The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Britain has s5.sls men available for Sc


200,00000O miles long
Good cooking was introduced into Eng
land by the Normans.
Pork was the most highly esteemed
flesh at Roman table
The weight of an ant queen is equal
to that of $1,000 workers
"A teaspoonful of microbes contains
more than 100000 individuals
The library of the University of Toxic,
Japan, contains over 329, 900 volumes.
-Michigan's legislature has reduced the
taxes for 1S97-9s by almost $1,OOO,COO.
In the sixteenth century frogs were con-
sidered flesh and allowed on fast days.
"A golf ball at Burntisland. England
hit a passing horse with such force as
to kill him.
The MAN of the Iron Mask" did not
wear mask of iron 1t was of black vel
vet secured by steel springs
Remarkably brilliant displays of the
well-known November meteors may be ex-
pected during the next two or three years.
The wine cups of the Assyrians were
shaped like our saucers and were of agate.
other semi-precious stones, gold and sill
yer.
The largest newspaper circulation in the
world is that of the Paris Petit Journal,
which averages more than 100000 copies
per day.
Among the Saxons, when drinking
healths, as many cups were drunk as there
were letters in the name of the persons
complimented.
California claims the largest boy of
his age in the world. His name is John
Hardin. He is Is years old, six feet five
inches tall and weighs 22O pounds.
The friends of Bishop Merrill Meth
odisD, Chicago, have presented to him
silver fellowship cup in commemoration
of his twenty-ffth year in the episcopacy.
"A woman having passed an examina-
ton in veterinary surgery in England, the
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons re-
fuses to grant her a certificate until the
courts have decided that it is legal for
women to be horse doctors. She is a Scotch
woman, and a graduate of a Scotch col
lege.
"A case came before a London magis-
trate the other day involving the possess
sion of certain antique ormolu articles
about which there had been an abortive
trial. says the New York Tribune A
firm of dealers claimed them, and two
workmen did the same. The latter were
particularly assertive in their ownership
saying they ought to know, because, as a
matter of fact, they made the articles To
prove their point they set to work and
showed, to the amusement of a critical
audience, how ormolu was made antique"
by the aid of pumice powder.
"A new and important use of aluminium
has been discovered in the manufacture of
reproducers for talking machines, says the
New York Tribune. The reproducer is the
apparatus which holds the vibrating dia-
phragm of glass. The peculiar sonorous
quality of aluminium has recently attract
ed the attention of manufacturers of mus
zeal instruments, and experiments are be-
ing made in various directions in regard
to instruments which depend for their
musical quality upon the vibratory char
acteristics of the material used. Hereto
fore the recorders and reproducers of
talking machines have been made as a
rule, of hard rubber For hard rubber
aluminium has been substituted with what
is regarded as much success. 1t is claim
GU bAAN VIC b4cioLAil6t DldI ltS VI CHdlleI-
| ing" as it is called in the trade, which
is often noticeable iii the performance Of
the talking machine, is almost completely
absent when an aluminium re producer is
used.
The state of esjukovschtschna, in
Russia, is robably the only place in the
world that is entirely run by women, says
the London Fireiy. This state is made
up Of seven villages, each presided over
by mayoress, the whole under the SUI
perrin tendence of a lady named Saschka
who acts as President. There are women
magistrates, women preachers, women po-
licemen-in fact, every capacity in the
state is filled by women. The roads are
made by women, and women sell milk and
deliver letters. If you want to bring an
action against your neighbor, in this state
you go to a woman lawyer, and if there
is anything in your house to be stolen. then
burglar of the weaker sex steals it. No
place of any Importance is filled by a man.
The state of affairs has been brought about
by an epidemic which occurred in 1861.
and during which the men of the state be-
haVed so badly as to reduce the population
10 starvation. Since then the women
have taken the state in hand and made it
prosperous.
Reuben Romig, a farmer in Lower Ma
cungie township, about a mile and a half
from Emaus, is a blg-hearted man. who
could never turn a man away from his
doors who seeks shelter, says the Allen
town Call. During the past eighteen
years his spacious barn has been the lodg-
ing place of between 1900 and 5000 no.
boes and he has never yet had the slight
est trouble with any one who has enioved
his hospitality. His rules and require
ments are that when a tourist comes 10
ask for shelter he must turn in all
matches. pipes and smoking tobacco at
the kitchen door, subject to return in the
morning Many of the soiourners are
furnished breakfast, and in return for the
favor remain for an hour to do saving ana
splitting wood. During the past alx
months he sheltered about 400 in all in
Guiding three or four women. One of his
recent callers actually inquired for work
and after partaking Of breakfast was d.
rected to so to Emaus. where he found
employment at fair wages.
BY far the most celebrated road in the
old world was the Appian Way the Via
rum Regina, or Queen OF Roads. which
at the period OF its greatest extent
stretched from Rome 20 Brunduslum. the
modern Hrindigi. Distance 81 ~n,.-