Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-01
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perish every week, or 100000 per year out of
100000 swine.
TWO bars OF bullion, shipped from the Com
stock lode ON July II, constituted the first bull
lion shipment from 3 0o0 level of any mine in
the United Sta.es or the world.
CATTLE are beginning to come East from
the ranges. AS early az Jaly a lot from
Nebraska reached Chicago, and sold from
- Oh to IS u per'hundred pounds.
ALABAMA's strongest man, Mr.. j. H. Clark,
of Shirley. Covington county, can take $50
pouhd anvil, and, 10y placing his thumb in the
mason hole. throw it on like marble.
MISSIONARIES IN the equatorial lake re-
glon OF Africa have discovered that a kind
OF beer made Of bananas is a prOphylactic
against malaria ievers, and that this drink is
indispensable TO their health.
VELooIPEDEs of every kind have been ex-
PEELED from the streets of Berlin by an ordi-
nance Of Che police the legality of which has
been upheld by the Prussian Court of Common
Pleas to which some owners OF bicycles and
tricycies appealed.
CHICAGO has an ice-cream factory. The
recipe Calls for gallons of skim milk, costing
~ cents; ounces of oleomargerine oil, Is
ounces OF corn starch and - ounce of gela-
tine. Bou ia a copper vacuum pan. The
suety liayor Is best concealed by the use of va
nilla havoring.
THE practice OF numbering houses on the
streets Of our cities began in Philadelphia
where it was introduced by the Marshal who
took the second United States census in that
CITY. IL was in that census that all the inhab-
itants Of the country were mentioned by
name.
DR. O. G. ABBOTT, the naturalist, recently
found upon his farm at Trenton, N. j., a box
tortoise, upon the under shell Of which was
cut his grandfather's name, J. Abbott, with
the date 1921. The appearance of the tortoise
aern md I h.gra 10 IN
doubt the fact that the name was really en-
grayed upon it 81 years ago.
THERE are $50 butter and cream factories in
Iowa, 497 in Illinois, 100 In Wisconsin, 100 in
Kansas, 100 in Minnesota, 81 in Missouri, 80
in Indiana, and 40 in Nebraska total Of l.
ISS IN eight States. The vaae of the diary
products OF Iowa alone in 1884 was $50. 00o ono
and that OF the United States was $500, 100000
The value of the mich COWS of the United
states IL put at $IO,OOO.O00 in excess Of the en-
tire capital stock Of all the national banks
and trust companies of the country.
THE little cluster of islands in the Pacific
Just off the Patagonian coast, furnish forage
for 100000 sheep. There are no bushes or
trees of any kind on the islands, and the en-
tire surface is covered with u bed of peat
which would supply the world. Over the peat
Is a thick growth Of short, but very nutritious,
grass, on which the sheep thrive wonderfully.
Nearly every day there is rain, which seems
unable to force its way down the hills. and
the SUBMITS are az wet always as the valleys
A BELGIAN MANUFACTURER named Rev,
who employs 5000 people, retains per cent.
Of their wages and agrees TO provide a physi-
clan when they are taken sick. While unable
20 work from illness, the employee gets half
pay. and meat and wine, il necessary. If
workman dies his widow gets a pension of
third of his wages if he had been in the
works for ten years. and onehalf the wages
II over ten years. A pension for life is given
fifteen in
his employ.
A MONTHLY journal of "Oriental Litera-
ture, Arts and Sciences, Folklore. etc, is pub
lished at Handy, in Ceylon. Its contributors
are for the most part Singalese, and its arti-
cles frequently those of pathological nature.
The last mum ers have articles ''Ou the terms
OF relationship in Slngalese and Tamil" the
influence of the Portuguese and Dutch on
these two languages. contributions to a de
scrlptiye catalogue of Sanskrlt, Pail and Flu
WORKS eXtant in Ceylon, and the progress OF
Singalese in literature, art and the sciences.
THE serious increase of cholera in Spain
keeps people everywhere looking to their san
itary safeguards. All the foreign papers are
favored in a more or less CHASTITY degree with
the grim subject, but there occasionally ap-
pears reference worthy of note. For exam
pie, French missionary in China c. aims to
have discovered an almost infalible remedy.
The remedy is absnthe, and the person who
parades the panaceR relates that in a case
where IS men were seized with the sickness.
as many as 70 were saved b. the free use of
the hgueur.
NJ. sIHoNIN informed the Geographical So
cety of Paris the other evening that the
CherOkees and Greek alone of the American
Indians possessed the art of writing. The
former. he said, write with seventy seven
phonetic characters. invented by one of their
tribe in 1890. The Greeks have nineteen char
acters. The notorious Sitting Bull had writ
ten his biography in pictorial writing, each
figure roughly traced in ink. His Caesars
Commentaries" were written on the back of
a book which belonged to the commissarat of
the Third United States infantry. and con-
tanned recital of his adventures between
1864 and 1870.
"WHAT we want at this camp meeting"
said Sam Jones the other day, sis gospel OF
pOwer-mark the expression. How will you
geti it? You know, when God wants to launch
out His laws into force to do work for Himself
He don't count noses and zee how many noses
He has got. He goes by weight. He puts up
scales and weighs US. Do you undeTstandY
There Is many great 200-pound Methodist
or Baptist around this country, and you put
him on Gods scale and he don't weigh an
ounce. He has great big fat body. but il
you could pull out his soul and show it, then
He would say: What is that starved, shrly-
eled, shrunken thing you have got there9
Why, IL hasn't had square meal in ten
years.
A SMART, quick girl can make about $500
cigarettes per day. The pay is from 70 to 80
cente per 1000, according to the grade of Gig
arctic made. There are verysfew girls who
can make more than 2.O0o per day. When a
girl goes to her work in the morning she re-
ceIves a small bundle of papers and two and
three fourth pounds of tobacco, from which
she must make 600 cigarettes. A small
piece OF extra heavy paper, about twice The
Size of cigarette paper, Is used in rolling n
cigarette. One edge is pasted fast to a d zee
OF marble or smooth fat stone about one foot
square that is on a table. A stick about
foot in length and about rs thick as a match
is used 70 paste with. The paste is made OF
pure starch and water. The cigarette paper
is laid on the heavy paper, and a small du4n-
tity OF tobacco is put on It. Then the edge OF
the heavy paper IL turned over, and, by slid-
ing the Hat Of the hand over IL, the cigarette
is rolled.
THE Britieh Consul General at Havre states
In an Interesting report ON the beetroot sugar
industry that the French, who we're the 6rst
20 show the value of root cultivation, have
now been placed entirely in the background
by the more skilltul modes Of culture and !
manufacture Of their German competitors,
He gives the following comparative statistics: |
Owing 70 the superior saceharine richness OF |
the roots 30 tons Ia Germany will produce a |
ton OF sugar, while II tons are required in |
France. Cost OF production, rent Of land in |
France, per heotare, l25 francs; in Germany,
1877 francs, Cost Of cultivation Ia Fence So |
francs; ia Germany, 4sl francs. Price paid |
by manufacturers 60 farmers for roots In |
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