The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-20
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the University of Oklahoma. The institu-
ton can care for more students than the
present enrolment without additional ex-
pense to the territory, and the board OF re-
gent has directed the president to admit to
The rights and privileges of the univer-
sity all applicants for such admission
made by or in behalf of the bona fide citi-
zen of the Cerokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chick
asaw and Seminole Indian nations, upon
the same terms and conditions as prescrib-
ed for residents of Oklahoma territory.
An epidemic of assesses has spread
among the men employed in the mills of
Muncie Ind. Most of the sores come up
on the hands and forearms. Physicians eX-
plain the ailment by saying that the eX-
cessive heat of the furnaces. added TO the
already warm temperature of the summer.
disorders the blood. The eruptions not in
frequently appear on the palms of the
hands and are especially painful because
Of the great thickness of the skin. The pc
culiar disease never had been noticed I'M
til this summer, but there are many men
now unable to attend TO their work by rea-
son of it,
1t has been estimated that any crack
steamer leaving New York for Europe
takes with it bouquets worth from $4,000
to $1,000 In a few hours the passengers
begin to feel queer and send the flowers
out of their rooms. Then they are col
lected by the stewards, carefully sorted
over and put into the ice house. and when
the vessel reaches her English port they
are sold and the profits divided among
the men. American travellers when they
land often buy flowers from English flower
girls in the belief that they are English
blossoms, when they are really the prod
uct of the gardens of New Jersey or
Long Island
A bee hive in a beer cask was discov-
cred by the coopers of Boake Roberts &
Co, on the arrival at Carpenters Road,
Stratford, East, of a truckload of barrels
from Burton-on-Trent, says the London
Globe. A swarm of bees had constructed
a quantity of comb which contaiued hon
ey. Unfortunately a large proportion of
the busy insects and their belongings
We're destroyed by the workmen before the
managers heard of the curious discovery.
They at once took prompt measures 10
preserve the remainder of the swarm in
new cask, where the Industrious bees
have evidently commenced a new home,
and are apparently quite happy.
Some idea of the pictorial postcard
craze in Germany is given by the figures
just published by our consul at Frankfort,
says the London Globe. About twelve
thousand wOrkmen are employed in pro-
ducing these postal souvenirs and it is
estimated that every day about one hun
dred new designs are published Allow
ing for each card an issue of 1000 only
and this is a modest estimate-it means
total of 100000 per day, or something like
3O,OO0OOO per annum. Since the introduce
ton of the souvenir card the number of
post cards dispatched in Germany has in
creased by twelve million. The latest
cards are great improvement on the
earlier ones, and some bear etchngs by
artists of repute.
Organ pipes made of brown paper are.
fortunately, not very frequently met with
but discovery of a number of these ar
ticles has just been made in Hackney
Roman Catholic Church. The building
was in course of redecoratlon preparatory
to its conservation, which is shortly to
take place, and, a number of complaints
as to the gradually decreasing volume of
sound emitted from the organ having been
made, the rector decided 10 have the in
strument overhauled with the result that
thirty-siX yards of brown paper tubing
were discovered to have been used in place
of the ordinary metal. 1t has been decid-
ed to rebuild the organ. and the work has
been entrusted to an organ builder who
is not connected with the paper trade.
Forty live sea lions were captured at
the Santa Barbara Islands recently for the
zoo at Antwerp, Belgium. The lions are
lassooed on the rocks with an ordinary
rope, and with much difficulty are landed
and Grated ready for shipment The men
hired to capture the seals are expert van
queros. The animals bring about $50 each
The largest cargo of railway material
that has ever gone from an American port
was cleared from Philadelphia on Satur-
day last aboard the British steamer Puri-
tan. 1t consisted of forty locomotives and
eighteen steel bridges for the Chinese
Eastern Railway, now in course Of con-
struction under the supervision of the Rus
sian authorities with the financial aid of
the Russo-Chinese Bank. A similar cargo
is now loading there destined for Russian
Black sea ports.
In Paris the automobile has reached a
greater popularity than it has in the
United States and is used for MANY mr.
poses for which it is at present unknown in
this country. For more than a month an
electric hose carriage has been in use bv
the Paris fire department. The machine
weighs over ton, or, with equipment.
nearly three tons. The equipment con-
ssts Of six men, apparatus to operate
three lines of hose, scaling
ladder, apparatus for wire in eel
lars ana one for life saving
purposes. It can travel fifteen miles en-
hour on good roads, and there is no delay
in starting out. The Parisians believe
that they will soon do away entirely with
horses in their fire department. and an
electrically propelled steam engine and a
hook and ladder truck are now being con-
structed for experimental purposes.
The new Tombs prison in New York
city will be a model of it's class Of build
ing. The cells are arranged in eight tiers
in the center of a huge stone hall, so that
there is unobs tructed ventilation all about
them. This is increased by the open work
of the cell front. Each cell will have an
electric light in it and two beds of woven
wire, which are hinged so as to be swung
up out of the way like the upper berths
of a sleeper. Prisoners for the top tiers
of cells will be taken up in elevators
There viii be four large lavatories on the
ground floor, two for men and two for
women, with all modern improvements
Frequent bathing will be compulsory. An
interesting feature will be the exercising
court between the top tier of cells and
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