Savannah morning news., 1886-05-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ounces per score, Legion eggs little over 3
pounus ana Spanish egg2 pounds IA ounces.
l5O-TON BOULDER rled down the noun
tain at Swapville, Me .,he other day and cut
clean swath throughlarge forest trees for
over 30 rods.
The town of WateDrd. Ireland, enjoys a
unique distinction. It's the landlord of over
1900 houses and colecl rents averaging SlOO
yearly from each.
RECENTLY a steamr, the British Queen,
sailed from these shoes for Liverpool with
the nrst shipment ochemlcally preserved
beer ever sent to EngInd.
AN IOWA cattle grocer has dehorned l25
cattle with no bad reults. and regards it a
great economy. Hethinks that horns do
$l'VOO,OOO damages annally in Iowa alone,
THE LARGE Italian ironclad Italia lately
made run of forty sVen aud a half miles in
two hours and twenty minutes. This means
an average speed of c)se on eighteen knots
| an hour.
The story runs IN Paris that When the
Comte de Chambord iied a certain noble
dame carried her ostetatious sorrow so far
as 10 nave her lawn-tenis net and raquettes
| dyed black.
| SUBURBAN PRoPERTYs increasing in value
! rapidly IN Washington and the town is grad
| ually crawling up on tn hills. Houses worth
SZO,' W, S5O, 900, $40. 900 AM upwards are being
| Dullt IN the suburbs.
TWO MEMBERS of Parliament have lately
fallen heirs to $4,000 aiece, bequeathed to
them by lady with WON neither had sn
acquaintance, and who lid not even state the
grounds OF her appreciation.
IN 1884 Charles G. Mile. of New York State.
went to Texas and secured a large tract of
and He was killed in on of the battles for the
STATE independence. an now his heirs are
wanted to take possession of the land. which
Is worth about 100000.
JOSEPH c. BARRETT, o Newport. Pa. while
working in the woods hung his vest on a
oush. The woods caught fire, and when Bar
rett went for his vest oily the buttons re-
NAMED. HIS gold watctiay on the ground
tlcklng steadily IN spite # the fire.
DIR. W. F. CARVER, tie well-known rife
shot, says: 1t is not centrally known that an
orange hit in the act centre by rifle ball
VIII vanish at once from sight. Such, how
ever, is the fact, and that's nv way of max
ing an orange disappear-shooting it through
me ceptre, which scatter it into such IN
mutt sinai pieces that it is at once lost to
signt. Try 1t yourself anc see if what say is
not so.
THERE was recently ia Exeter. n. H.. a
tournament OF the New England Trap Shoot
ers' Association, and fifteen boys were hired
to work the traps. When all were ready the
word pull" was given. but no glass balls
new In the air. Thrice the word was given
w'thout Result, ana then the 'eader of the
Doys arose ana SAID; I'VE want dollar and
half day or no work" The strike was
success.
MRS. STAFFORD, of st. Louis, was spending
the afternoon with neIghbor on Monday.
when she saw valuable setter dog OF her
husbands racing back and forth between the
Two houses and attempting to Jump uD to the
window where she was sitting She at length
aecided that something was wrong, went TO
her house, unlocked the door, and found thai
the house was on fire. The dogs varning
was IN Time, and the building was saved
HATHAWAY, q snake charmer at Coles cir
Gus, was bitten by large anaconda during
the performance at st. Louis last week, and
1t is said is fatally hurt The reptile. one of
the largest Of its kind. was cOiled around the
performers body at the time and the attack
was witnessed by the audience. The fangs
penetrated the unfortunate mans head near
the temple. A number of prominent physi-
clans In attendance on the medical conyen-
ton examined the case.
A FEW DAYS BEFORE William Ashworth. Of
Oregon. Mo-, died. he had quantity OF gold
coin. That was fifteen years ago, and thoueh
a careful search was made for the treasure.
it could not be found. Tast week Mrs. Asb-
worth emptied an old churn that M d stood
on a shelf In the smoke house for years. The
churn was full Of beans, and in the bottom
was a tin can, and IN the can was an old wool
len sock, an in the sock was the long searched
for gold. 1t amounted to $7l2.
SENATOR FAIR,of Nevada, has written To the
Secre ary of the Interior, suggesting that the
Apache Indians be located on Fanta Catalina
Island. in the Pacific Ocean, twenty-fi We miles
soutwe of Los Angeles. Southern California.
The leland is secluded, salubrious and can he
bought for SO or 81 an acre. Senator Far
thinks the Indians would like it after they got
there, and the Government would be saved
the expense OF guarding white settlers against
the inner raids of the Indians.
ONE of the striking journeymen plumbers
Of Buffalo says that the strike will show how
the boss plumbers make so much money. He
said: IL will tell you one way; if the war
gets very hot may tell you more Thev send
men out who are no more than mere appren
tices. and whose wages are not more than
81 so per day: but it is charged in the bill at
IS per day, every time Boys are thus made
to do mems work and are paid mems wages
and eXOrbitant wages at that, bv those who
are unfortunate enough to have them sent To
do their work"
JUDGE BYBEE, of Portland, Ore. has an
irish setter, and between the Justice and the
dog very intimate friendship exists. The
other day the Judge went to San Francisco
without. consulting the setter. As soon as the
log missed his m tster he went moplnK about
Ds
ne grew mo0dier, and when three days passed
by aud still no MASTER was visible he Iay down
n the closet where the uniting trans were
lept and refused AL caresses. and FOR five
lays would no take apartice of food Finally
he wandered of to livery stable where his
masters horse was kept and would not be
iriven awaY. Once a day he went back in
he house for food and kept up this pro-
'ramme till the absent one returned.
TIVE predictions of the Mississippi River
)omm ssion and friends of the measure. thai
he work OF the government under the super |
Iision of Capt. John G. ID. Knight, United |
itates engineers. at Plum Point. would nroge |
success, has been verified by reports Of eN- |
'erlenced river men. In snite OF the great |
reshet and the vast quantity OF drift wood !
vhlch mas noaled outh the works have in no |
egree been injured. The pIling is al owe !
water, ana car iul examination shows 10 /
e abs utely intact, the entire system az /
hling throughOut the work being in the most
condition. There Il no bottonn
epurted IN the channel Fought 10 he i'm
royed by the government, winch in [ elf is
vldence OF the correctness nf the theory
dopted by the engineers in charge.
ONE Of Millionaire Mackay's newspaper
cts was reporter on one OF the IN Fran
lsco daiies. med Hull. Mackay had never
let Hull, but he knew his column in the ma
er and enjoyed immensely ms brief. nun
mt paragraph. One day Sam Davis. a re-
orter on the virginia City II Elteprise in
'rmed Mackay that Hall was deaf: thar he
al lefJ wi ow and several children in in |
gent circumstanres, and sugges ed that he
DAVIS and Mackay should send Mrs. Hull a |