The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AT big athletic meet to be held in
Chicago on June 26. only railway Grip
pies will be allowed to compete. The
National Association of Railway CrippIes
now has membership of 1850 and many
of them, with the aid of artificial legs and
arms, have become noteworthy athletes.
BY the earth's rotation on its axis a
person at the equator is carried eastward
at the race Of 1,OS7 miles an hour. In the
latitude of Philadelphia the rate of this
eastward travel is 1874 miles an hour, or
j, l64 feet a second. Were the earIhs rota-
ton to be stopped suddenly, we and our
surroundings would be- shot from its sur
F, face into space with the velocity of rifle
balls.
The citizens of Lubec. Ne, are going
to buy new hearse for the town by popu-
lar subscription. The proposition made is
this: Each subscriber agrees to pay 81
with the proviso that if he should have
use for the same (the hearse, of course)
within two years, he shall be entitled to a
rebate equal to the sum subscribed. 1t is
evident that the subscribers who have oc-
casion to use the hearse will be "in it,"
According to State Game Commission
er Schnitzer $500 head of elk are suffer
ing from famine in Jackson's Hole. south
Chronicle His deputy in that district says
that 5000 head of calf elks and about 24O0
grown animals of the entire lot winter
ing there have already died of starvation
1t has only been through careful watching
on the part of farmers that raids on their
haystacks intended for cattle by the elk
have been resisted. Fences had to be re-
enforced to accomplish this. Trouble is
feared from Indian hunting parties during
the coming year and efforts are now being
made to prevent their visits. Whenever OPP
portunity permits violations of the game
laws referring to the unlawful killing of
game takes place.
According to Gericke the German for
ester, the greatest ages to which trees in
Northern Europe are positively known to
have lived are from so OTTO $40 years. The
pine in Bohemia and the pine in Norway
and Sweden have lived to the latter age.
Next comes the silver fir, which has stood
and thriVed for upward of 400 years In
Bavaria the larch has reached the age of
275 years. OF foliage trees, the oak appears
10 have survived the longest. Evergreen
oak at Aschaffenburg reached the age or
40 years. Other oaks in Germany nave
lived to be from 315 to 800 years old The
red beech has lived to the age of 245 years.
OF other trees, the highest known are ASH,
10 years; birch, 100 to 200 years; aspen 20
years, mountain maple. 225 years. elm, 1870
years, ana RED alder, lao years.
We have been looking up particulars
of the most famous run made with rail-
way trains. says the Locomotive Engi-
neer, and we are convinced that the run
made over the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy from Chicago to Denver deserves
to be considered the most extraordinary
run ever made. The distance from Chi
cago to Denver, 1,025 miles, was covered
in exactly 1069 minutes actual running
time. This was only a small fraction less
than one mile a minute for the longest
continuous run ever made by any railroad
company. A notable thing about the run
was that no special preparation whatever
was made for the trip. The various en-.
gines that pulled the train were selected
as those most convenient, and the crews
were those that were accustomed 10 thu
engines. There were no delays from not
boxes or any other cause, and it looks as
If trains could be run daily over ga.
long distance and make the time of that
special train
Every day one hears stories, one more
startling than the other, in connection
with the vast sums that are being paid
for coigns of vantage from which the
queens jubilee procession may be viewed
says the Philadelphia Public Ledger. 1t
appears for instance, that Mr.. Maskelyne
the Wel-knOwn conjurer and inventor of
automata, has bought for three weeks
the control of a block of business build
ings in ST. PauPs churchyard He is ac-
tually going to pull these down entirely.
and in their place erect a huge grand
stand, with restaurant smoking rooms
and so forth attached the seats of which
he expects to let for from 10 TO 30 guineas
apiece. The rent of the site, the pulling
down of the building, and the erection of
the grand stand will cost something over
~1A "A
make a profit of something like 100 per
cent. on the investment. A day or two
ago was present at little dinner, given
by a Well known London journalist, TO
mark the opening of new restaurant and
small hotel-the Avondale--which has just
been built on Piccadilly, almost facing
the end of st. James street. / was told by
the new proprietors, one of whom was the
former well known head waiter of the
Savoy restaurant, that their first years
rent and expenses amount to $1,000 the
mourning of which obligation was weigh
ing rather heavily upon their minds, when
a week ago the agent of an American syn
dictate approached them, and offered them
$4,000 for the use of the entire hotel from
the night of the 2lst of June till the morn
ing Of the 23rd. 1t is needless to say that
they jumped at the offer, and have thus
secured a sum for the hire of their estab-
lishment for one day which will not only
pay Their WilOAc ytdi > rent Out AtdNG
them a comfortable balance in hand.
How widely experts, even government
experts, may differ is curiously shown in
dispute over an importation of 81 worth
of medicated tea, which, as revalued by
one set of appraisers made the importers
liable to pay a fine of $156, 625, says a New
York dispatch to the Chicago Tribune
The Kong Ching Chong Company, import
ers of Chinese food supplies, on March 8
received a consignment of 1885 packages
of indicated" tea, valued in Mexican
currency at 80 cents a hundred packages,
or in the aggregate at AZ. The medicated
tea was sent to the appraisers stores for
examination. There it was determined
that II must pay 30 per cent ad Valorem,
or about S2.25. After that Appraiser Web
ster, however. advanced the value OF the
tea from so cents to s. a hundred pack
ages, or about 1000 per cent. above the in
voice value Then the sorrows of the
Kong Ching company began. The Gus
toms law holds the differentiation Of inn
ported merchandise to be a serious offense,
and 10 infiictg ponaltV of . nor cant