The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-20
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ADMINISTRATIONS have shown that the pre-
ponderance Of the blonde type in Northern
and the brunette type in Southern Europe
antedated the appearance Of the Germans
and Romans in history.
The verband de Wiener lettings
korrespondenten has just been organized
at Vienna. It's not so bad as it sounds
merely a society whose object is to watch
over the interests of ewspaper correspon-
dents and 20 raise their literary and social
status.
massachusetts has a remarkably trust
full board of cattle commissioners. 1t re-
ceved such a small appropriation this year
that it had to abandon the principal part
of its work in April, suspended its clerical
help and served without compensation;
yet it has continued to serve the state at
its own expense, hoping that the next leg
islature will reimburse the members for
their outlay
The New York Times points out that
while Indian names usually make admira-
BILE designations for the mountains and
rivers of this country, the appeLation be-
slowed upon the newly discovered noun
tain in Alaska that towers higher than
Mount ST. Elias is not euphonious. Bull.
shae," says the Times, lis not a good
name No peak, however tail, could wear
it and look dignifed."
The original manuscript copy of
Americas national hymn, My Country
lis of Thee" written in 1882, by Samuel
Francis Smith, is now in the famous vat
lean library in Rome. AT one time it was
owned by David Pell Secor of Bridgeport.
Conn the int
scented to him by Mr.. Smith. Rev. DR..
Maher, while visiting Mr. Secor, a few
years ago, saw it, and suggested that 1t
should be sent to the vatican library
where many valuable curios are held.
Probably few people could say off-hand
whether bees or pigeons fly the faster.
Yet the question has been experimentally
decided in favor of the bee. A race for
a wager took place at Hamme, in West
phalia. A dozen bees and as many pig
cons were carried to the village of Rhyn-
hern, about a league distant, and there
liberated. The bees were first rolled in
flour in order to identity them. AS a re-
suit the first bee finished a quarter of
a minute in advance of the first pigeon.
and three others arrived before the sec
ond pigeon. The main body of both bees
and pigeons arrived together a few sec
onds later.
Boston is preparing to celebrate the
twenty-sixth anniversary Of the big fire
of Nov. 9, 1872, in which 100000 worth
of property was destroyed. If things were
managed on the Boston plan in Philadel-
phia it would be in order about this time
to hold a great carnival Of rejoicing over
the 10th anniversary of the fever plague
of 1898. in which nearly 5000 persons lost
their lives out of a population of $500
1t will interest all readers Of Dumas
to know that the Island of Monte Cristo.
in the Mediterranean. is uninhabited and
covered with woods that TEEN with many
sorts of game For time an Italian no
bic had a shooting box in it, but he sell
dom visited it, and now the Prince of Ma
pies has leased it for a hunting ground
and for house in the wild and solitary
surroundings that his Montenegrin wife
Graves.
"A packet Of letters which John Wesley
wrote to his wife between 1851 and ITS
is to be sold at auction in London. 1t is
hoped that they may throw some light
upon the causes of the infelicity which led
at last to the separation of the founder
of Methodism from his termagant con-
sort. "Non dimisi, non revoca bo'-I have
not sent her away and l shall not call
her back-wrote John Wesley in his diary
when his wife left him, and the outlines
of his domestic troubles are pretty well
known. Wesley was constantly away
from home upon preaching tours. When
he was at home he was engrossed in mis-
work and had little time and, perhaps,
little care for domesticities. His wife
was jealous and exacting and caused
scandal by talking about the real or sup
posed shortcomings of her husband. It
has even been suggested that she some
times concluded a heated argument by
collecting a handful of hair from the
saints poll Southey has given Mrs. Yves
ley a literary Immortality by CHASING her
with Jobs wife and Hanippe as one of
the three bad wives in history
The great wheel of Paris, which has
always been looked upon as che chief nov
ely of the exposition of 1900, was set in
operation in the second week of October,
The wheel is an engineering feat of the
first magnitude, and its surroundings in
the Avenue de Suffren are in excellent
taste. OF the four great wheels at pres
ent in existence, it overtops the largest
by about 100, with its height of 40 feet.
The wheel itself, says the Paris Register,
has been constructed by Mr.. Basset one
OF the partners al the urn OF MduQSley
& Field, the great English engineers, and
is a marvel of ingenuity. Built, as one
might say, like a huge wheel of a bicycle,
its lightness is remarkable, and it carries
it's forty carriages round its periphery
with the enormous load of LOCO people per
trip as if it were nothing. The wheel is
entirely built of steel and has been manu-
featured, with the exception of its axle,
in France. The axle, which was made in
Scotland, is one solid mass of steel weigh
ing no less than $1,000 kilos. Four revo-
buttons are easily made in the hour, so
that each hour AGO people can be carried.
At the foot Of the wheel, which is sur
rounded by an extremely pretty garden.
are found a restaurant, a theater, which
is the prettlest in Paris, and where an
of the very first order can
be enjoyed a ballroom and many other
minor attractions.
Two New Zealand medical men, Drs.
Hocken and Colquhoun, recently visited
Fiji, where they had an opportunity of