The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ne ueeJcS1 CCal pl. N inc WOTIu IS SAID 10 De
the St. Andre in the Charleroi Belgium dis.
trict. 1t is 3,0Si feet deep.
The steamship Ems. on her last trip from
Bremen to New YORK passed an iceberg about
20 feet high a1i $50 feet long.
TIE old building at Charlotte, y. c., in which
Lord CORVALLIS transacted business while in
the country was burned by an incerdiary early
Monday morning.
Count SAyoRGNAX De BaAzzA recently had
his famous collection OF Old gold and silver
plate melted into bullion by tae burning OF
| wrecked railroad train.
y S. BRIDGES of Charlotte, Die, veteran
bear hunter, IS years Old caught and killed his
e.ghty-sixch bear recently. Bruin proved
| hard customer and tipped the scales at 40
pounis
EIGHT YEARS AGO John P. Davis, of New Lon.
don, Conn had S32 picked from his pocket
Last week he received letter containing the
| amount and a note which explained that the
| money was that stolen from him in 1851. The
note had nelther date nor signature.
GEORGE PETaIE, while cutting peat on the
island Of Burray, Orkney, found some curious
| and valuable silver coins and ornaments. There
We're twenty-five armlets and bangles and TWEEN
tytw0 neck rings of silver wire, rope pattern.
The coins are OF the eleventh century.
MASTER JABEz BAILEY of Fitchville, Conn, has
broken six sheep TO harness. and ne drives them
aboH the village daily. He is not s years old.
bat has broken oxen and horses He is going
to tackle pigs next and il he IS successful with
them viii try breaking team Of hens and next
geese or turkeys.
The most eastern point of the United States
is Quoddy Head, Me-; the most northern point
is Point Barrows Alaska; the most western is
Alton Island, and the most southern Key West.
Working from these four points, many will be
surprised when they locate the geographical
center OF the United States.
LADIES who have weakness for husband
with pedigree are presented with an unrivaled
opportunity. a gentleman of Austria cot fine
appearance'0 advertises in an English paper
his burning anxiety to espouse wife. ''Adver-
| tiser boasts of the most ancient Greek name
| which has been illustrious since the year Az
B. C'' 1as7o r-
AT Reading theother day young man who
had hired a livery team returned to the stables,
when it was seen that the horses had been over
| driven. Without any ceremony the young man
| was lftedu mp bodily and thrown into the horse
| trough. 1T is said 90 be an oldcustom in East
| ern Pennsylvania TO duck men who abuse horses
| or fail u6Jpay itAsir bills.
A New PHILADELPHIA (O) SPECIAL says:
| Frederick Kinzel of this place has gone to
! Rome, y. Y, for treatment for cancer on the
| lip, brought on in a singular manner. short
| time ago while at the dinner table, he bit his
| lip. A decayed tooth poisoned the flesh, result
! ing in a cancer of the worst form. His condi-
| ton is said to be very dangerous"
| ISAAC PrrTMAN, the inventor of the system of
shorthand writing that bears his name, is a good
| example Of vigorous and industrious old age.
He is past 76 years of age, and works daily from
| 6 O'clOc6 in the morning until O'Clock ia the
| evening. He used to WORK from 0 clock in the
| morning until 20 O'Clock at night, but now says
| that he is getting too old to work all day.
| The court of Leo XIII. is said to comprise
| 1 100 persons. There are 20 Wallets 1870 house
prelates, 10 prvy chamberains, chamber
| lans, 800 extra honorary chamberlains 100 super
| numerary chamberlains, 30 officers of the noble
\ guard and 90 guardsmen. IA officers of the
| Swiss guard and palace guard, honorary chap
/ lalns. 20 private secret lries, 10 stewards and
1 masters Of the horse and 90 doorkeepers.
MINISTER LINCOLN was given special train
| from Liverpool to London, which leads the Bos-
ton journal to remark: This contrasts very
| favorably with the New York method of receiv-
, ing foreign notwithstanding reporters to
write about them that the new minister wore
Seedy hat. or looks as IL he might not turn out
| TO b. a crank or asking him how he likes the
country before be mas got past the Bartholdi
statue"
| For YEARS there has stood in the British lega-
ton at Toxic an old safe. the key of which has
long been lost. The other day it was forced
| open. and among its contents were found the
gold and silver medals which twenty-sx years
ago were sent ny the British government to be
presented to the natives who defended the Brit
!
Most of the men for whom the medals were in
tended are dead or cannot be found.
BLACK BIRCH OIL is being extracted from the
twigs and branches of the trees at a factory at
Mystic. Conn Five cans were shipped on
Thursday, containing 1873 pounds of oil, valued
a. $500 The tree does not yield nearly so much
sap as a su gar maple tree. There is great
deal Of work in getting the twigs and much
labor in extracting the oil. One ton of branches
will produce only three pounds OF oil. The oil
is shipped to New York and Boston, where it is
used by confectiOners to make the wintergreen
havOrs.
Is 1882 the chairman of the London and
Northwestern stated that there had not been
single passenger killed on their line within the
previous three years. Sir John Hawkshaw,
speaSin; OF safety on railways generally. said
that only one passenger was injured Cor every
1000. 900 OF miles travelled; and on a n average
| a person may travel 10000 miles each year for
forty years. and the chances are OF not receiy-
ing the slightest injury Again, Sir r. Watkin
maintained has railway travelling was safer
than eating. because 1t i u facc that more peo-
pie choke themselves IN ENGLAND than are killed
on all the railways Of tue United Kingdom
PaoT HARTLEY of London has been trying
to find out why the sky is blue. His expert
meuts show that the color arises from the
action of oz1n5 upon the RAYS Of light The
results Of his examination Of ozOnzed air go to
prove that il is impOss, Die for rays of light to
pass through SO little O five miles of air with
oAs6he Eays be ng colOre1 SKY blue by the ozone
cozainoniy present, aud that the blue Of
objects viewed on a clear day at greater dis
targes UP 10 thirty five or fifty miles must be
almost entirely the oueneSs Of ozone in the
air. In his laboratory experiments be OBJ
se-sed that the quantity o. ozone giving full
sky blue in 4 tube only : feet in lelgth is 20
mii.iyrannes IN each square centmeter OF
sectional area 10 the tube.
A REMARKABLE instance Of the growth of a
great indust y is afforded by the statistics.
which have Just be n published, of Krupp's
establishment at Essen. In 1888 it had Q WORK
men; in 1913. - In July, 1855, it employed
-, 500 men, OF whom 1885 were at Essen; and
including the families Of the wOrxmen, il sup.
ported a population Of 73,769 SOULS Of whom
%. 1913 lived in the houses il provides. There are
Essen 1876 furnaces of various construct us.
2S6 boilers ~ steam hammers Of from go to
O.oO0 kilograms, 80 steam en- ines with a total
and 81 cranes OF coal and coke ,, 735 tons are
us daily, ani II high furnaces Of the latest
construction produce nearly 600 tons Of iron per
day.
Is an article in the June Forum Adelbert
Hamilton says that unlike capital invested in
other businesses Insurance. capital gets an in
cone from Two sources Of constant investment:
from mortgages and from Insurance. As a
consequence ia 1856 while the ave. a e rate OF
interest was abJu. as per cant, and while rail.
way cluitai stock earned less an per cent.
dividends. insurance cap .al earned more than
j. per cent. Ia isSi the dividends upon u aver.
aged Eeariy Il per cent. Following are a few
rates o. dividanIs declared Ia l6S.: Fire Asso-
ciaton OF PAiaielplia 40 per cent; Forest