The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


tempered steel.
A NEW FACTORY will soon be built by DIR. Cat
ling OF machinegun fame. His invention is
now used by every government of the world
ened.
The largest manufacturers in New England
are said to have partially decided to stop one
fourth Of their looms for nine months from
April l, in the hope of relieving the gluu in the
market.
W. S. RAwLEs, Of Peru, has silver spoon
which was among the plumber taken from a
British gunboat by a party of American soldiers
amo ig whom was his grandfather. in l9o1. and
Inc spoon has been in tne possession of the fam
lily ever since.
A HILL 400 feet high, composed Of copper,
silver and gold, has been discovered in the
Mexican state of Chiapas. a river flowing on
one side of the mound has larg " uncovered
tRe deposit, ana many hundred thousand tons
Oh ore are IN sight.
IHE London Times, which from time i'm
memorial has printed its editorial articles with
out head lines, has. at this late day. decided to
adopt the method of giving to the reader in a
tltle line some notion of the subject matter
Treated in the article
THE London Lancet furnishes this list of
football casualties from all over the world
during the last season: Deaths. ID; fractures of
injuries to spine, 3; to nose, i: to knee, 1; to
ankle, /; to cheek, j..
An ADELAIDE, Australia, daily paper has in its
employ three men named Day. One of them is
called Sun Day. because he is a clergyman; an
other, being the cashier, is called Pay Day while
the third, being a law reporter. goes by the
name or Judgment Day.
BOOK gotten up in imitation of Burkes
Peerage, and giving all the attainable facts and
&C. ~.
IorelSners is having large sale in New York.
s quel describing the insults. suubs and gen
eral unhappiness, would be more useful.
A RETURN has jest been issued showing that
| 4l2,34O English ladies are entitled to vote in
| county council contests, this number including
%, l6l women voters in London alone. The
fl lures for Wales are g, 4l4 Inmunci pal cleo
| tions the total number OF ladies' EMIT ed to a
vote in the boroughs of England and Wales is
| 243,44S.
Two Englishmen have lust reached London
who have made the trip around Europe on
| foot. Starting from Calais, they walked
through FRANCE, Spain, Portugal, back to Italy,
| st Petersburg and Riga whencs they embarked
! for Stockholm. They went over Norway and
| Sweden, and returned to CAlas by way of Ho
land and OStende.
THE numerical progress Of the socialists in
Germany during the last twenty years is as
founding. The following shows the voting in
Berlin in eight different elections between ss7
and 1890: 1861 81; 1871, 2o5S; 1874, Il 279; 1877
| 31,5S2; 1873 56.l4T; 1884, $685. 1851, 95, 1885,
| and lS9, 1862. The votes cast through the
| whole empire during seven elections, 1S57-1S67,
were as follows: 1867, 27,010; 1871. 10000;
1874, 35l,0 600; 1873 43715s; 1881. $4,000; 1884,
| $4,000, and 1897, 734, 1913 the full poll for
1870 is not yet attainabie, but it will probably
reach 100000
PROF. STUART has given some very interesting
| specimens of British crabs to the museum of
the Royal College of Surgeons. These crabs,
being DESTROYS of prolonging their existence,
and anxious to avoid being gobbled up or other
wise ul-treated by their numerous predatory
enemies, detach bits of seaweed and zoophites
with Their nIppers and cover the exposed parts
OF their bodies up in them. AS this habit is
continued when the crabs are blind it is not
due. as some unkind people might suppose, to
vanity, but instinct teaches them to copy their
surroundings, aud thus avoid detection.
SAYS the London World: THE future of Lord
Wolseley must come under consideration within
few months. His extended tenure of office
will expire this summer, and it is not probable
that he VIII remain longer at the Horse Guards.
That he Will go out into the cold is of course,
impossible. But what will he be given? Not
India surely. 1t is too late for him to take up
Indian service again even in the highest post.
There is nothing good enough for him nearer
home except Ireland. And by this a natural
process OF exhaustion. 1t may be safely as
adjutant generalship, will succeed Prince Ed
ward in Dublin as commander-in-chief."
NJ. DE MUNKAcsY, the famous Hungar ian
painter has nearly finished the immense canvas
he was commissioned to paint by the Vienna
Museum of the History of Art for it's new build
ing. The picture is intended to form the cell
ing of the entrance hall. The figures of Michael
Angelo, Raphael, Leonardo da vi ici and Paul
Veronese appear in the foreground, while seated
in q loOotd at the back is Pope julius the IL
inspecting the plans of the architect Bramante
In the foreground are two nude female fl lures
representing nature and art. The whole com
position is remarkably luminous and affords
striking contrast to the dark pictures, full of
Rembl andt-like shadows, by which ldunkacsy
first won his fame.
FEW PEOPLE are aware of the vastness of the
sum sunk in what may be termed the tempo
rary plant used in the Forth bridge. The engi-
neers estimate that $500 900 was spent in this
direction alone. Two small steamers were con-
structed TO carry men and materials from one
part of the br dye to another In scaffolding
fiooring shedding, etc, 1000, 900 cubic feet of
tiurber were used. From tne first to last 200
tons of mere service bolts were needed to hold
this mass of material together Scores of by
draulic jacks, sixty miles of wire rope and
rams innumerable were also among the tempo
porary appliances employed in constructing
this stupendous viaduct, Fifty-six men were
killed outright during the operations, and many
more received injuries of more or less serious
character.
ga LOCAL DOCTOR had an experience col
lecting bill which he will not soon forget
says the st. Paul Pioneer Press THE account
amounted to S1S. and after sending monthly
statements for three years, the debtor, a mer-
chant, by the way, sent check which, upon
presentation at the bank was found to be
worthless. 1t happened about this time that
the physicians wife wished some articles for
the house, and visited the merchants store.
She was unkn wn to he9propretor, who was
all suavity and politeness, and, although prices
were little high, she purchased bill of goods
amounting to S2l. When she gave her name
and address and ordered the goods sent to the
house tle courteous proprietor nearly tainted
He had gone so far, however, that he was
ashamed not to send the goods, which were de-
livered in good time. Promptly he received his
worthless check by mail. Then he began send
ing bills for the balance Of So. When did he get
the balance? The calendar and the books will
show that the S3 were RENTED Just three wears
after the account was contracted and the doc
tor laughs in his sleeves whenever he thinks
about it..
COMPARATIVELY few silk cocoons are raised in
this country-not more than 10000 pounds
probably-of which amount the United States
government purchases about one-half for ex
perimental purposes. In France every farmers
wife raises a few pounds of c3coons every
spring and makes money by selling them and
in this way mainly is the silk crop in at conn
try grown. There few occupations more
easy or agreeable for woman than the raising