The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| Siberian exiles are now to proceed by
a new railway from Tomsk to Krasno-
| jarsk. a distance of 500 versts, instead of,
as formerly, on foot. The journey will
thus occupy only forty hours instead of a
whole month. The frightful outrages per
petrated among the convicts at the va
rious roadside 'lock-ups'' will become a
thing of the past, and these lock-ups are
to be used as elementary schools
A jubilee for a long reign is not new,in
the worlds history, says an exchange.
When in the year B. c. 1888 Rameses II.
had reigned for 81 years a magnificent
| general rejoicing took place with great
| pomp on the banks of the Nile On the
| rocks at Silsilis there is a full account of
| these festivities which were on a very
| grand scale, and it is recorded that GER
tain high state officials traversed the coun-
try from north to south in order to make
the necessary preparations.
The British consul at Apia sends some
what depressing accounts of the condition
of trade in Samoa He saws the trade of
Great Britain and her colonies in Samoa
mas declined, also that of the United
States and Germany. The cultivation of
cofree and cotton has been abandoned for
some time, and the fresh experiments
which have been made in coffee growing
nave been without result. Bankruptcy
threatens bankers and shopkeepers. and
he fears that the market will recover it's
purchasing powers but very slowly
"A serious effort is being made to check
profanity in Switzerland, says the New
York Commercial Advertiser. People 60
about with what they cali Course cards"
| in their pockets, and whenever thew hear
| an oath they present one of these cards
to the swearer and ask him to sign il.
| upon the card is printed a pledge to keep
| from swearing for a special time or to
pay small fine to some charity. Nearly
| 10000 of these cards have been distributed
already. 1t should be observed that the
SWISS nave three languages to swear in.
-Mutsu Hito, the Mikado of Japan. is
said to be very remarkable man. He is
now in his 47th year, and in the very
| prime of life. He is fond of reading books
and newspapers and is especially partial
to German works. He Is a poet, and can
| versify freely. He reads and signs all the
| parliamentary laws and DEGREES, and is
| very careful to investigate everything He
| is very firm and decided and when his
| mind is made up he cannot easily be NOV
| ed. He takes considerable pains to IN
| derstand the condition of the working
classes, and he is also very careful in IA
miliarizing himself with the private con-
duct of his cabinet ministers.
The Raddatz submarine boat made a
successful test trip beneath the surface
of Fox river, says the Milwaukee Senti-
mel. Descents and ascents were made
without difficulty, and a considerable voy-
| age was taken. 1t was found necessary
after a number of trips had been made the
| first time it was put into the water to add
to the dimensions of the boat in order that
more powerful machinery might be car
ried: This has now been done after a
weeks work. Mr. Raddatz has been in
| Milwaukee for some time building a large
| engine of his own invention to which pow
| er can be applied without the use of coal.
Thus smoke is done away with while the
| boat is submerged. The various parts of
the prope.ling gear, after being set UP in
the engine shops of the E. 2. Allis Compa-
ny in Milwaukee, were packed in small
| boxes and shipped to this city where the
submarine boat was lying. The boxes were
not opened until safely deposited inside
the cigar-shaped hull, in order that prying
| investigators might not learn Mr. Rad
DATES valuable secret. The boat will, if
the calculations of the inventor prove true.
| Withstand a pressure of 300 pounds per
square inch. The depth to which it can
descend at this rate will be about 600 feet
under water.
"A too brief dispatch announces that
Gov. Mount of Indiana had resolved to
! pdiNOu Out OI the PRISONS ana TeIOTfndtOIy
| institutions of that state all convicts who
are suffering from consumption, says the
| New York Times. He has already re-
! quested the doctor in the reformatory hos
| pital at Jeffersonville to draw up a list of
the inmates suffering from the disease in
question, in order that they may be par
doned and released and he sent his sec
rotary to the Michigan City prison TO find
out how many such cases exist there. II
will be interesting TO learn on what
grounds Gov. Mount bases his decidedly
surprising intention. Is il out of pity for
the consumptive prisoners themselves that
he has resolved to release them, or is it
due to appreciation of the danger that
they may transmit the malady to their
companions and so change the punishment
of the latter from Imprisonment to death?
Something might be said in support of
| either of these excuses, and yet neither
of them is adequate to serve as a justi-
hcation or even as an explanation for a
course so unusual. Nobody fully equipped
with common sense would make perfect
health the only condition under which a
criminal should suffer confinement for his
transgressions, and why consumption any
more than many other diseases, should
confer immunity from the legal conse-
| quences of crime It is impossible to see.
AS for the risk Of the other prisoners, that
is doubtless to be taken into considera-
ton, but the consumptive convict does
|
lease, and then he menaces honest people
instead of dishonest ones with infection.
The Indiana governor must have some
other and better argument than either of
these, and it ought to be made public.
The following extract from a recently
published interview with an old cork mer-
chant shows that old corls are anything
but useless, says the Washington Evening
Star. These" said the interviewed. lead
ing the way to long, high room, lined
on each side with immense wooden bins.
ARE all Old corks This first bin you see
Is filled with mixed or broken cork arti-
Giles. i pay something like fourpence or
sixpence a pound for this refuse, and.
after being washed in hot water and then
dried, IL Is ground fine and sold to limo
leum manufacturers at two shillings a
pound. These are what we call screws? "
ne said, leading the way to a bin Of old
ginger beer and white bottle corks. by
screws we mean that the corks have been
pierced by corkscrew. which, of course.
renders them unfit for remak.ng into new