The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-31
TIEMs OF INTEREST.


duced.
The curious discovery has been made
by the London Chronicle that there is a
real house of lords in the United STATES |
It is in the state of New Jersey ard it's
members, although citizens of the United
States, are at the same lime vassals of her
majesty. Charles II gave to his brother
James The land which is now New Jer-
sey and James in his turn gave the lana
to twelve of his friends with a deed OF
grant creating them and their descend |
ants lords The lords meet twice every
year in Perth Amboy, in a little two-room-
ed house. erected on the site of the first
meeting house, which was erected in 1886
| They are summoned by a crier with bell
dressed after the manner of beefeater.
1t Is not generally known that at Os-
bronze there is a garden cottage in the
| shape of a pagoda, where none may enter
except her majesty, This cottage holds
nothing but mementos of the late Prince
Consort and relics of the Queens youth,
as well as the toys and games of all her
children many of which the Prince Con-
sort made himself for he was no mean
carpenter. There are also here wonderful
| fishes caught by the Duke of Coburg in
Canadian seas birds and tigers shot by
the Prince of Wales while in India, a
mumy case brought from Egypt, and other
precious curiosities that are dearly priced
| by the Queen, who visits this family mus
cum every day while at Osborne, and sits
among the remains of her own and her
childrens youth.
Rats are playing havoc with the I'M
derground telephone and telegraph cables
in St Louis They have discovered that
| the wires are covered with parafined pa
| per, and they rather like the taste To
satisfy their appetites they must guaw
| through the lead casing around the wires.
| 1t has happened in a number of cases that
| the rats in gnawing through the lead ca
| Dles, to get at the creased paper, have
| barred the copper wires so that they touch
each other and cross in such manner
| as to make it impossible to establish COM
munication over them. Every time this
| happens it costs the company whose wires
| are interrupted all the way from few
dollars to several hundred. The telephone
men are trying to devise some means of
! stopping the depredations
"A mystery OF history, concerning
which volumes almost innumerable have
been written, is dissipated and explained
| by an article in Macmllans Magazine.
| Messeurs RaVaisson, two French histori-
ans, have collected the papers which were
scattered when the bastle was stormed
/ and destroyed. From those papers it is
| clear that the man with the iron mask
was none other than a Count Mattioli
| The Count was an envoy from Charles
| ", Duke of Mantua, TO Louis XIV. lie
| sold his master to Louis and tried to be-
| tray Louis also. But the French King
| outwitted him. KIDNAPPED him and kept him
| prisoner till he died. The mask, however
was not of iron, but of velvet. So perishes
| a mystery which might easily have been
susceptible of more romantic explanation
There are many poultry farms in Eng
land for fresh fowl is considered a great
and staple delicacy They have many
schemes for fattening the birds. One is
| TO confine them in small pens, where they
| can have no exercise and are fed mix
| ture of ground oats, milk and fat. They
put on flesh at a rapid rate subjected to
| this treatment. The birds are not allowed
| to pick up their food in the natural man
! ner but have it pumped or crammed mo
their crops by a simple machine, consist
ing of large funnel, into which the 1000
is placed, falling into a cylinder, from
which il is pumped by piston worked py
a treadle through flexible tube some
| seven inches long direct into the 1o"l
| crop. The birds are fed this way twice
dav The dexterlty with which hundreds
of protesting birds are thus fed is re-
markable.
The Prussian Diet, in its next session.
will have to decide an important project
that has been an preparation for some
| wears past 1t was proposed to connect ali
| Weser Flbe Oder and Weichsef, by a
| 6rst-class canal system the cost of which
is estimated at $100, 100000. Although there
Is some opposition against this scheme
| brought to bear by the agrarlans' party,
| tt is confidently expressed that the Dill
win mass the Diet since the Prussian state
railroads are overburdened already and I'M
| able to do much more in the transporta-
ton Of the immense traffic increasing
daiIy and the railroad authorities there
fore sympathize very much with the pro
iected canal which will afford direct con-
nection between the coal and iron regions
of the western provinces with the agr1-
cultural provinces of the east.
The Boulogne tugs have recently been
fitted with guns for firing line across
vessel at sea, for the purpose of establish
ing communication by means Of a life
saving hawser, says the London Times.
The tug gets to wiudward OF the vessel
stranded on a lee shore, ana by anchor-
ing a short distance from it, is enabled 20
/ take off the crew. On a level and sandy
shore a stranded vessel may be hundreds
of wards away and in the teeth of a, gale
the rocket may not reach the wreck The
mode adopted by the Boulogne Humane
Society has some manifest advantages;
for instance 1t obviates having to pull
man 200 or 300 yards through the surf,
with the prospect of rescuing him more
dead than alive. Another point in favor
OF the method is that in given time one
can rescue more persons by it than by the
use of a long-distance hawser.
The rose (rosa damascena) from which
the famous altar of roses is distilled de-
pends for it's successful cultivation on GER
tain climatic and other conditions which
exist to perfection only in Bulgaria-to-
wit in that delightful valley between the
Balkans on the north and the lower range
of hills, called the Srenda Cora, on the
SOUTH which is known as the valley of
Roses" Here there is shelter from the
cold north winds and porous and sandy
soil and here also is an abundance Of
water and wood for distillation Every
year from he middle of May till the mid
die of June, when the bushes are in flower,
the valley of roses resembles one vast gar
den. Gathering begins at daybreak and
seldom lasts so late as 8 o'clock, for altar
made from roses gathered in the heat of
the day is always of inferior quality.