The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Turkey is more correctly written
| Turkia. the country of the Turks. The
| title, "the Ottoman Empire" was given
in honor of Gilman j., who assumed the
! government of the empire about the year
| 1900.
Another large hotel is to be erected In
London. 1t is proposed TO put up work
| ingman's hotel that will accommodate 500
| boarders at cents a night. 1t IS eX-
pected to pay per cent. to the share
| holders.
The steam craft of the United States
last year carried 65O,O00,00O passengers,
with a loss of forty-six passengers and
| 1877 men belonging to the crews. Compe-
| tent steamboat inspection has greatly re-
| duced the number of accidents.
Sixteen thousand dollars is the record
price paid for a cablegram, that price
having been paid for a message sent by
| Henniker Heaton to Australia, in behalf
| of the British Parliament. Reuters ac-
count of the murderer Deeming's trial,
1900 words, cost $500.
Grand opera in Paris, according to
official account has been given at an ex-
| pendture over receipts of 100000 francs
| in five years, an average loss, that IS,
| Of $4,000 year. The subVention Of SO0,OO
franc a year reduces the annual deficit
| to $4,000, but there is a further yearly
| deficit of $4,000 on the opera concerts.
Burglars broke into the fortress Of
| Vincennes. near Paris, recently, and after
stealing money and valuables of the SOL
diers and officers used the tools of the
| military blacksmith shop to break into
the commisariat, which they plundered,
| and then made their way through the
moat by means of the ladders in the fort.
An American grain elevator is being
erected on the Manchester ship canal by
| John S. Metcalf & Co of Chicago. The
storage capacity will be 1900 tons of
| grain in 226 wooden bins varying in ca
| pacity from 81 to 300 tons each. The ele-
| Vator will be fitted with an unloading
| plant, with a capacity of $50 tons per
| hour continuous weighing apparatus
| Metcalfs patent dryers, and a plant for
| loading barges or ships at the rate of $50
| tons per hour loose, or 250 sacks If bag
| ged. This grain is chiefly intended for
| the supply of the populous district around
| Manchester, and that city itself is the dis
| tributng center for population of about
| 100000. The present facilities for hand
ling grain at that point are antiquated.
Experiments carried on in England
have proved that fine coal or slack coal
is an excellent material for sewage fltra-
ton. At the Northampton Sewage
| Works, as a result of twelve months
| working, it has been observed that the
| efficiency of the coal had increased. Prof
| Bostock Hill has recently pointed out that
| coal appears to have a special power
| of removing the putrescent organic mat
| ter from the sewage. The effluent is par
! ticularly bright, and shows marked dim
| unition in the quantity of oxygen alb
| sorbed. 1t is also perfectly free from odor
| and thus gives evidence that the organic
| matter removed is that portion partic-
| ularly which is in a state of putrescence
| On examining the interior of the filter
| after a constant use of many months, it
has been found to be quite free from odor
and to have nothing but a slight earthly
smell
The resonance of a piano comes from
| the sound board and not from confined
air bodies, writes DIR. Elisha Hall in the
! Chicago Times Herald. It is so construct
| ed as to be sympathetic to any rate of
| vibration that the various strings are cap
| able of transmitting to it. If string is
| vibrated alone in the air the sound is very
| feeble, but when strained over and in con-
! tact with, at its ends a suitable sound
| board, the sound is loud and distinct, be-
| cause the board which vibrates in SYM
| pathy with the string presents large
! surface to the air, and therefore moves
it with much greater energy than it is
| possible for the string to do, which pre-
| sents only a small surface to the air The
| same is true of the violin, only in a much
| greater degree. The violin, when perfect
| ly made, has all the variety of graduation
| in pitch as the human voice The piano
| and organ and all instruments with a
| key board are limited to certain definite
| ly determined tones. once went under
| one of the Falls of Niagara. The water
| descended from an overhangng rock,
| leaving a great cavern between the fall of
| water and the rock back of it, There
| were rocks piled up in front of the sec
| ton of the falls that l was exploring,
| so that it was possible to pass around in
| 'front.' as well as to go in behind it. The
| difference between the roar when outside
| and in front and that experienced when
| back of the fall was something wonder
full. 1t seemed as if all the pent-up thun-
| ders of the universe were turned loose,
| and the noise was deafening. 1 observed
| the same phenomena when crossing the
| River Reuss in Switzerland at a point
| called the Devils Bridge. The river at
| that point plunges over a precipice into
| cavern. The vibrations that are set Up
| produce the effect of loud thunder.
| 1T is announced, says Tit-Bits, that Dr.
Leyds is to receive $4,000 year as repre-
| sentative of the Transvaal in Europe. This
| salary is greatly in excess of the amount
which Great Britain deems sufficient for
| any one of her representatives in foreign
| countries. Our most hghly-paid ambassa-
| dor is the British representative in Paris,
| though he receives little more than half
the sum DR.. Leyds is TO draw-a beggarly
| $1,000 Britain ambassadors to Germany.
| Austria-Hungary, and Turkey receive
| $500 a year each. The representative in
| st. Petersburg has the next largest sal
| airy CISCO, while $500 less is considered
| enough for the British ambassador who
| takes up his residence in the Eternal City
| For some reason known only to the diplo-
| matte mind, our representative in Wash
| ington is much worse off, receiving but
| $500 a year, though he has probably to
| work far harder for his country. The am
| bassador to Spain receives Is, 500 while the
| representatives in China and Persia draw
| $500 each less. The heads of the legations
| in Japan, Brazil and Egypt each receive
| f4,00; but Lord Cromer has besides Fl COO
as a personal allowance" The British
! agent at Pretoria, who is paid by the
colonial office, receives only f2.OO0 a year