Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ness is lamentably overdone. There are
hundred men now where there was one 10
years ago.
A FRENCH lion tanner is providing new
''sensation" for Parisians n allowing them to
accompany hun in the lions cage at the rate
of zoo francs the trip.
THE well at White Plains, New, is down
over :, 300 fee, and can go no further until the
water. which ls IL per cent. salt, and 50 heavy
tina. the rope and tools float IN it ana the drlll
does not penetrate the rock, Is shut out.
n is sand that recent prizeman in the
Yale Law school paid his way through col
lege bv buying Old clocks and other brlc-a-
brsc lu back country towns and selling Jhem
at fancy prizes TO New York and New Haven
collectors
NEARLY 100000 shad have been Matched
at the Connecticut state hatchery this season.
and have been distributed as follows: 100000
in the Housatonic. 100000 in the CONNECTICUT
9. 0,O0O 40 the Thames, and $4,000 IN she gum
nipiac river, The season for Matching Is now
closed.
FORESTRY Is claiming the attention of ma
lions that have disregaried 1t. England has
$500, GOO acres Of wood under cultivation and
10000 .J00 her colonies and yet sends stu
deuts To the forest school az Nancy. sir Jonn
Lubbock urges shat such an institution WoUu
not be out OF place In England.
An American physician, DR.. Nachtel, has
during the last five years made considerable
efforts TO organize ambulances in Paris to
pick up persons VINO from any cause fall down
IN the pubic streets. IL Is computed that o.
coo accidents occur annually in the streets
without any assistance 10 the sufferers.
ACCORDING to a calendar just issued the
University of Berlin is attended by 1855 mat
REGULATED students, besides ,2o5 unmatriculat-
ed hearers" The phllosOphlc faculty en-
braces 1856 students, the medical l,O72, the
juristic s37, and the theological 500. Great
Britain contributes II and America 50.
AS a test of sight reading, an original
hymn, which had not been seen by the chill
dren unnl Just previous to singing, when 1t
was distributed to them III sealed envelopes,
was sung at a recent musical festival in Provi-
dence by u chorus of 1000 voices, com posed OF
pupils OF the grammar schools OF that city.
WREN the North Carolina Legislature APP
propriated $50 coo for the benefit OF disabled
Confederates, it was calculated that the
claimants would number between 500 and
LOCO. But pension blli has the same stimu-
lating effect everywhere anu already 1900
applicants have been haTrtt from, total Of
1000 being confidently expected.
DR.. CURRAN writes concerning the ad-
vantages of using electricity in killing crimi-
mails: 1T is pity" he says, 1.-THE thing is
not tried, if only by way Of experiment, on
some Of our lower c0ngeners. whence It might
be transported in time to the higher regions
OF Newgate and The provinces" This man
writes with considerable nerve. The APP
paratus," ne continues, ''Of this fluid or force
might be packed away in an ordinary travel
ing trunk"
IT is claimed that relic of Washington has
been discovered in Gentry county, Mo. It is
a tea-kettle Of iron brought to Missouri by
an old man by the name Of Worley, who came
to Grand river from Virginia IS years ago,
ana who has been dead for p or IS years.
The hossessoC OF the kettle was born in Mis-
souri,, and heard old man Morley tell how he
got the kettle. II is plain iron affair and
shows the eG cts of long use. The present
pOssessOr bought it for 80 cents.
DR.. WEBB describes an ingenious apparatus
OF his own construction, which be calls a germ
trap. It's main features are a cylinder, an air
pump. and series Of steel disks. across
whose openings are stretched thin wells of
pyrOXylin. The air to be tested is drawn
through the machine by the aid Of the pump,
aud the microbes are Intercepted by the wells.
The latter sre then removed anu placed IN
der a microscope. which reveals The special
character Of the bacilli. With this trap sew
eral successful searches have been made IN
particular localities for the bacillus Of con-
sumption ttuberculosls).
AN alleged incident of the last Ohio cam
palgn Is worth relating. Logan was anxious
to be with Blaine, and objected to his APP
poir tments in West Virginia. He photographed
10 Dudley at Toledo asking that his route be
changed. Dudley seems to have been in
charge of the campaign for he telegraphed q
scorching reply to Black Jack, which read
like this: IF you are a good soldier you will
obey orders. IL you are running the campaign
all right, but as the committee has ordered
you into West Virginia you should obey"
Logan realized the firm truth of Dudleys
dispatch, and sent in return humble recog-
milton of leadership.
/. L. SMITH, editor of the Philadelphia
4 gents Heyald, took to Postal Inspector Bar
rett Monday an Internal machine, which. he
said, he received in his mail that morning.
The worst feature of the matter was that the
box was cents short of postage. Il rs Of soft
pine wood about five inches square and three
inches deep. II contained 40 calibre Der
ringer pistol loaded with cartridge and so
arranged that 10 would go off when the lid
was removed. There was a nickel plated de-
vice which looked like a sewing machine
hammer and on this WAS 10 sunken words
M. W. Dubois, patent applied for inside
on the lid of tue box were pasted in letters.
cut as was afterward ascertalned, from the
4 cents Herald. the words IF this fails you
won't escape necks time" The package was
marked private.
THE burial of a relative in Timur is a very
serious and expensive business. It involves
a gift to the deceased from all his blood rela-
tives, and, in return, burial feast. II the
deceased is a man Of rank, this feast is a mat
ter verv often of ruin to his family. The fes-
tivitv must be given, and at the same time the
hospitality is expected to be extraordinarily
lavish. Consequently IL often happens that
the day Of the funeral is indefinitely post
poned for months, and even for years until
the family has had time to accumulate SUN
clent wealth Of cattle and substance. In the
meantime the corpse is enclosed in mating,
and housed either in a tree or a hut and LETT
to ithelf Then for days there ia q savage ban
Quoting and revelinR. and the interment al
last is carried out. Among the more savage
races of the Timur Laut islands and TlmuI
the skull of an ancestor Is severed after burial
and kept as a relic in place OF honor within
the house.
Mrs. WILLIAM SMITH, of No. 10 Dean street
Rochester, y. y, states that she is a sister Of
John Mccullough, the tragedian, now in
Bloomingdale Asylum She says that wheT
Mccullough came 20 this country mere Lao
he was lost by his family when they arrived al
Castle Garden, New York. He was cared for
nv aman who, not being able 10 find his
guardians. took him to Philadelphia, where
he found his way TO the stage, having natura
abilities IN that direction. Mccullough wa
not discovered by his relatives until a com
paratiyely recent time. when Mrs. smith
found that he had become famous as an actor
and immediately wrote 20 him, induirina
about his former life, but says that she hai
reason TO believe that all her letters were in.
corrupted as she ueycr received q reply C
any ~ them. Through friend, who had b
conversation with Mccullough, she found thai
there were no reasons for doubling that Nc
CuIlourh was her brother, a. hs abatement
agreed with what she knew Of his former
life.