The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A man in London who has been prose-
cuted sixty times for refusing to have his
children vaccinated was the recipient the
other day of a testimonial from number
of Observation-Disclosures.
As Maine soldier and a Virginia belle
are to be married as a result of the former
having dropped an army bareback with his
name and address on ii from a train the
biscuit having been found by the young
woman.
Recent statistics show that under fif
teen years there are more boys than girls,
but over seventy-five years there are more
women than men, and from the ages of 80
to 100 the proportion is about three to tow
in favor of the women.
The demolition of Furnivall's inn Hol-
born, is now almost complete. The last
portion of the birthplace of Pickwick to
| fall under the destroyer's hand, will be
( the gateway, which still stands forlorn
amid the ruin-leading nowhere
Within the last twenty years the
French have annexed no fewer than 2.OOO,-
900 square miles of Africa. They own Ale
| bira, Tunis, 1.-THE light soil' of the Sahara,
| Senegal, the Ivory coast, the western Sou
| dan, DahOmey, the French Kongo, and a
| large tract on the Somali coast, while
in Abyssinia they are making steady way.
in the advertising columns of Ger
man paper of recent date appears the an
| nouncement that "a medical student
wishes to exchange a well preserved skele-
| ton for a bicycle" 1t probably never oc-
CURED to the proprietor of the skeleton
| in his lifetime that when reduced to eter-
nal immobility himself he would yet foster
the rapid motion of others.
According to statement prepared by
the Rev. DR.. Strong, the missionary So
cieties of the United States, Great Britain,
| continental Europe, Asia, Africa and Aus
| tralia number 249, with 1854 stations and
$500 out-stations. There are II ,695 mis-
sionaries, $500 native workers and about
a million and a quarter communicates.
The income from all these countries APP
proximates $13,0OO.00O.
| Prince Ferdinand of Roumania, who
has been hunting in the Carpathians, ex-
pressed a desire to kill a bear and soon
after had the luck TO start up two, one
| of which he shot. On examining the car
cass he found a hole through the nose,
| as though the animal had worn a ring,
and inquiry brought out the confession
that Amtmann of the district had bought
! the bears from a Snowman in order to gra-
| tify the princes wish.
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many, there has been a curious success
sion in Office since the beginning of the
| century. The schoolmaster there, as 1t
| common in Germany, is at the same time
organist and sexton of the village church.
! For four generations up to 1895, the Office
| had been held by the son-in-law of the
previous holder Then a married stranger
was appointed but he lost his wife and
| has just married the widowed daughter
| of his predecessor, thus carrying out the
village tradition in the fifth generation.
THE barbed wire fences surrounding
Santiago" says Electricity, (which have
proved a hindrance and nuisance to our
| hard worked soldiers, have, 1t seems, after
! ALL their advantages. Not long ago one
of the wires of such a fence was suffi-
| GENTLY insulated to allow of telegraphic
messages being sent from one army corps
to another, distance of five miles. Thus
| the Spaniards unwittiugly saved the en-
emys signal corps the trouble of laying
wire through rugged country"
An electrical omnibus has lately been
put in service experimentally in Berlin.
According to a German contemporary, the
bus has accommodations for 26 passen-
| gers, measures % feet in length by 615
feet in width, while its weight including
the battery, is 6.65 metrical tons. The bat
| terry, which consists of 120 cells, contained
| in "a boxes, weighs about 1s4 tons, and
| is stated to have a capacity sufficient to
run the vehicle distance of S71a miles at
| a speed ranging from to II kilometere
per hour. The motor is geared to the
front axle of the omnibus.
The 1900 Doukhobors, or spirit
wrestlers," who are now on their way
from Russia to Canada where they intend
| to form a settlement, will evidently not be
received upon their arrival In the new
country with universal cordiality. A To-
| ronto paper wants to know where Mr..
Sfton, the minister of the Interior hears
of all the freak races" of Europe, and
| suggests that if the importation of strange
peoples shall continue the Canadian Pacific
will soon be advertising its route not only
as a scenic one, but as affording. unrivaled
facilities for anthropological study.
In speaking of the proposal to equip
the Manhattan road of New York dhe ele-
waited railroad) with electricity, one of the
directors is reported as saying that no con-
tract was likely to be signed for some time
to come. The company wants the best
system that it can find, he said, and IL
will not care to hurry in the matter of let
ting a contract for 100000 or $1,000, 900.
1t was stated that when the directors did
finally ask for bids only one division of
the elevated road would be equipped, so
that this may receive fair trial before
the motive power on the entire road is
changed.
An Italian electrical expert considers
that for steam locomotives the limit has
now been reached, the best types develop
ing 1S0O horse power and weighing 154
pounds per horse power. For progress,
therefore he looks to the electric motor
fed from central station, this being the
highest motor known; he believes that the
weight can be reduced TO p pounds per
horse power, and that the absence of any
reciprocating parts removes all limit to
the ultimate speed attana BILE. He believes
that the present field of electric traction is
that of local lines requiring frequent jour
neys and light trains.
Some curious causes OF fire are de-
scribed by the Street Railway Review. A
workman a while since on the South Side
Elevated, Chicago. dropped a tool. which
made electrical connection between the