Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE White House. which has not been
painted for someyears, has become SO shabby
az 20 offend the seDsibilities Of the Washing
ton people Recent rains washed the color
out out o. the bunting used in draping the pillars
after Gen. Grants death. and they are now
streaked with an ugly yellowish black.
ANEnglish statistician, who has been study
Ing the growth OF London. says that without
the agency OF steam power the London Of to-
day would be an impossibility. II sudden
invasion or any calamity were to destroy the
steam facilities the citizens now enjoy, they
would De reduced. he says, to starvation with
in a week.
Nj. MEYNARD, a French cotton spinner
who has Gied without leaving any relatives,
bequeathed his fortune to himself. His house
Is TO be maintained in the state in which it
was left, and ''all the living animals in it"
cared Tor until they die. 1ia body was ce-
mented into block of granite, ia become the
corner stone of free picture gallery.
TIE present population of the city of Bue-
nos Ayres is estimated at 100000. One of the
local newspapers predicts that in few years
1t will be the New York of the southern hem
lephere. Emlgrants are arriving in a steady
stream, and II the proportion of the first six
months OF the year is kept up, their number
viii be 10000 before Jan. l. 1886. Italians
form the great majority of the incomers.
DIR. OPPLER, of strasburg, has discovered
wounds. The action appears to be twofold;
first that produced by burnt coffee as form
OF charcoal, and secondly, that which is due
to the pungent aromatic odOrs which are
1atal TO the lower organisms. As coffee is
always on hand in military expeditions, il
VIII be especially seryiceable as q dressing
during war times. A German writer also
states that cold nlack coffee is the most effiea-
clous and least in furious of all drinks in hot
weather.
Of
cinnati policeman. care apt to be too quick IN
pointing out those who turned the trick.
remember some years ago, when Col. Reilly
was chief of police, Red Wilson had 'squeez-
ed countryman, and he at once went TO
headquarters TO report his loss. One of the
detectives took the case, and just then Col.
Reilly, who had been out TO dinner, walked
IN. The rustic jumped up, and with a merry
Gus jump and point of the finger he eX-
claimed: That's the man. The only resem-
blaace at all between Rcd and Col Reilly is
that the mustaches Of both are on the reddish
order"
AT the annual meeting of the Salvation
Army in London, Gen. Booth made reference
to the progre of the movement. I'm 1879"
he said, their cOlors were flying In two coun-
tries; to-day they were te be seen in seven
Teen. seven years ago there were 81 corps
today there were TOO. They had then l27
paid officers; now there we're 1880 Seven
years ago there were no small corps IN the
there were 6O2 They had then but one news
paper-a small monthly magazine; to day
they had p separate publications., 10 of which
were newspapers, with united circulation Of
something like 100000 a week.
ADyIcEs from Iceland by the last nail are
of very disqaieting character. OF the
bodies of those killed by the avalanche in
February last "A have been recovered, aud
the authorities have prohibited rebuilding in
the valley. The weather during The spring
has been exceedingly bad, snow falling iuces-
sanity from May ~ till June 3, and, although
the sea is open, the fishing has in consequence
been very poor Agriculture and cattle
grazing are also very Backward in cOnse-
quence of cold winds and night frOsts. IN
many places cattle nave died from starvation,
and II things do not soon mend there VIII
probably be famine In the island next winter.
In some valleys the snow was 30 feet deep in
the middle of June.
AFTER dozen unsuccessful attempts had
been made by different persons to manufac-
ture machine that would shell peas without
crushing too many of them, Williamsburg
IN. Y } man has patented an apparatus that
seems TO accomplish the WORK. 1t consists of
narrow table about two feet long. At the
end OF the table Is small sieve, with euf-
nclently large apertures to let the peas drop
through into a box beneath. At the end of
the sieve are two rubber rollers like those
used in wringiDg machines One of these
rollers is set above the other. They are turned
by hand. The pods are pushed along the ia
Bile until they meet the rollers, by which they
are caught. The thin shells pass between the
rollers and the peas drop back on the sieve
and into the box beneath. II is claimed that
one of these machines will shell as many peas
in a given time as three men.
A CORRESPONDENT at Adelaide, South Aus
tralia, writes that ten pairs of English spar
rows were let loose in that colony few years
ago. and now they have probably 100000,
not spread over the colony, but crowded in
the settled districts, for they feed almost en-
tirely ON the fruit and gram produced by cul-
tivation. They are now busy" he says,
picking off all the almond fruit buds as they
swell, and the peach, apricot aud plum will
be attended in que course. Should any buds
be spared, the sparrOWs are early In their at
tentiOn to the nDening ffuit. ana the grain
before ready for reaping will be cleared by
them. In the sparrOws we have an enemy
far worse Than the red rust, locust or Rus
slams. and what with the favorable climate,
the absence of natural enemies, and the i'm
mense breeding grounds in the ranges, my
impression Is that unless some effective rem
edy is found the whole colony will in less than
twenty years be reduced TO u mere sheep
walk"
THE British Consular Agent at Chung
king, Mr.. HOSE, has made tour through
certain districts OF China for the purpose OF
gaining information concerning insect
white wax. He has found the substances to
be the product of minute brown, lice-like
nsects, which exist, together with Il small
L
TO the boughs and twigs OF an evergreen,
called By the Chinese "the insect tree"
Early in May these gals are col
ected and placed on the wax tree
| usually stump from whcn rise
numerous sprouts. The creatures soon de-
/ post white coating on the bOughs and twigs
which often reaches n thickness Of quarter
! Of AN inch IN ninety or 100 days. The branches
are then Topped OF, and the wax is
carefully removed by scraping and boiling
! The material is then poured into moulds and
| becomes the white wax Of commerce, used
| for candles.
HovES, HOLLAND, was AL agog on account
! Of Il recent visit made by that eccentric
woman the Empress OF Austra. One day
she took It into her head TO in pect the sea
walls st lmulden. she bought a pair of
wood n shoes, and with u urras that was
short enough to reveal considerable of a beau
1 tiful pair OF limbs, che wake along the beach
from town seven miles from Ymuldeu IL
WAS not until she thr w away the shoes and
gave the bOatman who rOwed her across the
nArbor two thaers that IL dawned upon the
Ymulden mind what an important percentage
had honOred the village by visit. Said one
tall, thin inh1bitant % the place. who might
have been a Western farmer, as far as looks
20: II would have given twenty forms for
those shoes,' aud then he added: "Shc was a
fine looking woman. She tripped along the
sand us lightly as girl OF rs, and she didn't
look older than that II you walked behind
her. such u whist she h idl Tall and grace
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