The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-28
ITENES OF INTEREST.

-London's underground electric Water
100 and Ctiy Railroad has just been open
ed for traffic. The road IS a mile and a
half long, ending at the mansion house.
and shortens to five minutes a journey
tnat takes an hour in the crowded streets
"A good cry. is beneficial to a woman.
Crying does not consist merely in the
shedding of tears but includes so general
and widespread an action of the muscles
that the whole body is convulsed and the
blood pressure in the brain is much re-
duced.
within the last five years several mil
lions of the Pacific coast salmon have
been placed in Lake Superior They are
now frequently caught weighing ten to
fifteen pounds, and of excellent flavor. a
little milder than that of the salt water
salmon.
1t is just eighteen years since the first
japanese newspaper was established and
now there are in existence there SIS daily
ana weekly newspapers and thirty-hve
law and medical magazines, eleven sci
entihc and large number OF religious
journals.
Melbourne, which consisted of thirteen
huts. and was known as Beargrass, at the
time of Queen Victoria's accession. is now
classed as the seventh city of the British
empire, coming in after London. Liverpool.
Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham and
Calcutta.
The rs Southern students in attend
ance at Columbia University in the city
of New York are organized into a South
ern Society for the purpose of social In
tercourse and of affordng a welcome to
new students from the South who enter
the university.
The oldest loaf in existence is in the
possession of the British Museum authori-
ties. Ii was discovered in Assyria by a.
French explorer, together with the rem
nants of several other pieces of bread
carefully wrapped in cloth. 1t is supposed
tina tit was leavened and baked about the
year $50 b. c., when it was the custom to
put food in the coffin with a dead person.
1t resmebles an ordinary penny bun in
shape and color, and is IN perfect condi-
ton.
G. c. Barton of Brownville, Me-, has
a scythe snath that he has used every
haying season for forty-fve years, and
it is In good condition now. He also has a
cart, built in 1869, and a pair of wheels
built the same season, the tires of which
have never been reset and do not need
1t. While Mr.. Barton was telling this he
was sitting on a little bench built over
100 years ago such as the blacksmiths of
that date used to sit upon to straighten
nails
-szczepanik, "the Polish Edison" in
ventor of the telectroscope which does
for the eye what the telephone does for
the ear has built large house in Vienna,
which is entirely devoted to laboratory
purposes. One of his inventions, Just pat
ented, is new system of wireless telegra-
ply, quite different from Marconrs, and
making it possible to send messages TO a
great distance without a wire. Another
entirely unique invention is that of weav-
ing without pattern. Szczepanik has a pc
culiarly constructed loom, with the aid of
which, it is claimed a piece of Gobelin
tapestry, which now requires three years
to draw and weave, can be made in one
day
1t is just as well for people at home
to remember that Porto Rico and most
of Cuba are settled. owned and cultivated
by people whose rights of property this
government is going to respect and pro
tect and that, while there win be fine
openings for American enterprise there,
the land is not open for colonization
pys the Philadelphia Times. 1t may be
timely also to remind ambitious office
seekers that there are no places to be
given out in Porto Rico at present nor
viii be until some permanent form of ad-
ministrative service has been established
by Congress. Even then it is probable
that the openings for carpet-bag gere will
not be numerous. If we are going to give
Cuba to the Cubans we must allow at
least a show for the Porto Ricans in
Porto Rico
Its a curious fact" said a Canai
street druggist according to the New Or
leans Times-Democrat, "that men spend
more money than women for cosmetics
and toilet preparations. Sounds queer,
know; but it's true. You see, the finer
articles in that line are imported, and
are rather expensive They are beyond
the purse of most women, but the aver
age man, if anything of a beau. will
think nothing of spending several dollars
for scented creams, violet waters, shaw
ing powders, lip salve, lash pencils and
other things in the same line The best
customer is the ladies man who is well
turned middle age. An old boy of that
sort will buy wrinkle eradicators, hair
restoratives and crayon combs to keep
his mustache dark, until you can't rest
Yes, We sell twice as much makeup to
men as we do to women, joke writers to
the contrary Notwithstanding"
On Sunday, Aug. q. a few minutes be-
fore p. m, at Norfolk, Va, says the
Baltimore Sun. a rare phenomenon was
seen in the sky by Mr.. G. W. r. Russell
and others, namely, a double rainbow.
arched both ways, blending at the highest
point of the lower arc. The bows CEN
ter" Mr.. Russell writes, was at point
west of by south about Is degrees from the
zenith, and its four ends pointed N. Ne
S r. by S.-W. S. w. and N. w. by w,
respectively, as nearly as could be locat-
ed. Neither are of the double bow was
complete, the whole extending over per-
haps 50 degrees in length and 20 in breadth
at the ends. Where the arcs separated,
the blue and red were most strongly pre-
dominant, but in the space where they
were blended into one, the green
and violent were intense in lus-
ter. The attention of several
persons was called to the curious and
beautiful spectacle and all agreed tina,
they had never seen anything like il be
fore. The bow was less curved than US
ual The sun was about % degrees above