Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ENOUGH people have gone into Kansas
within year to found city the size Of Balti-
! more.
SNowsHoE CLUBS are organizing in North
! ern Mich gan. and l. 500 worth of flannel uni
/ forms have been ordered from one tailor
! alone toboggan slide will also DO built at
Marquette.
/ ACCORDING TO the san Francisco news
! papers, more frst-c lass wine has been made
! in California this year than ever before. as
/ result of experiments in growing The best
| grapes from France and Germany.
AN amateur gardener has found that petro-
! leum poured into the crown Of such plants as
! dandelions, thstles and plantains will XII
| them. but in ridding a lawn O. these eep-
| Rooted weeds care must be taken not to flood
| the grass with the oil.
| PHOTOGRAPHER took picture of the re-
cent railroad disaster at Rio and sold the
| negative to a railroad man for 81. The rail-
| road man. having the pany's interests at
| heart. Immediately DIES royed the plate. and
now the photographer is mad clear through.
IT is learned from good authority that
man who once dld large lottery business in
! Mobile will petition the present Alabama
/ Legislature for a char err to re establish his
| enterprise. He Wi offer as an indn emeut
| for the charter to spend 100000 annual for
| Lighting and paving the streets of Mobile.
SIMPLE people often make valuable art crit
| iclsms W thout intentional effort. Two coun-
| trymen were looking at painting. One said:
| "They amt cal fggers." "Ain't? Well,
| they loos a heap Ike it, How kin anybody
| paint that wavP" "Pshaw, man. noboo does
| paint that way. The artist j, st holds the
! brushes ana some higher power does the
| paintln'."
| TRACT of land on the western shore of
Cayuga lake, n. Y, near Csnoga, has ben
| leased to Rochester parties for the cultivation
| OF frogs. The rai-tng of frogs for the New
! York market has come to be recognized in
! dnstry. There is large frog farm in the
| neighborhood OF Waterloo and several in
| Canada. and still the demand Is greater than
| the supply.
A WEDDING Of deaf mutes took place at the
&C" DOL for deaf mutes in Stlem, Ore. The
clergy man performed the ceremony in the
| sign language, rot word being audibly
! spoken, WHOM in itself added sOlemn:ty 10 the
| occasi n. Both the bride and he groom were
| at one time pupils in the school. where their
| acqualnianceship ripened into friendship and
| maJured In love.
| TIE Little Sisters OF the Poor in Paris have
a curious habit of applying the adjective
''little" to everything they do or say. Their
| poor are "peiits vieu,' and they have little
| iikings. lit e vexations and little pains. In
| an arm chair sits the senior If the ''petites
| vleilles," who is 81 years OF age. and for ten
| years she has summoned the little sister who
| waits on her each afternoon and says: Il am
| going to die two hours; you will place me
in my little grave"
Rev. DR.. A. c. EIMB ER Of Trinity's st, Au-
! justine chapel in Houston street, New York,
admiresthe district messenger service of Phil
adephia, and uti lied it TO good advantage
| short time ago. DR.. kimber left New York to
find Thomas Smith living in the Quaker
| city. The Doctor didn't know smith brsi-
| res, and there were tweutv-fOur TnUn -
| Smiths in the direr tory. I" eutv-f four mes
senger o0ys left word at their homes that DIR.
| himber would Ike TO zee them at the Coni1-
| mental Hotel in the evening. All the Thomas
| Smiths in the town were on hand, and DR..
! Kimber found his man.
ONE of the chief reasons for changing the
| jigger cars on the Brooklyn cross town lire
| for what is known as the Buffa o car-simil ar
to those run on Brosdway-was that buckeis
of counterfeit silver were annually worked
| of on the drivers. The company didn't seem
to mind il 40 long as the handlers of bogus
| coins confined ihe. cheating to times aud
quarters. but latterly only counterfeit silver
| dollars were Thought small enou h To BAN
| boozle the drivers nth. In one night eighty
| five of the dollars wer,'. taken BY divers on
the line. The mean part of the busin4 was
| that the drivers were responsible lor all silly Ell
received anu the cOunterfeiters knew il.
PRESIDENT RICHARDSON. of the Atlantic
Avenue (Brooklyni street railway, went to
Gre nville, y. J., Friday to see the appica-
elevated railway system. here is a single
| pillar with derrick Ike extension on which
| runs a rail charged with electrlcltr. Tue
motor rests on the rail and the car hangs be-
| low. The Eek peFImental track has a sharp
4 curve anda grade OF 500 fec 10 In mi e. and
! the little car was handled with great ease and
precision. sItwa stopped on the steepest part
| OF The grade aud held fast, AID IL was st pl ed
| with surprising quickness when goins at "a
| high rate of speed. II Is claimed fof it that
it can be run at an expense Of 81 day per
car.
THE most dangerous whirlpool on the New
| England coast Is that near Deer Island Point,
opposi Eastport, in Passamaquoddy bay.
At times when the tide backs up against a
| strong wind. great roaring ia heard, the
whirp pool. fully an acre in extent, swels up
80 the hei yht of twenty feet liSe great hill
| of yeast, then. falling back, forms a deer,
black. internal looking bowl. The fishermen
in ne neighborhood shun the whlrluopl as
they would the suphurous pit. ana some OF
them harbor SUI Teri lJIous notions alb ,ut It
winch ad dJo Its tcrrors. "A man who doesn't
know the river thoroughly has no bust ness 10
20 by 1t in small boat said an Old EastpOrt
fisherman to the writer. for IL - mighty
treacherous. and sometimes 10 )ks the siCkest
| when IL is the most dangerous" schooner
| loaded with plaster once went Gowa in it
with her crew. and no more was heard OF her
! or the men on board.
Mr.. GARTNER, c. e., OF Savannah, SAYS in
the SC entidc American: During my last
! trip in Europe | n ticed the use made by
railroad companies of large wall surfaces in
| their stations for charts OF the railroad sys-
| Tern TO which the $ alton belonged and also
| other connecting lines, or, in Que instance, in
| the depot of the Kaiser Ferdinand railroad
! I'll Vienna, showing Middle Europe with all
| rail road anu steamboat lines on a large scale,
| which found very cunven cut 10 m yseif and
fe low travellers for selecting lest routes to DIFF
! ferent places, These charts are made. prin ed
and finished to the wall az common wall
paper, and furnished by large vail paper
hrm. Thls, think, wOnld also he OF gre 1t
va ne to the travelling public Of this country,
| and as an advertisement 20 the raj road COM
| panies IN large stations where great rails and
| waiting rooms offer care all surfa ces, which
az the same Time would DO oman ented by
such charts"
By an act OF the Kentucky lie gslature there
was created several years ago the Stat
Dental Association, with certain powers. It
! was only. however. a short time since that
this association assumed the powers granted
| it, appointed a board o. examiners and Sc
| lected q seTIcs of questions with Il view OF as
certainlng the compel ency of applicants for
! men bersnip. The object Of the association ia
| TO prevent the practicing of incompetent
| deut'sts " no do not understand their business
| and who are liable to Uerhap- cripple for lite
! or seriously lnjure those upon " HON they
! may operate. IL appears that there are now
! IN Kentucky 200 registered deutists and AZ