The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-29
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THERE is a fence Of wire netting 500 miles
long between the Australian colonies of New
South Wales and Queensland. Its object is Ia
keep the rabbits from migrating from one col
ony to the other.
THE Canadian town of Longueun. it is an
nounced, has decided to prohibit anyone speak
ing German from landing there. and keeps a
fire engine on duty to play hot water upon any
such intruder.
SAMUEL D. V. BURR. a Plainheld, n. J., man,
lately sent up large kite with floating drag
attached to 1t at Ocean Grove, with his name
and address inscribed on the covering of the
kite. He has since received word that it was
found near Norfolk, Va, still flying, 1t has
Travelled 400 miles.
SALToN LAKE, which so suddenly appeared a
few months ago in the Colorado desert, has en-.
tirely disappeared, and its bed is now covered
with luXuriaut verdure.
THE most costly book in the world is declared
to be a Hebrew Bible now in the vatican. In
the year 1912 it Is said that Pope Jules H. re-
fused TO sell this hebrew Bible for its weight in
gold, which would amount to S1o3 600. This is
the greatest price ever offered for q book.
In 1918 battle was fought near Milan, in
Italy, and so perfect was the armor of both
armies that, though the conflict ragged from 9 a.
m; TO 4 p m. no one on either side was either
killed or wounded, though one man broke his
collar bone by falling off his horse.
ATTENTION is called to the fact that the pres
ent is the first time for half century that New
England has not had a representative in the
cabinet except only about five weeks under
Pr sident Polk, and during the summer of 1874
between the resignation of Secretary Richard
son and the appointment OF Postmaster General
Jewell by Gen. Grant.
THERE is touch of humor in the fact that
mosquito and musket are from the root, the
Latin word for fly. One comes through the
Spanish mosca, a fly; the other probably
through the Italian. The popular notion that
the Mosquito coast of Central America gave
name to the jersey pest is probably an inver-
sion OF the true sequence.
A TRANsvAAL paper says Of Mr.. Stanley's
achievements: at would be easy for President
Kruger to name 900 burghers who would have
gone as far for hRif the price as did Mr. Stan.
ley There are, indeed, many Beers who have
done as much as Mr.. Stanley has done, and
moro, in the way of African exploration whose
names are unknown, and who themselves think
nothing If their different tricks. The extraor-
binary success Of Mr.. Stanley In obtaining
worldwide renown is an excellent proof OF what
advertising can do"
DURING the reign Of terror in Paris, in 1898,
many OF the nobility were reduced to starvation
aud beggary. The abattoirs sent their hides
fresh to the tanneries without removing the
tails; and in cleaning them the tails were
thrown away. One of these noble beRgars
asked for tail, and 1t was willingly given to
him; he took 1t to his lodgings and made what
is now famous) the first dish Of ox-tail soup
He told others Of his good luck, and they an.
moved the tanners so much that q price was put
upon them.
RAGS find their way to the house rag bag, and
from time to time we give them away or sell
them for pittance. But rags play a very i'm
portant part Just the same Last year saws the
Chicago mi at Inv
ported nearly IS, 000, 900 worth, and now because
Of the cholera quarantine manufacturers of fine
writing and book paper say they can't 90 ahead
with rag shortage and manufacture at pres
ent prices. 1t Is fact that the finest paper is
made of foreign rags. and q further fact that
the American ragman has put up his prices
from rs to 100 per cent.
UPWARD Of 100000 pounds Of snafls are eaten
every day by the residents OF the gay French
capital, the snail market being the busiest IN.
dustrial mart in Paris. One 'snailoFy" in the
province OF Dillon yields Its proprietor 1000
francs per year. At this place they are care
fully reared in snail gardens and fed on aro-
matte herbs which give them fine flavor.
Many Swiss cantons also have large snail gar.
dens and depend chiefly on the people of Paris
for market Snails are also used as an arti-
Gle Of food in Austria, Spain and Italy as well
as Egypt and other countries on the Mediterra.
means southern shore. Hygienists claim that
they are very nutritive, containing not lees
than II per cent. of heterogeneous matter.
A CURIOUS discovery has been made on the
Island of Kitaba, ono of the Trobriand group.
off the northeast coast of New Guinea SAYS the
Pittsburg d S Gtch. A great many sailors pass.
ing this little island have imagined that it had
no inhabitants because they saw no evidence of
human occupation. Sir William McGreeor the
administrator of British New Guinea, says the
island has an area of only five or six square
miles. On all sides 1t presents a low and slightly
slopinR margin, usually about q quarter OF a
mile broad, covered by heavy timber Within
is preciptous coral wall which can be assembled
only at a few places. The bank rises to hight
of 80 to 400 feet. Once at the top the visitor
finds within this wall a plateau which occupies
the whole of the center OF the island and is from
so to 100 feet below the coral wall Surrounding
it. There about 600 natives live and till Their
gardens. The rich, chocolate colored soil yields
them an ample supply OF food. They are COM
pletely protected from the wind by the rocky
rim that incloses their plateau. The island
above the sea several hundred feet. SO that the
atoll ring now forms the coral wall surrounding
the plateau. On this elevsted and almost in
accessible plain are thirteen villages each of
which contains over twenty houses. Sir William
McGregor says the natives gave him a most
pleasant reception. He found il difficult to
travel through some villages on account of the
yams. cocoanuts, mats and other articles that
we're laid down before him for his acceptance
possible for the natives of other islands to op-
press the people, because on their plateau,
naturally fortified as it is, they are inaccessible
to hostile tribes. The drainage OF the plateau
is excellent. There are great cavities in the
coral wall, through which the rainfall filters
and makes its way to the sea.