The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

-4NO Dtd VI prey mas lle SlIt OF song.
There is a macadamized road in India
1900 miles in length.
London has 1,0OO firemen, Paris has
1900 New York has l, 100.
"A well-constructed brick house will
outlast one built of granite.
There are more muscles in the tail of
rat than in a human hand.
"A family of tailess kittens is the ex-
element at West Franklin. Me.
A Tunkhannock strawberry grower
picked $500 quarts from his fields the 9TH
er day.
"A while of fifty tons weight exersts 145
horse power in swimming twelve miles
an hour.
The value of the cattle in Western
America is estimated at $2,OOO.OOO,OOO, or
five times that of all the cattle in Austria
liza.
In the town hall at Sydney. Australia
is built the largest pipe organ in the
world. 1t has five manuals and pedals and
146 stops.
A boy who recently died at the age of
1S, in India, from excessive smoking, had
consumed in the past five years $1,000
cigarettes.
AT Blenheim palace, the home of the
Duke of Marlborough, there are said to
be twenty staircases leading from the
main floor to the second.
The future of Washington, D. c., con-
tinues to grow darker. The latest census
reveals the presence of $1,000 negroes in a
total population of 277.OO0.
Between 1873 and 1881, in single Ro-
man village district, 797 heads of families
in population of 1900 families were fog
ged for not paying their taxes.
The electric railway in Cairo, Egypt,
is about twenty miles long. More than
600 miles of American iron and copper
wire have been used for this line.
The Indian population of the Domin-
ion of Canada is said to be 122.0G0. of
whom about $500 are Roman Catholics
and the same number Protestants.
The slaughter of Holsters art Prince
Edwards Island is something astounding.
There were exported the past season 81, 600
cases, mostly TO Europe, which involved
the killing Of 35,0OO,0O0
There are ia female students at the
University of Berlin this summer, the
number last summer having been only
49, The total number of students is 4,705
or Sc more than last summer.
-Croquet seems to be really taking
hold again in England. They are playing
the game more this season than they did
last, and important matches are an
nounced to take place almost daily for the
next two months.
The public schools in Baltimore, VT,
the smallest town in the United States,
have closed for the summer vacations.
During the term of ten weeks, which has
just closed. the whole number of pupils
enrolled was twelve.
Insanity is increasing in Ireland. Eng
lish statisticians say that one serious
cause of lunacy is the abuse of tea, an
other an over-indulgence in alcohol,
third the disappointment of having tried
emigration and failed.
A Rhode Island man is going into
the wishbone business. He will buy the
magic little bones from firms that Fell
canned chicken and then dispose of them
and sentimental purposes.
One would scarcely expect to find BIZ
cycles and a bicycle club in the heart of
Africa and 500 miles away from any rail-
road. One club in Buluwayo Matabele-
land, South Africa, is in a fiourishing con-
ditlon, having twenty-five members.
The fire loss in the United States and
Canada. according to the New York Jour
nal of Commerce, has amounted to $57,-
$40, 45O during the first half year. against a
loss of S63 959, $50 in the same time last
year. and over $66,OOO0OO in the first six
months OF 1895,
An old willow in New Haven, near the
harbor front. which has been cut down
this week. had a historic interest because
of a tradition that under its branches
Benedict Arnold marshaled the first New
Haven company that enlisted in the rev.
dictionary war.
Suit for breach of promise was brought
against Frank Robinson of Anderson, Ind.
the day after his marriage to Malinda
Personet, by his first wife, from whom
he mad been divorced a year before. She
sued for 5000, alleging that after the d.
vorce he had wooed and won her again.
Upon the Kaufman farm, in Spring
field township, Bucks county. Pennsyl-
vania, is a rose tree of the crimson RAM
bier variety which is noted for it's re-
markable growth and abundance of flow,
ers. 1t bears a beautiful crimson flower,
and last year had $3.50 blossoms and buds.
"A candidate for the postmastership at
Waldoboro. Ne, owns 625 hens and chick
ems. and urges as one claim for the DO.
sltion that a man that can manage a big
flock of hens successfully is equal to any
public trust. The man experienced IN hen
culture VIII appreciate the force of his
argument.
Hamilton Aide correets. In the last
Fortnightly Review, the impression that
Corsica Is full Of bandits. Murder Is not
uncommon from love quarrels or the ven.
delta, but a traveller may 20 from ono
end OF the island to the other, unarmed
and unescorted. without fear OF violence
or piilage.
1t will surprise many to hear that the
British army in Australasia. including Aus
tralia, Tasmania and New England, Is
force OF $4,000 men. Relatively 10 wealth