The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-16
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ain carried 93O,OOO.OO0 passengers in 1895,
of whom $50 were killed. During the
same year, in the city of London alone,
5s6 persons were killed by falling from
buildings or out of windows.
Nineteen of the floats used In New
Orleans at the recent Mardi Gras carnival
are to be sent to Charlestown, Mass, fol-
use on the nth of June. They were made
in Paris especially for the New Orleans
parade, and are expected to be a very at
tractive feature in the historic Massachu-
sets town on Bunker Hill day.
Twenty thousand sheep and 5000 bull
locks, says the New York Press, will be
sent from Australia to London, England,
for the queens jubilee. The beasts will
make the voyage ION the hoof," but
their share In the celebration will be pure
ly disinterested and culinary. They will
be served in all styles at the great din
ner which Is to be given, under the pat
ronage Of the Princess Of Wales, to the
poor Of the slums of London.
The migration of the French-speaking
people of Canada to the New England
states has assumed enormous proportions
in recent years, and shows no signs of di-
intuition, says the New York Tribune.
The French population Of. the province of
Quebec is 100000, while, according to the
census of 1880. the number of French Ca
nadians and persons of Canadian extrac-
ton in the United States was $4,000. The
late M. Mercier predicted that by 1916
there would be more French Canadians by
birth and descent in the United States than
in Canada.
"A floating church" has just been
been built In the English fen country. The
parish of Holme, in the diocese of Ely.
has, in consequence of the drainage of the
TENS, especially the famous Whittlesea
Mere, SO extended itself that half the
population are practically out of reach Of
their parish church. To assist him in get
ting at these outside parishioners, the
vicar is trying the experiment of using a
kind of house boat, which can be moved
from point to point on the large fen dyke,
or canalized river, surrounding three
fourths of the parish.
Among all the splendid chariots that
appeared at the carnival in Paris, the
X-ray chariot was the most curious, says
the Cincinnati Enquirer. 1t was in the
form of an angry sea, with a big whale
moving along on the surface and an cleo
trician perched upon rock behind. The
scientific man pointed his apparatus at the
whale in order to discover what was inside
turned on everybody was able to see the
interior, a handsomely furnished apart
ment, in which Jonah, seated at a table.
drank champagne, in company with a
mermaid.
The 29Oth anniversary of the landing
of the first permanent English colony in
America will be celebrated at jamestown.
Va, on May 3D. Among the features of
the celebration viii be a salutatory in
Latin by r. H. Tucker of Danville; an adj
dress on The Genesis of the Colony" by
l.. r. Warren of Williamsburg; another
on THE Establishment of the Colony" by
j. H. Parker of Portsmouth, and one on
The Government of the Colony" by j.
NJ. White of Charlotte county. Roosevelt
Page of Richmond will be the poet of the
occasion. The celebration will be under
the auspices Of William and Mary Col
lege.
When mine host in the ideal country
inn, which all of US seek, but none of us
find, brings up a bottle of crusted wine,
covered with cobwebs and DUST this out
ward and visible sign is taken as convinc-
ing evidence of age, says Nature. We
grieve to have to record that the trust
may now be misplaced. A bulletin mo. y
of the Lewiston of entomology of the Unit
ed States department of agriculture says
that in France and Pennsylvania an in
dustry has recently sprung up which con-
sists of the farming of spiders for the
purpose of stocking wine cellars, and thus
securing almost immediate coating of cob
webs to new wine bottles, giving them the
appearance of great age. This Industry is
carried on in little French village in the
department of Loire, and near Philadel-
phla, where "Epeira vulgaris" and NE
phlla plumipes" are raised in large guam
titles and sold to wine merchants at the
rate of $40 per hundred. This application
OF entomology to industry is one which
will not be highly commended.
"A book for which money equivalent to
$4,000 has been offered is among the pos-
sessions Of an aristocratic French family.
says the Paris correspondent of the Chi
cago Chronicle. This most curious book is
neither written nor printed. 1t pages are
composed of the finest quality of vellum
and the letters were with infinite pains
and trouble cut out of the material with
a sharp-pointed knife or a pair of delicate
scissors. 1t is interviewed with blue naner
and the letters can, therefore, be read as
easily as any printed. 1t formerly be-
longed to the Prince de Ligne. The title of
the DOCK is "Libre PASSIONS Domini Null
Ia Materia Compostis;" in English. 'sThe
BOOK Of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus
ChIlSl, IN characters, without material of
composition" The matter is a homilv
probably composed by some monastic
preacher Of the middle ages. The book is
believed to have been made some time In
the thirteenth or fourteenth century. In
1910 the Emperor Rudolph offered for II
l'OOO ducats, which In the money of our
Time would equal about SCI, 900, and the Of
Ter was refused.
That recent concert in the catacombs
has drawn attention to the fact that one
third at least Of the city of Paris is built
over long labyrinthian galleries. deep nm
DER the earths surface and called 'the
quarries." Parisians are periodiealIv
frightened when they hear
this, and begin 10 -.
forward to the sudden collapse of their
high houses, says a Paris dispatch 10 the
Chicago Chronicle. Mr.. Vickershelner.
however, who is inspector of catacombs
and quarries, hastens to assure the tinid
mat there is no fear Of any subsidenee
OF the soil Of subterranean Paris. The gal
leries are well propped up and are con-
unually under the supervision OF vigil
ant persons, chiefly policemen, who on
their on-duty days are paid 5 francs for
inspection walks through the shafts,