The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-13
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performing the same service for the tri-
cycle As to the Belgian dog, when he has
done his work he receives his reward. He
| jumps up behind like a smart groom and
shares with his master the joys of the de-
| scent Not so the Strasburg hound he as
always on duty; he is harnessed behind
the machine, but his face is towards tile
| guiding wheel and he does not gybe. He
cannot go in front for he would Interfere
with the steering, but the tricyclist de-
clares he rejoices to pull behind
The father of the House of Lords" the
Earl of Mansfield, has just entered upon
his 93d years, says the New York Post.
| Lord Mansfield is the senior member of
| the upper house, both by age and success
| sion for, although Earl Nelson succeeded
| to the title in 1885, he could not take his
seat until he came of age in 1874, four
| years after Lord Mansfield had taken the
| oath as a peer of the realm. The latter
| may claim, indeed, now that Mr.. Vlliers
has passed away, to be the father of the
| entire legislature" He was returned to
| the House of Commons in the unreformed
| Parliament of 1880, and occupied seat in
| that chamber until his succession to the
| peerage in 1910, so that he has been a mem
| Der of one chamber or the other for an
uninterrupted period of sxty-eight years.
| He is likewise the senior Knight of the
Thistle. having been given the insignia
| of that order in 1S43 i
| Only by degrees are the marvellous
| qualities of our London atmosphere be-
! coming known, says the London Times. No
| city in the world can boast such a peculiar
| aerial composition as that which the in
| habitants of the metropolis have served
to them daily and nightly, without money
and without price-for neither the govern
| ment, county council, nor Vestries have
| yet attempted to tax the highly nutritive
| air which we breathe Most people think
| that our atmosphere consists of practical
| ly nothing. Quite mistake 1t is both
meat and drink. A paper contributed to
the Transactions" of the British insti-
/ tute of Preventive Medicine states that
| even in suburb the dust particles num-
| Der 9O90 per cubic centimeter in the open
| air, and 1900 in quiet ROOM while in
| the city-O fortuna tos minimum the totals
| per cubic cemtimeter were 100000 when
| taken from a roof, 100000 in court, and
! about 100000 in a room. In other words, the
air of the square mile is 900 per cent.
thicker than in the suburbs which is in
| accord with the general experience that
| fogs are both more dense and more fire.
! quent over the center than in the outskirts
| But what is especially interesting is to
| learn that although dust is the great car
rier of micro-organism there is only one
Thus it is calculated a man could live In
the metropolis for seventy years and only
| absorb 25,000000 microbes into his system
! from the air, or about the same number as
he drinks in half a pint of unboiled milk.
| OF course, there are other serious objec-
tons to dust; but it is something to know
that there is only one microbe to many
/ millions of notes.
Mr.. O'Conor has issued his final gene
I raj f111x
crop of the season of 1878. saws the Pail
Mali Gazette. 1t includes the complete
forecast of the crop in Madras and the
Nizam's territory; of the late crop in Ben
gal and Bombay, and of a forecast of the
crop in Central India excepting Indore.
| from which no reports have been receiv-
ed In Bengal the area sown with late
cotton in the fourteen reporting districts
| is estimated at n, 500 acres, an area slight
ly below the average. The season was, On
the whole, favorable. and the yield will he
| far better than that of the season of 1867.
though stlll smaller than the average. In
Bombay the area sown with cotton both
early and late, is estimated at about 1870
COO acres, an area much below that eown
last year, and also still much below the
average, the reduction being due to insult
ficient rain when the time for sowing
came round, and partly as stated in the
earlier notices of the crop, to the subs i
tuition of food grains for cotton in view of
the replacement of the exhausted stocks
The yield is estimated at about $4,000
bales. This quantity, though more than
the yield of 1867, when the crop was in
jured by the drought, is materially small
er than the average, but with bumper
yields of the staple in Egypt and the
United States and with ''middling' Amer
lean cotton selling in Liverpool at sgd.
per pound for near futures-about sd.
above the lowest price touched for many
a long day past-there seems no prospect
at present of either-a cotton famine or
corner" Indeed. it is pretty generally
admitted that there is enough and to
spare of the raw material for all the
worlds immediate requirements of cotton
textiles.
Few people know that Wisconsin pos
sesses a natural bridge, with nearly if not
quite as much attractiveness as the one
in Virginia made famous by the visits of
| George Washington says the Milwaukee
Sentinel. The Badger bridge is located in
the town of Honey creek, about twenty
miles from Baraboo, and eight miles east
of Prairie du Sac The bridge is in fact
only d gigantic archway detached from
the face of a rocky bluff facing the Wis
consin river by the action of the elements
but as a natural curiosity has only a local
reputation so far Few visitors except
from the immediate vicinity have ever
taken the trouble to make a trip in this
direction, probably because part of Sank
county was. until recent years, cut off
from railroads and not easy of access.
Upon stepping between the bluff and the
arch the immenseness of the task which
nature has accomplished is apparent The
under part of the arch is about fifty feet
above the floor in the highest part and
varies from that down TO about thirty feet
where it joins the supporting rocks. The
span is from ten to twenty-five feet thick
and about fifteen feet wide. The pathway
across the top is tri1e over three feet
wide in its narrowest place. and a cool
head is needed to make the passage over
the span. The person standing upon the
top of the span is probably one hundred
feet above the average level of the sur
rounding country, and the scene spread
before him Is one of rural Wisconsin seen
cry unsurpassed. Although the country
has been settled for many years, yet the
ruggedness of the scene seems hardly d.
| rnipished nv the hand Of man sn his ef