The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-19

] In 1898 there were rs 500 deaths in the state
Of New York, OF which grip caused about
/ 5000
Biologists have ascertained that the age Of
the earth varies from 100000 10 6sOOCO OUO
years.
Telluride, Col. is one of the highest towns
in the United STA -es, being $3.50 feet above
sea level.
The present emperor OF Chm is the frst
/ po'entate OF that country to study the En-
glish language
The Victoria railroad bridge over the St.
Lawrence at Montreal is two miles long, cost
| s5,000,0t0 and contains 10000 tons Of iron and
| 100000 cubic feet of masonry.
A man with head that is . feet Is inches
in circumference was fitted with a hat in
| Baltimore the other day. HIS size is So,
which is twelve sizes above the average.
The Britannia and Germanic, two White
Star steamers, have made POO round trips
! between Liverpool and New York a distance
/ in each case OF 100000 miles They have
/ carried over 10000 saloon and 260 DO steer
| age passengers.
There is a mysterious woman in Indiarayo-
lis whom nobody has ever seen except at a
! funeral She is never absent at these events
| and never fails to stand over the corpse and
| say: III. now oeautiful:" each time with
the same infection.
1t is claimed that tract Of country in
Egypt, lying between the first and second
/ cataracts Of the Nile is the hottest place in
| the world The natives have never seen
! ram. and doubt the statement of visitors
who tell them Of water falling from the sky
Some railway managers. are advocating
more general establishment of what they call
"chaiing dish" buffet cars. They are a com
| promise between the Pullman LuTet cars and
/ the regular dining cars. Their object is to
! furnish hot dishes but not TO the extent of a
! regular dining car itself.
Of the 1906 boarders at the Liverpool Sail
ors Home last year / 9gl were seamen who
when ashore, always return to the home: 5g6
| were shipwreclSed men. and lO2 were men
| VINO, through sickness or ill-fOrtune. had he
| come destitute and had been sent to the
| home at the country's expense. The number
OF loarders was 4J4 less than in the previous
year
The present Triple Alliance consists Of the
German empire and Austrian empire and the
kingdom of Italy, and dates from 1888. There
! was triple Alliance between Great Britain
| Holland aud Sweden agains, France in 1865;
! a second between Great Britain. Holland and
| France against Spain in l1l7 and q third be-
! tween Great Britain, Russia and Austria
| against France in 1875.
! Advertising, or rather bill-posting was re
! Gently carried to an extreme in France. The
| proprietor Of a new brand of Algerian brandy
| caused to be posted throughout the country
! o,mouS placardS, each showing a man and
| woman seated al a cafe ia lie slipping the AL
| gerian brandy. But the man picture looked
| so much like that Of President Carnot that
| the police authorities ordered that a large
| piece OF canvass should be placed over the
| two faces
! Massachusetts has spent $4,000 in efforts
| to exterminate the English sparrow. and
| when resolution was introduced in the SEN
! ate the other day to provide for the propag q.
! tlon OF the MongOltan pheasant in the com
| mOnwealth. the members DISPLAYED nucb
| caution and asked many questions before
! voting. One wanted to know where Mongolia
! was and another asked whether the pleas
! ants would increase as rapidly as the I ar
! rows and the gypsy moths.
Under the Massachusetts law. independent
military companies are prohibited from carry
| ing firearms. The Htbernians have been pre-
| vented from Tarading with rifles and they
| are now appealing to the legislature to repeal
| the law. hey may carry sabers under the
| present law but prefer the guns. and cite the
| fact in support of their claim that they are
| an inspiration 10 patriotism. that the Emmett
! Rifles were among the very first to offer their
| service to President Lincoln at the outbreak
OF the war.
| The man who invented ice cream was a ne
| gro by the name OF jackson, and in the early
| part Of the present century kept a small con
| tectlonery store, says the Bakers Helper
| Cold CuStardS which were cooled after eiDg
| made by setting them on a cake of ice were
| very fashionable, and jackson conceived the
| idea of freezing them, which he did by plac-
! ing the ingredients in tin bucket and com
| pletely covering it with ice. Each bucket
! contained a quart and was sold for 81. 1t
! immediately became popular, and the in
ventor soon enlarged his store, ana when he
| died left cons dera0le fortune. good
| many tried to follow his example, and ice
| cream was hawked a out the streets bein,r
| wheeled along very much as the hockey -pokey
! carts are now, but none OF them succeeded IN
| obtaining the flavor that Jackson had in his
! product
| worlds fair is to he held this year in Ant
werp; and there will be a number OF side
! shows associated with it. as there ALWAYS
| are IN connection with such enterprises. The
/ most original and marvellous OF these minor
! te,s will be the castle in the air This Is
/ to be an enormous balloon, anchored by four
| principal cables and thirty smaller ones, go
| ing out at an angle. q o the great gas bag
! VIII We attached car in the form of a fantas-
! tic kiosk, built of steel tubes and bamboo
| and covered with silk ana metal plates AS
| the distance from the earth TO this structure
Will be several hundred feet sometimes as
| much as 5OJ and sometimes only 20J. accord
| ing to the force of the Wind, it will be ue.es
! sary to provide means Of ascent. These will
! be balloon elevators, or lifts as our Eng
| fish friends call such devices. Ten or fifteen
people viii he accommodated at once therein v
! ana SIX minutes VIII be required for the trim
| vertical guide cables will control the move
! ments of the elevators.
There has just been brought out in Eng
land new game entitled queen Lords and
! Common 1t is played on board not unlike
| a billiard table in TWO sizes, the larger five
| feet, the smaller three feet in length lbe
| foundation IS polished wood with darker
wooden wall all around it. and the wooden
! partitions divide it into the Irish party; the
! House OF Lords, with the queen and the
| lord chancellor in front of her; and the com
! mons, with the ministry on one side and the
| opposition the other. These several divis-
| ions contains ninepins of different colors ard
! various shapes. A top Is launched in among
| them from the top OF the board. and makes its
| way through the several OPENINGS. scoring
according to the pieces it knocks down me
| queen counts fifty, the lord chancellor
| twenty, and SO on, and the success
| of the game depends on the amount of the
| score II is exceeding well planned and verv
| amusing; ohe of the best political games we
| have had for many years. Mr.. Gladstone is
! represented by ninepin placed in a solitary
| corner, while the leader Of the opposition oc-
! cupies similar angel on the opposite side
| The Irish members are colored green and
| the ministry and their rivals are of contrast
! ing tints. so that il is easy at glance to see
| what is really being done and it is astopish-
| ing, II properly launched. how wonderfully
| the top makes It's way; the skill of the game
dependin on the manner in which this TOP lis
set spinning.