The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Already nine-tenths of the trade Of
Bangkok is in English hands
The British navy estimates for the
current year aggregate $11OOo0,OOO.
The mayor of Greater New York has
the appointing of $4,000 oficeholders.
The Rome Iron Company of Rome. Ca,
is to build twenty new charcoal ovens.
-Alabam coal. coke and iron outputs
for 1896 were the greatest in it's history.
More accidental deaths occur in Brit
ain from drowning than from any other
cause.
AT the British army maneuvers at AL
dershot in August fifteen militia battalions
will be modified.
The British embassy in Washington
costs the people of England about $4,000
a year. The German embassy costs about
$4,000, the French about $4,000, and the
Italian $4,000.
"A woman attending service in the Park
Avenue church. Syracuse, removed her
pretty spring hat and sat with uncovered
head throughout the service. Some of the
Syracuse papers are commencing her
highly, and say that the custom of remov-
ing hats in church should be just as much
of an item for public comfort as it is in
the theaters.
"A Hamburg woman who insisted on
committing suicide on a fixed date, with
no apparent reason, has been discovered
by Prof. Krafft-Ebing of Vienna to have
been hypnotized by her husband. He had
insured her life for 0000 marks, the policy
holding good even if the person insured
fa1 do
ter it was issued. She is now suing for
a divorce.
"A company dried a well near Elwood,
Ind, and plugged it up, refusing to tell
anybody what had been found, says the
Buffalo Express. Immediately all the farm
lands in the neighborhood began to sell al
fabulous figures. We wonder if the COM
pany which plugged the well owned those
farm lands. Whether it did or not, there's
a hint in the story of a way to make
money out of farm lands these hard times.
The cause of temperance is not making
any Roadway in England. The average
consumption per family of five persons is
Els 1Ss Cd, about 800 per year. the total
amount spent for liquor during 1896 being
f148 972 $40, or over &c, 600 more than in
1895. Since 1871 the amount spent for liq-
uors has increased f30,000,O 900, although it
is hoped that compulsory education would.
tend to abate the evil of intemperance.
The number of abstainers in Great Britain
is estimated at 100000.
The supreme court Of Tennessee has
declared that the shedding of tears by the
lawyer when pleading on behalf of his
client is not only allowable, but is among
the natural rights of counsel which no
statute or constitution could take away"
says the Philadelphia Record. Indeed, says
the court IF counsel have tears at COM
mand it may be seriously questioned
whether it is not his pro-
fessional duty to shed them
whenever proper occasion arises" The
case wherein this decision was rendered
the tears of the plaintiffs attorney were
alleged to have unduly moved the sympa-
thies of the jury in her behalf.
Perhaps one Of the most singular uses
to which glass has been put is one which
has lasted almost without interruption
from the first making to the present day,
says the Pittsburg Dispatch. The Phoe-
nicians, who were the great commercial
people of that age, secured the known,
and much of the then unknown world, in
their trading vessels. The African coast
was regularly visited. and for the use of
the ignorant natives glass beads were
made. Some Of the same beads then
used, and known to us as "aggry" beads,
have been found among the Ashantees and
other natives of the gold coast of Africa.
Similar beads for the same use are now
made in Venice, and it is said that there
are exported from that city every year
thousands of pounds worth of them of
various sorts.
The cult of Marat is the latest fashion
in Paris. The other day, according to the
Debats, a copy of mis- works was sold for
the sum of 5000 francs, and now the mu-
nicapal council has determined to set up a
statue Of Marat in one of the public
squares of Paris. There is one already
in the lumber-room of the Hotel de Vile.
which was at one time set up in a public
thoroughfare, but was removed owing to
the protestations of influential Parisians.
This determination to put Marat on a
pedestal again places the project of the
Seine in an awkward fix. 1t will be diff
cult for him to refuse to accept the decis-
ion of the municipal council and at the
same time he is naturally disinclined to
run counter to the more sober opinion of
Paris. The best thing he could do, thinks
the Westminster Gazette, would be to set
up a statue of Charlotte Corday on the
other side of the road One would coun-
teract the other, and both sides would be
pleased.
and consumption" said Judge Christiancy
of the pension Office TO a Washington Star
reporter, lis something enormous, and a
great deal more so than those who have
not had the opportunity to examine into
it have the slightest idea of. don't desire
TO deluge you with statistics, but my ex-
animation and that of others who have
had better facilities satisfy me that the
peanut ranks second to anything else used
as a fruit. The banana ranks first BY
this 1 do not confine myself 20 this coun-
try alone. l refer to the consumption
throughout the world. We are shipping
peanuts to-day to every part of the world
and in Paris London. throughout Italy
and Germany and England have already
got the African peanut on the run, and
are going to make 1t run very fast be-
fore we get through. The peanut that we
ship does not compare, however, with the
nut that is sold in our own country but
IL has secured the market from the Afri-
can peanut, which, only few years ago
was the only nut which was sold In Eu-
rope In the ZOOS of Europe to-day the
children are feeding American peanuts to