The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-22
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bands are allowed
Canada is wheeling into line with
law for carrying bicycles free as baggage.
The vote Of the wheelmen is getting to be
a factor
The ballots used by voters of Balti-
more in 1896 were destroyed recently. 1t
took four big furnaces an hour and
quarter to burn the 107 9S1 tickets.
"A Lewiston saloonIzeeper recently sat
on the grand jury upon his own case. No
indictment was found, although a legal
seizure of liquor had been made on his
premises.
years were necessary before a Michigan
man could buy two islands comprising five
acres from the government. The price
paid was $3.50.
Miss Mary c. Collins, the well-known
missionary to the Sioux Indians, thinks
that the slang word hobo for tramp
is of Indian origin, and instances several
cases of its use by the Sioux.
Mary HartweI Catherwood is one of
the most industrious of American authors
and is carrying on no fewer than four
books this summer at her charming sum-
mer home, on Mackinac Island.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe celebrated her
18th birthday in Boston last Thursday by
attending in the evening the Unitarian
festival in that city. She is just three
days younger than Queen Victoria.
Maj Forbes, who is experimenting
the construction of the African transcon-
tinental telegraph line, says that the Lake
Nyassa region will be in Geographic com
munication with London in a few months.
Wesleyan has united with Trinity Yale
and the leading preparatory schools in
Connecticut in the movement for sending
financial assistance to the Cretan refugees
and other sufferers from the war in East
ern Europe.
In the reign of William III of England
all child-steaIers apprehended were brand
ed with red-hot r, for rogue, on the
shoulders "A big M on the right hand
signified manslaughterer, while a T was
burned into the left hand for thief
"A man going to work on a bicycle and
carrying a hod over his shoulder on the
wheel was one of the funny sights on
Olneyville square, Providence, the other
day, and it illustrates the extent to which
the popular use Of the bicycle is reaching.
The widow of Prof. Charcot has re-
signed the annual pension of 1000 francs
which she received from the state in favor
of other widows and children of profess
sors of the faculty of medicine of Paris
who have died without leaving provision
for their survivors.
According to the latest reports from
the cotton growers of Texas there has
been an average increase in the cotton
acreage of that state this year of 81
per cent. over 1896, and an increase of 8
per cent in the corn acreage Wheat and
oats have been reduced.
The state of Washington, and, in fact,
the whole Pacific coast Is looking for
ward to an unusual number of tourists,
investors and hOme-seekers this year and
business is on the increase already. Ten
years ago there was a great influx of set
tiers, and it is expected that this years
will almost equal it.
Many of the patriotic Greeks who
went to Greece from this and other coun-
tries to fight against the Turks are in a
pidable condition. Not only is the gov
eminent unable to make any use of their
services, but in the present disturbed con-
dltion Of the country they can get moth
ing to do, and they are in actual want.
The most phenomenal occurrence was
at the corner of School and Medford
streets, where the cover of the manhole
was lifted up and carried from its posi-
ton. This was caused by the upward
pressure of the water in the manhole, the
water pouring down from the slopes of
Winter hill and eXerting a tremendous
lifting power as it filled the sewer and
the manhole, says the Somerville Journal
The iron cover which was displaced by
the water weighs 22O pounds. 1t was re-
covered by one of the employees of the
sewer department and put back into posi-
ton. Then he added his own weight to
the top Of it and held it there till the
storm abated Again on Wednesday even
ing the cover was fioated from it's position
by the upward force of the water.
The first beet sugar was made in .his
country In 1880. states Secretary of Agri-
culture Wilson, but it was not until 1872
that any considerable quantity was pro-
duced. In that year the total product was
about 500 tons. This was increased in 1879
to about 100 tons. Then followed a fall
ing on until 1888, when the production eX-
ceeded 800 tons; from that year down to
the present time there has been a steady
increase. Last year the total product of
beet sugar in this country was about 40,
900 tons. Wherever factories have been
established farmers have eagerly seized
the opportunity to raise and sell beets
ll,
and the yield is so great as TO bring
handsome returns for the labor of raising
the roots. The cultivation Of beets re-
quires care and conscientious farming. but
with proper attention this industry Is not
only profitable to the capitalist but the
farmers also shares the benefit, and I do
not know of crop which offers such sat
tsfactory returns. There are hundreds Of
communities all through the states where
beet culture can be carried on which are
anxious to engage in beet raising and I
am satisfied that II congress offers pro.
tective duties that the manufacture OF
beet sugar in this country will Increase
enormously within very short time"
simultaneously with the discovery OF
inscriptions near Hermosllo. Mex, which
prove the existence Of Chinese I'm Mexico
ZOO years ago, Information o. received |
from Australia concerning the reports Of !
IT, w. Christian Of the pOIynoslau society. !
who has returned TO sydney after an ex- |
tended tour Of the southern seas and IN
The Caroline group. says the Springfield |
republican. Mr.. Christian has discovered |
extensive traces OF Chinese and Japap- |
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