The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

in some parts of Central and South
Africa a single freely gives enough light
/ to illuminate a whole room.
in the new Reichstag there are only
So mobiles. The number has steadily dimin-
ished since 1871, when 1t was 100. There
are said 10 be only seven Jews elected TO
the Reichstag, all Of them Social Demo-
Gratis.
! -COrks are treated with beeswax, paraf-
fin or other wax, and then coated with
| gutta percha, to replace rubber shoppers
for bottles containing acids or fluids which
evaporate easily, the cork being cheaper
than rubber.
An Ohio postmaster has discovered and
obtained a book that was presented 10
William Mckinley by his father forty
years ago. The postmaster has forwarded
the volume to the President At the tine
young Mckinley received The book he was
a volunteer assistant 10 the man who now
returns it and who was then postmaster at
| Poland. 0.
-Wire-rolled glass is one of the most
recent inventions. The glass, which is
exactly one-quarter of an inch thick, con-
tains in the center wire netting, the
meshes of which a trihe less than one
inch in diameter. Consequently the wire
does not obscure the light, and wire-rolled
glass it is said, viii resist fire as long
time as an equal thickness of iron.
Twenty people own nearly IS per cent.
of the real property within the limits of
Greater New York and pay taxes upon
nearly $4000o00O0 worth of land The tax
assessor says that $50 people, whose names
might be taken from the books own 50
per cent. of all the real estate in Greater
| New York and 10 is To in
crease instead of diminish these enormous
holdings.
Before many days the armies of the
United States will be recruited up to a beef
eating capacity of about 600 big steers a
day. Beef has always been an important
article of diet to the soldiers of This coun-
try, as well as of English soldiers, but
never in American history has beef been so
widely distributed and in such excellent
condition as just at present. The army in
Manila, which will soon number 10000 men,
IS eating beef every day.
) In an interview in the Young Woman,
Mrs. Bishop, the traveller, says: I'm Ko-
rea you never see girls out of doors in the
daytime except some of the lower classes
, going to the wells, and they are tied up
so that no one can see them. Women only
, go out in the capital of Korea when a
great bell sounds in the evening. When
, this is heard all men must retire to their
a houses. The only men who may go out
are those who are blind and those who are
, going TO a druggists with a prescription.
, And as men are deceIVers the world over,
it is not surprising that a great many men
are blind" and that many have to go 10
r the ''druggist's' when evening comes In
! deed, the number of hypocrites who go
+ about tapping with a stick is rather ludi-
j.. crous.
Sir James Crichton-Browne declared
, in a recent lecture that medical men
adapting themselves to the needs of the
- time, had felt 1t incumbent on them to in
a sist mainly on the misuse of the brain and
the excessive strain too often put on it
n but that there We're also great evils at
a tendant upon the misuse of the brain, says
a the New York Post He did not know any
surer way of inducing mental decay thar
n for a man of active habits to retire anG
do nothing when just past the zenith Of
a life; and, on the other hand, he did MOI
:, know any surer way of enjoying a greer
o old age than to keep on working at some
v thing till the close. He referred 10 Calico
d who lived to 49, Newton, TO IS; Franklin
: to 50; Button 10 80; Faraday to rs; Brew
q ster, to 81 years in harness, and with n
N impaired powers. He declared that hard
e working judges habitually lived TO a ripe
& old age, and were more exempt from cot
* age than any other class of the commu
n nifty.
The federal council of Switzerland or
dered the military department two months
ago to ascertain the cantons how man!
s drilled and fully equipped soldiers coulc
l. be put into the field in a few weeks tint
10 for the national defense. lie Journal d.
Geneve prints synopsis Of the report. l
$ seems that Switzerland could at very shor
l. notice put an army of SOB ,254 men in tn
n field. 1t is not generally known that ever.
l. citizen of the republic of military age, no
II exempt on account of bodily defect, has t
III bear arms in the use of which the chill
= dren are instructed at school, from tn
II age of 8, passing through annual exercise
e and reviews. Such military instruction
III participated in by the greater number o
e pupils at the upper and middle schools
The troops of the republic are divided int
three classes: % The Elite, (Auszug) con
Sc sisting in general of all men able to bea
"a arms from the age of 20 to 81; C9 III
IL Landwehr, comprising all men from tn
SD TO the completed Hth year; CO tn
re Landstrum, which can only be called GU
" in time of war, consisting of all citizen
-, not otherwise serving between the ages o
III II and so, or Gn the case of eX-Officers) IS
The period of actual service varies in tn
IA different cantons, but there are certain gen
L eral muster days. The status of the arm
It is preserved by countless so-called mill
tary clubs, the fundamental laws of tn
republic forbidding the maintenance of
le standing army According to the report q
At the military department, the Elite include
lS $50 officers and four army corps, averagin
about So 900 men apiece, besides the specia
- corps of Gothard and Saint-Maurice, max
III ing $4,000 men In ell. The different service
" of the Landwehr include S3,2S3 officers an
u men. The armed Landstrum has a total c
So All men, and the unarmed Landstrur
21S.309.
The bears of Northern Maine combln
a great love for the crab apples whic
~ are grown in that region with ignoranc
le of The appliances of modern civilization
"a says the Chicago Inter Ocean. When
l. telegraph company started to put up pole
in the woods between Ashland and For
Kent, the supplemented bears began t