The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Chicago has a dancing club composed Of
deaf mutes The other evening they had
ball which was participated in by $50 couples
one VINO was asked how they got along ex-
plalned that a few felt the vibrations In the
| floor some had sort Of instinct for the time
or music anu others caught the movement
| by slghe OF their netghbors. II he wanted
partner Tor Quadrille he simply passed
the hrst two fingers OF the right hand Verti-
cally across the palm Of the left, and he
| thought that much easier and quicker than
the formal method OF people who speak. In
asking Tor waltz he tWirled one foreduger
around the other, and when he wanted polka
ne made the first two fingers Of the right
hand hop along the left palm.
The Irish Times publishes the particulars
OF an extraordinary case Of trance which was
mistaken for death. Last week a Young man
| aged y. named Garrigan living at BalIina-
cree. near OldCastle was believed TO have
died He had teen ailing for some time. and
| all the appearances OF death were shown. so
that no dOuUt of his decease was entertained.
| The usual wake preparatory to burial was te-
gun, and number Of neighbOTs had arrived
at the house TO share the night watches soon
| signs OF animation We're observed in the ap-
| parently l1feless body. + i've minutes later it
| was clear that the young man had been in a
trance, and was on the way TO recovering his
senses The occurrence created a sensation.
many OF those present fed from the house
ana would not return. All were deeply moved,
| and the scene for some time was one OF in
| tense excitement.
A shoemaker. Kavol Kowates, who, In
1923, lived at Pesth, the capital OF Hungary,
| smoked the first meerschaum pipe. Besides
! being shoemaker, however. he was one Of ma
| lure handlcraftsmen. being gifted with an
| lntultlVe genius for carving in wood and other
material. This brought him in contact with
| count AndrasSy, with whom he became great
IaVorlte. The count. on has return from
mission 10 turkey, brought with him piece
| OF whitish clay which had been presented to
| him as curiosity on account OF its extraor-
dlnaruy light specific gravity. 1t struck the
| shoemaker that. Being pO.o is il must lie we'll
| adapted for pipes ii would absorb the nico-
| tine. The experiment was tried and Kavol
| cut pipe for the count aad one for himself
Inc hrst meerSchaum made and smoked by
haVol howateS has been preserved in the
museum at Pesth.
1t is said that in the tule lands around
Susan, CAL many wild hogs are found as fe
Tocious and as hard to kill as the wild hogs Of
Germany, One OF these beasts recently killed
measured from the Zip OF his snout to the root
OF his tail more than six feet and had tusks
fourteen inches long. Though it had no su-
perhuous flesh 1t weighed 400 pounds The
SKIN on It's shoulders was three inches thick,
and as tough as leather. The hogs have been
running wild in the marshes for a long time
ana are savage enough to furnish better snort
tnan some other animals, which are
generally reputed to be more danger
Gus. A party was formed to kill a
particular boar that had been roaming
| the tule lands for several years in spite of
the efforts Of local hunters to bring him to
bay The tracks of the boar were found and
ne was traced to patch Of dense reed grass
| Inc hunters invaded 1t from different points
and one OF them suddenly came upon the
animal His companions heard the report Of
his gun, and the next instant saw the mans
| uoqy thrown into the air fully 10 feet. { ding
| to his rescue "A second hunter was CHARGED nv
the boar. One shot brought him to his
knees but even then he rose and rushed on
his assaflant again. A second bail penetrated
the brain. ana he rolled over dead. The man
| that was thrown nto the air was not seriously
| injured but received bruises which laid him
| up Tor considerable time.
What is called the swell" toad on the
Carolina and Georgia coast is in his natural
| state only ABOUT six inches in length and four
inches across the back, but he is endowed
with wonderful expansive faculties being
| capable OF Initiating himself like a Yale foot
| ball on the slightest prOvocation Many tales
are told OF his poisonous qualities and Of the
| death dealing fluids that are stored away at
the base Of his tangS but all naturalists agree
| that the toad is nOn-YeuomoUs, and that
| stories TO the contrary are but bits of idle
| folklore. BE this as 1t may, the coasters
| handle him when they Condescend to touch
| the Ugly creatures at alb as charity as they
| would a live RATHER The under portions of
the body OF the swell are of dirty. yellow
| ish white, CORES ponding almost exactly
to the color of The true Lufo's beIlV.
! but where the latter is smooth the former is
| prickly as the pod OF q "jimson weed In
| order to see him swell out of all proportion
| it is only necessary to rub this prfckly sur
| face with cane, stick or other object. To do
| this properly the creature must OF course he
| turned upon his back. and the funny part of
| the whole experiment is this: lie cannot
| expel the air which the irritation has caused
| him to lnhale until he has been turned right
side up Although originally a six-lnch AM
nal, the St Louis Republic SAYS. 1t has
| been known TO expand until It is as tight as
| Drum and had lost all semhlance to animated
life. 1t has even been related of them that
| they would continue to expand under ilr.ta-
| ton until the body would finally burst from
oVer-inhation.
William Weavey, of Durbin, N. D., is en-
gagged in raising "cattleo" or half-breed buf-
| ldlOes and domestic cattle The word cat
! tieo' is compromising OF the two words cat
| tie and buffalo Mr. WeaVey recently brought
/ three OF his half bloods and four pure buffa.
| lOeS. They are described by the Chronicle as
! very handsome animals of different ages and
| the cattleo, which are young are of a rich
sealbrown color and as fat as young moles
| Mr.. WeaVeY who is pioneer Of Dakota. was
| Ior some years extensively engaged in raising
4 wheat. One year he raised as much as IS 900
bushels but later he retrenChed. -Four wears
! ago he hit on the novel industry OF raising
| Cattleo and now he sees much money in II
| l he reason for this IS that both the meat and
! the skins are vastly more valua BILE than of
! the buralo or cattle Mr. Weavey at first
! had much trouble in getting cross that would
| survive. Many men had tried it, but as a gen
| eral thing it was failure. MIR. Weavev brourl [
! a number of OuffalCes TO his farm and made
| many experiments Atlength he tried a cross
| OF the poled Angus breed of cattle with the
| buffalo, and soon tegan to get results that
| were entlIoly satisfactory. At first the young
cattleo died, being brought forth al the wrCnt
season OF the year, but in time Mr.. Weav,y
learned that II thew came with the new spring
grass Of the prairies they would flourish like
the grass. He began with one buffalo bull
and a polled Angus COW, and now has as
pretty little herd as one could wish to see
Bes des he has sold skins and meat enough to
bring him handsome revenue. The skins
are much superior TO those OF the full-blood
! buffalo. the fur icing finer and longer and of
the uniform seaEbrown color. They are
worth on the average from 500 to $3.50 apiece,
but one skin was so fine that he got $3.50 for It,
The meat is at least so per cent finer than
buffalo, too partaking of the native wildness
of that animal and the high blood of the
polled Angus. The latter breed is black,
which accounts for the rich uniform color of
the cattleo. Out OF both the skins and meat
therefore, it will lie seen that if thew
thrive with anything like the GER
tainty OF domestic cattle there
is plenty OF money in IL. But another thing
has been discovered which was unlocked for
and that Is that the cattleo are much larger
than the buffalo. Two of Mr. Weayevs
yearling cattleo now weigh over LOO pounds
One OF the cattleo, too. oddly enough. Is with
out horns. like the pOlled Angus cattle. whiI h
ba -bo