The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The cheapest grades of collar hons
are made of material used in chInare.
a better quality is turned out Of bonthe
metal collar buttons are manufacturtby
machinery from brass plates. and ar
ward gilded by the electro-p plating pross.
The brass buttons used on uniforms re |
made by machinery, special die stamI 2
the required initial or device on the IA
The campaign buttons are made by pho |
graphing a portrait or device upon a pla, |
of metal very intricate machine afte
wards stamping the face of the butto
into shape and fitting on the back and
shank. The fancy and expensive buttons
used on ladies' costumes are usually i'm
ported from France or Germany.
There is but one genuinely live town
in the west" says A. w. Lyman of Hell
ena. Mont, land that is Butte. The An
aconda copper mines, that vast concern
which makes a profit of from 100000 to
100000 year, explains the status there.
1t is employing more men and has a big
ger pay roll than ever before, and its
employees get the highest rate of wages
paid anywhere. No wonder that Butte is
prosperous. for where several thousand
men get steady work and high pay there
can be no stagnation. Life is never stag
nant in the big copper camp. The street
cars run all night and likewise the sa-
looms, and if man wants a shave at
2S0 a. m. he will find several barber shops
OPEN"
Mr.. W. LIE c. Beard, in the April st.
Nicholas, tells of a tame eagle he had as
pet in Arizona. Mr.. Beard saws: The
half-breed in whose charge he had been
LETT told us that he was far better than an
alarm clock, for no one could sleen
through the cries with which he greeted
the rising sun and his notion Of breakfast
time; and while an alarm would ring for
only half minute, Moses was wound IN
to go all day, or until he got sometime,
to eat. But his guardian treated him
kindly, and Moses grew and thrived. soon
putting on handsome suit of brown and
gray feathers, which he was very proud
or, and spent most of his spare time in
preening; and he was beginning to think
seriously of trying his wings when an ac-
cident put off. his flying for a long time.
Having known, thus far, nothing but
kindness from man, he was absolutely
without fear, and, as it turned out, rather
too much so.
1t has, perhaps, occurred to few of US,
says Public Opinion, that the boughs of
trees occupy very different position in
summer and winter respectively, but Miss
Agnes Fry has made careful measure
ments of the hight from the ground OF
branches OF both walnut and mulberry
trees in August and December, and she
finds that in some cases there is a differ
ence of as much as thirty-one inches in
the hight of the same branch from the
ground in these two months This par
ticular figure was obtained with branch
of a mulberry tree, and it was found that
in December, weight of thirty-five
pounds was not sufficient to lower 1t to
its summer position. In other cases there
were differences of from thirteen inches
to nineteen inches in the distance in sum-
mer and winter respectively of branches
from the ground. No wonder, then, that
the diagnosis of a tree in winter from it's
general outline is so difficult a task.
This is story Of tragedy in an avia-
ry, says the Philadelphia Record. Edward
Gooldrick, the well known minstrel, is an
amateur naturalist and dealer in rare
birds eggs. Besides this, he is a devoted
lover of birds, and spends much of his
spare time breeding the feathered song
sters. Some time ago a robin which was
then Matching a setting of eggs at his
house was attacked by a cat, and in the
melee the cage was upset and all the
eggs broken. The cat was driven off and
the cage righted, but the bird remained
disconsolate over the loss of her eggs. To
quiet the bird Mr.. Gooldrick placed in
the nest three parrot eggs that had been
sent to him from India. Ike robin settled
down to work, and to Mr. Gooldrck's sur
prise, succeeded in Matching two baby
parrots. The queer-looking youngsters
seemed to excite deal of wonderment IN
their foster-mother and for several days
she acted in an odd manner. One morn
ing Mr.. Gooldrick found the two parrots
lying dead in the cage with the tops of
their heads neatly picked out. There is
not the slightest doubt that the robin
was guilty of infanticide.
Why is it. asks the New York Times,
that, since days before even tradition be-
gins, the annual inundation by the Nile
of the territory along its banks has been
regarded as a national blessing, while
similar rises of the Mississippi every year
infiict almost incalculable damage to a
country whose residents regard the an
Gent Egyptians, and the modern ones
too, for that matter, as little better than
barbarians? The only possible answer is
that in the one case intelligent ADVANTAGE
has been and is taken of natures ire
sistible workings, while in the other an
attempt whose hopelessness was demon
strated long ago is made to interfere with
them. The conditions of life and agri-
culture along the two rivers are by no
means so disslmilar as to warrant the
adoption of exactly contrary methods.
The waters of the Mississippi bring down
in solution every spring an amount of po-
tential wealth beyond human powers OF
estimation and, instead of accepting the
gift, we do our utmost to bury it all un-
der the water of the Gulf of Mexico We
have millions to spend for levees that
stand only when they are not needed, and
more millions with which to buy artifi-
cial fertilizers for exhausted acres, but
seem to lack the adaptability to circum
stances that enables naked fellaheen to
exult over a phenomenon for which learn
ed and scientific occidentals feel horror
and fear.
Were it not, says the New York Times,
that Maine, geologically speaking, is
land Of slate and granite, rocks in which
true caves of any considerable extent are
Almost unknown, and as nearly impossible,
fuller credence would be given to a re-
markable tale that comes from Lake Ale
cash, a lonely body of water Just north of
the big hills separating the headwaters Of
the River st. John from those of the Ken
nebec and Penobscot A party of Aroos-
took county men are just back from
trip to the lake made for the purpose OF
exploring a cavern whose entrance was
discovered a wear ago nv a Iun herman