Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-12-24
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"A lady residing In Port Angeles has
n curiosity in the shape OF chicken
born with four legs, but they seldom
live as this one has done now nearly
five months. The lady has two OF the
legs tied up so that the chicken is not
embarrassed while walking.
THAT fellow is awfully stuck up"
remarked the cob 10 the polo pony, rs
he wagged his ears in the direction of
the new tandem horse. "Fie refused to
recognize me to-day in the park. He
may be society leader now, but re-
member when his mother used to be
driven by the grocer's son."-Harper's
Bazaar.
The most curious character on the
island of Borneo is the white sultan or
rajah of Sarawak He is an English
man, Sir Charles Brooke, and the
United States is the only nation that
recognizes his sovereignty. He rules
over part of Borneo as large as Ire
land, and his subjects pay tribute to
him in rice
The first water mark on record was
the coat-of-arms of town. The early
phpermakers were not slow to adopt
this idea in impressing upon their sheets
the device OF the place where their mill
was situated. For instance, the coat
of-arms of the village OF Reeves, a
dolphin, is a common mark on old pa.
pers. This mark is still in use to-day.
Down to the time of Homer, who
fourished 907 b. c., as little was known
OF the surface of the earth as is now
known of the interior Greece was then
regarded as the center Of the earth,
which was surrounded at the distance
of five hundred miles by the ocean
river Later the land was extended
farther and limited form given to the
old continent
Near Bristol, VT, there is part OF
the road which teamsters find so very
rutty and steep that the difficulty in
passing that spot has caused ''cuss
words" to at least enter their minds If
not find expression. Aware of this
fact a pious gentleman has employed
two stone-cutters to engrave the Lords
prayer in letters an inch deep and six
inches high on huge rock conspicu-
ously visible from that part Of the road
"A South Paris woman. Mrs. Chand-
Ter Swift, lost and found a pin in a
queer way the other day. She was
feeding her chickens and caught one of
them, and while talking to it it pecke d
her initial pin from her throat and
swallowed it Her husband came up,
cut the chickens throat and extricated
the pin. He then closed the wound by
taking few stitches. The chicken is
now alive and scratching-ands so is the
pin.
Canary birds are a good deal
troubled by mosquitoes. The toes of
the bird are amply provided with small
veins, and as the membrane between
the toes is extremely thin, an observant
mosquito may see his favorite fluid cir
culating in plain sight A bird with a
swollen hind toe was brought to bird
fancier recently and he pronounced
the trouble poisoning from mosquito
bite. He said the thing was not un.
common.
Some notable specimens of game
have been killed in Maine recently.
Ralph Lord, of Westbrook, shot "a
golden eagle which measured 81 feet
from tip to tip of wings, with talons
"a inches long. At Surry a wildcat
was killed that measured feet in
length, 20 inches in height and weighed
SO pounds. Two hunters in the woods
of Shirley were followed by strange
animal, which they finally killed The
beast proved to be an "Indian devil"
feet in length. 1t Ind teeth three
inches long.
Sir Walter Butler describes a re.
markable characteristic OF the wander
ing albatross. At a certain time of the
year, between February and June, the
old birds leave their young and go tc
sea, and do not return until October
when they arrive in large numbers
During their absence the young birds
never leave the breeding-ground. I'm
mediately after the return of the OLD
birds, each pair goes to its old nest,
and, after little fondling of the young
one, turns it out and prepares the nest
for the next brood.
Just off a wagon road, leading tc
Sonora, Mexico. stands an immense
mesquite tree, which attracts attention
on account OF its size. 1t is promi
nent landmark, and it has many tragi,
memories. The trees near by are
twisted, crooked and stunted, but the
mesquite is straight and has regular
massive branches, and trunk thickei
than that of any other tree in the Colo
RADIO valley 1t is known as the dead
mans tree by the Mexicans, who hur
nv past it. Years ago the cattle raiser,
had to take advantage of the strength
of the lower branches of the tree to riC
themselves OF many cattle thieves.
Under the Roman rule the Egypt
ians excelled in glass-making. Caesar
Augustus having great admiration fol
the glass of Egypt, when he had sub
dued that country (se B. C), ordered
that it should form part of the annua
tribute to be paid to the victors. Thi
became source of Incredible wealth
to Egypt, for the Romans thereby be
came familiar with Egyptian glass, or
dered it in immense quantities, and thu
Egyptians devoted themselves to yer,
large export trade, of which they pre-
served the monopoly until the reign o
Tiberius IA A. d., at which time, &C
cording to Pliny, this industry began t,
be cultivated at Rome.
st. Georges Light.
Sixty-three miles from Humboldt ba
a lonely rock in the Pacific ocean ha
long been source of danger to tn
mariner, but will be so no longer