the front gate and picking up the
Dry Wash Lyre which he finds lying there,
| carries it into the house. Then he hODks
] loudly TILL some one appears and takes it from
/ him. This same gander also goes to the viii
/ lage two miles distant on errands, and can
/ carry home light articles hung around his
/ neck better than a boy. He was sent to Jim
Bludsoe's for paper OF needles the other day,
! with 81 bill under his wing. To tease him
/ Jim gave him no change; but Mr.. Gander
| knew it wasn't straight game, and chased
! jim around the store till he gave HIM the
change. Then he honked a pecan OF victory
| and went home.
A CURIOUS and exceptional offer of assist
ance has been made to the Viceroy of India
by the Dowager Maharani of BarUda, in the
event of war with Russia. The Maharani,
having taken note of the offers Of military as
| slstance made TO the Indian Government by
| the native princes. writes TO inform the Vice
roy that she Is prepared to raise and main
| tam at her own expense a corps Of AmaZons,
! who would all be Mahratti women. In ex-
| PLANTATION of this offer II may be stated that
| the Mahratti are a warlike people inhabiting
| the mountainous districts OF Central india.
| They at one time formed pc erful kingdom,
and the early history Of the East India Com
| pany contains many records Of feuds and
/ strife between the company and the NAH
| ratti, in which the warlIke qualities Of the
latter were frequently conspicuous.
IN reporting to the Empress Of China the
occurrence OF a violent earthquake at tine
town of Pu-erh on Nov. II last year. the Vice
roy Of Yunnan observes with humility that
this awful visitation is TO be regarded as a
penalty OF heaven for his own ineillciency and
/ Incompetence and that of his stafT. They
| Will, the memorialist promises. endeayor TO
| take the lesson 10 heart and earnestly amend
| their ways. Pu-erh Is an important town on
I the borders OF the Shan States, with a large
I trade in tea. The earthquake here referred
| TO IL worth notice es showing that seismic
activity during the past winter was mani
tested over vast area, and indeed seems TO
have affected the greater part OF the Old
] world. Az Pu-erh the shock lasted an hour.
causing the collapse of a large number OF
/ houses, temples and public buildings, while
/ many lives were lost, and much injury was
caused 10 the inhabitants.
TEN birds owned by the members OF the
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