The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A FRENCH CHEMIST has succeeded in making
imitation diamonds that cost more than the
genuine.
A NYACK, N. Y. woman cut a peach open and
claims to have found a cent pressed tightly
against the stone.
LARGE BEAR was killed short time ago at
West Day. N. Y. The following day it was
roasted and served at a democratic barbecue.
A POSTAL CARD was recently sold in Paris for
$50. It had gone around the world after the
person to whom it was addressed and bore sew
enty-tWo postmarks
A Mr.. ELLIS of Pottstown, Pa, recently shot
near Cathlamet, Wash, a monster elk The
animal weighed, when dressed, 500 pounds; the
antlers measured feet inches from tip to tip
with seven prongs.
A GERMAN DOCTOR of reputation prescribes
aluminium as a cure for rheumatism A finger
ring made Of this metal joined with another,
generates gentle current of electricity, which
Is said TO make permanent cure.
BURIAL AT SEA is to be abolished for those
who have money to pay for the transportation
OF their remains in case of death on board shin,
Air-tight steel caskets for the transportation Of
bodies are now part OF the equipment of all
the best steamers.
EVERYTHING about the new Cunard steamer,
the Campania, is of British make except the
rudder. That is made of a single steel plate
1t Is so wide that there is no British firm having
the necessary machinery for rolling it, so the
job had to be sent to Krupp.
SOME ingenious contrivances are used by
thieves The latest looks like an ordinary
walking stick, but is so arranged that by press
ing spring at the handle the ferrule will spread
apart and form a sort of spring clip that will
take hold of anything that is within reach.
VOLCANIC ASHES often travel long distance.
remarkable shower of volcanic ashes has &C.
currid recently in several parts of Finland The
ground in some places has been covered to the
depth of nearly an inch The phenomenon is
attributed to volcanic eruptions in Iceland, hun
dreds of miles away.
NJ. P. KETcHUM of Brighton, Ontario, is the
owner Of trotting dog that has record of
2:lS. The animal earns from $500 to $500 per
week during the racing season Mr.. KetchuTn's
young son drives the dog and has deposited in
bank SG, 500, all of which Doc, as the animal is
called, earned for him.
AN ARTICLE is said to be sold in Paris which
consists of an aqueous solution of iodide of
starch and is specially intended for love let
tiers" In four weeks characters written with it
disappear, pr venting all abuse of letters and
doing away with all documentary evidence Of
any kind in the halds of the recipient.
In the spring of 1717, says the Youths Com:
Ddnion, an amount of snow fell In New England
that has not been equaled during the three
centuries of its history. The great storm be-
| gan in February, and buried the earth to the
/ depth of ten to twenty feet. Cattle were buried
| in it, and were found frozen stiff under the
| drifts, and hundreds Of sheep persisted Wild
| animals grew 80 desperate from the cravings of
| hunger that they became nightly visitors To the
| farmers sheep pens Bears and wolves fol-
lowe1 the deer even into the settlers clearinps
/ and bounced upon them there killing them al
such a rate that deer reeves were afterwards
| chosen in every town to protect those valuable
| animals Many a lstOry house, says Sidney
| Perev, was entirely covered with snow. and
| even the chimneys in some instances could not
be seen. Tunnels led from house to house ami
| snOw-shoeS were in frequent requisitiOn. Step
| ping out of the chamber window some
| people ventured TO explore the fields of snow.
| One young man in Newbury Mass. was paving
| his addresses to a lady who lived three miles
| away, and had not seen her for a week after
| the storm. This state of things could no longer
1 be endured, and mounting his snow-shoes he
1 went over the hills. TO enter her house as he
| had lett his own, by way Of a chamber window
4 AS he was the first person the family had seen
since the storm, his visit was highly appreciated
Many families were imprisoned so long as to
cause great privation and distress Between
| Medford and CharlestoWn lived widow with
several children, and her house was so COM
petely buried that 1t was not seen for several
| days. AT length smoke was seen issuing from
a snowbank, and guided by that the neighbora
shoveled their way to an upper window. They
were Just in time. for the womana slender stock
| of fuel was gone. and she had begun to burn
some of the furniture.
On the subjects of forest fires and nosouitos
| in Alaska a writer in the Century magazine for
October says: Miles and miles of blackeped
stumps marked the ravages of forest fires The
Indian when resting on his journey and suffer
ing from mosquitoes sets fire to the twigs and
leaves around him, CREATING a smoke which
keeps the pests at distance, and. when re-
! freshed, he straps on his pack and moves along
the trail. OF course without extinguishing the
fire. When announcing his approach to friends
a a distance he cars fro oa hale H. \
or tamarack tree and the column Of thick, black
smoke is the signal, to be Acknowledged in the
same manner by those who see it, so
as to direct the traveller to their
camping grounds. In the summer
everything is crisp and dry and the tim.
Der is saturated with turpentine The trees
left to smolder are famed into flame by the
slightest breeze; the flames creep among the
resinous trees, and spread until whole forests
are destroyed. These forest fires and the mos
qultoes account for the scarcity of game. Over
the vast untraveled region that we visited there
" as remarkable scarcity of wild animals
" Q saw only a few ground-squirrels and sone
grouse and ptarmigan. The Indians say that
all The larger animals retreat in summer TO the
hllltops, where, exposed to constant breeze
they are free from the torments Of insects
At our camp for the night on q grassy knoll
the mosquitoes and other flies were in greater
numbers and more ravenous than we had evar
previously experienced them. The whole in
sect world seemed to hail our arrival with the
same relish that reservation Indians welcome
government rations. Their attacks were fierce
and incessant: our poor brutes, tortured into a
frenzy, though hobbled, stampeded back and
sought escape from torment by sinking into the
swamp through which we had labored only a
few hours before. The next morning however
afforded us delightful rest for a stiff breeze
from the southwark swept the air clear of the
p SITS, and granted man and horse short res
pite. When plagued by flies our leader, who
wore brass bell. would create a continual tink
ling, but when unmolested, the band would seek
a soft patch of grass and go soundly to sleep
prOtting by the unusual lul.