The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

porting nerself comfortably on the pro-
ceeds of a farm on which she raises moth
ing but mint All the principal hotels
and restaurants in New Orleans purchase
their mint from her and she makes
enough during the summer months, when
juleDs and other cooling drinks contain
ing mint are in demand, to enable her to
live comfortably through the winter This
is said to be the only farm in the country
which is devoted solely to the production
of mint.
There is at least one place in the Unit
ed States where a man may be out in a
heavy rain and not get wet even though
he has neither macintosh nor umbrella
says an exchange. In the Colorado desert
they have transforms during which not
single drop of water touches the earth.
The rain can be seen falling from the
clouds high above the desert, but when the
water reaches the strata of hot dry air
beneath the clouds it is entirely absorbed
before falling half the distance to the
ground. 1t is a singular sight to witness
heavy downpour of rain, not a drop of
which touches the ground. These strange
transforms occur in regions where the
shade temperature often ranges as high
as 128 degrees Fahrenheit.
Eighteen miles from Cooktown, on the
overland route to the Bloomfield river,
North Queensland, says the Pail Mall Ga
zette, is one of the most remarkable scenes
in Australia. This is the Black mountain
of the whites, the Jooroomba of the blacks
One old black fellow called it Woondo-
5eanee, from "WOondo," a mountain, and
"beanee," death-literally the Death noun
tain, singularly appropriate title. This
mountain is divided and the road passes
through the gap. The man who can, I'M
moved, behold that scene, or fails to make
a q nh ,fr
DRY, is not to be envied. Description may
be confined to the scene on the right,
leaving the smaller and isolated mountain
on the left. Before one rises a vast and.
awful ridge, 1900 feet in hight-a colossal
wedge-pointed parapet of enormous rocks
piled in dreadful confusion from base to
apeX-bare of all vegetation, Jagged masses
of granite black as Erebus, weird, SOL
emn, mysterious and Tone as incarnate
DEATH
The Illinois Central railroad, at their
Burnside shops, use compressed air for
the following purposes: Elevating sand
at engine sand house, elevating oil at oil
house hosting heavy castings and parts
of machine tools, etc, forcing couplings
on air hose, operating cylinder boring bar,
operating valve facing machine, filling cy-
finders of hydraulic presses, removing nd
applying driving tires, testing water
pumps after repairs, drilling with motor
tapping with motor, roaming with motor,
cleaning boilers, cleaning machinery,
punching jocket rivet holes, taking old
paint off tin roofs, rolling and beading
fues, chipping, cutting. calkiug, small
bulldozer, eleYating water from deep
wells, testing air and driving brakes, ele,
VatOrS in StorehOuse, operating letter.
presses, cutting out staybolt stubs, jack
ing up cars and trucks, cleaning interior
of coaches, cleaning upholstered work,
burning paint off of coaches, painting
cars, sandblast ends of cars, gasoline
heater, cutting off staybolts screwing in
staybolts, rivet FORCES, pressing in driving
box brasses, operating fange clamp,
swedging fiues. They consider it the best
means of transmitting power in and about
shops.
A doctor in Paris has succeeded in
winning fame and many well-paying eli
ents, says the New York Times by telling
the people of that capital that an illness
much like the one produced by ocean trav-
ell is often the result of looking long and
intently across the footlights of a thea
ter. So far as known, this malady has
never hitherto forced itself upon the at
tention of the Parisenne, any more than
upon that of the inhabitants of other
cities, but, when their attention was call
ed TO the matter, scores of them sudden
~ discovered that they had long suffered
from giddiness produced in this way Nat
urally enough, they sought relief from the
doctor who had revealed their sufferings
to them, and, as naturally, he succeeded
In effecting a cure in every instance after
more or less prolonged course Of treat
ment. This is obviously good scheme.
and young doctors elsewhere, if there are
any who haven't all the reputation and
practice they desire, might well consider
the ACCESSIBILITY of initiating the French
mans example. Most of the old, hack
neyed diseases are more or less trouble
some to manage, but by devising a new
and special malady of his own-a task of
no special difficulty in these days-each
medical man ought to find the road to
wealth short and easy.
Toward the close of last century. saws
an English newspaper Mr.. Nesbitt, put
ting up as member for Cation, vowed that
if he were elected he would have his horses
shod with silver. And so in a carriage
drawn by six horses with shoes of the
precious metal he ''processed" round the
town amid the plaudits of the populace
When Lord Stair, who was very wealthy
and fond of display, was appointed am
bassador to Louis XIV he sought to aston
ism the Partisan natives in the same
strange way He entered the city in a mag
SSeNSAA
shod in this extravagant manner The
silver shoon," however, for some reason
or other kept coming offLperhaps they
were not fastened in the ordinary way
ana attendants were continually replacing
them, but, the record goes on to state, the
people managed at last to make off with
several of these really lucky horse shoes.
Again Berthier, in his memoirs mentions
that in the doomful days just before the
revolution, the aristocracy in their in
sensate pride Wed with each other in the
grandeur of their equipages, and that it
was quite a common matter to shoe their
horses with silver The demi monde took
up the fashion, and as is their wont. went
one better by having the boxes of their
wheels and sometimes even the tires of the
same metal. as well as the shoes of their
horses.
In Hmousn, says the Popular Science
Monthly, there is a barren range of low
hills which lies along the dividing line be-
tween the departments of Dordogne. Cor
reze, and Haute-Vienne. about half 1vav