The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-27
ITEMS of INTEREST.

"A stone the size Of a hens egg, con-
tanning 30 cents worth of gold, has ex-
cited residents near Galeton, Potter coun-
ty, Pa.
The evidence of Mr.. Subramaniya
Tyer, the native evidence of a Hindoo
newspaper in Madras, before a committee
OF inquiry held at the Indian Office in Lon
don, the other day, shows that India is a
perfect paradise for the money lender,
says the New York Commercial Adver-
tiser When asked what had become of all
the gold and silver imported into India
during recent years, and why it was not
lent to the Indian government Mr.. Tyer
admitted that the native money lender got
as much as u per cent. among his own peo-
pie, and that the great native capitalists
who deal in native bills of exchange aver
aged per cent. per month No wonder
that his evidence showed that the poor
Indian cultivator was a Save in the
hands of the banker.
The most valuable of small dogs is the
Japanese spaniel, says the New York Sun.
A dog year old, weighing three and one
bali pounds is worth 800. The dogs sell
dom weigh less than three and one-half
pounds, but as they decrease in weight
they Increase in value. A three-pound
spaniel is worth much more than one
weighing three and one-half pounds, and
one Weighing two and three-quarters or
Two and one-half pounds very much more
Japanese spaniels have been sold for as
much as $500 There are large Japanese
spanlels that are not imported and have
no special value; the small dogs are very
rare, and their rarity doubtless adds con-
siderably to their value. but they are high
~ priced otherwise. They are good-na-
tured and lively little creatures. Their
markings are black and white and white
and yellow, and some dogs are marked
with all three colors. The Japanese span
iel lives about ten years.
1t sometimes happens that trifiing
scratch or puncture made with pen gives
rise to dangerous septicaemia, says the
London Lancet. The chemical constitu-
ents of the ink which is introduced by
the pen into the wound are not capable of
producing septicaemia, but microscopical
examination proves that the i'll effects are
due to the liability of ink to contain pa
thogenic bacteria. DR.. Marpmann of Leip-
sic has recently published the results of
the microscopical examination of sixty
seven samples of ink used in schools
Most OF them were made with gall-nuts
and contained saprophytes, bacteria and
micricocci. Nigrosin ink, taken from a
freshly opened bottle, was found to con-
tain both saprophytes and bacteria. In
two instances DR.. Marpmann succeeded
in cultivating from nigrosin ink a bicillus
which proved fatal to mice within four
days This ink had stood in an open bot
tie for three months, and the inference
to be drawn from the inquiry is that ink
used in schools should always be kept
covered when not in use.
The London Times correspondent in
st. Petersburg publishes some curious in
Form i'm TO
sian imperial family. 1t is one of the
richest in the world. Apart altogether
from the civil list, which usually amounts
to fl,5O0,0O0 a year. but which may, of
course, be increased by imperial order the
house of Romanoff owns q 100000 acres in
different parts of Russia which, under a
system laid down in the reign of the En-
peror Paul, are managed by special bu-
reau called that of the Imperial Appan-
ages, which is controlled by a minister
who reports to the emperor alone, and
takes no orders from the ministry Of
finance. The ministry of appanages now
enjoys revenue of more than 100000.
out OF which forty-six grand dukes and
ducheSses are supported, at an average
cost of $780, 600, or say f11,0O0 year per
prince or princess. The remaining income
is suffered to accumulate in order to meet
the cons family increasing number Of mem
bers of the imperial family, who are by
no means always satisfied with their do
nations. The sums, though large, are not
derived from taxation, and are .proba blv
less than those enjoyed by the Hapsburgs,
who are as corporation immense land
owners, not to mention the great fortunes
of two or three branches of the family.
or than those of the house of Gilman.
The revenue of the Hohenzollerns exceeds
100000, and that of the house of SAVOY
is more than 100000 a year, the British
house being, among the greater sovereign
houses, by far the poorest.
In these days of belligerent small
things, when almost any little insular ma
ton may bob up and declare war against
some other little nation too small to draw
a bead on, it is essential that the general
reader should recognize whether or not
such a declaration is a forgery, says the
Chicago Record. If that declaration hasn't
the Endorsement of the legislative BODY
IT isn't loaded, but If the reader doesn't
know the name of the legislative body
now is he TO judge? Some of these law
making bodies which have the privilege
of breaking a quorum and making pi ont
OF English type may be named as follows
The Reichrath, Austria; the Orszageyules
Hungary; the Chung Chi Chu, China: the
Mel WI Flu, Korea; the Rigsdag, Den
mark; Bureau des Affaires Tunishiennes
Tunis; Bundesrath and Reichstag Ger
hGlCnS-
rathe, Bavaria; Burgerschaft, Bremen:
Staats ministerlum, Brunswick: Diet
-Schewerin; Herrenhaus and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Prussia Landstanda
Wurtemburg; Boule, Greece; Senate and
Camera di Deputau, Italy; Imperial Diet
Japan; Statesgeneral, Netherlands; Volks-
Rad, Orange Free State; Cortes Geraes
Portugal; Narodna- Skupshtina, Servia
Senaoodi, Siam; Cortes CONSTITUENCIES.
spain; Storthing, Norway; Standrath and
Nationlrath, Switzerland: Ulema, Turkey
In good many of the lesser countries of
the globe, of course. the chief ruler is the
whole thing, and good deal harder 10
pronounce, as, for instance Shah Nasr-ed-
DIN OF Persia, and Chulalongkorn /. OF
Siam. -
AT certain hours of the day. especially
at o'clock in the morning or Just be-
fore shutdown, the exact reproduction of
nude woman upon a pane of glass in an
unpretentious dwelling of Kankakee As
plainly visible, says the Chicago Chroni-
Gle. How It came there Is a question
scientists may be able to answer. AS he
woman bears close resemblance to a
former OcCuDant of the duotItprr