Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

PENNSYLVANIA coal, anthracite, is sold in
the City of Mexico at s25 ton.
THE "BRoNZE DRAGON" just from Japan, IS
the novelty in chrysanthemums.
THREE young Cuban ladies who had been
studying pharmacy in New York, recently
opened drug store in a fashionable quarter
of Havana.
THERE have been 800 entries made for the
National Crazy Quilt Show, which opens in
New York on the nth Some of the hgndsom-
est work has been contributed by gentlemen.
A SILVER BOX, shut at II wedding in Hart
ford, Conn, the other day, is to be kept under
seal, like that of Pandora, till the time Tor
the silver nnlyersary-twenty-f five years
! hence.
DRIED POTATOES are being prepared in
&c many in immeD~e quantities for the Ger
man fleet. They lose Us per cent. of their
weight in drying. and when used arc said to
be rs good rs fresh ones.
WILLIS j. HULNGs, of Venaugo county,
THINKS there are paying quantities OF oil IN
West Virginia and is preparing TO develop
The 100000 acres of Kan ava valley land leased
by his father, Marcus Hulngs.
THE RHINE ALONE" says that sprlghtliest
OF statisticians, Selma Gage, in "The Worlds
Lumber Room" carries t. the sea every
year carbon ate OF lime enough to make the
entilo Oi ooE, 0o3. ,UUO OYSTERS"
AN ATTEMPT to punish an unruly boy in
Holyoke, Mass, school last week, brought on
such general tight that the police had to be
called in to quell it, and the teacher and two
pupils were marched of to the station houss.
IN GERMANY the inspection of pigs for
trichine Is more thorough than is generally
supposed. In one year there were established
IN Prussia 20,636 official inspecting stations.
Out az 100000 of the animals examined, 1900
were trichinous.
The INDIAN NAMES of Boston, according to
Prof. HorsfOrd. are: Accom- onticus. meaning
Beyond hill-little- cove" Messatsoose
lMassachusettsl, Great kill mouth" Mo-
shanwomuk, Canoe place." and Shawmut,
~ ear the neck"
A TRAMP PRINTER, to whom the editor Of
the Northeast (Md.) Star gave a quarter two
years ago, acknowledged the Kindness last
week by an editorial on Mary and hospitality
N a prosperous Minnesota paper. The eX-
tramp Is DOW editor and proprietor of tile
paper.
LATE MEASUREMENTS give the height Of the
great Mexican volcano, Popocatepetl, as II 300
feet above the sea. The crater, which is COM
pletely obscured within by sulu hurous vapor,
is about 2l$ les in circuit and 600 feet deep
The entire cen re of the top of the mountain
seems to be solid sulphur, which is deposited
at the rate Of about ton day.
THE GERMANS have nearly stamped out
smallpox. In the years 1870 1874 The number
OF deaths from the disease per 100000 inhabi-
tants in London. Paris, Vienna, Prague, and
st Petersburg was lul.O5 In Berlin, Bres-
lau. Hamburg. Munich, and Dresden during
the same period it was but LA.
THE painted rock of Santa Barbara county,
Cal, is 1850 feet high, and upon it are many
color paintings In a good state of preserva-
2 hot
dams. There are two caves in this giant
rock, one at Its ba nj another some go Il ct
up, and in each of these are pictures Of
animals.
THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT would like to
give the army he privilege of wearing boards,
but feels the necessity of first consulting sew
eral high military authorities. as the opinions
on the subject are contradictory. Meanwhile
the press falls back on history, and finds that
the cODquerOrs of all ages were about equally
DIVIDED between the shOrn and the unshorn.
AT THE CLOSE of the war certain officer
IN the regular army declined an appointment
to be Major in the Ninth tcolored) regiment,
saying he would prefer to be a Captain in a
white regiment. and he was accordingly
made Captain IN the Seventh. Twelve
years later he was promoted to the very
msjorship which he had declined, and this
time he was glad to acceptit.
The ALAMO was the Mission San Antonio
de VaerO, and the cornerstone was laid IN
l744 and tire dedication made in 1857. A royal
dean secularized it in 90, and il was used as
fort. The convent building has been used
f. r business purposes, but the old chapel, or
Alamo proper, belongs to the State and has
guardian appointed by the Governor. 1t is a
Yell0Wlshb Hiding, 20 by go feet square, and
the stone walls are feet thick and % feet
high.
YOUTH in Millbury, Mass, studied up the
GnHh loot Of Vr,It
spring took to Worcester mum Der of speci-
mems. which he claimed to have found. and
sold them at fancy prices. Prof Putnam, of
the Peabody Institute of Archaeology was
shown some OF these relics a few davs ago
and promptly declared them spurious Rresf'
ing one, he showed that it was fashioned ont
o. soapst1ne by means of chisel, and that an
appearance "a age had been given them bv
SOAKING or bolllng them IN dirty machine oil,
The boy has disappeared.
NOT MANY YEARS AGO the late Lord strath-
nairn was stayingln a country house IN York
shire. Among the guestsin the smoking room
one night we're some young cavalry officers
who we're narrating tales Of various skylarkin0
adventures in which they had la ely been cn9
gagged. The veteran took himself off to he'd
and, his room being overhead. thew Shortly
aiier heard the furniture in that apartment
being m we'd about The next morning some
one alluded to this at breakfast "Ha hap,
said Lord s., Il was not gong to let Won
youngsters say You had drawn a Field Msr-
-hal so put the chest Of drawers against the |
door," He was over 70 at the time
THE United States Crematory COMPANY at
Aaspeth, L. l., had a private experiment At
their furnace Monday afternoon, selecting a !
hog weighing $50 pounds for the purpose. Tho |
result was declared to be in every ,esnectsat |
lsiactory. The resident superintendent SAYS |
they viii be ready for business in the conrse !
OF few days. The reception halls. on tbe |
south side OF the btildng are not VET 4 nisbod |
These Tell down ABOUT year ago and there /
ha- been no attempt to comp etc them Tbere |
are at present no uneral urns on the premi 1
SEES 80 thar parties who desire To ipcinerato |
their relatives vii have to provide their own
pottery. '"H
The ELEcTRIcAs COMMITTEE OF CouNcu.s
Of Philadelphia fsvorably recommended an
ordinance granting permission to the Ameri-
can Telegraph andTeephone Companv IN Law
pneumatic tubes. conduits and cables ,rdo.
the streets OF tire city. Mr.. Sergeant sunaS
intendent OF the Brooklyn 1elepbone Cnn,
pany, SAID that the company had Iaid an ~
foreground cable from New YORK tbra,'nt
New Jerrey % Camden, and IL waitine, f,, -.
entrance to Philadelphia. II permission h.
granted IL IS inieided to stretch a cable scross
the river, lay wres underground In Wsin"t
street 70 fourth street, and thence 10 Inc
Offices OF the BellTeephone Compan Whan
the work is computed there will be tslenhona
connection with New York. P''0Ne
TIE HERO, which was foated out NJ do.L
at Chatham lasiTuesday, VIII be nse,pi "a
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