The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
There are in the United States 1000
deaf mutes.

| st. Louis is the largest tobacco manufac
turing center in the world.
AT the first of the year the armies of the
world numbered 4.5OO.OOO men.
1t is said that the United States dimes
were minted in France in 1892.
The cemeteries of the city of London
cover over 1000 acres of ground.
In the twenty-four books that Dickens
wrote there were ,425 characters.
Wyoming and Nevada have less than
one inhabitant to the square mile
Two million glass eyes are manufacture
ed yearly in Germany and Switzerland
1t is estimated that there are now s65
tons of gold in circulation in the world.
The largest theatrical building is the
Grand Opera of Paris, which covers three
acres.
The growth of nails on the left hand re-
quires eight or ten days longer than those
| on the right.
An apple contains as much nutriment
as potato, and in pleasanter and more
wholesome form.
In 1888 Japan had only SO fac
tories with machinery. Ten years later
| their number was 1853
microscopic say that the strongest mi
croscopes do not. probably, reveal, the
lowest stages of animal life.
The body of dead Chinaman is often
kept by his relatives or friends for three
| or four years before it is buried.
More than one-half of the persons in
| this country who commit murder are men
and women under 30 years of age.
The first theater in this country to be
| lighted with gas was theater at Phila-
delphia, which put in gas pipes in 1876.
The British government needs over So
100000 year to supply military uniforms
| to its soldiers in all parts of the globe.
| The first submarine telegraph wire in
this country was from Governors Island
to the Battery in New York, laid in 1912.
The flying eagle cent pieces of 1856,
United States coinage, sell at from 81 to
IS each, depending on the condition of the
| coin.
The tigers strength exceeds that of the
lion. Five men can easily hold down a
lion. but nine are required to subdue
| tiger.
The first horses in this country were
brought here in the year 1913. In 1890
there were 14,O56,75O of them in the United
| States.
1t is now claimed by historians that
the Oldest town within the limits of the
United States is Yaleta, on the Rio
| Grande river, in Texas.
Artificial arms and legs were used in
Egypt as early as 700 B. C. They were
made by the priests, who were the ply
! sicians at those times.
The deepest gold mine in the world is
at Eureka, Cal, and is 2, 29O feet deep. The
| deepest silver mine is at Carson City,
and has depth of $500 feet
Millions of men in India live, marry ana
rear apparently happy children upon an
income which, even when the wife works,
is rarely above 80 cents a week.
"A vase which it took several workn4en
four years to complete, has just been
sent from the Mnton pottery to a rich
Londoner. 1t is valued at $4,000.
The frog canont breathe with its
mouth open, its breathing apparatus be-
ing so arranged as to exclude air at all
times except when the nostrils alone are
working.
The Bank of France has a camera so
! trained that the picture of any suspicious
visitor may be secured without the sus-
pected individual knowing that he has
been caught.
AT the beginning of this century a
most peculiar cholera remedy was in use
In, t.
leaf from the Koran and forcing it down
the patients throat.
The jet mines of England seem to yield
less and less of that mineral. Ten years
ago as much as 4,67O pounds were raised.
last year only 16S pounds formed the to-
tai of the production.
The Kennebec river is said to pour a
greater volume of water into the ocean
than any other river on the Atlantic or
Gulf coast between St. John and the
mouth of the Mississippi
Excessive tea drinking is assigned as
the chief cause of the high rate of in
sanity in Donegal, and the theory wopld
seem to be strengthened by the fact thar
there are three female lunatics to one
male.
The collie dog, it is said, was named
from the sheep it was trained to care for
on the hills of Scotland. These sheen had
black faces and black legs and their name
was derived from the Anglo-Saxon word
col which means black.
There is nothing Scotch in barnines
except the sheepskin of the bag. and the
tartan. The wood-ebony, or cocus wood
comes from Africa and Jamaica; the ivory
from Africa; the horn from Australia
and the crane for the reeds from Spain
The Birmingham mint has lust receiv-
ed huge order from the Russian govern
ment for copper coins The total numbor
OF coins required is over 10000. 600 The
CONS which consist of three, two. one
nan ana quarter kopeck pieces, are al
ready being struck Off
The consumers of that useful fluid. nat
ural gas, says the Pittsburg Dispatch will
be interested to know that the Chinese
nave a tradition that the escape az TOO
iauch OF 1t from the earth long ago caused
the COLLAPSE of great mort fo., - ~ =