The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AT Gelsen Kirchen, Westphalia, Ger
many, a coliery shaft is being sunk to
reach a depth of $500 feet.
-ostend is to have new docks. at cost
of S15oOO,OOO. The Belgian government
win share the expense with the city.
The sandstone industry of Connecticut
amounted to S426O29 in the past year,
against 1881. 1873 in 1895. The most produe-
tive quarries are near Cromwell and Mid
dletown.
"A single New England railroad COM
pany has just chartered three big four-
masted schooners TO freight coal contin-
ually for it from Newport News to FAN
River for one year.
--Grasshoppers in Jackson county, Mich.
have undergone change of appetite. and
have been eating the binding Irvine from
the bundles of wheat causing farm
hands the extra labor of rebinding.
In Illinois there is big steel plant
where the redhot ingots, billets and plates
are handled by huge electro-magnets.
They take steel Weighing five tons and
transport it safely to any distance.
"A law passed at the recent session of
the Alabama legislature levying a license
tax on the capital stock of all corpora.
tons, except banks, has been pronounced
constitutional by the supreme court of the
state
An Irish musical festival has recently
been held in Dublin. at which, besides the
performance of ancient Irish music many
objects of musical interest were on view.
Selections were performed on the old Irish
bagpipes.
The value of the different kinds of
stone granite, marble, slate, sandstone,
limestone and bluestone), quarried in the
United states in 1896, according to the
United States government report, which
juse has been published, was SS1, $40, III,
against $s4,6SS,s16 in 1895.
IA queer thing has been discovered in
connection with the big steel cargo ships
built recently in the Great Lakes, says the
New York Press. The John Scott Russell,
after being loaded a few days ago, sank
before she had gone a mile from her pier
IL was found that many rivets were MISS
ing from her bottom and sides, and inves-
ugation showed that they had been shear
ed Off by the straining and grinding OF her
steel plates caused by her pitching when
she was running light. 1t Is believed now
that the total loss three years ago of the
Gilcher and Western reserve, both steel
ships OF the latest type, was due TO the
same fault.
The jewellers on the banks of the
Neckar, near the good old German town
of Hebron, had an experience the other
day which must have reminded them of
the miraculous draught of fishes, says the
Westminster Gazette. A few days ago, to-
wards evening. the worthy Heilbronners
perceived that the Neckar was towards
both of its banks one moving mass Of all
sorts and conditions of fish, thronging
landwards in seeming anxiety TO be
caught. Nor was this tacit appeal a
all disregarded, for every man, woman
and child of the vicinity ran out with pots
and pans, with spades and rakes, and
pals and baskets to help himself Cor her
self TO a share of fish. The explanation
of the miracle. which perchance might
prove hint to fisherfolk, was that the
river had become muddy, after recent
heavy rains. that the fish found it difn-
cult to breathe in the thick" water and
had approached the banks for mere air.
Many physicians agres that heavy
drinkers eat but little. says the Chicago
Inter-Ocean. In those accustomed to the
use Of fermented drinks digestion is slow
er. If we habitually drink water we are
always hungry in three or four hours af-
ter eating. Some reason from this that al
coholic drinks are nourishing, while water
tenn impregnated with alcohol is in a NOR
bid condition. Obesity. gravel. rheumatism
and other ailments often result. Messrs.
Chittenden and Mendel of Yale university
have demonstrated by test tube expert
ments that fermented drinks retard the
chemical processes of digestion. Expert
ments have also conclusively proved that
in twenty days the same number of men
can do much more work when drinking
water than when they drink wine, beer
and brandy. For the first six days they ac-
complish more with the strong liquors,
showing its stimulating effects, but IL has
been conclusively proved that in the longer
time the man fed with water gives out
more energy. Water is the natural drink,
while wines, under the advice of COM
petent physician, are very valuable addi-
tons to the pharmacopeia.
The omnibus and cabs are the chief
means Of transportation to be observed in
London, but the most important factor
in the intramural traffic is the under
ground railway, with lines running through
tunneli nder the buildings and streets of
the cit radiating from its important sub
urbs, Us the Chautauquan. The immense
traffic which flows through the conven-
iently located stations below the street
level is for the most part concealed from
view The figures tell the story however,
year amounts to a little less than l0O,OOOOO0
and their fares average less than five cents
each. To enter one of the dimly lighted I'M
foreground stations, and then be whirled
along in the darkened subways through a
continuous cloud of smoke, is an exper-
fence which requires frequent forbearance,
not to say physical condition, are able to
submit to the ordeal with grace. in Amer
lea, outside of st. Louis, there are few
railroad tunnels which, In proportion to
length, can be held responsible for so much
Of ill-humor and physical discomfort. Still
the underground lines of London have
much Of facility, and an economic impor-
lance sufficient withal 20 offset their disad-
vantages.
Unlike the honey bees, the bumblebee
queens to their credit be Il said are not
Of a Jealous disposition. but live peace
fully together in one nest until In the
autumn the family breaks up, the old
queens workers and drones pershing
while the young queens. forsaken and
alone, crawl away TO some protected spot
wherein to pass the winter, and reappear
IN the spring and found another colony,
says 81. Nicholas. II you should examine
a bumblebees nest you would probably
find among our busy, Woodworking