The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

patent ONCE has granted over 500 patents 70
women. and In New York city q 600 women
support their husbands.
Cairo Egypt is to have a new street raj.
road system. according to information re
ceived at the state department from the
| United States consul general there. and the
| Egyptian government has invited bids for
It's construction. The matter is attracting
much attention among European capital
lists, and there is likely to be active competi-
tion.
According to expert calculations, the Col
iseum Of Rome seated 81, 600 spectators, while
$1,000 more could have found standing room.
The external circumference Of the Coliseum
as 1t stands to-day is rs feet, its long diam
eter 6l5 feet. its short diameter 5lOfeet. The
arena is 279x296 feet and the hight OF the
Dulldlng loo feet. There is still standing four
stories OF the original structure IL was, in
all probability, the largest building of audito-
rum arrangement ever known.
The defeated and sorely disappointed ma
! 1ority Of the army of boomers that raced into
| the Cherokee strip and battled for claims
there week or so since has been struggling
| out again in sorry retreat into Kansas and
| Texas since a couple OF days or so after the
| opening. Thousands have been brought out
! on the same cars that carried them in. Many
hundreds nave passed through Arkansas Clty
| In wagons and on horseback, while a great
number of unfortunateS have been and Stil
are tramping it back.
Amid the bountiful honors bestowed upon
lola in England in the last two weeks a good
deal of comment has been excited by his re-
ply to young woman who asked him point
| blank II he would recommend her to read his
books. The novelist sent this reply: Made
moiselle: AS long as a young lady is unmar-
| ried she is under the care of her parents.
| When she marries she will do well to consult
her husband. My view is that you may read
my books provided your parents or your hus-
| band gives you leave"
Dido, Queen Of Tyre, about seven centuries
before Christ, after her husband had been put
to death by her brother, fed from that city
and established colony on the north coast
Of Africa, Having bargained with the ma
| tives for as much land as could be surrounded
| by bull s hide, she cut the hide into narrow
| strips, tied them together and claimed the
land that could be surrounded by the line
| thus made. She was allowed to have her
| way. And now when one plays a sharp trick
| he is said to 'cut a dido
The ticket agent and telegraph operator at
one OF the stations on the Adirondack railway
has an unconquerable horror Of travel in any
way'save on foot He fears,that horses will bolt
| and that engines will jump the track, and the
| perils OF navigation nothing would induce him
| to encounter. When business calls him to
| Saratoga far the limit OF his journeyings
! since brJh-he bids his family solemn fare
| we'll, and rejoiees greatly on safe return. He
| is a well-read thoroughly sensible man, but,
| try as he will, he cannot overcome his dread
| OF all forms of rapid transit.
One OF the most noted land contests ever on
record in this country came to an end this
week when the Minnesota supreme court de-
! cided that Frederick Prentice of New York
! had no shadow of title in property in the
| dock front in the very heart Of Duluth in the
possession of the Duluth Storage and Foundry
| Company. This decisions settles the title to
| fully T5,O0OO00 worth of the best business
| and residence property, and the owners are
/ haDnU that thew halfnved fhara ne
| danger Prentice would win but that progress
will no longer be hindered by cloud on their
| title.
A woman footpad, with her confederates,
recently piled profitable trade in Kokomo,
Ind, for some little time. She is an attract
i've young woman, about 20 years old, Her
/ plan was to stand on a street corner in the
fashionable snburbs. and, on plea Of being
| alone and frightened, induce men to accom-
! pany her home. She would lead her dupe
| down dark street, where four or Ave young
toughs were in waiting, when he would be set
upon and robbed. She was identified by vic
Tins as being. the chief actor in four attempts
| at this sort OF robbery within one hour. She
Is now in jail.
Z The question whether Uncle Sam is prop
| erly concerned to conserve the morals of
| Queen Victoria's Indians is agitating the
courts along the northwestern frontier Sew
| eral American citizens in border towns Of
| Washington have lately been convicted by
| Juries OF selling beer to British Columbian In
| dams, and the court has imposed the regular
| fine of SIS and costs which the state statutes
| impose for selling iptOXicants to Indians At
| torneys for the defense have claimed that the
| courts have no jurisdiction in such cases and
| have appealed the matter to the supreme
| court, where 1t awaits decision.
Several prominent sportsmen of Brazoria
and Matagorda counties, Texas, are about to
organize an association for the protection of
| alligators-an odd sort of game protection
| which they believe will bring a good financial
| return. Hundreds Of young alligators are
| shot every month of the warm season by peo-
| pie who are DESTROYS to kill something and do
| not know or care for the value of alligator
| skins and teeth. There are now several alli-
| gator farms in Texas which are regarded as
| good investments, for, besides devouring the
! carrion that makes the water injurious to
| stock, the alligators clear 1t Of the gars that
! are so destructive to black bass and the fish
! the Southerners call trout"
The most interesting OF all moons are the
| two that attend Mars, each about sixty miles
| in diameter, That planet is just one half the
! size of the earth; its surface is divided into
| continents and seas, having as much land as
| water II has an atmosphere, clouds frequently
! conccaling its face, and its seasons are about
the same as here, though the winters are
colder. Because one Of the moons travels
around it three times as fast as Mars itself
turns. ii appears to rise in the west and set
In the east, while the other, really circling in
the same direction at a speed compare
lively SLOW rises IN the east ana sets IN the
west. Thus both moons are seen in the heav-
ems at the same time, going opposite ways
Maj. William Sully Beebe, retired Con
nectieut army oflcer, has completed a theory.
whereby he attempts to prove that there are
more ancient ruins in Bolivia and Peru than
| there are in Egypt. He declares the
most ancient remains of former civilization
| on this continent to be those ruins Of temples
| and of cities that are found in the neighbor-
| hood OF Lake Iiticaca. on the Bolivia. Peru
| border. These relics are scattered over a
| great extent of country and reveal remark
able skill in stonecutting, in architecture and
| in ornament. This region is 140O0 feet above
| the sea level, and too cold to provide susten-
ance for more than sparse population but
there Is little doubt that its climate and its
population were once very different.
The monkeys of Gibraltar rock are said to
| enjoy the rare distinction of being the only
monkeys in Europe not kept in captivity. 1t
is agreed that they found footing in Europe
I long, long before Spain as Spain was ever
heard OF. Before the sea wore away the land
and made what is known as the Strait of
Gibraltar Europe and Africa were Joined to-
gether and animals roamed from one spot to-
another as they pleased. When the time
came, however, that the strip OF land was at
last swallowed by the greedy ocean the
strong current prevented creatures that were
not at home in the water from crossing to and
fro as they were wont to do. Among the un-
fortunates whose wanderings were thus unex-
pectedly cut short were many African mon
keys, and the rock monkeys OF the present
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