The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


yearly receipts of street railway COM
panies is 1888.
japanese papers, foreign and YER
nacular. refer in sympathetic terms to
the career in Japan of the late Ameri-
can minister, Col. Buck. The Japan
Times, of Toxic, which is published in
English by japanese, says that by
his death Japan has lost one or the
best friends it ever had. and the Amer
lean diplomatic service one of its pic
turesque figures"
Damp lampblack will ignite from
the suns rays. The same can be said
of cotton waste moist with lard or
other animal oil. Lampblack and a
little oil or water will under certain
| conditions ignite spontaneously. Nitric
acid and charcoal create spontaneous
combustion. New printers ink on paper
when in contact with hot steam pipe
will ignite quickly. Boiled linseed oil
and turDentine in equal ports on cot
ton or linen rags, or cotton waste will
ignite in few hours under a mild heat
and will in time create enough heat
to ignite spontaneously. Bituminous
coal should not be stored where II
will come in contact with wooden par
titions or columns, or against warm
boiler settings or steam. pipes. Thls
! coal should not be very deep if 1t is
to be kept on storage for long period.
If piled in the basement of a building
| it should be shallow and free from
moisture and under good ventilation.
The Chateau diff is for sale. Every
reader of Dumas knows the Chateau
| DIFF, which is referred to in the first
part of Monte Cristo." OF course. Ed
| ~ 1zse "a "a
| are purely imaginary characters, but
| Dumass descriptive powers breathed
such life into them that many visitors
to the Chateau diff ask to see the cells
| where the heroes of the novel were in
carcerated. 1t is, reported that the keep
| er of the castle made very profitable
| income by pointing these cells out, and
| it is also related that Dumas himself,
| on a visit to If, greatly enjoyed the
| joke. The chateau is to be sold by or
| der of the Ministry of War, and the sale
| was to have been conducted at Mar
settles Town Hall recently. 1t having
been reported, however, that the build
! ing was to be restored and converted
| into a gambling palace, the local au-
| thorities took alarm and conferred with
| the military authorities. The result is
| that the sale has been postponed, and
| it is probable that when the property
\ is again offered to the public a clause
| will be inserted in the conditions of
| sale to the effect that the chateau shall
| not be converted into a gambling es-
| Establishment.
A remarka BILE instance of differ
| ence in celebration is furnished by a
deer that in the past five years has
4 come to be well known in certain parts
| of Northern Wisconsin. This animal,
| doe of fair size, inhabits the east
| ern part of Sawyer county mostly, but
| has been seen at points thirty miles
4 apart. 1t is almost snow white along
4 the sides and neck, with a darker line
I along the back The Wilderness, with
| a light brown dorsal line, runs from
head to tail, the legs are white and
| the belly is of an equal paleness. The
| doe was seen last in early October. 1t
| was then with five others on the west
bank of Round Lake, playing in the
| water. 1t was 800 yards away. The
white doe has been seen at much
| closer quarters in the woods. Once in
| the previous autumn in Sawyer coun-
\ ty, it was shot at when not thirty
| yards away by a man on a runaway,
| but he missed it. At various times
| men in the forest have shot at it, but
| it has never been hit. The white doe
has fawned at least twice since it
| came to be known. The fawns have
4
brown, with rows of white spots.
| Paris papers relate story of a very
odd trick which has just been played
by a servant on her mistress, who, dis
| satisfied with her conduct, had given
her warning, adding that she did not
| intend to pay her wages. The young
| woman, thirsting for revenge, explain
| cd her plight to a friend of hers, who
1 iG OLE NM hn mir he
trived during the lady's absence from
| home to introduce an electric battery
\ under the mattress of her bed, with
| instructions to the servant as to how
she should set it going, two wires hav-
| ing been also laid down for the cur
| rent, and when about midnight the
| lady retired to rest the trick was play
| ed on her. Suddenly electrified, the
unlucky woman screamed out for help,
| and after a time the servant made her
| appearance on the scene and, laughing
1 merrily at the sorry spectacle thus
| presented by her mistress. declined to
| put an end to her misery until she had
| promised to give her the wages. The
| lady agreed to do so, but the next
| morning she went off to the nearest
/ police station with a complaint, and
| search is being made for the girl, who
| had prudently left the house in the
| meanwhile.
Some of the rivers of Labrador are
of great size. The Hamilton is over
600 miles long, and is navigable by
| boats for half that distance, until stop
/ ped by the famous Grand Falls, a
natural wonder exceeding Niagara. The
river in its inland reaches drains six
| lakes varying in size from $50 to $50
| square miles in extent, surges sea-
ward through gorge $40 feet wide and
| enclosed between walls of rock 1000
| feed high The river drops 700 feet in
| three miles, and the torrent that pours
| over the falls is stupendous in, it's size
| and force, $4,000 gallons of water des-
cending every second. The roar of the
/ rushing river can be heard twenty miles
/ away, and the few travellers who have
/ penetrated to 1t declare that the world
| holds no other such spectacle. In a
second river, the Manicouagan, which
| empties into the st. Lawrence Gulf.
| canoes can voyage up its whole length
| of 400 miles, and by making a single
| portage of three miles can reach the
Koksah river, by means of which the
traveller can continue his journey right
| into the Hudson Bay without debarking
any more, the entire fresh water trip,
with but one portage, being about $50
| miles as the crow flies. There are Hud-
4 son Bay Company's posts on the main
/ river, where the indians and 'livyeres''
barter their peltries for food, clothing
/ and ammunition.
Many mistaken notions prevail