Savannah morning news., 1885-06-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ The crows are reported as doing an unusual
amount OF damage this year in New Hamp-
/ shlre, and yet this is one OF the regions where
Dountles are PAID for crows heads.
GOLD DUST has been found near Phoebe,
New, in the sediments from washed wool
1eeces Everybody n that section has lately
been seeking for the spot where the sheep had
/ been rolling.
THE number Of cats in Washington is said
to he smaller in proportion to the population
than in any other American city. Good
mousers are in demand, and a woman who
( keeps an intelligence Office obtains them from
/ Cincinnati $40 each.
THE treeless condition of parts of the South
/ American pampus IS attributed to the work
/ Of an omnipresent ant. which feeds upon
! leaves and quickly destroys the tree seedlings
/ and other tender plants as soon as the leaves
/ appear above ground.
THE microscope reveals that there are more
! than 1000 muscles in caterpillar, and that
1 the eye of a drone contains LOCO mirrors.
! There are spiders as small as a grain OF sand.
/ and they spin a thread so fine that it would
! require 400 OF them to equal the size OF a
! single hair.
! SINCE the promulgation of the dogma of
/ Papal lnfalli bility the number of dissenting
/ Catholics has greatly increased. The Old
/ Catholics in Switzerland, under Bishop Her
! zOg have fifty clergy and over $4,000 adher-
! ents. In Germany, under Bishop Reinkens.
/ they have forty five clergy and nearly $4,000
adherents.
THE Dunkard Normal School, Huntingdon,
/ Pa, seems to have had the most peculiar
! class day yet. In place of the usual class
/ histories. poems and ivy planting the mem
! bers of the senior class met in the school
! Chapel and held religious experience meet
| ing each member of the class giving MS re-
! h2ous eXuericnces during the four years
! spent at the institution.
! ToNQUIN HORSES are of Tartar breed. small
but very well shaped and capable of enduring
/ great fatigue. They are easy to break and
make excellent riding horses, having very
! smooth action and fair pace. 1t has been
! ascertained by actual proof that the TOnquin
! horses are better than the French and Arab
hores, which have been imported at so much
/ eXnense. TOnqUln horses are worth from $l7
! to sos.
THE corner stone of the Paris Bourse was
laid March q, ls0S. The site on which the
/ building stands belonged formerly to an order
! of nuns, known as the Files st. Thomas. one
! OF the streets which opens out from the Place
! de la Bourse still retaining this name, and all
/ the new houses which have since been built
! around the square are placed on a part either
| of the garden or Of the location Of the old con-
vent.
NONE but entire horses are exported from
Persia. Save as carriage horses gedings are
never seen, and as a rule a Persian will never
/ sell mare. The finest horses in Persia are
bred by the Eellauts, wandering tribes.
/ The wealth of these people consists entirely
| OF cattle, sheep and horses. They wander
! from their winter quarters in the plains to
| their summer quarters. or yeilaks. in the
mountains, each family having its recognized
/ grazing ground. ."
/ WHEN the late Peter Gibson, the founder
/ of the Gibson House, Cincinnati, was a mem
/ Der OF the school board, and all sorts of
]
| ly tagged on to the public school system, at
one OF the meetings a member proposed that
/ piaAos and piano instruction be included in
/ the studies of the course, ant saddied upOn
/ the tax x-payer. The fire flashed IN Mr. Glib
sons eve. He WAS man Of few words. "Mr
! President, draw the line at pianos, but | am
IN favor OF putting IN washtubs." The bill
! did not pass.
Work Of construction on the railroads Of
the Argentine Republic is being energetically
pushed forward. A new section of the An
dean line from Mendoza to San Juan, dis
tance OF 30 miles. was completed at the end of
1 March. The entire distance from ROsario to
san Juan Is now done in three days: few
years ago the journey took from 20 to % davs
The railroad from Mercedes to 0ui to, $50
miles, is ready for traffic. The Great Northern
Railway is rapidly advancing to Sata, rich
/ agricultural province distant from Rosario
about 115 miles.
SEVENTY ARCHITECTS have voted in
the Americaa Architect on the question which
are the ten best buildings in America. Those
receiving the largest number Of votes are as
/ follows: Trinity Church, Boston. 6S votes
the United States capitol, Al; house eff W. X
I Vanderbilt, New York. 81; Trinity Church
New Y Y0rk, "a; Jefferson Market court house.
/ New YORK. %; Connecticut State capitol
Hartford, %; City Hail. Albany, n. Y. 10;
/ Sever Hall, Cambridge, Mass, II; New York
| state capitol, Albany, l6, and the Town Hall,
| North Eaton, Mass, Is.
CAPT. SMITH is the owner Of an oyster bed
in Huntington Harbor, n. Y. and also of a
number of clam beds near the shore. For
some time past he has been missing his BIZ
I valves, and lew nights since he loaded his
| shotgun and concealed himself on the bank
/ overlooking his beds. a bout midnight he fell
asleep, and about that time the thieves came
| there, and upon reconoitering before they
| went TO the beds discovered Smith sOundly
sleeping. They took his gun and in It's place
| laid cora wood stick, and after taking what
1 oysters they wanted went away.
WHEN Condor, the man who nled Chicago
directory with the Secretary of State as list
of men who indOrsed him, was a candidate for
the italian mission, he sent hundreds of letters
4 indiscriminately all over the country inclos-
/ Ing a stamped envelope, requesting that re-
/ plies should be sent to the President urging
his appointment TO the place. These replies
! are still coming in. II Condor could only see
some Of them his blood would fairly boil
! Very few of them indorse him. In more than
I
! wild Irish crank" and some say 'he ought to
/ be put in the insane asy ylum," and otheTs, ''the
I President should know that this appointment
ought not to be made" Condor has gone back
to Chicago.
THE Windsor well on the Pan Handle Rail
road, y miles north Of Wheeling, Is an object
of considerable interest to travellers. 1t was
drilled for natural gas several years ago. and
a good flow struck. This was rendered en-
/ tirely useless, however, by the intermittent
flow OF water. Every six hours with hardly
] minutes variation, comes a rumble, and
! then the water commences TO boil ont OF the
Z hole. First 10 comes up about a foot high,
/ then two and three feet, and then comes a
/ quick, sharp, "sW6h,N and 4 stream IS sent
| upward at least 70 or 100 feet into the air,
twice as high as the big derrick. The well
. was abandoned long time ago. but t Is un-
derstood that party of Wheeling gas men
/ are about TO drill II deeper and ease of, if
/ possible, the water supply. The flow Of gas
/ is strong when II Ia not spouting.
NJ. Percy, a Dion astronomer, offers a
novel explanation Of the frequency Of the
I earthquakes which have produced 70 much
( disturbance on the surface OF our planet Of
late. His theory is that they are caused, like
the tides, by the attraction OF the sun and
moon; ana he argues that II is only natural to
suppose that The sea Of fire IN the interior Of
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