The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
As a rule, mans hair turns gray five
years sooner than woman's.


every week from the London penny-in-
the-slot gas meters. 1t Is proposed to sup
| ply electricity on the same plan.
In 1913 a maid servant named Marga-
ret Davy suffered death by boiling in
England for secret poisoning in three
households in which she had lived.
"A chimney weighing nearly 100 tons
was recently moved $50 feet at Bingham
| ton, N Y, on a sled by six men and one
morse. The task occupied nine days.
Some of the Moosehead (Nde.) guides at
the present high prices paid for live bait
find the catching of it for the sportsmen
| more lucrative than guiding at s. a day.
Pennsylvania produces hardware man
ufactures to the value of $685.. 100000 yearly.
which is equivalent to $74 per inhabitant,
the average in Great Britain being S19 and
in Germany $40.
IA correspondent of Nature says that
ian acquired immunity from the bites of
mosquitoes and domestic pets is not I'M
common in British India, and 1 have re-
joiced in it myself"
-Italy's exports for the first four
months of 1897 were 1856, $40 francs, while
her imports were S79, 794 100 francs. This is
the hrst time IN twenty-six years that the
exports exceed the imports
AT the recent annual exhibit of the
Witwatersrand Agricultural Society at
Johannesburg seven machinery prizes
were awarded to Americans two to Ger
mans and eleven to English manufac-
turers.
Mackenzie Bell, the London literateur,
whose poetical works were reviewed in
the Commercial Advertiser some months
ago, sounds a note of warning on the dan
ger of celluloid. Writing to the "St James
kazette," he says: you spoke the other
day of the danger of using celluloid in the
jubilee decorations, but neither you nor
the medical contemporary to which you
referred, emphasized sufficiently the ter
rible danger which may arise when using
this, material Not only is cellulold most
infiammable, but it is absolutely inextin-
guishable, as will be seen if a match is
brought into contact with a celluloid pa
per knife. With noise like the fixing
of squib it then at once bursts into
flame, not ceasing to burn until totally
destroyed. This perilous substance is said,
though 1 know not on what authority to
be largely answerable for the tragedy of
the Partisan bazaar, the ruins which some
of us have recently visited. The specta-
to be exposed to the risk of CONGREGATIONS
through the use of celluloid."
As is often the case with evil insects
and weeds, as soon as the tipping system
obtained a foothold in this country it be-
gan to develop prodigiously, says the New
York Times. From the insignificant an
noyance which tipping was and is in Eu-
rope it soon became downright blackmail,
conducted on a scale that is rapidly becom-
ing uncomfortable. In England and on the
continent copper coins will still satisfy
majority of the exactions of this sort,
while here only silver will do as a second
| recompense for the most trifiing service.
In amount it must be at least tenth of
the nominal price for what one gets, and
| often the enforced proportion rises to
| half or two-thirds. A few Americans once
| in a while muster up courage enough to
| leave untipped a barber or a waiter whom
they are never likely to see again, but
| even in these cases it is necessary to bear
| away burden of heaped-up scorn that
| robs the economy of all it's joys. AS for
| giving one of these servitors two cents,
the very possibility of such an act would
! never enter an American mind-in Amer
| lea. Yet in England, where the tip is at
home if anywhere, people write indignant
| letters to the newspapers if a gratuity
| of threepence is not accepted with dem
| onstrations of loving gratitude, and the
| angry correspondent is informed by his
editorial advisers that the man should
have been reported to his employer, and
| that the latter would have turned the inso-
| lent fellow into the street. In commenting
| on one such communication a London
| journal says that at restaurants in the
| city walters are usually content with
| penny, and very rarely get a larger fee.
| In places like Gatti's two or three pence
| will preserve the diners self-respect and
| insure careful attention to him next time.
| AT the more SNOWY and fashionable West
| End restaurants the levy rises TO sixpence.
| and there are only one or two resorts so
| dreadfully aristocratic that nothing less
| than a shilling will fill the walters palm.
| These sums would be regarded with de-
| risive contempt in a land like this, where
| 10 cents must be added to the price of the
| simplest luncheon, and every barber must
receive, in addition to his wages, two
| thirds as much from each occupant of his
chair as goes to the owner of the shop.
-Apropos of Count vorontzoff Dash
koff's resigns ton of the post of minister
of the imperial court and appanages and
director of the imperial stud the St Pet
ersburg correspondent of the London
Times telegraphs as follows: 1.-THE EN-
peror Paul, whose reign was certainly not
one Of the most brilliant, was neverthe-
| less, one of the greatest benefactors of
der of succession on a permanent basis
but also endowed his posterity with the
material means of maintaining their posi-
ton. 1t is claimed that no other reignine
family in Europe is so well provided for
Paul set aside a vast amount of landed
property under the name OF the imperial
appanages for the sole benefit Of all grand
dukes and grand duchesses not In the di-
rect line of succession, while the sovereign
and the heir apparent, together with their
respective families, were to be supported
out OF the funds of the state. These ap-
panages of the Russian imperial family
now cover the enormous total era in diff
ferent parts of Russia of p, 900 900 acres
an extent of land larger by 100000 acres
than the whole of Scotland. This total
includes 100000 acres of wood and for
est, producing yearly more than 100000
roubles. The total annual revenues Of the
Imperial appanages now reaches 20 100000
roubles, or more than f2,00O0OO and, with
no fewer than forty-six members of the
imperial family to support, the expendi-
ture at present amounts to a yearly av-
erage of over 100000 roubles. In 1891 Il
was over 100000 roubles. The appanages
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