Savannah morning news., 1885-06-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


tested with locusts, and they cover trees and
shrubbery. No damage is yet reported.
THE manufacture of steel nails has been
begun at the Smith Tredegar works, Chatta-
noOga. One hundred kegs per day will be
turned out.
NAPLES at last has its Croton. A whole
river in the Apprentices has been diverted to
the city, and is now flowing through 10000
pipes and playing in the five ornamental
fountains constructed for it. The King and
Queen came to inaugurate the water works,
and were received with Undesirable enthusi-
asm.
THE Glasgow Philosophical Society has dem
onstrated that at about l22 degrees below zero
tFahrenheit) the flesh of animals becomes so
hard as TO ring like porcelain when struck,
ana also 10 be capable of being crushed TO
nne powder. MlcrObia, however, living in
the fesh before freezing have been found alive
when thawlng took place, after an exposure
of 200 hours to this intense cold.
TIE law cheapening postage by increasing
the weight of letters to one ounce for the
single rate, to 60 into effect July l, is already
giving token of its influence in the orders that
manufacturers are getting. Light weight
writing papers have had the preference over
the heavy ones TO avoid double postage, but
now the tendency is setting toward the heavy
papers, which, of course, are greatly to be
preferred.
WHEN Mr.. Fawcett, the late Postmaster
General of England, returned to health after
lying for time at deaths door, he stated
that his Illness had at least freed him from the
Tear OF death. In the most serious part of his
trouble he felt no anxiety, and did not fear,
as he had in health, that the end would be
preceded by great pain or severe struggle.
lie felt that his heart would slowly, and with
out MS knowledge, cease to beat.
LORD WARWICK is one of those English land
utnfl
land depression. He has for some years been
living in the Quietest way. But his sons mar
rage with great heiress will enable War
wick Castle to be we'll maintained in the fu-
ture. Lord Leigh, whose heir was killed last
year in the Rocky Mountains, is said to get
about half the income he got some years ago
from his great estate in W Warwickshre.
1T is interesting to know that one at least of
the best traditions of classical Greece has last
ed down to these latter days. This is the
readiness of rich citizens to perform public
services at their private expense. The UNI
Verslty OF Athens boasts an endowment at
this moment OF more than Sl2,0OO,000 There
is a hospital at Athens, too, entertaining more
than hundred aged brothers, which was
founded by single wealthy Greek citizen.
IT is said that the permanence of the Cali
fornia mountain forests is seriously threaten
ed by the herds of sheep and cattle which are
driven into the mountains every year to
Craze. From the foothills to the highest
meadows every blade Of herbage and every
seeding, shrub ana tree is devoured. Young
trees are barked and ruined. and roots Of
grasses are trodden out by the hoofs Of AMI
mails. The life Of any forest in which all
young trees are destroyed IS limited to the
life Of the full grown trees which compose it.
THE sTowAwAY, whose discovery after
forty-one days of fasting in the hold of the
prize ship Ambrose Light was made on the
vessel reaching New York, ended his exist
ence sunday at the navy yard IN Brooklyn.
he had been gaining in strength since he was
found, and as closely watched, but Sunday
morning he was allowed to walk upon the Cob
dock with a sentry He watched his chance
and jumped overheard and was drowned
before assistance could reach him. His
name was AlOnoes Berrie, a Colombian, and
it is supposed his long fast had unsettled his
reason.
MARX PATTIsoN, the distinguished Oxford
professor and literary man, lately deceased,
gave this account of his meeting an American
young lady at a foreign table d'hote "She
was only 10. but she knew everything. She
told me the exact amount of affection which
the Princess c. has for her future husband
and she gave me a full account Of the divorce
laws in all the states of America. She ap-
pealed to me sometimes; of course agreed
At last she asked whether did not think she
could write book, and told her that she was
the most ignorant girl | ever met! But took
care to say 80 in such way that she couldn't
mind it,"
SECRETARY WHITNEY received telegram
Sunday announcing the death of Commander
Lewis Clarke, commanding the United states
steamship Alliance, at Key West. The Ali
ance was at once ordered by telegraph to pro-
ceed to New York with the remains of Com
mander Clarke. There were no particulars
of his death given. A telegram early in the
day announced the arrival of the Alliance at
ar cd hat Corr fN1,,.I
was probably fatally ill. The other telegram
was sent few hours later announcing his
death. He was resident Of Richield Springs,
n. 7. He was born in Connecticut and was
appointed to the Naval Academy from that
state in 1851. He was made commander IN
1881, and was in command of the Alliance for
about year and a half. A dispatch from
Key West states that his death was caused by
hemOrrhage.
DRIVING out the Seventh street road the
other day with a newly appointed oficial, says
a Washington correspondent, had my atten-
tion called to an aged bucOlic with a wheel
barrow. The vehicle was piled high with
what looked ike peanut shells. He told us
they were loeusts' skins, and he was clearing
them OF h15 place. He added that the cOun-
try roundabout was suffering from a visIta-
tiOn Of millions Of these insects, and called
our attention TO the resonant, piercing hum
that made the atmosphere almost painful ly
vibrant all day. My companion was silent for
a while. Then he said rehectively: HBow
likeihe omnipresentl locust Is the ofIiceseeker!
He cOmeth upon the spring time out of the
nest where he has been Matching 10! this
seventeen years. He attacks the harvest of
patronage ripe for the sickle. And as he
hangeth on he sheddeth his cOat--yea. several
coats, even unto his whole wardrobe. And
he goes on humming and humming and hum
ming. But there's a difference after ala
big difference. The locust dies in ten DAYS"
And the speaker, whose duty it is TO take care
of very many Of the longer lived pests, sighed
aeeply.
STRANGE INSANITY CASE has been deyel-
oped here in the case of Miss Frances Burke
OF Buffalo, y. Y, a young woman who has
until recently been clarvoyant. She was
discovered one morning at 8 O'Clock. sitting
on the steps ia front OF B shop Ryan's resi-
dence, dressed in red flannel underclOthinR
and wearing u horrible white mask made Of
chamOis skin, with a beard that fell to her
knees. The people going TO mass at ST.
JOseph's Cathe raj saw her and informed the
police. she was taken Ia charge by a police
surgeon. At ilrst She refused 70 speak or tell
who she was, but after she had slept for sew
eral hours In the janitress' room talked freely
She stated thar a short time ago che jOiued a
Baptist church. Since then she has been
haunted 10y spirit that obtained contro, over
her and bade 1er clothe herself in the gar
ments In which she was found. She said she
Last night the spirit told her TO call on Bish0p
Ryan and convert him 10 the Baptist faith
she refused, but the spirit showed her terri
Bile lightnings and told her she would be killed
n she did not comply. When found her teeth
WeIsp chattoring with the cold Hpr uo ranta