The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

brilliant and accomplished in Europe
Canadian apple growers say that bar
rel heads Of paper or pulp boards preserve
apples better than wood
Ireland, with population of 4,7O4,o0O.
has one of the smallest suicide rates in
Europe-only 10 to 100000.
The Senate of the Connecticut legis-
lature rejected a proposed bill to grant
divorce for ineurable insanity.
of the twelve bridesmaids who at
tended Queen Victoria on the day of her
marriage, only three now survive.
Finland employs 5000 hands in paper
manufacture, and is making itself felt as
competitor for the paper trade of the
world.
During the past year, which was a
very prosperous one in Great Britain,
there was a noticeable decrease in emil
grafton.
Since the movement for open spaces
started in Philadelphia ten years ago,
twenty-seven small parks have been cs-
tablished.
The Yellow river is styled the Sorrow
of China" 1t is estimated that its foods
in the present century have cost China
II, 100000 lives.
About the only crop of which the state
of Nevada has surplus is potatoes,
which bring IS to $40 a ton for shipment
to the coast.
The island of Malta has a language
of it's own, derived from the Carthaginian
and Arabian tongues. The nobility of the
island speak Italian.
Most young collectors, and in fact
older persons of experience, are often
surprised to hear that garnets came in
other colors than red.
The Swiss people, on Feb. %, by vote
of 10000 against 10000, rejected the prop
ostion to establish a state bank with the
exclusive privilege of issuing bank notes.
The fiftieth anniversary of the found
ing of the French school at Athens,
Greece, is to be commemorated by an
archaeological congress, to be held at Ath-
ems from April 2S to % of the present year.
"A horse trainer of Breckenridge, KY,
who has been married three times, is the
father of thrty-nine children, of whom
twenty-seven are alive. His oldest son
and his present wife are of the same age,
AZ years.
The supposed grave of Eve is visited
by over 10000 pilgrims in each year. 1t is
to be seen at Jeddah, in a cemetery out
side the city walls. The tomb is fifty GU
bits long and twelve wide. The Arabs en-
terrain a belief that Eve was the tallest
woman that ever lived.
Paris is learning how to handle mu-
MI II mill
to build forty-five miles of railway
through its streets at a cost of $40, 900, 600,
the fare to vary from &c to 4c. At the end
of thirty-five years the city will take pos
session of the entire property without
paying cent.
There are several ways of making
luminous photographs with phosphores-
cent paints, says the ST. Louis Globe Dem
ocrat. The programmes at recent ball
in Vienna were decorated with luminous
picture, representing an alchemist at
work. But the best specimens of this
kind of art are landscapes with moonlight
effects.
After twenty-five days of session, at
an expense of $1,000 per day, the legisla-
ture has succeeded in passing a law pun
ishing those who throw overripe eggs and
other missiles at public speakers, says the
Louisville Times. This is the only bill
that has been passed, and while it may
be very good law, $4,000 is a trifle ex-
pensive for it.
Queen Wilhelmina, the young sover-
eign of Holland, objects to the postage
stamps which represent her as a child of
II, with flowing hair, and a juvenile ex-
preston, says the st. Louis Globe Demo-
crat. She desires a new series giving her
laa arrf., IL.
young lady. OF course, all the collectors
will want set.
The New England hunters who live
near the boundary line of Maine and New
Hampshire are said to be giving a new il
lustration of Yankee enterprise says the
Richmond Dispatch. They are taking. it
is claimed advantage of the bounty laws
of each state and getting double pay for
each bear killed New Hampshire pays so
much for each pair of ears, while Maine
keeps tally by the nose.
The New English Dictionary" in
course Of publication in England is now
complete as far as the letter e." inclu-.
sive. 1t will be an immense work saws
the st. Louis Globe Democrat Already
it embraces 1851 words, with twenty-one
letters of the alphabet to follow. OF
the words now in print 477s6 are current
1882 obsolete, and the remainder alien
No one can say that the language of the
future is not voluminous enough
An old fox hunter. Arab Whitney, of
Tunbridge, VT. tells quite story, which
is accepted as true, says the Boston Her
aid. He says he was in his barn when
there fell from the scaffold a bunch of live
rats so twisted and fastened together by
a whisp of hay that they could not get
apart There were seventeen fulI-grown
rats, which, together. weighed two and
one-half pounds. Arab thought he had his
match, and went for them with an ak He
slew them ALL
A toy locomotive, perfect in all its
parts and capable of drawing a long train
OF cars, has just been completed at the
Baldwin locomotive works, PHILADELPHIA.
1t is about one-thrd the size of the ordi
nary iron horse which snorts across the
race OF this broad country; but its mechan-
ism Is all there, and il is guaranteed TO
walk away from anything that ever raced
on four legs. Fernando de Teresa. the