The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

place 81, 500, 900 6 per cent loan in London To
defray the expense of a proposed cable between
buenos Ayres and France.
| MAN with penchant for statistics has COM
puted that more than 100000 miles Of blood
pass through the veins of an ordinary human
oelng during the lifetime Of 20 years.
ROTARY SNOW PLow, tested in Oregon a few
DAYS ago, went through a mass of snow nine
| feet deep. and almost solid, at the rate of
| twenty-five feet minute, throwing the snow
Tar away from the track
SITTISG BULL has decided that it is better to
wait than to labor. In other words. he refuses
TO work for his support, and asserts that the
/ government owes him living. He is making
| rapid strides in civilization.
The LARGEST sAw-MILL in the world is located
at Clinton, la. 1t cost S260,0O0. and is capable
OF saving 10000 feet Of lumber in eight hours.
| Il has seven band and three gang saws and two
batteries OF ten boilers each.
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich, man lost his
! pocketbook containing Sls0on Tuesday. Every
body saw the purse on the sidewalk, but sup
posed il was an April fool joke, and the loser
| got around in time to recover it.
PIECE OF PINK CORAL thirty feet long and
| nine inches in diameter at one end, with
branches projecting about four feet on all
| sides, was recently obtained on the coast of
Japan. Its value in prepared state would be
| about $4,000.
TIE largest and heaviest locomotive ever
| tive Works for the Northern Pacific Railroad
| Company last year. 1t weighed, with its tender
| %, 600 pounds. The ordinary weight is from
| 1900 to le5,0O0 pounds.
The CIVIL COMMISSIONER of johannesburg
| South Africa, has ordered that only the Dutch
language shall be talked in his court. and that
| the English, who compose the bulk OF the popu
| laton, when they appear before him must talk
| Dutch or hire an interpreter.
In OVERLAPPING the Cars civil list with a
view to economy, recently, one of the items
discovered was the payment of $50 per year for
| Zip Salve." which has been made to one family
| ever since the time of the Empress Catharlne,
| who is supposed once to have had chapped
| lips.
THERE are to-day royal and imperial orders
| in the world, with a prodigious assortment of
collars, crosses stars, and other fancy insignia,
laid up for the tickling of human ambition The
| oldest is ST. Andrews Order, first inst ituted in
| England in 7S7, disused afterwards. and rees-
| tablished in 1910 J8
LAKE CHELAS. in Eastern Washington. never
| freezes although in latitude 49, north. The
reason given is that il is so deep. and the warm
| water always rises from the bottom to suppant
| the cold which goes down to warm itself The
| Indians fish IN the lake at all seasons and use
salmon eggs for bait.
THE finest collection of pipes in the world is
to be found in the English residence of Capt
Bragge He has clay pipes from the sixteenth
| century, when SIR Walter Raleigh introduced
| the weed in Europe, and curious and antique
| specimens of smoking paraphernalia from
| every country in the world.
The French theatrical censor has forbidden
the production of new play, in which one of
the characters was to have been ''Mohammed. ="
The Turkish ambassador protested against this
as an insult to the religion of his country. NJ
Mounet Suly who was to play the prophet
had already secured his cost umes.
THE new disease, alleged to be a successor to
the grip and called la mona, is said to be form
of the pellagra. and to be caused by the use of
mildewed corn flour, which is consumed in
North Italy in the shape of polenta. The vic
Tins sink into peaceful sleep and die uncon-
scious, instead of sneezing their heads of and
living, as Ill the grip.
NEGOTIATIONS ara said to be nearly completed
with NJ Gounod to write an original grand
opera in four acts which will be produced in
America in 1892. The master will himself
superintend the production and conduct in per
son on the first night. The first, second aud
fourth acts are laid in Mexico at the time of the
MoDtezumas, and the third act is In the estern
states.
THE ANNUAL CATCH OF FISH on European and
North American coasts is computed by a Ger
man Statstician to amount to 10000 tons
ton of fish corresponds with twenty five sheep
in weight and with twenty sheep in nourishng
power. Therefore the total European and
North American catch equals in number
420OO,0O0 sheep ami in nourishiag power
30000000.
AN OFFICIAL sTESoGRAPHER of the German
imperial parliament has calculated the exact
rapidity of speech of some Of the most cele.
brated German statesmen. Rickert, leader of
the free trade Independents, he says talks in a
Fnr1s
IA; Singer, the socialist, 121; Bamberger, the
best known bimetallist among the independ-
ents, 123; Stunm. the coal baron, 14s
The last official statistics of Rome show that
the city must have lost a large percentage of
its population since the last census. Although
only twenty houses have been built there in the
last three years, 200 houses, with living room
for 20,O00 persons, are now vacant. The transient
population IS thought to have fallen Off also
Hardly 5000 strangers went there to see the
big carnival this year, while in former wears
the number was Little short Of 100000.
The gorgeous railway train which the Queen
and King of Italy had built for their journey to
Berlin this month was burned in the Florence
railway station about three weeks ago The
cost OF the train was more than 20, 600 lire II
was furnished with wealth of gold and silver
ornaments, and was filed with the most costly
upholstery. Most of the presents intended for
the Berlin court had already been placed ON il.
Only few of the most valuable bits of table
ware anu doouJ Inlru OF Tue presents were
saved.
The first German Catholic church TO be
lighted electrically is the grand old Cathedral
at Strasbourg. Arc lights have been used out
side with fine effect and it is stated that manv
of the noble lines of architecture have been ac-
centuated by night as they never have been bv
day. 1t was feared that the electric light would
spoil the dim, religious effect of the interior
but the light of the incandescent lamps which
are disposed around the piers and columns ia
described as soft and harmonious
THE new storage battery for lighting cars nv
electricity, recently tested on the Chicago and
Northwestern railroad, has capacity that will
supply ten lamps with lights for thirty consecu |
tive hours. This has been ACCOMPLISHED Inv |
other systems, but the point of greatest inter- |
est to railway corporations is that this anna |
ratus weighs but 1,2S0 pounds, or about one |
half the weight of storage batteries hitherto in
use. This reduction in weight means a rednc |
ton OF cost cost that will tend very materiaIIv
to recommend the new system for general |
adoption
CASE was decided at Washington, Ind. Sat |
urday which practically declares slave mar. |
riages Illegal In the sos Andrew Thomas n |
Georgia slave, married another slave ACCORDING
to negro rites. Three children were born. Later
Thomas escaped settled in Daviess comfy
Indiana. became prosperous and married again
After the war Mrs. Thomas No. hunted him
up. For her Thomas built house on his farm
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