The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AN EDIsoS CENTRAL STATION will furnish
BuenOs Ayres with $1,000 Edison electrica
lights and some 6, 600 arc lights Other smaller
l works OF the same company will be established
/ in other parts of this city
| BRITISH CAPITAL is developing the resource.
1 Of South Africa at a remarkable rate The re
/ turns from the mines have increased from
$4,000 to 3, 10000 a year. At the sam,
\ time silver, coal petroleum and planting com
panies, with ali their attendant industries have
been started, and in many cases are doing well
NJ. aAIsoNHAUTE, says the Bulletin Inferno
ttondt de FEtectricitie, having noticed that tn
! passage of a current of electricity through
milk retarded the formation of cream, made {
series OF experiments TO see whether milk coulc
/ De Kept fresh in this manner. The result O
these experiments is a patent for the preserva
| tion OF milk by means of either static or curren
| electricity.
! The FRENCH MINISTER OF WAR is making som.
experiments in electric shooting, and intend
to arrange so that he can discharge his gun
| upon the enemy from unexpected places b.
| means of an electric current By placing a hat
| terry on a hill, in fort or at the entrance of 8
| dehle, 1t would be possible to shoot from a dis
tanc3 or automatically discharge the artillerl
at any precise point of the limo Of defense.
AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION was shown a move
form of triple-expansiou engine. There wert
four cylinders arranged like double tanden
NOAhpOuhu- All Tue cylinders WerA OF differ
ent sizes. The engine could be used as a sim
pie compound if one side should give ont, or as
double compound or triple extension, the
Ilght-nand nigh pressure cylinder exhausting
INTO tne left~hand high pressure cylinder of
somewhat larger diameter, using il as an inter.
mediate, and thence into the two low pressure
cylinders.
HENRY HALL, inspector of mines for Great
Britain. estimates the available quantity oil
coal in Breat Britain at 90, 207 100000 OF tons
mat is the quantity estimated at less depths
IMAM 4,oOO teer, allowing any additional quantity
Lnat may be- got from under the red rock to
stand as set off against that which may be
FOUND impracticable or approaching 4,00) feet.
On TINS data, if we add 100000 tons to each
future years production, tlHs being the average
increase since 1854 up to 1885, we get life of 1872
years. But the increase over the ten years
previous to 1889 is 1000 900 of tons, and assum-
ing mat the future increase will be equal to this
we get duration of III years.
Mrs. ANN ADAMS, nee Smith, died the other
day in Chicago, aged 6s years. In 1896 her
mother was eaten up by wolves not far from
the spot now known as the corner of Twenty
second and State streets TIE Smiths then had
a farm out toward Blue Island, and it was
about nifty years ago last month that Mrs
omltn left town late one afternoon with some
groceries. She went out by road now known
as State street aud. little before dusk, was
STRUCK by Blizzard from the mort Invest. The
snow blew so furiously that she lost her way
ehslu bldNSleu around III a circle Tor several
hours. Finally she sat down to rest and eat
some of the groceries she had with her. when
suddenly pack of wolves bounced upon her.
Two BROTHERS, William c. and Sydney G.
Alng, living at Newport Washington county,
Minnesota, were discussing an advertisement
Tor wife which recently appeared, and were
soon IA a heated argument Finally Sydney
oIered TO bet $500 against Williams farm that
the latter would not choose a wife by lottery
scheme that he proposed. The offer was ac-
cepted and contract was drawn up. 1t pro-
vlde5 that William is TO make hundred tick
ets. numbered from } to 100 which are to be
pun IN envelopes aud one given TO each lady
wishing husband, regardless of her age or
nationality. A certain day is announced for
the drawing, and public notice is to be given of
the place where it is to take place William
must marry the lady holding the corresponding
number to the one that he draws.
THE CHEESE trade between America and En-
gland is very large one. Last year we i'm
ported e13, 900 hundred weights from the United
States and SIS, 900 hundred weights from Canada
making toeether 1.48l 900 hundred weights
says the Pau Mall Gazette, and this year the
figures promise 20 be as large. This extensive
business is thought to offer a favorable oppor-
tunlty for introducing modern methods of or
ganlzation, and a scheme is on foot for the
formation of large corporation for this pur-
pose. To put IL briefly, the scheme is intended
to bring about direct deal between the pro-
Queer and the foreign consumer, so as to cut
down unnecessary expenses. While maintain
ing ralr margin or profit, the cost to the con-
sumner is to be reduced. There is said to be
abundance of capital at the back of the under
taking.
COL f. w. HIGGINsoN contributes an interest
ing war paper to Harpers Bazaar. He speaks of
the early regiments recruited from the freed
slaves of the south, saying that nothing was at
first a greater obstacle than the uuwiIingness
of the ignorant colored people to be subjected
to one another. Not only had the commissioned
officers at first to be taken from the white race
but, in some cases, the sergeants we're similarly
appointed, and it was only very gradually that
the colored soldiers could be brought to obey
any one of their own race. II don't want him
to play the white man obsr me- was the
frequent protest. By degrees they came to un-
derstand that they were not to obey their Of
ficers by reason of color. but because they were
officers, and then they gradually learned to take
pride IN having SergeantS and corporals of their
OVID hue.
MEN of the present day who attend the opera
and theater and are debarred the pleasure of
seeing the actors and the stage by the high hat
nuisance may take comfort from the ia It that
their grandfathers and great-grandfathers suf-
fered a similar infection. In the Europedn
Magazine, published in London, for December
1888, is the following 1T is the fashion in
Paris for the ladies to wear straw hats of a
monstrous size, made in limitations of the areo-
static globes: which account they are les
chapeaux AL balloon 1t is to be hoped that
Jne whimsical InOue Will not be introduced
among the people of England, as it would
prove still more inconvenient at the play houses
than the late high heads" And again we read:
Woe to the frequenters of the play houses if
the new French balloon hats are ever brought
into fashion here in their present FORM But
they were.
1--WE HAVE a sure proof that the average cold
of the winter is not so great nor extended over
so long period as it was twenty years ago."
remarked Philadelphia hardware dealer, who
has been in business since 1880 1T is that we
do not sell half as many pairs of skates as In
my earlier years. 1t won't do to attribute the
decrease to the fashion of roller skating nor to
say that young people and adults have given
up the notion of gliding over the ice. If we had
the ice, this generation would be as quick to
take to it as their predecessors were. Carry
your mind back twenty years, and you will re-
call that there were dozen ice-rinks in and
about the city, the largest and best of which
that in old Eastwick park Men rented
the grounds, flooded them, put up restaurants
and dressing rooms, and then made money
because there was rarely a winter when the ice
was not good for week after week. Climatic
conditions have changed so that the man who
should go into it now would be bankrupted.
insure any profit for the venture We hardly
sell one pair of skates in the holiday season
now where we sold dozen in the old days of
frozen streams and ponds"
OUT IN erosion, Ia, one Sunday night nol
long ago, there happened ali amusing incident
which railroad trainmen will appreciate
Creston is division point on the Burlington
road and the town is natlirallv the stonDino