The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

According TO DR.. Kukula there are
lls universities in the world. with 157.5l3
students Berlin. with T.T1l students. is
The largest and Urbino, with -, the
smallest
The annual parliamentary return or
England relating TO brewing shows that
over 80 hreWeries were closed last yea.
and that the number Of them has fallen
from hop0 10 a little over 500 in twelve
months.
Owing TO the strict nature OF the
French marriage laws concerning the
necessary consent Of guardians until the
Freuchman Is y. there are hundreds OF
deplorable instances where English wo-
men are wives in England and not IN
France.
Paris wants to build a mosque for the
convenience Of its Mussulman visitors
A committee. on which are the artists
BENJAMIN Constant. Delaunay and Belle
vile, Gen, de Gallifet and the Prince Of
Arenbers, is trying 10 raise the money
An echo Of the silver question comes
from China in the shape of a complaint
from the government officials that their
salaries no longer have the purchasing
power Of former years. and they are CON
sequently unable TO keep up their socla.
position.
If tradition and the questionable au-
thority Of ancient British history are TO
De credited York is the oldest city or
town in England for il has had assigned
10 II an antiquity as high as 1900 b. c.
ing founded llS0 b. &.
-Yawns are now subject to copyright
IN England. A lecturer on natural his
tory who photographed a tigers yawn
and had IL copyrighted. recently sued a
London periodical which reproduced il.
The yawn, il seems, was identified by a
generous growth I'm the tigers mouth,
winch was mistaken by the artist for a
normal part of the beast and accordingly
reproduced.
The recent sale at auction in Ham
burg Of the Kingdom of Matupia Is In
teresting. This royal domain, which lies
in the South seas, was knocked down
TO Hamburg firm Dit is a possession Of
the German government for only lZ00I
marks, less than 5000. The purchaser
intend 70 establish plantations on it ana
10 pension OFF the king on a salary of %
cents day.
James Otis. an authority on Ameri-
can gems. says that with the exception
of the diamond and emerald every precious
stone may be found in Maine The Pine
Tree state is rich in topazes, garnets,
amethysts pearls and rubies and her
tourmalines are famous throughout the
world. Eight years ago Austria paid So
NJ Tor a tOurmaline found at Mount
Mica, Maine, and to-day it fills a prom
lnent place among the crown jewels OF
that monarchy.
The scientists have for years been per
picked over the wonderful frozen well
at Yatkutsk. Siberia. As long ago as 1928
u was announced that the ground was
frozen to an abnormal depth at the place
referred to. In the summer of 1929 a Rus
sian merchant set gang of men to the
TASK OF aScertalning the depth of the froZ-
en- stratum. They gave up the job after
digging some thirty feet in solidly frozen
ground. The Russian Academy of
Sciences then took the matter in hand
and between 1898 and 1874 dug to d Gepih
OF SS2 feet, and then abandoned the shaft
because the earth was still frozen as
hard as rock. Natural cold could never
penetrate to such "A depth and the phe-
nomenon is still unexplained.