The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE state OF New York has gone into bust
ness as a landlord 1t will rent camp sites of
| five acres each in the Adirondack region for
| from S25 to $3.50 a year. AS applications for
leases must be passed upon by the state forest
| commission, the new arrangement may proba-
bly, serve an excellent purpose in connection
with the preservation of useful forest growths.
THE Esquimaux when he goes fishing uses
funny-looking boat made of seal skins stretched
over q wooden frame. He calls this craft a
kayak. On the upper side of the kayak,
directly in the middle, is an opening through
which the fisherman climbs into the boat
wrapping. himself up in flap of seaskin
which he laces tightly about the opening so as
TO keep out the water.
ONE of the most interesting sights along the
Rio Grande is to see a regiment of Mexican
soldiers taking a compulsory bath. It is only
under compulsion that the rank and Ale Of the
army ever do bathe, and when the ceremony is
in progress one-half OF the regiment enters the
water while the other half stands guard on the
bank, rife in hand, to shoot down any man who
deserts.
TIE FILIaREE artisans of India still continue
making the beautiful round plated gold chains
for which their ancestors have been so lmous
From some Of these chains hang smaller ones of
finest wire, almost like gold threads having
minute fishes and other pendants drooDinR
from them, In the English and French colec-
tons OF Jewelry, still guarded as treasure gems
one may see earrings SO dexterouSy wrought
that from connecting pendant chains tiny birds
covered with enamel "droop with shimmering
beauty"
DR.. MoRGANiof Spokane, Wash, owns piece
of property the only access to which is through
the air. He formerly owned the whole block
but sold it off bit by bit, reserving a piece ten
feet square in the middle The block has ali
been built up around the property and now it
Is entirely inaccessible, except by all air
route. When the assessor went to view 1t he
had to look down at it from the roof of a 6-story
building. Dr. Morgan has had many offers from
adjacent property o.ders for the and, but the
nobody would buy 1t.
BosToNs first newspaper, the NelUs- Letter,
contains the following advertisement, which is
an exact copy>of the original spelling, capitaIi-
zation, etc: by order of the Post Master Gen
eral of North America: These are 10 give No
tee, That on Mon1ay night the Sixth of this
Instant, December, the Western Post between
Boston and New York, sets out at once a Fort
night the Three Winter Months of December
January and February, and to 20 Alternately
from Boston to Saybrook and Hartford 10 Fx-
change the Mayles of letters with the New York
Ryder on Saturday night the 18th currant.
And the second turn He sets out at Boston on
Monday Night the 20.h Cur amt to meet the
New York Ryder at Hartford on SATURDAY
night the 25th Curraut to Elk hange Mayles
And all persons that send letters from Boston
to Connecticut from and after the 18th Instant
are Hereby Notified to first pay the Post
rates on the same"
| THE east room of the white house is perhaps
the biggest parlor In the United States says
| the Philadelphia Record, and Is q wonder OF
magnifcence. Its walls are Of silver and gilt
| and In them are set eight massive mirrors, eaci
| OF which Is as big as the tops of two billiard
tables placed side by side, and your feet
| sink almost up to the ankle in the rich velvet
| carpet which covers Q floor. This room is
| so feet long and 10 wide and it takes more than
400 yards to carpet it, The furniture Is oush-
| Toned with genuine hair, and it is covered with
| the finest of satin This room is now lighted by
electricity: and there are in the neighborhood Of
thousand incandescent lights In the mansi n
| The chandeliers in the east room coat S. 0 70
| apiece, and each contains 5000 pieces OF the
finest Bohemian glass. Historic paintings
hang upon the walls, and the portraits which
look down at you have cost Uncle Sam in the
neighborhood of $26 an inch.
THE following remarkable calculation on the
capacity of heaven. which has frequently been
published, but is curiosity In its way and well
worthy place among our other wonders, =" ID
taken bodily from Bonn baugh's "Gleautnga for
= the Curious" says the Philadelphia Prsss The
| basis OF the calculation, which will furnish
much food for thought, is found in Revelation
| xxi, IS, And he measured the csy (the New
| Jerusalem) with reed. 1900 flrlongs The
| length, the breadth and the hi ght are equalm
Let us see: Twelve thousand furlongs gR0 900
feet, which, being cubed IS 943, 06s 900 600 co.,.
reserve for the throne OF God and the court OF
| heaven; half of the rema ndes for streets leav-
ing balance Of 124 i95, 272 600 600 600 600 cubic
feet. Divide this last by 4096, the cubical feet
in room 10 feet square, and you will find that
there is still enough left for 30S2I S43 $50 OO0.
600 rooms We will now suppose that the
world always did and always will contain $780,
UOJ,OOO or inhabitants, and that a generation
lasts 1913 years, making in all 2,y70,0O0 900 for
each century, that the world Will stand l. 900
centuries, making in all 1870 100000 900 iDhab-
itants. Then suppose there are 100 worlds equal
to this in point OF number of inhabitants and
duration of years, making 297, 900 00o, coo 900,
tten heaven, according to the measurement
above, is large enough to sllot 100 rooms each
10 feet square to each human soul.
SINCE Jan. there have been four destructive
wind storms, killing nearly 200 persons, viz:
ATril /. Missouri and Kansas, rs; May l6.
Texas, 10; May ~, Wellington, Kan, So; June
Is, Southern Minnesota, 60 In the same period
there have been four great foods viz: April II.
| TomblRbee river, $50; May IL. Sioux City, la
IS; May 20. Lower Mississippi. So; June S, fire
and flood, Oil Creek. Pa, 1856. There also have
been four mining disasters, viz: JAN T. Meal
lister, ], T.. IS; April 20, Minersvie, Pa ~:
May 10, Roslyn. Wash, a: May IA, Butte
Mont. II. ThIes fires have been unusually dis.
astrous to life, viz: Jan. 81. Indianapolis Sur
gical Institute. 10; Feb. T. Hotel Royal, New
York, 30; April 20, theater. Philadelphia, ~
Besides these there were on March 81 an ex-
plcson at Jordan, Mich, by which ten lives
were lost; June ID, the explosion at tho Mare
Island navy yard, which killed thirteen. and
June 15 the fall Of a bridge over Licking river,
by which tnirty-two lives were sacrificed. These
are the principal disasters of the year thus far.
and theyHiIvoives an aggregate OF 800 lives
Adding tothis ootakthe sum OF losses by mtsor
accidents as reported 20 this paper. says the
and unuspI record BY fire. SIC; by drowning,
!, 964; BY expfosorss Sf3; by falling structures
of various Kinds 26ftS by mine disasters, 3os; bv
wind s5ostIsS $40 ssafd by lightning, 100 Grand
causes during the whole Of last year-and 1891
was one. of the most destructive years on record