Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| Uruguay, and 5000 in Mexico.
NEW LONDON OYSTER DEALER has in
vented a dredge with which starfish, the
| greatest enemies of the oyster. can be taken
| from bed without disturbing the oysters.
WHEN an Elkhart, Ind, farmer was un-
| loading load Of hay which he had driven to
market and sold, he found a very lively rattle
snake in the hay, and in the serpent he found
| two meadow moles still alive ana kicking
A HORSE owned in Springfield, H., choked
while eating corn. Its owner thrust whip
stock down the norse's throat to remove the
| obstruction, and the horse bit the stock in
| two, leaving foot or more of it in his throat.
| A horse doctor came and cleared out the much
| obstructed channel.
THE people in the vicinity of Bainbridge, N.
Y, are in a turmoil of excitement. For some
time peculiar hollow, reverberating sound
| has been heard in the earth on the north side
OF a Mill, and it is generally believed That an
old cave once frequented by indiana, but which
the white men have been unable to discover,
exists there; The owners OF the land nave
rlous sounds, and are sinking hole.
L. D. GIRARD, a well-informed cattleman.
| has just returned to Fort Worth, Tex, after
an extended tour through the Panhandle, He
says the report of dying cattle sent out to
| Eastern papers was jobbing scheme, and
| was done partly to depress the securities OF
| TIE IeAdb ana racine ana partly TO Dull CdbJlo
| In the East. The late rains have started grass
! growing in the worst sections of the range,
| and it is probable that enough will be grown
to carry cattle through the winter.
| AN exchange says: A paragraph is going
! the rounds of the press saying that Japan has
population of 81, 100000, but has less than TO-
| 600 paupers. We first saw this paragraph in
| the New York Tribune, paper which has
| much to say about the impractical bility OF the
| prohibitionists of this country. yet any in
telligent Japanese would probably tell the
| Tribune that this scarcity of paupers in his
| land is unquestionaby due very largely TO the
strictly enforced prohibition laws of Japan.
WILLIAM ADAMS, boy Of II, who was sent
to the Detroit House of Correction from Idaho
! in 1888, having been sentenced to prison for
| life for mail robbery, has just had his sentence
committed to imprisonment to seven years
| from the date of his first commitment. The
| boy, who has been a model convict, broke
| down completely when told the good news.
| 81 won't notice the time Ive got to serve he
| said. Il suppose deserve good big punish
| ment for being caught in such bad company"
THE Standard Oil Company, which was
started in 1859 on almost nothing, and which
has accumulated property of $lO0,O00,o00 in
| fifteen years. has extended its influence over
| every section of the country. When oil wells
| were drilled in Los Angeles the Standard Oil
| Company opened war upon the local COM
! pany, and it induced the railroad company
| to refuse rates to its little rival Then the
| local company built pipe line to the sea, and
now snaps its fingers at the big monopoly,
| and It's railroad creature.
Ii. G. HoTCHKIss, of Lyons, N, Y,
. known as the Peppermint King, says that
seven eighths Of the peppermint of the world
is raised in Wayne county. The average
crop is about 100000 pounds. The average
| price paid for crude oil Is from So rs to 81
| pound. To give an idea of the money that is
! in peppermint, Mr.. Hotchkiss said that a
| farmer last year brought to the refinery an or
| binary sleigh load which. when measured,
! proved to be worth 81 900. or course, this was
in the crude oil, which the farmers distill them
| selves.
"THE Sioux Indians marry young" says an
| ex-agent, DR.. McGillicuddy. Frequently a
girls sold before she is IA years of age. II an
Indian marries an older sister, that entities
HIM to all the rest of the girls in that family
| as they grow W. He takes all the sisters also
They are practically Mormons. The recent
| census shows reduction in the population.
| That VIII cut down the allowance OF ratons
per capita. Every man, woman and child
| gets from the government three pounds, gross,
| OF beef-on the hoof mean-one-half pound
of -four. coffee, sugar, bacon, rice, hominy and
| other provisions"
AUSTRALIA is again in the field with a
| worlds fair, which she mas appointed for
next June at Adelaide. 1t might have been
| supposed that with her double dose of inter
national exhibitions less than seven years ago,
| when she held one aG Sydney in 1879, and
| another at Melbourne in 1880, she would have
| had for the persent a surfet of them. But
| these shows have come to be almost exciu-
| slvely trade affairs, and ustralia finds that
business purposes will be served by holding a
| far in 1887. Doubtless American manufac-
lures Will be well represented, as before, in
the antipodal bazaar.
CARBON resulting from the imperfect COM
bustlon of natural gas has been heretofore
used to cons 9rable extent for lampblack
and ivory black, printers ink and paints. 1t
| is now proposed to use 1T to make carbons for
electric lights. The earthly salts in thos
| made from woody fibre interfere with the
| steadlness OF the light, and diminished the
life OF the carbon. A perfectly pure artitll
| can be produced from natural gas, and a COM
pany has been formed to engage in the bust
| ness. The durability of these carbons is as
thirteen to eight and the light produced is OF
increased brilliancy.
ARGUMENT was heard Tuesday by Judge
Butler, in the United States Circuit Court at
Philadelphia, in the suit brought by Webster
K Co., of New York, to restrain John Wanna
| maker from selling Gen. Grants "Memoirs,
at retail. At the conclusion of the argument
the court said that the whole question hinged
| on the law relating to the contract made be-
tween the publishers and their agent. II the
| contract was such as to make the agent sim
ply an agent, then the Injunction shoulu issue
but II the contract was construed so as TO
| make the agent purchaser of the books from
| the publishers. then he had the right to dis
pose OF them in any way he chose. The Judge
| reserved his decision.
| In Almonte, Can ada, druggists are allowed
to sell but one gallon of whisky at a time
Knowing this fact, thirsty man went to n
| drug store with two-gallon jug and asked To
have it filed. The druggist said that he
| couldn't sell but q gallon. The man sold he
! must have two gallons, and If the druggist
woud put one gallon in the jug, he'd try ana
| get the other at some other store. This was
| done. soon the man returned ana said the
other druggist wouldn't sell the other gallon
The man seemed sad. One gallon was no use
| to him; would The druggist kindly take If
| back and let him have the money? The drug
gst would, and did. But he didn't take back
| the whisky after all. For the man had NOT
| been to another store, but to a convenient
| place, where he took out a big half OF the
| gallon OF whisky and replaced it with water
! lie then returned the whisky and water to
the obliging druggist.
APRoPos OF recent accident to DR.. Won
Gudden, Munich paper recalls the unhappy
fate OF one OF his sons. A few years ago tins
| young man, a promising art student visited a
| masked bail in peculiarly dangerous cos
| tune. with the avowed purpose OF showing
| that another man, who not long previously
had lost his life by wearing such a costume
ana coming near candle, owed HIS mlsfor-
tune solely TO his ignorance as to the manage
ment OF hames. Gudden boldly played with
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