The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AIdQefd ana Fresno counties, Cd1lOIlld,
and extends over 5000 acres, or about
forty square miles. an area nearly one
fourth that of Chicago.
Packages cannot be mailed TO the Yu-
kon country, according 10 an order re-
Gently issued by the postofffce department
Letters and postal cards can be sent TO
the Yukon territory, but there is no way
in which parcels or third or fourth class
matter can be forwarded.
Gen Boulanger's famous black horse
Tunis has met an ignominious death. Aft
er the flight of Boulanger the animal
passed from hand 10 hand, and finally de-
scended to the ingiorious service of draw
ing a cab through the streets of Paris This
proved too much for Tunis, and he was
sold TO Armand Delogue well-known
dealer in horsehesh by whom he was duly
slaughtered cut up and sold for stewng
purposes in the market place of St Anne
Pol eiwidrigesvergehen is a word thai
IS used to describe the latest offense for
which a person may be arrested in Aus
tria. 1t is used 10 refer to any act that
meets with the disapproval of the police
yet IS not forbidden by municipal ordi-
nanceS or national statutes The Aus
TRAN police have the authority to arrest
any one guilty of an act of which they
may dsapprove. If the police inspectors
chooses the latter may imprison the Of
fender without troubling either judge or
jury.
doubtless many people have wondered
how electric cables are strung through I'M
derground conduits. the openings into
which are often half a block apart The
latest device for doing this work is the
mechanical rat 1t consists of a spiral
! spring held between two side frames and
! r. ban lie in
! that the carrier runs along Tie bottom of
| the conduit as the spring unWinds The
| power is sufficient to carry the rat from
| one manhole to the next, where an attend
ant catches il and winds up the spring
| The rat" carries with it through the con
duit a string to the end of which is attach
! ed strong wire, and to the end of that
! the cable.
| England always has a little war on
hand 70 train her soldiers. Germany not
being thus provided the Emperor has de-
Vised a scheme for making The army ma
! neuVers as like as possible to the condi-
! tons of actual warfare. Dummies have
! been made of straw, canvas, and old uni
| forms. They Will be set up in mimic forts
| and at these real shot and shell will be
! fired by the soldiers. The Kaiser has evil
| IDENTIFY been impressed by the feats of
! American soldiers swimming rivers under
| fire in the Philippines for one of the feats
| consists in the firing at dummies painted
/ with mustaches and furnished with caps
| These heads float on the water, and make
| splendid targets
During their stay in Paris the black
men who marched with Mai. Marcband
across Africa We're well treated. Through
/ the munlhcence of a patriotic woman and
| OF others, each negro returns to the banks
OF the Congo or the Senegal with a watch
and a fine supply of trousers, pocket hand
| kerchlefs, knives pipes and tobacco
! pouches. large sum of money has also
| been collected for them. One day the men
We're carted around the city in order 10
see the sights thereof. and they refused to
! get into the wagonettes unless their off
| crs accompanied them, Lieut.. Fouques had
| accordingly to join the party of black mil
lIary tourists, who We're piloted around
| Paris by officers of the fire brigade
The following estimate as made by the
Scientific American, gives an Interesting
idea of the money that can be made in the
saltwater business when il is operated
| on a large scale: with the carbonated
water reduced TO three cents a gallon, the
proflt on a glass of soda water is great
The syrups and cream represent a greater
cost than the water itself; but where the
/ haVorlnS extracts are made right in the
| store glass of plain soda with any of
INC VI uildIy SSIupS does not cost the deal
ers more than a cent and a half A good
| glass of ice cream soda cannot be made
Tor less than three to five cents. The lat
ter is usually the average cost in high
class stores where the best cream is used
The price of ten cents a glass, CONSIDERING.
the slowness with which consumers drink
it, does not make the profit so large as on
ordinary plain soda
-Mahy jewelers. state 1hat il is their ex-
periehce that they have many more main
springs to repair after a warm humid day
imam atany other time, says the JeWeler' 8
Weekly. Others believe the breaking TO be
due to electric disturbances, stating that
after an electrical storm they find that
many of their customers bring their
watches to them for repair. The sudden
cooling and consequent contraction of the
tghtly-wound handspring, caused bv
the removal of the watch from the BODY
on cool night following a warm day. is
believed by some to account in a easllre
for the accident So far, however no en-
tlrely satisfactory explanation has been
suggested. The only conclusion to he
drawn from the acknowledged facts of the
case is that it is not safe for the watch
maker to infer, merely from the breaking,
of handspring. that il is of an inferior
grade, nor for his customer to believe the
matchmaker deficient in skill because the
handspring of his timepiece has snannod
shortly after being replaced
After so much has been said about the
degeneracy of these days. the corruption
in politics. the decay of faith, and all the
rest, it would be interesting to have some
one point out just what days of the MAST
We're better, says Lesle's Weekly. WHAT
IS the exact date of that golden age in
American history when purity, honor. nm
seltshness, and the other virtues we're
more prevalent. 1t is difficult TO find
trace OF such an age in the chonfcles Of
early writer's. Take the matter of TOM
perance: Who can deny that there has been
a wonderful improvement in this direction?
The customs of large houses of providiny
for the profuse distribution of intoxicants
to servants and strangers are giving away.
so are the convivial social customs of com.
mercial travellers and country villagers
There is abundant evidence of the growth
Of new public opinion in the altered tone