The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

bog land.
Perhaps the greatest fortune eyer made
by actor or actress is invested in the es-
tates of Adelina Patti She is worth to-day
over S2,C0O,O0O, and in the zenith of her ca
reer she was rated at many millions more.
Every cent OF it was made behind the foot
lights.
dimensions of the capitol at Washing
ton: Length, 751 feet 4 inches; breadth, from
121 to 324 feet; it covers, 15S, 112 square feet.
From base line of building to the tip of
statue 2S7 feet IL inches. The hight of the
dome above the base line on the east front
is 2S7 feet inches.
The total area of government lands in
the Hawaiian Islands is fixed at ], 1872, 500
acres; rice, ST. acres; government interest
in homesteads, 10000 acres; grazing, 45l.-
200 acres; high forest lands. 6S1, 2S2 acres:
rugged mountain tracts 227, 900 acres, and
barren lands 100000 acres.
An Arizona paper asserts that the most
savage of Indians, the Apache, is conquer
ed by civilization. The main tribe of
Apaches, about 5000 individuals is clus-
tered about San Carlos In the last five
years this tribe has furnished only one Sc
rious criminal, a murderer.
Elephants in the Indian army are fed
twice day. When meal-time arrives they
are drawn up in line before a row of piles
of food. Each animals breakfast includes
ten pounds of raw rice, done up in five
two-pOund packages. The rice is wrapped
up in leaves and then tied with grass
Bamboo grows very thrifty in Cali
fornia bottom lands and is found to be a
very useful plant. The seed of many spe-
cies resembles rice and is almost as valua-
BILE for food The stock may be used in the
building of bridges, fences and barns and
in the manufacture of water pipes, furni-
ture and boxes.
"A jetty five miles long has just been
completed at the mouth of the Columbia
river. 1t was constructed by the govern
ment and is intended to confine the cur
rent of the river. channel 1000 feet wide
has been thus obtained, with a low water
depth of p feet. The Improvement was be-
gun in 1880, and has cost 50, d25.OOO.
The oldest house in America is in st.
Augustine, Fla. In 1864 it was built by the
monks of the Order of st. Francis. and the
whole of the solid structure is composed of
coquinie, combination of sea shells and
mortar which is almost totally indestruc-
tble. When Francis Drake sacked and
burned the town this was the only house
left
Referring to a paragraph about a
beech tree u feet in hight growing on the
tower of an English church, the Albany
Argus says: "One doesn't have to cross
the ocean to see this more than duplicat-
ed. Growing out from the wall in one of
the towers of a stone building in Genesee
street, Utica, opposite the Butterfield
house, the traveller may see another tree
which has reached growth of about %
feet.
The markets in Omaha are overstocked
with fine rabbits, which are selling as low
as 25 and so cents a dozen. Strange as IT
may SEEM says the Bee of that civ
the rabbit is not the poor mans game
All attempts to induce the poor of the
cities in this country and England to
buy rabbits on the ground that thew are
cheap and wholesome have failed Aus
tralia could supply the poor of all London
and then have plenty of rabbits to spare
but the poor despise the rabbit. At the
same time, he is welcomed to the table
of the wealthy, and is esteemed as tooth
some moTsel.''
The time-honored practice of our fore
fathers in rolling up a piece of paper to
be used for lighter has been utilized by
an inventor for the manufacture of
matches. The paper takes the place of
the wooden stick, and it not only lighter
but cheaper. Long strips of strong por-
Gus paper an inch wide are immersed in a
solution of wax, stearine and other sub
stances, which causes it to stick together
and to burn with bright, smokeless and
odorless flame. These strips then pass to
machine which winds them into long
thin tubes and cuts them into strips of the
ordinary length The strips are then dip
ped into the PHOSPHORUS preparation to
form the head, which, when dry, ignites
by friction in the usual way.
"A trade kick, which even the customer
who is taken in on it can have little cause
to complain of, since it gratifes his imag-
ination harmlessly is the "spotting'' of
cigar wrappers, says the News England
Grocer. The speckled appearance of the
outer leaf of many cigars is due to the
work of species of fungus that attacks
the growing plant. In a certain district
OF Sumatra, which produces an exception
ally fine tobacco for wrappers the leaves
OF the plant are commonly speckled in
this way Many smokers can hardly be-
lleVe that they are getting full satisfac-
ton out of cigar unless it bears this
mark of good quality 1t is therefore
not surprising that many patents have
been obtained for spotting tocabbo leaves
arllnclally One large firm makes no Sc
cret of its free use of a solution composed
or sodium carbonate three parts calx
chlorlnate one part and hot water eight
parts. The soda is dissolved in hot water
and after the chleriuated lime has been
added the mixture is boiled for three min
utes. When cool Ii is decanted into earth
enware or stoneware jugs, corked tightly
and Kept in cool place. Teh corks of
jugs not intended for immediate use are
covered with piece of bladder or parch
ment paper and tied tightly down 10 Dre-
vent the escape of gas and the consequent
weakening of the bleaching power of the
MUD. The prepared fluid is sprinkled ON
the tobacco, which on subsequent expos-
ure to light and air becomes studded with
the heckings that the innocent smoker
so highly prizes.
In Europe prejudice against horseaesb
as food diminishes year by year. and in
France and other continental countries
great attention is given to the fattaning
or wornout horses for the market. saws an
exchange. European societies for The nre-
Vention of cruelty to animals are inter
estlng themselves in the subject. and are
onering inducements to farmers TO utilize
their spare horses for food. The substance
is said to be as nourishing and palatable
as beef, and in some respects authorities
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