The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ANcNtul CDSSINdllOis dulOHS 1I'ltdiaS
show that in South America, as Wen as in
North America, the red woman lives long
er than the red man. But the average du-
ration of life is only seventeen years for
both sexes in the South, and p per cent.
of the Indians die during the first year of
life.
-Apropos Of the agitation on the subject
of cheaper postage between this country
and Great Britain, it is pointed out that the
cost of tirst-class ocean passage between
this country and Europe averages about
500. The charge for conveying the same
weight of letters as the passenger weighs
is S1S7.
Prompted by the fact that all new Office
buildings and new fine apartment houses
in Manhattan are being provided with re-
frigerating tubes and apparatus, several
Brooklyn capitalists have planned mon
ster cold-storage warehouse in which cool
ness viii be manufactured for private con-
sumption.
Recent investigations have shown that
the principal source of the gulf stream is
not the Florida channel, but the region be-
tween and beside the islands of the West
Indies AT Binioni the volume of this warm
water is sixty times as great as the com
bined volume of all the rivers in the world
at their mouths.
"A Swiss paper relates that near the
Beautushole, on the lake of Thun, an &c
centric hermit has built a cottage, in
which he dwells, shut off from the world
his food being brought to him by a SER
want. He is a millionaire of Basic, aft
flicted with the mania that someone in
tends to poison him.
-"Clarison' is the name of new made
to-order' language, constructed from
French, Italian Spanish and Portuguese.
1t is said to be less thin than Italian, less
cultural than Spanish. and omits the ma
sails of the French and Portuguese. The
author of "Clarison" claims that it can
be completely mastered in two or three
weeks.
The Minnesota building at the trans
Mississippi exposition, which was the
most attractive of all the state buildings,
has been presented to Omaha by Minnesos "A
for permanent erection in one of her city
parks. A Kansas man had offered $1,000 for
it with the idea of moving it to Topeka
for a home, but his proposition was de-
clined.
The first practical test of a fire engine
mounted on rubber tires was made at New
York the other day, in response to an
alarm. 1t was a five-ton engine, and was
| drawn noiselessly to the fire at a galop.
running in ar / out of the street car tracks
in a way which often means an upset, and
| appeared to be very much easier for the
horses.
Ten per cent. more meat is consumed
in Jersey City than in New York in proper
ton to the population. The reason for this
is said to lie in the fact that the health
laws of New York city will not permit the
display of meats on the outside Of the
butcher shops and stands, while the New
Jersey butchers have full liberty in that
direction.
One of Manager Grau's opera company
notified him the other day in New York
that she did not like the paper on the walls
of her room in a certain hotel. She cid
not wish to change her rooms, for they
suited her, but she declared that she could
not stand the color of the paper. The
point of this story is the fact that the pa
per was Immediately changed.
The volume of business handled by the
savings bank department of the London
| IOSlOlllCS HdE grown 70 6IlOIUlOuS pIOpOI-
! lions, and at present the staff at the Cen
trail Savings Bank numbers more than g.
500 persons. The deposits amount to over
f115 100000. Many depositors every year
! lose or mislay their books, and the eX-
plantations given are sometimes curious.
The recent sale in Boston of the estate
Of Jernegan-who organized the company
and engineered the scheme for extracting
| gold from sea water-showed that ne vas
not only thrifty, but imposing" in more
ways than one. 1t is said that a parior
set apparently of inlaid rose wood was but
imitation, and that hardly any of the Jer-
negan furniture proved to be what it pur-
| ported to be.
During the visit of the German Kaiser
to Kiel one of the tests applied to the YES
! sells gathered there was the feature of un-
coupling the engines. The cruised New
York on this test made a record of two
minutes and forty-five seconds, while in
| contrast TO this. it now appears that the
British cruiser Blake, after making every
preparation for this operation, required
i thirty-three minutes.
1t has been discovered that the new
Tombs prison in New York has been ron-
structed upon plans that are defective
| The iron girders supporting the floors are
| carrying more weight than they will bear
! AS the contract does not provide for any
penalty in the event of defective plans the
! contractor cannot be held responsible, and
the expense of making the changes, which
may amount to the practical reconstruction
of the building, will have to be borne by
| the city.
Here is an arithmetical problem that is
! going the rounds: A is indebted to S.
to c, to D, D to E, E to F, same
| AMOUNT. a, B, c, d and E each have 81
and no more and consequently they can
not pay their debt. They put their money
al together. A takes the So goes to B.
pays his debt and gets his receipt. B
does the same to c, c to d, ID to E and
f to F. A, B, C, D and are out of debt,
and F has his money. Who if any one,
| is the loser?
Big game is said to be extraordinarily
plentiful in the region of Fashoda. The
river swarms with crocodlles and hippo
| tamil. while great herds of antelopes OF
! various kinds and CRATES are frequently