The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-13
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England.
"A report from British Columbia says
that crops and fruit prospects are exceed
ingly encouraging
1t is said that the working people in
Ireland-who live chiefly on the potato
never suffer from govt.
"A small number of women have served
as letter carriers In Britain for many
years and they give general satisfaction.
Except in the north, ireland is likely
to take very little part in the jubilee cele-
brations. Scarcely any preparation is be-
Ing made in the capital of the country.
If the land of England, Ireland and
Scotland were equally divided among the
inhabitants, each man, woman and child
would have two acres TO move about in.
Brooklyn became city in 1884, when
its inhabitants numbered 1850, and it is
about to end its separate history as a
municipality with population of 100000
-Austria's new parliament consists of
no less than twenty-five different politi-
cal parties, bitterly opposed to one an
other, except in their common hatred of
Hungary.
Iceland is peopled by the descendants of
vikings. including many famous warriors
and heroes. but they are so law-abiding
that they have but one policeman. The
solitary officer is maintained more for orn-
ament and dignity than for use. The Ice
landers think it would not do to have a
capital without policeman and so they
keep one. Iceland is an island 80, 756 square
miles in extent, or but little smaller than
the state of Ohio, and has population of
70,9H.
The copyright of Mrs Craiks famous
book, John Halifax. Gentleman" OK
pires next year, and in anticipation of this
event, 100000 copies of a 6-penny edition
have been issued, says an exchange. 1t
is said that the circulation of the novel
has reached a quarter million. Fifty
four years have passed since Mr.. RusKins
Modern Painters" was published. Now
an edition uniform with the other small
Ruskin sets has been decided upon. 1t
will contain all the matter and illustra-
tons of the original issue with everything
since added.
For over ten years an old German
named Count" Davier has been at work
on a set of claims near this city, develop
ing, as he claimed, a mine of uranium,
says a Deadwood, s. D., dispatch to the
Chicago Times Herald. He has In this
time sent samples of the ore to nearly
every mill in the United States and many
in Europe for the purpose of satisfying
himself that the metal was uranium. Re
ports just received show that the metal
he has located is uranium. The metal Is
extremely scarce, not being found in any
other part of the American continent and
in but one place in Germany. There are
no mills in the United States that can
properly reduce the ore. 1t is very val
liable.
Among other interesting novelties
shown at the recent international furni-
ture trades exhibition were various new
surgical beds and bedsteads for hospital
use. says the Philadelphia Record. One
of these beds is quite rigid, enabling a pa
tient to be laid stiff, and in other cases
the mattresses are curved upward, so
that the patient can always be laid on a
perfectly fiat surface, as a mattress so
constructed cannot sink in the center.
One bedstead is constructed so that either
or both head and bottom can be let down,
and another wonderful piece of mechan-
ism has an adjustable headpiece, which
can be raised or lowered by handle at
the foot so as to place a patient in any po-
sition.
In the years 1889 and 1892 a society in
Portland, Ore, introduced four hundred
pairs of song birds from Germany into
that state, at an expense of little more
than $1,000. OF these the plain and black
headed nightingales have probably be-
come extinct, because few of them sur
vived the long trip and none has since
been seen; but the other species have null
tiplied with great rapidity especially the
skylarks, which rear from two to four
broods every year, so that the whole
Willamette valley is full of them Be
sides these, says the New York Tribune,
there are black starlings, wood larks, song
thrushes, black thrushes, goldfnches,
chaffinches, ziskins, greenfinches, bull
tinches, crossbeaks, robin redbreasts, lin
nets, singing quails, gold hammers and
forest flnches.
One of the most interesting matters
brought out at the meeting of the homoe-
opathic physicians in this city was the
case of a S-year-old child of Joseph Be
ment of Oak Harbor, a neighboring viii
lage, which, despite all parents and phy-
sicians have been able TO do, has eaten off
the ends of its fingers and thumbs until
several fingers have had to be amputated
says Toledo dispatch TO the Philadel-
phia Record. When its hands are encased
in mitts 1t chips off bits Of its tongue un-
III that organ is so short it can never
talk. Its hands are an awful sight. II
was first observed doing this when but
10 months old, and continually grows
worse. Physicians say II has absolutely
no feeling in it's fingers or tongue. IL is
bright, handsome child, and its mother
mas almost worried herself into the grave
over the childs peculiar malady.
There is abig sawmin In Grandin. Mo.
many Of the departments Of which are in
charge Of women. There is a woman in
charge OF the engine One of the rooms
where the big saws are operated is also
aged by women. The lathe room Is also
populated with femininity. and the ma
chimes Of all sorts are handled by them. In
the rooms adjoining a force of young wo-
men are constantly employed fling and
getting the saws In shape for work. The
care of the machinery is in their hands.
and II Is said they are quite as adept and
as competent to handle II as any force vet
employed in the mill The different de-
partments Of the mill show the presence
of feminine hands and minds; for there
are various articles of adornment which
brighten even the waste places Of a saw
mill The walls have been tastefully dec
GRATED at many points, and the desolate
appearance OF most mills has been over
come.