The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ANOTHER big cruiser will be launched next
month. She is building in San Francisco and is
larger than the Baltimore or Chicago. She is
modified copy of crack ship built in England
for Spain.
THE annual report of the chief of the bureau
of engraving and printing, just issued. shows
that bonds, money and revenue stamps to the
value of 1858, 600 900 we're handled last year
through the various processes necessary to
completion without the loss Of a single dollar.
TIE IDEA of using beet juices in steam boilers
instead of water has again attracted some at
tention in Belgium. says the Scientific AmeYi-
can. The Juices are heated to 24So F., at which
temperature there is no danger of sugar inver-
sion. Steam obtained is used in the regular way
about the factory. The th1ckened juice ia sub
sequently reduced to syrup in triple effect
CUSTOM borrowed from the English univer-
sites has this year and forever been dropped by
Yale. Hereafter the triennial catalogue.
wherein appear all graduates from 1905 down,
will be printed in English. and anxious parents
will now be able to recognize their hopefuls,
heretofore disguised in the Johanneses. Henri
cuses and Guilelmuses of that austere publca-
ton. Now let every college print its diploma in
English, aud ten years after graduation fellow
will know where he's at. q"
THE honor of having given birth to Columbus
is seriously disputed by two Italian cities, and
now a town in Corsica has been celebrating
Columbus day on the ground that he was born
there. says the Philadelphia Press. 1t is said
that seven wealthy towns contend for Homer
dead, through which the living Homer begged
for bread" and this bids fail to be the fate of
Columbus. If alive there is no reason to be-
lieve that he would care to claim birthright in
any of the places contending for the honor of
being his birthplace.
HERR ScHUMAN, the circus manager and
horse trainer, who is 50 popular with all classes
in Vienna, is in trouble with the German gov
eminent, through failure TO perform his mill
tary duty. II appears that he reported for
service when called upon, and upon examina-
duty was done, and going to Vienna, engaged
in the circus business. According to PrussiAn
law, however. he should have reported a second
time for special examination and failing to do
this, he has been arrested as a deserter and
drafted into the lowest place as private in the
ranks.
THE MOST IAUGHABLE THING Ihave seen la tely,
observes writer in Kate Fields Washington,
was the discovery of a new kind OF game by a
lively young setter dog. 1t was in q large dry
goods store, where cash is sent to the desk in
little boxes whirring along on slender rails. The
dog was following his pretty mistress sedately
enough, when no heard the sound and saw the
swift flight OF the cash box. He thought Il was
bird, and tore up and down the aisles after L.
scattering the crowd and RmusiuR everybody Ia
sight. Az he woSld not be convinced OF bis
deluaton he had to be removed forcibly from
what he thought the best hunting ground he
had ever struck
SOME wonderful results with regard to potato
culture have been obtained by gentleman
farmer in France, says Chambers JournaI
This farmer who is also a distinguished chem
list, has been, according to q recent consular re-
port from Nantes, for some time past conduct
ing experiments with potatoes with the re-
markable result that he has succeeded in secur-
ing the enormous return of forty-two tons per
acre. The plan he adopts is 70 carefully select
the seed and to use only the best and soundest
tubers The ground is dug or plowed TO q great
depth and Ia we'll MANFRED. Before planting
the seed potatoes they are soaked for about
twenty-four hours In mixture composed Of
saltpeter and sulphate OF ammonia, six pounds
Of each salt to twenty-five gallons Of water.
After this soaking the tubers are allowed to
drain, and they then stand for twenty four
hours longer. Ia order that the germs may have
time to swell
AN IDEA of the immense crowds which have
gathered in New York during the Columbian
celebration may be gathered from the statistics
of the passenger traffic OF the elevated roads
and the Brooklyn bridge, says the Philadelphia
Ledoer's New York letter of Oct Q. During
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 2, o2l, 537 per-
sons travelled on the four lines Of the Manhat-
tan Elevated railroad system, an average Of
973, 644 day. Yesterday the total was ,07b, 537
Each days traffic exceeded the biggest day in
| the Washington centennial celebration, when
| 1861, 600 persons were carried in twenty four
| hours. The ordinary traffic of the elevated
roads is from 500, 900 to 6O0, 900 day. That of
1
1000 persons are carried by one railroad in
single day, the fact seems almost too stu
| pendous for belief And they were carried
I without a single accident The trains had to
| be run slower than ordinarily. but this was
| necessary for safety. there being so many
! trains. The cars we're densely packed, OF
| course, and each individual experienced more
| or less discomfort, but this was TO be expected
| in the nature of the case. The statistics Of
travel on the Brooklyn bridge also broke all
records The receipts for fare ont the bridge rail-
| road yesterday were Sc, 467, the largest Of any
| single day. The receipts for the three days
were s16b1s, against S14,s9o during the
bration, in 1889. No record Is kept
of the number OF persons who walked
| across the bridge. as no fare is collected, but
/ 1t is believed that fully $50, 900 crossed the
| bridge yesterday afoot and in the cars and
fully l00e, 900 during the three days 1t Is known
| that $40, 36 passengers were carried on the
| cars during the three days. The Metropolitan
| Traction Company, controlling several of the
principal surface railroads In this city carried
about 800, 900 persons on each of the three days
| of the celebration. 1t Is estimated by railroad
officials that fully SOC, 600 strangers were In the
| TO the city. These figures prove that the crowds
| in New York we're the greatest that have ever
gathered in the metropolis during its entire his
| tory The estimate OF 1000, 600 people massed
on Broadway and Fifth avenue viewing the mill
I tary parade Is not by any means an exaggerated
one. Yet the multitude dissolved az quickly and
as marvelously as it came together. The crowds
bian celebration. There are several cities in the
United States in which military parades of IS 600
| to 10000 uniformed men could be arranged, but
where else in the two Americas could such mar
velous crowds be assembled to view such q
paradei