The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Inc council OF state OF the HaWandn
government has just held an amnesty
session." at which it pardous over 200 pris-
oners VINO had been serving sentences of
five years or less. Many of these were
political prisoners.
1t is claimed for the Washington Artil-
lery of New Orleans, La, which was or-
gained in 1876, that 1t is the Oldest artil-
lery organization in The United States 1t
was the first in the South to tender its
services TO the government in the war with
Mexico, and on the day after acceptance
it was ready. 1t now is composed Of five
batteries, with total Of about $50 men.
The wooden schooner yacht America
in which the family of Gen. Adelbert
Ames Of New York is about to sail for
a cruise to Cuba and Porto Rico, is an
old-Umer of note. Forty-seven years ago
The America came in seven miles ahead
of the swiftest of her seventeen crack
competitors in a race around the Isle of
Wight.
-Germanys Oldest student corps, the
Onoldia of Eriangen, has just celebrated
the hundredth anniversary of its founda-
ton, when a society building costing S12,-
90 was dedicated. The German consul gen
eral in New York, Mr.. A. Feigel ia
graduate member of the corps. The name
of the town and margraviate of Auspach,
now part of Bavaria.
The practice of placing Bibles under
the cOrner-stones of churches is of early
medieval origin. The idea was twofold:
First, TO set aside the building for two pur-
poses, and, second, to typify the fact that
the church and its faith rested on the
Bible. There were also many supersutions
connected with the practice, a copy Of the
Scriptures in those days being regarded as
possessing almost as much miraculous and
curative power as a relic of the SAINTS.
Preparations are being made at Trieste
to raise the wreck of the French frigate
Danae sunk in 1872, says the New York
Tribune. The Danae had $50 men and
| forty-four guns on board, and was blown
up through an explosion on board the
cause Of which has remained unknown,
on September in that year. All Trieste
suffered Chimneys fell, and doors sprang
off their hinges. Not a window-pane re-
NAMED intact, and the houses on the quay
were all more or less damaged. Besides all
the men on board, many persons walking
on the quay were killed Ships caught
fire and'were destroyed. The French gov
ernor gave orders that the catastrophe
should be hushed up, and the details, as
well as the cause remained a secret. 1t
is believed that the wreck contains large
sum of money in gold and valuable trim
kets intended for a famous beauty of the
! period.
The usual way of imparting a rotary
motion to a bullet and thereby making
! it steer a true course through the air, is
to make it smooth and 10 fire it from
a rihed barrel says the Philadelphia
North American Martins s. Calvert, an
Englishman. proposes to attain the same
end by making the bore smooth and put
tings wings in the shot. These wings lie
| close against the bullet until 1t leaves the
muzzle. Then they expand, and, by their
action on the air, produce the necessary
rotation of the shot The inventor claims
| that he secures many advantages over
the system at present in vogue. One is
| higher speed, and, therefore, harder hit
| ting, because there is less friction in the
| gun barrel, but he appears to take no ac-
count of the friction between the wings
and the air after the gun barrel has been
| deserted by the bullet. Other advantages
| claimed are that his system keeps the
| gun cooler, gives ii less recoil and makes
| the trajectory much flatter for any given
range, and also enables shorter, and, there
fore lighter, guns to be used.
"A writer In L'Unon Medicale remarks
upon the fact that, as a general rule,
obesity is more frequent in cold climates
!
IRENE north becoming very fat from the
! great absorption of fatty foods, oils, etc,
! this superb Guidance of such food, with
| the increasing use of alcohol, and more
! indoor life, favorng the production of fat
/ on the other hand, the inhabitants Of the
| tOrrid zone, who live on a scant fruit
| diet and exercise constantly in the open
| air rarely fatten. Again, while all au-
thorities agree that alimentation plays a
| strong part in obesity, opinions vary as
| to the particular foods. In the normal
nutrition, the fats introduced in the ali
| meutary canal are broken up into glycer-
inc and fatty acids, and the greater part
Is oxidized in the organism-body heat
resulting from the comDusuon-while the
small amount which escapes immediate
! combustion accommodates in the various
tissues and constitute a reserve when
| can be utilized when the supply or tat
from without fails. If, then foods are
/ sllperabundant in amount, or if their oXi-
dation is incomplete, the equilibrium VIII
be lost, and the fat will accumulate in
! the cellular tissues, causing obesity.
Berlin Q,7OO,OOO) the capital of the en-
pire. is a chief seat of machinery manu-
facture says the Pittsburg Dispatch, For
many years Frankfort-o n-the- Main en-
! loved the pre-eminence of being next to
| London the greatest money market in the
| world; bur since the establishment of the
| German Empire Frankforts financial
business has been absorbed by Berlin.
Leipzig 100000 has the distinction of be-
ing the seat of a book publishing trade
that turns out over 6OO0O00Q volumes in
a year, amounting in value to $30000,000.
Leipzig had also the honor of being the
| greatest fur market in the world. DantzlS
! Q2000O IS Germany's chief port on the
| Baltic and the chief seat of its great eX-
port trade in timber, grain, fax, hemp
and potatoes. Its harbOr, however, is
closed in winter because of ice. Dresden
! (3S000O is noted for its porcelain manu-
| facture but the porcelain is not manufac-
tured in Dresden. but in Meissen, fifteen
miles from Dresden. Munich 100000 man
ufactures largely the national beverage,
| beer. Finally, Nuremberg Q62000, in
! Southern Germany, is remarkable for its
| continuance into modern days of man
ufactures for centuries carried on domes-
! ucally. OF these the most noted are
watches, clocks, pencils and toys