Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-01-24
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

1t is said that less than a year is
the average professional life OF good
looking school teacher in MERGED
County, Cal.
1t was an old woman in Indiana
who invented the whisk broom, and
millions of them are whisking from
daylight to dark without her having
made cent out of the invention.
"A prisoner in Delaware jail had
only a caseknife and a brickbat as tools
to reach The outer world, but he got
out in just sixty-nine minutes after be-
ginning operations, and he lost nine
minutes In reflection at that.
Warner, Cal, pays bounty on
coyote scalps, and some inhuman hun
ter, after scalping several of the
animals, again set them at liberty.
Thefact was brought to light by the
recapture of two of the tortured
beings. -
"A Nebraska man has settled the
question of how prairie dogs obtain
the water they drink. He says they
dig their own wells, each village hav-
Ing one with concealed opening.
He knows of one such we'll 200 feet
deep, having circular staircase lead
ing down to the water.
"A Rutland, VT, family, while eat
ing dinner, discovered small tin box
In the center of the butter. 1t was
opened and found to contain a ire
hinder to some unmarried Christian
gentleman of his duty" The note was
from "a girl, eighteen years of age,
good looking, and an excellent house
keeper"
"A passenger in sleeping-car on a
Michigan railroad pulled the bell-rope
and stopped the train. When found
and questioned by the conductor, he
only wanted TO know if the train had
an engineer, conductor and brakeman,
or was running wild without them.
The conductor did not make d very
polite answer.
"A Philadelphia newspaper says
that the prevailing impression that
1.-THE old-time, broad brimmed, sugar.
scoop Quakers" are dying out is erro-
neous at least as far as Philadelphia
is concerned. Twenty-Five years ago
the same impression prevailed, but to-
day the benches in the meeting-houses
are as full as then.
"A Manistee, Mich, baby which ate
an eight-grain dose OF morphine was
given several antidotes, but it became
unconscious, and was given up for
dead. About sixteen hours later,
however, while the friends stood
around and silently admired tho beau
ty of the corpse, the baby awoke and
smilingly demanded d drink Of milk:
As regards the familiar term
"corn," SO frequently referred to in
the European Journals, 1t usually de-
notes iii each country such grain as is
the most prominent production. Thus,
in Central Europe the "corn" is rye,
in France and England wheat, in
America maize, and in some countries
oats. The term pulse" is also fire.
quently used in England, and has
reference to beans and peas.
Atlanta, Ga, has paper house.
No wood, brick iron or other material
Is used about the building. II Ii i
neat iittle store painted sky-blue; and
was erected BY frenGhnian who is
agent for the paper Of which 1t is con
structed. The rafters, the weather
boarding, the roof and the flooring are
all made of thick; compressed paper
boards, impetvious to Water and az
durable as wood. The house ean mo-
catch on fire as easily as d wooder
building, because the surface of the
paper is smooth and hard.
"A California miner says that miners
are very superstitious class, and hi
tells Of dreams and other forms q
warning they have received, notifying
them of danger, which proved Yer!
timely. He says: II know of Il vastly
rich mine in the San Gabriel Mountains
Los Angeles County, that has caused
the death of every man who has trie(
to carry ore away from it, You ma.
call this superstition also, but Their
are dozen miners besides myself WHIT
know Of the millions that could b.
taken from this MIND, and yet DR.,
afraid to go near it. Some half
dozen men had been killed by caves
etc.n