Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

LIE dpplt crop Is lUlIAtubO III ODuHCCAAShe
this year. Another piece of news from the
same State is that an invention has been pat
ented for making out of cider beverage
closely resembling champagne.
AN RNGLIsHMAN has been condemned to
twenty years penal servitude, at Lyons, for
plundering churches. While secretly prose-
cutting his career of crime he was received
! into fashionable sporting circles, and became
a patron OF the turf.
STATISTICS show that the wheat trade of
California, Oregon, and Washington Terri
tory with Europe give employment annually
TO more than 400 sailing vessels, going around
Cape Horn. The average passage for each
vessel "a about 10000 miles. in an average time
OF little over four months.
PROLONGED freshness is secured by stand
ing flowers in water for some hours before
they are sent away. 1t is the greatest fallacy
! to suppose that any which have 10 be sent 10
q distance should be fresh picked. They will
| travel better and last longer if allowed to inn
| blbe full supply OF moisture before starting.
DURING the last two years several Celtic
tumuli in the district of Geinberg, in Upper
Austria, have been opened, and found to con-
tam valuable relics Of prehistoric times. A few
days ago a similar tumulus was discovered
near MatighOfen, in the same neighborhood,
and among its contents was found a dadem
OF pure gold, richly carved in the Well-knOwn
style OF old Celtic art.
acres of land on the Pacific Coast OF the
United States that are especially adapted to
wheat culture. OF this California has q, 000,-
600, or ope-fourth OF the whole; Oregon has
100000 acres; Washington Territory has
| 100000 acres; Colorado and Idaho l0. OO0,0
each. Montana, Utah and Wyoming 1000, 600
| each, and the great bulk of all this Wheat
land yet lies untouched.
THE factory at Alvarado, Cal, has made
1880 tons of refined beet sugar this season
This is said to be four times greater than the
total sorghum sugar in the United States. The
AiVarado factory has en- IN operation six
| years, and Its profits are computed at 100000
| on an investment of $l25,U00 The growers
get $3.50 ton for beets, and the yield is said to
average twenty tons to the acre. The factory
pays out about $4,000 year for beets.
A MANITOBA FARMER was sharpening q
stake with an axe, when lash OF lightning,
accompanied by single clap of thunder,
came from the only cloud visible. small
one Immediately overhead The bolt struck
! the head of the axe. splitting 1t into two
pieces and breaking the handle. The farmer
was Knocked TO the ground insensible. but
speedily recovered, and upon searching about
found the fragments OF his axe forced deeply
INTO the ground.
CATTLE from Wyoming have reached Dept
ford market by way of the great lakes, in
good condition. Mr.. Frewen, the consignor,
remarks that it is not the least remarkable
instance, perhaps, of the industrial develop
ment or the nineteenth century, that beasts
calved more than 6, 90 miles away on the
shores of the Pacific ocean, matured in Wyo-
ming and fattened on Lake Superior should
have been destined, after crossing the Attain
tic on the hoof. to terminate their engage
ments" In the Thames.
THE manufacture Of solid carbon acid gas
has been carried on for some time by a COM
Dany at Berlin. Bottles of steel containing
eight Kilos of liquid carbonic acid are sold.
From these, by allowing the liquid to escape
into cloud vessel, quantity of solid acid is
wooden tube, with a wooden piston. can
be kept in the form of a small cylinder
for considerable time cylinder of about
~ inches in diameter and 2 inches long will
take five hours to melt away into gas. The
more 1t is compressed the longer it Will last as
solid.
PROF. MUTTRIcH, of Berlin, has reached
the following conclusion from his forest mete-
GEOLOGICAL researches: That the forest exer-
oIses positive influence on the temperature
of the air. That the daily variations Of tenn
perature are lessened by the forest, and in
summer more than winter. That the infu-
ence of the eafy forest is in summer greater
than that of the pine forest, while in winter
the tempering influence Of the pine forest
pred0mln mates over that of the defoliqted for
est. An attempt to determine the influence
Of the forest on the mean annual temperature
led to no sure results.
WHEN some Americans, who had overheard
the remark that Strassburg was famous for
pate de foie gras," reached that old town
one day recently, they sailed forth in quest
of the thing in question. 1t is said that they
actually went into book store and asked the
clerk for ''pate de foie gras," and that, being
a true-hearted human being, he took them
aside, whispering that what they wanted was
"goose-liver pie" Then, unabashed, they
went to an eating house and found the plea
thing awful to look back upon they say since
it was so very high" as to suit only the
trained palate OF the epicure.
KING LEOPOLD of Belgium has written a let
ter to the President of the Royal Geographical
Society, in which he says with regard to the
proposed Congo railroad: "ln order that the
Free State OF Congo may render to civilizs-
ton and commerce the services we expect. II
is necessary that we build the railroad be-
tween VIM and stanley Pool and that we
place the most capable agents at the head of
the African State. We are now actively en-
gagged with the railroad, the surveys for which
are in progress. We do not wish to launch our
project until the surveys are completed and
We are in accord with mercantile houses"
A TORONTO NEWSPAPER tells of the late
Lord Houghton that about 1877 he visited
Toronto, and WAS taken about the city by a
citizen in a carriage. Bidding the coachman
pause as they reached a sacred edidce ia the
eastern division Of the town, the merchant
SAID: "And what do you think of that my
LOrdY "a splendid building, 30 substantial
and handsome: and pray sir, what denOmina-
ton owns 1.-THE Church Of England, / sup
pOsep mo. my Lord, the -" ''You don't
say soY The arrogance OF these dissentersr -
Lord HoughtOn had forgotten to inquire to
what sect his friend belonged, who, in fact
had almost alone borne the cost Of the church
in question.
Coz. DU CHAILLE LONG, now in New York
gives forth two or three opinions about Gen
Gordon that are quite startling in their way.
''There was" he says, ''or rather there is, for
l do not believe that he is dead, much Of the
Moslem character in Gordon's disposition
His ambitious soul ia consumed by burning
thirst for power-absolute, unlimited, uncon-
trolled power. When he went to the Soudan
in 1874 he went there with the idea Of making
himself eventually the King-the VaIi-of the
Black Country. ] assure you he suggested to
me repeatedly that we should take and divide
the provinces for on selves. claiming that they
ought rot to belong TO Egypt, nor to the
Arabs, or the 'unspeakable Turk | believe
such solution of the Eastern question would
have been welcome to the English Govern
ment."
ONE OF the most interesting cases in the
great fisheries exhibit in the National Mu4
scum at Washington IS that filed with arti-
1cial bats and lures used by primitive races,
rs well as OF modern manufacture. Here are
scores OF dralls for bass and bluehsh craw-
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