The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A fy's egg will hatch in twelve hours.
There is more snuff used in Boston
than in any other city of the United
States.
-Havre has sent a bronze statue of
Francis I, Weighing atom. TO St Peters
burg as a present from the town to the
car.
The scorpion is the most quarrelsome
creature in the world. Two placed in the
same box will always sting each other to
death.
Caesar did not say EFT tn, Brute"
Eye witnesses of the assassination de
posed that he died fighting but silent, like
a wof.
The first mention of the pipe organ
in history is In connection with Solomons
temple where there was an organ with
ten 2iSes.
The average number of novels issued
100 years ago in America and Great Brit
ain was sixteen. Now the average is two
or three day.
If man could jump as far. in pro
portion to his size and weight as a flea,
he could, at a single leap. pass from St.
Louis to Chicago.
limitation states, made of compressed
wood pulp, are used for roofing in Chris
tiania, Norway. They are made water
proof by a secret process.
The statistics published by the Trans
vaal chamber of mines show that 1910 600
tons of coal and 1856, 1856 ounces of gold
were mined in that state last year.
"A Rochester astronomer gives the COM
forting assurance that, because of our at
mospheric protection, "a large comet may
swish its tail against US with little effect,
except meteoric displays and magnetic
disturbances" says the st. Louis Globe
Democrat. The incident might also eX-
plain a visitation of airships.
ALI the Observation-Disclosures are leaping
up and down in a frenzy of glee at the
death in this city of two children upon
whom the Jennerian operation had recent
ly been performed, says the New York
Times. Membranous Group caused one of
the fatalities, and the other resulted from
the malady known as purpura hemorrha-
gica. Neither illustrated the perils of vac
cination any more than would have been
the case if a cable car had run over the
little unfortunates.
said to be bringing prosperity to a certain
locality in China, says the Manufacturer.
The eggs are employed in manufacture
the whites for the dyeing of textiles in
which albumen plays a prominent part,
and the yolks for dressing fine leather and
glove skins. The eggs are packed in chem
icals and are shipped by a German firm
which opens some 10000 per day. The
shells, at present, go to waste, though it
is thought some use may be found for
them later.
in Connecticut there is hardly
a farmer who does not raise tobacco,
says the Cincinnati Enquirer. The Con-
necticut leaf is particularly valuable for
wrapping purposes, and also excels in
flavor. In Ohio the growers say that the
total expenses of their crops average $S5
per acre, but they find tobacco-growins
profitable, even at those figures. There
is said to be a growing belief among
American tobacco consumers that home
grown tobacco equals the imported ar
ticle. Tobacco is grown in at least a
dozen states. Pennsylvania leading in the
amount of production, while Ohio has So,
900 acres given up to the culture, and an
average crop of 100000 pounds.
Spain is not so very poor, after all,
says the New York Times. It's people
enthusiasm, that extremely expensive
sport, bull1ghung, and still have enough
money left to respond to occasional APP
peals from the government for funds with
which to buy chains for use in Cuba. In
the season of 1896, extending from April
> to Oct. Is, there were, in one part and
another of the lberan Peninsula, 47S pub
lie exhibitions of the sort which civilized
nations hide behind abattoir walls. The
number of bulls killed amounted to l. 21S,
and each of the animals cost about $50,
making a total of nearly $500 600 for this
one item. To that sum must be added
the value of 5,730 horses, worth on the av-
erage $S5 apiece, and the salaries of sew
eral thousand talented butchers and zeal
GUS assistant butchers. One matador,
Guerrta, took part in sixtY-eight fights,
and, as his fee is $500 for every afternoon
work, he earned the comfortable sum of
SCI, 200, or $1,000 more than the President
of the United States gets for his possibly
not less valuable services. The other boss
slaughterers were paid enough to bring
the total for this branch of the bull-kill-
ing trade up to $500 $50 What the UNDER
linSs received is not stated, nor are the
returns explicit in regard to the profits
made by the people who manage these
pretty spectacles. The whole amount
drawn from the pockets of the delighted
public must have been well above 81 ,OOO-
900, and, as majority of those who pat
ronize bullhghts belong to the poorer class.
1t would seem as though the reports of
cruel poverty that have been coming from
Spain were somewhat exaggerated.
The Monthly Notices" of the ROYAL
Astronomical Society for January 1897
contains plates of drawings of Mercury
and Venus, made by Mr.. Lowell. at the
Flagstaff observatory, in 1896, says Prof
p. s. Holden in Science. The markings
on Mercury were Eat once conspicuous
with the new twenty-four-inch object
glass; those on Venus are perfectly dis
tinct and unmistakable." The writer made
a considerable number Of observations Of
Mercury in the years 1885 and very
large number of Venus in the year 1S79-'90
with telescopes of six, sixteen, twenty-six
and thirty-six inches in aperture, without
ever once seeing markings of the char
acter depicted by Mr.. Lowell. Other mark
ings Of the class drawn by Schiaparell
and many other observers have, on the
other hand been seen and recorded when
ever the conditions Of vision were good.
have no hesitation in saying that such
markings as are shown by Mr.. Lowell did
not exist on Venus hafora 1900 L.. -.