The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

bride cut the wedding loaf with her faith
ers sword.
Oranges have been grown in Lyons.
Kan. the owner of a tree having plucked
three this season.
An order has been issued forbidding
the sale Of liquor in the restaurants of the
Maine Central railroad.
Germany now has electric lights in
over 900 postal cars. and Austria is about
TO adopt the same system.
The annual earnings Of miners in sile-
STA Germany. are. after subtracting the
insurance only Sl47 to 500.
President Mckinley will attend for one
day the Danbury Comm fair this fall of
his engagements will allow
Chicago has go less saloons than
year ago, and the sporting men argue
thereby that the town is going to the dogs.
-Colorless quartz is found in many parts
of the world and is used for optical pur-
poses and to initiate the diamond. It, how
ever, lacks the luster of the strass or paste
limitations.
When Catharine the Great Of Russia
became tired of her lovers. as she gener-
ally did in a few weeks, she gave them a
foreign appointment, and advised them to
travel, and they always travelled
-Tiger-eye is a peculiar crystalization
of quartz. Formerly very rare and costly.
large deposits have been found in the
western states of America, and in South
Africa so that many common articles are
now made of it,
The Russian ministry of finance has
decided upon establishing commercial
agents in the states OF Central Asia and
the extreme east, where hitherto Russia's
commercial interests have been represent
ed by consuls
1t is stated that the German military
authorities have decided to demolish the
fertilization and the walls of Mayence.
the most strongly fortified city of Ger
many, which has witnessed so many
fierce struggles and historical tragedies.
The ruby in the center of the Maltese
cross on the top of the British crown is
the stone that was given to the Black
Prince by King Pedro of CASTLE. after the
battle of Najara. Henry V of England
wore it in his helmet at the battle OF
Agincourt
The royal crown of Great Britain is
composed almost entirely OF diamonds,
pearls and rubies, weighs thlrty-nine
ounces and five pennyweights Troy, and is
valued at 100000 When the Kohinoor
was first brought to Europe it weighed
1856 carats, but by cutting has been re-
duced to 1O2.
According to an account of fires at
theaters" published in the Revue Bleue of
Paris. every theater in Paris has at one
time or another been burned down, ex-
cept the Coincide Franchise It adds that
the Coincide FRANCHISE is the only theater
which has not adopted electric lamps for
the footlights.
West Turkestan is thinly peopled and
has few schools. The Russian govern
ment has now fitted up as schools few
railroad carriages which remain at each
station for a few weeks. The teacher
lives in the carriage. The children are
required to learn a lesson or two until
the itinerant school again reaches their
neighborhood.
Recent investigations in Egypt prove
almost beyond question that the wonder
full people of the Nile actually printed
with movable types as early as the ninth
century, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. Two
papyri of that time have been found, and
twenty-seven prinungs on paper of the
century following. Indications point to all
the printing being done by priests and
the perfection of it indicates that it was
then no new experiment with the clever
craftsmen. 1t has also been learned that
printed paper money was issued in North
ern Syria during the second crusade. and
that as early as 794 the government of
the caliph of Bagdad owned and operated
a in ~
"A statement prepared at the treasury
shows that the circulation per capita in
the United States on Aug. was so. SO.
based on an estimated population of 7S.-
O6SO00, says the Washington Star. OF the
2,S6l, 640,0S7 coined or issued there was
SIS, S9S in the treasury and 81, $40. Al 139
in circulation on the date given. The in
crease in circulation since Aug l. 1896,
was Sl3l 467, 997. During the month of July
there was a net increase in circulation of
$H2,S93 Gold coin decreased in circula-
tion S2373; silver decreased S345. $50; sub
sidiary silver. S7 ,25S; gold certificates, $50
90: silver certificates, 1897, us; treasury
notes of 1890 $2341 49, and national bank
notes, T,255,302. Increases are shown in
the circulation of United States notes of
S,S6.S74, and of currency certificates un-
der the act of June s. 1872, of 81, 205 900. The
gold coin in the treasury decreased So
4l4A9 during the month, and United
States notes in the treasury decreased So
SO6S7f. The net decrease In money and
bullion in the treasury since July / was
$S52, O54
John Green Brady of Indiana, who has
been appointed governor Of Alaska, never
knew his parents. He grew up a verita-
bic street arab in the utmost poverty. In
1850 he was sent 10 Indiana with a car
load of waits. The car reached Upton. a
county seat thirty miles north of In
dianapolis, and a number Of the young
sters were committed TO the care of resi-
dents Judge John Green. a prominent
citizen OF the place, called for the "ugliest,
raggedest and most friendless" in the lot.
Jack" as he was afterward known, was
promptly presented and the Judge took
the lad home. He appreciated his home
and the kindness OF his benefactors. and
diligently applied himself TO study. A
course az the public schools was followed
by year a Waveland Academy. and that
by four years at Harvard. After he had
been graduated al Cambridge he was sent
by Judge Green 10 England 70 pursue his
theological studies. Returning to Upton
IN 1876, the next year he went 20 Alaska
as a missionary uudor The auenlraa Of the