Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

French Canadians.
/ THERE are in the United States $4,000, 600
/ of watered railway stocks.
IT has been said that swallows and sparrows
forsaSe district when cholera is about to
/ appear.
AS A rule the managers of comic opera take
! special care to guard the stage from old men.
| Young men come and go with fippant joyous
! ness. but the old fellows have lingering
! earnestness that interferes with the stage
/ business.
DURING the past twenty-sx years more
residents Of Massachusetts, committed suicide
thu u fell in battle during the entire war: The
official figures are: Massachusetts soldiers
/ killed in the war, 1876; committed suicide
/ between 1857 and 1854, 3,024.
| PocEET-KNIFE making is practically dead
IN Naugatuck, Conn. \ few years ago four
factories were running to their fullest capa-
city, giving employment to hundreds of men,
! ana supplying the country with thousands OF
/ gross OF pocket cutlery annually.
! IN order to reach Northwest India it is pro-
/ posed to construct a Trans Arabian railway
/ from Port Said to Koweit Harbor on the Per-
| sian Gulf, distance of l,O6O miles. The esti-
mated cost is 100000 per mile. 1t is deemed
an important undertaking as a checkmate to
the Central Asian railway scheme now being
/ pushed by Russia.
| WOMAN went into a grocery store at La
| fayettc, Ind, and secreted about two dozen
eggs in a large pocket made for such purposes
beneath her panier. The clerk detected her.
| and without saying anything about 1t. slipped
| up as she passed out the door and admins
tered a smart spank with a barrel stave. She
painted the town yellow on her homeward
! way.
THE Nice and Cannes perfume manufac-
tories annually crush ls4, O00 pounds of orange
bio SONS, 1920 pounds of acacia flowers,
$4,000 pounds of rose leaves, $4,000 pounds of
! jasmine blossoms. $4,000 pounds of viOlets,
| $500 pounds of tuberoses, and a relatively
| large amount of Spanish lilacs, rosemary.
mint, lime and lemon blossoms, thyme, and
numbers Of other plants and leaves and
/ flowers.
IN q mine in Grass Valley, Cal , that had for
many years been flooded, it was found upon
renewing operations recently that drill hole
in vein of quartz had healed up around a
! small roo of IRON, or ''spOOn." that had been
! left in 1t, and that several clusters of small
crystals had shot out in a fractured portion of
/ the vein. This Is quoted to prove that metals
grow, like wood and other products of the
earth.
NJ. DE LEssEPs. in his address upon being
received into the French Academy, observed
that "a little Imagination IS a good lever for
| the heavy weight of human affairs" and III.
/ kenan, in his reply welcoming the distin-
/ guiehed engineer, said that ''lf astronomers
! hQd sufficiently powerful instruments they
/ might judge of the civilization of the planets
/ by seeing whether their isthmuses were cut
| or not"
THE white color of Arctic mammals and
/ birds has hitherto been ascribed to protective
resemblance, the adaptation to a snOw-cov-
cred country being attributed to the preser-
walton OF individuals, which, by aSsimilating
{ to their surroundings In color, either escaped
detection by their foes or were enabled to Sc
cure their prey more advantageously. A
writer IN Nature, however, SCOTS at this ex-
PLANTATION. and points out that white. the
worst abs0rber, is also the worst radiator of
all forms Of radiant energy, so that warm
bO9ded creatures thus clad are better able to
withstand the severity Of an Arctic climate.
RUSSIA is about to begin a second railroad
between the Black Sea and the Caspian, along
the foot of the Caucasus on the north, while
the existing railroad is south of the noun
tain5. Like the other Russian railroads, it
viii be Of hve-foot gauge. The cost, with
harbOr improvements at Novorissik, is esti-
mated At 81, 300, 600, or $4,000 per mile. The
line VIII give an outlet to a productive grain
country as well as TO petroleum. The latter
does not depend upon it wholly as there is
now pine line 90 miles long leading from the
wells to Novorlesik. When built it will be
possible to ride by rail all the way from the
Atlantic to the Caspian Sea.
THE New York Society for the Protection of
Game viii take action upon the legislation
now pending on subjects connected with the
game laws. Strong resolutions Will be passed
urging the signature of Gov. Hill to the deer
bounding bill, which passed both branches of
the Legislature by large majOrites. The bill
is intended to prohibit the growing practice
of having a gang Of hounds started by guides
to drive deer into the water, where they are
quickly slaughtered by the so-called sports
men. Not only do the hounds run the deer
when under hire, but at other times. and
during the fawning season the dogs run down
the young and worry them to death. The
present system Is working out quick and
sure determination OF the deer in the Adj
rOhdack region.
IN Wexford, r. L., is what is claimed to be
the oldest Episcopal Church in America. 1t
was built in 1907, and was once stolen and
transported distance of seven miles. 1t was
originally built on what was then called Nc
SparreD Hill, but IN the course of seventy Ave
/ years the population had changed so that
/ most OF the worshpers came from Wexford.
/ seven miles away. The proposition to remove
/ the church WAS first made at a vestry meet
| ing, but was so bitterly opposed by the few
/ meinbeTs who yet remained on McSparFen Hill
4 that the WEXFORD faction resolved on a coup
/ detdt. The road from where the church
] stood to WEXFORD was all down hill They
/ mustered their forces one evening, collected
! all the oxen In the vicinity, placed the house
/ on wheels, and while the opposing faction
/ were eoundly sleeping in their beds hauled
/ the holy edihce to the spot where it
/ now stands and whore it has since re-
NAMED. AS 1t was utterly impossible TO
! move the house back up the hill again, the
! surprised hin residents could only vent their
rage in unchurchly language. Although the
old building is still standing. the present soci-
ETY. worship in more modern edidce.
THE Hsdendowa spear is from to feet
long. The handle is of a piece of hard mimosa
or acacia, thinner than a broom handle.
There Is a long socket attached to the blade,
into which the wood is driven and fastened.
AT the reverse end there is commonly piece
of twisted iron or telegraph wire. which
serves the double purpose OF weighing the
handle, 80 as to counterbalance the blade and
to prevent the weapon being pulled from the
grasp. Khc spear head or blade is rarely more
than inches broad by inches long. Going
into battle the Hadendowas grease their
spears from blade to HIT, 30 that it l. impos-
sible TO Wrest the weapon from their hands in
struggle. he spears used by the tribes up
7 the Nile are much more formidable weapons
The handle IS from feet to o feet long, made
OF male bamboo wood. 10 is furnished with q
terrible brI ad- blfded long spear head, like
that of the iSdcndowss, kept bright as a
mirror and sharp as "A razor. The blades are
sometimes IA inches long and inches wide.
la truth, an Arab spear up the Nile looks
| moro like an elongated trowel blade than any
thing else. shovel heads the soldiers used 20
call them. They make q fearful wound, aud
it was with one OF these Col. Burnaby was
struck IN the throat and killed. Being ex-
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