The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

tory, ana IL Is eQuai 70 any N Rome.
Thirteen thousand gallons of whisky
are said to be on the way 20 the Klondike.
That will certainly be a good locality in
which to take the gold cure.
Manchester corporation supplies both
gas and electricity For the year ending.
March last the net profit from the former
was SOS, 324, and from the latter sl6,Sl2.
DIR. Frank Baker. superintendent of
the National Geological park, has just re-
| turned to this city from an extensive tour
in the est in the interest of the park, says
the Washington Post. The worst d'sap-
pointment TO DR.. Baker on the trip was 10
find that the herd of Buffalo in the Yei-
lowstone park, which at one time number
ed over go, has been almost wiped out
| by poachers The buffalo are so rare,
and hunters so anxious to have the honor
of killing one, that they will run the chance
of fine and imprisonment by slipping over
the borders and taking a shot at the big
fellows. The herd have become very wild
from being hunted, and are hard to find
several scouts and guides reporting that
they are divided up into two
or three herds. One scout re-
ported to DIR. Baker that he
had counted seventeen in one herd and
thought that there were two others con-
tanning about the same number. 1t may
he conservatively estimated, DR.. Baker
thinks, that there are between twenty-five
! and fifty buffalo left out Of the large herd
Perfection of chrysanthemum culture
is TO have them retain their leaves healthy
as long as possible says Meehan's Month
ly. If the plants lose their leaves early the
| bloom will be small. Sometimes the light
er leaves are attacked by parasite fungus
which causes them to drop off early. On
leaves should be syringed with copper sui
phate solution. Sometimes these attacks
are encouraged by allowing the leaves to
become weak for want of good food for
although it is not impossible for fungus
parasites to attack healthy vegetation, it
is also true that they attach themselves
more readily when the plant is weak. Ma
nure water, or a surface dressing of ma
nure, is the precaution to be taken against
this result. Again, leaves are frequently
weakened by allowing the plants to be-
come too dry. Careful cultivators can east
ly guard against this. On the other hand
stagnaut water in the earth is also inju-
rious. This means that to have healthy
plants, the pots or boxes in which they
are grown should be so arranged that the
water can pass readily away.
Success appears TO have attended the
| experiment made last December on the
New Haven railroad, and duly reported a.
the time in the shea thing of a passenger
car with copper, says the New York Sun.
In this case the usual sheathing was re-
moved from a first-class car, the frame
was redressed and blocked and the metal
sheathing was prepared in the company's
shop, the process being slow, as the work
was out of the usual line 1t was thought
that the cooper might add considerably to
the weight of the car, but since the COM
pletion of the work it has been found that
the thinner car sheathing is not desirable,
for the reason that the lips of the grooves
in the edge are inclined to curl, there not
being sufficient lumber in the upper lip to
make it firm. All the posts and corners, in
fact every exterior part of the passenger
car made of wood, were covered with cop
per. The car has been run since January,
without interruption, and no apprecia BILE
evidence of expansion had been noted dur
ing exposure to heat or cold, and the stiff
ness of the material prevents bad appear
ance on the board. Some 800 to 800 pounds
of metal are required.
The amount of talking done by barris-
ters. politicians and others enables them
to dispense largely with exercise as ordi-
narily understood for not only do they in
this way expend a considerable amount of
muscular energy, but they experience the
manifold advantages of active respira tory
movements continued for long periods to-
ing to be distinctly conducive to longevity,
says the Pail Mall Gazette. That talking
| involves a considerable expenditure of en-
ergy is shown by the exhaustion it inJu-
ces in those who are nervously run down.
Such are often greatly exhausted, even af
| ter a moderate days talking. This exhaus-
ton is due to mental as well as muscular
expenditure; indeed, the mere effort to
think may alone cause eXhaus lion. If such
| is the case how much more Likely is the
| putting of thought into speech to do so,
seeing that apart from the muscular ex-
| penditure involved in speech, thought is SO
much more intense when spoken than
when unexpressed. Talking is a beneficial
| exercise in which the blood tends to be
! damned back upon the lungs. The good
! effect is here doubtless due TO the increas-
| ed amplitude of the respitory movements
and to the help thus afforded to the pull
monary circulation.
The British government sells all its
publications. 1t gives nothing away, says
the Chicago Herald. If you want a copy
of bill that has been introduced into the
House of Commons, or a report that has
| been presented to the House of Lords, or
any public matter in the London county
| council or the board of aldermen of the
/ city, you have to buy it from the Off
| cial printers, and you have to pay pos
| tage if it is sent through the mails In
! our country nearay all oflclal documents
| of this kind are given away, and are sent
! free through the mails under a frank. The
| British plan seems to be the more sensi-
| BILE. 1t saves millions of dollars every
year that are wasted in the United States
| to furnish public documents to people who
do not care anything for them, and who
throw them into the waste-basket as soon
the they are received. The charge for
official publication over here is only suffi-
| cient to pay the cost and a small margin
| for wastage. Thus the government print
! ing office is selfsupporting, and the postal
service pays a profit of $l0000,000 or $12,-
100000 annually into the treasury. On the
! contrary on our side of the Atlantic. it
| costs $5,OO0,O0O or more to pay for print
ing for which no one is the wiser aud our
postoffice department declares an Irish
dividend of 100000 or $l0,OO0OO0 every
year, much of which is due to the trans
portation of pub. docs"
There Is good deal Of rivalry among
market dealers in Washington as to who
shall supply the President with provisions.
but all of that business is controlled abb
| solutely by the steward of the white house
| saws the Cincinnati EuUuirer Torb1isb