The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


100000 people own half of this counry's
! wealth. and that per cent. of the people
possess rs per cent. of the entire proser-
ty of the country.
Two proposed entertainments, the chef
! feature Of which was to be the chasingbf
a creased pig. have been interdicted Il
Portland, Ne, by the Society for the Prl
| lection Of Animals.
The value of the churches and the
land on which they are erected in this
country up 10 July l, 1897, is estimated at
$3.50 goo, 900. OF this sum $11S. 600 belongs
to the Catholic church.
Although the Car of Russia receives
no salary, he manages to keep the wolf
from the door. His income arises from
100000 square miles of land, which he
inherits with the crown. He averages $50, =
600 a day.
Since the war Indiana has spent $780,
100000 for public education, and is spending
now 100000 annually 1t possesses
school property to the amount of $4,000
600, and its productive school fund amounts
to more than $10,O00,OOO.
Imitation states are now being made
from softened rubber. mixed with chalk
gink, white china. clay, etc, and sui
phur, the mixture being placed on a
wood, paper, sheet metal, leather or other
surface and vulcanized.
"A valuable acquisition to the writing
world is a new patent splitless pen, which
canot scratch or become cross-nibbed, and
writes on the coarsest or toughest as we'll
as on the finest paper 1t produces fine,
even lines of any delicacy or thickness,
rendering it especially valuable to artists
cote s- ,Ir,, I'D,
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"A process has recently been perfected
by which thin sheets of absolutely trans
parent celluloid are silvered similarly to
the process formerly used on glass. Such
a plate of celluloid is covered with silver
on the back, and another celluloid plate
thus formed. This naturally forms an
other mirror, so that the value of the Gel
luloid mirror is enhanced by being equal
" perfect on either side, making it a dou-
Bile looking-gla
There is mud in Berks county that is
selling at So to $12 a ton, says the Phila-
delphia Record. 1t is the accumulation of
years of washing al the old iron mines,
and lays thick over hundreds of acres
that were formerly covered by dams. Re
Gently it was discovered that the site con-
tanned a large percentage of ochre, yell
low mineral that enters largely into the
composition of some kinds of paint. What
was regarded as waste is now found to
be more valuable than the ore from which
it was separated. Companies have been
organized, and hundreds of tons of the
product are shipped every month. There
is one man at Fleetwood who receives IS
a ton for the unwashed mud as it is taken
from his dam
M. Lippman, one of the most celebrated
physicists of Paris, at late meeting of
the Academy of Sciences, exhibited a Sc
ries of photographs of metallic objects.tak
en- with the X rays says the Philadelphia
Record. The smallest defects in the quail
ity of the metal are clearly noticeable.
Experts i'm cycle manufacture believe that
this application of the new lights is de-
stined to have wide use in the making
of wheels, and they would not be sur
prised, so they express themselves, to see
before long in every big factory photo
graphic apparatus TO make examination OF
the steel. Hereafter the exact resistance
of tubing will be known and a guarantee
of perfection can be safely given. IL may
be also noted that since the catastrophe
of Tarbes, engineers have begun to test
steel with the X rays.
A German military baron writes re-
view of the strategy of the Turks in
Greece nearly as long as the Koran, a
part of which is published in 1.-The Army
and Navy Journal 1t recognizes the I'M
surpassed fighting qualities of the Turk,
who is, so to speak, born with a gun in
his hand and stuck round with daggers
and scimitars from his childhood. His
life is a constant training in the use of
both. He fights like a lion, but is not led
according to strict European methods.
The infantry march with an Indifferent
advance and rear guard; in action the
whole body is apt to rush upon the foe
with the Moslem war cry of "Allahi" the
shield and buckler of the faithful believ-
ed in as it's infallible watchword of vic
tory, and it does not consider it indis-
pensable always to retain a reserve. In
attack ne is impetuous and full of cour-
age; in defense he is tenacious, beginning
to shoot at longe range, and using up a
tremendous quantity of ammunition. The
field artillery is defective in its horse
equipment, but is altogether the best
drilled arm of the service; the cavalry is
enterprising and gives a good account
of itself, and the critics conclusions are
that, used as an instrument by the Eu-
ropean powers or any single one or group
of them, the Turkish army is formda-
bic lighting machine, capable of being
made more so when there is occasion for
il, but that any first-cass European pow
er could knock 1t out of time in single
swift campaign. There is no reason to
impugn this critical decision, which is
without doubt a correct one giving the
the credit that is due to it, at the same
time it points out the limitations in its
efficiency and power.
London shop girls are beginning to
take the place of the New York article in
number of the smaller stores, and one
of the interesting phases of this new de-
parturo is the conscientious way in which
some of the native-born girls employed
in these places initiate the Cockney ac-
cent of the importation, says the Philadel-
phia Times. These girls were seen first in
the shops established here as branches of
London firms, and, indeed, they predomi-
nate still in these places, which are higher
priced than any others in town. After
awhile the local establishments began to
initiate these by hiring Englishwomen,
and the result is that number of uptown
shops give one the impression that he is
shopping on New Bond or Regent street
The proprietors who engage these girls"
said a shopkeeper, who has stuck to the