The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


great Spanish palace. may be inferred
from the fact that it would take four
days to go through all the rooms and
apartments, the length of the way being
reckOned st about 120 miles
In a London saleroom an old Scotch
''quaigh" (or shallow bowl. dated 17O1;
weight IA OF. Il dwt has been sold for
| fl24, or about guneas the ounce. The
Earl of Kilnarnock took his breakfast off
1t before his ''off-taking'' in 1746.
-Theaters in Spain have no programmes.
A bill in the lobby sometimes gives
| the cast. but most of the actors remain
| unknown by name. The curtain is de-
voted to advertisements, and in Madrid
theaters advertising cards are affixed with
i the number on the back of each seat
The tunnel of the Central London Rail-
way have been excavated from Shepherds
Bush to the Mansion House, and every
! thlnS IS IN readiness for the track con-
strucuon The stations have been tiled
and the large electrical plant at Shep-
/ herds Bush is nearing completion.
Saturday has been a fatal day to the
royal family of England for the last 1S5
years William III, Queen Anne George
/ L ",
Duchess of Kent, the Prince Consort, the
| Duke of Clarence, the Duke of Albany
and Princess Alice all died on that day.
State Factory Inpector Campbell of
Pennsylvania in his annual report TO Gov.
Hastings concerning the operations of his
| department for the year ended Oct 81
thinks that "some of the sickness in the
army during the war with Spain came
| from uniforms manufactured in unsani-
tary places, containing germs of disease
There is not house in any civilized
community that can be compared to the
one built in Washington by Justice Gray
of the Supreme Court. He designed it
himself, and it was built according 10 lis
plans and specifications When he came
TO move in it was learned that the struc-
ture did not contain a single closet.
For SS5 years the rulers of Denmark
have been alternately Frederick and a
Christian. This is the law, that a king
Christian must be succeeded by a King
| Frederick and then comes a King Chris
tan again. In view of this law, every
prince has among his other names both
| Frederick and Christian.
"A Gardiner CMe) dancing master says
allowing six feet for one waltz step, and
the waltz tempo 60 measures a minute and
taking three steps to the measure, gives
1870 steps In a minute. Giving ten minutes
! for each waltz and ten waltzes in an even
ing, the waltzer has covered distance of
seven miles in Waltzes alone during the
| evening.
-Grenoble is the place where most of
the kid gloves come from. AT this place
alone 100000 dozen pairs of gloves are
manufactured annually. This represents
a value of f1,4OOO0O to Fl, 10000, and gives
employment to $4,000 working people of
| both sexes. There are 600 men and q, 600
women residing within radius of thirty
| eight miles around Grenobe who live by
| this work.
in a Sussex England church there is
said to be one of the most remarkable
echoes known, while in a Hertfordshire
church the tick of a watch may be heard
from one end of the building to the other
| 1t is also stated that in the Cathedral of
| Girgonti, in Sicily, the slightest whisper
! is borne with perfect distinctness from the
great western door to the cornice behind
the altar a distance of about $50 feet.
A stray bullet cut many capers at
clearinghouse in Muncie, Ind, the other
night. The shot first went through the
| sleeve of a coat worn by Peter McCordel
then plowed a furrow through Michael
| Hagerty's side and struck John Riley,
| who was standing near, in one leg, infict-
| ing a slight wound. The shot was heard
by the three men, but the shooter could
not be located. The three men are iron
workers.
OF the 1872 steam and sailing craft
from foreign and domestic ports which
entered New York harbor in November
there was not single Spanish vessel. OF
the 37S vessels from foreign ports 2SS were
steamships, sixteen ships, eight banks,
| four briggs and siXty-tWo schoOners The
English flag fioated over 214 vessels, the
| American flag over fifty-two, the German
over fifty-three and the Norwegian over
| twenty-seven.
British postal banks report a total of
deposits at the close of the fiscal year of
between $500 100000 and 5000, OOO 600, an in
crease over the preceding year of more
$4,000. During the same period the num-
! Der of depostors has increased from $780,
/ 0OO to 100000 with an average to the de-
positors of SIS. There is now about one
depostor in England and Wales to every
! five of the population, while in Ireland
and Scotland the ratio is / to IA.
Two remarkable surgical operations
for the purpose of stopping internal hem
orrhage have been performed by DR.. Ha-
| bart of Vienna. In the case of a young
man who had fired four slugs into him
| self the surgeon cut into the thoracic cav
! ity, removing one of the ribs, and stuffed
| a yard and half of iodoform gauze be-
| tween the heart and the lungs. The
other case. that of a man stabbed through
! the armpit was treated in the same way.
| Both patients recovered and are now per-
| fectly well
"A Lewiston man is advancing a unique
idea for the next state fair. He says: Il
would build pens for the wild animals of
Maine and would offer prizes for the best
looking foxes, the finest woodchucks, the
best-looking skunks. the most vicious
bobcat, the latest Maine black bear. the
biggest moose, the sleekest deer and the
most active coons. 1 would have every