The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


an electric plant, according to plans drawn
by Prof Schoentges of Client. All
streets, alleys and private roads, all pub
lie and pricate buildings are lighted by
electricity. The great dairy works of the
village are worked by electricity. For all
this each householder pays only 10 francs
ls5.SO per year.
The London hospitals treat about $1,000
in-patients and about 10000 out-patients
every year. This does not include the large
number OF out-patients who are treat
ed in the free dispensaries. Besides the
n1nety-two voluntary hospitals in Lon
don, there are thirty-nine charitable dis
pensaries, and these in 1893 dealt with
2O5, 1873 new cases. Further, there are in
London twenty-six Poor Law inhrmarles
which deal with about l0500 patients
daily, apart from the inmates in the sick
wards of warehouses;; and in the course
ordinary and midwifery" medical or
ders are issued in connection with forty
four poor law dispensaries.
The city authorities of Chicago have
issued permit for the building of a gos-
pei ship in that city. 1t will be church
in the form of ship, with masts, rigging
and smokestack. Its promoters nave Sc
cured the lease of a lot on Carroll ave-
nue. for its site. The cost is 5000. or Wnlch
the greater part has been Pledged. The
auditorium will seat 800. The idea OF
ship will be carried out by having smoke
from the smokestack during services and
the presence of a corps of naval cadets
and a naval band. The sensational meth
DDS are simply to attract the people. Serv-
ices will be held every evening, and the
ship will be open at all hours. 1t Will be
ready to san" about Jan. l.
The New York Tribune quotes Pari-
sian scientist: I'm 1895 England imported
1850, 1000 600 eggs. for which was paid about
from France During the same year
Germany imported 20,O00,000 pounds OF
eggs, also representing about $20,OOO0OO
Most of these eggs came from Russia and
Austria Hungary. Of all European coun-
tries Russia has made the greatest ad-
vance in expectation. In 1880 she export
ed only II, 0G0,000 but in 1895 the number
rose to 1850, 0O0, 900, representing value of
$10200,000. singular fact in connection
with these statistics is that in those
countries which are the greatest expor-
ters of eggs the omelet is the favorite
DISH
-Gray's immortal "Elegy in a Country
Churchyard" occupied him for seven years.
The noted poem, 1.-THE Falls of Niagara"
was written in fifteen minutes by j.; G. C.
Barnard, in response to call for copy
on the paper he was editing at the time
gested to Samuel Woodwork in a bar
room. Bryant wrote "Thanatopsis" while
in the forest. Gen. Lyle composed the
splendid Anthony and Cleopatra" the
night before his death. Thomas Moore
became an accomplished Oriental scholar
while reading up in Greek. and Persian
literature before writing ''La.la Rookh."
Poe first thought of The Bells while
walking the streets of Baltimore one win
ters night.
Reference last weke to the famous
pirate Queen of Ireland, says the Pitts
burg Dispatch, recalls another celebrated
female corsair in the person of the noto-
rious Jane de Belleville, who fourished
in the fourteenth century. She was a
Frenchwoman who turned traitor against
hercountry after her husbands death at
the hands of his countrymen because OF
his having secret dealings with the Eng
fish. Jane de Belleville cruised about the
shores Of Normandy, attacking every
also landed and laid waste the country
for miles. She has been pictured with
sword in one hand and torch in the other
gloattng over the ruin of the villages she
had ravaged.
The most unique decoration for brav-
cry is that bestowed by the French Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
upon deserving dogs, says the New York
Journal. 1t consists of a tastefully des gn-
ed I'coiar of honor" Among the animals
most celebrated is Bacchus, a large dull
dog, whose speciality is to stop runaway
horses by jumping up and Selling them by
the bride. 1t is calculated that the intel
ligent animal has already saved the lives
of eight persons in this way. Pautland
another bulldog, received a collar in 1887
a tramp; and Turk, a Newfoundland has
had a similar honor for saving three chill
dren from drowning.
The Columbus QAiss) Commercial tells
of a remarkable old negro living twelve
miles east of that place named Richard
Franks. From good authority, says
the Commercial. I'VE learn that the old
man, who is now 65 years old, is the father
of thirty-one children, twenty-seven of
whom are still living. His first wife borc
ten and his present wife tWenty-one His
last child, which is a boy was born soon
after Cleveland was inaugurated President
the second time, and is named Grover
Cleveland in honor of the President. The
old man has sixty-four grandchildren and
two great-grandchildren, and he is as
proud of them as most people are with
plenty of money Richard is an intelli-
gent, good old-fashioned country negro
and has the esteem of all who know him"
Ever since the defeat of Gen. Baratieri
the Italian journals have praised the way
in which Menelek has treated the 1900
prisoners that were quartered in the diff
ferent towns of Abyssinia. Now that the
treaty of peace has been signed and these
prisoners have been informed that they
are soon to be transported to Italy, many
are sad to have signified their desire of
remaining in the country of the Negus.
The Italian minister of war, according to
the Don Mario of Naples, has received
petitions from over 100 soldiers in Abys-
sinta requesting that they be permitted to
guilty of desertion from the army. They
assert that they have neither family nor
home in Italy, nor any prospect of better
ing their fortunes If they return; in Shoa
| they have found occupation at their Vari-
Gus callings The minister is disposed to
grant their request, but, for fear of popu-
lar feeling in Italy, he has not yet done so.
The Aberdeen system of electing a
lord rector is a curiosity of voting. says
the London Daily News. 1t is relic of
the medieval system of Paris-long since
| abandoned by the Parisians themselves,
| and greatly modified by the other Scotch
| universities. For the purposes of voting
| all the undergraduates are divided into
four nations, this, of course, being a
meaningless remnant of the medieval
system by which the students of different
nationalities elected as chairman a rector
| to defend their rights against civic inter-
ference. There are four nations at Aber-
| deem. Mar, Buchan and Moray represent
| students born north of the Grampians.
Angus stands for the rest of the worldl
| On the voting day each nation is locked
| up in a room by itse.f. But the students
| at Aberdeen do not give a direct vote for
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