Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-11-10
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

all kinds is estimated by the secretary
Of the treasury to be S2,l0s, 1870, ,O92
According to the census report the
whole number of males in the United |
States in 1890 was 32,067, $50, and the
whole number of females S0,554,3T0.
For the United States as n whole, there
fore, there were for every 100000 males
$3.50 females in 1890.
"A watch is usually composed of 0S
pieces, and its manufacture embraces
over 1000 distinct operations. Some of
its screws are so small as to be imper-
ceptible to the unaidod eye; and the
slit in the heads of these screws is
2-l0OOths of an inch in width
Time cures many mishaps. A dog
followed coon into a cave, and got |
wcdged in narrow crevice where he |
had to remain until he got lean enough |
to pull through" which took twelve
days Of fasting-a kind of treatment |
which one may often lean on to advan-
tage.
The fists" of the kings Of England
who could write have been preserved
The autographs of nearly all the En-
glish kings from Henry VI. C45O) to
George ii. and the kings and queens of
England since the second George are
contained in the remarkable collection
of j. Pierpont Morgan, the banker.
George w. Vanderbilt is increasing
his stupcndous estate in North Carolina
The estate comprises about 10000 acres,
and is about 1900 feet above the sea-
1t cost 100000 1t is drive of twenty
five miles over hill and mountain to
girdle this property 1t will take six
years to build the house, which is 375X
1872 feet The ceiling of the banquet
hall will be 65 feet high. The house
will have four floors and 100 rooms.
Indeed Mr.. Vanderbilt will have about
100 servants about him when he is keep
ing open house.
The swallow nuisance continues
with unabatcd vigor ut the Naval aca-
| deny, Annapolis. From 5000 TO 90, 200
swallows gather every evening in five
or six maple trees in front of the super
intendents residence and make evening
and morning hideous with their cries.
| All efforts to drive them away have
failed, and bell and gong arc kept 60
ing at intervals to drive the pests from
the two trees next the supcrintendent's
house. Every year from the 18th OF
July to October this disagrceable rem
devious is maintained by the swallows.
The Dutch from New Amsterdam
first settled in New Jersey, at Bergen,
about the year 1920. Sir Edmund Ploy-
den obtained grant Of the country on
the Delaware in 1924, from King Charles
l., but shortly afterwards the Dutch
drove out the English and the Swcdes
who had settled on the east shore.
Nine years later Charles II. granted all
the territory from the Connecticut to
the Delaware to his brother, the duke
of York and sent an armed force under
Col. Nichols, which conquered New
Amsterdam and took possession of the
country.
The curious travelling stones" OF
Australia are paralleled in Nevada.
They are described as being perfectly
round, about as large as walnut and OF
anivory nature. When distributed about
on the floor, table, or any smooth sur
face within two or three feet of each
other they Immediately commence trav-
cling toward each other and meet at a
common center, and there lie huddled
in bunch like eggs in a nest. A single
stone removed to a distance of four feet,
upon being released, returns to the
heap, but If taken away as much as
five feet remains motionless. 1t is
needless to say that they are largely
composed of magnetic iron ore.
An interesting relic of the old days
in California, the days before the "bear
flag" was raised and the Argonauts be.
gan to swarm into the land, is the little
frame house near Aqua Caliente occu-
pied nearly half Il century ago by Gen.
then Lieut., Joseph Hooker. Hooker
purchased from Gen. Vallejo town
ship of land, and on a high knoll shell.
tered by oak trees built the house which
is still standing, A correspondent Wis.
tied the cottage recently and found in
the attic many souvenirs of the gener
ais stay there, among them saddle
and some pistols, but most priced of al
table on which Hooker used TO play
chess with the young officers of The
garrison.
Reference has been made to the
crowded condition of New York city
where there is an average of nearly 1!
persons to every dwelling. Further in
vestigations show that over AZ per cent
of the houses are tenements. Out O
3l2,766 families only 37,6O4 live il
houses by themselves, leaving 275, IS:
families living under the same roo
: with other people. There are S,76'
! dwellings, which contain over 10 fami
lies each. Rents are very high, apart
ments in fat renting for more than
whole house in other cities, and thu
purchase of house, even on the install
ment plan, offers grave objection. New
York has been called "the landlord
paradise"
Fertility of Alaska.
, The nature of the whole land can b,
roughly divided into three conditions
Snow and ice fields bury the coas
I range and choke up every hollow; t.
the immediate north the valleys ar
= rocky and barren, but the vast interio
beyond is richly clothed in luxurian
vegetation. Scientific authorities the
s oretically mapped out giant ice field
c as spreading over the entire Lam
S from the Fairwcather and Mount 81
Elias ranges north almost to the vale
of the Yukon. Colossal heights man
d tied in never-melting SHOWS towe
/ thousands of feet in the air, but within
u the shadow of these mighty uplands
: in the sheltered hollows beneath, lii
Is immense valleys carpeted in riches
grasses, and gracefully tinted with will
), flowers. Here in the summer genia
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