The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a day of seeing 900 motbs
Lake Ontario is 247 live III.
ocean; Erie. 578; Huron, 50 su9rioB COZ.
The Murray City Kyl cotncil has |
passed this ordinance: "Aan- rerson,
shall tie or fasten any rattldo, orls;n,i-
lar contflVance to any dog ] ,thel ami |
fined 81"
Among the mysterious ctoms 4 the
zuius is the dread which the larr,eI man
has Of his mother-in-law. Hds ae1id 10
meet her ana always holds ] MS thieid |
to screen him from her gIaha I'm os !
passes her dwelling Morrow hi wife
pretends the sane fear Of I'D husIen1,s
father.
M. Henri Moisen has sucoA5Adl,n oh
tanning metallic calcium free finn tnnuri-
ties. He dissolves hecrude MAI ! mol
zen Inetallc sodlum' naintaine al a red
heat. On cooling the c,lcium rv9allfzes
and is separated by beinA iresta VIII an
solute alcohol. The crystas are yvhi.s and
shining and belong to the hexarMd svs-
tenn. 80
"A curious tax on the chIAess ba bAan
resorted to in Madagascar in rder +! keen
up the now waning populata viii the
beginning of next year everynan of q
years, who is not a father 3 a sbu1
whether legitimate or illegitiata viii
have to pay an annual tax of $3yhiI. sin
gle or endless young women oV 25 wears
VIII have to pay half that amoA
Many of the private letters Aom the
seat of war that get into print arNuaint
A Massachusetts soldier boy, froi wor-
mr. n
count of the fight before Santiag end
closed with: Our meal hours art1erv
irregular. You may read this lett to
father, and tell him not to fear for n 10
a rolling stone always turns up Men
least expected"
-England's Chancery Court has reAoa
in recent case to recognize the valEy
in England of legal American divorcesA
widow, who applied for dover, was shot,
TO have been married four times In elgt
years and to have the three previous HI
bands still living from whom she had bel
divorced. A Florida decree was selectA
for the test, and MIR. Justice Kekewicl
held that 1t was void In England
Even the Japanese papers in far OF
Honolulu have grown excited over the wa
news, and have taken to issuing extra edi
tiOsiS' iIS ia ali OuiupO got out an Ee&
ira" on June "a, and gravely announced Il
japanese at the top of Its --latest news
column Dispatches up to June g. 1895
had been published in our paper of to-day
but private dispatches of later dates from
Washington have been received since, an,
are as follows etc.
"A siphon bottle Is the product of tw,
distinct operations, says the Chicago Chro
niola
the glass manufacturers and bottIe-mak
ers, and by them handed over to manu-
facturers of the metal top. The manner o
the adjustment of the top to the bottl
and the class of machinery necessary t.
accomplish the same the French maker
maintain vigorously secret. Recent effort
by American consuls to obtain admisslo
TO the manufactures were invariablI
fruitless.
"A London Times correspondent state
that the Honolulu government has, in co
operation with a syndicate of planters anc
merchants, organized a pigeon post servic
between the eight largest islands of tn
Sandwich Archipelago. Communication ha,
previously been carried on under difficulue
and at irregular intervals, vessels not al
ways being able to reach the islands. Sew
eral hundred birds have been trained to tn
ly bird post has been attended with sue
cess. The most distant of the outlyiue
posts is $50 miles from Honolulu, the cen
tral station.
DIR. Calmute, director of the Lii,
branch of the Pasteur Institute, has com
municated to the international chemists
congress an important result of his exper
iments in the manufacture of alcohol say
the Rhlt96PlnHi9 Ra0Ar1 10 an
of Chinese yeast a sort of fungoid growth
far superior TO ordinary yeast, and pro
ducing more and better alcohol at less ex
pense. The spirit is cleaner and contain.
less empyreuma, owing to the absence Of
microbes found in yeast. A thousand kilo
grams of maize were brought to fermenta
ton by few grains of this fungi The
method is equally successful in factory anC
laboratory.
Liquid air has been introduced at the
banquet-a scientists banquet, s'entend-
with more effect than favor, it would seem
says the London Pail Mall Gazette. After
the champagne had made its round, tht
glasses were topped up with the new stuff
when, considerably to the disgust of every.
body but the originator of this surprise
eVerybody's champagne evaporated II
white clouds. Liquid air Is the real fire
water. II might be safely reckoned upor
to satisfy the exigencies of a gullet upor
which fortyrod whisky had altogether pal
led, but it is clearly not yet likely to gel
into the general wine card A little while
ago William Kaiser was offered a glass
of it. He would not have been William
Kaiser if he had not known what to dc
with 1t. He raised the glass in the honor
of science, but he left it 10 any scientist
who liked TO put down the contents.
-S-G-e-
Thought Him 81 Quaker.
A gentleman who was travelling recent