The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A NEW AGENCY In sanitary matters has come
into vogue Of late years. 1t is a public health
committee composed of ladies. Several English
towns and cities, including Manchester have
formed such an organization. while one has eN-
listed IN New I ork Tor ten years, and Philadel-
pisa has just Joined suit. In England these
health promoters make house to housa vista
tons, taking with thu m carbolic powder and
soap, which they may sell or distribut. gratuI-
tousy according TO the circumstances of the
persons visited. They make suggestions as to
cleanliness, report cases OF overcrowdtng and OF
infectious diseases, and inform the health an
thorities OF the condition Of the property they
inspect. AS terreters out of unceauliness and
disregard of proper sanitary regulations
women have no superiors. Their knowledge OF
domestic economy and policy is of a very prac-
teal character, and it is easy to see that as
coadjutors OF the public authorities they can
render service OF much va ue
EVER since the Indians in the section now
known as Fletcher discovered honey" in the
maple trees, that district has been known far
and wide as the heart of the Vermont maple
sugar country, says the Burlington (Nt) rTee
Press. The way the red man extracted the
dehclous compound was somewhat slow as COM
pared with the present process. He used TO cut
q slantlng cash in the bark and insert in the
lower END gauXe-shaped piece OF wood, from
which the sap ran and dropped into q poplar or
Eastwood trough. At the end of the season
these troughs would be set up against the trees
and left until the following season. by whioh
time the troughs would be thoroughly widowed
This materially added to the favor of the alb
original sugar. but can hardly be said to have
improved it. The evaporation OF those times
consisted OF an IRON kettle swung from a sap
ling bent over stump. By so and tedious
process the sap was first heated and then boiled
in this kettle, often taxing two or three days'
boiling before it could be sugared of. This was
the way in which the redskins and the early
Vermonters eked out a ''sweetnln' " to their tea
and johnny cake. In the best Fletcher groves
OF to-day long pipe or trough line runs from
some central spot in the grove down to the big
storage hOuga ba
perfected evaporator, whom under full head
way, will convert the first sap into syrup in half
an hour consuming about one cord OF wood to
produce 100 pounds Of sugar There are in the
town of Fletcher, at a moderate estimate.
$1,000 trees, this being probably within the real
number.
CALIFoRN1A, according to the Great Divide,
Is word OF doubtful origin. There was pub
hshed in Seville, Spain, in the year 1910 a ro-
nance entitled The HerSas of Esplapdian the
Son of Amadis OF Gaul" 10 which the following
spirited and fanciful sketch app ars: Know
that on the right hand OF the Indies there is an
island called California, very near the terres-
trial paradise, which was peopled by black
women, without any men among them. because
they were accustomed to live after the manner
OF the Amazons. Their arms were all Of gold
and so were the comparisons OF the wild bea SITS
they rode" The name Is misty, some authori-
ties maintaining that it comes from calix fornsx
thot furnace oregon is also of doubtful deri.
walton; its first use seems TO have been in l776
when Capt. Jonathan Carver published in Lon
theory is that the name comes from the wild
mar Dram (origanumJ that abounds in that
country, another is that it comes frouI
ore on, Spanish for big ear. Nevada
is of distinct origin, being named
from its magnificent western frontier tbs Sierra
Nevada, or mountain snowy Arizona or
Arizuma, as il was first called, comes, it is said
from Arizonaac, the native (Pima) name of a
locality near the headwaters OF the Rio Alta
British Columbia has changed its named Of
tener than any other section of the Pacific slope
At first IL was New Hanover next New
Cornwall" and then New Caledonia" and
finally British Columbia. Alaska is the only
portion of Uncle Sans territory that has ap-
peared with an alias" the name being origin
ally Alaska. 1t is purely Russian. The state
of Washington was originally a part of what
was called New Georgia." it was afterward
known as Northern Oregon" then "Coum-
bia," and finally. in 1858. received its present
name. Idaho, an Indian word, meaning ''ths
sight on the mountains" Joaquin Miller saws
that the Indians pronounced it E. dah,ho The
name mountain means ''of or belonging TO the
mountains" and is of Latin origin. The Ind an
name for the country was To'-yabe shock up
or the country of the mountains " Wyoming
comes from an Indian word. observation-disclosures
meaning 'broad plains" And Utah is also of
Indian origin, and means "a home on a mount
ain top"