The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

because of the scarcity of raw material for
| The paper mills of Holland they have
pressed into service the haulm or stalks of
the potato plant, which can be bought of
the farmers for 80 cents per ton.
"A club exists in Vienna the members
of which are pledged to marry poor girl.
If, by chance or design, a member marries
a rich, girl he is fined f4O0, which sum is
! bestowed on some respectable but tmpe-
cunious couple engaged to be married.
To keep hunting dogs in training and
provide amusement for spectators a New
York man has designed a race track with
| a mechanical arrangement mounted on a
| pair of rails outside the track to drag a
stuffed or live bail around the ring for the
! dogs to catch.
The Society of the Army of Santiago is
assuming form and the work of comp.et-
ing the organization, the making of badges
and other details is being rapidly pushed.
Anyone is eligible to membership who
| served in the Santiago campaign from June
II to July II, 1898.
About 20 titled people, says the London
Mail have come into an alliance of mu-
lual hospitality to spend the coming Christ
mas in town. 1t is an experiment Din
ners, balls and the playhOuses are 10 con-
tribute each in its turn to the success OF
the unique, perhaps saving experience.
The annual field maneuvers of the Brit
ish regular and volunteer forces are much
hampered by restrictions growing out of
| laws forbidding trespassing on game pre-
| serves. Enclosed woods and plantations"
! cannot be entered by troops, despite the
! fact that in war woods and plantations
are frequently the keys of positions.
Lord Curzon, before leaving London.
competed book on The Indian From
ter" and had arranged for its publica-
| tion, but, according to a special cablegrdm
| TO the New York Times the book has been
| Withdrawn from the publishers at the sug-
| gestion, it is believed, of the Queen, who
has pointed out the improperly of book
about India by the viceroy during his term
of office.
1t will surprise many of the Christ
mas buyers to learn that much of the So
called ivory which they purchase is made
from SKINNED milk and boraX. Take the
ivory rattle boxes, for instance-he
pretty white and colored ones which please
the babies so; also many of the combs,
billiard balls, back of brushes, looking
glasses, etc-they are usually cut from
what is called artificial ivory.
One of the grandest and most costly
buildings in Benares is the Monkey tenn
pie which was edicated to Brahma. The
design of this Strengthening temple is
! both stylish and attractive, and the inte-
| rlOr is admirably fitted out for the accom-
notation of the numerous monkeys which
occupy it. This animal is held in rever-
ence by Brahmins. To them it is sacrel.
and for that reason the monkey is as
much feared and worshiped as any one
of the gods of stone.
But six votes were cast in the special
election for state senator held the other
day in the Apponoose-Davis district OF
! Iowa. Two of the six were for Ellsworth
Rominger, Republican,, and as the other
four were scattering Mr.. Rominger was de-
| olared elected. The vacancy did not oc-
cur until after the legislature had ad-
| journed and the political parties did not
consider it worth while to make nominal
TONS for unless a special session should
| be called the new man would not have
an opportunity to serve.
Capt. R. G. Burton, in Tropics and
Shows, gives a bit of curious information:
The carcass of the tiger was carried TO
the adjacent village where a hen was de-
| capitated in front of il by the Gonds, as
an offering to the tiger god; while all the
women assembled and did obeisance to the
monster, bringing also their children, and
placing each a small coin on the tiger 5
! body or in front of its jaws. For these
primitive people look on the tiger as their
! god; and small marvel, seeing what a won
| drous creature he is, with matchless sym
metry of form and mighty strength, before
which man seems an Insignificant puppet"
Every woman employee of the Chicago
and Northwestern Railway system who
| has been in its service less than two
years viii be given a discharge as a New
Years present. A general order has been
issued, which in substance serves notice
on 200 women employees of the road
| throughout the West that on and after
Jan. l their places will be filed with men
The reason for this sweeping revision of
the employment policy of the road is due
to the fact that retention of women in the
| operating department of the company was
| inconsistent with the administra lions rule
to advance to places of trust those who
occupy clerical positions when ability and
worth are shown. The women, it seems,
| are not inefficient, but by reason of their
sex are ineligible for the higher posts of
responsibility 1t has always been the
policy of the road 10 promote its en-
| ployeS to the foremost positions in its
service, and to this is ascribed the infu-
ence which inspired the general order.
The new twelve-pound quick-fring
gun for the navy is promised to prove the
most useful piece of ordnance in the ser
vice 1t is a development of the old six
! FOUNDER. which did such remarka bly, good
work at Santiago, and, while it has ali the
! virtues of that wonderful gun, il has the
added value of being able to throw a shell
with greater mine power. Then, too, it
! can be put on various craft where the six
| Founders are now used with little disturb
| ance 10 weights or original magazine ar
| rangements. It is 10 be about $50 inches
! long and have a cahber of three inches and
chamber length of nineteen inches The
| charge viii weigh two pounds nineteen
ounces, and the exact weight Of the pro-
| iectile viii be twelve ana a half pounds
| Twenty shots can be fired in a minute and
there is a strong inclination it is said
among naval officers 10 retire the old six
! OIL