The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

If the Atlantic ocean could have a lay
/ er of water 5000 feet deep removed from
its surface it would only reduce the width
/ of that great body of water One-half.
Pontiac, Mich. is going a little fur
/ Their in the enforcement Of Sunday laws
/ than any other place yet heard FROM Res
taurants, saloons, candy stores ana 10
bacco stands are closed on Sundays ana
/ ice cream dealers may not deliver their
/ goods TO customers on that day. Now
I over 100 citizens have signed a petition
/ asking that the livery stables be closed
/ and yet another petition has been circu-
lated and extensively signed. asking that
/ milkmen and icemen be prohibited from
plying their business on Sunday.
The poet Cowper has immortalized a
| pair OF chafiinches. which built their nest
/ in a pully block near the top of a mast,
and then followed the ship to sea; but an
/ even more remarkable discovery has just
/ been made at Histon, Cambridge. As a
/ wagon, laden with ironwork for Chivers
/ new Jam factory, was being recently I'M
| loaded, one of the men observed little
moss protruding from a small hole in the
/ center of one Of the buffers; Upon ex-
/ animation he found inside the buffer
snug nest. containing one tiny egg. Al
/ though the wagon had Travelled from North
| stafford, distance of 80 miles, the egg
l had not been broken.
How conditions have changed in the
| intercourse between France and Germany
| becomes more apparent now in the moder-
alton which is shown by the general pub
| he IN polh countries when speaking OF the
| other. with the exception of a few Chauv-
| inistic newspapers in France the general
/ tone of the press is pacific. Commercial
relations are also beginning to become
more general. The large Paris dry goods
| houses are again making purchases in
| Berlin, which even short time ago would
nave been thought impossible; one of
| them, the famous "Au Louvre" has even
a resident purchasing agent in Berlin. 1t
has taken % years to re-establish the
commercial intercourse between the two
countries.
Facts as to the development of the
| public school system of California show
that although il is only forty-seven years
| since the first school-house was built in
| the state, yet now the annual expenditure
| for public schools is nearly $1,000 600, and
| 10000 pupils. These teachers are paid
more literally than in any other state and
| they rank high in efficiency. The state
| university and it's affiliated colleges have
been very literally endowed. and the COM
| petition of Stanford university has helped
| instead of injuring it. The bequeSt of j.
| c. Wilmerding of 10000 for the establish
| ment of a school in which boys may learn
| trades has fallen due and this new tech
| meal school will be under the state uni
Versity, and every effort will be made to
/ render il efficient.
| "A feature of the Geographical Jour-
| nal for August is Mr.. j. 7. Bent's account
| of his recent exploration of the franklin
cense country. This is a small strip of
the southern coast of Arabia, about sixty
| miles long by ten WIDE well watered, and
| of course, very fertile. There are numer-
| Gus ruins OF ancient towns scattered over
/ it, and the remains of at least one commo-
| dious harbor now inaccessible from the
/ sea. The frankincense of commerce is
/ found in three large groves in the noun
| tains which separate the coast territory
| from the central plateau. Each tree is the
| property of an individual BedOuin owner,
| who cuts the stem in the early spring, col
| lecting the gum about once week till the
| summer rains set in. The gum is sold to
| Banyan merchants, who export IL to Bonn
| bay-the annual product being about 5000
| hundredweight. These Bedouins are a
| wild race, who live chiefly in caves and
| under trees, using reed huts only during
| the rains. They are regarded by the Arabs
| as heather, and apparently speak Ian
| guage peculiar to themselves.
| This, according to Pearson's Weekly,
! is how an Arab lady perfumes herself:
! chance to be, small hole is excavated,
| sufficiently large to contain a common
| champagne bottle. A fire of charcoal, or
| of simply glowing embers, Is made within
| the hole, into which the woman about to be
| scented throws a handful of drugs. She
| then takes off the cloth or ''topa." which
| forms her dress, and crouches over the
fumes, while she arranges her robe to fall
| as a mantle from her neck to the ground,
Ike tent She now begins to perspire
| freely in the hot-air bath, and, the pores
| Of the skin being thus opened and moist,
| the volatile oil from the smoke of the
| burning perfumes is Immediately absorb
ed. BY the time the fire has expired the
| seeming process is completed, and both
her person and robes are redolent with in
| cense, with which they are so thoroughly
impregnated that have frequently smelt
| party of women strongly al fully hun
bred yards distance, when the wind has
been blowing from that direction.
Lawn tennis, says the Bachelor of
| Arts, while dating back to Elizabeth's
| time. really appeared in an undeveloped
| form up to 1874, under the name of "Sphai-
yistike," an invention made by Mai.
| Wingfield for which he obtained a pat
| ent in February of that year. The court
| was shaped like the vertical section of an
| hour-glass and the seven foot net was so
high that the game much resembled bat
| tledore and shuttlecock. Out of a chaos
| of rules the Marylebone G. G. formulat-
ed code and later the All-England Gro
| quet club took up the game. After long
! controversy as TO size of implements and
| method of scoring the matter was happily
| posed of Julian Marshall, Henry Jones
and G. G. Heathcote. The prompt and
| bold action of these men gave us lawn
| tennis; without them the game might
| of innumerable sizes and with more con-
| fiicting rules than the statute laws of this
| country. This committee enacted a code
| which has been little changed since, eX-
cepting to hight of net. To them, there
fore, tennis players of all lands owe a
debt of gratitude.
The Mississippi, says Longman's, has
in the course of ages transported from
the mountains and high land within its
| drainage area sufficient material to make
! 100000 square miles of new land by filling
| up an estuary which extended from its
! original outfall to the Gulf of Mexico
for a length of 500 miles, and in width
| from 30 to 40 miles. This river is still
pouring solid matter into the Gulf, where
| ii is spread out in a fan-like shape over
a coast line of $50 miles, and is filling up at
the rate of 49,, 900 tons year; or six
times as much soil is was removed in
| the construction of the Manchester shin
canal, and sufficient to make a square
mile of new land, allowing for its having
to fill up the Gulf to depth of 80 yards.
Some idea OF the vastness of this opera
ton may be conceived when the fact is
| considered that some of this soil has to
be transported more than 5000 miles; and
that if the whole of it had to be carried
in boats at the lowest rate at which heavy
material is carried on the inland waters
of America, or say, for one-tenth of a
| penny per ton per mile. over an average of
half the total distance, the cost would be
no less a sum than f230,00O, 900 a year.
| Through the vast delta thus formed the
river winds its way, twisting and turn
ing by innumerable bends until it extends
its length to nearly 300 miles, or more
than double the point to point length of
in one place and building nm land ~,