The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| Vespasian to accommodate 10000 specta-
tors. 1t covers 81 acres, and was 12o feet
high.
"A company has been organized at Sc
attic, Wash, to develop the coal and oil
fields recently discovered in Alaska, $50
miles west of Juneau; 5000 feet of pipe has
| been ordered for the purpose from this dis
| trict
The German people, who in 1916 num-
| bered only 100000, are now more than
40, 900, 900, and their present rate of increase
| is greater than that of any other Euro
pean nation. They add yearly lis to ev-
cry 10000 of their population, while the
United Kingdom adds 101 to the same num-
Der, and France only 26.
The Empress of Japan, one of the Ca
madam Pacific railway steamships, has
just completed the fastest trans-Pacific
passage on record. She went from Van
couver to Yokohama in eleven days, and
thence to Hong Kong in eighteen. This
included stops An average speed of sew
enteen knots was maintained.
Live bees, according to Ice and Refrig-
Grafton, are sometimes shipped on ice so
as to keep them dormant during the jour
ney, says an exchange. This is particu-
larry the case when humble bees have been
taken to New Zealand, where they are
useful in fertilizing the red clover that
has been introduced into the colony.
New York consumes 10000 more than
100000 dozens of eggs every year-al-
most a billion Placed end to end they
would reach 30,00Omiles, entirely around the
earth with about 5000 miles to spare May
be you think that's a good many eggs for
New York, but it's less than a dozen a
week for every inhabitant of the town
They cost 100000 or about as much as
it cost to build the Brooklyn bridge.
The proportionate use of letters in the
printing of a newspaper is as follows
e, 1OOO t, no. a, 72S; i, 7O4; s, $50; o, 672;
n 670 h, $40, r u.s. d, 1872; l. $50; o. 672 /:
2SO; m, 272; f, 236; W, 1870; y, 1874; and g.
1853; b. los; V, 120; k SS; j, So q, 50; X, 49, D. p
"a total of 597 consonants and g. 400 VOW
els. In the matter of initial letters the
proportion is much different. takes the
lead with 1,194; next with 937; then p, 1854 i;
a. ga; t, 81; d. sos; b, 463 m, 439; f. 3SS; j.
81, e, $40; h, 3GS; l. 29S; r, POI; W 272; g, 266;
u, rs; o, POS; v 172 n, 1853; j, SO; O. IS; k, Al;
y, 49, z, Is and X, 4.
"A large number of prominent Method
list laymen of Indiana have issued a call
for a mass meeting in Indianapolis on
Sept. 10 to advocate larger representation
for the laity in the general conference
Two and a half million laymen," they
say, have but one-third of the represen-
tatives in the general conference. while
1900 preachers have two-thirds. The lay
men furnish the millions of money to car
ry on the work of the church in all her
various departments The impolcy, to
say nothing of the injustice, in denying
them an equal voice in its disbursement
and in the general management of the
| church is painfully apparent"
Extreme plumpness would be avoided
if the rockingham were given up says
the Ladies Home Journal. If women
were less lazy they would not grow so
stout. No woman can reduce her flesh
! who lacks courage. The woman who is
| inclined to be stout can gain a pound
quicker in a day than the slender woman
can in a year. 1t is said that when the
| beautiful Empress of Austria discovered
| that her waist was growing larger and
| that her beautifully chin was
| losing its curve, She the finest horsewo-
man in the world, gave up riding and
| took long walks every day and in all sorts
| of weather. To grow thin you must ex-
ercise. Walk if you can, but better STILL
work; keep mind and body busy Above
| all, renounce everything that comes from
the confectioner. Eat moderately of IN
! derdone meat, green vegetables. salads
and those fruits that are slightly acid
Drink but little, battle regularly, taking
tepid baths. Constant work will do more
to reduce ones flesh than anything else.
In the town of Hanover, in Germany,
| Evangelist Moody writes in his Bible class
discourse in the August Ladies' Home
| Journal there is buried German count
| ess who denied the existence of God and
| ridiculed the idea Of the resurrection. To
fnar fIa.a,s 1trN l.,
| ity, she ordered that on her death her
| grave should be built up of solid mason
| ry and covered by large stones bound to-
| gether by iron clamps. On this tomb was
| engraved her defiant challenge that
| through eternity this tomb should never
| be disturbed. But one day the seed from
| some tree, either blown by the wind or
carried by a bird. became lodged i'm a
small crevice of the tomb. where soon il
| sprouted and began to grow. And then.
| as if nature had seemed to mock the
| naughty infidel. she quietly extended the
delicate roots of that Seeding under the
| massive blocks of stone and SLOWLY raised
them from their place. And now. although
| scarce four generations are passed since
| that tomb was sealed, that most insignif-
| cant seedllng has accomplished what God
| Himself was challenged to accomplish"
The capitulations of the Ottoman en-
pire are a series of grants of privilege and
| immunity, accorded by various sultans to
those Christian nations with which they
| have desired to maintain commercial or
| political Intercourse. says A. D. f. Ham
! lin in the Forum. The name is derived
! from the sections or capitula into which
! they are divided. They were not original
| ly treaties, for no Moslem could, under
the Sacred Law-the Sharlye Sharlf-
\ treat with Christian powers as equals.
'Mohammedan Jurisprudence" saws Van
| Dyck, recognizes between Mohammedan
and n-Mohammedan nations but one
/ category OF relatiOns-that of Diebad or
Holy War" BY the Sacred Law all
Giaours christian dogs) are under the
ban. Yet. although devoted TO destruc-
ton they may be spread for season.
whenever this is for the advantage of Is
lam. Now the Mohammedan conquerors
were people Of neither commercial nor
seafaring by instinct. IL accordingly be-
came necessary in the Middle Ages to en-
courage commerce with the west bv CON
cessions TO the traders Of Chrlstendom.
and II was this necessity which produced
the capitulations. These were called Aid
Namah or Tamassuk: that Is, letters Of