The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


ONE of the most remarkable instances of pa
tlent toll IN ornameRting the pages of book
was separating the columns of the London
IPolygiot Bible, completed in 1867, by ruling red
lines between the columns of print ON each
PAGE. Five red lines were necessary on each
page These were made by hand, Of course
and called for the exercise of the greatest skill
and care, for single blot ruined at least four
printed pages. This is the famous Bible which
was at first dedicated to the Lord High Protector
cromwell, but who. in a substituted dedication
70 Z larles H., after Cromwells DEATH is pleas
Dragon,'
MARYLAND's FISH COMMISSIONER has aban-
doned the attempt to exterminate cells from the
Chesapeake tributaries Under a law passed
oy the last legislature 9 cents were paid for
each eel delivered to the state inspectors and
IN short time 10000 cells were caught in
Wlcomico river alone, and paid for The com
missioner, however. says that there are more
eeIs IN the Wicomico river to-day than when he
began his work of determination. He SAYS he
Is now satisfied that els-do not destroy the
spawn OF shad and other fish. as was believed
oy those who framed the eel law. A score of
traps set IN the spawning grounds failed to
capture single eel, and in the hundreds of eels
spawn.
H. u. MCCONNELL Of the Canadian geological
survey has returned from his inspection of the
he commenced about 800 miles north of Cal
gary and extended his operations for some 900
Tlies further northto the vicinity Of Vermillion.
This region embraces an area of 30 coo or 30 900
square miles. Little of this tract was ever ex-
plored before by white men. great deal of it
Is good farming land but swamps abound and
make IL unit for settlement The trees are
PRINCIPALLY spruce and poplar Speaking of the
deposits OF oil reported to be there, Mr. McCon-
neil SAID he certainly found quantities of tar,
lliuicatlng the presence of oil. but just in what
quantities it existed he was not prepared to say
before making his reports
IT IS UNDERSTOOD that the brc-a -brac collec-
ton of the late s. L. NJ Barlow of New York
will be put up at auction by the American Art
society during the winter Mr. Barlow was an
hdefatlgabe collector, and as he began very
early In life his collection is valuable one and
w WI, DOUBTLESS bring good deal of money. Even
hr' Barlows closest friends have been sur
prised 70 hear that when the executors came to
take hold OF his estate, they found very little to
take mold OF. He was reputed to be very
wealthy, but it seems that he engaged in so
many schemes and enterprises wherein he lost
money that long before his death there was
noun but the reputation of having fortune
1eIC 70 him The fortune itself had disappeared.
Sonlethlng similar was true of Allen Thorndike
rice; IL IS stated now that the entire estate of
VT Rlce will not foot up more than S25 900 or
9oO,uVO This probably, however. is an exag
was accounted millionaire, the property which
came INTO the hands of his trustees after his
death was certainly very small.
A MAN down in ColeraineItownship Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania, lost his pension a short
time ago in way that he thought for time
was rather mysterious, but he now understands
Ihree or four years ago he was allowed a men,
sion for total disability, and he received the
sum of 81, 90, which he claimed to be due him,
After that he received S14 a month Abouttwo
Lnonths ago the pensoner, who makes posts
ana rails and sets fence, was at work near his
nome, when well-dressed and pleasant looking
stranger came by and engaged him in CONVEX
satlon. AS the pensioner hewed the pc Is the
newcomer began ia king about that kind Of
WORK, and asked him how much he could do in
a week The pensioner, who Is inclined to brag
ABOUT himself, said that he coal make more
Ppt GSoS ana SCI more fence in day than any
other man in the neighborhood. The stranger
soon went away, and since that time the
countryman has not received a pension He
mas since learned that the stranger was de-
Cectve IN the employ of the government who
mad been sent there to find out whether he was
as padly disabled as he claimed to be.
MOST SQUIRRELS keep two or more stores of
food. Wood. the British naturalist, tells of a
friend who found one of these reserve stores.
winch squirrel had provided for an exigency.
ana the friend in moment of thoughtlessneSs,
determined to play joke on the squirrel He
accordingly replaced the nuts by small round
stones, and carefully concealed all evidences of
his visit; One cold day in winter he passed the
there short time previously This he knew by
the fact that ten inches of snow had been
scratched from the top of the hole. outside of
which the stones had been cast
by the disappointed animal. This
struck the joker with remorse He
said: 81 never felt the folly of practical Joking
so much in my life. Fancy the poor little fel,
low with scanty food, but foreseeing a long
winter, resolved to economic his little horde as
long as possible. Fancy him at last deter
mined to break this-perhaps his last-maEa-
Zne, and cheerily brushing away the snow,
fully confident that good meal awaited him as
the reward of his cold job, and after all finding
nothing but stones. l never felt more mean
and ashamed in my life, and really would have
given guinea to have known that injured
squirrels address. He should have had as fine
lot of nuts as would have put him beyond the
reach of poverty had he lived to be as old as
Methusaleh."