Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

don was that of the second week in septem-
Der, when 1t was but 1915 per GOO of popula-
tion.
THE police jury at Sabine parish. La., at
recent session, limited the amount of whisky
TO be prescribed by physicians to patients to
four ounces.
MAJ. POWELL of the Geological Survey has
discovered in New Mexico, near California
mountain, what he pronounces to be the old
est human habltatlons upon tho American
continent.
A TOMB has been discovered at Tanagra.
with its walls covered with encaustic paint
ings Of great technical SKILL supposed to b. as
early as the third century b. c.. They rep
resent domestic utensils. q loom, horse, q
landscape with houses, etc.
THE Societie Franchise des Amis de Rabe-
lais, which was founded at Tours some months
ago, intends to hold congress for the discus
sion OF questions relating to the life and works
OF the great humOrfst. Among the chief
objects contemplated by the society is the
preparation OF complete edition OF the
works Of Rabelais.
The ENORMOUS EXTENT to which not only
food and drink, but almost everything IN use
is being systematically adulterateda at present,
Is brought TO pnbllc noticel In startling man
ner by The publication in Germany of an I'll
lustrated Lexicon of Adulterants." The first
issue does not exhaust the letter b, although
II consists OF 100 pages.
a TWELVE YEAR old Dakota girl, taken uD
into the air by cyclone, carried out of sight,
and brought easily down in q field quarter
OF mile away, describes her sensation while
In transit as that Of being rapidly and con-
stantly pricked by thousands of needles.
Since her experience she has been affected
similar to person with st. Vltus' dance.
HUGE, sPINY SPIDER CRABS over three feet
across have been taken in 1000 to l,2SO faith
oms, and another very large crab occurs In
! great abundance in 800 to 1000 fathOms, while
| IN 1914 faJhOms large and strong craO-like
creatures are taken. MANY curious shrllnps'
| some OF them OF large size ana brightly color
| ed, and often with perfect eyes, occur in most
OF the deepest dredging.
MRS. ELLEN Z. PECK, the famous confidence
woman. has at last been sent TO the peniten-
| tiary by Brooklyn court for four years and
half. For many years she has eluded the
| law, while boldly operating under her own
name IN the two big cities. Her most famous
exploit was obtaining some $780, GOO from Bah
| bltt, the great soap manufacturer to enable
! her to catch the bOOkkeeper who had robbed
| him of about ten times that sum.
! Two COUSINS in the wealthy Stevens family
| of New York wish to marry, and there is no
! bindrance, except their fear that the common
| idea regarding Wedlock between blood reIa-
tlves is sound. They went for advice to q
| noted physician, who has for months been en-
| gagged IN as thorough an investigation of the
| subject as can be made. He derives the con-
/ cluslon that cOnsangulneOus marriages are
not dangerous once, but that the family
/ mustn't do SO again.
A SOCIETY has recently been started in Lon
don for the suppression of mendicancy. 1t
has already succeeded in capturing 100000
/ begging letters written by professional beg
! gars. and g., 900 of the scamps have been run
down by the police. One of these fellows had
| been making quite large income by carrying
around with him tongue in a bottle of alcO-
! hOl, which a label on the bottle stated to be
! his own tongue lost by surgical operation.
An examination showed it to be a sleeps
| tongue.
IN THE register of deaths of the parish OF
San Lorenzo Seville, there is an entry under
date of Nov. l. 1888, OF the burial in the crypt
of the church of Don Juan Manuel Bostaman-
te CalderOn, vicar and chaplain of the
| church, who died at the age of l30 years. He
| was married five times, and had 81 children
| before he became priest. He was noted for
! his pety and bene violence, and at the time of
his death was engaged in writing a religious
work. he was 80 years old when he was or
dained priest
! IT is SAID that the first restrictive liquor
| law ever passed in this country was enacted
in little town in Rhode Island. and read as
| follows: Every saloon keeper who sells
more than one gallon of liquor to a minor
shall be fined 81 and costs" The first tenn
perance pledge remembered in circulation in
!
swear to abstain from the use of intoxicating
| liquors on all occasions except on training
days. wedding days, banquets, and other
| great occasions"
AMosKEAG FALLS, on the Merrimac river,
was once the great fishing place of New
Hampshire. 1t was here PassacanaWay and
his tribe of Indians lived and had their noted
fishing place in primitive times, when the
| water teemed with salmon, shad and lamprey
| eels. Forty years ago high dam was built
at Lawrence and another lower down. These
| stopped all the fish, Of course, and the upper
! river became barren. Ten years ago fshWays
we're put in the DAMS but they did little
good. In 1881 a citizen carried 200 lamprey
| cells above the dams and put them into the
! Merrlmac. The result is that this year thou
| sands of cells have appeared, gone up the fish
| ways, and up the river $50 miles above Amos
| keag falls. showing that the river has been
successfully restocked.
ADEAcoN in a Westerntown recently died
His pastor soon paid visit of coincidence to
the bereaved widow. She asked the minister
| if he would like To see the funeral wreath.
He assented. she led him to the much priced
| mementO aud pointed out its peculiarites
J In broken voice she said: 1.-The red flowers
were made of his red iannels; the white ones
OF his white fannels. The stamens were
made OF the coffin shavings, and the pistils OF
! his beard. The berries and buds were made
| of the pills that were left when he died, and
! the feathery part was made of the feathers of
| the last Cnlchbu ubdT james killed before he
| was taken ILL.," All this she said without a
| pause for Breath, and ended her ghastly de-
scrption of the treasured wreath by implor-
| Ing the bewildered clergyman to lead in
| prayer.
THE New York Park Board recently re-
ceved letter from superintendent Parsons
calling attention TO the cultivation of pond
lilies, and suggested that the varieties might
| be cultivated in the basins of the park foun-
! talns. making an attractive feature. Not only
the red and yellow lilies, he said could be
| raised, but also the beautiful pink lily the
sacred Lotus of Egypt and the red lily Of In
| dia. The experiment has been made with
| success in Paramount Park. Philadelphia and
| by hortlculturiBt5 in different parts Of the
| country. He ASKED that eco be devoted TO
! the raising of these plants in the proper
| season. Are you in favor OF that, Mr.. Grim
| nhss" asked Commissioner Powers hlunty
| "Why, see nothing against IT." replisd Mr.
| Crmmins. "Well, | don't continued Mr.
| Powers. ut Will be q good cheap expert
| ment with malaria. You know they say
| where pond lilies grow there Is no malaria
! II the lilies thrive then the malaria goes and
they will be worth $1,000.
From time to time ono hears good many
droll stories anent the Boston architects, who
are for the most part men of marked individ-
uality, and couple Of these stories will bear
repeating. The first relates that Boston ar
/ chitect furnished designs for a building OF
/ which the importance may be estimated by
the fact that i cost something like million