The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Great Britain broke its record for ship
building in 1896, the number of tons launch
ed being 1885 SO, as against 1.156.5n tons
in 1895.
False alarms for ambulances. coming
with annoying frequency. are disquieting
the hospital authorities and surgeons in
| Montreal.
About 700 rabbits were killed in a drive
along the Crooked river. Crook county.
Oregon, the line of beaters extending at
the start four miles.
BY far the greater portion of the en-
| igrants from Britain still favor the Unit
ed States, but Canadian emigration is
slowly on the increase.
The half-yearly report of the Manches-
ter ship canal states that the receipts
show an increase of So over the CORE
| spending half Of last year.
England has one member Of parliament
every 7,177, Scotland one for every s,974,
and Wales one for every 9,61S.
Only seventy years have elapsed since
the. first railway in the world was finished.
During that comparatively brief period
| 100000 miles have been constructed.
"A Kansas woman, who Travelled to St.
Louis to marry man who had advertised
for a wife, has brought suit against him
because he backed out when he saw her.
"A lady in Boston has been lecturing on
the subject of onions. declaring that if
eaten literally, particularly in the spring.
| the body is effectually protected against
disease.
The winter has been so mild in Eng
land that as early as February twenty
snowdrops, crocuses and other spring
| flowers were in full bloom in the Kew
| Gardens.
DR. Benjamin Eddy Getting has just
| resigned the place of curator of the Lowell
Institute of Boston, after a continuous
| service of fifty-fve years. Although he
| is So years old, he is in full possession
| of all his faculties.
The state geologist of Kentucky has
| grieved and disappointed many of it's citi-
zens by declaring that there is no gold in
| the state. Some ore recently analysed by
| another chemist was found to contain cop
| per and iron, but not gold.
| -Nine-tenths of the whisk brooms sold
and used in the United States are made
from broom corn grown in Kansas. Most
| of the brooms are manufactured in Roch-
| ester and other eastern cities. but the raw
material comes from Kansas.
Among the birds there are few better
fighters than a goose or a gander more
particularly. The ragged white Russian
! geese bite ferociously; it is no mere peck
with them; they bite and hang on with
all the tenacity of a bulldog.
The Legislature of North Dakota at
tempted, at it's recent session, to enact a
complete new revenue law, and now, it
| is said, that by a curious oversight no
! provision was made in the law for the
| collection of state taxes assessed and lev
| led in 1896. A special session of the legis-
lature may be needed to remedy the de-
feet.
! Greek proper names have been the
source of considerable study to the reading
public of the United States since the Greek
troubles began and the pronunciation of
| the names of some of the officials who are
| prominent in Athens at the present time
| has been the subject of controversy, SAYS
the New York Tribune. A man who is
well versed on the subject said that the
modern Greek popularity was to a great
extent the accentuation and gave as an in
stance the name of Mauromich ales, the
Greek secretary of the interior. The name
is pronounced Mov-ro- michalis, with
strong accent on the second syllable. The
secretary of foreign affairs. Alexander
Skouzes, pronounces his name Sko-u-zes,
with strong accent on the u. The name Of
Philip Narvogles, minister of justice, is
pronounced Var-vo-chlees, the CHI in the
third syllable being hard like the Ger
man CHI Nicholas Metaxas, minister of
war, has an easy name for foreigners, but
the minister of marine, Levides, pro-
nounces his name Levee-thes. The pres
ident of the Chamber of Deputies writes
his name Zaimes and pronounces it
Za-i-mis. with accent on the second sylla-
bic. Canaris, the fleet commanders name
is pronounced Can-arees, with accent on
the first syllable. The name of Deyannis
appears in pint every day and most read
ers have ideas as to its pronunciation His
Greek neighbors call the premier Delee-
yanees with accent on the second sylla-
bic. Like the Russians, the Greeks have
no family names, except in the higher
walks of society, and man whose name
is gregorious will call his son Gregoriades
pronouncing the much like tn in though
The son of Demetrius is called Demeth-
riades. one of the most common names
in Greece is Pappadopoulous, which may
be any man whose father was a priest
and man instead of taking the name An
tonades may call himself by the longer
name, if Father Antonio was a priest
me IN Antoniades, Pappadopoulos and
in all names where ii comes before a VOW
Ell, is pronounced like tn in though
"A few days ago the police station at
Apeldoorn, in Holland, was telephonically
Informed by a maiden lady of the name Of
Sprank that she. her two sisters. all the
maids and the stranger within her gate
had locked themselves up each in her own
room, and were at present in terror of
their lives by reason of "a man in the
Kitchen says the Philadelphia Record
The telephone went on 60 say that the
burglar in question had empted the con-
tents OF. the plate basket with crash
upon the ground, and that he seemed
at present to be cooking something at
the family stove. In consequence of this
message three trustworthy agents of the
Apeldoorn police took their revolvers and
sabers and marched to the assistance of
the Misses Sprank. They found, after
forcing a shutter and getting into the
kitchen, that something was certainly
cooking on the stove, for certain meats
had been burnt 10 a ciuder Those bpvv-