The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-24
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could suggest a good way of carry
ing a bishops robes he will be comforting
a boon upon the rapidly increasing num-
ber of bicycling bishops"
Every year the prefecture of the Seine
makes a public detailed account of the
consumption of the various food stuffs in
Paris, an account which can be made up
very exactly from the octrol figures, says
the New York Times. Every week 5000 live
beef cattle, 2, coo sheep and 800 calves en-
ter Paris. OF the 100000 cattle sold in
Paris last year only 5000 were of foreign
origin, contrasting strangely with Lon
don where the foreign beef outranks the
home grown. OF the 2,000 000-odd sheep
hardly any came from abroad, If Algiers
be excluded from that term. All these
figures do not include dead meat brought
into Paris, of which there is a great deal,
more especially in veal. In addition Paris
ate 100000 chickens last year and 3,5030 600
rabbts-of which Australia, by the way,
contributed a fair share. About 1900
tons of vesetabl were consumed, and
an even greater quantity of fruit. The
statistics as to horsehesh seem a little
vague. We are informed that there has
been d!minution of horses slain for food
by about 200 head, but the precise number
actually slain is not given. Only 400 dis
eascd animals were detected by the Veter-
mary service, which speaks pretty we'll
for the quality Of meat entering Paris.
Another serious blow has been struck
the silk hat in London by the immortal
business man" walking east of st. Paurs
churchyard, not bareheaded but crowned
with Panama hat, says the Boston Her
aid. Men who last year regarded their
financial credit bound up in that glossy
stovepipe have broken through precedent
and decided that this exciting era warrants
cooler headgear. But the Panama must
be the right sort. On the whole it looks
at this distance as if both men and wo-
men would eventually dispense with need
full head coverings in public. The advan-
tage Of wearing tall hat is to bow with
il, but as the form of courtesy Is rapidly
declining abroad and gentlemen not long
er lift their hats to ladies, unless they are
royal danes, why, another summer may
see even the straw routed. Ladies, too
having abandoned their hats on all occa-
sions after p M. and taken to wearing
elaborate coiffures, Ii really looks as
though the restaurant people were going
to be upheld by certain fair and fashion
able patrons. AS far as known, the Prin-
cess Of Wales has never dined at a restau-
rant, so what she would do under the new
conditions is a matter of conjecture, but
whatever it was the rest of the London
world would surely do likewise.
American ingenuity has never been
more conspicuous than in the development
in this country of the manufacture of
heavy ordnance, says the st. Louis Globe
Democrat. Previous to the civil war in the
United States few attempts had been made
to make heavy artillery on this side of the
Atlantic, and those had not been pre-emi-
nenty successful. The immediate necessi-
ties of the war stimulated the inventors,
ha Of haf S+r E,11T1-
dreds of inventions had been patented on
every part, and for every necessary pro-
cess OF Sun-nlaking. Since the civil war the
processes of gun Manufacture have been
revoluuonized, and instead OF being cast,
as was once the case guns are now care
fully built up of the best materials which
money can buy. One of the 1O0-ton guns
costs nearly half million dollars, and re-
quires from eighteen months to two years
and half in its manufacture, but Aneri-
can patience Is equal to American ingen-
uity, and, while our government has not
spent 1.-THE of the sums that have been
devoted by European nations to the man.
ufacture, it Is believed that the American
made guns In every important respect will
bear comparison with those turned out by
the Krupp factories in Germany, or from
the workshops of the Armstrong; in Eng
land.
The capacity of Elswick yard in Eng
land is greater than that of any other in
tho world, says the San Francisco Argo-
naut. Among the vessels at present in evil
dence at Elswick are the O'Hlggins, Chill
can war ship, just completed; Gen. Baq-
medana, Chilean training ship, on the
stocks, will be launched In about four
weeks; Hai-Tien and Hai-Chi, protected
cruisers built to the order of China, sister
ships, completed, moored in river; Taxa
oJota
Assama, japanese armored cruiser, 300
tons, nearly complete; Tokima, japanese
armored cruiser, sister ship TO above; un
named cruiser preparing for Japan, not
quite laid down; Tordenskjold, Norwegian
battle ship. waiting to be delivered; AL
bany, cruiser built for Brazil, but bought
by United States, now plating, launched
in three months; Don Carlos l., Portuguese
protected cruiser, just launched; Pacto-
lus, third-class British cruiser built to adj
miralty design, ready in about a month ;
torpedo boat destroyer of large size to go
thirty knots, not ordered viii be complet-
ed before the end of the year. and if not
previously bought will go into stock; an
other torpedo destroyer, same size as
above, but fitted with Parsons turbines, to
go thirty-three knots to be finished this
year; unnamed cruiser, 4,300 tons, to be
launched Shortly, not ordered; large first
class battleship unnamed, u, 100 tons, be-
be the biggest batteship yet constructed
will have a phenomenal speed, and, not
outstanding her great size, will pass
through the Suez canal.
The doctor was a recognized institution
in Assyria and Babylonia, says the New
York Ledger. 1t is true that the great
bulk of the people had recourse to relig-
ious charms and ceremonies when they
We're I'll, and ascribed their sickness to
possession by demons instead of to natural
! causes. But there was a continually in
creasing number of the educated who
looked for aid in their maladies rather to
the physician with the medicines than to
| the sorcerer of priest with his charms
The British Museum contains fragments
of an edition made for the library of Min
eveh of an old and removed Babylonian
treatise on medicine. In this work an at
tempt is made to classify and describe
diseases and n apYu1pr~a re- bA various