Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE LICK OBSERVATORY at San Jose, Cal,
| is now ready, and regular astronomical obser-
vations will begin as soon as the large tele-
! scope. now being finished at Cambridge, is
! set up. .d3R5S0 3nf
FOOT PAVEMENT composed OF iron Stag,
powdered and laid in cement, has been laid in
a portion of the Strand, London. n the ex-
| pertinent succeeds this viii form a new usili-
eaton of this waste product. al Do ern
DIR. ANToNIN MARTIN says that fine favor
Of cod liver oil may be changed to the delight
| full one Of fresh oysters if the patient win
/ drink large CAss of water poured from a
/ vessel In which nails have been allow ed to
/ rust. rn nrw r.a
THE ToMAHAwK with which Hannah Dun
stan, the heroine OF the DeerAed massacre,
killed her Indian captors whilethey slept, and
so made her escape, is in the possession ora
/ gentleman at Derby Line, VT, who received
1t as an heirloom. h.ia sag ger-.. b,
IT IS SAID that surplus of 100000 tons Of
grain await Shipment to Portland, Oregon,
from the interior. This has all to be carried
at least 200 miles by rail, over monopoly
| road. which charges So a ton. AT this rate
car load of wheat from Chicago to New \ ork
| would earn its owners $3.50. FIJI E
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, who is now in New
YORK, makes an assertion that is quite pleas
ing in its way, to wit: That the big farms out
! West have really baukrupted most OF the rich
men who lried to run them. They have had to
| back down, he saws. before the enterprise and
industry of the small farmers.
THE CAREER of the King of Wurtemberg's
American rayorite, Privy Councillor of Court
Won Jackson, reads almost like fairy tale.
| From being a pupil of the Conservatory, he
became clerk in the American Consulate
until about three years ago King Charles made
/ him member OF his ent UrHQe. gave him the
| title OF nobility. fairly overwhelmed him with
/ faVOrS and dpcOratiOng and InSfa1lad him n q
| wing OF the palace.
| A YOUNG WOMAN who manages a farm in
! Dakota thus Indignantly relates her trials
THE worst ruisances that have to deal with
are the men, young and old, who come out to
/ see me. They are about the toughest lot
! ever heard Of. l have had to drive some of
| them OIL the place, ss they seemed deter
| mined to stay. | suppose that it is so every
| where, but 1t seems strange that woman can't
| so ahead and accomplish something for her.
| self without being worried to death by ali the
| old bummers, cranks, widowers and dudes
| within 1000 miles "
THE new wheat pest lately discovered in
Milwaukee, when viewed by the naked eye,
was scarcely discernable, being the merest
| atom. When put under the rays of power
full magnifying glass, il is seen to be an active
midget, transparent IN body, and apparently
terminated from the gran. Its industry is
| shown by the samples of tie berry, which are
reduced almost to dust through its work ings.
| The bin in which these workers were dis
| covered is, strangely enough, selected wheat,
! culled from the choicest lots that had been
sent in.
ZONE EVENING when the late Bishop Fraser
was to preach in Chester cathedral" says the
present Dean of that diocese, 'he arrived at
| the deanery from Manchester, drank cup of
tea, and exclaimed: Now, have not a single
idea what am going to preach about He
asked to be shown to his room, flung off his
! coat. and in his shirt sppVea al a q
/ table, and in twenty minutes emerged from
| the room with the heads of a sermon which
! thrilled and electrified vast congregation
| for nearly an hour. The sermon is now en-
bod ed in work entitled "A Week in Chester
Cathedral.
WE asked contributor of ours, says the
Pau Mall Gazette, to investigate ghost house
the other day. He passed the night in the
house, but the ghost never came. He says:
The ghost, confOund it, did not keep its APP
polntment | had most terrifying night
| mare and woke up in a corner of the room
bowling and struggling with imaginary pow
ers of darkness. My fellow investigators
there were four of us sprinkled throughout
| the mansionl had taken their spirits inside and
slept 1t all out | am afraid nightmare is
not good enough for sleeping in a haunted
house Tor the Pysc-l Society,"" Better luck
| next time!
IN THE FAR NORTHWEST the Indians now
slay countless numbers of hshes by means of
dynamite, and some of the Rocky Mountain
editors are wrathful thereat. But it seems
that in the old days fishes were killed by the
use OF something Just as harmful il its way as
| dynamite. Sir Hugh Plat. IN his Jewel
| House of Art and ature," published in 1863,
gives the receipt for the following toothsome
| morsel: "Fill sleeps gut with small un-
| Stacked limestones. and tie same well at both
ends, that no W ater get therein, and If any
pike devour It tas they are ravenlng fish
| and very likely to do, she dieth in a short
| time" Sir Hugh also says that a frog dipped
in assafGtida Is fine bait for pike.
A CATALOGUE of the articles sent to the dead
letter ONCE during the past two years is now
being prepared, and the public sale will take
place in Washington next month. The accu-
mutation Of such matter increases each year,
and the post Office authorities attribute it to
the growth of the country. Most of the arti-
Giles find their way to the dead letter Office
| through the carelessness Of people and a conn
parative statement shows that the ratio of
careless people to the entire population re-
mains about the same from one wear to an
other. The revenue derived from this sale
| reaches very respectable figure, and there is
! always an eager thrOng of buyers who take
the chances on getting the worth of their
| money. some times they do. but more fire.
! quently they do not, and in this respect the
sale resembles lottery.
SOME SHOCKING DESIGNATION of graves
have occurred in the Churchtown gravey yard.
at Dundrum, Dublin county, Pa. The funeral
OF young man who had given directions to be
inferred in particular spot, which had been
! marked by the removal of q sod, arrived In
the graveyard. and when the right tomb, as it
| was thought had been opened, il was found to
| be the burial place OF different family
| Another grave was opened and the breast
! ulate Of coffin showed that the proper place
had not yet been discovered. A third grave
! was then dug, but night came on and the peo-
| pie, drenched by heavy downpour of rain
| had To go home. leaving the corpse unburied
| Next morning the friends OF the deceased re-
| sumed work. and having opened a fourth
! fifth, sixth. seventh and eighth grave the re-
mains we're at last buried at the end of the
second day in strange grave.
A CORRESPONDENTS has been at the pains to
ascertain that there are in Paris at the pres
ent time no fewer than 20 establishments
which employ a moro or less considerable
staf Of clerks IN writing out addresses for
! circulars and advertisements to be sent
through the post. Although these establish
| ments are, a. "A matter Il course, buster than
/ usual at election time-h0vinC had TO write
| out the addresses of nearly 100000 circulars
they seem TO DO a pretty good business all
| the year round, their ordinary work consist
! ing for the most part OF addressing trades
mems circulars. They also keep n list OF all
| the persons engaged in different branches of
/ trade, compiled from the directory Of Paris:
/ SO that when any one applies TO them TO Send
| out circular, say, TO all the tailOrs OF the
! town, they sire ready IN begin writing the adj
/ dresses stranger still, they keep a list OF
! those who stammer, who have lost their hair,
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