The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
WHEN Marion co. boy attempted to kill
nuskrat, caught in steel trap, few days ago,
| the animal showed fight, and as it gave a
| death wall the banks of the creek seemed to be
fairly alive with the little animals as they came
TO the assistance of their companion. The boy
| was attacked on all sides. and was getting badly
| scratched and bitten, when his dog, which had
| been chasing a rabbit, came to his assistance
! and proceeded to battle with the euraged ami
/ mails. In less than five minutes seventeen of
the muskrats were lying around dead, while the
| rest scampered to place of safety"
Mr. LlTTLEDALE, who has just crossed the
mountainous Pamir in Central Aisle, says
mountain scenery there is quite different from
mountain scenery in Switzerland and Caucasia
| where, when the eye is tired Of resting on the
| grand ice scenery aboveP it finds a pleasant
| change by turning to the green pastures and
| forests below. In Central Asia. however, al
though the mountains are higher. the glaciers.
| owing TO the puny snowfall, are much smaller,
| while below the mountains. instead of verdant
| fields and forests, is picture of utter desola-
| tlon that would be hard TO match in any other
| part OF the world. The country at the base OF
| the mountains is so high above the sea that
| vegetation IS very scanty and the plains are
most forbidding in aspect.
| THERE is silver mine near Sarhad, in Afghan
| territory which has a curious history Three
men were sent from that country to Cabul the
| ISslucuC6 OF the dtn0er, TO be executed for
oHense against the state, They told the ameer
| that if he would let them off they would tell
| him where he could find abundant supplies of
! silver The ameer deferred the execution and
sent them under guard to Irkansham. where
they went 10 work digging. They, and the men
| VINO were put to work with them, dug for
! twenty days, finding nothing. The ameers
officer told them at length that they could dig
for seven days more and If they did not find
silver within that time the sentence of death
would be carried out. The next day they came
| N n Vnira FCflu o,A a11,.e
men are employed in the mine.
The attempt of the new management of the
Paris Grand opera house to have cheap opera
beginning at p. m, has been failure although
1t promised well. The reduction of
the price of stall from IS
francs to 213 francs brought washerwomen
| and their families and peasants and suburban
shopkeepers by the hundred. II was thought
that the half hour allowed as an en- 3r'dcte for
refreshments would result in a regular picnic
so notices were posted up that those who had
provisions with them must eat in the corridors.
buffet supplying whatever was needed
Roller-sweeping brushes were put to WORK i'm
medlately after the entr'dcte to clean up the
paper wrappers which might have fallen upon
the floor. but there was little need for them as
there was little rubbish left. The upholstery
| in the boxes was uninjured Nevertheless, the
| venture Is regarded as a failure. II costs 81
600 to raise the curtain, but at the popular
| scale the house only holds $1,000
ONE rare and another new species CT
| fishes were recently captured in trawl of the
coast of Massachusetts. One of these is called
the 'lampris, and is the first Of its kind known
to have been taken in these waters 1t looks
somewhat like the common sunflsh Of the
BROOKS though upon an enormously exaRger-
ated scale, weighing fully 300 pounds. In color
1t is most brilliant, being painted in vivid tnts
of red, white and blue. The fins are crimson
the back sky blue, and the sides of an irdescent
whiteness. The other fish is the ''escolar" of
the Canary Islands, which is so highly
priced there for food that it is considered
cheap at 81 pound. II is not so very
uncommon in the warm waters of the globe,
but has never been caught here before. In ap-
pearance, it is not very striking. being grayish
| brown in color, but its body is completely
covered with an armor of small bony plates
each of which projects outward in two sharp
points. The specimen captured measured over
Six feet IN length and had a mouth big enough
to take In fair-sized salmon. Both of these
fishes were taken on the Grand Banks In water
more thar 1000 feet deep. Their skeletons
have been preserved for the Nat o al museum
Before being dissected models were made from
them and painted for the collection to be shown
at the fair
WE speak of the ocean as ''trackless." Il is
SO no longer, says Goldthtoaite's Geographical
Md0dstne. If two vessels sail from New York
| for Calcutta. they will, if intelligently navi-
gated, follow SO nearly the same course, that
their pairs. if plotted on a chart, will hardly
| diverge by fifty miles at any point The same
Is true OF every other route. Let us consider
| Liverpool. Her captain might. if prepared
| for constant battle against adverse winds and
currents and winter gales, select route not very
| different from that followed by ocean steamers
| between those ports. Otherwise he would
| following the southern route laid down by the
sailing directors; and after beating to the west
| ward few hundred miles to make sure of
clearing the coast OF Spain. would shape a
| course othe southwark, passing as far west Of
Madeira as the westerly winds of these ATTITUDES
! will permit. Between Madeira and the Cana
a m tO arJ
| of both would fan his way across the battling
| Gains OF Cancer" and pick up the northeast
trades With these astern and freshening
every mile, he would sweep down
| to the south and west and
when well over toward the West Indies, haul
up to the northward toward Bermuda. Here
he would have to work again across the Gains of
Cancer, and then, with the uncertain but prob
able westerly winds of cur Atlantic coast and
with the gulf stream in his favor he would
stand on and make his port, having sailed
4,5O0 miles between two ports, less than 5000
miles apart. but with winds and currents almost
! uniformly favorable and with fine and bracing
weather.
SOME rare and unaccouutable freak Of nature
has made natural wonder of an unassuming
white horse at Spokane Falls, Wash. The won
der is not the horse himself. but in picture
which covers the front part of the left e We of
the animal Any one who has ever had the
pleasure of visit to Spokane will remember
the falls which give the city its other name;
| CnaI 49, Tue name Oh spokane fallS, Inc plCt-
ure in the horses eye is perfect miniature of
the falls, island, mill and all. The animals OBJ
| tic has been examined by hundreds of persons
| including photographers, scientists opticians
ETC., and the miniature in the eye has been
carefully compared with photographs and en-
cravings of the falls, and all have concurred in
pronouncng it wonder Of wonders and a
| most remarkably correct picture. The owner
OF this wonderful creature, Mr., Deakin, has
| been offered all the way from 5000 to $4,000
Tor his curiosity, but so far be has refused all
offers seeming to prefer being restored TO death
by sight-seers, who come by the thousands TO
view the uncanny picture and ask questions. A
traveller, C. A. Dilmau, who took q peep at the
/ wonder Of the Rockies" last summer, has the
following TO say in regard TO the horse and the
| picture: MIR. Deakin sent the horse around to
the hotel where stopped, in order that might
see him. The animal is white in color and
OF medium size. was somewhat sceptical
about the story of the picture until / had
looked into the horses left eye. Judge of my
astonshment when 1 saw depicted therein a
perfect reproduction of the falls of the Spokane
river, as true TO life as any photograph. The
part of the falls shown is from the water
works across to the mills. The island upon
which the water works building stand is also
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