The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-14
ITEsIs OF INTEREST.

/ soldiers. waited for the shah in the same
I place that his assassin did They were
there 10 present q petition asking that
claim Tor back pay, due them for a long
I l-Ines De settled. The shah was furious
| az tle liberty and ordered the men killed
on the spot This was done, after they
nad nrst been hideOusly tortured Poetic
Justice coincidence or whatever you may
call IT, chose this spot as the one upon
which the ruler himself was TO receive his
punishment for such an act OF barbarity-
The department Of agriculture, fores-
/ try division. at Washington. has a c0llec-
| ton Of rare trees and plants only second
| 70 mat belonging to the famed Kew Gar
| dens, London, says the Pittsburg Dispatch.
/ A recent addition TO this neurological mu-
scum IS a .lace-bark tree" from Jamaica
Inc inner bark OF this queer tree is com
| posed OF many layers Of fine and intricate
| ~ woven nbers which lnterlock with each
other in all directions. Caps, rufiies and
! even complete suits OF this curious Vege-
table lace have been made. Il bears wash
ing with common laundry soap. and when
| bleached m the sun acquires a degree of
Wniteness seldom eXceHed by artificial
faces made OF cotton, linen and silk. The
intricate web Of this unique bark makes
IL compare faVOrably TO the last mention
ed productions for both beauty and dura-
DLIty. ~ Is 10 De sincerely hoped that the
| agricultural department. Will see that the
Jamaica lace tree is introduced into the
United States.
The German emperor is very fond of
practical joking, not always of very
amiable kind. The emperor, on his yacht.
recently, steamed ahead of the police
boats and landed to open the Berlin In
dustrlal exhibition, a full ten minutes be-
tore the time, the consequence being that
neither Prince Friedrich-Leopold nor the
honorary president. Herr Won Beilepsch,
was there to receive him. At the opening
ceremony the emperor was plainly very
Inuch dspleased and would not Gcign to
10 more than nod when asked if the eX-
hlbltIOn might be opened. Another prac-
teal joke was still more unpleasant. Late
Z cd gQ4f ut N1fofa dom
went up to the sentinels and dismissed
them all quite silently, so that no one
/ heard. and then went to the sentry house,
Wnere, naturally. poor young lieutenant,
between the turning out of the guard, was
dOzlng. Suddenly he aWOke to find the
| emperor standing before him. who said,
call out your guard and, looking round,
| the officer saw they had all fled. His feel
| ings can be imagined.
Frank Weitman of this city. says the
San Francisco Call, has undertaken n
novel commission in Central America. He
! claimed a few days ago that it was the
/ first of its kind in the whole wide world
and some of his friends-competitors in
! tact-were anxious to know how it would
| all end. Mr. Weitman sailed from this
| port on the City of Sydney Thursday. His
/ destination was Guatemala City, and his
/ mission the fUlhllment of a contract with
| the Guatemalan government to cover the
| roof of the capitol with aluminium. He
| is metal worker, possessed of exception
/ al skill in the treatment and handling of
metals. Recently he was connected with
/ prominent firm in Oakland, but If his
/ commission from the Central American
| government be managed successfully. it
| is said he viii never be compelled to work
| as tradesman again. The work of COW
| ering the roof of the Guatemalan house
| of congress is said to be stupendous. 1t
Will take from eight months to year,
! with large force of men working late
| and early. to complete the covering, and
when finished ii will be the only roof Of
/ its kind in existence. There is more than
| one reason for this aluminium roof. First
| of all. the soft-toned white metal is ex-
/ pected to preserve It's color, and conse-
| quently be highly ornamental and impos-
| ing. Again, its lightness has entered
! largely into the consideration of the arch
/ fleets. as the roof itself is immense, and
! the spans of more than ordinary extent.
| 1t will be a year at least before Mr.. Welt
| man returns to tell of the experiment.
1t is not generally known, says the Bal
| timore Sun, that the snuff used by the
| head of the Roman Catholic church is
| made especially for his use in Baltimore.
This particular snuff goes direct from pro-
sac canton to the sacred precincts of the
| vatican. 1t is the highest priced snuff
made anywhere in the world and its
| value is increased several times above the
| original cost after the customs duty has
| been paid TO the Italian government. The
| snuff for the Prince of Rome is manu-
| factured from the pick of the finest V!r-
ginia and Kentucky tobacco. Before 1t is
! packed the SNUFF is Favored with the cost
| ly altar of roses One hundred pounds
were first ordered for the Vatican This
| was packed in One-pound and fiVe-pound
| jars, each jar being placed in a leather
case lined with cardinal satin. The Jars
were OF the same color and each was tied
! WIN cardinal ribbon. In honor of Cardinal
Gibbons, whom the Baltimore firm secur-
ed its first order the snuff was called
Cardinal Snuff" 1t is supposed that the
| nVe-pound jars found a resting-place in
the private apartments of his holiness
Inc one-pound jars were used as presents
from the pope to various cardinals and to
nj Of -.@I Tr.1
ttnore sneeze. The Rev. John p. Farrelley
| Of the American college al Rome appears
TO have been numbered among the latter,
ana must nave pinched of the pope's snuff
for the Baltimore makers recently receiv-
ed an order from Father Farrelley for
some of the snuff his holiness uses - This
order has been filed. Pope Plus TX. was a
snuff-taker, too, and Baltimore enjoyed
the distinction of making his snuff.
The third strike that ever occurred
in Japan, says the Chicago Record. took
place in a schoolhouse in the early part
of April and has created a great deal of
excitement throughout the empire where
the people above those of every other ra &c
have been famous for their submission
to the authorities and their obedience of
the law OIL the land. This chara cteristic
has been inherited from generations for
twenty-five centuries until it is a part OF
the religion Of the country; but modern
ideas have filtered through and have
taken possession of the precocious part
OF the people. The students in the nor
NAL school at Tokushima having become
| dissatisfied with their director struck and
submitted to the governor of the province
a memoranda setting forth thirteen points
of complaint against him, the principal
ones being incompetence, negligence, in,
difference to sanitary regulation and de-
fective methods. The governor expostJ-
lated with them and requested them TO
resume their studies, promising to for
ward their complaints to the minister of
education who has the power of appoint
ment and removal. But the boys declined
to return to their studies as long as the
objectional director was in charge, where
upon the governor expelled sixty of them
for INSTRUMENTATION. The remainder
agreed to yield, and went back to their
books. Although the strike was a failure.
it served a useful purpose in calling the
attention of the government to the in
competency of several of the principals
of the normal schools and in impressine
the public with the development of an
independence and audacious spirit among
the coming generation which has not pre-
viOuSly appeared.
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