Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! hunts TO warn the crowd against morse that
makes too free with his heels, by tying dan
ger signal, in the shape OF red ribbon, on his
/ tail.
AN EXPERIENCED VOCALIST has, 1t is said,
during 4 years, cured any number of cases
OF obstinate cough by prescribing the free
use OF raw oysters as diet. The remedy Is
| easily tried.
ASBESTOS cloth has been chosen as the
! Jacket" for the boiler of a new locomotive
| built for the Boston and Albany railway.
This will not char, as does wood, and will re-
| tain more heat.
DIR. CYRUS EDISON, of the New York Health
Department, has issued 300 orders requiring
saloon keepers to discontinue the use OF brass
i beer faucets and substitute those of iron,
! lined with porcelain.
THE most valuable postage stamp known
| to collectors is SAID to be one issued by the
Postmaster at Brattleboro, VT, in lS41, which
! was suppressed after few weeks. A speci-
men Is now worth 5000 or $500.
CALIFORNIA has been having remarkable
rainy season, though it will not compare with
! that OF 1919 In November over IL inches of
water fell, ha the total rainfall for the wet
season, which IN California lasts SIX months.
THERE is q steady growth in the use of the
trawl by our fishermen on the Newfoundland
| banks, and so greatly has this implement been
EN- arged and perfected, that some schooners
! now set as much as II miles Of traWl at one
/ time, with y or AGO. hooks.
TIE London correspondent of Science an
nounces that the old public schools in England
are relaxing in their strict adherence TO the
| classes. Hugely" he says. Is about to insti-
| tute a modern side. and changes in the same
direction are being gradually introduced at
! Elton, her great rival, Harrow having long
| hau something OF the kind"
A REMARKABLE EXPLOSION which occurred
frAFl aFNo hHr
dust. A sack of -four, falling down stairs
opened and scattered the contents in a cloud
| through the lower room, where "a burning as
! name SET IRE 10 the dust. causing an explosion
| Whlch lifted part of the roof of the mill and
broke almost all the windows.
A NOTABLE EXAMPLE of the utilization of
smoke Is afforded in the case of a charcoal fur
mace at Elk Rapids, Mich. In this furnace, as
stated, are manufactured 80 tons of charcoal
| per day; there are rs charcoal pits. con-
| stru ted Of brick, each lit being 81 ed with
loo cords of hard wood and then fired. The
| vast amount OF smoke thus produced Is made
to yield acetate of lime, alcohol, tar and gas
ACCORDING to the Antigua Observer. the ar
rangements for supplying turtle coup at the
forthcoming Colonial Exhibition at South
| Kenslngton, London, are now complete. An
tgua Is TO send 700 fish every month. and to
supply about dozen young Creole wait
resses.' There is to be salt fish aud pepper
pot stall furnished also with "foo-foo crab
backs, manatee, iguana and monkey"
ACCORDING to Edward Atkinson, railway
property now constitutes One-ffth of the &C
cumulated capital of the country, gives en-
plOyment to $4,000 people, and moves 100000
600 ton OF freight annually, one half of which
Is fuel and food, and so cheaply that the Mas
sachusetts mechanic can now procure the
transportation of years supply of food from
a distance of 1000 miles for the proceeds of
one days labor.
MANY CURIOUS COINS and other interesting
objects have been discovered in tearing down
some old buildings in Charter street, Boston.
Some of he coins date back to the thirteenth
and fourteenth centuries. A collection of sill
yer plate bearing a coat of arms was
found buried under the base Of one of the
chlmneys, 1t having probably been hidden
there by the owner during the occupation of
Boston by the British.
SIGNoR MARTINI, one of the largest owners
of house property in the city of Genoa, had
feeling OF gratitude to his tenants, who, by
their regularity of payment, had enabled hun
| tospend hlsdecllnlng years n comfort. When
his viii was opened IL was discovered that the
| old gentleman had instructed his executors
! that all his tenants. rich and poor. mlae and
female, were to reside rent free IN the houses
then occupied by them, if they desired to do
so, as long as they lived.
BETWEEN the dog killers and the vivisec-
tionlsts, mans canine friend has rather
hard time of it. It is pleasant to record,
therefore, that NJ. Dubois, in his experiments
/ as to the healthfulness Of vaselne as a sub
sttute for lard in pastry found that dogs
grew fat on it, and really eniOyed the ticle.
In the report to the SOcete de Biologie the
/ experimenter concluded that dogs of medium
weight could absorb an ounce and men four
ounces OF vasellne daily without injury.
HOUSE LEAGUES are being established in
Irish towns. with the object of bringing rents
to a live and -let-lve fgnre, and of having
{ 2 Of
yided for in a sanitary ay. 1t is also in
sisted that rents shall be abated in the case Of
houses IN towns As well as IN lands, and be
made subject to the decision of the Land Com
missiOners. This movement is meeting with
some opposition, as many OF the leaders Of the
Land League, though not owning land, are
large owners of houses.
A RUSSIAN JOURNAL reports a singular case
which lately occurred in a Georgian village.
A Persian became bail for fellow country
man accused on a criminal charge. When
the day of trial came the accused was not
forthcoming. The bailsman was informed
that he must produce his friend or the recog-
nizance- would be estreated He went to the
accused, and, having employed in vain every
possible argument, entreaty and threat, he
finally drew his dagger and plunged it into
the breast Of the defaulter He then bore the
body to the Judge, saying that he brought the
corpse, since he failed to produce the living
man. He was painfully surprised on being
hlmse arrested and lodged in Jail on a charge
A CORRESPONDENT writes from Mandalay
just after the deposition Of Thebaw: Next
morning obtained admission TO the palace
and for several hours wendell my way through
the endless succession of buildings, II "A
impossible to attempt here any detailed de.
scription of the mingled magnifcence and
squalOr, filth and splendor which I witnessed
/ found myself in the Lord White
Elephants house. He had been left without
food or water. The magnificent silver vessels
which held his food had been lying about uU-
pr tected. The royal monster seemed in a
very bad temper go wOnder.) He was
chained by the tore feet TO massive pillars.
Unless you were told that he was white YOU
would not perceive 10. Ia the dusky lighthe
seemed much like any other elephant, On
closer examination he seemed OF light mouse
color, with large white botches." The same
correspondent describes a most dsgraceiul
scene Of plunder. The crown jewels narrow
ly escaped.
THE proposed German canal which Is to
connect the North sea ana the Baltic, seems
to have directed attention in France TO van
Gus schemes for connecting by canal the great
Mediterranean seaport Marseilles with the
mouth Of the khOne, thus completing inland
| communication with Lyons PARIS, Rouen and
/ Havre. In 1881 the General Council II me
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