The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-07-21
SELECT SIFTINGS.

Harvard is the Oldest coliege IN the
United States
A chemist announces that wood can
be made very palatabe.
A new Chinese Sunday school has
been opened in Chicago
An alligator nest found in Rice Creek,
Fla, last week, contained forty three
young saurians.
In Australia they never launch ship
without having a clergyman present to
make a prayer.
A nugget of ruby ore, weighing one
thousand pounds, and estimated to be
worth $40, 900, was taken from a mine
near Elko, Cal, few days ago.
Red canaries sell for S. apiece in the
bird stores. They are said to be pro-
duced from the eggs of an ordinary
canary that has been fed on cayenne
pepper.
A young lady in Atlanta stepped to
window to look at a young man passing
by and just then large piece of plaster
ing fell down on the chair she had
vacated Had she kept her seat she
would have been killed.
A citizen of Douglas County, Kan,
has hit upon a new way of destroying
wolves. He puts a chunk of beef where
the wolves will find it, and in the fight
resulting for its possession one or more
are sure to be left dead on the field.
An army of sparrows and other birds
met sudden and not to say peculiar
death in Cincinnati. An ammonia tank
exploded, filling the air with the fumes
of the drug, thereby asphyXiating nearly
all the small animals in the neighbor-
hood, together with a horse which re-
sponded to the alarm of fire sent out.
The finest private collection of old
almanacs in America is said to be owned
by one of the justices of the Supreme
Court of the United States. The rarest
almanac in the country probably is one
published by William Bradford IN 1886.
1t is in the collection of the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania, and is valued
at $3.50.
AT the hacienda of Rio Florido, Mex
leo, there lives a man 1870 years old.
His wife is in her 111th year. They
have been married ninety five years. The
owners of the hacienda and the people of
the neighboring plantations anticipate
the pleasure of giving this aged Indian
couple great many presents on the
Tooth anniversary of their wedding day.
There was very peculiar suicide in
Lancy park, Elmira, n. Y, the other
morning. A robin redbreast, deserted
by its mate, sought to drown its misery
in death. Taking long string which
he had picked up to put into its nest, he
swung it around bough, then wound
it around his neck, and expired. This
body hung in the tree all day, and many
pedestrians gazed at it curiously.
II. Compton, postmaster of Volo, ILL.,,
claims to have discovered a peculiar
phenomenon in the Woods of LAX,
County. AS described by him, it con,
sists of the natural migrating of bur
oak tree upon white oak. The bur,
oak leans against the other from thu
ground up, and is dead. The deat
trunk, however, seems to go RICH
through that OF the living white oak
and the branches of both varieties oil
tree, all green and vigorous, mingle to
gether in about equal proportions.
The white wild goose of the Pacific
slope is a remarkable bird. An editor
of riverside paper says that he one,
killed one. 1t took four bullets from {
44-caiber Sharp's rifle to bring the
bird down at a range of seventy five
yards. Each cartridge contains almost
two grains of powder, All the bullet:
passed through the heart of the goose
and lodged in the skin on the opposite
81 de from where they went in. An at
tempt was made to boil this bird
Strange to say, the bullets were cooked
to jelly before any impression was
made on the goose"