The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-27
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thousand pounds per year because it believed
that the increased traffic Of the line justified
| the payment OF higher wages TO the Elen.
| a LOCOMOTIVE on the Atlantic and Pacific
railroad was run a long distance a few days age
without snokestack, barrel being substi
| tuted. The engineer says all he needs to pull q
Tram Is steam chest, pair OF driving wheels
| and fireman.
THE BRITISH MILITARY Authorities announce
as the subject for the prize essay of the United
Service Institution for 1870 'The tactical opera
| tons of the future as affected by the introduce
ton Of magazine rifles and machine and quick
firing guns and smokeless powder"
SCIENTIFIC FARMING il Italy is to be under
taken this year by company owning capital
OF S2O.0OO,0OO. If the operations prove
successful the old wooden plow, pulled by oxen,
| that has held the field since an era before the
Roman Caesars, will probably have TO go.
MONUMENTS have now been completed over
the burial places of the English, French and
Italian troops killed in the Crimea during the
| war of 1915 Russia'S memorials over her
| fallen soldiers on the same plains are on a
Eranuer scale, as she continues TO hold the fort,
| Sebastopol
| LACK OF WORK is 50 keenly and generally felt
in the towns and provinces of Italy that the
projects and royal governors are issuing vigor-
| Gus proclamations calling upon all owners of
| property to scrape up some kind of employment
| Tor the unoccupied, who are literally pennileSs
| ana at the door of starvation.
| THE EIGHTH HUssARs Of the British army
have gazelle for 'child Of the regiment" 1t
accompanies the regimen everywhere, and is
| an especially conspicuous figure on the Sunday
| church parade, when it accompanies the band,
| leading the line with a stately tread appar-
| emily initiated from that Of the drum major
A MAN from Bare Butte valleys, South
Dakota, lost his pocketbook containing, $3.50,
which was found by man of Elk Creek A
month later, upon learning who was the owner.
ne returned the same and the owner was very
thankful-but demanded interest for the use Of
the money for that time Judgment was given
Tor 81 % and costs.
RUSSIA is about to create a naval port a few
| miles north of Libau, in the Baltic at an esti-
mated cost of $40, 100000, and work there is to
be begun immediately. This measure has de-
clded the German government to make a naval
port at Danzig, as it is considered that Kiel
lies too far westward to serve, in case of war,
| as a cheek upon the new arsenal.
PORTABLE HOUSE of paper has recently been
constructed in Hamburg. The walls consist of
double layers of paper, of which the interior
one Is lmpregnated against fire, and the exte-
rlor one against moisture. The paper is fixed
| IN frames which can easily be attached to each
other. The house is intended to serve as a res
taurant, and contains a dining room ninety
feet long.
Mrs. HENRY GLADSTONE, nee Miss Maude
Rendel, the new daughter-in-law of the Grand
Old Man, is an accomplished musician, with an
especial ability with the violin, to which she is
devoted. She is described, besides, as hand
some and young, with soft, smiling face and
| ripping dark hair. and a small but well-carried
| ngure. She is an attractive talker also, and an
ardent reader, and dresses in admirable taste.
THERE are many Americans, " says Edward
! Everett Hale, who forget, or perhaps never
| knew, that there are in this country towns and
villages where, practically speaking, there is no
criminal class, and no class of paupers. The
| house of correction in many a county in
America is empty half the time. There is many
| poorhouse in New England where they take
summer boarders because they have no one else
| to take"
A CHEMIST has lately performed feat of no
common order. The explosion and fire at Ant
werp reduced to a charred mass a bundle of
| 1.0OO-forin Austrian obligations. Without pre-
sentaton in some identiiable form there could
| be no payment. The impcriled obligations were
gwen to a chemist, and he succeeded in sepa-
rating the whole of them and finding out the
numbers, and upon his report the money has
| been paid.
DR. REGNARD has raised the question as to
whether corpse which sinks to a very great
depth is preserved indefinitely or otherwise
| from putrefaction. According to his researches,
published in the archives of the Biological
society OF ParlS, putrefaCtiOn does not take
place IN decompOsaole substances submitted to
| a pressure of 600 to 700 atmosphereS. These
| figures correspond to a depth of 5000 or 1000
| meters at sea.
IT is SAID by men who claim to be Judges of
it that hard drinking is on the wane in New
York. Men are adopting the European custom
more and more every year of drinking with
their meals What is known as drinking be-
| tween drinks" has been pretty well frowned
| upon by business men, and it is unquestionably
| a fact that there is nothing like the tippling
| down town during the hours that are usually
4 devoted to business nowadays that there was
1 five years ago.
The first German war exhibition, which is to
be held at Cologne, will be opened on the 18th
of May. 1t will be divided into the following
sections: Uniforms and equipment of meu and
| horses; weapons; provisions for men and
horses; matters relating to the bodily care of
| men and horses; sanitary apparatus; fortified,
| ZION, engineering, and pioneering; naval de-
| tense; military science; military drawing and
| photography military music, signaling; ambu.
| lance arrangements.
THERE has arrived from Alexandria at Liver.
| pool, by the steamer Pharos, a consignment of
| nearly twenty tons of cats. numbering some
| 10000, taken out of an ancient subterraneau
| cats cemetery discovered about 100 miles from
| cairo by an Egyptian fellah, who accidentally
| fell into this cats cemetery, which he found
| completely filled with cats. every one of which
/ mad been separately embalmed and dressed in
| cloth after the manner of Egyptian mummies
| and all laid out in rows.
PROF. JOHN HENRY CoMsrocK, the eminent
naturalist, is to begin in the New York Ledoe,
| of March a series of six articles on the study
| of insects, in which he describes not ony those
| insects which are useful to the farmer but also
| those which destroy entire fields of grain cot
| ton and rice, and ravage orchards gardens and
| vineyards. He demonstrates how it was scien.
| tltcally determined that an average annual loss
of $4,000, 900 has been occaSioned in the south
| by the cotton worm alone; and that an average
| loss per year of nearly 81 400,0 900 has been
| brought about in the apple crop of Illinois hv
] the ravageS of the Goblin moth.
| A GOOD STORY is told of Bishop Grafton prot.
estant EpiscopaD of the diocese of Fond du Lac.
One of his first visitations was at Waupun, where
| there has been much church dissension in the
1 past, and while there he was the guest of Mrs
| Webster After tho prelate retired he was an
| noyed by mouse in the room. He did not lie
| awake and wonder what could be done to abate
| it, He quietly arose, took the remains of a
| luncheon which he had been enjoying placed
| it on the top of glass in the center of a wash
| bowl filed the bowl half full of water leaned
| photograph from the table to the edge of the
| bowl so as to give the mouse a runway. then
| calmly went back to bed. in few minutes he
| heard the pattering of the mouse's feet on the
| photograph, splash, a few struggles. and ali
| was quiet. Then the worthy bishop turned over
| and slept the sleep of the just. AS Mrs. Web
! ster remarked the next morning. Bishop Graf