The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

chaser has had for more than 30 years. 1t
was bought during the war, but never used
until this time. 1t YVES issued before the
birth of the conductor who took it up.
Prince Albert of Monaco, who has just
succeeded in driving hard bargain with
the Monte Carlo syndicate. is the repre-
sentative of a good deal of past diplom-
acy. His dukedom of Valentinois comes
from Cesare Borgia; that of Mazarin from
Cardinal Maznr.n. His wife is the widow
of Due de Richeheu.
Freezing will not injuresa newly pat
ented water-pipe, which has a yielding core
in the center, strong enough to Withstand
the force of the water under natural press
ure, but which collaDses as the ice eX-
pands, and prevents bursting. the core en-
larging again as soon as the water thaws
and the pressure is recoved.
Pope Leo received gifts valued at ST.
200,OO0 on the occasion of the sixtieth ami
versary of his ordination as a priest
Among the cash gifts were a check for
$4,000 from the Duke of Norfolk $4,000 in
gold from the Queen Regent of Spain, $l2
500 from Kaiser Wilhelm, $4,000 from the
Austrian Bishops. and $4,000 from the
Hungarian primate.
Nearly all the judges and crown Of
| ficials residing in the fashionable part of
Dublin have registered themselves as lodg-
| ing house keepers, in order TO enable their
| sons and other dependent male relatives to
vote at the approaching Parliamentary
election. They are obliged to swear that
they rent rooms, and to the amount they
| receive week for them.
A wonderful fan is now being made
in Paris in view of the exhibition of 1900.
| 1t is to be composed of leaves of ivory, all
lTNf fC1.
| celebrated modern artists, Gerome. Cain,
| Carous-Duran, Jules Breton and Jules
Lefevre are contributing already. The
round center is to be signed by Maurice
Leloir. This extremely novel idea is be-
| ing elaborated for America
While the state of North Carolina
owns 100000 worth of stock in the
! North Carolina Railroad, it is said not
| TO have had until recently a scrap OF
| paper as tangible evidence of that owner
ship. State Treasurer Worth has a new
certificate. and whether any was ever be-
| fore issued is not known. A search of all
! the records and documents in the treas
| urer's office failed to reveal any signs of
stock belonging to the state
AT school of instruction in the Ber~
tillon system of identifying criminals held
at Albany, N. Y, last week. DR.. Brown of
years experience of the system in New
| York state, said that the number of con-
| victions of professional criminals had fall
en- off between 400 and 500, while the COM
| PLANT came from Connections that it was
being overrun by men who had fled from
New York to escape Identification
Sweden will send two scientific expedi-
tons to Spitzbergen next summer. One,
under Mr.. Jaderin, will try to measure a
degree of longitude; the other, under Prof
| Nathorst, the palaeontologist will exam
| Inc the waters to the west of the islands
| Prof. Nethorst has engaged the steamer
| Antarctic, and takes a staff of seven sci
| entific men with him He will steam along
the west coast of Spitzbergen, then north
| east toward King KarPs Land and ellis
| land, taking deep-sea soundings and col
lecting natural history specimens.
Fat men must be on their guard when
travelling on French railroads. A S4O-pound
citizen of Lille who had bought third
class ticket, after failing to wedge through
| the doors of a third-class and a second
| class carriage, entered a first-class COM
| partment and rode TO his place of desti-
nation. The railroad sued him for the diff
| ference in the fare, to which his defense
| was that, having sold the ticket, the COM
| pany was bound to provide doors to the
third-class carriages wide enough to adj
| nit him. The court, however held that
| he must have known his own girth and
the size of carriage doors, and should have
| bought ticket admitting him to a wide
| enough compartment 1t refrained from
| making him pay for excess weight
A parting glove which will be appreci-
ated by the cook in every household is
made of very thin rubber and protects the
first finger and thumb from stains and cal
| louses, which are always so annoying AL
| kind IF tai q
leaves an ugly stain on the fingers very
hard to remove, and when removed leaves
the skin SO rough and tender that the
hands are unsightly. The rubber glove
| for housekeeping purposes has long been
a boon to women in general rough work,
but they are somewhat cumbersome for
| such work as preparing fruits or vegeta-
| bles AS the best known Whtener of the
| hands is pair of fine thin rubber gloves,
to be worn after a thorough amounting
| with a fine cream, which is thus left to
be absorbed into the pores of the skim the
! hands may be made more beautiful doing
the toughest work.
What is the thermometer? How is the
thermometer? What does the thermom-
eter says? There is probably no inquiry
which is daily the cause of more wkward-
ness of expression, for it seems to admit
or no convenient form, says the Montreal
| Witness. The same difficulty, no doubt
| existed in the early days of clocks result
| ing, doubtless after many twistings, and
! torturngs of the then English tongue, in
to what's o'clock? or what O'clock is it.?
In spite, however, of all it must then have
cost to get a form of words for easy use
that form does not prove transferable
| and cannot be used for the thermometer
| OF the time we can say, what time
is it? But although the thermometer
| purports by its name to be a measure of
heat, we cannot well say, how hot is it? or
! how cold is it? For one thing, the cold
that the Thermometer measures is not the
! equivalent of the cold that the body feels
as we need much more clothing in Britain
| with the thermometer at 40 than i'm Canada
with 1t at 20. In China they measure the
| cold by coats. 1t is a two-coat day or
six-coat day. Probably the most elegant
| expression within reach is, what is the
| temperature? That is, however, too
| learned and abstract a phrase to trip cas-
| lily on the common tongue.
Philadelphia has invented a word that
is not without it's merits as convenient
substitute for phrases more or less long
and complicated, says the New York
| Times. In that city, so the North American