Savannah morning news., 1886-06-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Jefferson, Tex. Time li15 seconds. TIE
pAcSage c'ni aimed thrty-ei ht bills made VI
or 500 in hves, $O0 In tens, 800 twenties, SlGl
In hItles. and $l00 bill.
II is estimated that a hehthly fly, in fv'
weeks time, will produce a progeny of 800
and if these keep on multiplying at the SAM
rate every month during the summer. with
out accident or prevention, the result will be
1 between the beginning of Marrh and the enC
of August, no less than s, 100, ,OO0,O00 flies.
THERE seems to be conspiracy between
two hens, horse. and the dog OF Soutl
Windham farmer to deprive him Of his right
in eggs. One of the hens daily lays an egg il
the dog house and the dog daily eats it, Th,
other hon avs her eggs n the horses mangel
| AID he eats it. Indee I. so fond is the sized o
fresh eggs that ne sometimes lifts the hen OF
the nest to see if the egg has been laid.
AFTER much dallying and hesitation, the
British War Office has decided to adopt the
machine gun for the army. Three barreleC
NOrdenfeldts, each weighing sixty pound;
| and hrlng 400 bullets in one minute and five
barreled guns of 1876 pounds and firing 6O(
rounds a minute. are TO be sent to Egypt and
! In"ia, The tive ve-bqrreled gun, that fire,
! 1900 rounds minute, is being eXperimen led
with.
GERMAN ENGINEERS have succeeded in di-
minishing the swaying Of locomotives, and
| with it the wear of the rear driver fanges, by
making the tender coupling more or less rigid
! laterally, and. indeed, fOurwneeled lOcomo-
! tlves have been Il ed ON some roads for line
| engines by having heavy ehOot bolts on each
| side entering sockets on the tender-in this
| way preventing either vertical or horizontal
sWaying.
! at meeting of farmers in San Jose, Cal,
! last week, resolutions we're adopted con-
! demning the p ,liticlaus who promote agita-
| ton for personal ends. advising newspapers
| which recommended unskillcd labor to h',rti-
| Gu turists tO try the experiment themselves,
| a. King Congress to make more stringent the
! naturalization laws, and recommending the
STATE Legislai ure TO provide severe punish
! ment for the advocacy of socialistic, anarchi-
Cal or oycotting doctrines.
SOME of the sports of Nevada, Mo-, a year
ago. just in fun. made Morris Sherman think
he had a good colt, and DR.. C. A. Rock ood
! bought it for $50, about twice what it Was
worth, giving his note. payable one dav after
| death Che boy thought it a big joke on Nor
| rls that he hadn't noticed the word ''dPath
Ia tead of date" in the note, ana told him OF
1t, eXpec ing HIM to beg for his horse but in
stead he began suit, and has just got judg-
ment for $3.50 with interest.
OF the 14O members of the class to be grad
uated from Yale College this year 1903 have
replied to inquiries concerning their expendi-
| tUre in the four years of the academic course
Their answers exhibit quite as great a diver
slty in I ale as exists in Harvard, where il
Ua5 Decn lfcquenlly allegeQ OF la z bnat there
| eXl'ts demOralIzing difference b-tween stu
dents. The average of the l09 Is 1860 per ear.
The extremes for any one year were $3.50 and
$500 Twenty-three members OF the class
have earned their own support during sthe
| course.
A RAT, while attempting to escape from
human enemies in the electric light station in
Reading, Pa, a few weeks ago. jumped
directly from the floor on one OF the brushes
| and was thro vn back to the ground. He lay
| mOtiOnle-s. apparently and certainly dead
but without even hair turned. One of the
| emp Dyes was sent with a shovel to gather ii
up, but as soon as the shovel touched 1t the
rat fell tn dust with little cloud Of narr ices
rising from the place where the body had
| seemingly lain. There was no vestige of halr
hes h or bones remaining.
A COMMUNITY was started at Anahoim
Cal, several years ago, the principal feature
OF which was that only uncooked vegetable
food was used. One after another of the
members has left, either by resignation OF
| starvation, and now but two are LETT. One oil
| these, the spiritual adviser OF the society
| Walter Lockwood Thales, is so nearly starved
| to death that he Is confined to his bed from
| weakness. and the other, Mrs. Hinde rs &c
near the bound of lite that the ladies living
near her are forbidden to see her pale, wan
face in the dying pangs OF death by starva-
| tim.
WE were at Madras about % hours says q
correspondent, and 1 went ashore and drove
about twice. 1 visited the native schools anc
saw 1000 boys in the Madras Christian Col.
lege, and about 40 little girls in a school thai
| was kept By a Christian native lazy The
little girls intere sted me most; they looked Sc
drOIl in their picturesque dress. They wore a
quantity of turSev- red drapery. aud were
much adorned with jewelry-their ears
| noses. neck, fingers, wrist. arms and ankle.
all decorated. ONE Of them were very pretty
all very tiny. Two of them, aged 10, | was
told, were married
A GENTLEMAN of Shanghai, China, has
after considerable experimenting, invented a
new and deadly weapon. This is an electric
sword, which, when the point touches the
party attacked, sends a powerful shock
| through HIM, and If not Immediately kllliua
| W il al least put him hOrs de combat The
| sword is an ordinary military sabre but alons
| lis whole length l. let il a fine platinum wire
which endC at the fol of the Weanon. A smAli
| but very powerful storage battery is carried
strapped about the waist, much the same as
| cartridge box. Insulated WIS CO. meet this
| battery with the sword, and by pressing a
button the holder can complete the circuit at
pleasure.
a REMARKABLE CASE will shortly be decided
in the Engllsh Court Of Chancery "A bout five
years ago Mr.. Ayling OF Portsmouth died
leaving his property 70 his wife during her
widowhood, but if she married again it W, 8
to he divided among their seven children In
IN
~aS accordingly divided. TWO years later
no Hever. 1t turned ont that the marriage was
| Invalid. the husband being big mist, aud
| Mrs. Ayling found herself deprived both of
husband q OF property. She hrs now ap-
plled o The court for restitution OF he prom
erty which her husband left her for life ar
| widOwhOOd." The case is cOmplica' ed by the
fact tnat one OF the sons mas disposed OF n !
| share; and altogether there Is the progpect
Of some right profitable work for he LAWYERS
THE demOlitions now in progress at the
north end Of the Broadway. Biackfriars, have
for the first tio c laid bare another portion OF
the old wall Of London. IL is a continuation
eastward Of the fragment which was re-
! moved year or two ago, and is not MANY
yards distant from tho point at which this an.
cient defense OF the capital turned nortbwarl
| across Ludgate Hlll at the point where ptoo-
the ancient Lud Gate. The portion now ex-
posed h mainly composed Of fragments of
limestone united by coarse mortar With
these are iniermingel tlles an. bricks and
oddly enough large lum " soft white cha 4
! apparently the uDner ch Tx OF the geolnefstsl
Tnc wall is about "a fees hig gh, and Is surmouut-
| ed by rather deep line OF red brick, which
though old. seems 10 be Of lalcr date than the
other portion.
PAGANINI was a kind OF spect raj appari.
tion-tall thin, with N-shaped eyebr jws and
/ immense fingers. YeuXtemps was small
and looked like notary. Paganini never
| touched his violin except az concerto. but
/ NieuXtemps studied continually. The former
/ had q miraculous execution aud PLAYED win
] augf NiuL Nn ~ shed --fle btrk gf Tho l.oov of.