Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Out or b,5OO places OF over an acre IN oACenti
$500 belong in fee simple to the occupants.
Flowers are shipped by the 100000 from
the Scilly islands. Narcissus is raised in great
quantities, and the farmers find it more profit
able than potatoes or any other agricultural
prGtUct.
AN enormous striped bass, caught of No
mans Land South of Martha's Vineyard),
was on exhibition in Boston last week. 1t
weighed 20 pounds, and is said to be the larg-
eat OF its species ever caught with line ana
reel alone.
To KEEP postage stamps in the pocket or
memorandum book without sticking a New
Orleans post office clerk advises people to
rub the sticky side over the hair two or three
times. The oil OF the hair coaLs the mucllage
and prevents II from sticking.
ALMA TADEMA, the artist, has just executed
picture 80 inches by "a to go into frame
ornamented with old silver shoe-buckles.
With characteristic audacty, he painted on
this surface a scene with full-length reclln-
ing hgure IN the foreground and with VIDE
eXpanse OF beach, sea and sky.
FUEL is cheap in the Puget sound region
sugar is dear, and the climate is adapted to
the growth of the sugar beet. Under these
promising conditions, company has been
formed to start sugar works in that region,
and have contracted with farmers for $4,000
tons of beets annually, tor FIVE years, at "a 80
per ton.
RECENTLY high pontifcal mass was cele-
brated in Copenhagen for the first time since
the days of the Reformation, such service
having heretofore been forbidden by law. The
Catholics in Denmark now number about
1900 souls, with twenty-eiX priests, OF whom
seven are Danes.
HUGH LARKIN, the Commissioner of Statis-
tics of Ohio, has been investigating the cost
of maintaining the families OF mechanics in
that State, and finds that it is less than the
cost of maintaining prisoners in the county
lalls-belng Base per capita Gay for the
former and about 55c. per capita a day for the
latter.
TECHNICAL SCHOOLS, reading rooms, win
ter garden, gymnasium, and swimming bath,
all free, are to be built IN the most wretched
quarter of East London. at a cost Of 100000,
to be raised by subscription. Nearly half the
money Is subscribed already. The enterprise
ls the result of the fashionable diversion of
stunning.
DURING the past year as many as l,30s
wolves were killed IN France-9 ll-grown
males and 30 females TIA half-grown ones
and 493 young ones. The premium paid for
killing grown wolf is 300 francs, for a female
$50, for half-grown animal 100, and for
young one 40 francs. Wolves still exist in all
but thrty-twO departments.
CONTRACTS are already made in California
for raisln grapes on the vine at the rate of $2J
per ton, and 8 to &c. per pound for rsisins in
the ''sweat- box" that is, after they are picked
and dried, and before being packed IN small
boxes. AS vineyard il go bearing wilt
yield all the way from four TO ten tons per acre,
and in sOme cases oven more, the vine dresser
has no cause for complaint.
A PATRIARCHAL COUPLE named Ledger,
who have done much to make up for short
comings of many of their countrymen and
women in repopulating France, are now liv-
ing at Rozoy Belval in the Aisne. They have
had y children, of whom % are living, and
are serving in the army in TOnquln. The
father and mother, aged respectively 10 and
6S, cultivate farm, aided by other sons. or
their n children u were boys.
OVER a year ago sailor belonging to an
English vessel at Port Royal, Jamaica, disap-
peared, and a few days afterwards a shark
was caught with his tobacco box in it's
stomach II was sent Tn his wife as an neon
trOvertble witness of his terrible end, and
she mourned over il until he dropped IN to see
her the other day. He bad deserted, he ok
planned, and had lost his box overheard in
getting into the boat 10 go ashore.
A MOVEMENT TO remove all charges for ad-
mission to Nit Vernon is acquiring strength
in Washington. As there is no possible means
Of securing this object except by endowing
the Ladies Mt. Vernon Association with
fund sufficient 70 pay the expenses of admin
istering and improving the property, 1t is be-
lteVed that the movement will before long
take the shape of an application TO Congress
for the endowment of the association.
TIE town of Briefly Hill, in the English
coal regions, threatens to disappear from
sight. Ciefts are opening in the streets, and
the people fear sudden enguhment into the
mining chambers which honeycOmb the
ground underneath. The owners Of the pits
have offered to cell them TO the town for a fair
consideration, and the Council h now cOnsid-
erinF whether it is best to buy them, or, to
use a slang term, to let the town slide.
PACIFIC COAST PEOPLE are delighted to
learn that mackerel have been discovered in
the Pacific ocean. The Captain of barque
at Portland. Ore, reports that on his last voy-
age from Homo ulu, about the middle of June,
ne sailed through an enormous school of
mackerel. Not having any suitable fishing
gear he was unable to procure any specimens,
but he says the fish acted precisely like Il
school of macKerel in the North Atlantic.
AMAE OF 70 and a woman of about the
same age were married TO ently in the vicln-
ity Of East Greenwich, Il. /. Tho couple are
old lovers, having been engaged to each other
more than half century ago, but quarrel
eueued and they separated. Each, however
married, and has reared family. Death
broke into both families, and the cid lovers
were again free, which fact having come to
the ears of the groom, he hunted mp his carly
sweetheart, meeting was arranged for, and
their marriage was the result.
THE big Woods" of Minnesota well de-
serve the name, for they cover 5000 square
miles, or 100000 acres Of surface These
woods contain only hardwood growtbs. in
Guiding white and black oak, aple hickory
Eastwood, elm, cotton wood tamarack and
enough other varieties to make an aggregate
OF over Fifty different kinds. The hardwood
tract extends in a belt across the middle OF
the state, and surrounding ITS northeastern
cornfr Is an immense pine region covering
2l,OOO square miles, or l3,4tO,0tO acres.
ST. PAUL's CHURCH, Wexford, r. l., was
reopened last week, after having beon put IN
as thorough repair as its advanced age would
permit. 10 was built in 1907 and in 1900 ira
ditiOn has IT, Nas removed surreptit iouslv Nv
sOme OF the residents OF Wexford. who on 4
quiet night, by means of on teams drew IL
from McSparran hill, 20 the utter discom-
hiure of the people in the southern part OF
the town. For years this tradition was re-
pcated and believed, but now the his oriAn
has stepped n, and by the church records dis
proves the truth OF the legend.
PROF. 5. 4. FORBES, Of the Illinois State
college, at Champaign, who has been inyesti-
eating the cause Of me remarkable mortality
among the porch in Lake MENDOZA. Wis has
just rendered report, In which 10 sAvs il
was due 20 n spherical germ. about one
twenty dve- thousand h OF an inch In diameter
which attacked tBe liver and kldneys. form
ing Assesses and destroying the cells ~ the
organ. The germ belongs to group OF
various members which produce smalfpox
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