Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! PACaOH against IL once tdCH year.
In the little but rich city of Fargo, out in
the Wheatlands, each policeman carries a
heavy gold-headed cane instead OF 3 billy
! winch is base thing at best.
A GRANDMOTHER in Goldendale. w. T., dis
covered her ls-months old grandchild look
ing like an infant Hercules as he vanly tried
mouth. She creamed and then killed the
snake, although it is u harm ess reptile.
! OUR NovELIsTs need not seek any further
than Lake George, where THE Mystery Of
the Mohican House." with a yelled lady,
| young and beautiful, guarded by an atteu =
ant duenna OF corresponding ugllness affords
all the necessary basis for thrilling ro-
nance.
STEPHEN MORSE. Of East Woodstock, Conn,
drinks his cider out of 3OO-year- old jug that
came over In the Mayfi0wer. and that was
loaded with something stronger than apple
Juice at that tin q. Mr.. Morse is very pro d
OF the 'ic, but his ne ghbors saw that ''cider
tastes Just as good outer'n 35-cent Jug"
IT is n somewhat interesting fact that the
citizens of Vermont hold mortgages on real
estate outside of the State amounting in the
aggregate to nearly five and a half millions of
dollars. One of The results of this l. that To-
cal lndu tries languish ia Vermont because
investors prefer to invest in Western prop
erty.
THE French yachtsman wears white fan
mel troGsers held by q scarf. which covers a
belt or grdle, jacket Of dark blue. yellow
| leather shoes and straw hat. with ribbon
genera ly tricolor, d he adjective applied
to him and his clothes is copurchc. a new
| compound OF pur and chic, meaning the very
best style.
THERE Is young woman in Ancona, H.,
who deserves good husband. She teaches
school for $40 week, helps her mother do the
| house work, and takes care of three horses
and two cows. Duri g the summer she had
| entire charge nf large garden. but also found
| time to paint her mothers Rouse and paper
! two rooms in il, besides sending CORE. pond
ence each week 10 two country newspapers.
THE Corriere del Mattino, Of Naples, pub
fishes two anecdotes of the earthquake over
there. THE wife of wine shopkeeper, who
had not yet gone to bed, ran to awaken her
hu band. &c up get up. there's an earth
| quake down there The husband goes to tire
door and asks: Where is it?" "In the
Pi zza del Gesu policeman finds on cd wo-
man at a. m. What are yOu doing here?
| Go TO bed Pm afraid of the earthquake.
| am 81 years old 'Eh! with such q basketfu
! of year, are you not content yet?"
SOME OF the members of the Tennessee Leg
| islature are chosen after a novel fashion,
| There are in the State what are known as
EDITORIAL districts" The counties of the
| Stste are entitled to representation accord
! ing to population. The fraction above the
| nece' sary num- emitting a county to rep
| resentatiop is not thrown away, but several
| counties adjoining combine these fractional
| remnants un il the unit of representation is
reached These counties compose n EDITORIAL
district" aud besides being represented by
| their own county membership, the COUNT
! Jointly elect the extra member, who ia known
! as Il dOater."
THE French scientific journal La Nature
! describes and illustrates machine for max
ing product which is coming into favor in
various different emp|oyments under the
name of wood wool. As IL name imp les, tn s
material is simply wood cut into such fine
| shavings that il answer ma of the purpn-
Sos to which wo j is commonly applied AL
| though it w as first intended merely As pack
| inE material it was soon found that it had
| much more EXTENDED field OF usefulness It
| is employed FIR stuffng ma resses, IA bed
| ding FIR cattle, for the filtration of liquids,
! etc. 1t is elastic like hnrsehair and is beautj-
| fully clean in use. The wood used by pre err
| ence is Riga fir. and the machine will produce
without any necessity for skilled labor, more
! than 1900 pounds of "wool" per day of ten
| hours.
MUCH has been written on the subject of
mysterious noises. which in most cases, If in
| diligently inquired into, would be found to
have no my terry at all about them. A pro-
fessor at Philadelphia recently recorded that
| at a certain hour each day one of the win
dows in his house ratified in the most violent
manner, On consulting the local raj way
1 time table, he could find no train running at
the hour sneciied. but on examining another
| table. which included a separate line, he
found that a heavy train passed at the time
At distance of several miles from hi house.
| He then referred to the geological formation
! of TIE ground between the two points. and Mt
| once saw that there was an nutcropping ledge
of rock which formed a link of connection
| between the distant raiway line and his
! home. 1t was the vibration carried by this
r. OK from the passing train that ratified the
| window.
THE article contributed by DR. Forster. of
| Ans rerdam, to the Centralblatt fur KlInische
Medcn, on the best method by which ply
| stefan may cleanse his hands. has been ex ten
slvely quoted. The great importance OF phv-
sici.ns thoroughly dsinfectng their hands
/ beforr leaving case of infectious disease is
emphasized nv Or. Forster. and Mt the same
| time he asserte that few of the disnfectants
| now in use really have the power OF DIES row.
! ing those n icr0spores which are re 'ognizpd
! as so dangerous an element in modern medi-
| cine. 1t appears that after a series of careful
| experiments in the hygienic institute At A M
sterdam, 10 which every precaution was taken
| to avoid error. the author decided that a solu-
| ton of carbo'ic acid Of the strength Of ~ per
cent. was not capable Of ''steri izng" the fin
& r. but that a solution Of corrosive sublim ite
| Of the strength of one to two thousand forms
| reliable antiseptic wash.
ROBERT NAVAL. Chief Engineer of the
/
| examining the Waring system of sewers
which has heen In operation since 1890. He
! has gone for Pullman, H., to further investi-
! gate the Waring system which. that CITY has
| also adopted In an interview he stated that
| his government would adopt the Waring sys-
| TEN. and tn ts6.000 900 would be expended in
| the work. or this sum So, 800 700 will be II sed
| in tunneling through a mountain a dist nee
! of SIX miles and building a canal thirty mil es
long to convey the sewage from the city to
the mouth OF The tunnel. The City of Me xico
| at present has no regular stem Of sewers
| and the preference 10 the Waring system as
| given after thorough invest igation. M~m-
/ phis was the first city in the world TO adopt
| the system. and since its completion the
I works here have been inspected by engineers
| from England, FIR nee. Germany and various
parts OF the United States.
| WRITER in the Midland Industrial Ga
zette argues that the absence Of flies does not
| exactly presaGe an epidemc-that il, the flies
are not killed By the poison in the air, as has
sometimes been believed on account OF the
| coincidence between disease and a small Nv
| crop in some spasons-but their Absen e il in
| itself a cause Of sickness and epidemics. The
| hy. according to this theory. ia a vuliure. a
huZzard on a 80 all scae-th- most i'm portant
| because the most numerous OF pest breeding
! ma erial-and gets in IN foul and decaving
mater that n be reached by no other Insect
| or animal and destroys il; thr quantity OF this
| y stilentfl matter thus removed cannot be
| estimated, because the fv is always getting