The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-13
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necessary before the student
diploma Most of the hotel clHils
diplomas from these schools. i"'e
George Frederick Watts coloss
TRAN statue of Force" will be
bronze al the expense of the British
eminent and set up in HYDE park.
terrace at the end of the Serpentine. "
Dublin amateur actors are In distl
as the proprietors of the three city tn
ters threaten to enforce the monopoly V
all theatrical performances granted
them by an act of King George III, passV
ed in 1880
Lord Kelvin estimates the time since
the earth became sufficiently cool to be-
come the abode of plants and animals to
be about 100000 years, within limits of
error ranging between 10, 10000 and 30, 900, :
900 years. From similar physical data
Clarence King has made an estimate nearly
agreeing with this
Several of the ladies' of the Monson,
Me-, have organized walking club. They
meet at a designated spot and walk from
1880 to a. m. During the week past their
number has increased to 20. Persons of all
ages join the club, from 20 to SO years. Mrs
Chaplin, who is over so years old, was seen
at the head of the line a few mornings
ago.
The sacred fires of India have not all
been extinguished. The most ancient which
still exists was consecrated twelve centu-
ries ago in commemoration of the voyage
made by the Parsees when they emigrated
from Persia to India. The fire is fed five
times every "A hours with sandal wood and
other fragrant material, eambined with
very dry fuel.
An "arteP' is a Russian institution. a
kind of syndicate, in fact, among the
working men of that country. A certain
number of mechanics of all descriptions
join together, forming gangs and under
take such work as railway making, dock
work. agricultural work and all kinds of
skilled artisans trades, and then share the
profits between them.
Paris is TO have new hippodrome on
the Bulevard Clichy. The cornerstone was
laid on Jan. 16, and it will be complet-
ed by November The building will have an
area for performances of IS by 6S meters
The seating capacity will accommodate g.
600 persons while, including the standing
room, the building will hold 10000 per-
sons.
The proposed Russian railway from
Merv to the Afghan frontier will be begun
this month. It's length will be about 200
miles, asd the cost is set down at 100000
rubles. The line will not only connect the
Afghan frontier with the Caspian Sea,
but also with the whole of the network
of railways which it has been Russia's
ambition to build.
The porcelain tower in China was con-
structed as a gift to an empress and was
always kept in repair by the government.
Lightning struct it in 1901 and tore away
the three top stories. The injury was re-
paired as soon as possible. 1t would prob
ably be standing TO this day had not the
Tapping rebels imagined it's lights and
bells most disastrous to their cause.
"A cholera-proof hog of big-bone Berk-
shire stock, which was brought to Ten
nessee from abroad before the
war, died near Falcon, in that
state, aged SO years. For twenty-five
years the hog had not been sick,
but latterly it had been toothless, and its
owner had the food for it boiled The pro-
fits of its progeny had paid for a farm,
and its owner buried it on his place and
set up memorial stones to mark the
grave.
"A London weekly says: 1.-THE sound
of the murin-bell, which used to herald
the news of the arrival of an overdue ship.
will be heard no MORE at Lloyds. It's
place has been taking by ships bell
proper There is a history attached to this
bell. 1t was recovered from the wreck of
the Lutine, a British fTigate, which was
lost in the Zuyder Zee in 1893, while on a
voyage to Hamburg. with treasure to the
value of over one million sterling on
board.
Siberia has for half a century been
known to be rich in graphite, but such
have been the difficulties of transporta-
ton that development has been hampered
too greatly to be profitable, although in
1875 no less than Sc, 600 pounds were ex-
ported. In some places the metamorphosis
of Jurassic coal into graphite is plainly to
be perceived by biologists, and with the
construction of the Siberian Railway pros
pecting and mining for graphite, coal and
other minerals are being vigorously prose-
cuted in many places.
According to a German publication, a
chemist of that country has prepared a
fluid that has the power when injected into
the tissue of a plant near it's roots of an
esthetizing the plant. The plant dose not
die, but stops growing, maintaining its
fresh, green appearance, though it's vitality
is apparently suspended. 1t is also indie
pendent of the changes in temperature, the
most delicate dollhouse plants continuing
to bloom in the open. The composition of
the fluid is shrouded in the greatest Sc
crecy, but it is said to have pungent odor
and to be colorless.
Under the new French employers
liability bill the employer must indemnify
the workman if the latter is disabled over
four days by an accident; if disabled for
life, the employers must pay pension Of
two-thirds of the wages and also in case
of partial disablement. If the employer is
killed by accident the widow is entitled to
pension of 20 per cent of his wages. with
10 per cent additional for one child, rising
to 40 per cent for four children, until they
reach a certain age. All of which will make
men careful of engaging in manufacturing
enterprises and render them partial to un-
married employers, which will be hard
upon the benedicts.
The giant strides made by the Aneri-
can bicycle in England are evident from
the fact that the value of British inn
ports of American cycles and parts of
cycles increased during the last fiscal wear
from $613, 1872 to 81, 1855, or about one-third
of the entire American export a gain of
nearly 800 per cent. The current year will
not probably show a similar increase. as
British manufacturers are being frightened