The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

of $1.sO per head.
1t is estimated that over 100000 a
year are spent for manuring purposes in
the United States.
The first treasurer of Rush county.
Kansas, is said to have received $500 for
taking care of $500.
in the Argentine Republic a law for
the taxation of bachelors comes into force
on and after Jan. Is. 1898.
In the Russian village of vjalova there
is a peasant named Satov who claims to
be 1873 years old, and that his father lived
$50 years.
Tanner. handy, bender. cripple. don
ner, tester. tizzy. snid. sprat, are a few
of the names by which the Englishman
designates siX-penny- piece.
OF the 29S popes only eleven, includ-
ing Leo XII, have reigned more than
seventeen years. The longest reign was
that of Plus IX-thirty-two years.
BY the advice of doctor at Indianap-
oils, Ind, Nellie Logan was severely
whipped by her parents to take the devil
out of her. and she is now in a hospital
The most valuable collection of stamps
in Russia belongs to a Mr.. Breitfuss of
st. Petersburg. 1t is arrangedin over 100
volumes, and is valued at 100000 rubles.
There are only two women in the Unit
ed Kingdom who hold the degree of doc
tor of laws-Niss Frances Bray and DR..
Letitia Warrington, both of whom are
women.
st. Andrews University is about to
confer the degree of doctor of laws on
woman, Miss Sellers, the translator and
editor of several books on Greek art and
archaeology.
1t is said that there is scarcely a na-
ton upon earth which has not eating
places of its own in New York, with its
own viands and drinks, its own chatter
its own customs and subsidiary recrea-
tons"
The author of 1.-THE Fall of the Con-
go Arabs declares that, in spite of the
Belgian successes, civilization on the Con-
go has scarcely made the faintest begin
ming. In the Congo territories cannibalism
is prevalent to an extent unimagined in
the west.
Railway bridges are nowadays replace
ed in a very short time, but it is stated
that the Great Eastern of England holds
the record, as the servants of that COM
pany removed an old bridge over the Lea
south of Tottenham, and put up the new
one in nine hours.
--Germany's main Gretna Green is the
little island of Heligoland, where early
English laws of marriage prevail and
where there is no need of banns or other
preliminary ceremonies before the knot is
tied. Several hundred runaway couples
from the continent were married there last
year.
The present department store system
originated about forty years ago with
the great dry goods firm of Todd, Burns
& Co. of Dublin. When A. 7. Stewart
revisited Ireland, about 1861, he examined
the innovation closely and began to in
troduce some of the features in his New
York store
There is a tea that costs $175 pound.
1t is the pickings of the first tips Of the
blossoms. The annual output is estimat-
ed at 1900 pounds, valued at $2,100,000.
Very little of this tea has been known to
reach the United States, excepting a few
pounds placed upon exhibition at the
worlds fair.
An automatic singer was exhibited to
the editorial staff of a Paris newspaper.
The apparatus is in the form of a tripod,
on the top of which is machine smaller
than the photograph, into which the cy-
finders are put. The sound is transmitted
by highly perfected boards to a metallic
trumpet, and it is stated that the voice
can be heard 20 yards off.
The Shah has an exceedingly small
harem for an eastern monarch, says the
Cincinnati Enquirer. There are not above
sixty ladies, and he has four sons and
twenty-three daughters. The only occa-
sion any of the Shah's wives are are to
be seen is in the streets of Teheran, when
they pass in carriages When the ladies'
go out driving they are preceded by a
gang of farashes, who caper ahead on their
horses, shouting: GO and hide your
selves!" And all men have to scamper up
side streets or be thrashed.
-Metallurgic experts are examining Jap
anese ores, with a view to employing them
in making steel, but the investigations
have not as yet been encouraging, says
the Baltimore American. The largest de-
post is near Kamaishi, where several blast
furnaces are already at work, and expert
ments have been made with the black or
magnetic iron sand from which, it is said,
was made the very fine steel for which
Japan WAS ODCe nOltus Dul, III view OF the
barren results of recent experiments, this
tradition does not seem likely to be veri-
fed.
III. NJ. Brentey of Philadelphia has ap-
piled to the Mexican government for a re-
newal of the Topolobampo cooperative
colony. which was recently forfeited by
Col. owen, who made a complete failure
of his enterprise, says the Baltimore
American. Brently is follower of Bella
my's theories. and claims to have a large
amount of American capital back of his
enterprise, which, in addition to the es-
adjustment of the cooperative colony at
Topolobampo, embraces the building Of a
railway from that place to the city Of
Chihuahua, across the Sierra Madre noun
tains.
Salvador" says a citizen of that coun-
try, according to the Washington Post, lis
one of the richest countries in the world.
and one Of the most densely populated.
There are no people OF great fortune. like
the Nanderbilts and Astors, there. but a.
great many who have large estates that
yield handsome incomes. Coffee is of
course, the big industry. and the crop is
worth annually about 100000 in gold.
There is also a Ia rye arooupt 90 f.,ags. -.