Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1t if the men had not come to the dogs rescue.
Two children of Farmer Agnew, of Tara
| canada, boy of ten and girl Of four, While
| PLAYING in the barn, found gun which their
father Kept loaded for rats. ''Stan' of there
! piece" said the boy, ".n' let me see if can't
| shoot you" The little girl obeyed cheerfully.
and the young Canuck filled her face and
shoulder with line shot.
1T Is admitted that not more than twenty
| five per cent. of the maple sugar and syrup
sold by confectioners and grocers is made
| from the sap of the maple tree; and that the
| other three-fourths is made from muscovado,
| glucose, grape sugar, mOlasses, birch extract
| ana chemicals. A company IN Kansas City,
| with remarkable candor and honesty, adver-
! Uses substitute known as "mapeline." made
! from raw sugar and the essential oil of hlck-
| DRY bark,
THE hero Of NJ. VIlliers de PIsle- Adams
new novel, Live Future" is Mr.. Edison,
| who from gratitude for Lord Ewald, who
! saved his life, promises to furnish him within
| twenty-one days with wife in every respect
| the counterpart of beautiful artist, Miss
| Alicia Clary, but infinitely more spirited and
| undetermined than the original. With the
| dld OF electricity, chemistry. and mechanics,
| Edison succeeds in his undertaking. NJ. Viii
| llers de HIsle- a dam states in his preface that
| II has been his endeavOr to create in Lord
| EWald modern Faust.
UNDER the slow but continuous action on
| the sulphurous acid thrown in the air of cities
| by the combustion of coal and the influence
| of the frequent changes in the degree of at
n ospherlc humidity. IL Is found that he per-
| oxide OF red lead used in cOloring certain pla-
| cards, is destroyed and stipulated. st the
| same time the protoxde of le ad thus liberated
Is transformed into an insolubl sulpnite, and
| TINS salt, being easily analysed, it is believed
| that certain means is thus obtained for de-
| termlning the condition of the atmc sphere in
! large cities and It's relations to the public
| health.
| WILLIAM r. DABB, who has the stamp
! agency at the Commercial Hotel, Chicago,
was arrested under warrant charging him
| with violating the postal laws in selling news
paper wrappers at more than was charged for
them IN like quantities by the government.
! b. Wltherspoon and H. NJ. Soper were the in
| formers, the former alleging that he had paid 50
| per hundred for newspaper wrappers when
| he should only have paid 81 10. The act of
June II, 1873, sec, l, paragraph 3, covers the
! Gaze, and the penalty for charging more than
| the government permits Is not under 800 or
| over $500, and not exceeding one years i'm
| prlsonment. Dabb was held to the grand jury.
A LADY living in Danbury, Conn, left a
| bowl OF milk standing on the pantry shelf
| Out came mouse and spied cool drink of
| the delicious beverage. Unfortunately for the
| little feaster it fell into the flowing bowl.
| Now, TO die from the flowing bowl the mouse
| felt would be a great disgrace. But the ques-
! ton was to sink or SWIM. The mouse imme-
| diately put on its thinking cap and began to
| cnurn the milk by swimming back and forth.
| In couple of minutes the butter came, and
| then the smart mouse stood upon it and
| jumped out upon the shelf, but with uuanti-
ties or the butter sticking to its paws, for she
tracked it all about the clean pantry. This
| mouse story of churnlng butter, which is a
| true one, Is great witness in favor of the
| honesty of the milkmen. for had it been as
| poor in quality as sOmezmilk the mouse would
| have drowned.
Mr.. KEYsER. the sculptor, has been to An
napolis with Mr.. Adee, of the State Depart.
| ment, and Gov. Lloyd, of Maryland, and they
| have picked out a place where the DeKalb
statue is to stand. Mr.. Kevser began his De-
| kalb In Rome rather more than two years
| ago. He had applied himself steadily to it
| for twclve-month, and 1t needed only few
| nnlshlng touches to be ready for the casters
when, one sad day. the supports that held it
| gave way, and down it came numbering upon
| the 1oOr, a shapeless mass of clay! Imagine
| the sensations of the artist as this mlshap be-
| fell before his very eyes. For three dreary
months Keyser wandered about the streets Of
| Rome, he says, like a crazy man. All at once
his skill came back. Day after day, from
| dawn till sunset, he cOaXed and compelled his
| clay, until in the end a second Dekalb stood
complete before him; and this, he saws, is
| such an Improvement upon the first one that
| he has come to be glad that the accident &C.
| Cured.
A MADRID paper narrates a series of fatali-
| ties to which three members out of a family
OF four fell victims in that city. The family
We're flies, brother and three sisters. They
were IN search OF food. The eldest sister
| ahghted upon sausage and ate heart
| lily. The second satisfied her hunger on some
| flour. The third drank with avidiry from
| pitcher of milk. Then they essayed to flv,
! but in few moments all three fell dead The
sausage had been given its fine red color by
| means OF poisonous analIne dye. The -four
| contained a fatal percentage of plaster of
| paris. The milk mad in it 50 much chalk that
no well regulated fly could drink it and live.
| The unhappy brother, seeing himself sur
rounded by the corpses of his dear sisters, in
| his grief determined upon suicide. He
! launched himself upon a gray sheet of paper
bearing the Inscription, Fly paper-sure to
! XIII" and sucked its deadly poison greedly
but in vain. The more he took OF it the bet
ter he felt. He was doomed to live.
! A CORRESPONDENT has inspected the in
terror of the late King Ludwigs palace at
| Chlemsee, where no one was allowed to pene-
trate during the lifetime of the King. The
castle is built of granite and other stone, and
| stands on a broad eminence which stones
| down on both sides to the lake. The situation
| 10 peculiarly charming. In the interior there
| Is not single room that resembles any other
| in the palace. One of the floors is of rose
wood. inlaid with woods of darker colors in
| curious designs. The tables are of malachite
| lapis lazuli. and porcelain. The hall of mir
| rOrs is 2f0 Ravarian feet long. 1t takes $500
candles to light it. The floor Of this hall is
| llk II TOStNOOu, lulhlu Win laurel
wreaths and French lilies. The Hing used to
| pace the mirrOred hall and the other rooms of
| this superb palace in the light of 900 candles.
| and would spend the entire night in this soil
! tary walk. The smoking room OF the palace
| Is upholstered In white satin, with white
satin sofa In which are worked sylvan scenes.
! The floor is of violet wood, which emits deli
| cate perfume.
| PROF. CEREBoTANI, OF Verona, has con-
! trived an instrument for ascertaining the dis
! tances Of accessible and inaccessible point,
! from the observer and from each other: in
other words, an easy method OF range finding.
! The apparatus consists manly of a pair OF
! telescopes mounted on a stand ana fixed on
! tripod for use. The telescopes are bot brongbt
! TO bear on the object, and a reading ia then
! taken from graduated scale on the instru
| ment, which, compared with set of nrinted
| tables gives the distance. Distances can he
| measured between far-oT objects and nv
| means Of sheet of paper fixed on a drawing
| board rough plan OF the country under
| measurement may he sketCEed, In the same
WAY the distance of shiUs at sea or of movinV
! objects on land, can be determined Tins he
| contrlvHnce appears TO be well adapted not
only for land surveying, but particularly 40
for military purposes. In fact IL is stated To
have been already adopted in The latter con-
ntctlon BY the German government and will
probably DE by that of England
"MR. HOME, the spirit medium, whom 7
often met in the different phases of his varied
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