The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

used as pillow when he lay down 20
sleep on the starlit plains of Judah"
The chair is the most precious relic in all
England.
in the chief cities of Japan several of
the streets are devoted to the sale of Gel
tain lines of merchandise In one street
you VIII find nothing on sale but wooden
and willow ware another to paper Ian
terms, while one street resembles forest
of bamboo, where the thousand of bamboo
articles are sold.
"A French railroad company has paint
ed the outside of it's passenger coaches
with poetic devices, or the images of stars.
hshes, birds, etc, sketched large and in
emphatic co!ors. The object is to enable
the passenger who gets off for refresh
ments to recognize his carriage and class
from amid the crowd and in the gather
ing dusk.
Lord Ashburnham, the wealthy Eng
fish agent of Don Carlos, manages also
the affairs of the Princess Palaioflolo.
claimant to the thrones of Greece and Tur-
key; Princess Marie, of Bavaria who
contests that of Naples; Princess Lud-
wig, of Bavaria. who thinks herself enti-
tied to that of England, and Queen Garcia
OF SaXony, who claims the right to Swe-
den.
Reports are reaching the postoffice de-
partment at Washington which justify
the belief that the receipts from the pos
tai business done az Manila Ponce and
Santiago will fully meet the expenditures
of the service. The postage stamps sold
at Manila amounted to over SIS COO The
amount of stamps issued to the Manila
postoffice through the postoffice at San
Francisco aggregated $SO.650.
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Episcopal convention brings out the an
nouncement that Chicago will this year
break the record, made last year. of l. 800
divorces granted. The real surprise is that
300 other petitions for divorce failed. Chi
cago still leads the country in the divorce
industry, its nearest competitor being
Denver, Col, with 1902 granted. San Fran
cisco comes along in third place with go.
Cleveland o., is a poor fourth, with 1872,
closely followed by Philadelphia at 377 and
by Boston and New York. with 33i each.
These figures refer only to the cities nam
ed, not to the respective states. The total
number of divorces granted In Massachu-
sets is less than the number granted
either in Chicago or Denver.
The number OF female partners in pri-
vate firms, the Women's Journal says, has
increased from 1860 in the year 1885 to D.
09S In the year 1885, in other words from
622 per cent to S56 per cent of the en-
tire number. This increase of female part
ners in private firms, although only SSS in
number constitutes an increase since 1885
of E61 per cent, while the number of
male partners has increased only 427 per
cent. But in corporations women are much
more largely interested. Out of 81 191 stock
holders in 1895, "a 231 were males, 1889 fe-
males, nearly one-third of the stock being
held by women. In 1885 the total number of
CT ooh hOaH rg1 mt
total Increase in stockholders, male and
female, in ten years was IS. "a per cent. of
these, that of male stockholders was 1873
or ll.SS per cent, while that of female
stockholders was 5,997, or 50,16 per cent.
Not long ago some startling figures
were published as to the bill which
man-of-war could run up for ammunition
in half an hours brisk fighting. In list
in which the separate items of eXpendi-
ture are given in detail it is stated that
in firing 1lO0-pound shell from a 13-inch
gun there is a consumption of $50 pounds
of brown prismatic powder, costing from
80 cents to 80 cents per pound At the
lower figure the single discharge costs
in powder alone $685. The common 49,
inch shell is supposed to cost $l16.6S; but
the armor-piercing projectile is not made
for less than $41S. Cartridge bags, prim-
erS, freight etc, run the cost of the
the armor-piercing projectie to $685. AS
the 13-inch gun can be discharged about
twenty-five times in an hour, the opera
ton of one gun in that time may cost
the government about $4,000. Each shot
of the S-inch gun costs about $65; the s.
inch rapid-f1re, $685. and the 6-inch breech-
loading shot about $40, $14 of which is for
powder. Each round of the 6-pounder
Hotchkiss is estimated to cost $50 and
1-pounder $1.12. The respective cost of
Whitehead and Howell torpedoes is 81, 500
and 5000 each.
Not long ago an American publisher
agreed to pay Rudyard Kiplng $500 per
thousand words for his whole literary out
put. Judging by an article in the British
Weekly, which is presumably authorita-
tive the young lion of modern English lit
erature is carrying his eggs to another
market The article says: perhaps no one
receives such large prices for his work as
Mr.. Rudyard Kipling. He has contracted
to write eight stories for one of the maya
zines next year for each of which he will
receive about 81 200 This is simply for
the English serial rights of the stories In
addition, Mr.. Kipling receives payment
from America, India, and the colonies This
win probably bring up the price of the
stories to about $500 each, making S20,-
900 for the year. In addition to this, Mr.
Kipling receives the royalties for book
publication in England and America. This
will not amount to less than about S2O,-
600, so that for each story the author ulti-
mately receives not less than IS, 0OO Wheth-
er these high prices will be kept up is
doubtful. If the cheap magazinism sue
ceeds in injuring the old periodicals they
cannot be maintained. 1t remains to be
seen whether the public cares much for
names, and it must be remembered that
the papers with the largest circulation in
this country do not depend upon names at
all. l remember some years ago Mr.. Kip
ling contributed one of his best pieces of
work, better work by a great deal than
he has been doing lately to a monthly re-
view. The editor informed me that not one
extra copy of the periodical was Sold
Travellers in uncivillzed countries have
often wonderbed how some savage tribes
were able TO transmit news for hundreds of
miles with no apparent facilities for doing
so. An interesting light is thrown on this
subject by Jose Bach who tells of the
means by which the Indians on the ANA