The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1t is estimated that from 1901 to 1888 |
the world has produced 12,7O0O00,ooO tons |
of mineral of which 1861 10000 tons more
of coal, 1,275, 100000 of iron, 6l2,UU,JVU of |
gold quartz, 100000 of silver ore, SOOuO,- |
eco Of copper and 100000 of lead ore
"A little story bearing on French pol |
itesse'' is told by the Gau,ois Upon re- |
cent Sunday President Faure thought he
would show a little kindness 10 the Off
Gals of the Senate and Chamber, and in
vited them to a hunting party. The
guests had scarcely installed themselves
in the saloon carriage provided for them
when, instead of indulging in congenial
talk each began to read his favorite pa
per. NJ. Faure was greatly astonished
ana rubbed his monocle in a way which
showed that he was much disturbed. The
reading Of newspapers went on. and at
last the President felt he must remon-
strate with his guests. "Messieurs," he
said, Il really must tell you that it is
scarcely polite to read newspapers before
the chief of the state" The remonstrance
was received with a bad grace, and one of
the guests, NJ. CaillauX, showed the state
of his feelings by attempting to leave the
train at the first station.
According to news from Japan publish
ed in the German press, the oldest resi-
dence on earth in that recently erected
at Yokohama by an eminent scientist now
sojourning in the Mikado's lands. 1t is a
mcrobe-proof house built Of glass blocks.
There are no window sashes. The doors
when closed are alright. The air
supply is forced into the rooms through
pipe and filtered through cotton wool
to cleanse it of bacteria. To insure fur
Their sterilization the air is driven against
| a glycerine-coated plate of glass which
captures all the microbes the wool spares.
| The few microbes brought into the dwell
| ing in the clothes of the visitors soon die
| in the warm sunlight with which the
| house is flooded. The space between the
glass blocks, of which it is built, is filed
with solution of salts which absorbs the
heat of the sun, so that the rooms are
much cooler than those protected by tie
| thickest shades In the night the interior
is heated by the salts radating the heat
they have absorbed during the day.
Some good stories are told in st. Pc
tersburg about. the Cars devotion to box
ing. which is quite his hobby. AT the
! Kremlin Moscow, and also at the winter
| palace, in the capital, he has rooms es-
pecially fitted up for his exercise. He
usually dons four-ounce gloves, and the
airy costume worn by gymnasts, and for
an hour each morning boxes with some
member of his household To refuse
bout with the Emperor offends him. So
hard a hitter is he that less athletic no.
] blemen about the court stand in positive
terror of a command to spend an hour
trying to stand up in front of their i'm
perial master. Recently, however, he met
his match in Prince George of Greece.
! When that vigorous young cousin was told
by the Gar, to box as though he meant
it he promptly let go his left and with
| such force that the little father of all the
! Russians landed on his back. Raising
himself on his elbow and rubbing his head
he said: George, you see me as every gov
eminent in Europe would like to see me
t1oored."
An amusing scene occurred yesterday
afternoon in the Rue Lamarck, says a
Paris letter. An architect living in the
street is the owner of large monkey ans
!, wering the name of Bamboula. The arcni-
tect was in the habit after his luncheon
of bringing his pet into his sitting room
and treating it to a cup of coffee and a
| glass of cOgnac A friend Of the archi-
tect happened to call yesterday. He was
given the monkeys coffee and cognac
| Bamboula was highly incensed at being
thus deprived of his accustomed treat, md
at once proceeded TO exhibit his displeas-
ure by throwing a foot-stooI at his mas
by throwing article after article of fur
niture out Of the window, the architect
attempted to put him back in his cage but
being unable to do so alone, he called
in his neighbOrs to the rescue. Their ap-
pearance on the scene only added to the
resentment of the monkey, who, lodging
his pursuers, darted from room to room
row going in through window, now
through a door, and either broke what it
could on his passage or threw any p6r-
table articles out into the street Bam-
boula was at last laid low by a bullet
from a revolver. The wound however.
was not serious A cup of coffee sufficed
to put Bamboula on the high road TO re-
cOvery.
Queen Victoria has just turned the ia
bles on certain artists and picture pub
fishers in London, and the "hupper circle"
is enjoying a quiet laugh over it, Some
time ago some one with an unusual amount
of self-confidence was going over the old
Schloss ROsenau, in Saxony, now the
property of the Duke of Sake Coburg,
and on the top floor, in the room which
had been used by the Prince Consort as a
study when he was a boy, was found a
painting, which was declared to be the
Princess Victoria at the age of L. From
some One-no one knows who-permission
was had to copy it, and in a short time
the picture stores had a new likeness of
her majesty. 1t represented a child, ex-
ceedingly pretty, dressed in a white gown,
with sleeves rolled up. On her head was
a small cap,and cuddling in her arms was
a small Pomerian dog. The reproduction
went like hot cakes, and her majesty
heard about it, Victoria had a good mem
ory and she has herself declared that in
cidents which happened when she was
twelve months old are fresh in her mind
STILL but she could not for the life of her
recall any picture of her fondling a dog.
To settle the matter she sent to her son
for the painting in question, and when il
was unpacked the other day the Queen
pronounced that she remembered it very
well. 1t was done by the artist Greuze.
who died in 1905, fourteen years before her
own birth.
Flowers must have reached their high
est price Christmas day and during the
week before Christmas, says the New