Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! into which likeness f Bismarck had been
woven in a very artistic manner.
SIX YEARS AGO an artist gave citizen OF
! Auburn. Me-, several sheep for an old violin,
said to be a Cremona. The Auburn man
| thinks he made a good bargain, for his sheep
| have netted him 1000.
CAPT. FULLARToN, of the ship Timaru, re-
ports that on March l5 the noon position of
his ship being latitude 81 north, longitude
s:l6 west, "a great many small land birds
came about the ship, and about 60, evidently
tired out, we're put into coop on board
GEORGE H. BISHOP has tried the expert
ment of setting a hen ON a double yolked-egg
with entire success. On Sunday little head
came through each end of the egg, and when
the shell was removed two chicks were found.
= hey were slightly united, but were easily
separated.
IT Is SAID that about 1000 known and
named varieties Of grapes have been and are
being grown in Europe. and all these are
supposed to have been developed from one
species Pbis yi'liferGl, which originally was
the wild product OF nature. like those grow
ing in our thickets and forests.
DAVID BELL, of Pelleter's Mills. n. c.,
found very small pearl in an oyster seven
years ago, He wrapped it in paper and laid
it in trunk, and the New Berne Journal
saws that it has grown from the size of b b
SnOL 10 inc size OF d Small OuIluk
the seven years 1t has not been wet.
Mr.. HILLIARD, the American artist, has now
on exhibition at Washington large oil paint
ing OF the grave Of John Howard Payne at
Tunis. 1t has been painted for Senator Palm
err and will probably find its way into the art
gallery at Detroit, to which Mr.. Palmer has
already contributed money and paintings.
CAPT. FRYE, of Carthage, Tenn. has huge
walnut "burl,' weighing AS pounds, in the
Office of the Southern LunlberDsda at Nashville,
1t is valued at 10 cents per pound, and will
be cut up into veneers, probably, as thin as
sixteen or twenty sheets to the inch, and in
that form will bring about twenty cents per
square foot, or 5000 per thousand, board meas
ure.
OBED CoRNwELL and his wife, of Prince
William county, Va, died recently. Mr..
Cornwell died about o'clock in the morning,
March %, and the following morning about
the same hour Mrs. COrnwell expired. Mrs.
Cornwell had expressed desire to die ex-
actly at the same time Chat her husband did,
so that she might be inferred in the same
grave.
THE PORTRAIT of Henry Clay, which form
erly hung in the United states District Court
room in Washington. when taken down the
other day to be cleaned and restored, was found
to be utterly ruined. 1t had hung for many
years over a register. the heat of which was
at times so great that the paint had blistered
and entirely left the canvas in places, so that
the painting is absolutely worthless as 1t is,
and wholly beyond repair.
THE GEAR, a large, dark, single violet, will
bloom out of doors all through the winter. if
in April the runners are taken off and in
serted in bed which has been well enriched
with leaf mould and decsyed manure, west
ern aspect, if poss lble, being selected. Comte
Brazza, the best double white, and Marie
Louise and New York double mauYes, do not,
i I'M oil 70 viald O
continuous aupply of bloom throughout the
winIer without the protection Of frame.
VARIOUS trials Of the new French horse
shoe, which is made entirely of sleeps horn,
are said to show its particular adaptedness
for horses employed in towns, and known not
to have a steady foot on the pavement. The
results of the experiments are therefore re-
garded as very satisfactory, horses thus shod
having been driven at a rapid pace on such
pavements without slipping. Besides this ad-
vantage, the new shoe is spoken of as more
durable. and. though little more expensive
than the ordinary kind. seems destined, sooner
or later, to replace the iron shoe.
EDMUND STURTEvANT, an amateur botanist,
went into the woods near BOrdentown, n. j.,
and dug no some roots Of the wild American
lady skipper, flower unknown to Europe,
and with them boldly sailed the wide ocean.
He was not mistaken in his conjecture. They
created deep interest among the florists IN
q
matter of fact, Mr.. Sturtevant was able to
dispose of his ugly roots at such good figure
that he Travelled everywhere first class and
put up at the best hotels the continent afford
ed and paid from the roOty revenue the en-
| tire expenses OF years trip abroad.
A TRIAL has Just taken place at Toms
! River, n. j., Levi Challender suing jesse
Higgins for mayhem. Chalender testified
that Higgins knocked him senseess, and tina t
| when he (the PLAINTIFF became conscious he
| found Higgins on top of him, biting his nose
| on. The witness sat with his face partially
/ bandaged up. When he reached this stage Of
/ the testimony he drew small bottle of alco-
| hOl from his pocket. In the bottle was the
| nose. The bottle was passed around so the
! jury could examine the late nasal organ. This
! testimony seemed to settle the business. The
| jury found Higgins guilty. and he has been
sentenced to two years in the State prison.
A SUBSTITUTE for gunpowder is described
in Science as having come into recent use in
some American coal mines. Caustic lime is
ground fine and consolidated by a pressure
of forty tons into cartridges After the holes
are drilled in the face of the coal, an iron tube
half an inch IN diameter, with a small groove
externally on the upper side, and several per-
foratons, is ms rted the whole length Of the
hoe. The cartridges, which have groove 10
| it the tube, are then inserted and lightly
rammed, and the whole tamped. A small
force pump injectS through the tube q guam
tity OF water equal in bulk to the lime. The
water escapes through the perforations and
along the groove, saturating the whole, and
driving out the air. The tube is then closed
by tap to prevent the escape OF the steam,
which, by its force. cracks the coal away from
the roof, and then follows the expansion of the
lime.
TIE local divisions OF London are some
what puzzling. A householder in letter TO
a London paper thus illustrates them
where do live?" he asks. "Can any one
tell me2 / cannot, for reasons as follows: The
deeds of my house state at Upper footing.
The postal authorities say az BALKAN. The
taxing masters say ClaDham. The rating peo-
pie say Battersea. The local directory saws
Wimbledon and Putney. II pay my taxes
! must go 70 Clapham. If / pay the gas /
must go to Bermondsey. II pay the water
rate must do so at Kingston on Thames. 70
nay local rates must go To Batiersea. II
give vote for u member Of Parliament /
must vote for Chapman division. II look out
in front of the house, WadswOrth Common is
200 yards In front of me. and Battersea two
miles beyond tn q. II ] look out at the back
OF the house Upper footing Park is only ffty
yards from me- II I walk 20 the end of nv
road / am then IA the parish Of Wandsworth
II | 60 TO the other end OF the road / am in
Streat ham, II cross over the road / am in
Battersea. II get over my garden wall
can sit on post with part OF my body in
three or four parishes at the same moment"
A Woman Detective.