Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-08-29
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Ht DTOdu rlNcr, III pOuJn Ndi DllUbl
was SO called by the whites The
Indian name was Eswan lluppeday, or
"Dividing Line river" because it was
the boundary between Che Chcrokees
and the Catawbas. 'ia FaiEii
--Ergot is the product of tho dis
eased seeds of the common rye. In
stances have been known OF men and
animals being poisoned from tho lack
of caution in separating the diseased
grains from the healthy when prepar;
ing the rye for food, A'HGM9#
The curfew bell has been estab-
lished in suburb of Chicago, called
Wheaton. 1t rings at nine o'clock p
m, after which il is unlawful for any
one under eighteen years Of. age'to APP
pear on the streets unaccompaned by
parent or guardian. Its results are
said to be extre mely beneficial gt
The women of Baltimore have
formed Good Government club with
seventy members. The purposes an
nounced are to look after the cconom-
ical and efficient management of the
city affairs, to promote cleanliness,
health and beauty, and to establish
cooking schools for the training of
young women.
Chinese phcasants were introduced
into various parts of Oregon a few
years ago for game purposes. The
birds have thrived wherever intro
duced. aud this season has been especi-
ally favorable, SO that there Is every
prospect of an abundance of sport in
this line in the near future, when the
restricted period expires.
When young lion reaches the age
of two years he IS able to strangle or
pull down horse or an OK, and so he
continues to grow and increase in
strength till he reaches his eighth
year when he grows no more. For
twenty years after his fangs and talons
show no signs of decay, but after that
he gradually becomes feeble and his
teeth fail him. ei1 t8dmag q
While conducting a series of tests
with one-hundred-t testing ma
chine at the Yorkshire college in En-
gland, which included the testing of Q
steel wire rope, Prof. Goodman stated
| that such ropes were not modern in.
vention, and that he had recently seen
bronze wire rope onc-half inch in
diameter and from twenty to thirty
feet long, which had been found buried
In the ruins of Pompcii and which
must have been at least one thousand
nine hundred years old.
Sir Robert Bau says that going at
the rate of the electric telegraph-that
Is, 10000 miles a second-it would
take seventy ght. years to telegraph
message to the most distant telescope
stars, but the camera has revealed
stars far more distant than these, some
of which, if message had been sent
in the year A. D. that is to say, 1872
years ago-the message wonld only
just have reached some of them, and
would still be on the way TO Others
| going at the rate of 1856, 600 miles a sec
ond. t. fE- HHi
Deer are so plentiful in some part'
of Montana that the ranchmen ant
fruit growers complain Of them as they
do of the coyotes, cutworms and Other
pests The fruit growers complain
that the deer come down from thu
mountains at night and browse on tht
tender shoots of the trees, and in thi'
and other ways do great damage tc
the orchards The animals keep 'ou
of sight in the daytime, and, as it i
hard to shoot them at night, and they
decline to be frightened away thu
ranchers have hard time. '"H