The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-02
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has been patented consisting of a sheet of
steel attached to the top of the window
| frame by brackets, with the front hinged
to drop down over the awning as ID rolled
up TO prevent the moisture from getting
in.
"A physician, in an article illustrating
the evil custom of talking to an invalid
about his palms. says that once he request
ed a mother to mark a stroke upon paper
| each time that she asked a sick daughter
| how she was. The next day. 10 her aston
| ishment, she made 1G9 strokes. A three
months visit away from home was pre-
| scribed.
The most widely separated pionts be-
tween which telegram can be sent are
| British Columbia and New Zealand. The
| telegram would cross North America
Newfoundland, the Atlantic, Britain, Ger
many, Russia european and Asiatc)
China, Japan, Java and Australia. 1t
would make nearly circuit of the globe
and would traverse over 10000 miles in do
| ing so.
A scientific writer says that night is the
time which nature utilizes for the growth
| of plants and animals; children, too, grow
| more rapidly during the night. In the day
| time the system is kept busy disposing Of
| tIlC waste consequent Ou dCliNllS Dul Wllle
| asleep the system is free to extend its OPP
| erations beyond the mere replacing of
WORKOUT particles; hence the rapid growth
| This is why invalids need so much lest
| and sleep.
Nearly 10000 letters in the course of
the last year were so badly dated and ad-
dressed that they could neither be deliv-
cred nor returned, in England. The let
tiers undelivered for one reason or another
but returned safely to the writers Were
very numerous, and they had Enclosures,
all told of value considerably over f500,00O
Over q 900 900 of postal orders were issued
representing f26OOO,00O in cash. The par
GELS going by parcel post to or from the
continent numbered 100000.
1T is about year since D. Ogden Mills
fine hotel for working women of small
means was opened in New York. The re-
ceipts and expenditures for a year, partly
estimated, are as follows: Receipts-res-
taurant, $4,000; room rents, $109, 200; rent
from stores, SO, 120, making a total of $685.
800. Expenses-Taxes on $4,000 assess
ment, $40, 700; repairs, $500; incidentals $780,
gas and electric lighting, $1,000; $50 en-
poyes, at an average of SO a week, $72 ,000
water tax, $l,500. Total. $4,000, leaving a
net profit of $46,120 on an outlay of $1,000
600, AZ per cent. investment.
The postofice department is not self
sustaining. In the fiscal year ended June
I 80, 1897, the total revenues were $11 900, 900
| less than the expenses. Money orders
worth 5000 were paid twice. Money or
ders worth $40 900 were not paid at all
but may be in years. The foreign mail
| transportation from Philadelphia to Great
Britain and Ireland cost 81 cents. Over
900 was paid to steamship companies
for the ''restransportation' of foreign
closed mails. To send our letters and
prints abroad costs 81. 7S0, GOO a year. The
Cunard Line is our greatest mail carrier
After it comes the North German Lloyd
and then the American Line.
During a Scottish tour which the poet
Wordsworth took with his sister he was
greatly struck by Kilchurn Castle. and
| addressed a solemn poem on it. These
verses happened to fan under the eye of
boy who had been asked by ladies to read
| something aloud. As innocent of it's char
acter as they, he began, in a tone intend
| ed to be impressively solemn, Skeleton
of unfeshed humanity" But the effect
of the phrase was more immediate and
more startling than any one could have
| imagined. For one of the two listeners
| land she was certainly very thin leaped
TO her feet and exclaimed Indignantly:
| well, l am the thinnest woman in Ire
land, but l cannot approve of personal
remarks"
The population of Italy is 100000 less
than the population of France, but Italy
has more theaters than France, and twice
as many as England, though the popula-
ton of the United Kingdom is fully 5000, =
| 600 larger than that of Italy. There are
| approximately 1000 place of amusement in
the United States In Italy there are 448
in Franco 427 In IL
Britain 352 and in Spain 210 One explana-
ton of the large number of theaters in
| Italy is to be found in the fact that the
| cultivation and appreciation of music are
perhaps more general in Italy than In any
other country, and many of the play
houses, therefore, are devoted not to the
atrical, but TO musical entertainments
What are called concert halls elsewhere
are theaters in Italy.
Under the collective mourner" system
in Germany, all the relatives of the de-
| ceased bind themselves together to mourn
his loss and to defray collectively the cost
of advertisement. The case of Mrs. Regina
Werschau is an instance in point. She
| lived to the age of Ill, and left behind
her many relatives whose testimony, quot
ed texually from the Werschau Gazette.
reads as follows FILLED with sorrow. we
| announce to all our relations and acquaint-
| ances the Departure of our innermostly
| loved Mother, Mother-in-law, Grandmoth-
er, Great-Grandmother Great-Great-
Grandmother and Great-Great-Gr Great
Grandmother, who departed this life on
Aug. o. 1898" The signatures of the par
ties affected follow. The German for the
last title is "Urururgrossmutter''
The fruit growing peasants of one of
the districts not far frome Berne recently
petitioned the railway company that car
ried their produce to reduce the freight
rates on the fruit that was daily shipped
to various parts of Switzerland, and also
to provide more cars as the increased
amount of shipments demanded It, The
president of the railway said in reply that
1t would be impossible for the company
to reduce the rates for many reasons,
and one of them was that a tariff card
had recently been printed and distributed
and reduction would necessitate having
new ones printed and distributed, and 1t
was rather late in the season, anyway
TO have this done. Regarding the petit
ton for extra cars, he said that if they