The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST

facture about 10 900 000.001 of these dirninrtfva
| but useful articles every year.
REDHEADvILLE is the name of a fiourisbing
settlement in Otsego county, Mich. A famiIv
ton. - f'0--~'
Ar THE BAPTIST FAIR in Flint. Mich. which
IS now over. the spade with which ground was
| $40. N--'-- - " a. Soid ior
| The TWO SIDES Of the face are not alike. As
a rule, says a German professor, the want of
symmetry is confined to the upper part of the
| POCKET TYPEWRITER is shortly to be offered
70 the British public. The retail price will be
y %. 1t measures three and one-half inches by
three inches, and weighs about four ounces
| LONDON was first lighted in 14l4 with private
lanterns. In 1876 the lanterns were increased to
| 100000 in number. In 1744 the first lighting
| act was passed. In 1870 gas was generally sub
/ sututs q for oil.
TAvERNs may be traced to the thirteenth GEN.
fury. According 10 Spelman, in the reign of
King Edward III. only three taverns we're al
lowed In London. TavernS were licensed in
England in l752.
IRON is rolled so thin at the Pittsburg iron
mills that $4,000 sheets are required to make
| single inch in thickness. Light shines through
one OF these sheets as readily as it does through
/
| QUEER DECISION by a New Jersey Justice of
the peace is reported. John Wolf put a stuffed
| wolf at the door to represent his name A dog
| destroyed the sign, and the Justice holds that
| as the stuffed wolf represented John Wolf the
| uog IS guilty of biting the man, anc his owner
must pay S25 damages
| THE PRODUCTION of Bessemer steel ignots in
the United States during 1886 was 269 100 gross
tons leS e., OF rails the output was computed at
1ler steel lngots in 1886 was 695,670 tons more
tlan that of 1885, while the production of rails
| had increased by COZ, $3.50 tons.
| DUCK recently killed near jamestown, n.
y, has caused great excitement in that region.
In In It's crop was found piece of gold quartz
Inc Inc plrd mad been feeding on the borders of
Chautduqua Lake near by, and it is claimed that
an examination of the locality revealed MANY
| more specimens of rich gold-b bearing quartz
| WHILE remodeling chimney in an old home
stead IN Cherryfeld, Me-, for the purpose of
attaching hot air furnace, an Int srestin2 relic
~ Tue form or little brown Jug of unusual
S a.hipt was found in an arch of the. chimney
WHICH, certainly had not seen the light for 100
years. 1t was empty, but smelled of other days
| CONTAGIOUS EYE DISEASE has made its ap-
pearance in the public schools at Chiffon. Wis.
| Some ten or twelve scholars have been attacked
| ana the disease is rapidly spreading As soon
| as the disease is noticeable the pupil is sent
HOLlo. lucy generally recover in about fOur
Gays. Inc disease is of such a nature as to in
name the lids and under portions of the eve
The epidemic, it is thought, will spread over the
ehUre SCHOOLS, as nearly every scholar has been
exposed.
STRANGERS visiting New York might obtain a
oit OF ADVICE from the following incident which
occurred there on Thursday morning Mr.
Schultz of Yonkers was walking down Rroad-
! way when he was approached by a small how
unuer 10 years of age, who asked him for a
S Si,t schultz did not have with him.
put generously gave him half of the one he was
sinoKlng. An agent of the Society to Protect
Children from Cruelty then arrested Schultz
anu nad MIN taken to station house. where he
law. --''''-e VIC
In SPAIN farming is conducted in a very prim-
tive way. Grain is cut with a small reapinp
hook. and threshed as in the time of the CAESARS
that Is, by tramping about with asses hitched to
| stone boat The pillow is crooked stick
pointed with iron. In the towns are to be seen
neavy wooden carts drawn by oxen Most of
the carrying, transferring, etc. is done bv
donGeys. Sand, brick lumber-in fact almost
everything that has to be moved-is carried on
Shelr packs. These animals are used all through
SPAN, ana Tor every purpose in the same way
IN which we use them in the almost impassable
canyons Of the Rocky mountains.
The native Egyptian is an extremely good
subject for surgical operation. Cot Bey the
founder of modern medicine in Egypt. has it
Egyptian as seven Europeans. In the native
hospitals the man whose thigh is amputated at
O'Clock is sitting up and lively at s o'clock. +"
Shock is almost entirely unknown, and dread Of
an impending operation quite an exception In
explanation may be noted the resignation in
culcated by their religion; the very small pro-
Pertlon OF meat meat they eat, and the total alb ence
OF alcohol from their diet, and in general their
regular abstemious out-of-door life.
IT is NOT ALWAYS. perhaps not often, that an
important discovery particularly benefits the
discoverer. The opening of the diamond fields
of South Africa, from which a thousand mill
ion dollars worth of diamonds have been
taken, was due to the pertinacity of a man
named O'Reilly, who was trader among the
natives, and first conceived the idea thai the
country was rich in diamonds and gold,
O,Reiily himself did not go to the dggings
and did not profit by them. On the contrary
the rush to the diamond fields ruined his trade
with the natives, and South African CORE
spondent says that he is working for his
living There is probably moral in this story
if we could only get at it.
AN ENGLISH DEVICE is announced abroad
which is scarcely intended to supplant auto.
matte sprnkers or extnguishing appliances
but simply to hold the fire in check until effect
ual means OF eXtingushment are at hand.
These fire check devices are alta .hed at intervals
on ceilings, beams, rafters etc., and upon a fire
breaking out, The heat causes the generation Of
gas which is non supporter of combustion
Thus the fire, for lack of oxygen cannot burn
freely, whilst an automatic alarm Communicates
with those responsible for the custody of The
building. The invention will no doubt becona
popular, inamuch as it is not expensive In
stallatlons are now fitted and periodic inspec-
lions made for guinea per annum upwards.
AT PARIS there is one of the largest pieces
of brick work a correspondent of the New
York Commercial Advertiser ever saw eft
consists" he says, "of reservoir for sunplv-
ing portion OF the C ty with water. 1t covers
a space OF 10000 yards, and is two-story basin.
the first story being the same size as the second
and containing $500 columns of brick. each 2I
inches square, and about feet high. The whole
is arched over with groin arches in brick and
again there is the same number of columns
about the same hight and again arched over in
a similar manner for the second floor, Each
floor carries about four feet of water. and the
whole is covered over with glass. man goes
over both lakes twice day in a boat con. |
structed for the purpose, to see that all is Sc
cure"
A GERMAN periodical gives statistics concern.
ing the frequency of thunder storms in various |
regions of the world. Java has thunder storms |
on the average 81 days in the year. Sumatra So. |
Hindostan Sc, Borneo 81, the Gold Coast 81 RIO |
de Janeiro 81, Italy 80, West Indies 49, South |
Guinea 30, Buenos Ayres, Canada and Austria |
%, Baden, Wurtemberg and Hungary %. |
Silesia. B .yaria and Belgium 81 Holland Isl |
Saxony and Brandenburg II, France Austria |
and South Russia IS, Spain and Portugal l5 |
Sweden and Finland s, England and the high |
Swiss mountains z, Norway 4, Cairo 8. In East |
Turkestan, as well in the extreme north |
there are very few thunder storms The north |
ern limits of thunder storms are Cape Ogle.
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