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

posed largely of Southern farmers, has in
vited Booker T. Washington, principal of
the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, to de-
liver an address before it at it's next an
nual meeting, to be held in December at
Fort Worth, Tex.
The attempt to transport fresh beef
from San Francisco to Manila has not been
very successful. The awful heat on ship
board affected the cold storage, and de-
caying meat fed the sharks on each expe-
dition along most of the way. Something
like 100000 pounds of fresh beef was thrown
overheard on four of the expeditions, it is
said.
Michigan pays a bounty for the heads
of dead English sparrows. It has recently
paid out over $1,000 to a crowd of Indiana
sharpers who had killed the birds by
strewng poisoned wheat about the streets
of Indiana cities. The carcasses were
shipped to Southern Michigan towns and
the bounties collected as on birds killed
in Michigan.
An English paper says that the hat
of a certain short-sighted master at Elton
blew off one day, and as he started in pur-
suit black hen dashed out of the gate
way. The schoolmaster saw the hen, and
thought it was his hat, and all Elton was
electrified by the spectacle of a hatless
and GREATNESS reverend man hunting a
black hen from one end of the street to
the other
An American named Mohun, accom-
panied by five trained electricians. has just
left Brussels to extend the telegraph in
the Congo country from its present termi-
nus at Stanley Pool to Stanley Falls, and
thence in two different directions to Lake
Tanganyika on the one side and to Red
Jof on the Nile on the other. The work
is to cost about $4,000, and it is ex-
pected that it will be completed in 1900
According to a correspondent of a Lon
don paper there is as much whipping in
the girls schools as in the boys schools.
but the girls make no fuss about it, Says
the correspondent: They know they de-
serve their punishment, so they take it
with a good grace, dry their eyes and
smooth their curls and don't let any one
know, not even their parents, that they
have had a taste of the rod"
"A shrapnel is one of the most deadly
weapons of warfare the world has ever
known. 1t consists of a hollow cylinder
of iron having an oVal-ponted end sep
arately attached-the pointed end secur-
ing a Tess resistance to fight and steadi-
ness. Down the center of the shell is
small tube, open at the pointed end
and communicating with a charge of pow
der at the base. The body of the cylin-
der is filled with bullets, numbering, in
some instances, upward of 500.
In Cyranos history there is naturally
much speculation and theorizing concern
ing the various solar systems-P tolemaic,
Gassendian, Copernican, Cartesian-with
some highly original "guesses at TRUTH
as this of a venerable divine: 81 imagine
hot no. ,~NL
of Copernicus, but because hell-fire lying
at the center of the earth, drives, by the
ardor of its heat, the damned against the
Tault, and this acts upon the globe as a
dog inclosed in a wheel turns it by his
motion"
"A new and important rule regarding
the release of diphtheria patients from iso
lation after recovery has been made by
the Boston Board of Health, says the New
York Evening Post 1t has long been
known that diphtheria bacil remain in
the threats of diphtheria patients after
complete disappearance of the membrane,
and apparent full recovery, for periods
of six months, or more. The period is,
however, rarely longer than from one to
three or four weeks. 1t has been the rule
with boards of health generally through
out the country to refuse release from
isolation until one culture at least has
shown that the bacii are no longer pres
ent in the throat. But Investigations
carried on in the Boston health depart
ment showed than very nearly one-third
of such patients if released on the evil
dence of a single negative culture
would still retain diphtheria bacilli in
their threats, and would be, therefore, stlli
source of possible menace to the public
health. The new relugation requires two
consecutive negative cultures for the re-
lease of diphtheria patients.
The French engineer, Berlier, whose
scheme for tunneling the strait of Gibral-
tar has just been approved by the
Spanish government gives as an estimate
of the length of the projected work TWEEN
ty-three kilometers, and says the greater
part VIII have to be cut in solid rock. AL
though the present design is to connect
a point of the Spanish territory with
Ceuta it is deemed necessary to have
the cooperation of the British govern
ment, and NJ. Berlier thinks that this will
come in time His reasons for placing
great confidence in English cooperation
in the end are somewhat curious. To lie
Figaro he said the other day: There
is not a single Englishman who does moi
dream of going by the most direct line,
and without scarcely putting the foot on
board a ship, from London to Bombay.
Now, train leaving the metropolis il
there were a tunnel under the English
channel, could pass into France by the
way of Calais or Boulogne and through
France and Spain and into Morocco
through a tunnel under the Strait of
Gibraltar; it could then proceed along the
northern coast of Africa across the Suez
canal and as far as the Persian sea en-
tirely by land. And when Englshmen
shall fully comprehend that the entire
journey may be made from London in a
lille over a week, we shall have their
fun cooperation in carrying out the
scheme l now have in hand"
People in America must have been
often astonished at the readiness with
which the identity of anarchists are pub
lished in Europe as soon as arrests have
been made following some murder or other
crime against society. The truth is, says
the New York Times, that every European
government has a special department OF
police whose duty it is to watch anarch-
lists, find out all about them, and transmit