The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


A FLORIST at Lancaster, Pa, has so improved
the dandelion that he has produced specimens
~ inches in diameter.
THERE are in Vienna at present six companies
who make business of hiring out steam boilers
to small manufacturers.
THE carpet manufacturers of Philadelphia
have 1850 looms in use. employ II, 500 hands,
and manufacture annually 100000 yards OF
carpet at a value Of S4497OOOO.
THERE we're manufactured in the United
States last year in round numbers, 100000
pounds of tobacco, 100000 pounds of snuff
1900, 0000 600 cigars, and 1,5OO0OOOOO cigarettes.
THE United States exported in 1883 S2,O92, 053
worth of sewing machines, as against S2307. 357
in 1887; and 81, 625, 1856 worth Of steam engines
and other machinery in 1883 as against So 6SS, 100
in 1887.
MAN is the universal animal 1t is estimated
that there is 1850, 900 900 of him on the globe.
The sheep rank next with 800 900 000 300 0)0. 900
cattle. 100 900 000 hogs 0he fourfooted variety,
and 60 900 horses continue the list.
SoUTHBRIDGE, MASS, has the largest spectacle
factory in the world. More than three-fourths
of the gold spec.acles and eyeglasses made in
this country are made in Southbridge, one com
pany alone in that town having turned out
1906, 900 pairs last year.
A PECULIAR ACCIDENT happened to William
Fisher, Lima, O., youth. He was standing under
a street lamp, when the glass broke. He looked
upward TO see what the matter, when
large fragment Of glass hit him in the eye.
cutting the bail nearly in two.
AN EXCHANGE tells Of family carriage horse
which became melancholy through being sepa-
rated from its owner, who went off on a long
trip for his health. and rapidly lost flesh;
Skilled veterinarians were called in, but the old
animal continued to pine away and died before
its master returned.
NEARLY every west-bound train on the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad carries
from five to dozen emigrant cars filed with
emigrants for Dakota, majority OF whom are
Germans. The Dakota towns are rapidly fill
ing up with strangers, and the nveliest KIND
of boom is looked for during the coming sum-
mer.
THE AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY has been
founded at Harvard college to make q sys-
tematic study of the various dictions of the
United States. The Harvard profes 'ors are in
terested in the scheme. Prof. Child is presi-
dent and the other oficsrs are from the corps
OF instructors. An editing committee has been
chosen from college professors all over the
country.
A PACIFIC COAST PAPER reports that the blow
ing up of a rock in the harbor of Nanaimo was
attended by remarkable sight. At the mo
ment the explosion occurred an immense shoal
OF herring was passing over the place, and
For several minutes afterward the water was of
a silver color from the immense number OF fish
which hoated on the water to the depth of a
foot or more, stunned or killed by the shock
HANNIBAL HAsLIN has returned to Maine and
confirms the report that he bought and wore an
overcoat while in Minnesota. He adds: "a did
not buy the garment on account Of my feelings,
but out Of respect for the weather. When the
thermometer runs down to 40' below zero |
think the ordinary cOurtesies of the occasion
would demand proper recognition of the pres
enCe of Boreas, the Ice king. My frierd were
much amused at my surrender but Minnesota
blizzard is not meteorolog ical condition to be
treated with disrespect"
INVESTIGATION Of fire ruins shows that porous
terra Gotta bricks and blocks best resist fire,
water and frost next to these in the order of fire
resisting qualities being the various concretes.
some OF them, and burned clay work. In the
best building work now done, the iron part is
incased in porous terra Gotta, tile or brick work
in roof, floor, and tile construction; the hollow
tiles are faced with vitreous tile, slate. or any
good weather proof coating or with a single
thickness of brick. Incased in fireproof ma
terials, iron and steel framework is claimed to
give the best results.
CHARLES Sites of Newark, N. j., had an en-
counter with a cat on Monday afternoon that he
will not soon forget. He was walking between
two piles of lumber in the street when his at
tention was attracted by an ugly growl. He
scarcely udu time 10 turn TO see whence IL came
before cat sprang beneath the boards and
planted its teeth in the calf Of his leg. His flesh
was further torn by his efforts to shake the ami
NAL off, and finally, at the risk of having his
hands bitten, he seized it around the neck and
had to choke it into insensibility before the
vicious brute gave up the fight. Even then he
had to remove its fangs from his leg by main
force.
CURIOUS cause Of death was recently re-
corded in India. native who was fishing in
a stream caught fat, eel-like fish about fifteen
or sixteen inches in length. Being DESTROYS of
killing it, he put 1t into his mouth in order to
bite It's head. The fish, however, scarcely APP
preciating this somewhat clumsy attempt at
decapitation, vigorously essayed to make other
arrangements in which it was partially sue
ceSsful Giftel with sliminess which made it
very difficult to hold, it slipped through the
mans fingers into his mouth and conveyed
itself partly down his gulet. The situation
now was bad for the fish, but still worse for che
man, for, owing to the sharp fins on the back OF
the fish, it was not possible to withdraw it, The
man died in great agony within an hour.
THE London Hospital states that an unex-
pected testimony to the value of incubation
comes from South Africa. G. A. Farini, the
explorer of the Kalahari desert, had some oxen
bitten by poisonous snakes aud one of his bush
men, it is said, cured them by making incisions
around the bite, and rubbing into these a
powder made from the dried poison-sacs Of
other snakes. In a few hours the Inflammation
caused by the bite Disappeared, and the oxen
were quite well. A few days afterward the
bushman himself was bitten. He at once inoc-
ulated himself in similar way with the pow
der, and having extracted from the wound the
fangs of the snake that had bitten him, he
drank drop Of poison from the virus He
Immediately fell into stupor that lasted some
hours. At first the swelling of the wound in
creased, but it soon subsided. Next morning
he inoculated himself again. By the evening
of that day the swelling mad disappeared, and
two days after he was as well as ever.
In 1880 some young ladies in Berlin, Germany,
founded club, the members of which pledged
themselves not to marry, under pain of fine
of 1000 marks At first the club was a great
success; it started with twenty-three members,
and soon increased its number TO thirty-one
Suddenly, however, an epidemic Of marrying
broke out in the club; and this year, at the gen
eral meeting, there was only one solitary MEM
Der left who found herself called upon to dis
nose of ., 900 marks, the amount remaining of
the fines that had been paid This, by the Off
cial advice Of the perjured ex-members. the
general meeting resolved to divide into equal
portions, one 10 be given TO the Berlin hospitals
the other to be settled on the last member IL
seems pity that the following advertisement
which has Just appeared in a Frankfort paper,
cannot be brought before this members notice.
II reads as follows: "a poor devil wishes to
make the acquaintance of rich angel. with a
view to matrimony, in the hope OF M king for
himself little heaven on earth. "
THE New York Press, speaking Of the recent
death Of the venerable Mr.. S. c. Hall, says:
''Mr. Hall was a remarkable example of what
industry and tact, seconded by temperate habits