Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IMMENSE crops of mustard are produced in
Southern California, and several mustard
mills have lately been established in san
Francisco 10 work up the product.
THE United States has 1900 dentists. who
use ton OF gold and five tons of other metals
and make 100000 artificial teeth annually.
Only one American in eighty is found 10 have
perfect leeth, and one third of the population
make more or ess use Of the artificial product.
DIR. BABES has completed series Of studies
in Prof. CornIrs laboratory, from which he
concludes that the comma bacillus of cholera
will grow IN milk. coffee, meat, carrots, eggs,
and broth, but not in fresh or dried fruiTs
b. er, w ne, cOnseryes, smOb ed or sailed meat,
or cheese.
THE Mansion House Bank and Royal Ex-
change in The City" London, form a small
triangle through which it is not uncommon
for 6i.Co0 vehicles and $4,000 pedestrians to
pass daily The tide Of travel there has he
me 30 great that subway or tunnel is be-
ing projected TO relieve IT.
For the last five years Chicago pho
tographer has been collecting photographs of
prominent persons connected with that city,
with the object of having them sealed up in a
memorial safe, decided over to the city. and
deposited in the court house vaults with the
archives Of the city until the second centen-
NAL of 1876. He has already prepared 5.7l6
of hese pho Ographs, and expects 10 collect
10000 altogether.
CHARLES ". VOsHALL, OF Rochester, n. Y,
brought TO the linton sauctum the other day
the largest English masrh in the world. The
canine is the property Of Mr.. G. L Thomas,
of Albany. lie answers TO the name Of sen
atOr,' Is 10 months ola and weighs 100 poun ds.
senator" is out of the celebrated English
bitch Nina" by Dido" the great English
dog whose dam was "6ud." Both father and
mother have taken the drst prizes at the
Nsa oh VI
years. His height is $50 inches over the
wetheTs, extreme length, up of nose to end of
tail, feet inches. He is valued at ST., 500.
DE GoERsoN, he Philadelphia murderer,
had an ugenions arrangement to enable him
to read at night. AZ there was neither q gas
jet nor q lamp allowed IN his cell, he was
obliged 10 devise some means to aid HIM to
pass away the time in reading. He obtained
a sheet Of tin. and, after br ghtening II, he
placed 1t outside his window at such an angle
as to catch the rays of light from s gas lamp
tDe kitchen yard. 60 feet away from his
cell. These rays were theu concentrated in
side OF his cell by means Of magnifying
glass, and by placing his book or paper near
the glass he obtained enough light to read by.
A wELL-KNOwN scientific man, it ia said,
has given an order to q Liverpool dealer III
such wares for a hundred specimens Of The
electric eel. for the purpose of studying its
rem arkable power Of lmpartlpg shoes to
any one " no = iDuNCtt 10 UNNult ltS lcEsDQ.
no London Standard thinks that when the
depths 0f the sea ana OF the tropical lakes
and rivers have been more fully piOred, it
vi probably be fourd hat the number of
hes furnished with batteries Of the torpedo
ard Gy1.R0tUS type i much greater tn n Il
now supposed, for il falls IN with no biological
law or theory Of evolution that power SO
Important should De reserved for q few favored
members Of Unrelated families.
THE industrial depression and disturbances
Dra In RI
Gus attention. On all hands are heard sounds
Of alarm st the growing discomfort and agita-
ZION among the factory hands and The work
ing population generally. Agrarian enieute5
have l&tels gwen place to disturbances an
OutrageS Of an duatr1aI character and the
purely political crimes Of the Nlhihsts seem
also 10 heve ceased in favor of those reTpe-
trateG BY the indictments Of labor. The lat
trr have been greatly increased this WlutCr by
the curtailment OF work in most Of the large
manufacturing districts, and mans peasants
y he had been GriY en- by agricultural di=tress
TO become factory ptratlvts now hnd them
selves worse of than they were before.
Mr.. CLEVELAND was a surprise as q public
speaker at his iuau- uration. His voice IS
fluteiike, almost bird like, in its clearnees
and penetrating power, and his lungs proved
strong enough to send it to great a dis
tanCe that some OF his utleranCe5 were ap-
plauded by men who seemed a city BLOCK
away. His enunciatiOu was distinct, and he
teuces. His position while speaking was easy
and was not at all ungracefu. 1t showed him
10 be not onE at ease, but very confident. He
held his head so nigh that il might have be. n
describ, q as thrown slightly back, b. only at
long intervals did he slowly aisc his right
hand, move IL little az II TO emphasize Il
sentence. AID then drop IL TO The railing. At
other times he lifteC the same hand, MS right
one, TO glance at tie notes of headings Of his
address that ho had jotted down on Q visiting
card. His left hand he held behind him.
THERE is no productive tree requiring so
little culture as the olive tree. Many
farmers in France, Italy and spain never
prune, nor cultivate, nor manure il, though
they derive moderate crops every two years.
But when properly cultivated aud we'll fed IL
Is ant to give. enormous cruDs-Very large one
year and moderate one the intervening
year. W hen planted from the rooted cuttings
II is likely to bear fruit Jour years after. It's
productive capacity increases and reaches its
maximum when the tree is about 20 years
old Beginning with its sixth or seventh
year il Will give remunera'iye crops. In
virgin soil or % gallons Of berries 20 tres
may be expected when or ears old. As
the market price for salted olives in barrels IL
now about 81 per CATION. and as thc picking
and packing " III not be over 30 cents per gal
Ion, it follows the cultivation Of the olive is
going to attract much more interest than
VtiCulture, because, either BY picking or
making oil, it wlll pay three or four times as
much.
n bOULEN AID fAfEh gives Il SIhllAliC EAttCu
of the manner in which nearly one-hslf of
Paris was butt upon the hollow ground be-
meath The CatacOmbs are old quarrles. s0me
Of which bad u ceiling >sOld enough TO bgIld
upon. But in many other cases the top
ground had to be blown down before the
work OF building could be begun, and it was
nrce,SaTy also 20 fi IA OF bank ~ the soil.
In other cases the houses we're rOar9d on the
top of VeTi able Bies. IKE tb0so Of Ameter-
darn. The uses TO which these hollow tunnels
bur hpnra al n ~ q a
dead mems bones and mummits, and the ac-
cOmmodatlOn OF sewers. but also the storage
of wines anu the growth of mushrooms. 1t
Is lot, perhaps, generally known that the
thing wnich people were most afraid OfWas
the TACT, whether real or supposed, that the
leaders OF that desperate resurrection had
filed the catacombs with gunpOwder and
dynamite, anu could 90 any moment, II pro
vOked to G IRENE measures, produce the
effect Of an earthquake upon both banks Of
the Seine.
The King OF Persia's frat visit to Europe
tended for the time to ctviliz him, but before
a year had expired he wanted to execute his
Prime Minister. He hiss lighted his palace
with gas, and even started the electric light
there; but when he dld not pay the salary OF
the genial FTenchm8n who provided That light,
all WAS dark once more. After that the
trenchman got his psy. snd tn" auPply has
been steady since. The king now t3turus So
lutes as 2 rule; before his visit 10 Europe he
did not. lie now looks a she pctur in the
Illustrated jOurnais WIFE pleasure, sat WREN
he Lass crossed the Caspian sac slepf on the
nouf OF the lafuc4' CABIN, HnieE vac tabiV, ana
on he table ne lut his cots, y g ~ njain5 !
kt;u % giants alG AWatl2- stce e was
lia azure - the a -vlt,m ol the Ull-'r-e 20 eli
. boat ia One az the i le taUks FL .l.@ Aumer-
lGs country pslae 5 with tht s4auaees OF mis-
kingd9m, clad va gaia costume. an1 o 20 Into
a., al laughter ss The boat -ant, anil size pii-
isrs o. tao einpli's crt@ i-i cu- iAC .dyi vet,
ar'i hriraggieG. And they seg trat CIT tie
LAST visit u? the King g! aas 90 Lur0pa.