Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! NAVIGATION OF the haskdskla river AT
! Shelbyville, Ind, which was abandoned forty
years ago, has been resumed by the launching
! OF steam pleasure boat.
A LITTLE NEGRO called Curt" at Marshall,
NO., whose father was soldier and was
killed in the war, recently received $500
! pen-lon money. His first purchase was sos
! finger ring, his second $500 horse and buggy.
AMONG the uses to which porpoise leather is
| being advantageously applied is that of shoe
leather. the resemblance to French kid beng
| very marked. 1t has a long, tenacious fibre,
and as it Will not crack or tear rs very durable
ana waterproof. and makes an excellent
leather.
SMALL BOY stopped railroad train near
Westerly, Conn.,, by frantically waving his
hands, and told the engineer there was a
drunken man on the track. The fellow was
aroused and got Off, but he swOre like pirate
at being awakened, and threatened to thrash
the boy who mad saved his life.
NJ. HELLRIEGEL has ascertained by a series
of experiments that rye and winter wheat
terminate at 80 deg. OF heat, barley and oats
a 35 deg, Indian corn at AS deg, turnip at
32 leg, fax at rs deg the pea and clover at 35
deg, bean aud lupn at 3S deg. asparagus at
30 deg, carrot at 3S deg, and the bean at 40
deg.
CAPT. L. SHIELDS, who resides near Cory
don, Ind is most successful breeder and
raiser of German carp. He states that when
he wishes to feed the fish he goes to the pond
and rings a small he'll. Instantly the fish
from all parts OF the pond start for the feed
ing place, and gather in immense numbers
near the shore and fight for the particles of
food when thrown to them.
TIE Tennessee marble quarries of Franklin
and Moore counties are beginning to excite
attention, and an effort is about to be nau-
gurated at TullahOma, having for its object
the organization of a stock company to work
them on larEe scale. 1t has been known
for many wears tn marble of the finest quail
lty existed IN that section of the State, but no
attempt has ever been MADE to develop the
quarrles.
JACKSONVILLE, Ind, woman went home
the other day and found a strange baby lying
on her bed, She was a TOUT to turn it over to
the police as waif when it woke up and she
fell In love with its eyes. Just then another
woman appeared and claimed the baby, say
ing she had intended to leave it with friend,
but had made mistake in the house. The
foster mother refused to give up the child
and the question of its ownership Is still I'M
settled.
GEORGE LUBIsH and G. Mccarthy of San
Francisco were rivals for the affections of a
young woman, and agreed to settle their re-
spective claims according to ring rules. In
the presence Of over nalf a hundred friends
they fought thirty six rounds without any ad-
vantage on either side. The contestants then
agreed to settle the controversy by means of
the dice. The dice rolled out IN favor of Nc
earthly, and he departed with his girl on his
arm.
K. YUNG has been ascertaining the nature
OF The influence of salt water on the develop
ment of the Larvae of the frog. The tadpole
perishes in from three to twenty minutes in
the water of the Mediterranean, containing
four per cent. of salts, and in a few hours in a
solution OF marine salts IN the proportion of
one per cent. But 1t may be adapted to an
existence in salt water by a gradual prepara-
ton through series of solutions Of from two
to eight per 1000.
w. H. WAGENsELLFR and Benjamin Hyers
while fishing in LaMarsh creek, in Tazewell
county, Ind, discovered an old stone wall
running at right angles to the banks of the
creek. The wall has been under water and
is covered with dirt. There are Indian
mounds in that vicinity. The wall was either
built by the Indians or a yet older race. 1t is
about quarter of q mile long and six feet
thick. It is formed of large square blocks of
stone apparently cemented together with
thin mortar.
THE lower House of the Massachusetts
Legislature unanimously decided that if a
man buys piece of property ON Sunday he
may keep it aud refuse to pay for it because it
was wicked for thc rightful owner to sell it
on the Lords day, and the senate thinks it for
the conservation of religion that an honest
woman should be falsely condemned as hap
pened a while ago, because her only witness
happens TO be an atheist. although he is 80
honest that he avOws his disbelief IN God in
stead OF lying about 1t.
ACCORDING to the calculations made by a
scientific writer lately, it requires a pro-
digious amount of vegetable matter to form
layer of coal, the estimate being that it would
really take million years to form a coal bed
| 100 feet thick. The United States has an area
OF between 100000 and 100000 square miles OF
| ...l So. l. Ia
from these fields in one year, or enough to
run ring around he earth at the equator
90 feet wide ana 81 thick, the quantity being
| sufficient to supply the whole world for a pc
Rod OF l,5eC or 1000 wears.
DIR KOssMAN of Breslau, has introduced a
new safety cartridge for use in coal Mines
The idea Is a novel one. Finely divided
metallic zinc is placed in glass tube divided
into two parts, one to contain the zinc the
other sulphurIc acid. This cartridge is
placed In the hole bored to receive it, and,
being Clayed, the miner drives an iron rod
into the tube, which breaks the contracted
part Of it, The sulphuric acid is thus brought
into contact with the enc, and a rapid evolu-
ton of hydrogen gas takes place. Engineer
ing informs u that pressure is exerted by
the gas on the sides of the hole equal to 81, 900
almospheres,' which rends the rock.
THE famous Eau de Cologne was FIRST put
up as panacea for all the ills that flesh was
heir to. 1t was taken internally and used as
a lotion At the house of the "original"
maker, in the anc ent city on the Rhine ia to
be seen the old crcu ars and labels In Italian
and French, setting forth the virtue of the
cure-a all It's remed al effect not proving go
great as its elegance as perfume
aud as its sale Tor medicine
began TO he restricted by taxes and
stamps and licenses, It was sold without anv
ind cation of It's intended use, and is now an
example OF he survival of the httest. | am
told that even now it is used as "tipple" by
many French and English ladies.
FEW days ago a gentleman driving near
Monticello, y. Y, past small pond, noticed
an unusual commotlon among a large num-
Der Of swallows which were flying over the
water in all directions and uttering their cry
when danger ~ near. In Il few moments a
large black crow came flying along. and his
presence seemed 70 quiet IN a measure the
fears of the other birds. He made n grand
sW oop down to the pooi, and ON rising had A
large water snake in his bill. The snake had
"A swallow by the leg In lis mouth but in
turning 10 free itself from it's lack Antagonist
the swallow escaped and the crow flew away
with It's prey, prJvtng that the stronger often
protect the weaker in the bird kingdom.
PERCY SMITH, writing on the liability OF
trees to be struck by lightning. says: THE
suggestion that oak trees are struck because
they contain iron ia both erroneous and alb
surd. If OAK did contain iron it would in all
probability increase Its conducting power
and act "a a preventive. If oak contained an
estimAblp uututlty of that natal tho xxoOd