The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

circle at the ends of the arms, the driving
power being obtained from a motor in one
of the boats.
"A letter from Friedsrichruhe informs
US, says the Westminster Gazette, that
the building of the mausoeum for Prince
Bismarck is being pushed forward with
considerable speed, and> that great num-
bers of wOrkmen are now busy upon it.
It's huge dimensions are already percepti-
bic; the hight of the dome will be not
less than twenty-six to twenty-seven me-
ters, and the stone walls are about IL
meters thick. A chapel, with an altar and
decorations, will occupy the center of the
mausoleum. Beneath this viii be a huge
crypt with nave and aisles. The bodies
of Prince and Princess Bismarck are TO
labe laid side by side at the western end of
the nave of the crypt 1t is hoped that
the building will be so far advanced be-
fore the end of autumn as to permit the
ceremonial translation of the collins OF
the great statesman and his wife to their
final resting place.
The idea entertained probably by most
smokers. if they have any idea at all on
the subject that any corn-cob will serve
as the raw material for pipe, is errone-
Gus. 1t takes large, hard cob, and these
are grown only in a limited district in
Missouri. The corn which is grown on
these cobs is sometimes known as Col
lier corn" Often the grain is inferior, as
compared with the best prairie corn, but
always sells at a price within 10 cents
bushel of the best grades. The cobs
sell for % cents a hundred-or a bush
el-so that the corn and cob together al
ways yield 10 cents or more above the
ordinary corn not grown in the cob
area. indianapolis is a cob-pipe manufac-
turing point, and it is said there that the
daily capacity of the cob-pipe factories
in the United States is 213,000000 pipes.
The facilities are. of course, much in ex-
| cess of the demand.
The cliff dwellings in Southwestern
! Colorado are in danger from the vandal
hands of the curiosity seeker, and il is
feared that much damage Will have been
| done before the national government takes
official charge through reservation, unless
| local efforts towards the preservation of
! the relics avail, says the New York Post.
In this local effort the Federation of Wo-
mans Clubs of the state is leading, the
| purpose being TO secure the power to APP
point guardians 1t Is believed that the
| Indians who will live in the vicinity of
the cliff dwellings will act as special po-
| lice for small compensation. The In
! dams look with disfavor upon the work
| of the relic hunter, as they believe that the
| dwellings are inhabited by evil spirits that
| are set free by the vandals. In conse-
! quence of this superstition. they will see
that the discharge of their duties is not
| merely perfunctory.
Some remarkable details of the career
of Ferdinand Linke, the King of the
Usurers," who recently died in Vienna,
are given in the London Morning Leader
from it's correspondent in the Austrian
fta1s 7 fr4lya " Al
ghetto of a provincial town in Galicia
in the early sixties, and began a money
| lending business on a very small scale.
| His loans were small but the rate of
| interest he charged was enormous and
| he soon began to accumulate capital. In
the earlier part of his career he was con-
| tent with from 60 TO so or 100 per cent
interest, but as he grew older in rascality
he extorted as much as, 400 or 500 per cent
from his foolish victims. By these means
! he became a millionaire. Linke UNDER
went several terms of Imprisonment for
usury, but the greed of gold always drove
him back to his Illegal traffic in money
He lived alone, guarded by a number of
savage bloodhouuds. His doors and win
| dows were barred and bolted and his ILL
gotten gains hid in different parts of his
! house. Linke's will has been made public.
| He has left all his wealth to his only
| daughter, whom he so neglected during
| his lifetime that she was obliged to I'M
dertake mental work for shillings a week.
Linke, however, with the instinct of a
miser, attached the very characteristic
condition TO the acceptance of his mag
| nifcent legacy that not farthing of 1t
| should at any time be applied to any char
| liable purpose.
An analysis of the ages at which chill
dren attend the public schools in Boston
shows much the same conditions there re-
garding the duration of school life for the
great majority of children as have been
| found in some of the large cities in the
West, says the New York Post. The falling
off in attendance begins when the children
are ten years of age, and is sharply ac-
| centuated when they arrive at fourteen
| years of age, with a stiE greater decline
| in numbers when they arrive at the age
of fifteen and sixteen. 1t appears that not
| one-half of the pupils remain long enough
to be graduated even from the grammar
| schools, and that of the few who enter the
| high schools only a little more than one
third remain for graduation. Another in
teresting fact disclosed is that during the
| earlier period of school life the number
| of boys in the various classes exceeds the
number of girls and in the fourth fifth
| and sixth, the lower grades of the gram
mar school, the same statement holds true,
| an SAlbldndltCn OiISISu DeluS I0aL a larger
| number of girls than of boys are sent to
parochial and private schools But after
passing the grade last mentioned the case
is reversed. In the seventh, eighth, and
| ninth grades of the grammar school, and
in the various classes of the high schools,
there are many more girls than boys This
may be due, it is said, to the fact that
teaching offers more of opportunity to girls
than TO boys. and to the general belief,
born of experience, that an educational
training for lifes battle is of more value
10 the girls than to the boys.
-Church-going in the more isolated parts
of Norway is thus interestingly pictured
by Edmund Gosse in the North American
Review: one of the most characteristic
and most charming incidents in rural Nor
wegiafI life is sta, as il must always have
been, to go to church on Sunday in a
| boat The parishes are of enormous ex-