Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-05-02
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

1t is believed that herd of buffalo
Is roaming the Red desert, northwest
of Rawlins, Wyo. For the protection
of these animals bill has been intro
duced in the state legislature punish
ing the killing of buffalo by from
three to ten years imprisonment.
The crossing ofa buffalo with black
Galway cattle has been successfully
tested at Good Night, Tex, Gordon
City, Kan, and Sioux City, Ia, and has
proven SO highly profitable that the
raisers of this novel species are going
into the business on an extensive scale.
Large numbers of carp and catfish
are shipped from Appoquinimink creek,
tributary of Delaware bay, to the
markets of Philadelphia and New
York, and the fishermen find a curious
difference of taste among the ichthyo-
phagi of the two cities. The fish that
bring the best prices in Philadelphia
bring the lowest in New York, and vice
versa.
The recent frost in Florida de-
stroyed an orange grove owned by Mrs.
Henry Ward Beecher. Negotiations
had been under way by which she was
to dispose of it for $4,000. "This is
great disappointment" said she. II
need money at this time, as have not
been able to do much with my pen, and
have only had my small income with
which to do"
John Green, a successful negro
horse trainer and driver, died at Mid
dletown, Del, the other day, at the
age of fifty-fve. John was an object of
interest to whites as we'll as blacks, be-
cause he was one of the few among his
race in those parts to earn much money
and save his earnings He lived in
large, comfortable, neatly furnished
house, educated his children and
dressed them we'll, and had the hearty
respect of all who knew him.
The following are the nine longest
words in the English language at the
present writing.
Subconstitutionalist.
Incomprehensibility.
Philoprogenitivenes
Honorifcibilitudinity.
Anthropophagenarian.
Disproportiopableness.
Velocipedestfianistical.
ranssubstantiationab
| Proantitransub ubstantiationst.
1T is noteworthy that the type OF
the burglar in American caricature and
upon the American stage is still the
British Bill Sykes. Crime in the case
of the native American has not run es-
pecially to burglary, but to violent
offences against the person, and in
the far west to general lawlessness
1t would be interesting to know what
percentage of burglars whose pictures
are in the rogues' gallery are native
Americans and the sons of native
Americans.
-"Do you know how we circus peo-
pie manage during our busy time to lay
by money enough to carry us through
the dull winter season. asked the
bareback rider. Moving about as we
do from place to place we can't deposit
our savings in bank, and if we should
undertake to keep them with us-well,
they wouldn't last. We are paid week
ly, and on each pay day, after laying
aside what he expects to need for the
next week, ,cthe prudent performer in
vests the rest of his weekly earnings in
post office money order, made pay
able to himself at his home address,
The duplicate order which the post
master gives him he keeps in hand or
mails to his home. At the close of the
season, when the circus has disbanded,
he returns home to find the accumu-
lated money orders awaiting him at
the local post Office"
The present church of the First
Presbyterian congregation of Pitts
burgh is the third building which has
occupied the site. but the worshippers
lost scarcely any time through the
building operations. The first church
was small log structure, built when
Pittsburgh was quite young. AS time
went on the congregation grew, and a
brick church was erected. 1t was built
around the log church, and the usual
services were not suspe ended. When
the brick building was finished the log
church was taken down and the logs
were removed through the windows o.
the new building. The present stone
church was put up in much the same
way around the brick building In
this way it comes to pass that the
great-grandchildren of the early Pitts
burgh Presbyterians sit in practically
the same pews and in the same posi-
tions in the church that their ancestors
used to occupy.