The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1T Is well known That ABOUT 20,UO0 people are
killed every year in India by wild beasts and
reptiles. the larger number falling Victims to
poisonous snakes 1t was recently discovered
| that the injection of permanganate of potash
was specific cure for COBRA poisoning. The
! government discussed the project Of furnishing
the natives with hypodermic syringes ard a
| quantity or permangaIate or potash, but the
| scheme had to be rejected because it was found
that 1t would entail an expense of $40 600, 900
ACCORDING to the st. Louis Globe Democrat
the Indians of the Colorado desert have won
derful way of foreteiling the weather. They
not only prognosticate for few DAYS. but for
six months and sometimes a year Last fall
| they told everybody that should have cool
summer, and that the fruit would be late
They were right The fruit was very late this
summer. They declare That next year will be
! an early summer and that the fruit will rpen
early, What they base their predictions upon
| is unknown.
| The vAsTNEss Of Names timber wealth, says
the Southern Lumberman, is not generally ap-
! preciated. Every year now 800 900 900 feet of
logs are cut in the state about one third of this
| amount floating down the Penobscot, and the
| quantity of manufactured lumber that has
| been shipped from the state since the first saw
| mill was started is enormous beyond descrip-
ton. Today the Penobscot log crop is sawed
| almost wholly for the American market New
York, New England ports aud Philadelphia
| taking the bulk of it.
| IN the collection of curiosities at Woolwich
arsenal, where the great English guns are made,
is probably the largest steel shaving in the
world. 1t is the result of an accident A work
man who had charge of lathe on which a
! 6Opounder was being turned left his post
| for some time, and on his return he found that
a shaving over seventy feet in length had been
| turned from the gum jacket in his absence. It
was subsequently turned into huge Turks
| head knot, painted red. white and blue, and
| placed among The curiosity collection.
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lage, in the Connecticut valley was attacked
by bull on his farm the other day. He was
crossing his pasture when the bull charged him
| MIR. Carter was thrown to the ground and the
bull drove his horns into his shoulders several
| tunes. Then the farmer got bis jackknife ont
| of his pocket, and as the bull came on again hs
| drove the blade into its neck. After having
| been tossed along the ground for several yards
Mr. Carter regained his feet and ran for fence,
| but the bull overlook him and flung him twenty
| feet over the fence. He was senseless when
| neighbors rescued him.
THE largest check ever given in this country
was that given by Jay Gould to Thomas Allen
| for the Iron Mountain railroad He paid
| $4,000 900 for it, and handed Allen a check for
| that amount upon his acceptance of the offer
Allen looked at the paper that represented this
vast amount and said: Isn't this good deal
of money for one man to have in one bank?" II
don't know" replied Gould Perhaps it is.
Let me have the check" Allen then handed
TO his office boy. saying: Here. boy; take
this check to the bank and have the cashier
certify to it." And the boy went out and did it.
MosT WOMEN, when You come to think of it.
saysthe Sidney Bulletin, don't appreciate the
solely poetic aspect Of things, and have already
found that the good Australian lady in the dia-
mond bracelet and expensive opera cloak is
most deeply affected by the prosecuted heroine
in good plain English, with no doubt whatever
as TO what she is crying about Which reminds
me that was once out yachting with such a
person, and every one was gushing over the
view in goneral-the reflection of the trees in
the water, etc. But she spoke not until some
body said; 20, look at the cabbages" Then
she reused from her over-fed somnolence and,
gazing round at the landscape, inquired
ecstatically: 30. show me, where are the cab
bages?" Don't you think most women are like
that?
At the recent regular weekly meeting OF the
Richmond Methodist minister's which took place
at the Broad Street church, there we're quite
number OF preachers present, including all the
regular Richmond and Manchester divnes ex-
cept Dr. Tudor, DR.. Woodward, and Or. Ray,
and also several Virginia local preachers. After
the various reports of the previous weeks
work and other routine proceedings the late
publication over the signature of Prof Noah X.
Davis, criticsing the efficacy of prayer for rain
was informally discussed. The argument
preachers pss Ss' present s including the Revs VS.
Paul Whitehead a G. Brown, P. A. Peterson,
J Wiley Bledsoe, f. NJ. Peterson, w. Fl At
well and Others and was discussed with a great
doal of interest Toe general sentiment was
that the position OF Dr. Davis is inconsistent
and at war with the whole tenor of the sacred
scriptures, which plainly teach that all temp
oral blessings are proper subjects for prayer.
The meeting was decidedly OF the opinion that
prayer for rain does not necessarily involve any
Interference with the fixed laws of nature but
even if it did God will interfere to relieve the
| distresses of his people.
PROF. MYERS has exhibited his afr ship in
New York at Little Valley. Cattaraugus county,
and at Newport, HerkiIner county. Charles
Beknap was rider. At Little Valley strong
breeze was blowing, and at the moment of start
ing o'clock p. m, the wind shifted and struck
the vessel broadside, so that to relieve the strain
upon it it was released before properly bal
| auced with ballast and overloaded. just in
| line with the air ship was hill several hundred
| feet high with very abrupt, steep sides Il was
! startling and beautiful sight to see Belknap
| climbing heavenward only a few feet above the
hillside with the serewsail facing the wind
and the elevatinR planes and rudder
kite buoying the vessel up like kite appraised
| by the wind Above the crest of the hill he
mounted into quiet air, where for some time he
| described various evolutions, turning around
| and going up and down and from side to side.
Finally be went out of sight over the crest of
the hill. Later he landed in a strong wind near
Fllicottville tearing his anchor of soft steel to
pieces and breaking every weak feature of the
bicycle aud steering and propellng apparatus,
so that everything except the air ship proper
| seemed q complete wreck. 1t was, however
completely restored at Prof. Myers workshop