The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Statistics show that more candy is sold
IN New York, Chicago and Philadelphia
alone than in the whole of France, which
IS the greatest candy producer of Europe
In the United States there are more than
1850 candy factories with a total capi-
tai exceeding $10000OOO and employing l6.-
Oo workmen. The annual outlay Tor
raw material and wages is said to ex-
coed So, 100000
The towns of Woodsdale. Moscow.
Springfield and Fargo, in Kansas, which
had population of 100 in 1880. have now
only a population of eighteen, according
to correspondent of the United States
Investor. Hugoton has three families out
or the 400 that used to live there. Nine
children go to the $4,000 school house
and there is standing, like monument of
folly, a waterworks system that cost
some eastern plutocrat $4,000. The town
never paid a cent of principal or interest
on all this and never will
w. H. Johnson of Hickory, Pa, says
the New York Press, is the owner of
large Maltese cat that has made a repu,
tation as a snake hunter. She is not
afraid to tackle the largest snake, and
nearly always comes out victorious. The
cat makes regular trips around the farm
in search of snakes and apparently en-
joys the sport. A few days ago she found
a large garter snake and jumped on its
back. A sharp fight took place. in which
the cat won. The snake was nearly biz
ten to pieces by the cat. Johnson says
that the animal has killed at least .tweu-
ty-five snakes this spring.
-Railroaders on the Beech Creek line,
between Williamsport and Lock Haven,
have been frightened by a ghostly figure
that flags the midnight express at a lone
ly gorge in the Alleghanies, says the AL
boora, Pa, correspondent of the New York
Sun. The trainmen say that when the
express is far down the road red lantern
swung by an unseen hand, can be seen
swinging across the tracks; but before
the train reaches that point, lantern and
dagman disappear. Waterman have been
placed there, but the ghostly Waterman
swings his lantern just above or below the
place where the guard is stationed. The
railroaders regard the appearance of the
ghostly lantern a token of fatal wreck
to the crew that sees it,
There are to be elaborate ceremonies
at Salt Lake City on July 20 in honor Of
the arrival, just fifty years ago, of the
first white settler in what is now Utah,
says the New York Times. Naturally the
celebration will be rather in the nature
of a Mormon jubilee, and Latter-day
SAINTS Will De very i'll IL Dut
Normonism isn't a particularly terrible
thing, now that it's peculiar institution
has been more or less completely aban-
doned, and as there is really stupendous
amount of material progress in which to
take pride, the resident Gentiles will unite
cordially in the festivities. President Nc
Kinley has been invited to be present, and
is disposed to accept if congress ends its
session in time to make his lengthy alb
Sence from Washington practicable The
request for his presence ends with these
words, horidly eloquent, indeed, but true
enough, for all that: THE story will be
told of how the frown of desolation was
chased away, how the smile of civilization
was warmed to Utah. how, a the miners
summons, the sterile mountains opened
their adamantine doors and brought forth
their jewels until Utah became one of the
first of mining states; how the temples to
religion, to education, to order and to law
were reared; how the toilers, while sub
DUNG the wilderness, subdued at the same
time their own prejudces until, when
statehood came, it was greeted by a peo-
pie as loving; as loyal, as true and as de-
voted to our free institutions as ever
lived"
The plain Of Bogota is sixty miles long
from north to south and thirty miles from
east to west says the Scientific American
The River Funga, formed by numerous
mountain streams which take their rise
100 miles north of the city, traverses the
plain in a southwester.y direction to Te-
quendama, where, through a gan not over
thirty-siX feet in width, it leaps over a
rocky ledge upward of 600 feet hight. form
ing one of the most magnificent cataracts
on the globe, and thence rushes down to
JOIN the Magdalena. The hight of this
precipice is SO great that the inhabitants
ROgOtq nv ha
and audacious act of the Canadian eauili-
brist, Mr. Warner, who in November cross
ed the abyss of the Tequendama in imita-
ton of the act of BlOndin at Niagara. The
crossing of Niagara gave Blondin univer-
sal reputation, he being the first to try
this daring act; but, if considered consci-
entiously, that is nothing compared with
the crossing of Tequendama, for the condi-
tons of the two cataracts are quite diff
ferent. At Niagara an acrobat who be-
came dizzy and cost his equilibrium would
fall into waters that are perfectly tran
quill and very deep-circums tances, which,
taken in connection with the fact that the
fall would not be more than about 100 feet.
would give the equilibrist the assurance of
salvation, for he would not encounter
rocks, and If he knew something of SWIM
ming he would rise to the surface and
swim to one of the banks or to a boat.
which would pick him up and land him
safely. Al Iequendama all the conditions
of the abyss are against the equilbrist.
who, in case he experiences the slightest
dizziness and fails, would be very certain
of breaking his neck, for he would fall into
raging torrent from the terrible hight
of 479 feet! What would be the size of the
largest fragment of the acrobat that could
be picked up at the bottom of such an
abyss?
American cities, above those Of any
other nation. possess the advantage of
being able to provide food promptly and
at short notice for a great number of peo-
pie in excess of their normal population
without enhanced cost to local consum-
ers, says the New York Sun. British and
continental cities confronted with such a
contingency find 1t difficult to meet The
anticipated influx of great body of
strangers means weeks of preparation:
prices of edibes are at once raised far
above the average, and not visitors but
residents also are put TO considerable In.
convenience TO procure a sufficiency Al.
ready In London much apprehension is
felt in regard TO feeding the estimated
100000 stranger who are expected to be
present al the celebration of tho ouoe,,fs |