The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-04
NATURAL FRUIT HLAVoRS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
| EIGHT little pigs that were sucked by their
mother on the farm OF Mrs Stinson, two miles
from Bridgeton. Bucks county. Maryland sud
denly began to grow lean and thin. They ap-
peared as if they were being starved to death.
AS the maternal swine was fat and had the ap-
pearance Of being a rich source of the necessary
Tactical fluid Mrs, Stinton was unable until yes
terday to discover what allied the hungry pigs.
Quietly entering the pig sly she was astounded
to see two immense milk snakes, over feet
long, quietly clnging to the udder Of the mother
hog. wnich apparently was not at all disturbed.
They had persistently been rebbing the pigs OF
what belonged to them. One of the serpentine
pirates was killed by Mrs. Stinson. but the other
escaped through hole in the floor.
BRITISH paper calls attention to the fact
that the old United States man-of-war, the
Chesapeake that fought the British ship Shan
non In 1913, is in existence to-day, though in a
strangely metamorphosed form. After her
capture she was taken to England In 1914, and
in 1870 her timberS were sold to John Prior
miller, of Wlckham, Hants. Mr.. Prior pulled
down his old mill at Wickham and erected
new one from the Chesapeake timbers which he
found admirably adapted for the purpose. The
deck beams were 80 feet long and IS inches
square, and were placed unaltered horizontally
in the mill. The purlins of the deck were about
II feet long and served without alteration for
joists. Many of these timbers yet have the
marks OF the Shannon's grapeshot, and in some
pldceS Tue SnOL are SLll TO De seen deeply i'm
bedded in the pitch pine.
SOME adventurous people have been exploring
recently curious cave called The DEVILS Sink
Hole" in Edwards county, Texas Three of the
prrty were let down into the hole to depth of
no feet by means of ropes to the first landing
with lanterns they continued their explorations +,
soon discovering another large opening. They
made their way through it into another cavern
and then lowered themselves to depth Of 300
feet to second landing. They secured a firm
ont md ra aI,Ar
grade in a northery direction until they came
TO the edge of what appeared to be a lake or a
river They found the water to be extreme y
cold. This second landing was quite large
tract or ground, but was only slightly explored
owing to the fact that it was dangerously cold
down there. They made their way to the oop
oy chmolng up the ropes. II is thought that
TINS second landing place is subterransan
island, as the explorers advance in whatever
direction attempted was checked by water.
THE extraordinary sight of a duckling that
has just shed its she'll following young woman
about the house with all the affection of a pet
dog, is domestic wonder in the family of Mrs
Carr OF 2, l2 Arch street. Philadelphia, says the
Times Every since Easter morn the neighbors
have been dropping in to witness the spectacle,
and the fame OF the singular attachment ha;
attracted attention among people who are in
terested In natural phenomena. The little
duckling has been in the family since last Sun
day, when II was brought as au Easter gift to
Mrs. Cars baby daughter, Serena. who was
u-llBuNch NlOu ueT new DeI. Inc DUCK at once
struck up a strong friendship for the domestic
Mary Mccullough, and has been the young
woman constant mpanion ever since. When
ever Mary speaks the duck responds with its
the young woman wherever she goes
The most astonishing thing about this
freak OF nature is that il any other
inmate of the household attempts to induce it
to answer, the webfooted prodigy maintains a
solemn silence, but Mary has only to utter a
word when the quackinE bagins and is kept up
until she has ceased speaking.
The exciting reel tai of fishing for three
deadly tarantulas with q bit of flannel and a
spool of thread was told byN, s. Brokaw. Jr.
to a writer for yorest and Stream Tae gent g
man has Just returned from an extended to n
through California and other states. He brought
back three creepy looking members of the spider
family. Il had several interesting experiences"
he said, but the most interesting was the capt
ure OF these tarantulas- had long wished to
see them In their native state ami being in the
land which their very presence renders danger
Gus, constantly carried a spool of thread a
bit OF flannel and bottle of chloroform | was
walking IN an orange grove, about ten miles
from the coast. one afternoon when I saw one
of the beautiful things Just creeping from be-
meath large log that was half-bu led 10 the
sandy soil jumped upon the log so the insect
could not crawl up my leg, an then dropped
my baited thread. He-I use the sex ad-
visedly OF course-imm edlately accepted the
challenge and hastily caught the flannel half
lost my balance just then and jostled the 10 ,
near being serious for me- as two of the most
terocious looking fellows rushed out aud all
three attacked the flannel and before had the
one entangled started upward at a most alarm
ing rate or speed In some manner or other
was unable TO retain my presence Of mind and
with my cane knocked the uppermost to the
ground. The remaining two were fighting
most viciously and, as had gradually let out
the thread. became entangled, and by the time
the third was at the wrlthing little mass they
were safe from working any harm. The third
made another attack and soon held a trio of
squlrmng, writing tarantuas. and then,
dropping them in a can, saturated my hand
kerchief with chloroform and in half an hour
had these three, which are the finest specimens
OF the insect have yet seem"
On May /. 1874, the Wing convention met in
Baltimore. and the eyes of the country were
upon it, writes John W. Kirk. in Scribner's
Magazine. By that morning Prof Morse had
established Geographic communication between
Washington ana Annapolis junction, where
was stationed the assistant of Morse who I
understand was Alfred Vail. All that after
noon Prof Morse and I were alone together in
the little room In the capitol A gratifying
message had come from Annapolis junction
that everything was ready at that end of the
line, and that there could be no doubt of the
success OF our plan to convince all doubters
that the electric telegraph was a won
derful invention, which would revolu-
tlonize the transmission OF news II
ls almost half century since that
day, and yet have vivid recollection OF the
dramatic incident with which it eliminated. To
this day can see plainly the narrow disor.
dered room in which we were with its wires
and Jars and chemicals, and IN the midst of il
the weird figure of the great Inventor who was
about TO realize his one hope, after so many
years of disappointment and delay. He was
very quietly dressed, bis coat muffled about his
throat, and his long hair tumbled about his
forehead. He appeared to be nervous and ap-
prehenslve. The grave question which was to
be settled, was whether the electric current
would remain on the wires with sufficient
strength to work the signals through
so long a distance as fortyfour miles
(for in those days a metallic circuit
was used), Even those that believed that the
instrument had done its work over a short cir
cult Of a few miles, doubted its commercial
value over long distances, At this late date the
wonder to me Is, that so few persons took any
interest whatever in the proposed experiment
was in the room many times preceding this
trial, and recall that there were few visitors
and no anxiety whatever to learn how Prof
Morse was progressing with his work A gen.
eral opinion among those who had heard of the
proposed attempt was that it would not
succeed. 1t was too absurd TO discuss
Late in the afternoon, suddenly the in
strumsnt on the table began TO click Eagerly
Prof. Morse bent forward over the strip OF pa.
per that slowly unrolled from the re lister The
paper halted, moved ahead, stopped and moved
again in an irregular way, till finally Morse
rose from his close scrutiny of the paper stood
erect, and looking about him, said proudly;