Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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list Church IN Cambridge, M.
The HUGE BIT Improbable steamAhip Great
Eastern, which was sold for 100000 ri LONDON
| last October. has been put to use as perma-
nent coal hulk at Gibraltar.
a Long ISLAND JURY assesses $s5 AS the
normal damage for non-rabld dog bite ~
Is well that we should have standard IN
| such matters.
1T Is NOTEWORTHY" says the Paris Ne'oS'
that in his Gottingen days Bismarck wa
| gered . bottles Of champagne with an Amer
lean that Germany would be united IN ~
years"
DIR. SHELTON MACKENZIE had pet theory
about American literature. 1T hasn't got
any spine, sir" he was wont to say. ''There $
/ nraln enough, but no backbone, ana no sTedV
] literature Mas ever made without BOTH
IN ENGLAND AND WALES, as one may learn
/ from the Financial Reform Almanac BRUSH
for 1885. 40 pc sons own one fourth Of the en-
! tire country in scotland, u persons own one
4 fourth; and in Ireland IA persons own one
! half.
! or 1877 HORSES that have a public record oil
/ go. hfty-eight are descended from Rysdlk
/ Hambletonian in the direct male line, with
/ nearly as many. no doubt. who can trace their
! blood back to HIM through dams or grand
/ dams.
! AT Cannes the curbstone dealers struggle
! for picturesque effects. One of them, who
/ had sunshades and the like for sale, stood un-
der huge red umbrella twenty feet in diam
! eter. Whenever ne would sell an umbrella
! ne would hurl 1t at the buyer ike JaVeHh'
1 regardless OF the eyes of the iookers-on.
A FIRM on Wall street. New York. has in
! operation and on exhibition what IS probably
the smallest working printing press IN the
/ world. 1t is an interchangeable cylinder,
I ia mn From a
J OF 1t is but l254 inches in length ana -
inches high. It's width in the widest part is
/ lols inches.
''THE BOULDER at Mount Auburn that
makes the monument of Louis Agassiz.
writes Mrs. Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, ''came
I from the glacier Of the Aar. not lar from the
! spot where his hut once stood; and the pine
/ trees which are fast growing up to shelter II
! were sent by loving hands from his old hOme
! IN switzerland
A YOUNG WOMAN at Blngen, on the Rhine,
suffering from a slight Inflammation Of the
throat, was killed through her own careless
ness in not looking at the directions for the
/ use OF the drug prescribed for her. She swal-
/ lowed large dose OF chlorate of potassium
! which was prescribed for gargllng purposes
/ and died few hours later, after terrible SUI
ferng.
THERE is some prospect that cocaine, the
/ valuable &rRsthetc, viii not always be AS
costly a remedy. and, therefore. as inaccessi-
bic TO the people IN general as heretofore.
I According to the Vienna AedicsI JOu~aa1 CO.
I came mas been successfully procured, not from
/ cocoa leaves, but IN a synthetic wav from
/ chemicals by W. Merck, in Darmstadt, and
others.
JUDGE A. W. TOURGEE, the novelist. has
about twenty patents granted on new hsr-
ness and expects four others. The harness is
/ to be made entirely OF metal, and among the
advantages GAINED for it are thatlt is lighter.
| les cum bersOme, more easily adjusted, and
| will not chafe as much as a leather harness.
! 1t Is expected to cost about 80 per cent, less
| than leather harness, and it will be more dur
| able.
\ CONNECriCUT VALLEY paper-ma klng firm
! sent to the Paris exposition blank book
weighing 20e pounds, and having 5000 enor-
nous pages, as a sort of universal autograph
! album. Only one fourth Of its pages we're
iilled IN Paris, after which II served at local
| fair, ana last year was sent to New Orleans,
| where it was Tiled. 1t has now been returned
! to HolyOke. Mass, and VIII be exhibited. 1t
| contains 10000 names, some well known.
A NEW PLAN for improving the quality of
/ drinking water is under consideration by the
water board OF Boston. 1t is proposed to
/ build an open conduit, mile or more IN
! length, from the outlet of the water system,
| IN winch large, rough bOulders are to be
Z ptdEt0 4 Ht htbtI- rushing swiftly over anu
! between these rocks will be SO agitated, 1t is
/ thought, as to do away with that impurity
which depends upon partial stagnatiOn
/ MUskETS for the interior OF Africa are stu
made in Birmingham, with the Aintlock and
printing pan eli century ago, and for this
reason. that, while powder can he made and
dints collected in the very midst Of the desert
/ sands of the SOuddn or the sahara, It would
| be work Of * or Of impossi biitv to import
. pprpT1s-lRn p9rfFIdrrpg qnqnfph n
| tral fire or hammerless guns, ana on similar
| grounds the long barrel retains its supremacy
/ AZ weapon OF defense IN these regions to the
present day.
An AREA OF about four and one half square
miles forms the nucleus OF the whole oil bear
ing region OF the Caucasus. The naptha-
bearing beds consist OF sand. calcareous clays,
marls, and IN places compact sandstone. often
ot great thickness and penetrated by bands OF
pvTites. As IN Pennsylvania. the naptha is IN
some places associated with salt water, winch
Civ es much trOnbe In driving bore holes. The
plateau is on a level OF about 40 feet above
the surface OF the Caspian; and depth of 70G
feet below that great lake has been reached
/ by bOrers.
ENGLISH naval constructors are inyestiga-
ting the iarrah wood of Western Australia
which is said to resist completely the attacks
Of the teredo and all other animal pests to
which timberB planted a salt water are ex-
posed This is said TO be due to its contain
ing highly astringent acid, something ike
fannie acid. Jarrah piles, half century old
IN Australia are as yet untouched by teredo
and engineers nave suggested importins
enough Of the wood to wall in the Suez canal
Ia Florida tine wood Of the palmetto is equally
mperviols TO the boring mOllusks. but IN this
case the factis due 10 the Indigenous grain.
NOBLE NISCoEPooPS seem TO be Lord Sails
hury's vorite- for carriers His first choice
Tel. on tuc Duke of Northumberl and, the next
on Lord Abcrsayenuy, who, If ne had moi
beer born i'm the purple. would have been an
| abeolhte noncutity. He never even took a de
gree at college, and 20 was sad could moi
| have passed for lls stem IN the Life Guards
| He never sat m the House OF Commons. and
( has Kept am hls clOqueuCe entirely to himself
in the House OF Lords. His sery ces to his
party have simply been those OF a sort Of Par.
lismentary watch dog at the party clubs
Men like Lord Duiierln or Lord Lyons are moi
deelcd worth what is given to the most *
uorant country gentleman.
IN an address before the Liverpool Geology
cal Society by Prof. Beade on 1.-THE Denuda.
ton OF the Two America" he shows that
5o.6oO,030 tons of matter, in solution. are an.
nually poured into the Gulf OF Mexico bv the
Mississippi river. and this, 10 is estimated
would reduce the time for he denudGt on M
one toct OF Ia 4 Yer The whole basin vhich
. time has hitherto been calculated SOLELY from
tHc matter ir -uHCns}pu- from one foot tu g NM
/ 20 one 4. OF tu 4lto years milar calculate. "a.
applied 3D. the Ia Plata. the Anaz1ns. and the
ST. Lawrence nov that an average Of Too tons