The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

-schrader. the Divine Healer is in a
dime museum in Allegheny. Penn.
The cruiser Brooklyn will represent the
United States navy at the queens jubilee
next June.
The receipts of foreign wool at Boston,
Mass, for the past week aggregated g.
900 bales, breaking all records.
One Of the principal exports of the
Philippine Islands is hemp. In 1894 the
hemp marketed was valued at s7,ss3,OOO in
gold.
1t is said that the great demand for
breadstuffs from China and Japan is keep
ing the flour mills of Seattle running night
and day.
The town Of Prospect Me, balloted
nine times before it could decide who
should have the 81 that goes with the Of
fee of town constable.
"A poor wretch at Goettingen the other
day wrote a letter to a medical students
club, offering to let them have his body
after he died If they would give him $3.50
now. The students raised that sum for
him, and made him present of his body,
too.
Advanced vegetarians in England
have formed an association, binding them
selves to eschew not only animal food.
but also all articles composed in any de-
gree of substances involving the death Of
animals. This includes leather for shoes
and gloves, fat for soap. ivory, skins and
feathers.
japanese and Chinese vines have been
successfully acclimatized near Alencon,
in Northern France, in a district where
grapes for wine have never been raised.
Their fruit ripens in the middle of Sep.
TENDER and produces a fair weak vine
that can be used to cut the stronger
southern wines.
"A life spent in the Rukh has been
fittingly put an end to by man-eatine
tiger, the victim being the senior officer
of the Bombay forest service, Mr.. McGre-
gor He was killed in the Kanara jun
gle, where his predecessor and another
high official not long ago were severely
wounded by tigers.
The rat catcher at Windsor castle re-
ceives 10 pounds per annum and charwo>
men employed about the castle receive
80 pounds a year. 1t costs so pounds a
year to dust the books in the library or
the House of Lords and $50 pounds is ex>
pended in maintaining the refreshments
plant-such as glass, china and crockery
in the House of Commons.
The earth falls towards the sun one
tenth of an inch every second; that is to
say, at the end of every second it is one
tenth of an inch nearer the sun than it
would be if it moved in a straight line
instead of a curving orbit. This means
that a section of its orbit IS miles in
length is so nearly straight line that it
would be impossible with the most deli
cate measuring instruments to detect its
curvature.
"A record price for dog was realized
recently at the Birmingham dog show,
at the customary sale by auction of dogs
which had been claimed at catalogue
price by two or more persons. Mr.. r. s.
Williamsons ST. Bernard, Lord Hather-
ton, a young dog born in February las-.
which is said to be the best st. Bernard
ever exhibited, was catalogued at Sl,05O.
but, after a spirited bidding, the dog was
disposed of for ESQ to Mr. Joseph Royle
of Manchester.
Here is an instructive story, and one
quite new, about Queen Victoria 1t was
suggested to her the other day that Queen
Anne's statue, opposite ST. Paurs, should
service in order that the view might not
be Obstructed. When the proposal was
submitted to her majesty she refused to
sanction it. Il am unwilling to allow the
statue to be displaced" the queen is said
to have remarked. IF l permit il some
one may consider 1t a Justification for re-
moving my statue some day on a similar
occasion
Preliminary arrangements are com
pleted for laying across the English chan
mel two additional telephone cables says
the Philadelphia Record. This is the
longest submarine telephone line in the
world. The first will be laid shortly by
the English ship Monarch, the second be-
ing laid by the French government. When
the additional cables are duly installed it
is stated facilities for International tele-
phoning viii be given to the large COM
mercial centerS of England and France.
instead of combining them to the opera
tons of Paris and London, as at present,
because the existing lines are in continual
use. There will be thirty-four wires be-
tween England and France for use in tel
ephony.
The United States government has just
concluded a series of very successful tests
of the eophone upon the battleship Indi-
ana says the New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser. The instrument consists prin-
cipally of a plate, usually of metal. vary
ing in size. This serves as a dia-
phragm TO a resonance chamber. Con-
nected with this chamber are tubes lead
ing to any desired part of the vessel.
These tubes are sound conductors. The
eOphone is placed on top of the pilot house
of a ship, and by means of It sounds from
another vessel so distant that the report
of cannon on board could not be distIn-
guished by the ear. are easily heard. The
purpose of the invention is to give warn
ing in darkness or fog of the proximity
of another vessel or of a dangerous shore,
also for the transmission of sound sig
nails.
The fact has been recognized among
metal workers that the sole obstacle to
the wide use of aluminium was its high
cost as compared with other useful met
ais, says the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Therefore it will be good news to
learn through United States Consul Ger
main, at Zurich, that in a short time,
probably within year, the price OF this
metal will fan to about p cents per pound.
so that huf three oorn ,,,ator- lii