The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1t is estimated that 25O,OOO bicycles are
owned in New York city. and as the ma
jority Of them are medium grade wheels
it is supposed that they represent an mi
tial cost Of about $l5.000OOO
The omnibuses of enc London COM
pany covered just about 100000 miles
in the course of a year, the distance suf-
icient to take them nearly three times
around the world every day
The tax valuation of Mrs. Hetty
Green's property in the town of Lake, ILL.,,
has been increased from $500 to $3.50 an
acre because the crop of cabbages grown
upon it is considered a nuisance.
--Italy's exports for the first four
while her imports were 379, 794, 1870 francs
This is the first time in twenty-six years
that the exports exceeded the imports.
The gold production of 1897 is likely to
exceed that of 1896, which was the largest
in the history of the world. Advices from
Ecuador show that mines being developed
there are reported richer and more extern
sive than those of South Africa, where
such enormous quantities of gold have re-
Gently been produced.
There is always something which may
be planted or sown in the garden to good
profit. Beets and carrots sown now will
make good fall and winter crop says
the Boston Transcript. Lettuce must be
continually SoWn to insure a constant sup
ply of good heads. AS the weather gets
warmer it becomes more difficult to start
it out of doors. and many people resort to
boxes In the cellar windows or other cool
er atmoSphereS favorable 70 this moisture
loving Plant. By watering the earth thor
oughly, however, about twenty-four hours
beforehand, and keeping the row covered
or shaded by boards for few days and
consequently delaying the drying out pro-
cess, fresh seed can often be made to ger
inmate in the open air even in very hot
weather, and these plants, if left undis-
turbed, except for thinning, will give a
better percentage of heads than those
which are transplanted during the heated
months, in which the tendency to run up
to seed instead of heading is strong.
1T Is a kindness, as well as a pleasure,
to Gagged birds to feed them peppergrass
and chickweed occasionally" said a bird
dealer to a Washington Star reporter 1T
is something they need, as 1t rests them
up from the various seeds which are fed
them. Canaries are specially fond of pep
pergrass, and it does them good. There is
no difficulty in finding it in the lawns or
ever made to any one pulling a few
branches. Chickweed grows best in shady
protected places, and can be found in
abundance. The white clover is also
much relished by birds, though the red
clover is better, but the latter is not so
plenty except in the larger parks. The
truth is, any kind of the grasses now, as
they are in seed, is good food for Gagged
birds. A bird can be depended upon to
eat more than it should eat, for there Is
hardly such a thing as overlooking them.
They know their limit, and they enjoy be-
ing kept up to it, as change from the
usual seeds"
Through the blunder of some unknown
person, committed years ago, a glazing
piece of inexcusably poor spelling is still
on view in the finance committee room in
the city han, and is the subject of much
unfavorable comment by historical schol
ars, says the Philadelphia Record. The
portrait of the Rev. Henry Augustus Muh-
lenberg hung for many years in Independ-
ence hall as a tribute to the preacher-pa-
triots' services during the revolution, with
his name beneath it spelled "Henery Muh-
lenberg." The same egregious errors are
now visible in the city hail. The Rev.
Henry Augustus Muhlenberg was one of
the first Lutheran ministers in this coun-
try. On one occasion he carried a gun
into his pulpit at Reading and at the con-
clusion of the services invited his male
parishioners to follow him to Valley
Forge, which they did DR.. Muhlenberg
was also the first speaker of the House
of Representatives of the United States
after the constitution was adopted in 1888
and his name is at least worthy of suffi-
ctent remembrance to be spelled correctly.
The late DR.. julius Won Sachs, whose
death has been recently announced, was
by far the greatest botanist of the CEN
tury and may be known hereafter as
the greatest of all time. He was the col
league at Wurzburg of Roentgen, the ex-
positor of the famous ''X' ray. Charles
r. Bessey says of Sachs that his infiu-
ence upon Botany has been greater than
that of any other botanist of recent
times" Hubert NJ. Skinner has remarked
that the great doctor made Wurzburg the
capital of the vegetable kingdom. 1t has
been the work of Sachs to change radi-
cally the mode of botanical teaching
throughout the world. He developed the
science of plant physiology and studied
the real life of the plant. He oVercame
the old-time contempt for the lower forms
of life and developed his teaching, in true
scientific order, from such forms. He sub
stituted natural groups" for the old pri-
mary classification of plants, AS the his
torian of botany Sachs proved a most
charming narrator and a man Of chfyal-
rous instincts. The picture above is taken
from photograph presented by DR.. Sachs
to Hubert VI. Skinner Of this city a few
years ago. 1t represents the doctor in his
favorite corner in his study in the Univer-
sity of Wurzburg, where he had worked
since 1863.
Seventeen distinguished native princes
from India attended the queens jubilee
and many of them were given titles and
decorations by Victoria. says the Chicago
Times-Herald. These princes were a most
interesting feature of the Jubilee. Their
oriental dress and cast of face, their lofty
bearing and the great power they repre-
scented made them the center of all eyes
wherever they went. Among thin was the
Maharaja Dhiraj Sir Partab Singh, Ba-
hadur OF Jodhpur. He is a colonel In the
native army, an aid to the Prince of
Wales and a great reformer In his prin-
oipality. Another conspicuous figure was
Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, who is an Eng
lish baronct, the third OF his line. He is a
Parsee. Among the decorations granted
by the queen TO the princes are the fol-
lowing: Sir Phartab Singh Bahadur was
given the grand cross OF the Most Exalt-