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

Love, Little I'd, the Spirit of Purity, the
Triumph Of Dy4mite, the Balm of Sorrow.
the Tempest OfEhe Soul and the Flight of
Time are saloon4n the City of Mexico.
A. STEFAN, ofBaltimore, has in his yard a
fence post that y says has been in use up
wards of five ysrs, and this spring for the
first time it hs commenced to sprout, and
there are overB0 young branches now out,
varying in Tenth from those just emerging
through the oldbark TO Is inches long. The
post seems to b OF the willow-leaf or pin oak
variety.
JAMES HAHIs, an engineer on the Long
Island Railroh, has been in very poor health
for some time The usual remedies failed to
relieve him. He said he felt something gnaw-
ing in The pmach. A powerful medicine
was given dm, when eight small crabs,
known as f1dlers, came from him, and he is
now as welhs ever. 1t is supposed that he
sWallowedh he fddleTs with oysters.
A CoRoER's JURY in Lincolnshire, Eng
land, recetly returned the following verdict
1--WE indthat William Fisher came to his
death bylis own hand, accidentally, and by
no other Jeans, being at the moment engaged
IN the unAWful pursuit of game in the dead
OIL the mat, and not having the fear of God
before eyes, having received mortal gun
shot would in his left side, of which wound he
did instatly die"
A CURICs QUARREL is being waged between
the Pariian newspaper publishers and the
vendors il the Mosques or news-stands, who
receive hlf cent commission on a three
cent pape, with the privilege of returning
unsold coBes. The dealers now lend a paper
Tor centpn condition that it shall be re-
turned In god order at a certain time, and
then send back to the publisher as 'unsold."
Result thecommissiOn of the newsletter is
doubled, thereader saves two cents, and the
publisher sells no papers.
A NEW YORK temperance society which has
taken to collecting statistics reports that last
year there we're 10 Congressional nominating
conventions that city held in saloons. Out
OF total OF .0O2 political meetings held dur
ing the Prudential campaign, 6S3 were
held ii sabons, and many others next
door TO SALONS. All parties, including the
Republicans ma three fac ions of Democrats,
lndu lge IN tbs reprehensible practice, show
ing that whiky and New YORK politics are as
naturally allied as ducks and water.
AN immeBe shoal of fish lately went ashore
on the sanE beach of Kons, Hawaii. The
children REGARDED them as a kind OF godsend,
and began o eagerly gather them up for home
consumptin. The gray beaded native vete-
rams, how9er. shook their heads in supersti-
tlous horrf and ordered the children to desist,
remembering tradition of earlier times,
before Gait. James Cook entered the h arbor
with the Resolution. The tradition was to the
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tended the death of an Ali, or native chief.
Nevertheless tie children ate them.
NIAGARA haAkmen will be none the less
numerous or impudent by reason OF the new
order of things hat is to go into effect there
next month. The State will take charge of
the grounds abolt the falls, but it will not
take control of tie village, wherein lies the
hackmen's poweL There are 100 hackmen,
each OF whom conrols not only his own but
ms rofa Tba =
that the hackmen control the town. and any
trustee who shows a disposition to compel
them TO be moderately civil to visitors and
other people can be quietly shelved. This has
been the condition Of things for years past
and Is likely to be 10 the future, move Tor
new village charter, n which sitting trustees
would be given more power, having recently
been defeated by the sane hackmen element
that has for SO long mide the town a COM
munity of organized sWndlers.
WHILE excavating ne bed for new and
larger gasometer at Dumfries (Scotland) gas
works, the contractor came upon a bed of
peat. in which we're embedded the trunk of a
Scotch fir, SIX feet j height with the bark
upon it; pieces of DIM, oak and hazel, with
nuts and cones, brGken antlers and various
coleopterOus remains. In quantity of the
moss placed unde' glass the cranberry and
other plants have legun to terminate after a
sleep of centuries. The spot, which is now in
the heart of the bwn, is supposed to have
formed part of thebed Of lock in prehistoric
times, and three CENTURIES ago a milldam was
constructed at tie place, which was then a
morass. The bee of cOnglomerate on which
the peat and otter top layers rest has been
found to contain arge fragments of red gran
ite, rock whichis not known to exist in the
immediate vicinity.
THE province Of New Brunswick has a new
law, directed AGAINST the practice of campers.
to whose thoughtless unconcern many de-
structive CONGREGATIONS have been due. 1t is
ordered that every poraon who, between May
and Dec. l, nay start FIRE in or near a
forest, for the purpose of cooking or obtaining
warmth, shall select d place in which there is
the smallest quantity of Yege able matter,
dead wood, branches, brush wood. dry leaves,
or resinOus trees; shall clear the place by
removing all cOmbustibles from the soil
within a radius of i've feet from the fire. and
shall exercise every reasonable precaution to
prevent the fire from spreading, and carefully
eXtingush tie same before quitting the place.
Any person Who throws down burning sub
stance or discharges a firearm within any
forest shall be subject to punishment if he
omits to extinguish the embers before leaving
the spot.
JOHN EsTEN COOKE, Of Virginia, has made
a searching Investigation Of the Pocahontas
matter, and he is satisfied. from all the evil
dence to be lad, that Smith was captured by
party Of Indians in 1907 and carried to the
hatan ordered HIM to be slain. POcahontas
interfered to save him. She took Smiths
head in her arms, so that it was impossible
TO beat out ais brains without hitting her
Powhatan consented to spare the prisoner
and treated him kindly. Afterward Smith
released some Indian prisoners. stating that
IL WAS for The sake Of PocahOntas. He told
his friends IN jamestown that Pocahon tas had
saved his life. In letter to Queen Anne he
said he would be guilty OF the ideally poison
OF ingratltuden If he forgot the goodness of
PocahOntas. In several letters he gave tO this
girl credit for his rescue from death. It was
on tins account that Pocahontas WAS hatter-
ingly received at the English court. After
her marriage TO ROlfe she was baptized, and
lived 'civilly and lovingly with her hus-
band"
TEE State Geologist Of New Jersey gives
the following directions for making 2 CHEAP
but excellent filter for purifying drinking
water: 1t Is the bottle hlter. and is made by
tying string wet with turpenhne around
the bottom of quart bottle and breal king ont
the bottom. This is done by lighting the
string, and when the name has encircled the
bottle, dipping 10 in cold water LAYERS OF
fine cotton batting II ust then be placed in the
bottle until wad Is collected that rests on
the shoulders Of the bottle and over its neck.
Now dissolve a cup Of alum in hot water and
pour the solution into a cup OF cold water
This makes a hltering substanee. use alum
because II 10 the only thing which VIII preci-
plate all the impurities OF the water 10 the
bottom. For every gallon Of water that is de-
sired 10 purify, add teaspoOnful Of the filter
ing fiuld and stir II until every particle OF the
animalcule rs precipitated. This usually
takes about fire minutes. Then run your gal
Ion Of water thus treated through the filter.
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