The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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! Bodieian Library; Michael Angelo, the ar
fist; DR.. Joseph Francis Gall, the phrenol-
| ogist; William Cobbett Tasso the Italian
| poet; Bishop Berkeley; Gen. Andrew Jack
son; Caroline Lucretia Herschel, the as
| tronomer; Niebuhr, the antiquarian and
traveller; John c. Calhoun; Robert Bruce,
King of Scotland; John Sebastian Bach;
the composer; Fourier, the mathematician;
Henry Kirke White the poet; Vandyck
and Rosa BonheUr. the painters; Laplace,
the French scientist; Raphael Sauzio the
! painter; Descartes the French philoso-
pher; Francis Joseph Haydn, the compos-
er, and Henry II of France.
The copper supply of Newfoundland is
said to be practically inexhaustible. The
island is now the sixth copper producing
country in the world. This industry was
first established in Newfoundland In 1864.
when Tilt Cove began to occupy the at
tention OF capitalists. During recent years
| very satisfactory results have been
achieved in that district. These mines
produced last year over 10000 tons of ore
at a profit of more than $115000. The re-
/ cords for 1896 are somewhat incomplete
but they show an export from Newfound-
| land of 460,S1 tons of copper ore so $50
tons of regulus, and 5,240 tons of ingots
valued at about 81, 500 900 1t is estima ted
that the country has produced $4,000 tons
er part of this being turned out during the
past twenty-five years.
Millions of insulator pins to hold the
glass insulators used in telegraph and tel
| ephone poles are used every year, and so
great is the demand for them that woods
| specially suited for their manufacture
have become quite valuable. The pins are
small, round pieces of wood from one and
a quarter TO one and half inches in di-
ameter and about eight inches long, turn
ed with a taper thread on the upper end,
with a projecting shoulder below beneath
which the pin Is turned to about an inch
and three-sixteenths to fit the hole of the
| pole or cross-arm. The pins must be
made of a wood that will not shrink nor
swell much, and for this purpose black
locust has been found the most suita bile.
Large tracts of black locust have for this
! reason become very valuable, and the
wood finds ready market.
Men have been raising and training
carrier pigeons for centuries and though
everybody admits that they are very won
derful birds, yet they have given strangely
little compensation for the vast amount of
time, money, and observation that have
been expended on them, says the New
York Times. A messenger who can only
return home from place to which he has
Dcen carried seems TO De OF no pTdcllCdl
value, for the special circumstances in
which alone such messenger can serve
human convenience are rare; and still rar-
er are the circumstances where a
more versatile agent cannot be en-
ployed. Whether this new scheme
for turning pigeons into the let
ter carriers of the sailor will prove
a success or not remains to be demonstrate
ed. It looks promising, for all the bird is
| IN do is
many cases, it could doubtless accomplish.
There is no great room for hope, however.
The pigeon has only two guides-sight and,
that failing, luck; and only one impulse TO
motion, an instinct strong but unintelli-
gent These are not attributes to be
easily utilized
The private library of Pope Leo XIII
is a spacious room lined with bookcases
made of yellow wood from Brazil, some
of which are curtained Busts of several
former Popes stand upon marble columns.
To the Pope's bedroom only his private
valet and his secretaries have access. 1t
is of small dimensions and contains only
bed, in an alcove adorned with graceful
marble columns, a writing table, an arm
chair and kneeling stool and one wardrobe.
Besides these there is his private study, in
which the table and chair stand upon a
little carpeted platform, other tables be-
ing placed on each side upon the floor, to-
gether with extremely uncomfortable
but magnificent straightforward arm chair
which is one of the gifts offered on the
occasion of the episcopal jubilee. There
is, moreover, a little room containing only
an old lounge and an oldfashioned easy
chair with wings and nothing else. 1t is
here that the holy father retires to take
his afternoon nap, and the robust nature
of his nerves is proved by the fact he lies
4 ,rwrsF1 J, t. Zoo H.
of the window.
In Iowa there is a cooperative col
ony which has been in existence for fifty
one years and is prospecting, its success in
line where others have failed being as
cribed to the modest wants of the Dutch
people, who compose it, says the New
York Evening Post. It is known as the
Amanna Society, and is located at Home
stead and vicinity, growing from a begin
ming with 5000 acres of unbroken prairie
to over $500 acres of cultivated lands on
which, in addition to Homestead, there
are seven little villages of stone and brick
dwellings. The cooperative idea is strict
~ carried out, and no one colonist is bet
ter supplied with worldly goods than his
fellows. Each, on entering, deposits all ne
has in the common store and If he cares
to withdraw his contribution Is returned
to him. Each man is allowed $50 and each
woman $40 a year for clothing, but the
money may be spent for other purposes.
Up to a few years ago, only Dutch was
taught in the schools, but now the young
people learning English. There are
many men and women among the colo
nists who, born and bred on American
soil, cannot speak the English language.
"A curious theory to the effect that jew
els are affected by the health of their
wearers is advanced by Prof. Won Schroen
of the Naples University. Pearls and
opals are both said TO grow duh through
the ill-health of her by whom they are
worn, and the turquoise is said to become
pale from the same cause; while, says the
professor, / have heard, and on excellent
authority, though it is a fact 1 can hardly
credit of a ruby ring which on the band
of an invalid went paler and paler until
on the patients death the stones lost their
color entirely. Pearls are extraordinary
sensitive to the condition of the skin on
which they rest. An example of this fact
is shown by an episode of which an ac-