The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The experiment of raising surgar cane
in Delaware has been tried by DR.. Arthur
t. Neale of the Delaware College Expert
mental Station. II is said that the sugar
from cane grown in Delaware will yield
$500 pounds of the refined product to the
acre, compared with $500 pounds, the best
results from beets in California.
"A Spanish galleon with a cargo of H.
100000 dollars and as many bars of gold
was wrecked on the beach at Gunwailoe in
the Lizard district of Cornwall, more than
twenty years ago. Dollars are frequently
washed up on the sands. Helston, an Eng
fish iron founder has just organized a
| company to exploit these buried riches.
king street, Westminster, says the
London Mail, is in process of demolition.
| Here dwelt many notable personages, in
Guiding Oliver Cromwell, the Earl of Dor
set, Sir Thomas Kuyvett principally ia
NOUS for the capture of Guy Fawkes).
Thomas Carew, poet and courtier; the
| second Lord North, and many other equal
ly familiar to students of English history.
An English typographical novelty Is a
map stamped in timed steel plate. The
| first experiment is a raised map Of Lon
don and vicinity, representing about 800
square miles, on a horizontal scale of an
inch to a mile and a vertical scale of an
inch to 1000 feet, such a map being sold
for Is shillings. The surface, showing all
natural fluctuations, is enameled in colors.
The mummy rooms at the British
Museum say the London Mail, have been
completed and are now open to the pub
lie. These sleeping beauties of the an
Gent past have been systematically laid
out in a manner becoming their age and
rank. Kings and mobiles, priests and peo-
pie have been assigned to their places ac-
cording to their chronological or ecclesi-
astical order, and no fairer show or bet
ter display can be seen outside Ghizeh
than the recently augmented company in
these rooms.
The Berlin correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Mail notes that numerous Ger
man enthusiasts, on visiting the famous
Luther House at Eisenach, have given
expression to the idea of how delightful
il would be to drink glass of beer from
the table at which Luther had sat.
brewing company in the neighborhood + as
now conceived the idea of buying the
house. and while retaining all its charac-
teristics, of turning it into restaurant.
An earnest appeal is being made to The
Grand Ducal Government of Saxony to
prevnt the barbarism of using one OF the
country's most interesting historical Ie-
mains for such a purpose.
The Navy and Army Illustrated says
that the wearing oA Hi"A'i W
ficers when off duty is custom that came
in during the '30s of the present century,
owing to the foolish irritation that then
possessed the lower orders in England, at
the instance, to great extent, OF pohtlcai
agitators in Parliament and OUTSIDE,
against the standing army as an instlta-
ton. In consequence, the Duke OF wei
iington, then commandments ar
Whitehall, to keep things quiet and the
army as much out Of evidence as possible
in the circumstances, directed that all or
ficers should wear plain clothes When not
oi uueS, a-'N $50, .l 80 ,,ardenea into an
established rule of the service. until now
adays to see an officer in uniform when
not on duty is almost a phenomenon. The
saving to an officers pocket, for uniforms
cost a lot of money, by the present-day
| usage is another matter.
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are known as the Celesual mountains ol
China, In the province of Kuldja, discov-
cred large deposits of gold, which are like
ly to add TO the troubles of the empire,
says the Chicago Record. A Russian ex-
ploTer who happened to be with the party
left it and started posthaste to the CAPT
tai, where, with the assistance of the Rus
sian consul general he endeavored to Sc
cure a concession. Any demonstration on
the part of a Russian in these days is re-
garded with suspicion by Chinese officials,
and they began to play for time. The
Russian, through M. Pavloff, the Russian
minister, compelled the tsung-li-yamen to
give him a concession for the exclusive
right to mine in that district, provided one
half of the gold obtained was given to the
government as compensation. The result
is that large numbers of Russians and
Chinese are now hurrying toward that 10
cahty, which is described as an Ell Do
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