The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Barton county, Kan, was sold for SIS the
other day and moved away A few years
ago Cain City had go inhabitants. a Dank.
newspaper, churches and several mer-
chants Rival towns on either side gradu-
ally Slapped away the life OF the town.
It is not generally known, says the
Fniladelphia Record, bat il is fact OF
history. nevertheless that Bristol Town
ship. lying on the east side of German
town, had a very narrow escape from be-
ing selected as the site Of the capital OF
the United States. II was a very small
matter that turned the choice toward
Maryland and Virginia So positive were
some members Of congress that the capt.
tai was going 10 be located near German
town that thew purchased real estate
there, not, Of course, as a matter Of spec
ulation, but simply to be near at hand
Bristol took place When the vote of the
commissioners was taken there was a tie,
four being for Bristol and four for the
District OF Column bia- Washington cast
the deciding vote and Bristol Township
was left out in the cold
H. Grenard, the French traveller. now on
his way to Peking. a prisoner in one of
those dreadful wooden cages which the
Chinese use for the conveyance of their
criminals, will. il he survives his peril
Gus journey and his sufferings, be able
10 give 10 the civilized world a cescrip-
ton OF the mysterious and sacred city
OF Lhassa, says the New York Tribune.
y IS stated that neither his companion,
n. PhlnS, nor himself was mOlested while
within the walls of this capital Of Thibet,
and that the attack which resulted IN the
killing of the former and the capture OF
NJ. Grenard took place several days after
they had left Lhassa, their assailants be
ing Chinese soldiers. 1t will be interesting
20 see whether the fall OF Picking, which
viii doubtless mark the close Of the
present war between Japan and China,
Will contribute in any way to the break
ing down of the hitherto impregnable bar
rier of eXclusiveness that has shut off
Thibet from the remainder of the world.
Stories of the unique experiences dur
ing the recent terrible month of artic
winter continue to multiply themselves
all over Europe and the Orient, says a New
York Times cable. Many million adults
who never saw snow before, as, for in
stance, the Bedouins on the fringe of the
Sahara Desert, have had this year to dig
their way through drifts and been sub
jeCted to unheard Of discOmforts and suf-
ferings. 1t is feared that all through
Southern Germany and Austria large num-
bers of deer in the forests have persisted.
Never in the memory Of living people
have wolves in the Businesses of the Ar
DENIES and Nosges come out into view 5
this year. II is Vouched for as fact
that in street of the Alsacian village Of
Saarbruclen in front of the new bar
racks, a wolf attacked the night senti
mel on duty, and with such desperation
that the soldier would have been killed
had his cries not brought his comrades to
his rescue.
The suggestion that the Protestant Epis-
copal church in this country should in
clude an archbishop among its dignita-
ries does not meet with the approval of
Bishop Potter of New York, who thus ex-
presses himself upon the subject: The
American people are not greatly i'm
pressed by titular assumption, and they
are not eager to see ecclesiastical bodies,
whether home bred or foreign breWed, eS-
tablish themselves near the center of gov
eminent. The principles of the COnStitu-
ton of the United States of America are
distinctly hostile to ecclesiastical inter
ference in local or national governments.
Even If this were not the case, any sucn
action as that referred to would be prema-
ture and impracticable. The Episcopal
church in America has not yet adopted
the provincial system. Until 1t has done
that an archbishop of Washington would
be a gentleman in a very uncomfortable
position, sitting in chair which rests
upon an extremely nebulous foundation.
The French Academy of Sciences. &C
cOrding TO the New York Tribune, has ac-
cumulated an interesting and varied col
lection of the relics Of extinct Madagas-
car birds, showing that some of them eX-
ceeded in dimensions any elsewhere
known, overlapping the Moa and the d.
rOrnis Gigantaeus and the OrnithOrhyn-
Gus of New Zealand, and making the
ostrich of Arabia and the cassowary Of
New Guinea look beside them like Span
ish game cocks or Amsterdam storks.
What the whale is to the existing mann
malta these prOdigious Madagascar birds
must have been to their kind, rivalling
the proportions of the roc of fable, or
simOry, king of birds, told of in Persian
story, that had its throne on an Asian
from its subject birds as OF men An egg
of the Madagascar variety, it is COM
puted, If II were possible to restore its
freshness, would make an omelette Tor
the whole Academy of Sciences At any
rate, its cubic contents, as determined
by precise measurements OF specimens
preserved there. equalled that of l47 hen
eggs, constituting the amplest testament
of owl position which the feathered tribe
has so far contributed to palaeozoic dis
cOvery. Whatever their final issue, France
will have something to show for her mil
itary expenditures in that region; and If
she could restore there the wasted tiocks
of the Epyronis Ingens and the Mulleror-
mis- MaXimus it would be a recreation OF
the most interesting production which
history ascribes to the island.
Another interesting fact l learned from
Mr.. DENLY, the United States secretary
of legation at Pekin, who has been visit
ing Washington, says the Chicago Rec
ord, was that there are very few oppor-
tunities in China for the investment OF
money. A rich man can buy real estate,
but it pays him very small revenue, is
subject to heavy taxation and is difficult
to dispose of. The transfer of lands and
houses is very rare except by inheritance.
and the greater mart of the real estate
in the empire has been handed down from
generation to generation in the same
family for centuries. Young men of means
cannot engage in mercantile enterprises,
for those are confined to certain classes
and the field is comparatively limited.
Business is largely a matter OF inherit
lance Manufacturing is conducted almost
exclusively in the homes OF the people.
There are few great factories and they
are all in the large cities and seaports.
Each family makes what it needs, so far
as possible, and its surplus is exchanged
for other articles produced by neighbors
who are engaged in other occupations.
There are no railroads or banks offering
stocks or bonds for investment. Mort
CAGES are almost unknown and the rich
men of the interior finding ii impossible
to place their money where il will bring
them any returns. Many of them melt
their coin into bullion as fast as they ac-
duire it and bury it or conceal it where
it cannot he stolen, but burglary is I'M
known 4 dishonest Chinaman viii pilfer
articles that are left lying around to
tempt him. but there are few professional
thieves and it is very rare that anything
of value is stolen, because the thief could
not eniov the benefits of it without GER
tain detection. and such crimes are Sc
verely punished. Mr.. DENLY sad the rich
men are in the habit of digging pits in
the ground under the floors OF their
aDd Gold Tho metal cannot burn or he
otherwise destroyed, and the mass in
ti-1e becomes too heavy to carry away.
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