The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A CHICAGO druggist said to a newspaper man
the other day that il he could only get q chance
at the soda water privileges at the worlds fair
he would consider that his fortune was made
for life. He said that there was money in soda
water any way that would amaze the uniniti-
ated; that 1t was not an uncommon thing for q
$4,000 soda water plant 70 pay for itself in five
months. The fair privileges. he said had been
secured by local syndicate, which, he thinks,
is working with the trust OF soda water fountain
manufacturers. There will be big money in it
for somebody.
WHEN in the east recently, rays a writer In
the GEobe-DemOcrGf. l was amused to see one Of
the latest electrical devices which ia evidently
destined to drive out OF the tailoring trade one
OF its most characteristic features This is an
electric cutter, used for cutting out garments
aud It compares very favorably with the old
very long shears which We have all got to look
upon az Indispensable to the practical end of
tailoring trade. The new shears are really
series of sharp knives operated by the now al
most ubiquitous motor. and so regularly that
they can be guided to a nicely. The cutter can
follow his mysterious marks to the sixteenth Of
an inch, do his work much better than now aud
what, OF course, is OF more strictly commercial
value, in about one.third the time. In very
busy times the work OF the cutter 10 quite
laborious, and the change would be welcomed
by him with open arms but for the usual Arxu.
Ineut against labor-saving devices. Il will eu-
able one man TO do the work OF two or three
and hence dispense with the need Of the services
of some of the experts now engaged With the
old and lengthy shears,
TIE superintendent Of an orphsnage at &C.
cundrs India, writes to ST. Louis paper an &C.
count of boy-wolf who is now under his care
some time ago the boy was discovered by some
hunters in the country near that place, who
saw him summing himself upon q rock He sp-
peared TO be child about years old. naked,
hairy and dirty. Whom they approached him
he scampered Off on all foura in company " Oh
a wolf which they had not seen, and took
Tefuge in a cave. The hunters built fire be
fore the cave to smoke its occupants out, and
presently the wolf ran out and after it the boy
whom they captured, but only after a severe
struggle, in which of the men
was badly bitten by the ferocious child. For q
long while nothing could be done with him. He
resented his captivity, would wear no clothes.
ate nothing but raw meat, which he gnawed
on the ground like a wolf. lay sleeping all day,
and moved about restessly in the night
Under the care OF the oTphanAge he has be-
come more tractable in the lapse of time He
will now endure clothing and eat cooked food,
but will not undertake TO talk. though ne ap-
pears 70 understand what is said to him. and
manitests considerable intelligence. 1t is sup
posed he was stolen away from his D lrents
while a baby by wo,f which, perhaps had
lost her young and adopted the child.
Count PovoLERI Of the British Geological So
ccty has pull shed q letter calling attention to
the threatened exterminatio OF the African
elephant. He says that the elephant is quite as
capable of being tanned as the elephant OF lrd'a
and rs beast D burden is quite as VALUABLE
more SO on account OF his greater size anu
strength, yet the natives make no attempt TO
capture and tame them, but slaughter them for
their tusks alone, aud that 10 the number of at
least 5000 every year. Since an elephants
Uusks, which are solid, can be cut OFF with
sharp saw without causing pain to the animal,
and an elephant once captured by the methods
employed abs in india the .n government khs
cured for this process. it seems to ma that the
ivory traders would gain time, save labor, and
AVOID the criminal folly of extermi ating their
source OF revenue, IL they could be induced to
resort to this more humane method OF obtaining
ivory instead OF to the unnecessary and brutal
butchery OF vast herds of valuable, inoffensive
and tractable animals, which takes place year
after year. When it is remembered that REPRO
duction in the African elephant does not COM
meuce until the animal is over 20 years old and
that the period OF e station is three years, and
further, that the female elephant proouces but
one calf at time. It will at once be seen that
we ara well within m asurable distance OF the
date OF the annlhilation OF the ivory King OF
the Dark Continent,
ONE OF the queer things now being prepared
for the worlds fair in Chicago is the Chinese
theatsr aud bazaar, says the San Francisco En-
0nl1neT Tom Sing OF New York, Hip Lung
Sam Moy. the wsll-known Chinese merchant
the Chinese representative at Washington
and representative Of the Six lonpa.
MES Of San Francisco are interested in the
building, which will present the appearance
OF part pagoda. part chalet part rloder4 RO.
manesque, decorated with vermillion aud gold
IL will be three stories high, 97xI00 feet, and
will b. built of brick, stone and iron, with
10 TO be fourteen feet wide. is TO be adorned
with Chinese desi ns, and in fact the entire
front is one continuous combination of Chinese
symbols In the basement will be a large din
ing room, where dishes peculiar to the Chinese
race as we'll as American edible will be served
and opening from this will be four private dining
rooms The first floor will be divided into sir
stores, in addition TO q large tea store aud CON
nected With this will be number of small tea
rooms. Leading directly to the theater on the
second floor Is an open sta rway twenty feet
in width over which win be suspended a
large Chinese lamp, hung from the top of a
circular court. The theatsr will have q seating
capacity Of 1000 people, and will be fitted up
in Chinese style. The foyers are to be elegantly
appointed, and, in connection with the parlors
will be used as cosnop olitan club rooms AT
each end OF the building will be placed a Chi
nese pagoda, highly decorated and surmounted
with S50-foot fagpole. The entire cost of
the bui ding is to be 100000. The G inese
having the enterprise in hand win be known as
the Wah Yung Company. Hip Lung and Sam
Moy have had several conferences with Col
lestor Clark to whom they have submitted the |
scheme relative to importing the Chinese |
artists and actors. To finish the work and pro- |
vide arepertory or the uheater will REQUIRE 300 |
Cinnamon, and Assistant Secretary of the Trea- |
sury Spaulding has decided that, as the Chinese |
artists and actors belong to the exempt class, |
they may be admitted to the United States |
Collector Clark has promised to notify the |
Anne lean consul at Canton that the promoters |
Of the enterprise are responsible The build |