The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

At recent meeting Of the Royal Medi-
cal and Chirurgical Society in LONDON DR..
LUZ read an interesting paper on the min
erals OF vegetables with reference to govt.
The general conclusion arrived al from his
investiga tons is that the minerals In spin
ach, Brussels sprouts, French DEANS. win
Ter cabbage, turnip toys turnips and cei-
cry are all beneficial to a equity person.
Their minerals act chemically in prevent
ing the deposition of equity matter in the
tissues, and spinach is said to occupy the
foremost place in the list In respect TO
this &C on.
PROT. Schafer Of Berlin. has just COM
pleted the colossal monument to the Grand
Duke Ludwig " Of Hesse. the husband
OF the late Princess Alice. The bronze
statue, twelve feel high. stands on a ped
estal of re. granite Of about the same
hight and shls again is supported upon
foundation which adds twelve more feet
to the elevation. Allegorical reliefs adorn
the pediment and on one side appear the
arms of the grand duchy, while a bronze
tablet on the other bears the following
inscription: TO the beloved and right
eous Prince who led the Hessan troops
in 1Sl0-'7l, his loyal land Of Hesse."
The Daily Times of Santiago. Cuba.
ie striving, under somewhat adverse cor
ditions, to be a representative American
PoE@i III d recent issue II remarked.
1t seems to he the object in life of some
people TO do as little work and get as much
money as possible. This was the CO Sc yes
to-day, when our printers ran ia upon Z 5
the article, Are We Fools?' which mad
appeared in our Issue of the day previous.
Our printers are all natives which not
only accounts for the many typographical
errors, especially in our English section
but for the fact that We have to be con-
stantly watching them. Some day a Yam
kee compositor viii turn up in Santiago
and then we may hope to turn out a bet
ter paper"
1t is said the figurehead of the Chesa-
peake, now preserved al Sheerness dock
yard, England, is not that of the Shan
mons famous antagonist and prize but
belonged to a later Chesapeake, built at
Chatham in 1870. and named after the
Yankee ship. The original figurehead of
the Chesapeake captured by The Shan
non was built recently (and indeed, may
be srilD in existence in Ha mpshire, ac-
Cording to ne Navy ana Army Illustrated
When the Chesapeake was broken up at
Portsmouth and sold in 1870, while part
of her tim bSrs went to build some new
houses IN Portsmouth and part to build
a -four mill near Fareham, the fiugre1 ead
passed into the possession of a Mr. Sus-
tace, or EusCis, and he took ii away to
Headley, where re was at that time build
ing his villa, AFFORD House.
A Pennsylvania paper says that to
a stranger who for the first time attends
the funeral of a Pennsylvania German,
the sight of the men all with their hats
on in thr church is certainly a curious
one. Silk hats, straw hats, felt hats, der
bys-in la.I, every kind of headgear ex,
cept caps, greets the eye. The wearers
are supposed to be in such grief that they
observance of the conventional behavior in
a house of worship. Forty or fifty years
ago the whisky bottle played an import
ant part at funerals, but such was the
disorder on some occasions that the clergy,
with Que accord, refused to oficiate at
funerals where LIQUID refreshments was
furnished The old custom of serving fun
eral meats is still observed among some
of the farmers, and 400 or 500 people are
some times fed most of whom never saw
the deceased in whose honor the barbecue
is held.
information by cable IS that the
Frenchmen believe that in the new rapid
fire field gun of their army they possess
the most deadly and efficient weapon ever
invented 1t is Of 2.95 inches caliber and
discharges twenty shells a minute. Each
shell can be loaded with $50 bullets. any
practical experiments have been made
with the gun at Chalons. It proved its
ability to destroy a regiment or a battery
in one minute. The barrel of the new
gun is OF nickel steel. The breech lock is
constructed on the interrupted screw
principle, but greatly modified from the
old form. 1t can be closed quickly with
one motion. The closing of the breech
cocks a hammer. The gunner at the same
time holds the lanyard, aims and fires.
The gun, with Its carriage, weighs 5000
pounds, which is distributed at the rate
Of 900 pounds 10 horse. This makes il
easily movable. One OF the most valu.
able features of The gun is that the recoM
is practically abolished. This is what
makes it possible to load and fire so rap
idly. The appliance for avoiding recall
includes a cylinder filed with glycerine.
An iron rod driven into the ground helps
TO hold the gun firmly.
The royal table was not the only thorn
in the side of the resuscitated Celestial
monarch, says the Philadelphia Press. In
China religion means a good deal and
the Emperor Il, Of course high priest
Of the nation. In each year he has TO
make fOrty-siX sacrifices to different gods
and to each god enc or more holidays are
dedicated. These the terrible tyrant must
pass in absolute solitude. Indeed, SO
much of his time is spent alone that he
has Gale dhimself The Solitary Man"
When he goes out TO sacrifice It is through
empty streets at midnight, or just as the
gray dawn is breaking. He is always car
ried in a closed palanquin and all the
houses along his route are hung In black.
Then, besides his forty-six citations, the
Emperor, in the course of every year has
to offer many hundreds of silk balloons
before the tables of his ancestors, the IN
broken line of whom extends far back be-
fore the beginning Of the Christian era.
As it is, several of the imperial manu-
factories are occupied the whole year
through preparing these flial offsprings
But the custom is continuous and unless
the family or the world come to an end
beforehand a future Emperor will either
have to hire help or extend the calendar
The climate of Puerto Rico is peculiarly
treacherous, says the Chicago Record.
The people have a proverb that "a draught
which will not put out a match will blow
a soul to HI" Newcomers to the island
are always cautioned against sitting or
sleeping in a draught 1t.is almost certain
to bring on a lever; yet the soldiers come
In from not marches or guard duty with