Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


General, there were only two cases Of Varlo-
loid and one of small -poX in the United states
army last year, Vaccination was carried out
with great regularity.
CoNNECTICUT has less than 1000 miles OF
railway, but these carried last year l,5OOOOO
passeug gers, of whom onlv u were injured.
The passenger traffic of 1885 was almost 50 per
cent greater than that of 1854.
SANITATION Is needed in Japan. Accord
ing TO the transactions of its Society OF Med
zeal Science, one OF its cities-cOntalnlng
population of a million and quarter-re-
ports death rate OF 5per 1000.
INTHE PERSON of one Robert Watson social
lsm ran III queer streak. He gave way in
England recently TO mania for throwing
onions at every man who wore high Six nat.
Happening to hit one Of the hats, he now sits
Dareheaued him self-ln prison cell.
IT MAY BE INTERESTING to know that at
Lake Nyassa, Africa, strong young man can
be bought for 80 yards of white cotton cloth, a
young woman for So yards and young
mother for 36 yards. Age Is evidently ut
discount. for an old man can be bought for
four yards.
IL THE OLD DAYS 1t was the duty of English
cOrOuers to hold inQuests not only on deaths,
but on fires, hurgares and robberies. In
quests on fires are still held in Northumber-
land, and 1t is now proposed to reintroduce
law" i'm the matter OF fires.
FRENCH SATIRE ONCE MoRE-At recent
popular assembly in Paris speaker paren-
theucslly inquired: "Why don't the great
men of Paris bestir themselves? Why do they
remain cold and unmoved at the caamitles OF
our Couutryt' Because they are cast in
bronze came from sarcastic voice IN the
gallery.
IT is STATED that a concession has been
ted to of
electrical! engineers at Geneva for making a
railway up Mont Salene, near that place. The
line viii be uade with central rack very
similar To that Of the Righi line, tine toothed
plnlon which works into il being driven by
machinery.
TUE ALIsMA. or water plantain, is Landed In
Russia as a remedy for hydrophobia. The
plant flowers during the summer and should
be collected during August. The roots must
be dried and grated. then spread on bread
and butter, and good dose taken night and
morning. Two or three doses are said to be
sufficient to effect cure.
a MARYLAND FISHERMAN who hooked a
sturgeon IN the Pocomoke, called upon
friend to assist him in getting the fish in the
boat, but the friend, being afraid of 1t, left
him to manage as best he could. Being afraid
of losing his prize he sprang upon the back of
the fish, caught it by the gills to keep its head
out of the water and with kicks and yells
rode II ashore.
THE SIOUX TRIBE numbers g., 900 and has a
territory as large as the State of Wisconsin.
There Is no game on it, and therefore they
have no occasion to roam over it. AS the land
10 held by the tribe there is no incentive for
individual enterprise in Cuihvating 1t. If
each Indian had say 320 acres set apart
for him and he knew 1t was his he would take
an interest IN making it productive. The In
dian Is generally smart and alive to his own
interests.
DURING Mr.. Gladstone's passage through
Preston, on his way to Midlothian. a man
named Il lden fell from a truck and broke his
leg. Mr.. Gladstone wrote on Christmas day
to Holden expressing extreme regret for the
accident and on New ears day Holden re-
ceIVed a letter from Mr.. Allen Seaton, bailif'
AT Hawarden. as follows: Il have forwarded
by the London and Northwestern railway two
pieces OF scantllng from tree felled by the
Right Hon. W. e. Gladstone, hoping you will
ind them suitable for your purposes The
tlmbers have been converted into crutches.
TWENTY YEARS AGO scarcely any foreign
butter was consumed in England; now not
one-hundredth part Of the butter eaten in
London Is to be reckoned as home produce.
Great Britain annually buys f l2, 900, 900 worth
Of hutter from the foreign market, yet the
dalrymen Of Great Britain and ireland have
IN their favor climate. soil, the price OF cattle
wages and the cost OF transport from Amer
lea and Denmark The prices paid in the
Cork butter market, once famed for the good
quality OF It's butter, are lower than those of
any recognized butter market in the world.
WATER expands in the act of freezing with
a force so irresistible as to burst rocks into
fragments. ana even to rend asunder the
strongest cast Iron vessels. The freezing and
thawing Of ice has thus a wonderful effect
/ upon forming soil from the broken down
rocks and the continual crumbhng of the
stones OF the held, while the elods Of earth are
broken up and mellowed, and the soil of fall
ploughed field Is made much finer than by any
implement. Water expands one-nnth in
I freezing, but this expansion is not gradual,
but rather sudden, and hence more effective
IN disruptlng the rocks and the soil.
THE Techa.8che Sic fensieder describes the
Chinese tallow tree, a plant which is said to
be increasing in commercial importance on
account of the scarcity Of those animal fats
which are now 50 largely used In making ar
tifcial butter. TIE fat OF the tallow tree is
found IN thick layers in its fruit, which grows
abundantly and Is easily gathered. The sub
stance is of yellowisb color and highly arc
matte; it burns quite well in Its natural con-
dtiou. 1t is gathered in the summer and fall.
Placed IN hot water, the fat comes TO the sur
face, and IS then remelted and run into bam-
boo moulds The product is green in color,
and melts st 30 deg. Fahrenheit.
1T AFPEAEs from paper read before the
Pharmaceutical Society that one Of the rea-
sons for the low price of quinine hes in the
fact that the cinchona trees are no longer de-
stroyed by the harvesting. The old plan was
/ to cut them down and strip on the Tx when
/ they we're ten years old Then the idea was
adopted of tearing of long strips and filling
the bare places with moss. The present
method is TO scrape OF the outer laver Of the
! bark, the portion richest IN Quinine, and this
! does not interfere with the growth OF the tree
! The bark Is scraped half round at one opera
/ Il On, the other half being scrAped six months
/ afterward. The process may berepeated year
! after year.
II THE LITTLE VILLAGE of Mount Pleasant,
! n the potteries in Stafordshire, England, is
/ to be found a child whose extraordinary
/ growth excites great wonder. Little Alice,
as she is humorously called, is but years OF
/ age, yet turns the scale at $50 pounds; the cir
/ cumference of her waist being no less than
i've feet, while her height Is four feet, so that
( literally she Is broader than she Is long. She
/ rs bright. Intelligent, and remarkably pretty,
/ her heat being crowned with mass OF golden
/ hair. Her size docs not interfere in the least
with her activity, as she may often be seen
! playing With the other children Of the village
or wandering in their company through the
/ country lanes. Her appetite Is enormous.
1 Petrol EUW and the residuum of IT'S dis
/ ullaton have been extensively used for the
/ steam marine on the Caspian and on the rail D.
ways in southeastern Russia, but the price
/ charged here for petroleum has been too high
/ 10 permit Of IT'S economic use In competition
! W ia coal. although thaFp ha e. been