The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-19
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isphere, if not in the world, is a monster
chestnut standing at the foot Of Mount
Etna. The circumference of the main
trunk at sixty feet from the ground is
212 feet
Bombay is well supplied with water
the quantity available for each person be-
ing forty to fifty gallons a day, while.
judging by other India cities, ten gallons
a day would be enough for all domestic
purposes.
The late Empress Elizabeth left a vast
fortune She had a much larger civil list
than she ever spent, and her surplus in
come was judicious.y laid out in purchas-
ing property around Vienna, which was
bought very cheap, but is now covered
with buildings and enormously valuable.
While the Yale was anchored off Moro
Castle after the surrender of Santiago a
sailor by the name of Mclean to Illus
trate his patriotism, rowed ashore, climb
ed to the top of the grand old structure
and filed his name good and deep in the
topmost of the ancient guns which point
out to the sea.
The cost of a heating plant for the vat
lean capable of warming its thousands of
rooms has been figured on by competitive
bidders, the lowest figure being S1SO.OOO.
The Pope declines to incur the expense,
though great difficulty is experienced in
keeping his apartments warm enough for
comfort in his old age.
The ten public iced-water fountains
in Boston have cost the city during the
summer 40 cents apiece per day. Water
Commissioner Murphy is now making ar
Fsngements where ice win be cut this win
ter from reservoirs belonging to the de-
partment, thereby making the cost of the
free iced water next summer merely NOM
inal -
"A Portland (NIe.) woman had a funny
experience with sticky Hy-paper. She op-
ened it ready for use and left it on the
table, where it did pretty good execution.
The next morning the family was surpris-
ed to find little mouse stuck fast to the
paper, unable to get away, and putting up
the most pitiable little squeaks magma
bic.
One of the busiest workers on the new
Washington county (NIaine) Railroad is
woman who has charge of the cooking for
a big crew of men who are laying rails
She has three male assistants. and every
day makes a whole barrel of flour into
bread, to say nothing of the potatoes, be
con, pork, salt beef and other articles that
so to make up the bill of fare.
The President of the French republic
has several times been accused of being
remiss in certain matters of dress or Ell
quette on important state occasions. The
Gaaulois now comes forward with the
carve charge that NJ. Foure recently ap-
peared on horseback with his fed glasses
slung on his left side, instead of the right.
According to this authority only arms
should be carried on the left side.
Ell Moro is one of the grandest pos
sessions in all Cuba, not as a fortress. but
as a curiosity. The damage done the cas-
tie proper by our navy could be repaired
Tor $9O,OOO. Its construction and mysteries
are wonderful, and the scene from Moro
ridge is unsurpassed in Cuba Our guard
there has explored it pretty thoroughly
put has not yet discovered the entrance
10 the subterranean torture rooms.
"A City of Zinc" is the name which
may appropriately be given to the mush-
room city Of Portugueses East Africa.
Beira. All the houses, all the hotels and
public buildings, says a Natal CatboIic
contemporary, barracks and warehouses.
are built of zinc. So great has been the
speculation in building and so urgent the
need for supplying the inhabitants with
cheap and speedily erected dwellings that
city has been built up In six months.
Thousands of tons of zinc from France.
England and America supplied the mate
rlal Inc unpleasant impression produced
by the aspect of this zinc town is hight
ened by the thought that men have to
dwell in these houses under a tropical
heat Everything in this strange city is
under the dominion of the metal. Even
when a person falls i'll he is carried on a
zinc stretcher TO hospital, which is also,
of course, made of zinc And if he dies
he is laid to rest in a zinc coffin.
"A man and his two sisters were re-
Gently made the victims of a thief whose
weapons were only roses, says the Phila-
delphia Record. They were seated in a
railway car travelling through Germany,
when, at one of the stops, an elegantly
dressed, thickly yelled woman entered the
carriage, carrying d superb bouquet of
roses When the train started the stranger
dropped her roses. He picked them up for
her and, thanking him charmingly. she
asked him to keep one. Then, turning to
his companions, she graciously offered
each of them few of the flowers Natur-
ally the courtesy was accepted, and the
next thing of which the travellers were
conscious was that the train had arrived
in Berlin, that their yelled companion had
disappeared, and that all of their money
and Valuables had gone with her. or
course, the roses had been drugged The
police have discovered that the criminal
is a young man, and that he has conduct
ed a number of daring robberies in similar
fashion. One must admit that it is the
refinement of robbery and if one must
be robbed at all, the rose method is prefer
able to sandbagging or garroting.
According to a Spanish missionary,
who resided eighteen years in the Philip
pines, there is no langue that is common 10
all the islands, but each canton has a s1ia-
lect peculiar to itself says the Scientific
American. All these dialects however.
have some affinity. somewhat like thai
which exists between the Italian dialects of
Isombardy, Sicily and Tuscany On the
island of Luzon there are six dialects.
some of which are current in the other
islands The most universal ara tbo rro,