Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| THE horse which Gen. Grant rode the day
Lee surrendered is owned in Vernon, Oneida
county, n. ! ., and marched IN the procession
on Decoration day TINS year
THE Sunday law is go stringently enforced
in the Sandwich Islands that the natives are
not allowed to feed the silkworms on Sunday.
Consequently sIlkWOrm culture has almost
entirely died out.
THE English Admiralty has ordered that all
the guns of every vessel leaving Chatham
snail be supplied with ARRANGEMENTS for be-
ing discharged by electricity, and that several
OF the larger ships will be provided with the
electric light.
THE impression is that the lowest, slowest,
most illitcrate, most unimpressible, most I'M
lnproYable, II not vicious, population outside
OF the great cities is found in the oldest wine
districts in California. and that the use of the
product of vineyards has been the most active
cause VI this condition of the population.
LITTLE GIRL in one of the orphan asylums
of New Orleans was recently stung by bee
on the ball of one of her eyes, the sting caus-
ing the sight to be utterly DESTROYED. The
physlc an IN attendance states that he never
heard OF n similar case. the action of the lids
being almost instantaneous when danger is
threatened to the eye.
THE action of dynamite in exploding is very
simple. 1t has no preference at all as to the
! direction in which its force shall be eXerted.
! It's explosive power dc ponds. as in the case of
all other explosives on the sudden formation
OF large volume of a gaseous body, whose
lmmc nate RECOMMENDATION causes the air to
rush IN violently TO fill up the vacuum formed.
ANOTHER of the famous Burgandian tapes
tries taken by the Swiss at Granson and Muir
ten has been restored at Berne by Katharine
Butler. A tent carpet of Charles the Bold
was restored some five years ago.. They were
supposed TO be made at Arras and Bruges.
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SILVER thread, and were made piecewise and
then joined together.
The railroads in Guatemala are run on the
credit system. Freight charges are seldom
paid upon the delivery of the goods, but mer-
chants and others expect three or four months
and sometimes more time. If a package ar
riNes with your address upon it the railroad
company Is expected to deliver it at your resi-
dence, unless it happens to be very bulky. and
a few weeks after collector comes around
for the freight money.
The TribOulet system of photographing all
! the country as seen from a captive balloon is
said to have succeeded well. very small
balloon carries up to the necessary height the
! Photographic apparatus, the panoramic OBJ
| ject glass of which is provided with valve
which can be opened through an electric cur
rent managed by the operator, who remains
on the ground. The impressions obtained are
useful for military purposes.
THE two new craters in Mt. Vesuvius, from
which lava has issued abundantly, were open
ed on the Southern side at a height of about
200 metres above the upper station of the fu-
nicular railway. The lava flowed in the di-
rectiOn of POmpeii and Tore del Greco. The
| stream descends in a straight line for about
/ half kilometer. and then, turning sideways,
| Is directed towards the crater of 1872. The
| new craters present the appearance of great
! cleft. The lava has not spread beyond the
side Of the mountain.
THE new clock dials on the tower of the
! general post Office at Melbourne, Australia,
will be made of cast-iron having hemisp heri-
! cal recesses so placed as to mark the hours
instead of the usual numerals. These cups
Will be nickel plated inside 80 as TO reflect the
sunlight, forming bright points during the
! daytime. After dark each will be illuminated
| with an incandescent lamp, and on each of
! the hands will be placed a close row of small err
! lamps. By this arrangement it is believed
that 1t will be possible to read the time at a
great distance.
THE hotel keepers at Nice and Cannes COM
plain Of a wofully bad season. Most of the
hotels are in state of bankruptcy, or are
deeply mortgaged. The fail IN the value of
| Otel property is shown by the fact that while
! 500, 600 francs were offered and refused A few
years ago for the Hotel Continental at Nice,
! 100000 was the highest bid obtained when the
f, house was put to the hammer recently. and
was bought in for that sum by the MORTGAGES
| of the Credit LyOnDais. At Cannes business
has been equally bad.
THE Jerusalem chamber, in which the Bible
was revised, is part of Westminster Abbey,
and is said to have its name from tapestries
or pictures in it representing scenes in Je-
rusalem. 1t Is simple, rectangular room,
| wainscoted with cedar from the Holy Land
/ In the centre of the room stands long, broad
/ table. 1t was IN this chamber that Henry ".
| died, In lab, when he was on the eve of a
u.fls ina Dol T..
! Addison and Sir Isaac Newton Law in state
before they were laid in their final resting
! places. King James version of the Bible the
| Westminster Catechism and the Common
! Prayer book have all come from the Jerusa-
/ lem chamber.
THE white ant is small insect, with a
bloated yelowish white body and somewhat
large thorax, oblong shaped and colored a dis
agreeable oily brown. There is no limit to It's
] depredations, and it is so much feared that no
| one in certain parts of India and Africa at
| tempt5 TO travel with such thing as a wooden
! trunk. On the Tanganyika plateau, says a
recent traveller, / have camped on ground
which was as hard adamant and as inno-
! cent OF white ants apparently as the pavement
| Of 1T. Pau's, and Weakened next morning TO
find stout wooden box almost gnawed to
/ pieces. Leather portnanteaus share the
same fate. and the only substances which seem
to defy the marauders are IRON and tin.
LOVERS of coincidence can trace one in the
very material of which the desk at the Execu-
tive Mansion, Washington. is made 1t is
portion Of the Arctic relief vessel Resolute
which was sent out in search of Sir John Frank
/ lin some years ago by the English Government
/ When she was finally broken up q portion of
her timbers We're transformed into the said
/ desk. which was presented by the Queen to
! the Presidents library at the time Mr.. HAYES
/ filled the executive chair. The first man to
sight and board the above named Arctic
| RUNAWAY was seaman named Tyson.
! whose terrible journey u 1000 miles on an ice
/ berg WAS shortly afteTward the theme Of such
/ amazed interest and sympathy. lie lends
I now the unev0ntful life Of a messenger in the
I Navy Department, and treats Of his awful
adventure with trde Yankee phlegm.
THE secret of Lord Tennyson's political
decadence is out. 1t is not the efftct of age
but Of indulgence. The laureate in his best
day cultivated literature like Brougham,
jeffrey and sidney smith, in the early DAYS Of
the Edinburgh ReDis,o, on little oatmeal
He kept his muse lean, hungry and alert. and
worked his way up TO Olympus. like Gold
| smith and 80 many other doctors, by fasting
/ and mort hcation OF the flesh. But it seems
/ that for years back Alfred has changed an
that. lie has become ike our own pet poet
sam Ward. a b0R CirGat. and IL is averrsd as
. curious coiucidenCe that the decay OF his
verse De- syn ,hrOnuiis with the development Of
his appetite. IL is, in short. the Shakes eur
afttr. butrs