Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

I correctness of their theories in the discovery
that the famous tree from the bsrk of which
/ quinine is obtained furnishes no quinine I'M
less 1t is grown in malarial region.
HORNED ToADs are selling at soc. apiece in
California. and large numbers are sent East
as curosities. They are harmless, and can
be handled with impunlty. They are cheap
: to Keep, living SIX months on two house lies.
AT the main office of the Western Union
Telegraph Company in New York S3,275 mes
sages were handled on Monday last, the
largest days business on record, the next
beng Sl,8 Is messages, Sept. 10, 1851, the time
OF Garheld's death.
DIR. ANDREE, of Leipzig, at recent meet
ing of the Anthrop0logical Society of Vienna,
discussed the question whether iron was
known in America in prehistoric times. He
concludes that meteoric iron was certainly IN
use among some Of the Indian tribes and the
Eskimo, but thinks they were not acquainted
with the art of forging.
Two valuable colts were lately poisoned in
Ohio by white snake root, eupatorium agera-
todes. The disease known formerly as 1.-THE
trembles,' an affection OF cattle, was caused
by this weed. When eaten by mich cows the
poison, TO some extent, passes of with the
| milk. even when the cows have not been no
ticeably I'll, ami persons drinking 1t have
slckened and sometimes died.
cess Beatrice, is Il unique affair. 1t is in
black case, ornamented with gold. The sus-
tanning pedal enables the player to prolOng
the sound OF one or more of the notes, on the
organ principle. The piano has so elastic
touch that all the gradations from the most
subdued whisper to the greatest fortlssimo
passage can be accomplished with fine effect.
BELIc-HUNTERs are after chips of the
Washington monument. Mr.. Mclaughlin,
I hat no hos civ
away at least five tons of chips from pieces
of marble used IN the monument. and that
the demand for relics is even greater than
ever There are now lying about the base of
the monument about three tons of small
chips, which are free to all who desire them.
TIMBER depredauons on public domain are
still carried on with little effort the part of
the authorities to check them. Among others
the Chinese IN Placer county, Cal, are said to
he cutting immense quantities of sugar-p pine
( on government land. The trees are cut by
them TO be made into ''shoOks' aud If their
grain is not perfectly straight the trees are
abandoned and other trees cut down. BY this
method great quantities of trees are felled
and not used for any purpose.
ETHLEEL l., the Jersey COW, property of
John A. McEwen, Nashville, Tenn, has closed
the fifth day of her test with q pounds 6
| ounces OF butter to her credit. This is the
best record so far any 2l$-year old COW has
ever made. This IS an official test as con-
Quoted by DR.. II. b. TltcOmb, of the Columbia
Jersey Cattle COmpauy's farm, at Indian
Camp Springs. Mr.. McEwen has been al
| ready offered a handsome sum above the
amount paid for her, but he refused her bril-
| liant showing making her all the more val
liable.
A PARTY of Columbia (Tenn.) fishermen re
turned from Hickman county, plying the
waters of Blue Lick, well-known as a stream
containing an abundance of the inny tribe,
and prominently Of speckle trout, report the
1ndi-g OF hermit, IN the person of Andy
Purg, IS years old, who has erected him
1 home entirely of stone, doing all the work
himself and requiring several years to com
plete the same. His only means of susCenance
Is gained from sugar trees. He Is thoroughly
familiar with the Bible. and can tell in mo-
ment the number of any verse and chapter.
AMERICAN woOL-GRowEBs VIII have to
hurry up. Even with protection, the Aus
tralasian countries are rapidly leaving them
in the rear as a sheep-raisng people. In
1856 Australasia had but Il. lS4. 023 head of
sheep. yielding about 81, 900, 600 pounds of wool
for export, al the rate of pounds ounces for
each animal. In 1888 these countries owned
I9,s72.35l head of sheep. yielding 1856, 545, Ss3
pounds of wool for export, at the rate Of
pounds l3 ounces for each animal. This is an
enormous increase, the expansion of which
has been by far the most marked from 1872 to
1888
" IL
plosiOn has just occurred, in which the in
ventor of new sort of dynamite has fallen
a victim to his own invention. The man, a
German named Lisch, resided with his aged
mother in an isolated house. IN which he was
accustomed to carry on his dangerous trade.
He had sold the patents for his new explosive
in America and elsewhere. just prior to the
explosion he was engaged in mailing up box
containing consignment of the material,
when suddenly the whole blew up, unroOlng
nd "a ia
mother under the falling ruins.
SEVEN YEARS AGO a man named Koteles
was sentenced at Buda- Pesth to twenty years.
penal seryitude for being accessory to the
murder of his wife. The Protestant pastor Of
Lepoglava, convinced of the mans innocence
bestirred himself to have the case reopened
and succeeded in obtaining a rule for a new
trial Tried a second time, kOteles was again
convicted; but an appeal was lodged and the
Royal Table of Hungary has now quashed the
sentence, declaring that neither the prisoners
guilt nor ms Innocence was established so
that he must have the benefit of the doubt
kOteles has been released after seven years of
captivity.
MR.iBEAUDRY, of the Prlvy Council office. is
about to present to the Secretary of State of
Ontario, the original manuscript register of
baptisms, burials, etc, of Fort Duquesne, now
Pittsburg, Pa, dating back to 1856. There
are already a number of records in the State
department ItldAiug 70 lul5 once important
French stronghold. which was built by the
Marquis DuQuesne. Governor OF the
colony. in 1853. Among the curious en-
tries in the register Is that of the baptism of
Marie Louise Hartley, daughter OF Patrick
Harley. Irish by nation, and Francis Lang
ham, a marginal note stating that the mother
was stolen by Indians on July Q, 1856.
THE cost of the principal government build
ings IN Washington has been as follows
Treasury department building $7.l5S, 1854. Ma
tional museum 100000, Post ONCE depart
ment 81, 500. Printing Office s29G, O0O Marine
barracks $339,630, Naval hospital 5 rs 085,
state, War and Navy building 81 ,62S, 1875
! Agricultural department $50, S25. Smithson-
ian Institution Sig2,5Sl, National monument
/ 81. 100 coo. naval observatory $255,254, Patent
$4,000, 900. The court house cos 1896, 1872 the
money for which was raised by o lottery
| which was drawn IN Alexandria, Va. The
| prucely prize was $4,000, and, though it was
| a semi government affair, 10 was never pad
the holder Of the lucky ticket.
TIRE other day Gilbert Clunen was at the
bottom of a SO-foot well on Frank Weeds
place, in sing Sing, n. y, stoning up the
sides. A stone about 10 inches in diameter
rolled over the side ~ the top. and, falling
struck him on the head The man came out
of the we'll and walked home, where he was
attended 10 by Drs. Fisher and Madden.
They found the skull crushed in over sur
face about an inch and "A half in diameter, as
il IL had been struck by a hammer. They re-
moved all the broken bone. leaving the brain
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