The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Korean paper is so strong and dense
that it can be used to cover umbrellas.
Fashionable japanese young ladies.
when they desire to look attractive. gid
their lips.
Asparagus grows wild in the Russian
steppes in such abundance that it serves
as feed for cows
The civil population of Gibraltar
amounts to 1910, to which is to be added
a garrison of about AGO men.
The Russians are enormous eaters.
feeding about seven or eigth times during
the day, an average of once every two
hours
"A prince in Russia is as common
place as a plain MIR" in England or the
United States, and it denotes just about
as much social rank.
An interesting test has just been made
by a French woman. With a view to test
ing the sustaining powers Of chocolate
she lived on that alone for 60 days and lost
but 10 pounds in the interval.
-"An is fair in love and war; is one
of those proverbs to which no authorship
can be assigned. In various forms ana
language it is found in many poems. Il is
cited in "Christy's Proverbs" as OF very
ancient origin.
"A majority of the voters of Ellis coun-
ty, Kansas, are Russians, and they noml-
mated a straight Russian ticket this year,
but on election day, for some reason or
other, most of them voted one of the OLD
party tickets and elected it.
The last sister of the eminent painter
Joseph Van Lerins died few weeks ago
at Antwerp, aged 81. She left TO the city
all the paintings and sketches of her
brother remaining in her possession, be
sides the sum of $5O,O00 the interest of
which is to be devoted to two annual
prizes.
Siberia has boundess forests, but none
of them are avilable to supply the timber
for the construction of the Russian rail-
way through Manchuria. 1t comes from
Oregon and is shipped across the Pacific
to Vladivostock, thence transported by rail
to tributary of the Amur, and by water
routes to the line of che road.
illustrated postal cards on which for
tilted places are represented have been pro-
hibited in Germany on the ground that
they betray military secrets. Thousands OF
cards with pictures of Posen, Cubienz.
Mainz, Spandau, Madgeburg and other
towns have been coniscated and a fine
of marks win be imposed on any one
caught selling these cards.
-Samorys capture raises the number
of savage monarchs held as personal pris-
oners by the French republic to five. The
others are King Behanzin of Dahomey,
now kept at Martinique; Queen Ranavalo
of Madagascar. Ham Nghi Of AMMAN and
Dinah Salifou, from the African West
Coast, who has taken to drink Samory,
| according to French accounts, is the faith
er of siXty-three children.
Glasgow University has given the late
Principal Cards successor, Principal
Story. stormy greeting. His inaugural
address was interrupted by singing, whist
ling and stamping on the part of the I'M
dergraduates til the principal lost his tenn
per, and declaring that he would not al
low the university to be insulted in per-
son, withdrew. DIR. Story was unpopular
as a professor, and his appointment was
looked upon as job, he being one of the
Queens chaplains.
Italy seems fated to possess no war
vessel called Giuseppe Garibald. The An
saldos of Genoa have sold the cruiser
] Geribaldi III, just completed, to Argen :
| tina, with the consent of the Italian gov
eminent for which they will build a new
! Garibaldi ~. 1t will be rechristened the
! Pueyrredon. The previous Garibaldi II
was sold as soon as completed to the Span
! ish government, became the Cristobal Co
| lon, and now lies at the bottom of the sea
off Santiago harbor. The first of the name,
built in 1886 was bought by Argentina and
| keeps its name.
No less than six expeditions are trying
to reach Lake Chad, according to the
London Daily Mail Three, under NM.
! Behagle, Bonnet and Brettonet, are work.
| ing their way up from the French Congo,
while two others have started from the
| Senegal region, one under NJ Foureau, the.
other from Timbuctoo following the track
of the late NJ. Cazemajon. The Germans
| have sent party under Maj. Won Wss-
mann from the Cameroons. Some, if not
| all, of these parties, are pretty sure to
come into conflict with the conqueror of
| Bornu, Rabah.
Floating a bowless steamer is a feat
lately performed by the Liverpool Salvage
Company. The steamer Milwaukee. a cat
| the rocks off the Aberdeenshire coast of
| England last September 1t was found
that the forepart was held immovable on
the rocks, and the salvage company then
determined to cut the hui. in two. forward
of the boiler room builkhead and save
the more valuable part of the ship. This
was done by the aid of dynamite, and
after the bulkhesd had been strength
ened by planks and bracing the after two
/ hfr6c Of ba b1,II
ers, was lowed into the Tyne, where a new
bow will be built to the Milwaukee.
SPANS investigation of her accounts
to see where she can economize is lead
ing to queer discoveries. In 1897 the gov
| ernment settled the claims of a number Of
nuns in various converts by agreeing to
pay them annuities as long as they lived
/ The youngest person on the list was then
II years of age and the eldest 66. but none
of them mas apparently died since, as the
annuities, amounting in all to 10000 pese-