The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


light buoys and bell buoys be provided
with evil-smelling chemical mixture as
means of warning to sailors in a fog. The
shipping World points out that if the idea
is adopted the board of trade would nave
TO establish an olfactory test.
There are sixty modern steamships fit
for cruising now available by the United
States navy in case of war, exclusive of
regular war vessels building or in cOmmls-
sion, and there are rapid fire guns enough
20 equip fifteen Of them within week.
These ships are the ocean liners ana coast
steamships carrying the American nag,
and in a naval war they would be found
decidedly useful
The new Colorado tunnel will, when
completed be by far the longest tunnel
IN the world. 1t VIII connect Colorado
CITY with Sunol ana VIII be twenty miles
in length, with subsidiary tunnels bring
ing the extreme length to fifty miles The
tunnel proper passes under Pixies Peak a
a depth of 1909 feet, and will throughout
its course maintain an average depth of
| nearly 5000 feet.
According to the latest report, tur-
quoise has been discovered in Nevada.
The largest of the stones thus far found
weighed siXty-four carats others ranging
| from ten to twenty carats. The zone in
which the turquoise is found is about half
q mile long In this there has been no
! 1issuring, with the exception of one large
d1Ke, which is about go feet wide and
shows clearly 1850 feet. The largest and
purest specimens are found in this dixie.
The country rock is mica schist.
-Meehans Monthly has recorded trees
| growing from the mortar of stone walls
and on church steeples. 1t is said that a
hOrse-ches tnut several years old is still
growing from a tomb inside an old church
at kempsey, near Worcester England.
| The monument built in the church IS to
| the memory of Sir Edmund w ylde who
died in 1920. The tree is now several
years old, having sprouted in the crevices
of the mortar on the back OF the tomb,
spreads toward the light and forms
leafy canopy over the stone form of the
old knight as cut on the surface.
That history repeats itself has just re-
ceived another proof, says an exchange.
| Some years ago the men of a BaEarian
regiment, of which Prince MaXimilian was
chief, in order that they might show their
devotion to him, cut off their mustaches
and sent them to the princess, who had
| just become a mother, that she might use
| them as a pillow Something very like
| repetition of this has just taken place It
! Rappolstweller, bn Alsatia. The chief of
| the fire brigade was a few days ago pre-
| scented with his first child, Il boy. The
| fremen thereupon called a. meeting at
! which it was decided to make che baby
boy an honorary member of the CORPS and
| the men subsequently cut off their mus
taches and boards TO form the stufting of
a red velvet pillow for the baby's use.
One of the most novel propositions
| submitted to the management of the Oma-
| ha exposition is that of Wong Chin Foo,
! the Chinese commissioner, says the New
! York Evening Post. He offers to repro
| duce on the exposition grounds the great
| bell of Nankn, which is made of cast iron.
! 1t would be cast according TO his PROPOSE
| ton, by workers in iron, to be imported
| from China They are very clever work
| erS, Wong Chin Foo says. and they must
| be if they can make such bell, as he as
| serts, by successive castings, a part of his
! suggestion being that the bell be cast on
| fifteen consecutive Saturdays. For all
this Foo wants an appropriation of $4,000,
| with the privilege OF importing $50 skilled
| mechanics from the greatest iron foundry
In China. The milk in the cocoanut may
| be the further proposition that these $50
| mechanics be allowed the privilege of
! staying in the country after the bell is fin
ished.
A peculiar feature of Paris is about to
undergo a change at the hands of the pres
ent authorities says London Truth The
uniformity of the buildings in that city
| must have struck every observant visi-
| tor, the houses being built Strictly to one
| pattern. 1t is now contemplated to relax
this iron rule and admit a variation of
| external decoration, subject TO official APP
! proval. 1t wOuldT5e a blessing if some one
| high up in authority could be persuaded
to do a little for our capital in this direc-
| ton, say only in the way of cleanliness
| Take, for instance, that 'thOrOughfare of
| palaces" Pail Mall. / have no hesitation
in saying that the external condition Of
| the row Of buildings occupied by the war
officials is disgrace 10 any civilized com
munitV If the saving of outlay on water
and paint tended to appreciably decrease
the public expenditure, there might be
| some reason for the present state of GRIM
| mess, which casts a positive gloom upon
one of the finest streets of London. But is
| there any appreciate saving?
Near Vbitecbanel in ono of tba roo.-
- -, " - ~ oiiS VI 'Ie POOI-
est ana most squaIIl alsflcts IN London,
says the New York Tribune is the Roth
| schild school, the largest in the world ed
ucarine thirtv-five hundred children he
longing mostly to the poorest foreign
Jews. and having staff of one bl1ndred
teachers. 1t was founded fiftv-five Years
ago bv a Rothschild of thar time 6nd Sas
ALWAYS been presided over bv one Of the
| family. the present Baron R0thschild now
performing that office. Free breakfasts
| are given each morning 10 ali the children
who wish them. no questions being asll6d
| In April of each wear near the Jewish
Passover. there is presented 10 eaSb how
pupil q suit of clothes and a nair of shoes
and 10 eecn glLI n Ir0ck with some other
Of boots or SHOES is offered to eon6 &C. 60
who needs them. Less than ? per cent Of
the pupils decline the free meals offered.
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