The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A pound of phosphorus heads 1000, 600
matches.
Indiana prisoners deprived of work are
to be drilled.
An Oregon girl with two suitors named
Mann and Mouss decided to be Mann.
A large increase in tobacco acreage
over that of last year is predicted in Penn
sylvania.
The calamity on the Chodinka meadow
at Moscow cost the Russian government
100000 rubles.
The ancients knew how to cheat. Load
ed dice have been found in the ruins of
Herculaneum.
British residents of Mexico will give
a series of fetes in June in honor of the
queens jubilee.
The ship samaria. from Seattle,
Wash. for San Francisco, Cal, has, it is
feared, been lost.
In Derbyshire county, England, there
is a subterranean road seven miles long.
1t connects two mines.
The grand total of hydraulic power at
Niagara falls secured through electrical
appliances is over 5000 horse power
The great Mohammedan school at Cal
no, El Azhar, meaning THE Splendid"
has clear records dating as far back as
@5.
1t has been estimated that an oak of
average size. during the five months it is
in leaf every year, sucks from the earth
about 123 tons of water.
In the Belgian, parliament when
member is making a long speech he may
be supplied with brandy and water at
the government expense.
The prohibition by the Archbishop of
Paris against bicycle riding by priests re-
fers only to the garb, priests being allow
ed to ride in mutt, but not in the clerical
cassock.
"A novelty at the Tennessee exposition
will be giant see-saw. having a beam $50
feet long, mounted On a tower Is feet high.
A car at either end of the beam will hold
twenty-five people.
The longest commercial distance at
which long-distance telephone is now op-
Grated is from Boston to st. Louis, a dis.
lance of l,400 miles. This line is more
"A delegation is to be sent from Ger
many to Japan and China to open up lines
of trade, especially in textile products.
The cotton exchange has contributed 10000
marks and the government 10000 marks
to help defray expenses.
The income of the Emperor of Russia
for one day is 5000; Sultan of Turkey,
$1,000; Emperor of Austria, e, 600; German
emperor 1880; King of Italy, e, 300; Queen
Victoria, f1,3OO; King of Belgium, fl 500;
President of France, 1900; President OF
the United States. f25.
1t is calculated that a fluent speaker
utters between 1000 and 1850 words in the
course Of an hours uninterrupted speak,
ing; many orators of more than usually
rapid utterance will reach 5000 and even
1900. But 125 words a minute, or 1880 an
hour, is fair average.
The finished portion of the new con-
gressional library at Washington has
about forty-four miles of shelving, which
will accommodate over 2OO0,O 900 volumes.
The ultimate capacity of the building for
books will be upward of 100000 volumes
or nearly 100 miles of shelving.
There are seventeen metals more valu-
able than gold, viz: Iridium, valuaed al
$50 per pound troy; gallium, f75; rhodium.
1885, osmium. f120; ruthenum, f2OO; pal
ladium, about f2l6; barium, ESQ; didy-
MUM, $500: cerium, f525; yttrium, f63O;
strontium, 1910; calcium, f700; glucinum
$50; hthium, f1,060; chromium, fl, 115; rubl-
dunn, fl, 400; vanadium, E,725.
The theaters of Japan have a novel
method of pass-out tickets, which are pos.
itively not transferable. When a person
wishes to leave the theater before The
close of the performance, with the intsn-
ton of returning, he goes to the door
keeper and holds out his right hand. The
doorkeeper then. with a rubber stamp,
imprints on the palm the mark of the
establishment.
"A recent invention in Dakota is called
The Drunkard's Dream says the New
York Press A returned traveller saws il
is one of those IS archn'" things of
which man may swallow ten without
Immediately feeling ill-effects, but after
an hour of quietude he is suddenly con-
verified into an Alkali Ike. He tried one
or two and changed his name to Dakota
Blizzard. 1t has the call over everything
else in the state.
The Prometheus, a German scientific
weekly, has recently published estimates
of the total number of species of animals
now known 10 exist on the globe, as fol-
lows: Mammals, $500; birds, L, 500; rep
tiles and amphibia, 400; fishes, u, 600;
mollusks. $1,000; tunicatae, 800; brachio-
podae, $50; bryozoeae, 1900; crustaceans
10000; spiders, 10000; myriapodae 5000;
insects, go, 900; echinodermae, 5000; worms
615O; collenteratae, 200; sponges, 1,5OO, and
protozoae, 6,1OO. All told, $4,000 species.
AT the present price of about $40
pound aluminium is cheaper than the same
bulk of copper or brass, says the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat. Yet 100 pounds of brass
or go Of copper, are sold to one of alumni
num- Manufacturers of the new metal dis
posed of so tons of it last year, but they
are compelled g discover its novel uses
Aluminium has nearly displaced nickel In
the arts, and il is in growing demand for
cooking utensils, bicycle parts plates for
false teeth, handles for surgical instru-
ments, a substitute for photographic stones
non-magnetic electric apparatus, and mil
itary accoutrements. It's lightness renders
it peculiarly suitable for canteens, but
tons and belt plates.
Every one of the departed Presidents
OF the United States died from heart fail