The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The uncertainty of sails for commerce
was illustrated in the ship Natuna, from
London to San Francisco. in 225 days.
She tried for over a month to double
Cape Horn and then, discouraged turned
eastward ana crossed by Cape of Good
Hope and the Pacific Ocean. She had
been given up as lost and her reinsurance
while in doubt cost 40 per cent.
1t seems all coons act alike, the world
over. The Paris Messenger says: Some
thing approaching a riot broke out in the
vicinity of a large brasserie on the Avenue
de la Grande Armee yesterday, the chief
rioters being two young negroes, who are
said to belong to two Of the first families
of Hayti. The disturbance, in fact start
ed with these two who had left the bras
serie to settle their differences in the street
and who were espoused by their respective
friends. True to the tradition of negro
differences, knives of the razor order were
drawn, and when the police interviewed it
was necessary to call for an ambulance to
take away certain of the disputants.
Somebody who likes to juggle with fig
ures has computed from some basis that
there are 100000 bicycles in use in all
the world, according to London Cycle. He
goes on to say that if these wheels were
placed in one procession, with thirty pass
ing III d minute, II WOulU take nearly d
year, day and night, in passing given
point. Continuing, he says: Then again:
as the two wheels of the machine make
about 12G00 revolutions a mile, the 10,OC0,-
00O wheels would have to put In total
of 240O0 100000 revolutions. If we take it
that every cyciist on an average has ridden
100 miles, no less a stance than 10,0C0,-
100000 miles of ground have been travers-
ed by 100000 wheels. Every wheeT'-
but our readers have had perhaps enough.
Old Red Cloud, last of the Sioux chiefs,
is dying in his shack on the Ogalalla res
ervation in Dakota, says the New York
Tribune. He survives all his famous con-
temporaries, Sitting Bull, Spotted Tail and
the rest, as Ulysses survived the chiefs
who with him drank delight of battle far
on the ringing plains of windy Troy There
is nothing to lament in his departure, and
no repinings of his own ought to accom-
pany it, He has long since taken all the
scalps which destiny prescribed for him,
and his fame in after-time is assured by
a record of successful treaChery nowhere
surpassed among his kind. 1t is recorded
Of him that he was pre-eminent in plan
ming mischief, but was always mysteri-
ously absent when his plans were put into
execution. He is likely, however, to be
present at his own funeral when will be
furled and folded away the most lurid
line or tribe has ever worm
"A somewhat remarkable movement is
being started by the devotees of cycling
in Germany, says an exchange 1t is moth
ing less than a demand for the due repre-
sentation of cyclists interests at all cleo
tons, whether municipal or state Wheel
men in the Fatherland have cause for
bitter complaint against the police regula-
tons, which in many cases are not only
vexatious, but also nonsensical. They
differ, too so much not only in the various
states, but even in towns that no wheel
man on long tour is able to master them
The taxes imposed upon cyclists too, have
approached the intolerable point As a
consequence of all this every candidate for
a parliamentary or municipal seat will
henceforth be asked to answer the uues-
ton, What are your views respecting the
cycle police regulations and the cycle
tax! That the movement is formidable
one may be seen from the fact that one in
every four electors owns a bicycle.
The dum-dum bullet, which is being
used against the frontier tribes in India
is apparently a very effective proiectile
says London correspondent The name
is, of course, derived from the govern
ment factory in India at which the bull
lets are made. They are not manufac-
tured in England and the present from
tier war is the first occasion on which
they have been tried. The bullet resem-
bes slate pencil, and is a modification
of the latest Lee-Metford; but the nickel
shield is thinner, and the soft nose is flat
and does not project so far beyond the
nickel envelop In the late ChitraI cam
paign our troops, as is well known, no
ticed that their Lee-Metford bullets did
not stop the tribesmen in their wild
PUSHES, and so the method of cutting
through the nose of the bullet or rubbing
1t against stone, thus exposing the soft
lead core, was resorted to. The "stop-
ping" effects of the bullet were after
wards pronounced to be quite "satisfac-
tory" l hear, however, on good author
ity, that the dum-dum bullet on impact
collapses like concertina," making so
CHASTITY wound that in all probability
1t would be forbidden in European war
fare
From the beginning the Nile was an
exceptional river, says the Philadelphia
Press. Its sources were unknown. There
were those who thought that the Nile
flowed down from heaven; that it Welled
up from streams that disappeared under
the earth on another continent, or at the
very least, that its springs were inaccessi-
BILE to man. There was no such mystery
about the Euphrates. From the remotest
times its sources seem to have been known
by hearsay, if not by observation, to the
jewellers on the coast. The Nile was be-
neficent even in it's floods. The people
learned to let its waters flow over their
lands at the time of the inunda ton, and
where they raised bikes and sunk canals
and basins it was to let in the water not
to keep it out. The Euphrates also had
its floods, but these were destructive They
SCARED the soft earth with ravines and
swept the fertile soil onward to build new
lands along the edge of the Persian Gulf
The people anticipated the overflow with
dread, and their most absorbing task was
to restrain the river within bounds They
became more intimate with the earth
than their Egyptian contemporaries. They
learned how to mould the clay and to
make their houses and the houses of their
kings and their gods out of the material
under their feet. The Egyptians learned
something about brick manufacture, but
they had no need to depend wholly upon
that sort of building material. 1t was easy
for them to obtain stone, as their huge