The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Mexico has more than 1909 mics of
railroads. Thrty-eight Of the railways are
subsidized by the government.
Venetian coins of 1870 and 157, bearing
the name Of Doge Alloys Mocenigo, have
been found in Mashonaland, in the inte-
ror of South Africa.
All meat in Manill is eaten fresh
killed, since ice fails to preserve fish,
flesh or fowl, and game and fowl are al
ways sold at the markets alive.
The Swedish bride fills her pockets
with bread, which she dispenses to every
one she meets on her way to church. ev-
cry piece she disposes of averting, as she
believes, misfortune
Belgium is about to establish in The
Kongo State twenty stations for the pur-
pose of making a thorough scientific ex-
animation of the country. The results are
to be published in a series of brochures,
one every six weeks.
in the code and sacred books of the
Parsees no provision is made for capital
punishment but culprit is to be beaten
with thongs a number of blows, proportion
ed 20 his offense, and if he succumbs no
one is to blame.
Since the breaking up of the Banda
Rosa in Chicago last winter the Italian
| musicians have had a hard time. One is
still left in Chicago where for long time
he worked as a laborer on the streets and
dozen or more of the band have been at
work on railroad near Omaha.
The japanese newspapers are rejoic-
ing over the invention by a native genius
of a machine for rolling tea. The great
cost of the production of tea lies in the
| labor. Each individual leaf must be
plucked from the plant and handled with
the fingers several times before II can be
! sent to market
| Stockholm has an opera house which
is said to be the finest in Europe, although
others have larger seating capacity. II
| took seven years to complete it and the
cost was more than 81 100000 Private en-
terprise made the scheme possible, al
though the property has already passed
into the possession of the municipality.
George Frederick Watts proposes tc
have an open gallery, like am Italian log
gia, built around the churchyard of St
Botoiphs, Aldersgate, i'm London, and tC
erect in it memorials to heroes in hum
BILE life" He is preparing a monument
to Alice Ayres, a young girl who in a fire
in 1885 saved the lives of three children
| but lost her own.
1t would appear from all accounts thai
M. Chacot's enterprise of the manufacture
of spiders web silk is to De pursued on
| large scale a factory in Paris having beer
taken for the purpose. Here the spiders
will be kept and worked at regular hours
and, when one of them isused up he vii
| be fed and helped back to condition again
while another win take his place on the
bobbin.
An ingenious plan for the economic re
generation of Ireland is proposed by F
E. Baines in the London Spectator. Il is t
make Galway a transatlantic port ard Il
connect it with Kingston by a deep W.
ter canal across the island 100 miles long
The fish OF the west coast and the proGuc,
of the interior would be taken up alons
the canal or from some central point an(
conveyed 10 Liverpool
A large paper house with 16 rooms lla
been erected by Russian upon his coun
try estate at Savinowkar Podolia. Tn,
house was constructed in New York by al
| american 6ISlAGGI. It's dICIllLSCt uSEAdAG
that it will last longer than a stone build
ing. To make the triumph of paper still
more emphatic, the proprietor has re
solved that the whole of the furniture shall
be made of the same material
Michigan has developed a new peacl
pest, which arrests the growth of the frri
when 1t is about the size of a hazel nut
thus producing a crop locally known a
little peaches" The fact was first no
ticed about two years ago, and this yea
it's ravages were alarmingly extensive. S.
far no remedy has been found for it
though expert investigation and expert
ment are not wanting. In Saugatuck town
ship during the past season more than 40
trees were affected.
AT the elections held on Tuesday no
less than 10000 full-blooded American In
dams in all parts of the Union had tn
opportunity of stepping to the polls an
voting for candidates of their choice, o.
a perfect equality with white men. Out 0
this total number about 21,000 Indian vot
ers had the right TO cast their ballots il
states West of the Mississippi river; zoe
others in the Territories of Arizona, New
Mexico and Oklahoma for delegates il
Congress, and 1000 in the older states cas-
of the Mississippi along the Atlantic. sea
board and in the middle West and South
The Chicago Chronicle says that
teacher in one of the local schools was in
structing a class OF small children in min
eralogy the other day, endeavoring t
make clear to their young minds what
mineral really is. Standing before them
she began in her clear voice: "A minera
is an inorganic, homogeneous substance o
, definite. or approximately definite, chem;
cal composition, found in nature. Do Vol
understand me? Come. now, you all hav
seen minerals. And your mothers an
fathers have told you the names of them
haven't they? OF course, they have. Now
can any one tell me the names of thre
minerals?"
Discussing the future possibilities o
gas engines an English engineer says: A
present-at least with the smaller sizes