The morning news., 1889-03-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

HING ALEXANDER OIL oGtNlh ID ING ACHSoo
Of King William of the Netherlands is D. King
Alfonso of Spain is almost 3.
THE sum of 100000 has been collected in
London, New York and other cities for the
famine sufferers in the southeastern part OF
China.
BOUQUET OF WHITE ROSES hung on the bell
knob of the house of a dead person, along with
tne Grape, is new idea in trappings OF woe
noted by the New York Tribune.
WRITER in the London Truth says that the
German crown prince. now years old, is kept
so close to study that it wouldn't surprise him
to hear Of the child losing his reason.
RECENTLY PUBLISHED FIGURES show a slight
falling off in the emigration from the British
Isles to this country, although 20 per cent of
the whole number still seek these shores.
HERR KRUPP, the cannon maker, Baron Won
Rothschild, of Frankfort, and Herr Won Bleisch-
weber, the blind banker of Berlin, are the three
richest men in Germany, according to the Ber-
lin inco lie tax list. recently published.
WooDMEN say that three-fourths of the moss
on trees grows on the northern side, that the
heaviest boughs on spruce trees are always on
the south side, and that the topmoSt twig OF
every hemlock tips naturally to the east.
FRENCH ENGINEERS are utilizing the poppy to
strengthen railroad embankments. The roots
Of the plants form network that cannot be
exterminated without great difficulty and
are therefore admirable for the purpose
named.
A FLOATING sAwMIIL is in use at Florence,
Wis. The boat is 40x80 feet in size. and draws
seventeen inches of water. The mill hands live
aboard and the boat is moved along the river
to wherever there is a fine lot of timber near
the bank.
AN ENGLISH ELECTRICIAN has invented ma
terial that he calls "ateron,' - for the preven-
of {v,h h1iI ,,,kar ba
boiler is coated with the material, and from
time to time electrical currents are sent
through it.
THE process of manufacturing India ink has
been a secret with the Chinese for many centu-
ries, but firm Of English chemists claim to
have discovered a process of treating camphor
with sulphuric acid that produces pigment
Identical with India ink.
THE TINFon so commonly used to wrap
Neufchatel cheese. chewing gum. various kinds
of candy. and all kinds of chewing tobacco, is
said to be dangerous, on account of the lead in
it. Its use for wrapping articles Of food has
been forbidden in France.
Ex-Gov. GEORGE PEABODY WETMoRE, who
seems the favorite in the race for the chair va
Gated by Senator Chace, is the husband of the
handsome Mrs. Wetmore WHO is said to have
declined at Hamburg, last summer to be pre-
sented TO the Prince of Wales.
THERE is a small fortune waiting for the man
who can discover some process of making the
veneer used in making fruit baskets flexible
without the use of steam or hot water and
thereby save the manufacturers the time now
wasted in the drying of the material.
THE common use of kerosene as preventive
Of corroSion in boilers is not without its danger
as gas arising from 1t may accumulate and ex-
plode upon finding an opportunity to escape to
hight. James Thornton, a New YOrk engineer,
was seriously burned in that way few days
ago.
MAIL CARRIERS in Morocco are said to avoid
risk of losing their pl ces by overseeping by
tying a string 10 one foot and setting the end of
il Oh fire before they 20 t. sleep The strings,
they know from experience, will burn SO long,
and when the fire reaches their foot it is time
for them to get up.
CANADA doesn't produce enough pork in
year, the Ottawa Free Press says, to supply one
barrels are annually imported from Chicago for
the lumbermen, which accounts for the fact
that the Canadians have decided not to raise
the duty on mess pork.
THERE are on exhibition in the confectionery
of prominent chocolate manufacturer in New
York city two monster chocolate representa-
tons or the Venus de Milo, intended for the
Paris exhibition. Each statue Is S feet high and
weighs 9l5 pounds, and represents that amount
of chocolate at 80 cents per pound. They are
valued at $4,000 each.
SPooKs infest South Orange, N. j. Several
persons state that they have met the ghosts,
and one man reports that an airy form mate
rlallZed IN his kitchen and asked for something
to eat. 1t melted into mist when he approached
but reappeared, still hungry, when he went
away. On policeman being summoned. the
apparition vanished and did not again return.
BOX picked up In the Missouri river near
Missouri City a few days ago, on being opened
was found to contain costly mahogany coffin,
silver mounted throughout. In the coffin was
the dead body of an infant, elegantly dressed,
with nursing bottle on its breast and the nip
pie tied to its thumb. II is supposed that the
child had been placed alive in the coffin and
smothered.
MARYLAND in 1888 canned 1907, $50 cases of
corn and te3, ,733 cases of tomatoes, beating
every other state of the union in the quantity of
corn and tomatoes canned. New York canned
563 4S6 cases of corn and Maine 1896 200 New
Jersey canned 789, 1858 cases of tomatoes. The
totals for the whole country were 3 401, ,474 cases
OF corn and 3,343, i37 or tomatoes. This is a
larger product than was ever previously known.
THE OCEAN BAY SOCIETY. a corporation re-
Gently organized, proposes to buy the immense
hotel with /, 1,2J0 rooms which cost ST. $50 000
and has so long been idle, at Rockaway Beach,
together with an adjacent plat of ground con-
tanning about twenty-five acres 1t wilt be con-
verted into large religious seaside resort
non-sectarian, will be under Methodist govern
ment.
WHICH is the greatest wool consuming coun-
try in the world? 1t will surprise some to learn
that France heads the list with total of 1o0,-
900, 600 kllogra ANS consumed in 1887, England
coming next with 1870 600 600 Kilograms, the
United States third with 10000, 600, Germany
fourth with 140,o000J0, Russia fifth with only
S0,0U0.000, and Austria Hungary, Belgium and
lttiv With 100000, 4O,000000 and 81 900 900 re-
spectively.
AMONG the hereditary jewels belonging to the
Duke of Cumberland are Queen Charlotte's
pearls valued at S75O,O00, and about which for
twenty years Queen Victoria and the Hanover
ian king quarTeled with majesterial dignity
The queen maintained they belonged by right
to England. The king insisted that they should
have been sent to Hanover ia 1897 on the death
of William ". The other jewels belonging to
the duke are valued at $4,000 900. His gold and
silver plate weigh twelve tons.
MAJOR PAGE commandant at Fort Niagara, in
New York state, assigns poor pay and the length
of the period of enlistment AS the reasons why
SO many men desert from the army He SAYS:
Give the pTivates $50 a month, corporals $50
sergeants $40, and we would have u better class
of men In the army. Let men enlist for three
years; five years is too long. Then, again. a
private on extra duty may receive more paw
than q first sergeant. In no case should a pri-
vate have more pay than a non-commissioned
officer"
ASSAM swarms so with leeches that the lives
of men are in danger, any person falling from
faintness or getting stuck in swamp or mudhole
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