The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST,".

Ad-AAOduo west OI the A4lSSOuTl
have agreed to give free transportation to
fifty carloads of grain. which Iowa is CO.
ing to send to India.
During the last twenty-five years
about 800 monuments to distinguished per-
sons. have been erected in France and 127
committees are now collecting money for
more.
The old Washington Hall in Durham,
which is supposed by some to have been
the seat of George Washingtons ances-
tors, has been bought by an American
for only 5000. 1t is described as pic
turesque and full of rheumatism"
Only six of the states of the union In
dulge in the luxury of annual sessions of
the legislature, as follows: Georgia, Mas
sachusetts, New York, Rhode Island and
South Carolina. 1t is interesting to note
that these staes belonged to the original
thirteen.
Though an order in council has recent
ly been issued permitting Archbishops of
Canterbury to be buried in the crypt of
the cathedral the late Archbishop Ben
sons family refuse to allow his body to
be placed there, as they cannot have it
buried in "Becket's Crown"
According to a cycling journal, the
state of Missouri spent 100000 for super
visors in 1885, to oversee road work, the
cost of which in itself was only $4,000;
or, in other words an expense of more
than $1,000.OO0 was involved in getting less
than 100000 worth of work done.
"A Yorkshire vicar who quarrelled with
the squire of the parish has been put IN
der boycott by the latter He can obtain
neither food nor lodging in the village,
the shopkeepers refuse to sell him their
wares and he is obliged to clean and care
for the church with his own hands.
"A new train is being built by the Great
Western Railway Company for the spec
ial use of the queen. The doors will be
unusually wide, so that three persons
may enter abreast, and the carriage floors
will be level with the platform, in order
to obviate the necessity for using steps.
Recent experiments by the curious at
Portland Ore, have revived recollections
of a primitive light used in the early days
of the settlements along the Columbia
river, when the residents called smelts
candlefish. The dried smells burn as well
as candles and give off an appetizing
odor.
THE Il, 10000 Americans drink 1880 626.-
165 gallons--a per capita consumption of
fifteen gallons; the 100000 Brltishers
drank !, 219, 136. 400 gallons--a per capita con-
sumption of thirty-two gallons. The Brit
ishers therefore, says the New Orleans
Picayune, are entitled to be considered the
bibulous division of the Anglo-Saxon race.
"A canny Scot has devised a plan for
mixing or blending spirits. especially
when under seal in bond, which imparts
an ageing effect equal to a sea-voyage
around the globe, says the Philadelphia
Record. A pump fitted on the vat cover
is provided with a suction pipe having
one or more branches, and with discharge
pipes terminating in rose, and facing
each other so that the streams meet and
impinge upon each other.
in a device to impair the force of col
lisions at sea, a pair of Orders pivoted
on the bow carry at their outer extremi-
ties rollers mounted in brackets, which
are strengthened by horizontal links at
the extremity of the bow, so that in case
of collision the force of the impact would
be greatly broken and the damage to the
vessels reduced The apparatus can be
used at night or in foggy weather, and
when not needed is folded down against
the hull.
Probably few Americans even have any
conception of the immense number of oys-
ters shipped to England. which is the sole
market for American bivalves, as France
rears her own, and the German duty of
$16 per barrel is rather too steep to allow
any margin for profit, says the Philadel-
phia Record Hundreds of thousands of
barrels are received yearly in England,
many of which are transplanted for a few
months, when they are taken up for the
summer trade. Norfolk, Baltimore and
other points ship large quantities, and the
Connecticut trade is also large one firm
alone shipping about 1000 barrels yearly.
The case of burial long delayed has
recently come to light at Revel, a Rus
sian town, near the Gulf of Finland. The
body thus tardily inferred was that OF
Belgian soldier of fortune, the Due Charles
de Croy, who had been commander-in-
chief of the Russian army al the historic
battle of Narva in 100. Made prisoner
during the fight De Croy took up his resi-
dence at Revel, where he died in the course
of events; his creditors demurred to his
burial, however, until his debts were paid.
So the soldier mummified and his remains
have stayed ever since in a church, where
they have been exhibited to visitors as a
curiosity. Now, at last, amid such pomp
as was to be found among the local au-
thorities, he has been given fitting coffin
and properly inferred in one of the vaults
of the church.
John Wahrman, 9-year-old son of John
Wahrman, farmer living 10 miles south
east of Kansas City, and one mile from
Union Point school house, met death in a
peculiar manner on Saturday afternoon,
says the Kansas City Times. The lad was
out in the field with his father and started
off with a dog to hunt rabbits. He did not
return. Late Saturday night party was
organized and a search of the surrounding
country instituted. About 10 O'clock Sun
day morning the boys body was found
tightly wedged in grounding hole. The
circumstances indicated that the boy was
in pursuit of a rabbit. which took refuge
in the groundhogs burrow. and in his
efforts to get at the game the boy got his
body securely wedged in the hole, shut
ting off the air The remains were inferred
Monday in Charles Gamers private bu-
rial grounds.
1t has been prophesied. says the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat. that at no very
distant date It will be possible to dissipate
the thickest fog by a charge of electricity,
and that the atmosphere Of smoky cities
will by the same means be kept clear and
bright on a small scale. a modification
Of the principle, has already been applied
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