The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
LAND is 300 times as valuable now as it wa
90 years ago

THERE are twenty-seven states with ove
coo 900 population each. At the previous cen
sus there we're nineteen.
DEATH from seasickness is so very rare that
the case Of Mrs. James Price of Toronto attracts
attention. She never recovered from the nauses
| induced by trip on the great lakes.
BASE BAIL club, the smallest member Of
which weighs 225 pounds, has been organized a
Jeffersonville Ind. The aggregate weight ol
the team is a little under 5000 pounds.
A CONVENT at Rome, wherein malaria Ions
ragged. is now completely rid of the disease, AND
its disappearance is attributed solely to the
planting of thousands of eucalyptus trees abou
the grounds.
| BLAckENING the nose aud cheeks under tn,
eyes has been found an effectual preventive o.
snow blindness or the injurious effect of thu
| glare from illuminated snow upon eyes unac
| cuStomed to it.
On AND AFTER OCTOBER the Emperor OF Ger
many will publish newspaper. to be inspired
| directly by himself and 10 be the official ex
| ponent of his views on all subjects-military,
| civil and political.
| IN PORTIONS Of the upsurveyed territory al
the foot of Mount Baker and Mount Tacoma
| there are hundreds of trees that measure Is.
| feet in hight. Some of their trunks measurs
| thirty feet in circumference.
SOME PREHISTORIC GERMAN ToMBs were re-
Gently excavated on the road leading from
| Apolda to Jeua. About twenty skeletons were
found two being without skulls, and number
OF ornaments and weapons.
AN ORDINARY HARD QUESTION for housewives
| to solve. How TO clean gilt framesf" is
| answered In this weeks Scientific american.
This method advised is simple, too, consisting
IN washing the frames with beer.
RECENT very trustworthy calculations of the
population Of the Chinese empire by Russian
authorities reckon it at 362 900, and the
annual increase at 100000. Not one In 10000
ever heard of the religion IN Jesus Christ
THE ARMY Of the United States consists of
2167 commissioned officers, and little over
5000 real private soldiers exclusive of those
performing civilian duties. In other terms, one
ninth of the military force consists of its
officers
LABOR is so scarce in Colorado that railroad
construction is impeded. The Denver and Rio
Grande railroad is the greatest sufferer as
work on three branches and great tunnel is
almost st a srandstil. From 5000 10 5000 men
could be prof1tabiy employed
THE OLDEST PRISONER in the Unitei States is
Mrs. Henry Rayea colored woman, liz years
old, who lives near Glen Gardner, n. ]. Her
husband was an army cook during the war of
1872, and she draws a life pension Of SIP a
R LYMAN of st. John, N. B., is the possessor
of a dog that he claims has quite keen instinct
for business A few DAYS ago. when the dogs
license needed renewing he turned up with a
VI bill and placed it at the feet of the owner.
Mr.. l.. Immediately went and took out the
license.
MAN wants but little here below" is GER
tainly the motto of some natives in India A
man of 20 being recently examined before a
magistrate at Bangaore stated that he earned
dally quarter OF an anna about ID pence) by
oottling ginger beer, and that he was quite salts
ned with his wages and position.
THE DEATH rate of the world is calculated to
be 81 in a minute, or 402O an hour, 96, $50 a day
$685. 200 year. The birth rate slightly ex-
ceeds this. It is calculated to be 20 per minute
42OO in an hour, 100 800 day, &c, 742 900 In a
year. The estimated increase per annum. ac-
cording to tails is, therefore, little over 1000.
900.
In THE MATTER of railways Japan appears to
be going ahead tolerably fast Considerably
over 1000 miles are already in operation, while
an equal quantity are under construction or
surveyed, and will be opened within a year or
two from now. The projected railways exceed
1OO miles in length, with capital exceeding
$4,000 900.
People have no idea of the fatal speed of ex-
press trains. It is common thug to see their
buffers despatched with blood after long and
quick run. The noise OF their approach disturbs
the small birds from the hedgerows. and as they
fly across the line along comes the thunderer at
speed of which they have no conception and
dashes them to pieces.
A FRENCH SCIENTIST, Victor Mennier, has cal
culated after careful inquiries that American
dentists insert about $780, 900 worth of gold
annually into the teeth of their customers. The
Scientific american says, that making al
lowance for the increase of population, in less
than 100 years American cemeteries will contain
larger amount of gold than now exists in
France.
Tue AVERAGE LIFE of rabbit is put at about
| nine years The doe may have young eight
| times year, averaging eight each time The
| first litter is produced when but q months old.
| The progressions based on these figures lead to
astonishing results. For three years the pos
sible progeny of two rabbits has been calcu-
| lated at over 10, 100000, and FOR seven years at
| 1900, 100000. I'd,
The COUNTRY PEOPLE for miles around Dan
vile, n. j., are arranging for great double
birthday celebration at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Vreeiand. The two old people were
born within oneIday of each other and are now
in the ninetiss,1 They have been married 69
years. Both are still hearty and active, and
anticipate the approaching anniversary glee
day with much pleasure.
| AMONG the things saved from the rubbish
| when the home of the late Henry Ward Beecher
was broken up at his death were two leather
| bound books in which he had kept his farm ac-
counts, and right In among the tables of dollars
and cents, corn and potatoes, turnlps. etc.. will
be found descriptions of flowers or trees. In
one instance several pages are given I'D to
lamenting the death of mis- farmer
| IT WAS DEVELOPED at the hearing in Chicago
of a lad of only IL, arrested for theft, that he
| belonged in Arkansas end had run away from
| home and Travelled all through Mexico. Lower
California and the greater part of this country
! his little brain had evidently been set afire by
| sensational literature, for, when brought into
court, a big revolver was peeping out of his hin
| pocket When arrested he was boarding n
| freight train far the west
WEDDING CELEBRATIoNs-The wedding ceIe.
brations occur as follows; Three DAYS. sugar:
sixty days, vinegar; first anniversary iron: fifth
anniversary, wooden; tenth anniversary. tin :
ntteentn anniversary, crystal; twentieth ami
versary, china; twenty fifth anniversary silver.
thlrtleth anniversary. cotton; thirty fifth ami
| versary, linen; fortieth anniversary, wooden !.
forty fifth anniversary, silk; fiftieth anniver
| sary, golden; seventy-fiGth anniversary, dia
| mond.
THE Hastings mill at Victoria is now shin.
ping three pieces of square timber, each of
| which is GO feet long by feet SQUARE Each
| stick contains $50 feet, board measure. and
| Will weigh from twelve to thirteen tons The
| three pieces are being loaded on two fiat
! cars coupled together, the sticks living
on four holsters, two on each car-those on the
| extreme end being fixed on a swivel and the
center ones sliding, so that there will he M
| trouble in going round sharp curves The tim.
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