The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The woman's exposition of the Caro-
llnas, now in progress at Charlotte, ".
e, Is the most popular fair ever held in
that neighborhood and is drawing visi-
tors from all over the south. This is the
more remarkable when it is remembered
that 1t has the Nashville centennial to
contend with.
At Joplin. Mo, a drunken man fell
down mine shaft 20 feet on a Saturday
ana lay there nearly twenty-four hours
before he was discovered. Beyond a few
slight bruises he was not hurt On the
following Monday another miner. sober,
fell 20 feet down a shaft at the same place
and died in half an hour
In Jewell county, Kansas, when a
Judge before whom father had brought
his 1S-year-old daughter on a charge of
insanity, found that the fathers real OBJ
ject in the proceedings was to prevent her
from marrying the young man of her
choice, he called the lover, who was among
the spectators, and performed the mar
riage forthwith.
-Neah Bay Indians returned Saturday
from their most successful hunt In recent
years, says the ST. Louis Globe Demo
crat Thursday night fifty Indians, In six
canoes, camped on Cape Flattcry, start
ing Friday morning for whaling grounds
fifteen miles off in the Pacific ocean They
were rewarded by sighting Immediately
school of between fifty and sixty big gray
whales, travelling southwark. The party
divided into three crews of two canoes
each. Each crew singled out big whale,
and the battle began in earnest. The
whales believing frightened the balance
of the school, which kept some distance
apart. All the canoes were overturned,
part of them several times by the whales
coming under them and the struggling of
the whales while towing the boats, which
were fastened to harpoons and spears.
Neah Bay Indians are at home in water,
and none was drowned. Two boats were
towed over five miles by the largest whale,
and it took six hours hard work to finish
him. The tug Holyoke, whose crew had
watched the operations, was engaged to
tow the whale and canoes to Neah Bay,
arriving Saturday morning. The entire
population of 400 Indians met the returning
party. They first took off
the thick black skin, and
then, with hatchets, axes and saws,
fell to work stripping off the blubber. BY
night only the whales bones remained.
The tribe has enough oil to last year.
and the government will be saved consid-
cradle expense for food.
The possibility of war between Eng
land and America, the two great Eng
disappearing, civilized and civilizing pow
ers of the world. is certainly regarded on
this side Of the Atlantic and probably on
both, as infinitely remote says the North
American Review. During the hight of
the so-called Venezuelan crisis, a little
more than year ago, nothing was more
remarkable than the calm and pacific tone
in relation thereto shown by the English
people and the English press, in sharp
contrast TO the belligerent attitude to say
nothing of the commission of a flying
squadron, evoked by the now historic tel
egram of the German emperor. All this
is now ancient history. But the difference
in feeling was clear an unmistakable Ev-
cry Engl!shman believes in the unfortu-
nate possibility of an Anglo European
war. No Englishman believes in the real
possibility of an Anglo-American war
The two countries are united by ties Of
blood, religion and language. They have
vast financial and commercial relations.
They would, in the event of war-what-
ever its result-inf1ict on one another in
calculaole damage and loss. They have
no conflicting interests territorial or 9th
erwise-Canada not xcepted-sufficient to
justify such an international calamity
All these circumstances should combine
to render such an event impossible These
considerations directly affect my argu-
ment. Half the exports from the United
states to England are, in fact, breadstuffs
and of this commodity alone these ex-
ports supply more than one-third of our
yearly national consumption. To deprive
American wheat producers and grain ship
pers of their most valuable market would
infict material injury on American pros
perity. Let US suppose that a combina-
ton of European powers against England
declared food to be contraband of war
Such declaration of international law
has generally been opposed to American
policy on general international grounds.
For the special reasons mentioned above.
and again to quote Mr.. Balfour this tho
Orptirql Sfo ba
ed by the strongest motives of personal
interest" At the same time, il NAV be
remarked that Uncle Sam would hardly
declare war to enforce this view except
for his own hand.
Three years ago the Morning Adver-
tiser of London celebrated the Tooth year
Of its existence, says the Baltimore Ameri-
can. The Morning Advertiser was started
in 1874 by a society of London licensed
victuallers, its primary object being to
raise tund FOR the relief Of their de-
cayed and distressed brethren and their
families" and each member pledged him.
self TO take the paper This arrangement
made the paper more than self-supporting
from its birth. Al the time Of the cele-
bration, three years ago, a computation
showed that there were at that time no
fewer than seventy-nine newspapers ia
Great Britain which had passed the cen
was the Post, estab Ahed in 1772-more
than twenty years befoN the Advertiser
which boasts of being the Oldest daily
paper In that city. The Times first made
It's appearance in 1855, the Standard in
lSzl, the News in 1916, and the Telegraph
In 1855. Though England has a larger mum.
Der OF lOO-year-cdd papers than any other
European country, il has fewer very old
papers than the republic of France. The
Gazette. of Paris, was established in 1899.
and the Moniteur and journal des Debats
IN lI@, during the French revolution. or.
rather at the beginning OF It. on this
continent the publication OF newspapers
Is generally admitted to have begun with
the Boston News Letter. on April a. l7Ol.
In 1913 the Boston Gazette was started.
as rival TO the News Letter. The New
England Courant appeared IN 1921 and IN
1872 the Rhode Island Gazette. on oct.
10, lf20, the first newspaper In New York
city, the Gazette, was started, ana 1870
the Weekly Journal came out. In England
the general rule IL the older the paper
the larger It's Influence and the greater
the circulation, whereas In the United
States. though IL raunof 10 nafd th.t -.