The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ventor of a hair restorer which he has
tried on himself, as he asserts, with sue
cess, and is forming a company to make
it known.
During the past three months there
has been so heavy a demand for lumber
in California that many firms have been
obliged TO refuse orders. In many cases
the increased demand has caused an ad-
vance of nearly 90 per cent. in prices.
"A committee of professors of the Ber-
lin university, many of whom are men of
worldwide fame (Mommsen, Virchow,
etc., has been formed for the foundation
of a peoples high school. Last years rec
tor of the university, Prof. Drummer. a
conservative, was opposed to the PLAN but
the newly elected rector, Prof. Schneider,
an authority in sociology, has declared in
favor of university extension.
Great Britain is now building 50 war
vessels; France is a close second, with SO;
Russia is working on 80 peacemakers, Italy
on 49, and Germany on 10, but the late
large appropriation for the German navy
will greatly enlarge the Kaiser's opera
lions. Explosive bullets have been long
excluded from civilized warfare as bar
garous, but sensitive Britain is chuckling
over a new missile, designed to convert
heather Afrides and Africans from the err
ror of their ways, which simply means
murder, the wound expanding from a
clean, round hole at the point of entrance
to ragged chasm three or four inches in
diameter.
Samuel McCaughey of Coonong, Aus
tralia, will shear 1,25OOO0 sheep this sea-
son. He lost 250,O0O head by the drought
OF two years ago, but as his yearly aver
age is from 100000 to 100000, such4a matter
is but a trife to the sheep king. He has
100000 sheep on a fenced farm of 800 900
acres on the Darling river; 100000 in
Queenland, 1900 choice bloOded animals
on small 5000 acre farm al Coonong,
and a few hundred thousand scattered
around elsewhere. His stock has been
greatly improved by the introduction of
Vermont rams, which he has been import
ing for IA years, and as a result he esti-
mates his increased wool returns at one
pound per sheep, or 100000 per annum.
Two Partisan ladies have taken to tam
ing butterflies. A gentleman, recently re-
turned from Asia, happened to bring the
young ladies rare specimens as souvenirs
of the trip. Each lady has about fifty in
her collection, and 1t is marvellous how
tame the creatures have become. Upon
the entrance of their mistress they fly to
head, and finger tips. The way they were
trained was by feeding them with honey
from the finger-tipS. They have been most
serviceabe as studies for all kinds of art
work, painting them on the wing and in
groups, when embroidering, and when re-
producing their gorgeous hues in oil. The
butterflies have shown themselves very
susceptible to the charm of music.-Man-
chester Guardian.
"A New York parson has obtained a
North Dakota divorce, on the ground that
his wife played golf on other than ladies'
days and did not wear her hat straight
says the New York Tribune. Her walk
was also in bad form tending to the dis
turbance of his peace of mind and spiritual
equilibrium. These appear to be some
what novel reasons for issuing q decree OF
divorce, even when the most liberal ideas
of marriage and its annulment prevail, as
they clearly do in North Dakota. OF the
legal proceedings, it is remarked that they
were carried on in very quiet manner,
and no defence was introduced, showing
a forbearance on the part of the lady ac-
cused of not wearing her hat straight
which only the most highly disciplined OF
her sex would have exhibited.
Lord Lister on rising to move the sec
ond resolution at a meeting in honor of
| first place, correct a mistake into which
he had inadvertently fallen in his address
| to the British Association last year, says
| the British Medical Journal. He had said
| in error that owing to the compulsory re-
vaccination of recruits smallpox was I'M
| known in the huge German army. A great
| parade had been made of correcting this
| statement. If he had said that fatal
| smallpox was unknown in the German
army it would have been the literal truth.
| In the period from 1S74-75 to 18S6-S7 the
| only death from smallpox among Ger
| man soldiers was that of a man who was
| shown not to have been properly vaccina-
ted. In 1SS6-87 there were seven cases of
| smallpox, in 1856 four cases, and as
| these occurred among a force of 344, 600
men, and as the figures of other years
were similar it might be said that though
he had fallen into error it was not Sc
rlous error.
According to the Kansas City Journal
| this is how Mrs. Lease went into politics
In 1890 the Farmers Alliance sprang into
existence, and Mrs. Lease wanted her
husband to join the movement and be-
come a politician But he declared that
he was not of the stuff of which polite
ianS are made, and suggested that she go
into it herself and leave him in peace.
Mrs. Lease had never thought of enter
ing politics, but she consented to try it.
How, and when and where to get the first
speech off was the puzzle. Finally a
neighbor, Dixon, was taken into the deal,
and he arranged it so that Mrs. Lease
could appear before the next Farmers Al
lance county convention and make a
talk. She was there on the appointed day,
and as soon as her name was mentioned
she rose and made a bee-line to the
stage. Her maiden speech, they say, was
a stem winder. She was the sensation of
the hour and before that campaign was
over Mrs Lease was the best-advertised
politician in Kansas"
The little ant, seen buslly hurrying
around in it's almost everlasting search for
food, is not only engaged in providing for
itself, but for host of other forms of
insect life, which infest the formicaries
as well as the bodies of the ants them
selves. One of the most common para
sites of the ants Of the genus Lasius. saws
the Scientific American, is an acarid, the
antennophorus uhlmanni. This does not
move around In the formicary, but lives
constantly upon the body of the ants. AS
general thing an ant carries one acarid
under the head and two to the right and
left of the abdomen. If an antennophor1ls
be detached and he g