The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

is Mount Sangay, 1879 feet high. situated
on the eastern chain Of the Andes South
America. IL mas been in constant eruption
since IT'S. and the sound of it's explosions
is sometimes heard at Quito, a distance Of
$50 miles; 267 having been counted in 2n
hour.
There is a central electric lighting sta
ton at Manila, which supplies current for
1900 incandescent and 260 arc lamps.
There are about 720 miles of telegraph in
the Islands. and 70 miles of steam railways.
Manila has only a telephone system. The
conductors are all overhead lines carried
on poles with porcelain insulators.
The Albatross. the second of Eng
lands fast torpedo boat destroyers, has
just been launched by the Thorneycrofts
with all her machinery on board ready for
| her trials Her guaranteed speed is 50
| knots. When the Lairds launched the EX-
press recently the machinery was not in
place. Neither boat has been tried yet.
The expression, the lottery of marriage.
is not igurative in the province of Smo-
| lensk, Russia. Lotteries are held there
four times a year, says the Chicago Daily
News The price of a ticket Is ruble
about 50 cents and there are 5000 tickets.
The $4,000 thus raised becomes practically
the marriage portion of the young woman
who oficiaLes as the prize. The winner has
the right to give the successful ticket TO
a friend. If the young woman refuses to
marry the winner the 500 rubbles are di-
vided between them.
The largest bee tree ever discovered in
this section of the country was found
some time ago by William Heper of the
| Hepler Saving Company, says the Smith
| ton Pa.) Register. Ii was a line tree be
. - ~ ,afa ar-b and
/ the owners agreed to let the saving com
| pany cut it down, provided it would give
them the honey and clear away the brush,
which it willingly consented to do. The
tree measured 4 feet 912 inches across the
stump Pore and Hough We're right on
! the spot with their tubs for the honey,
| which, after the bees had settled was
taken out 1t filed two tubs and weighed
! 1914 pounds. The tree viii make 5000
! feet of lumber.
The recent gift to the Peabody Museum
of American Archaeology and Ethnology
of the famous ''Calaveras skull reSwakens
interest in that remarkable relic of antique
| man. says the Philadelphia Record. The
skull was found in 1866 imbedded in gold
! bearing gravel in Calaveras county, Cali
! fornia, at a depth of 1N feet. Above it were
| four beds of lava that had flowed from
| a now extinct volcanic vent. The late
|
| Maria Whitney, made the gift to the mu-
scum was convinced of the genuineness
| of the discovery The owner of the skull Is
| supposed to have lived in the Phocene
| epoch, a period so remote that the most
ancient dates of history seem quite recent
! in comparison.
"A Science Note" in the Outlook in
forms us that a Norwegian engineer has
discovered a new>way of turning seaweed
to commercial account, says the London
Graphic. He hopes TO extract from it
not only glue and gum, but also soap
! Teh idea is certainly attractive, for if
the new soap retains-as 1t surely should
do-the peculiarly refreshing scent of sea-
weed, the morning scrub ought to have
more than reminiscent SAVIOR of that
luxury denied to town jewellers, a dip
in the briny. Moreover, it's discovery pro-
Vides a new illustration of the pleasing
theory that Nature is beneficent to man,
and as "willin' " as Barkis to provide for
all his needs. Ocean, we see, in Offering
water ad hbitum, has not forgotten the
gift till man has grown civilized enough to
appreciate it,
The Fran, with Sverdrup's Greenland
expedition, on July IA, was seen In latitude
g. 16 north, longitude 80 26 west, several
| hundred miles northeast of Capt Farewell
| Greenland, says an exchange. Six days
| later one of the Peary vessels was spoken
| off Labrador in latitude Sc and longitude
go west Other things being equal, this
ought to mean that Peary will get up into
the Smith sound region ahead of his Nor
| Wegian rival, as Peary in the WindWard
had pushed ahead of the Hope, and on
July 20 was wen up in Greenland waters.
| Both vessels are a little late although
they may find the summer propitious for
| a comparatively easy journey to the Lady
Franklin bay region 1t will be months
| however, before we hear how the race
ended or the conditions that prevailed.
A Transvaal doctor is credited with
the discovery of new curative treatment,
says the st. Louis Globe-Democrat lie
asserts that he can cure persons of small
! poX, fevers, diphtheria and many other
maladies by simply wrapping them in milk
sheets. The patient is laid on mattress
covered with blankets, and is packed in a
| sheet just large enough to enVelop the
body. The sheet has been saturated in a
pint and half of warm milk, and is ap-
Piled to the body without wrnging After
lying still for an hour thus swathed, the
patient is sponged with warm water or
| put into a warm bath for q few moments
| to remove the milk. The treatment is
based on the germ-absorbing power Of
milk, and the idea of it is said to have
| been suggested by the fact that milk alb
| which 1t has been standing.
Most of the bonds issued by the Spanish
government bear 4 per cent. interest,
says the Cleveland Leader. They are quot
ed on the basis of a par value of 100 pese-
tas, the Spanish peseta being the equlva-
lent of the French franc, or about 1874
cents. In Madrid quotations the prices are
in deprecated Spanish paper, whereas in
London and Paris they are on the gold
basis. The interest is paid in gold on bonds
| held in other countries, but as a war
measure the interest in Spain is being
paid temporarily in paper. Before the de-
structiOn of the Maine the current quota
tons for Spanish per cents. were about
| 81 pesetas, or 81 cents on the dollar of
their par value, in gold. AS war ap-
preached and after it began, the price
| gradually went down until it touched bot
tom al about %. just after the destruction
| of the Spanish squadron at Manila. There