The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A peasant woman living near Lausanne,
Switzerland. put an iron box containing
$50 francs in bank notes into her stove
for safekeeping. Her son made fire
while she was away, and the bank notes
were burned to cinders. Fortunately, she
did not disturb them; a knowing friend
had them photographed with their num-
bers, and the government gave the woman
a new set of notes.
"A knot is the nautical synonym for the
geographical mile. The geographical mile
is one-sixtieth of mean degree of me-
ridian on the earth, and is, therefore, one
sixtieth of 69.09 English statute miles, or,
what is the same thing, the length of the
geographical mile, or knot, or nautical
mile, as 1t Is also called, is $3.50 feet.
Hence, when a ship has gone one knot IL
has gone 11515 statute miles, or, what is
nearly the same thing, a ship which is run
ming thirteen knots an hour is travelling at
the same. speed as railway train which
is going fifteen miles an hour. The name
is derived from the knots tied on the APP
pendages of a ships log line.
How does man feel on steel war
ship cleared for action, with nothing bun
hard, unyielding metal on every side and
death staring in-wherever he may look?
asks an exchange. At any instant the
solid walls may turn to flame as an ex-
ploding she'll brings the end of the world
to those within them, the sea may pour
in through the track of the shot or an
incursion of scalding steam may boil the
prisoners alive, Ora more nerve-shock-
ing possibility yet-the ship may con-
ceivably go to the bottom without the
occupants Of some of the compartments
knowing anything about it, It was sug-
gested al the time of the Victoria dis
aster that some of the men caught in the
smaller water-tight compartments might
have been for two hours alive at the bot
tom of the sea. A crash then quiet;
then the air gradually growing fouler and
breathing more difficult then, perhaps, a
trickle of water through the cracks of
the doors, and then the end.
For centuries military authorities have
argued about the respective advantages
and electromagnetic attack and defense.
UP to the close of the Franco Prussian
war the attack had all the best of it. 1t
was preferred because of it's morale Be
tween forces nearly equal the aggressive
side won, because it put heart into the
men. 1t is confessedly the hardest thing
within soldiers experience to stand still
and be shot at or threatened with the
bayonet. Even fins Fthe war between
France and Prussia, however, the domi-
nance of the attack was seen to be totter-
ing. Forward movements were uniform
ly successful, but their cost was dreadful.
almost, it might be said, out of proper
ton to the results. Then the Bear and
the Crescent faced each other to the
northward of the Bosphorus, and it was
seen that the reign of the old style of
attack had drawn to a close. 1t took
the moved lines of Russians at Plevna
and Shipka pass to rid the military doc
trinaries of their fad, but it was done.
Wisconsin has at this late day about
1900 Indians of various tribes, all of
whom, with the exception of the Winnie
bagos, wear practically the ordinary cloth
ing of the white man. The Winnebagos
alone cling to the native mode of
living, occupying their wigwams in even
the coolest weather. One-half of the
members of the other tribes, the Milwau-
kee Sentinel says, speak enough English
for the purpose of ordinary conversation,
and more than one-htlf read the English
language. They are fast learning to rec
ognize the legality of matrimonial rela-
tons. Eighty-five per cent of them are
engaged in pursuits of civilized life; 10 per
cent. in hunting, fishing and root gather
ing and the like; only per cent. live ex-
clusively on government rations. Of the
1880 Oneidas, the 1900 Menominees, and
the 500 Stockbridges and Munsees, all live
on labor in civilized pursuits. Many of the
Oneidas compare fayorably in thrift, clean
illness and rational life enjoyment with the
whites in their vicinity. In the opinion of
the Sentinel observer, they are fairly good
material for citizenship.
THE longer I live" said the house
physician of one of the big hotels, accord
ing to the Sioux City Times, "the more I
wonder at and admire the female stom-
ach. That abused organ, eabined cribbed
and confined in a corset two sizes too
small, can stand more hard knocks than
any pugiist that ever stepped into the
ring. The average woman at a hotel has
the choice of world of things TO eat and
! does not know in the least what to eat
Here is a list of the things that were
slowed away at my table the other day
by spirituelle creature, weighing not
more than one hundred pounds, and meas
uring seventeen inches about the middle
Soup, fish, with rice sauce, olives, sliced
cucumbers, sweetbreads, turkey, with
chestnut dressing, grouse, asparagus new
potatoes, cauliflower with cheese, two
helpings of lobster, Newberg, lemon pud-
ding ice cream, cakes, Roquefort cheese
and coffee. The liquids were a glass of
white wine and a quart bottle of beer
| which she shared with her father. No,
| was not called in to attend her. That is
her usual performance. / weigh 1875
pounds and take a great deal of exercise
My dinner consisted of a light soup stale
bread, a liberal portion of beef, some
peas, asparagus, cheese and coffee. That
was plenty, if not too much. And women
will drink sherry, milk punches, cock
tails and other heavy connections, and
perhaps feel the effects of them. too. But
they get over it quickly"
People to whom the phrase, "a once
great nation" so often applied to Spain, is
extremely irritating, also object to the
statement, not less frequently made, that
her inhabitants are "a Latin race" says
the New York Times. AS to the ancient
grandeur, it did exist after a fashion,
but the history books will be searched in
vain for evidence that il was ever any
| thing else than the extravaganza of a man
who, having found pot of buried gold by
the wayside, proceeded to spend it on the
reckless principle of easy come, easy go"
In Roman times the Peninsula supported
something like 100000 residents, mostly