The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IN New Mexico and Arizona there are
hundreds of ruins Of hugs houses among
the cliffs frpm four 70 six stories in night
and some Of them having over 800 rooms.
Ihey were built by the Pueblo. who. be-
lOIe me new world was discovered. were
living in their strange houses that were
forts, almost secure from attack by their
inVeterSfe foes, the fierce Ajaches. While
luhufels OF them are crumbling with the
aust or centuries. some have been occu-
PIED by PueblOs within historic times.
I 1hey We're Invariably of stone, and laid
with remarkable skill. They are all ter
raced and the front of TIE buildings look
ike Nights of gigantic steps. There are no
ooors or windows IN the outer walls, and
10 stars, all entrance being by ladders.
They built their houses where nature had
arranged for their security, in the cliffs or
on me tops Of mesas or rock islands. Mod
jewellers are not an extinct race, but have
moved from the deserted ruins as the
centuries went on. and that the descend
ANTS are tne present Pueblo Indians, a pc
cullar and interesting people. living COM
fortably, peaceable and Industrious.
There is no telling what the world lost
when the flames destroyed the inventions
OF Nlkola Tesla, says the New York Press.
But Tesla's ideas are still with him. and
MS inventions can be reconstructed. Not
50 the old man whose den in Broadway.
near Thirty-second street, almost under
the sidewalk, was as unique in its way and
| quite as Indispensable as the workshop of
the great scientist. Back Number Budd'
/ feSemDl the late Frederick Douglass, a
! fact which he was not excessively proud.
however. He lost in an hour and a half
| over 100000 copies of newspapers and
! magazines, stock made up Of the accu-
mutations of nearly sixty years. the only
stock of the kind in this country, and
| therefore one that cannot by any posi-
| Dlhty be replaced. II Is terrible dow 10
/ the old collector Budd was an honest
| tradesman. He sold his papers at big
| price, but never tried to take an unfair
/ advantage of a customer. His schedule was
| always the same-siXty cents, l think. for
| a Press three months old, and an addi-
tional ten cents for each month over that,
| or something of that sort Where shall we
! so for our back numbers now?
A New York special of recent date says:
| "A benefit will be rendered julius Stern,
| the blind billiardist next week. His
| achievements with the billiard ball are
/ constant source of amusement. His main
/ dependence in playing is his marvelously
acute detection of sound and it's loca-
| ton. He is also assisted in executing
/ the most difficult shots by his accurate
| sense of touch By simply locating the
| three balls on the table he is enabled to
| send the cue ball on its way round, gent
! ~ clicking each of the balls as he in
tended. The soft or loud notes of the
contact tell him where he may place mis-
fingers to find the ball preparatory to the
next shot. When a boy, before he became
| blind, he used to play a little, but he
| has acquired his skill since he became
blind. 1 simply love the game he said
He earns a living for a large family by
selling papers. He received much atten-
| ton last January, when Alderman OIL
colt opposed giving him the privilege of
conducting a paper stand any longer on
the corner of Ninety-second street and Co
lumbus avenue A petition with 800 sigma
lures was sent TO the board and Stern
won his case. The benefit is to raise
money TO pay for a stand that will be an
ornament to the street
1t is a geological fact that all the waters
of the st. Lawrence at one time poured
down through Lake Champlain and were
discharged into the Atlantic at New York,
l IN ION If MOI orb
the engineer who has worked out the
| problem of the new waterway, recently
told an Albany Journal man they could
| be turned back into the channel II money
enough were expended upon the work.
| His plan, however, does not contemplate
anything which would destroy the COM
merce of Montreal or make Quebec's
water front sandy plain. The great riv
! er can spare enough water for the ship
] canal and not appear to have lost drop.
| It Is the foremost of rivers in its uniform
| discharge, of which the mean amount Is
| 22O93 cubic feet per second at Ogdens-
! burg. The lowest discharge of the Mis-
! sissippi is 156,00O cubic feet per second, and
| its maximum is fully eight times that
| amount. The work required to complete
| the project is not so great as may be inn
! agined. 1t will be necessary to build
/ new aqueduct over the Chippewa river on
! the Welland canal, also eight miles OF
new canal from near Thorold, Ont, to near
Queenstown, with two locks; a lock at
| Cornwall. a lock near Valley Field, Que
| bee; canal from Lake St. Francis, in the
! Island, to the Richeleu river, and, lastly,
a canal from Lake Champlain to the
Hudson river. This last will be the most
| difficult part of the whole undertaking.
! The proposed canal will connect South
| Bay, Lake Champlain, with the Hudson
| at Fort Miller. although an effort will be
| made to connect with the river at
| point higher up. Below CoXsackie the
Hudson will afford clear, unobstructed
waterway to New York. The lock at this
! end of the route will be at Waterford.
| fractions of the electric light and was left
! behind by the swarms of birds that flew
| over the city Tuesday night, and suisse
| quently placed in a cage in a lodging
| house on St Charles street, was yester-
| day identified, says the New Orleans
Democrat. A gentleman well Versed in
ORTHODOXY saw the little captive yester-
/ day and knocked some of the romance
| out of the birds personality" by pro-
| nouncing it a plain, every day cat bird.
Here is the definition of the species: Gal
/ eoscOptes Carolinensis, cat bird, be-
longs to the large family Turdidae or
| thrushes, subfamily Minimize, which in
cludes the hooking bird and genus Gal
! eoscOples-species Galeoscoptes Carroll
nensis, or cat bird. The cat bird has
| very extended geographical range. 1t is
| abundant throughout the central portion
! of the continent; 1t is found as far north
! as Lake Winnipeg and from Florida to
Maine. In Bermuda it is a prominent
resident, and is occasionally found in
! Cuba and the Bahamas, and winters in
| Central America, where it is very abund-
ant. The northern migration of the car
| bird commences in February, arriving
here usually in March; in April theY
reach Virginia and Pennsylvania and New,
England about May 10. Its first appear-
ance is usually concident with the bios
soming of the pear tree. 1t breeds in all
the southern states, with possibly the ex
ception of Florida. 1t builds its nests on
clusters of vines or low bushes on the
edges of small thickets and in retired
places. The cat birds power of minnicrv
| though limited and imperfectly exercised
| is frequently very amusing BelonginS
to the same family as the moc<ing BIRD
he has the ability to initiate songs and
sounds of the hooking bird to a Iimited
extent. The whistle of a quail. the cIi1cL
| of hen calling her brood. the answer Of
, the young chicks, the note of the pevyit
| flycatcher and the refrain of the towbee
| the cat bird will initiate with so rnucb
| exactness as not to be distinguished from
! the original. When annoyed by an in
truder the cry of the cat bird is loud
! harsh and unpleasant, and is supposed ~
| resemble the outcry of cat and to This
| it owes its name. Ills