Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-12-13
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

perhaps, is owned by Richard Grid, OF |
San Bernardino county, Cal. This inn
mense sod turner stands IS feet high |
and weighs $4,000 pounds. 1t runs by
steam, is provided with twelve 12-inch
plowshares and is capable of blowing
so acres of land per day. 1t consumes
from one to one and half tons of coal
per day and usually travels at the rate
of four miles an hour.
"A census bulletin has been issued
giving the ownership and debt of farms
and homes in Michigan. 1t shows that
so. 90 per cent. of the farms are owned,
and of these 50.65 per cent are owned
free of incumbrance. The debt on
farms amounts to 1854, Ala, 9s6, which is
80. 80 per cent. of their value. The in
terest rate is 10 per cent. OF the
homes 5s.49 are owned and CTS per
cent. of these are owned free of incum-
brance.
English discipline with the CATO
nine tails seems more severe than its
survival in Delaware. The cat in the
peach state has nine tails of leather,
| each with knot, and the law sem
fences the convict to SO many lashes
upon the bare back, well laid or"
but the sheriff is the judge of what
constitutes proper laying on, and his
strokes are usually gentle. 1t is their
repetition that reddens the skin of the
victim, and it seldom happens that a
| ~. 81, - e,,Atatant fc,.na n
leave noticeable mark.
Joseph Bonaparte fled to America
after the hundred days and bought a
house in Philadelphia, where he lived
in winter, and a mansion in New Jer'
sey, where he passed his summers. He
was much liked in this country, but
could not make up his mind to stay
here, so returned to Europe, hoping tt
profit by the changes of government in
France. He was always disappointed
and found himself an unwelcome CUES
In every country save England. He
finally secured permission to live il
Italy and died in Florence in 1874
Nervous prostration among actor
and actresses is commonly accompa
MED by stage fright. Men and womel
long accustomed to face the public fin,
. themselves suddenly seized with nerv
Gus fear even at the thought of re
hearsal. Bicycling, as pleasant an
, easy mode of exercise, has been recon
mended in such cases, and an actres
, who confessed that she rose one morn
, ing with dread of the afternoon re
, hearsal declared that after two hour
in the open air with her bicycle ever
/ trace of stage fright had disappeared.
v When an English woman wrot
: home from New York seventy-fy
4 years ago in the midst of cold Eel
A ruary she said of the city most famor
e thoroughfare: broadway, the chose
n resort of the young and the gay, @
J. these cold, bright mornings, seems OF
e moving crowd of painted butterflie
l. | sometimes tremble for the prett
= creatures land very pretty they are) I
e they futter along through the bitir
# air with dress more suited to the tia
l. ian winter than to one which, notwit
is standing the favorable season, a
a proaches nearer to that of Norway"
Kitchen French is sometimes mea
,e ingless, and not to be translated, b
6. some of it's most familiar phrases ha
w curious and instructive histories. Hs
is loot de mouton, mutton stew with I
ri tatoes, is said to be nothing more tn
~ 'aliquote de mouton," which mea
t. mutton chopped up into morsels or a
n. quot parts. Flageolet, the famili
kitchen French for species of bea
n comes from the Latin phaseolus,a bes
OF 1t was corrupted first into faviole, a
of then a spurious diminutive tiageolet
eft describe small bean. There was
es intermediate stage, in which the We
m. had the forms of faviolet and fasiole