The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The king and queen of wurtemberg
and the Princess Paulina have become BIZ
cyclists.
More than % per cent of all the com
merce Of Hawaii in 1886 was with the Unit
ed States.
The maple sugar yield of Vermont is
expected to be about 100000 pounds this
| season.
The bureau of ethnology in washing
ton has at present about $500 volumes on
anthropology.
A swordfsh Weighing nearly COO pounds
was recently captured and taken to New
London. Conn.
Fifty million yards of cotton cloth was
manufactured in Lewiston and Auburn,
Me, during 1896.
The population of Budapest shows the
remarkable increase of 10000 in six years,
being now $4,000.
Europe has four times as many cities
as it had in 1881, and the United States
fourteen times as many.
Good iron ore has been found on Red
mountain, near Oneonta, Ala, and prepar-
atoms are being made TO develop the vein.
The California house has passed a bill
providing for the employment of depend
ent persons and Migrants in road build
ing.
TO guard against disease the legisla-
ture of New Hampshire has passed law
providing for the inspection of all ice
sold within the state.
"A number of Greek women in Athens
have periodically revived the old classic
costume. If the idea spreads to France
there will be Greek renaissance in the
fashionable world.
The sciara, a worm-like insect of for
ests of Hungary and Norway, is only a
tenth of an inch long, yet in migrating, in
July or early August, the creatures are
said to stick themselves together in a SER
pent-like mass, oftensforty to fifty feet
long and several inches thick.
A waggish grand jury formerly in
dicted Assistant District Attorney Aforitz
| RosenthaL prospective benedict, of. New
York, for aiding and abetting Cupid. >"
| When the young prosecutor was informed
| that a criminal Indictment had been
| found against him he turned pale and bit
his lip, until he read the document con-
tanning the cordial congra tulations of all
| the grand jurors.
r. A. KONG, who has been investigat-
| ing the African rubber question, consid-
| ers it equal to Para, but the Indian has
learned how to collect and treat his rub
| Der, while the negroes are reckless and
| ignorant. The cultivation of the hevea
| braziliensis, from which Para rubber is
| derived, has so far failed in Africa,
| though there are doubtless districts suit
| able to its growth, which requires damp,
| loamy, sandy soil.
| Prof. Henry Kraemer Bayonne ton
| serial artist. is very much puzzled over
a strange experience in which his $50 dia-
mond ring, his Brahma setting hen and a
setting of alleged white leghorn eggs fig
ure as potent factors, says the New York
| Tribune. Several weeks ago ne bought
| the hen and eggs. In due time the hen
| acquired the maternal fever, and was al
1 lowed to hatch out the eggs. Just about
| the time Kraemer bought his embryo flock
| of poultry he lost the diamond from his
| ring, and was almost disconsolate. Yes
| terday Henry's hen left her nest with a
brood of a dozen downy little chicks. The
| thirteenth egg had failed to hatch, and
| Kraemer decided to investigate it's con-
| tents. He broke the shell in the presence
| of John Windass of West Thirty-first
| street, and to the surprise of both, found
| within the larger end of the added egg
| the missing diamond of his ring. Henry
| is not positive that the egg is one of the
setting which he purchased, his belief be-
| ing that his hen found the lost diamond
| while foraging about his back yard, swat
| lowed the stone, which in due time was
laid within the unmatched egg by biddy.
His neighbors think that the hen might
be a vertable diamond mine, but Henry
says that he has read the fable of the
goose which laid the golden eggs, and he
| scouts the advice to kill the hen.