The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

] queen Maria, Of Hanover, widow or
/ George W and mother Of the Duke of
] Cumberland, has lost the sight Of one eye
\ and may lose that of the other as well.
/ Experiments have been made in Aus
/ tria to test the likelihood of a war bal
/ loon being nit when fired at n captive
! balloon al. an altitude of about 4,3j5 feet
I was fired at from a distance of 4. 100 yards,
/ and was struck nine times without being
/ brought down. In a second trial cap
/ tive balloon, at a hight of about 2,625 feet,
! was fired at from $500 yards distance. a
/ violent wind, causing the balloon to plunge
/ good deal, rendered the aim very diff
/ cult, and the balloon was not brought
/ down until the fifty-siXth round
| Mems neckties will reflect the shades
| used in Women's hats this fall. The new
| est thing from Paris is the cOrnhOwer
! color-that Is a deep blue, almost ultra
/ Tnarlne-pOWerful enough TO cast a retiec
/ ton upon everything in its vicinity, as If
] II were seen through a mile or two of sea
/ water. In one show window up town IS
displayed a large collection Of blue neck
| ties OF all shapes, but in the one solid
color, brOcaded into stripes and flowers.
/ or plain, as the taste may be. Some OF
the ties are immense slabs that will cover
| up everything in the way of defective
linen that the Wearer may desire 10 hide,
| and the blue is so suggestive that no one
| would Dare 10 wonder what there might
| be behind it. COrnfiower blue strongly
/ pronounced, viii be in the women's bon
| nets and hats. 1t is already exhibited In
| the milliners' windows, and when the
/ fashionable man and fashionable woman
/ sail of to church, they will be gorgeous
-Atchison Kan. is getting ready for
| a grand corn festival. a correspondent
| writes: 1t is proposed to make the two
| days devoted to the celebration a verita-
| bic time of license with the same ex-
| citing features which are notable at
| Mardi Gras in New Orleans, except that
mere corn snail dominate everything and
| De the ruling deity. Hundreds of bushels
| OF shelled corn will be distributed through
| the city, and every man, woman and
| child who goes on the street may expect
Dglte0 Herewith wi hp
| thrown in the theaters. from the street
| roofs, at the horse cars, at the people,
| and. indeed be showered like rice, on
| a newy-married couple, upon all who
| can be attacked. Arches of corn will
/ span the streets, long stall will decorate
| the store fronts, the street cars will be
| adorned with the growth of maize, while
| husks and silk will be woven in the la
! dies wraps. 1t Will be a Veritable Paris
| ian revelry, with corn as its central
| feature.
The statistical summary of shipping
| casualties annually published in Lloyd's
| Register, shows that during 1894 the
| tile marine of the world amounted to l. Is:
vessels of 7O8,97l tons, excluding all YES
| 2S1 vessels of 922 tons were steam
| ers, and S73 of $1,000 tons were sailing
| vessels These figures exceed the average
| of the preceding three years as regards
| steamers by forty-four vssels of 520OO
| tons. This excess is not due, however,
| to actual casualties, but to the unusual
| broken up or condemned during 1894. The
| merchant navies which exceed a total of
| 100000 tons are. those of the United King
| dom, the British colonies, the United
! States of America, France, Germany ana
| Norway. of these countries, the United
/ Kingdom shows the smallest percentage
of loss-namely, 2.S per cent. of the vessels,
| and % per cent. of the tonnage owned;
/ France follows with S.s per cent of yes
/ sells and 2.6 per cent. of TONNAGE and Nor
way is the highest, with GA per cent. or
/ vessels and per cent. of tonnage. AS
| regards steamers, the average percentage
/ of loss for the six countries is 2.3 while
| the percentage for the United Kingdom
| stands at 233. For sailing vessels, the six
| countries give an average percentage of
! SO as compared with 3.9 per cent for the
| United Kingdom.
| I had to make trip from our claim
| on the Columbia to Spokane Falls. 1t
| was much nearer to go through the noun
tains on cayuSe than around by Da-
/ venport on the stage, says a writer in
| Forest and Stream / started quite early
| one morning and was along up the Spo-
| kane river when, as / came over
| small rocky point, / noticed very large
| bird soar down from a tree and carry
| some thing in its mouth At first l
| thought it was an eagle, but as soon as
| ! climbed little higher l could see it
| was an old gray goose and that it had
| deposited its burden in the water, where
| could see several small ones swimming
| around. l stopped, got off from my
| yuse and watched the performance. 1
had waited but few moments when
! one of the geese rose out of the water and
| flew straight to a cottonwood tree,
| alighted on a limb near a big nest. and
! reaching over into the nest took young
gosling out and sailed down to her COM
| panions. When she let The youngster
| touch the water it cut all kinds of capers.
| She again returned to the nest and got
| another, which was the last. After
| watching them for quite a while. 1
| mounted my cayuse and rode on. When
/ came into plain view of the family
| the old ones fiuttered away and the
| youngsters disappeared. There were
count. l have watched the wood duck
| carry her young from a tree, but this
was the only time 1 saw a goose make
| the transfer.
! ago Dartmouth College consisted of
wooden building $50 feet long, 50 feet wide
and S6 feet high English grammar and
/ arithmetic were text books in the sOpho>
| more year Princeton, the greatest Pres
| byterian college, was a huge stone edi-
| fee, its faculty consisting of a president,
| vice president, one professor, two masters
| of languages and seventy students. Har-
! ward University had four brick buildings;
| the faculty consisted of a president anG
| six professors, and in its halls thronged
| one hundred and thirty to one hundred
! and sixty students. Yale boosted of one
! brick building and chapel with stee-
| pie 125 feet high" The faculty was a pres
! ident, a professor of divinity and three
| tutors. The greatest Episcopal college in
! the United States was William and
| Mary's. 1t was under royal and state pa
| tronage and was therefore, more sub
lean schools At this tme, it is said in
a curious old state report. the college was
| building of three stories, like a brick
| kiln" and had thirty gentlemen students
| The students lodged in dormtories, ate at
! the commons and were satisfied with
! what we consider prison diet. Breakfast,
a small can of coffee, biscuit, about an
| ounce of butter. Dinner, one pound of
| meat, two potatoes and some vegetables
| Supper bread and milk. The only unlim-
| tied supply furnished was cider, which was
/ passed in can from mouth to mouth
| The days were spoken of as boil day
| roast day, stew day, etc.
| Among the fe1lahs of modern Egypt
| says the New York Sun, process Of in
| cubatiOn is in use which has been handed
| down from antiquity, perhaps from the
| time of Diodorus, who, forty years be-
| fore the Christian era. said that the
! Egyptians brought eggs to maturity with
| their own hands, and that the chickens
| Matched thus were not inferior to those
| Matched in the usual way. The process is
described in Nature; Ovens are built,
| consisting of a chamber about eleven feet
| square and four feet high, with a fiat
roof. Above this another chamber, nine
| feet high, is built, with a vaulted roof
| having a small opening in the middle to