Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

to a sIx-acre field of ripe wheat near Wilsey-
/ ViIle, \. y, the other day. The grain was
/ entirely consumed.
IF young mocEing birds be so much as
handled in the nest the parent birds usually
administer poison to them, and IHfallibly dc
! so when they have access to them after con-
/ fnement.
BALTIMoRE's citizens wonder why, when
one of them appears wearing a light felt hat,
| the street boys veil Pen uc-kle! pe-nuc-
| kle!' as long as he is in sight. Such Is the
| fact. but no one seems TO have the slightest
| idea why the boys do so.
"THE very fact" says Howard, "that medi-
cines are constantly compounded for the per-
| sonal use Of physicians at rate from so to 60
per cent. lower than that demanded of the or
| binary customer is evidence enough of the
| wide margin OF excessive profit left 10 the
| dealer"
HENRY EMORY, of Sacramento. too full OF
whisky, fell from a third-story window, struck
and smashed board fence thirty nine feet
below, and then got up and took another drin k
IN the nearest saloon. A bump on the back of
Henry's head was The only apparent result of
his fall.
''No," said the Vermont man. who was shot
In the head by his friend while they were out
hunting, lost the most of an ear and was con-
slterably scratched, ~ don't mind the wound
SO much, but 1t breaks my heart to have my
head mistaken by my most intimate friend for
a polecat."
MRS. LELAND, who keeps a boarding house
at Reese River, New, had occasion to dig a
hole IN her back yard the other day, and just
under the surface found fine eight-inch
ledge of good chloride silver ore. she has
had her claim recorded under the name of
Leland Ledge.
NoRwALK Conn., mother, taking a final
| n hafo eff tod
| for Sunday school, noticed something unnatu-
| raj In the hang of a five-year-old's dress. She
investigated, and found under the short white
! dress OF her promising daughter lunch bas-
| ket doing duty as hustle.
| DURING the war for independence in Para
| quay General San Martin with his cavalry
attacked and captured the Spanish war yes
sells. This reverses the order of the late King
| 1heobald, who had his marine force noun ted
| on horseback, with servants running on foot
| TO carry large umbrellas over them.
THERE are about 900 houses in the Prus-
! sian capital. small number are inhabited by
one or two families, but the great majority are
| divided into several distinct lodgings Two
! thousand five hundred contsin from l6 to 20
lodgings; 10000 from 20 to 80 lodgings, and
! $1,000 over 30 lodgings each. Seventy-fve
| thousand of these lodgings are composed of
| one room only.
OPPOSITE Corrientes, Paraguay, is the
| grand Chaco, or forest. This is the most ex-
Uensive forest in South America. 1t COM
mences $50 miles above Rosario and extends
! TO the Amazon basin, 500 miles. 1t is three
| cornered, 200 miles wide at the south end and
| ana LOCO miles wide at the north end. 1t is
| quite evenly divided between Argentina
| Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil.
new MEXICO newspapers tell of ''norther''
that passed over the northern edge of Lincoln
! county few weeks ago, accompanied by hail
| stones as large as mans fist, doing great
damage to sheep. One man lost 1900 killed.
an pther JOOU, third 1000 ont Of herd OF 900
| MerlnOs and Cotswoids. Several beeves and
| some cattle were killed, and il was rumored
| that the hail had killed two herders also.
NEW concrete now being used quite ex-
| tensively in France is composed of eight parts
sand, gravel and pebbles, one part powdered
| cinders and one and half parts unsIaked
| hydraulic lime. These materials are thorough
| ly beaten together, the mixture forming a
concrete 'ch sets almost Immediately and
| becomes in a few days extremely hard and
solid. 1t may be improved by the addition of
one part cement.
The network of railways of the Kingdom of
Saxony covers nearly five miles less in winter
than in summer, a fact which Director KLAUS
| recently proved in a lecture before the Dres-
| den Industrial Society 1t seems that a steeI
| rail OF IA metres in length, at temperature
! OF 10 deg. Reaumer, contracts light mi II ime-
tres; saXony having 7,43S, 900 metres Of rails
| mot tracks, the contraction from cold az gre
| gates total OF 1900 metres,
| WILLIAM SwIREs, of Huerfano county. Coz.
missed valuable six months old colt, and
| found it had been killed and carried off by
| some large animal, which had held the colt
| clear from the ground excepting one hOOf that
| drag ged, by which the trail was folio wed
| Stry chime was put out" as they saw ont
| there, and the result was dead mountain
! lion that stood three feet high and measured
| over seven feet from tip to tip.
| A TELEGRAM was received in Bethlehem.
Pa, the other day from Rev. Frank e. Wolf,
at San Francisco, announcing that the Mo-
| ravian missionaries, Weinland and KiAbuck
| and their wives. at Bethel. Alaska, up to
| April last were alive and well. Great ankle
| ty had been felt in MOravIan circles for the
| welfare OF the missionaries, owing to the ad-
wee having been received two weeks ago that
| the winter in Alaska had been the sfsyerest
known IN eighteen years.
KEEPER once gave a humorous account
| of Sir " Harcour9s object in carrying the
| hares and rabbits act: 'He was shooting
down at our place last year, sir. He ami
| much OF shOt at the pheasant, though he
| was nearer them by an inch or two than most
| OF the other gentlemen; but what riled MIN
! was the rabbits. He couldn't do them nOhow
| They was all foot too short or him. and he
got awful vexed. | suppose he Thought as he
couldn't XIII EN- with his gun, he'd kill 'em
hit WIN MS Jaw anu lie mas killed a ROOQlsh
| lot that way, and that's fact"
| TROUT are plentiful in the mountain streams
OF the Catskills. Frank E. Miller saws early
in the season party of ravenous New York
| ers while wading up a stream after front
| drove the fish before them. much a. a farmer
| drives fowls. until all the "speckled beautesp
ran into a hollow log to escape from their mr.
| euers. he fishermen hired convenient and
| accommodating wood chopper to make large
! sized klndling wood OF that log. ana as a re-
suit or ms labOrs the party 'cauA ht| lust SIXTY
| quarts OF trout, ranging in size from four
| inches 10 almost fool in length.
THE exports OF raw rubber from the United
States 10 Great Britain increased steadily
from f99,722 in 1875 to clos, $50 IN 1888 but de-
clined to f56,Sf2 in 1884. This rubber was
mainly Brazilian. In return the Unlted
| states imported from Great Britain a much
| larger quantity Of raw rubber, mainly Afri-
! can, the figures showing the great Increase Of
! from t56,465 in 1875 10 f517. 1877 in 1883:
f539,33j IN 1883, and declined to f32l 10 in
1881. ! he imports of manufactured rubber
and gutta percha from Great Britain in lSsl
were f47. ~ and the e& ports to that country
were 4,3sS.
THERE is trouble in the First Methodist
Protestant Church Of Camden, N. J. Stew
and DruurmOnd was checking of the weekly
subscriptions of the congregation when Trus-
tee iuthrdge entered the church and asked
where certain fve-dollar subacripl Ian
was. Drummond sad he had not seen In
Guthrdge called hun liar. The steward