The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The common great black cOrmOrant'
o. England IS the only bird. except hawks
and falcons. Which has been trained 20 as
sist man in tho capture Of living prey, 10
which ne IS especially adapted by sense.
memory and affection. The male bird IS
yard long. very strong and ne1Fy, rather
quaint than beautiful. whether flying,
diving or sitting on the rocks. The fossil
cOrmorant hardly differs from those which
are now fishing from the rocks u wnicn
their petr-led ancestors are embedded
The most remarkable Illustrated Bible
IN existence Is shortly 10 be published al
Amsterdam. in Dutch. English, German,
and French editions, says the New YORK
Times London cable The project has
been ripenlag for years, but large capt.
tai had 20 b. subscribed nrst, and nu1ner-
Gus contracts made. Everything is at last
ready for a start. The work VIII appear IN
twenty-five parts. each with four large
pictures. Burne-JOnes. Gerome, MorOt,
and TissOt viii do Genesis Iadema. tx
odus and Numbers; and Jean Paul Lau-
rens. Judges and Roth. To Sargent and
Israels will be iutrusted the story or Da-
| vid. Benjamin Constant viii supply three
pictures In Samuel and TWO IN the lie OF
Christ while Munkacsy has scenes sur
rounding the cruclhxion. Many other emf
nent French and German painters have
commissions. but Walter Crane, WHO does
| the cover and some pictures. is the only
other Englishman mentioned. Mcneil has
not vet entered the combination, but IL IS
| hoped that he VIII do so.
"A feathered tough met its death Gu
riOusly the other day at Kingsteignton
| South Devon. England. according to GeE-
| aid Waller. says the London Field Inc
| English cuckoo lays its eggs in the nests
| of other birds nearly after the fashion OF
| the American COW bird, so that the birds
| imposed upon bring up the cuckoo
| young along with its own. one cuckoo
ID HHa Of in fnH fln l-slr
| tails. or "dishWashers,' in clay pit near
| kingsteigntOn. and, as 1t seemed IN every
| way q favorable place to deposit one or
| her eggs, she started 10 enter the nest
| for that purpose. The nest was peculiar
| ~ situated between the Scotch FIR pole,
| which had the bark still on, and the wall.
| There was plenty of space Tor the pied
| Wagtalls, hut II was tight squeeze Tor
| the cuckoo. She got into the nest though,
| but there she found herself in trouble. She
| couldn't back out, because her feathers
| pointed the wrong way, and she couldn
| 90 forward. She was still alive when one
| of the workmen found her, but died az
| ter being eXtrlcatsd.
| "A statstician who has devoted many
/ weary hours 10 the subject has figured
| out that New Workers. consume S0,00O0 COO
| dozen eggs a year. 800 pounds of but
| ter a day, $4,000 gallons Of milk, $500 gal
] Ions of cream, and 200 gallons OF con-
| densed milk daily, including cheese, for
| which $1,000 90 a year is paid, the aggre-
| gate value of the dairy products consumed
| in New York city being S4.450,O00. He
| fixes the valuation Of meats of various
| kinds sold TO New Workers each year a
| amOut SjS00.0J0 This does not include
| poultry from 10000 to 100000 head of which
| are sold weekly. on conservative est-
! mate. he places the quantity of fish con-
/ stunned yearly at 100000 pounds, not
| including oysters. clans, crabs, and other
| shellhsh The quantities of prOvender al
| ways on hand the perishable goods being
/ I'M 100 lafatrf
| the food statistiCian to conclude that, were
| the metropolis cut off from all the points
| whence her food supplies are drawn, her
| people could live in plenty for four months,
| and even manage to get along for half
! a year without slaughtering the street car
| horses or making rat stew.
| Wilhelm Tappert, at present probably
| Germanys ablest musical critic, relates
that he has counted 224 pianos in the Ber-
| lin industrial exposition, of Which num-
| Der there were but % grands and 1875 up
| rights. He sadly comments upon the en-
| tire absence of squares. Looking back up
| on the beginnings of German music at its
| best, he claims that the serious thinker
| could not dream of a Mozart, Bach or
| Beethoven sitting either at a grand or at
| the modern upright All pictures giving
| authentic portraits of the great musical
| talents reproduce them seated before the
| now obsolete clavichord or square piano.
| Tappert thinks that the grand takes up too
| much Of a common piece of furniture TO
| allow of inspiration in one unsteady in
| Clined. For the sake of COMPOSERS and all
| such people in whom sentiment predomi-
| mates the manufacture Of square pianos
| should again be taken up. Another matter
! that he mentions is the variety of patent
| ed inventions Tor the purpose of recording
| pieces of music improVised upon the piano
| While the names differ the system re-
| mains almost always the same. There is a
musical composing machine, Paragraph
a photographic music recording machines
music writing apparatus and even a music
al note typewriter The one which is exhib-
tied by teacher of the name of Schmeil,
| of Madgeburg, is probably the most relia-
bic of all. One Of Berlin's most prominent
musicians played a chromatic scale stand
ing in front of the piano with the exact
| ness peculiar to him; the apDaratus
promptly registered this scale, and Schmeil
now exhibits the sheet Of paper upon which
it is recorded, proudly showing its perfec-
ton.
| Within a stones throw of Whitechapel.
says London Tit-Bits, surrounded by some
of the very worst slums, stands the larg-
est school in the world. 1t is presided
over by peer of the realm, Lord Roths-
child, who is regarded with love and ad-
mratlon by every pupil, for he is, indeed
their good fairy. This school educates
$500 children, belonging mostly to the
| poorest foreign Jews, and has a staff of
100 teachers. 1t is well known that this
Is Lord Rothschild's pet institution, and
| that were il not for his munifcent SIM
| its vast expenditure. 1t is owing to his
| generosity that free breakfasts are given
| every morning to all children who wish
to take them, no questions being asked
Again, he presents every boy with a suit
of clothes and a pair of boots and every
| girl with a dress and a pair of boots in
the month of April, near the Jewish
| Passover. An idea of the poverty of the
| children may be CLEANED from the fact
that not more than per cent of them
| decline to avail themselves of this char
| ity. second pair of boots is offered in
the month of October to every child whose
boots are not likely to last during the
| approaching winter. 1t is scarcely neces-
sary to state that few do not get them. A
very popular feature in the school is the
savings bank department, instituted by
the kindly president. In order to encour-
age habits of thrift he allows an interest
| OF 10 per cent per annum on all savings
the said savings not to exceed IS ia year.
| The teachers are also permitted to avail
! themselves of the benefits of this bank.
| the maximum savings allowed them being
| fl5 per annum. 1t remains to be mem
| toned that in pursuing this noble work