Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

grandson, aud the bride by couple of great
granddaughters. .e
The New Guinea Company of Berlin, in
corporated on May II, is preparing to sent
out IN the course Of the present year scientid,
expeditions to Kaiser Wilhelm Land and tn,
islands of the Bismarck Archipelago.
a ToMAHAwK of tempered copper was re
Gently found by a farmer near Sanborn
Dakota. This is very rare relic, and tn,
method of tempering copper tools is said to bC
lost art, dating back Of the Indians.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA is coming into competi,
ton with South Africa as an Ostrich farming
region. The feathers thus far produced are o
superior quality and bring high prices; more
over, the chickens seem to arrive at plume
bearing much earlier than ut the Cape.
TRACING paper may be made by immersins
best tissue paper in bath composed of tur.
pentine and bleached beeswax. A piece o.
DeeswaX an inch IN diameter dissolved in hall
Dlnt of turpentine Is said to give good re.
suits. The paper should be allowed to dry fol
Two or three days before it is used.
IMPROVED CABS in England are now pro.
vlded with electric bells to signal the driver
new hanson has a receptacle for an UNI
Drella presumably a wet onel outside the
door; the owner, moreover, will not forget it.
because ne must raise the umbrella in order
70 open The door TO get out.
a BRIToN who has been to Texas writes to
one of his home papers that ga person who
cannot help staggering about British superb
oflty mad much better keep the broad Atlantic
between himself and Texas, while another
person with his mouth shut and his eyes open
VIII thoroughly enjoy that country.
AN English farmer reports a strange friend
ship between his ferrets and young rats
natural enemies of the fercest sort. Twice,
When MS ferret has had litter, Young rats
rlu har for 60
time she has saved and sucked two of them
WIN ner own young until they matured
A HAWAIIAN native of Hilo came to his
death while endeavoring to kill fish he had
Just caught. He placed it in his mouth to bite
II, according TO custom, when it slipped down
ms throat, and, as 1t was too big to be swal-
lowed and its expanded fins forbade its re-
mOVal, the fisherman was choked to DEATH
AREPoRT from Lebanon, Linn county, Ore.
says that the Monaghan pheasants which
were turned loose in that region have Won
derfully multiplied. Scores of half-hedVed
Pheasants OF this breed are seen almost every
DAY scurrylng about over the prairie These
are the birds which were brought from China
by Mr.. Denny, formerly United States Consul
there.
A WE'LL DRESSED habitue Of the Astor Lii
brary has been arrested and held to bail for
tearing leaf out of scientific paper. The
ududS6 annually OOne Dy such men Is very
considerable. Not public library but loses
hundreds of thousands of dollars through the
mutilation OF cyclopedias and costly sciep-
tlhc works by the removal of maps, plates and
diagrams.
THE celebrated rocking stone at Blackstone,
IN the Wye valley, England, was accidental
ly thrown over recently. Some performers
in variety company used too much force in
rocking 1t, and the stone fell from its position
ON the summit of hill into a wood below
This ancient Druidical altar is the prOpertv
OF the crown, and was an object of great in
teresJ TO tourists.
The first book published in Philadelphia
was atkins Almanac, 1886" an unpaged
pamphlet of 20 pages, only two copies of which
are known. One of the first copies fell into
the hands of Col. Markham PENIS deputy.
II declared Pennsylvania to have been begun
by LORD Penn" The Council emphaticallv
dlsapprOved OF this euphemistic fasehood,
and directed both author and printer (WI-
liam Bradford) ''to blott out We words Lord
PENN " which was done.
A SHORT TINE AGO a gentleman living in
Winsted, Conn.,, received from his brother in
Persia rug as present. Thinking he was
rather more in need of an ingram carpet than
a rug, he took il to q dealer and exchanged II
for carIet. The rug was then Offer for
sale, ana one party IN town, who is building
q purchasing
but finally decided not to. Last week a mer-
chant from Hartford, oOnnOisseur and An
extensive dtaler IN that kind of goods, saw
the rug. ann recognizing it as a treasure,
bought 1t forf2O. 1t has since been sold, it is
said, for 5000
IN the German Agricultural Institute at
Halle much attention is paid to improving
breeds of dometic animals. Crossing of the
domestic sheep with the nouRon, or wild
sheep of COrslcallas been so successful To the
iourth generatloa that it Is now supposed that
the u0uDtOn IS tf ancestor of the domesti
Gated hocks. Additional light is expect ed to
be thrown upon be subject by the recent ac
cessiOn in the gardens of two new rairs az
wild sheep, the american 'bighorn.'5 and a
Persian species, n1lther Of which have over
before been seen \ Europe alive. Expert
ments as TO crobing these with domestic
breeds viii be begin at once.
LITTLE MAMIE BEAMIsH, who lives with
her parents at SOs Fulton street. Brook
lyn, was sitting il front room drawing
early on Tuesday eNning when a noise in the
back parlor startledher. Going into the han
she saw a strange Ian inst going out with
some of her fatheN clothes in his arms
WIN remarkable p1sence Of mind for a
chlld-sne Is l4-mAhe refrained from cry
ing out, but waited Jp6l the fellow got ont
Then she cautiously lOAOwed him into tn, |
street and along Fulton Areet, until She met |
Deteetlve i f5lce, Waom she knew and to
kfAAtSI a tHd5c the 4
uetectlVe cauknt tne InleA who was locked 1
brightest detective in Brooktn. '7 '--'
TIE President OF the URed states no.
awarded through the DepartAnt Of state
gold watch to Lieut.. Conn., nder .robD
Boodo, of the Spanish gunboa TelavrsYna
for gallant services to the crew ONE strsnds1
American bark OnecO, April Is al Ie Isoy
a gold medal to James McDOnaldnnG Cos
John Mckay for rescuing the CIV Of r.
bark Iowa, on Lake Huron. 1881 sil-aS
medal TO Rafall Gonzalez, a SpanIslnfIof ~.
rescutng two seamen Of the bark Vren,ont
Feb. 8, 1885; a silver medal to Mateo Mai I'D
Josg ~ sa NJ 1f h.ns ~, ~ gold
~ ot " ~ -, " ~ ~ " 70 sea-
i I'm ~ 10 'I isss iN"N 'O'00Si D0Aio roper,
J. f. SECORD, a conductor OF the PAamo
Railway, who arrived in New York TrAiav
on the steamship City of Para, bronghtktb
him the gun which the rebel leader Prdn
threatened TO use against the United Stks
man-Of- war Galena at Aspinwall during Y
troubles last spring. The gun was placedk
the end OF pier after Prestan had arresd
Consul Wright and other Americans CAD
Kane, OF the Galena, was then warned that N
he attempted 20 land any Of his crew the gul
would be 1red at his boats. and the AmeriA
cans under arrest would be killed. When
Prestan retreated, his men threw the gun
which was the only one he possessed, into a
ditch, where u was found by Conductor
Sec0rd. Mr.. Secord brought the historical
gun and ia carriage In his trunk. The gun
IL two and a half feet long and has an inch
and half bore. IL resembles the guns used
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