The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

President ". B. Paterson OF the Ala
bama Normal School for CoIOred Stu
dents, says that he is a descendant OF
Robert Burns, the poet
The huckleberry industry in New
Jersey may be said to be looking up.
although this is not the huckleberry sea-
son in that state. The assembly has pass
"a "a me rather peculiar bill requiring that
All huckleberries must hereafter be picked
by hand Machine-picked huckleberries.
II there are such things. will evidently
stand no show in the markets Of New
Jersey in the future.
Here are few OF the grotesque names
OF pOstofhces in Tennessee: Yum Yum, We
nus. Virtue. Amanda, Deer Lodge. Chest
nut Bloom. Al, lingo. A 4 9. EIi Alum
WelL barefoot. Bachus. Big Gully, Tan
bark. Slide, Tom. Ebene@er. Messy Creek
Mutt; Antioch, Flat Woods. Aunt. Beans
creek, Flag Pond, Bessie Fly Erasmus.
ldar Jasper Nettle. Carrier. Morning Star
Ho- Lulaville. Hornet. Dove. Manchester
Nasty, Mulberry Gap. Peeled Chestnut.
Milfjump, Difficult. Mack. Ipe, only, Loo.
chimney Top. Bet, Tut Tulu, Flat
Woods and TiDtop.
-Byzantium. to use that which has
been the ordinary name with all Greek
writers from HerOdOtus down to Pas
pates IN our own day, is one of the
oldest cities of Europe-historically speak
ing, II we neglect mere prehistoric le-
gend, little younger than Athens or Rome
says the Saturday Review. Like them,
Byzantium appears TO have been found
ed on prehistoric fort Hardly any OF
the ancient towns of Italy and Southern
Europe can show 50 authentic and ven
efaDle a record. There is no reason to
doubt that Byzantium has been a historic
city for some ESQ years. During the
whole OF that period. with no real break
IN her life, 1t has been the scene of events
recorded in the annals of mankind; 1t
has been fought for and held by men
famous in world history; it has played a
substantive part in the drama of civil
lization. SO singular a sequence of his
tOric interest can hardly be claimed for
any city in Europe, except for Rome her
self. r-a.
1t seems, says the New orleans Plea
yune. that the services of the much derided
billy goat are at last to receive public
recognition, and he is to win fame as
guide n Switzerland and other noun
famous countries he is the one who leads
long strings of animals daily to and from
the mountains. In South Africa 1t has
been found that the goat can take care
of the sheep better than any shepherd.
In the binding storms which often rage
there the sheep huddie so close together
they would smother did not the trained
goat, by a. method known only to himself,
get them to move and follow him to place
of safety In America, also, the services
of the goat as guide are much esteemed.
particularly in initiating new members
into lodges, and in the spring, when the
book beer has been put on draft. The
goat is a most intelligent animal, who
knows enough to wag his beard and say
nothing, The real guide goat Is the Al
pine William goat, raised on Edelweis and
mountain air. and not the tin-can soldier
goat of the city.
For nearly a thousand years before it
became the capital of an empire, By
zantium was a Greek city of much i'm
portance, the prize of contending ma
tons, and with striking prescience even
then chosen out by philosophic historians
for its commanding position and immense
capabilities After the lapse of nearly
thousand years Byzantium became
Constantinople, the center of the Roman
empire. Since then ii has been the cap
ital city of an empire for exactly 1854
years-and that in a manner, and for
period such as no other imperial city
has been in the annals of civilized man.
There is no actual break; although, for
the dynasty of the PalaeOlOgi, from the
Latin empire down to the capture by
the Ottomans, the empire outside the cap
ital has shrunken and almost phan-
tom dominion. But it is yet true that for
1854 years Constantinople has ever been,
and still is the sole regular residence
of emperors and sultans, the sole and
continuous center of civil and military
administration, the supreme court OF law
and justice and the official center of the
imperial religion.
How to get rid of rabbits has been
an important question in Australia for
several years, says the New York Trl-
bune. Millions of dollars have been spent
to get rid of the long-eared ard short
tailed pests, but it has been impossible
even to lessen their number. Now it is
proposed that they shall be made to yield
a revenue. In one year the government
of New South Wales paid for p, 900 900
rabbit skins, but there were more rabbits
skipping about at the end of the year
than there were at the beginning. Since
1888 one colony has spent more that So
OO0.0OO in veritable war against the pes;,
and has constructed 1900 miles of barb
ed-wire fencing, one fence alone running
40 miles and another 300 miles. The gov
eminent of New South Wales has upon
its hands 100000 acres of land abandoned
because of the rabbits, but they seemed
to thrive and grow fat upon barren land
where other stock, even goats, would die
been formed, which is to build a refriger,
ating factory in one of the agricultural
districts near Melbourne, and to freeze
and ship rabbits to the English markets
If this scheme is successful, as it prom
ises to be, then rabbits will not only be-
come a common article of food, but per-
haps source of profit to Australia.
Says, the sergent (Ky.J Correspondence
of the Louisville Evening Post: Probably
the outside world is not aware of the fact
that natural ice factory is in existence;
but 1t Is true. and not more than TWENTY
nVe miles east of here, amid Powelrs and
Stones mountains. on Stony Creek, in
Scott county, Virginia. The phenomenon
was discovered many years ago in July by
man named Carter, who soon after died
and his words were thought to be a myth
until only three years ago, when a party
of hunters explored the natural curiosity
Although the curiosity has not been talked
about fifty miles away, thousands of spec
tators have focked to the scene from the
adjoining counties within the last wear
The following was told the Post cor
respondent by visitor to the wonder yes
terday: Il. with desire to visit the
much-talked-of natural ice factory in Vir-
ginia, procured the aid of a man named
Green, a neighboring farmer and rode
horseback over a rough road within a
ed, unable to take our horses further
Through laurel and brush we found our
way to a large open space on the bank of
the little mountain stream, and there was
the ice bank. in the presence of which
scientists stand appalled,. In openings of
rock We're large blocks of ice; in fact. all
around for half a mile was one vast store
house of the most beautiful ice to be found
anywhere. This was a warm day. and