Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ACCORDING to the latest official statements
there are in Russia not less than Il, 900 square
miles Of oil -producing land. ut OF this vast
territory the held at Baku of 315 square miles
Is the only one which Is worked.
A SYSTEM was recently put in operation in
Newark, n. j., by which in stormy weather
the school principals are ordered by taps on
the town bell 70 hold only one session. One
prime pal has paid no attention to the signal,
and comp amt has been made to the chairman
OF the committee on teachers of the board of
education.
CAREFUL EXPERIMENT has disclosed the fact
that single square foot of leaf surface in the
case Of soft, thin-leafed plants will, during
FAIR weather. eXhale aqueous vapOr at the
rate of IA ounces daily. At night the rate is
only about one dfth as rapid as during the
day, and during rainy weather there is abso-
lutelY no evaporation.
THE COMBINED CAPITAL of the firm Of the
RoEhschilds is now placed, by persons who pre-
tend to know, at the sum OF ST. 600 000, 900, one
hall of IL gained within the last IS wears, and
the whole OF 1t in scarcely more than CEN
tury. The founder OF the family ana it's for
tunes, Meyer Anselm, was poor clerk In 3
hanover banking house.
THE MAGNITUDE of the Escurial. the great
Spanish palace, may be inferred from the
computation of Francisco de los Santos that it
would take four days to go through all the
rooms and apartments, the length Of the way
be ng reckoned at p spanish eagu es, which
Is about l29 English miles. There are 1900
doors and ll,0UO windows in the edince.
The Emperor of Germany, who makes
unctUous speeches declaring that religion is
all IN all TO M, deems it consistent Herewith
to tear from heir homes in winter women on
the eve of childbirth. and paraiYtic oid men,
and pack them over the frontier for no other
cause than that they W re born Poles. He is
10 fort ha laas &C H.
CoP1oUs RAINS IN California give promise
of a very pros erous year for the farmers,
while they have impaired increased activity
70 mining operations throughout the state.
Everything is suspicious for prosperous sea
son the com ng winter, and better feeling
pervades all classes of business. decided
Doom in trade and industry is looRed for.
AT RECENT PUBLIC DINNER Lord Fife not
only condemned entail, but advocated peas
ant proprletorship, and expressed his will ng-
ness TO sell HE farms to any of his tenanIry
who were able to buy and successfully farm
them. Lord Fife is one of the wealfhiest men
in Scotland. owning 250,000 acres, and has a
large interest in London banking house.
A YOUNG WOMAN arrested for theft at New
port, ky., was found dressed In mems clothes.
She said she had discarded female garments
several years ago. and afterward worked in
several ferenJ places, including the position
~ DTdkeudn on a railroad Train ann snONell-
ing art, worked IL several fOundrles In GIN
Innati, and for several months was aborer
at the gas works in Cine nnatl She sa 5
that at 10 place where she was employed was
she ever su pected of being a woman. 'She
ST il has traces of beauty, but her rough eX-
perience has told on her complexion"
TESTS made of the New York elevated rail-
road structure, of the Brooklyn bridge cables,
and iron store fronts -how that they are all
magnetized. The induced magnetism from
the earth IS supp sed to have been flxe1 by
the jarring to VIII CHI these structures have
been subjected while under magnetic infiu-
enre. The bottom parts Of all pie es of iron
thus magnetiZed show north polarity. and the
cables OF the bridge are said TO be magnetized
IN the direction Of their diameter. the upper
surface of The cables, throughout their length,
beng Of south polarity, and the lower surface
north.
COsMOPHoBIA, or ''dread of the world pro-
cess" has been rescued from its metaphysi-
cal excluslveness. and is to be studied as a
nervous disease. A patient suffering from it
is described nv DR.. Vance in the Ned cal Re-
ojelo as believing that 1.-THE power of the world
is a power Of evil. and existence a frenzled
carnival" He is troubled with ''irritability
uf that part of the psychical mechanism con-
cerned IN the elaboration of Intellectuo- emo
tional ideas" and is generally out of joint
WI h the world, temper mental predlsposi
ton being prime factor in the trouble.
THOMAS STEVENS, the young American who
lie jOurneying around the globe on bicycle,
writes from Teheran that he had the dislinc-
ton Of an audience with the shah of Persia,
who was profoundly interested in the novel
steed. The shah is hu y Orist. for. after see
ng the wbeeiman's art illustrated in various
ways, he requested Stevens to make squirt
down long, smooth foorp 9TH. 1.-THE garden"
writes the adventurous American. SIS trav-
ersed by network OF lrrlgatng bitches; but
his Majesty solemnly assures me that there is
40 hing of the sind across the path he wishas
70 see me ride down as fast as possible. Two
nd ed yards from the spot where this as
surance Ia given sees me executing a lghtn-
lng-like dismount, while going at a twelve
m le pace, 10 avoid running into the very
thug had just been told didn't exist" When
the shah was assured that the cycler had
jeopardized his limbs, if not his NECK his Ma
jesty was pat into excellent humor and
aughed heartily.
Mr.. BLAcKLEDGE, of Newark, n. j., hsa
been visiting Miss Mildred Porter, of Eliza
beth, n. j., while she was visiting friends in
Haverstraw. On Tuesday Mr.. Blackledge
and Mlss Porter climbed to the top of High
Tor. mountain about 700 feet high. to the
westward Of Haverstraw. On the way down
Mr.. Black dye lost his footing and rolled over
the edge OF cliff 80 feet high. The heroic
glrl, instead of fainting, carefully craw ed to
the ed2e OF the cliff aud peaked over She
-aw her escort caught on a jutting rock about
% feet down, supporting himself by the al of
sma tree and cleft in the rock. He was
pale but unhurt and urged her To 90 for HELM
at once. TnsLead of doing so he improvised
rope from "a wrap and flannel skirt tied
he knots firmly, held one end, lowered the
other, and MIR. Blackledge came ND hand over
hhnd The excitement and exhaustion de-
manded few minutes rest for both. but thew
Don resumed their journey to the village
without further incident.
CkRTIFIc ACES of healing by faith cure are
rolling in. Springfield man writes that for
years up to this winter he has been unable
TO put on an Overcoat. This winter he has no
trouble IN putting one on. Inquiry Of a ne gh-
nor, develops the fact that the man in aues-
tlon, has not o" ned an Overcoat for th at length
OF time, aud that h. (the nelghbor missed An
overcoat from the clothes-ine TIN. fall, II hav-
ing been hung out To air. There NAV be no
connection between the two events, but the
eighbor insists that the same man who has
he taith mas his overcoat. A & ,lesbur0
woman brought faith TO bear on her drunken
husband. He has since quit drinking and
probably, VIII for awhile, If he receivers from
ne de erium iremen-, A Canton fFult, N
county widow lost her COW. She I, ok refuge in
iaith and prayer, and the same night a strange
COW Jumptd into her garden and ate M an
her turip crop. Mac0mb Dondugb
county man has been crippled Ia his back Tor
years. lie bought load Of wood the other
DAY, and, being unable 10 work IL mn info
stove lengths. invoked the aid OF faith The
next morning his wood Was q gone. one Of
me quincy DE ocratic editors grew heartilv
,Ired o abusing ana being abused by the rival
Democratic sheet. With strong faith he
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