The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-12
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company entered the building through an
open window one night, and being drawn
by suction under belt leading to the big
dynamo, stopped the machinery and put
out all the lights In town.
According to NJ. Paul Leroy Beaulieu,
the most trustworthy and eminent of all
writers on political and social economy
In France, that country is about to in
VolVe itself in another scandal, surpass-
Ing in gravity even that of Panama, in
connection with the conversion of the
fabrication and rectihcaton of alcohol
into state monopoly.
Many efforts are now being made in
France to attract American students TO
study there. In the city of Grenoble,
not far from Aix-les-Bains, the leading
business men have formed a committee
to welcome and assist young Americans
who would choose the local university
as place of study. A circular has been
issued by this committee, setting forth
the advantages of the University of
Grenoble, a copy of which The Tribune
has received from NJ. Bruwaert, consul
general of France in New York. 1t con-
tains interesting information about the
courses of the university and the advan-
tages of Grenoble as a place of residence.
Australia has no orphan asylum. Ev-
cry child who is not supported by par
ents becomes a ward of the state, and is
paid a pension for support and placed
in a private family where board and
clothes are provided until the fourteenth
birthday. After that he may be able to go
to work, in which case the pension is
placed to his credit, until the age of is,
when he becomes a citizen, with a balance
due to him from the state to begin life
with. This incucates humane, char
liable and responsible spirit in all resi-
dents, decreases the chance of pauperism,
and places every young man on a fair
and square footing with the world.
THE secret of a bad complexion"
says a physician in Life and Health, sis
bad digestion, and we generally trace
that to bad liver One of the best rem
edies for sluggish liver is cheap and
pleasant. Dieting is the secret of the
cure. The best liver regulator for per-
sons of sedentary habits-and those are
the ones whose compilations are muddy
is to be found in apples, eaten baked If
they are not well digested when eaten
raw. l attended the pupils at a well
known boarding school, and among them
was country girl whose complexion was
the envy of all her associates. 1 found
that she was very light eater at her
meals, but she had a peculiar custom of
taking plate of apples to her room at
night and eating them slowly as she stud
led her lessons. This was her regular
practice"
We often hear of cities that are built
upon rocks, but Durango is the only one
know of that has foundation of iron,
says Mexican correspondent of the Chi
cago Record. Within the city limits rises
the famous iron mountain, a solid mass
of metal, one mile long, three-quarters
of mile wide, and $40 feet high, that is
from 60 to 70 per cent. pure, and 1 am told
that 70 per cent. is the highest chemical
possibility. From the base of this out
cropping the deposit seems to spread in
all directions for a radius of three or four
miles, dipping deeper as it extends, until,
on the other side of Durango those who
dig wells, or sink shafts for any purpose
reach it as they reach bedrock elsewhere.
a solid stratum of iron from rs to 100 feet
below the surface. Its extent never has
been explored. 1t may reach for miles
further, but nobody knows it. There is
enough iron in sight in the mountain to
supply the whole republic Of Mexico for
ever, and it is declared that the entire de-
post would last the world 1000 years.
However, there is no such mass of metal
in existence anywhere else. and sooner
or later it will be surrounded by furnaces
and factories to utilize the remarkable
facilities it offers. Imagine the entire
iron deposits of Pennsylvania massed in
a single mountain! Imagine all the ore
in the Lake Superior country piled upon
a single dump!
Sisters in Yucatan, according TO the
Chicago Record, have a fancy for array
ing themselves in garments precisely alike
even to the twist of ribbon or knotting
of bow. Large families are the fashion
in the tropics, and any day you may see
girls out in groups who belong to the same
parents, as their clothes testify. Not in
frequently the fair sisters are called by
the name of their favorite flower or col
or. For instance, the pretty senoritas of
the Espanoza family are known as "the
Red Roses" because they have a fancy
for wearing Jacqueminot roses. The Con
zales girls are always spoken of as Las
Azules," because they wear blue a great
deal. The costume of about nine-tenths
of the small boys of Yucatan, up to the
age of IL. is simplicity itself. as it consists
of a straw hat, generally without a crown,
pair of homemade sandals and a String
around his neck weighted with a charm
from the village priest. For state occa-
sions he may wear a little calico shirt
but he is desperately hampered by it. A
striking feature of the national character
is the devotion of all classes to their
homes. Reverence for parents but in
creases with welded life and a man or
woman is never too old to kiss the hands
Of his or her aged father or mother and to
'isit them every day. 1t is not unusual
to see several families living in the same
casa for the reason that the grown-up
sons and daughters with their families
cannot be spared by the old folk to make
separate homes.
Into the realm Of sentiment the sedate
and matter of fact statistician obtrudes
himself, intent on dealing, through per-
centages, with matters which, one might
think, would be exempt from such pro-
sale consideration. says the PHILADELPHIA
Times The latest subject of statistical
inquiry are light and dark eyes. and as
the result of sundry responses to aues-
tons propounded in various countries and
duly authenticated, it has been discov
cred land not merely discovered, but also
proved that, taking the average of Eu-
rope and America, 44.6 is the percentage
of men having light eyes, including blue
and gray. The proportion of girls and
women having blue or gray eyes is bv
the same computation 3L2 per cent. In
other words, blue eyes are decidedly rarer
among women than among men, and IL is
FOR this reason perhaps that blue ewes.
especially in combination with blonde