Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

this country win cost the people s-o'OoV'OoV
this year.
COFFEE made Windshield water ia SAID TO
have a greatly improved aroma. 1t seems
that the mineral carbonaSes in common wafer
render the t8Qnin of 3he, coffee berry soluDIe,
but the drRg will not dissolve IN distilled
water.
IN INDIA it is a standing joke, in connection
with agricultural experime ats, thata native
viii not use an English plow because he can
not reach he bullOcK's tall to tWlst IL, WllCh
is his only method of urging his beast 10 Iur-
Their exertlon.
II consequence of the efforts being made in
the Patent Office to bring up the work, ana
the vigorous manner in which the Examiners
are working day and night, the issue OF pat
crta Rr 4 pril Il, which issue closed MohGay'
VIII bottle largest VA, &he history OF the once.
1t win embrace in the neiGhborhood OF oZV
patents.
ENGLISH authorities are discussing the plan
of having all executions Of criminals take
place in Newgate, the great London prison,
instead of the provincial shire town in Whlch
the crime was committed, Wnere, u is clalmed;
scenes like that attending the attempted
hanging OF the Babbycombe murderer 100
often occur.
WoOn WOOL as a cheap and useful dressing
for wounds is being prepared extensively as a
commercial staple for surgical dressings. II Is
finely ground wood. extensively used in the
manufacture Of paper 1t is clean LOOKING
delicate 1Dred, a0ft yellowish White substance,
having an oder Of fresh wood, and aOsorDs an
immense quantity Of liquid
TIE cover Of the new city building Phila-
delphia, WILL with the exception OF the wash
ington monument, be the highest structure in
the world; but, though the pressure on the
foundation is nowhere more than nine tons TO
the square foot, the settlement Of the more
heavily laden portion has cracked am broken
the polished and sCulptured stone IN the IN
terror.
THE present month, it is said, will witness
direct steam communication by water be-
tween Cologne and London. The Baden
screw Steamship Company Of Mannheim has
had constructed in Holland double screw
boat for both river and ocean navigation,
which is built of steel. of $50 tons burden.
drawing feet on the Rhine, and, by water
ballast II feet at sea.
FIFTY YEARS AGO France imported only
1000 tons 0: oranges per annum, one third OF
which were imported by way of Marseilles.
The total Importation 0f oranges into France
IN 1884 amounted to q ont $4,000 tons 42-oOO
tons Of which came from Spain, The imports
from Algeria have risen from seven tons IN
1896 to 5000 tons in lSS4-a fact which French-
men regard as another marvellous e1est OF
progress Of their beautiful African colony.
BERLIN is excited over the prospect OF hav-
ing Sitting Bull and 10 other Indian Chiefs
on exhibition during the coming summer.
Berlin papers say that the firm Of Fuchs,
Bohrens & DAVE has undertaken to secure
the adveat OF the 'sedentary ball. and one Of
! the partners IS reported to have gone to
America FOR the purpose Of safely conducting
the show TO the Prusslan capital, where the
European tournes is to begin at Caston's
! PanOpicum.
TIE English camel corps in Egypt rs a
novelty merely renewed from the Roman
army in the East. Mr.. Robert Mowat, the
/ editor of the Bulletin Epi0rap6iQve, reminds
Us THAT about the year 40 Thebes, the capital
! Of Upper Egypt, was garrisoned by wing Of
/ military dTOmedaTjans. whose very iHme-
! Ala lrino TaleriG INSTRUMENTATION
/ that they had been founded by the emperor
1 Diocietian more than a century previously,
/ and had retained, as an honorary title, his
( own family name OF Nalenus.
A WRITER in the Medi1aJ Times describes
! the island of Madeira as presenting the curl
/ Gus anomaly Of Il country which Is destitute of
any wheeled vehicle whatever, fact due to
/ the almost complete absence OF roads. Peo-
/ pie travel in hammOcks, and, with three
/ bearers only, they may journey all day with
hardly a halt. The highest temperature of
/ the island 10 1884 was 30 degrees and the low
! est 46 degrees; the mean temperature Of the
months of the whole year varied butl2 de-
/ grees. Thus for the winter months. it was
81, 60, Go; spring. 60. SO, 64 summer, g, II, r.
and autump, 10, b9, 81.
W. S. CRAIG, Of Hckman's Ferry, en the
Cumberland river, about II miles from Nash
vile, has of the largest, if not the largest
! Cherokee amulets ever seen in this country.
! it was dug from what was supposed to have
/ been the grave of an Indian, IN Whites bend,
( about two years ago, and is about ~ inches
/ IN length aud inches in width. Its shape Is
/ That Of prism, with half inch hole passing
/ through the centre from end to end. In sub
/ stance 1T is q granulyte, very hard and
/ smooth. II Is supposed to have been buried
/ with the chief VINO owned 1t. The bones
! found in the grave were those of a human,
/ and being large, indicating that the frame
/ was one of a giant. The relic will be sent to
! the Tennessee collection Of curiOsities at New
/ Orleans, where it will be on exhibition.
LONG BRANCH has lost its identity Of late
seasons. The watering place that was Long
Branch has been shifted two miles south, to
what Is now called on the railway time tables,
/ West End. The name is derived from that OF
/ d. N Hildreths hotel, but strict and exact
Justice would give it the name of Hoeys.
1 For, as Mr.. Hlldreth, OF the hotel aforesaid,
I recently remarked, Long Branch owes almost
/ everything to John Hoey Nearly all recent
/ development there has been due to Mr.. Hoey.
J and residents and property owners in the i'm
mediate vicinity say that Hoey's improve
I their own places. Hoey's place is the centre
of district which may be described al
/ bounded by Long Branch village, an old
. quaint town, on the north; by Elberon, a new
/ style OF summer resort, on the south: by the
/ West End Hotel, one OF the most popular OF
/ summer houses, on the east; and by the ac.
tors colony on the west. There are realy
four different styles of habitaton and as MANI
I different characters Of people near the fOul
/ quarters OF John Hoey's home. and not hiatt
an hours drive in any direction from his resi-.
dence.
THE humorous side Of the Yale alumni din.
ner which took Place in New York last week
at which Mr.. Phelps, our new Minister t,
England, was present, may be cleaned from
the following: IN introducing Mr.. Phelps
Mr.. Pcrrepont made some facetious alluson
/ 70 the trials that awaited him at the Court o
ST. James: Gle will have suitors from Amer
ica,' he said, "who will give him c0nsiderabl,
| trouble. lie VIII nave ladies who will come
TO hmm IN distress, and want him TO furnlsl
them the means 10 return TO America and D
| he docs not furnish them the means they vii
| write home 60 the ne Wspapers complaining o
him. lie will find many ladies will call upor
him who Will insist upon being presented t,
I the Queen. They viii think he has perfec
/ right at All times to take them 20 her draw.
ing-roOm, or almost TO her bedroom il neet
be. Ldughter.l | warn him he viii have &
face plenty OF abuse because he does not tax,
| them to her bedroom, and he won't know
what TO do; but before he has been there Ion,
, he will know exactly what 10 do.n Nj
| Phelps, IN opening his reply, said: "lf ] hat
known that the female terrOrs OF the placl
were so great as they have been depicted thi
I evening, certainly should have declined t,
have anything to do with It,. But my friend
advice comes too lato.' Laughter.