The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ one on top Of the other would make COL
umn .i0i miles high.
One Of the curiosities OF Nashau, n.
/ H. is a twin tree made up OF maple ana an
/ elm. which have grown firmly together.
A baby belonging TO a Mexican woman
/ Of Los Angeles Is a veritable cyclop, its
/ single eye being exactly In the center OF
! its forehead
| Maud Evans, a young lady OF less than
% years Of age. residing at Beaver Falls.
| Pa, is said TO have her third set OF netu-
/ raj teeth.
A species of minute Brazilian spider
/ spins webs so fine that II takes 1900 Of
them twisted together to equal the diam
| eter of a human hair.
One billion dollars in United States sill
/ yer certificates laid end to end would
/ reach distance of ll4,2s9 miles, or nearly
/ five times around the earth.
-Dimmick. the great elephant catcher.
/ says that It IS declared on good authority
caught since the birth of Christ.
Prof A. +. Wright says it is beginning
to be understood that all our ideas of color
can be explained by the assumption of
! three pairs of contrasting colors-white
and black, red and green, and blue and
| yellow.
There are several recorded accounts of
children who we're able to walk or talk on
| the very day of their birth, or who were
| provided with from to 10 teeth, but mem
| ton is made of but one which laughed
aloud on the fist day of its earthly ex-
| OF him Pliny says: He was heard to laugh
| on the very day of his birth: his brain,
| also, is said to have throbbed so violently
/ that no hand could be laid on his head"
In Stanordshire and Shropshire, Eng
| land, they have most extraordinary cure
/ for tOothache. The sufferer watches a
| moles runway with spade and traps, and
/ as soon as he succeeds in capturing one
| of these reputed eyeless little animals,
| cuts off its paw and quickly applies ii
| to the aching molar. In order to make
| the cure sure and effective. the paw must
| be amputated while the mole is yet alive;
| Furthermore, If the aching tooth is on the
| right side of the jaw, a lett-hand mole
| paw must be used, and vice versa sim
! liar toothache superstition exists in the
! Cape Verde Islands and also on the Ca
narles.
! "A resident of the state of Washington
| tells the Washington Post that horses are
| the most worthless kind of property In
/ the west. He says: You can hardly give
! them away. A friend of mine, who used
! to bring ponies to the east, getting from
! SO to $50 piece for them in New York,
! Philadelphia and Washington. told me not
! long since that the business was com
! pletely played out, and that he could buy
| all the ponies he wanted for So a head. If
| hOrsetiesh were as much in use for food
in this country as in Europe, the beef
| trust would meet with pretty lively COM
! petition about now"
ID. K. Persons, a farmer of Red Mills,
! Ark, is the owner of pig that complete
| ly lays all other freak porkers in the
| shade 1t is perfectly devoid of hair,
and has a double set Of eyes feet like hui
| man hands (even to the nails), one very
! large ear, and a face which looks more
! like that of young baby than 1t does
| like that of a regulation pig. From be-
| tween the upper set of eyes projects
| proboscis like that of a young elephant.
| This proboscis has two holes through its
entire length, and it is through them that
! piggy gets his supply of air. Mr.. Persons
i values the freak at $1,000. and his neigh
| bors say that he takes greater care of 1t
| than all of the rest of the stock on the
! place
There was a curious superstition which
prevailed in Essex, half a century ago,
| says Notes and Queries. 1t was believed
that certain stones possessed the power
! of breeding other stones. l remember be-
| ing taken by man of the upper laboring
which lay on the sward by the side of a
| lane in the parish of South. Weald, near
Brentwood. It was seemingly water
aTe sBSe Sf OF or
which would explain great deal. 1t was
! larger than a mans head, with cup
in which lay pebble about as big as an
acorn. 1 was told that this pebble COM
tinually grew larger and that IL II were
| removed the breeding stone would begin
to breed another. 1t was evident that the
man firmly believed what he told me, and
he got quite angry when l ventured to
| a y. l.
| curious to learn whether any other breed
| ing stones are known.
A valley surprising in, reality of hor-
rors the tabled region of the upas tree is
| reported to have been discoVeed in the
| island of Java. This island is volcanic,
| and In one spot the emanations from the
| interior of the earth are so deadly that
| the place is called the Valley of Death.
| As the traveller approaches 1t he is at
| tackled with nausea and giddiness. He
| also notices a suffocating smell AS he
| advances these symptoms disappear so
| that, after passing through the belt of
| fetid air which guards the valley the
| visitor is able 10 examine with less risk
| the spectacle before him. The valley is
| oval, about one mile in circumference, and
| from thirty to forty feet below the level
of the surrounding land The floor of the
| valley is fiat and dry, without any vege-
| taton; and scattered all over it are the
| skeletons of men, tigers wild boars birds
and stays, lying among large blocks of
| stone. The hills which hem in this valley
i OF desolation are clothed from base to
| summit with healthy trees and bushes
| A traveller descended the side of one hill
| with aid of bamboo stick, to about elgh-
| teen feet from the bottom, and compelled
| dog to go down to the plain. In five
| seconds the animal fell on its side notion
| less. although II continued TO breathe for
| eighteen minutes. and fowl only resisted
the deadly air for a minute and a half
Most of you have read quotations of
silver fox skins and black fox skins, but
| ala you ever see one? The chances are
| that if you are not in the fur business
you never did, says the Lewiston Jour-
| nal Only 1879 were taken in the whole
world last season, and every year all Of
| these go to Russia, where they are the fur
| of the royalty and the nobility. The other
day, trudging up the Journal stairs, came
| Hunnewell, the South Danville fur king
| He is a real yankee at a trade, a hustling
| buyer who has agents in the Nova Scotia
and in Cape Breton, and all along the rich
fur-bearing countries, and his transactions
amount to $4,000 a year and upward I'm
der his arm Hunnewell bore a package.
which he tossed lightly to the floor of the
| reporters room and disturbed the quiet of
the several desks" at work There
said he, lis something you never saw be-
| fore-eight silver fox skins in one bunch"
There they were-four of them beauties,
four of them ordinary. The four first
named were beautiful skins, pure deem
black along the bases of the necks, silver
| tipped along the backs, while the tails
were just shimmered with the silver white,
| The fur was soft and fine, beautiful to the
touch. THAT skim" said Mr. Hunne-
well, tossing out one lis worth s1S5. This
| one is worth $50. If that one were as
black as this and was as heavy and soft
as it is now it would be worth $500 easily
Considering that only 1879 were taken last
year, and that got twenty-four of them.