The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In uLNl lflpS mdQe last year the Amer
lean line Of steamers carried the second
largest number Of passengers of any line
in the transatlantic service, aggregating
IS 46. The Cunard line. in fifty-seYen trips
carried IS. SIS cabin passengers. leading the
list. The White Star line. in fifty-oue trips
had H. sos. The North German Lloyd line
led the list in steerage passengers. The to-
tai number Of passengers, both alien and
native, landed at the port during 1895 from
Europe was 1855 cabin ana 25s,560 steer
age. and 4y2 trips of steamers were made to
carry them.
Bear kegs have been used with great
success for the odd purpose of catching
bears in the vicinity of Hoquiam, Wash.
and are said TO make the best bear traps
ever used IN .hat region, says the Mill
waukee Wisconsin. One end is knocked
out of the keg. and then a number of
strong. sharp spikes are driven into its
sides. the points slanting toward the clos
cd end. big dab of honey or other del
icacy, especially liked by the bear is then
pldcSu a. me lurtner enc, ana the keg IS
carelessly dropped in the woods where the
bears are likely to stumble across it.
The device caught five bears in one week
Tor one keg planter recently. The bear
money IN the end, and the spikes eff
fectually prevent him from backing out,
and all he can do is to roll around until
ne IS tired and wait for the trap-layer
to come around.
DIR. Jameson is reported to have said
in an interview. that "our Maxims could
have knocked the spots out of them, but
we had no ammunition" That is going to
be the trouble with the machine guns, es-
pecially for armies of invasion, SAYS the
Springfield Republican No ammunition
train, no matter how long, can carry cart
ridges enough to feed these greedy corn
peppers which shoot away in a minute as
many rounds as a soldier can carry. The
Maxims and Cuttings are all right in their
place, but they will not lessen the import
ance OF accurate small arm fire. A beleag-
uared fortress with big magazines might
be able to fill the air so full of lead that
no living, thing could approach. but an
army in the field will still find it necessary
to shoot to hit. and il will take sharp over
sight to keep the soldiers from wasting too
much lead even with q magazine rifle to
say nothing of machine gun splitting
| from 600 to 1000 bullets minute.
"A dispatch. dated Washington. Jan.
q, says: The navy department has found
a very satisfactory method of making
woodwork non-combustible This is done
| by what is called an electric fre-proofing
| process. to which all woodwork is sub
| jected before it goes into the equipment of
men-of-war. There were recently some
| very severe tests of the material treated
| by this process, and. among other trials
| was the placing of some of the wood in
| a furnace in the department basement
| II was found that the material could not
/ be destroyed by fame and since then the
| process has been adopted for the lumber
/ which enters into deck construction. the
| woodwork of the cabins and even the ma
NeIldl out OF winch the furniture is made.
Chief Naval Constructor Hichborn said :
We are using it entirely, and believe il
| VIII promote the safety of those on board
/ 1t VIII assuredly prevent confederation a.
sea and remove that danger from the
| usual results of battle. There has always
| been natural fear of burning on the deep
/ An engagement may be influenced mate
/ rally by the fire-proofing of the woodwork
| of a ship and the present system of cleo
| trio hre-proofng is one of the most i'm
| portant OF the latest methods adopted for
| the new navy"
In spite of latitude and Arctic current
Labrador is the home of much that is de-
| licious i'm the berry world, saws Outing
| Three varieties of blueberries huckiebeT-
| ries, wild red currants having pungent
aromatic flavor, unequalled by the cultiva-
tad varieties, marshberries raspberrieS
1tlny white capillaire teaberries with a.
tdlaVor like some rare perfume and having
/ Just a faint suggestion of wintergreen:
1 Squash-berr1es, pear-berries and curlew-
1 berries, the latter not so grateful as the
others, but prime favorite with the
| EsqulmauX, who prefer it to almost any
! other; and lastly the typical Labrador
/ frmt, which, excepting a few scattering
| plants in Canada and Newfoundland is
found nowhere outside of the peninsula
| the gorgeous bake apple. These cover the
| entire coast from the st. Lawrence to the
! ungava. Their beautiful geranium-like
| leaves struggle with the reindeer moss
| upon the islands, carpet alike the low val
! leys and the highest hill tops and even
| peep from banks of everlasting snow
] Oilly one perry grows upon each plant
| but this one makes most delicious
| mouthful 1t is the size and form of a
| large dewberry, but the color is a bright
| crimson, half-ripe, and golden yellow at
| maturity. Its taste is sWeetly acid it is
! exceedingly juicy and so delicate that it
| might be thought impossible to preserve
The Rev. Father A. A. Landing of
Williamsburg, president of the Western
! Historical Society writes thus IN the
1
| Oldest Bible have seen reported so far
| was printed in 1872. Now, 1 can beat that
| by just forty-four years. l have a. Bible
| in my possession that was printed in 1873
and it has long been waiting for an older
| friend OF the same species with whom to
| have talk about the deeds of the DAYS
! of other years. but has so far waited in
| vain. It is a large folio volume printed
IN Gothlc type on handsome paper, is
| bound in calfskin with heavy board sides
| with clasps, center and corner pieces and
| is IN good state of preservation II is
the Latin vulgate, and is richly illumina-
! ted. A certain educational institution of
| this country offered $3.50 for it, but that is
! no price. Those old books had no title
page but in the end they had colophon
the style of which will be seen below The
| printers of those days believed that the
end crowns the work The colophon of
| this veteran reads thus, translated from
| the Latin: In the year of the incarna-
| ton of the Lord, one thousand four hun
dFed N ana ssyentX-eight; on the fourth. ides
markable work of the Old and New Test
| ament, with the canons and the concor-
| dance of the Gospels, was printed. to the
honor and glory of the holy and undi-
| vided Trinity and of the Undecided and viz
gin, Mary, in the town of Nurnburg by
| Anthony Coburger, citizen of that town.
| through whose untiring industry the
| work was brought to a happy concIu-
| SION. Now, Martin Luther was horn
| Nov 5, 1883; hence it will be seen that
| this Bible was printed just five years be-
| fore he was born. 1 have a number of
other old books, for example the complete
| works of st. Augustine, in five volumes
| printed in 1902; the works of ST Holm
| Chrysostom, in four volumes, printed in
| 1857; certain works of Cardinal Belarmine.
in four volumes, printed in 1903 These
| are in Latin. L have also 1.-THE Sermons
| Before the King a small quarto volume
! in English, dating from 1893 to 1903. Be
sides many other old books. 1 have devo-
| tional works in German that have been
| in the Landing family since I722'