Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| A STRAWBERRY GROWER in Lanarkshire
| Scotland, has cleared f., 400 profit this season
out Of the crops of ground for which he pays a
rental of Geo year. Last season the profit
was just c 1000.
A NEW MOTOR for running light machinery
has been discovered in Germany. Petroleum
in its fluid state is used, and the cost is put at
about &c. per horse power an hour, and nc.
| per honr for lubrc6tlng.
AN old stage driver by the name of Howard
Turner was killed few days ago near Jack
sonville. Ore, by stone thrown from a blast
at the railroad front. He was at least quar-
ter OF a mile distant from the blast.
SOLOMON BERNSTEIN, boy IA years old,
who landed at Castle Garden Monday. from
the steamship Rugia, has three hands and
only one perfect leg. The other terminates
at the knee in an eight-6ngered hand.
In Paris Americans buy gloves, silk goods
and jewelry. They can get gloves for about,
half what they cost in America, and New
Y ork customs officer will generally allow
well-dresSed man TO pass by with twenty four
| pairs.
THERE has just been congress of Wears at
Wakefield, Goldsm this village. The Wears
declined an offer of theatrical money for
church purposes. Some i'll England say
amen" TO 1t, and Others hissingly say, "Phari-
sees, ye Phariseesn'
SCHOLARSHIPS Y, teaching at Colesville,
\. Y, was paid So week. She went to live
at the house of the trustee who had fixed the
rate of pay, and she was somewhat startled
| to learn that he had settled upon 81 a week as
| the cost OF her board.
A BEE HUNTER of Vermontvile, Mich, dis
| covered a bee tree in which the honey was in
a limb inches in diameter and 60 feet from
| the ground. The owner of the tree would
not permit him to cut down the tree. so the
| hunter cut OF the limb by firing 20 bullets
| into it.
| PATERSON JUSTICE, after repeating the
| formula OF an oath to young woman, ended
| as usual by saying: kiss the book" Il will
not, was the unexpected reply. "The last
| witness that was sworn was chewing tobacco
| and one before him had fever blisters on his
hps." She was permitted to affirm.
THERE is hint for smugglers in the trick
played by some Prussians, who wrapped 81, 900
| worth of lace around strong ten months
| helfer, and tied a false skin over the whole SO
| successfully as to defy detection. They passed
the helfer very easily at the customs office, the
| excise commissioners admlring her size and
beauty, ana some of them Offering her feed.
A NOVEL WAY of feassuring a patient was
lately resorted to by dentist in Mexico. A
patient was to have tooth extracted, but the
| preparations frightened him that he de-
clned to submit to the operation. To allay
| his fears the dentist made his Office boy open
his mouth, and In a twinklug took out one of
his teeth. The little fellow threw up his sit
| uatlon at once.
A TEA SHIP that recently arrived at Port
land, Ore. had on board very peculiar bird.
| called the japanese tumbler. 1t has habit
of jumping from lis perch, turning a somer-
| sault and coming down on the perch all stand
ing, and this trick it will perform dozens of
times in succession, till beholders deem the
| bird demented. 1t is considerably larger chan
! rather nlnmapp.
not much in the musical line.
THE announcement comes from Bombay
that the branch of the Indus Valley railroad,
to run from the plains OF Upper Sind to Sibi,
on the frontier of Beluchistan, which was be-
gun in 1879, is complete as far as Quetta, leav-
| ing hundred miles more to be built. This
Work mas been hindered partly by the vacll
| lating policy of the government. and also by
the difficulties met over the abrupt mountain
| chains and through the tortuous gorges.
THE Chicago Herald says that the SIX,
which Edwin Booth uses in Hamlet was willie /
to the tragedian's father by one Fontaine, a
Kentucky horse thief, whom the eccentric
elder actor once knew, and between whom
and Booths father a curious intimacy ex-
| listed. The elder Booth never used the
skull, as he left Louisville before Fontaine
died, but 1t was given to the present star by
Or. Morris, OF that city, into whose hands 1t
came.
NEXT year England is going to have some
fun. The Queen will celebrate the lftieth
anniversary of her ascension to the throne
| but 'tisn't that; the Americans are to hold an
exposition in London, but 'tisn't that. The
great event OF the year in Great Britain is 10
he the Introduction of American popcorn and
the Yankee corn bail. Five thousand bushels
of corn goes over to the exposition, and man
who knows how to hop it is going along
with 1t.
A DISPUTE has arisen as to the Rel yht of the
iron tower which is to be the feature of the
Paris Exposition of 1899. II was originally
proposed to run it up 800 feet, but it is on
jected that it would dwarf every other struc-
ture in Paris. A test is to be made by send
ing up captive balloon to the proposed
height and suspendlng therefrom four cable
which Will represent the four edges of the
tower, flags being affixed to mark the losi =
tions of the several stories.
FARMERS in Clarendon, n. B., set a trap
for bear that had been slaughterIng their
young stock. A fence was built around the ira o
so that when the bear got over he must put his
foot in 1T. Bruin was as smart as any fox. He
didn't get over the fence, but dug under it,
overturned the trap ana got the bast, The
farmers tried again, this time setting a second
trap in the hole that the bear mad dug. This
was found. raging, but firmly held by the
jaws OF the trap that he had not seen.
LAwYEE of Buffalo has an idea. Startling.
but true. He used to go to school. And he is
acquainted with children who 20 to school
now. ''Now, instead of filing school reading
books with trashy poetry and everdone moral
tales" says our lawyer, why not give in
them an elementary digest of the law? The
children would rs soon read law, while learn
ing to read, as anything else, and the knowl-
edge thus unconsclously imbibed Will be of
service to them in later years when thew are
sued by tailor or young man goes back on
them"
A CLERK in a certain law Office of Buffalo
was Mortified, on going into the Office the other
morning, to find several eyes lying about
having all the appearance of having been re-
Gently gouged out. 1t was evident to him
that his superiors had been having a regular
Oshkosh sort OF discussion the night before.
His astonshment was allayed. however when
he learned that the Society of atural Sci
ences had held a meeting in the office the pre- =
vious evening, and had been favored with a
talk upon eyes by DR.. Lucien Howe, Illus
trated by some specimens of pigs eyes, which
had been left on the scene of action.
NINE. ADAM, in her monograph of Ges.
skobeleG, says that the General had pre-
sentiment that ne would be treacherousy
murdered, and she speaks Of strong evderce
which has been furnished her to show thst il
was fulfilled. He was garotted. One dsy he
said to her, as they were bantering shout
death and danger: "But do you know that |
often think of death?" "And | too" replied
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