The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

- opener and closer" is new feminine
vocation. She is sent for when a family
departs from home temporarily, putting
things to rights then and repeating The
operation just before the return.
The Netherlands Railway, connecting
Pretoria, the capital of the South African
Republic. and johannesburg, has enc of
The finest r0adbeds to be found anywhere
and possesses a modern up-to-date equip
ment.
The attempt to raise 100000 for the
London hospitals by church collections is
approaching success. OF the last $40
900 to be raised SIS, 600 was given upon hos
pital Sunday recently in London. about
1880 churches taking up offerings.
AT the Paris Exposition there will be
80 barrels of choice American apples in
cold storage. small lots being taken from
the supply from time to time as needed to
keep up a continuous fresh fruit exhibit.
Oranges VIE be treated in the same man
ner.
The divorce evil, always extreme in
Indiana, is growing worse. During the
year recently ended the divorces number
ed 3,483, which is one for each of seven
marriages contracted. This is a worse
showing than made for the previous year.
when the average was but one in ten.
There are storm centers," of which the
worst is Marion county, which includes
Indianapolis. In that county the ratio is
one divorce to every four marriages
"A woman who has lived in the Trans
vaal says that there are no "old maids
in South Africa. and that the supply Of
wives is never equal to the demand A
school teacher seldom remains a teacher
feF II
ton of the young Boer planters is 50
great for woman gifted enough to read
and spell, and thrifty enough TO earn
money with her brain, that some well-to-
do bachelor soon persuades her to marry
him.
The Federation of Churches of Pitts
burg has investigated tenement house
conditions in that city. Sixty persons
sleeping (half by night and half by day,
apparently in three small rooms contami-
mated by two typhoid fever sufferers" is
one of the discoveries which has been
made by the Allegheny department of
charities. Ten to fifteen boarders, mostly
| Hungarians, in one room seems to be the
normal state of affairs in a certain sec
ton.
The newly founded town of Triangle,
Tex, promises to be unique 1t is laid
out in the form of an equilateral triangle;
its lots are triangular in shape and the
ground plan of each of the twenty-three
houses which have thus far been erected
there is three-cornered. The three princi-
pal streets are named Equilateral, Scalene
and Isosceles, and the residents have even
carried their curious idea into the local
government, which consists of a so-called
triangular Council, having three members
The town of Adrian. Mimi, is over
run with cats. and the local Council is
| seriously thinking of Offering bounties for
the destruction of the surplus felines At
a recent meeting of that body the town
clerk stated that a conservative estimate
placed the number of cats within the Dor
ough limits at $500, or more than three
times the human population, which is /
100 The residents engage in cat-sbooting
bees twice week, but the animals null
tiply more rapidly than they can be kill
ed.
The Westminster Gazette tells Of an
English night editor who found in dis
patch this information: THE Beers have
taken umbrage," and VINO wrote for il a
displayed headline, starting off in this
style: Capture of Umbrage bv the
Beers. " He tried to pad his dispatch bv
giving an account of the location of I'm
BRACE but was unable to find a town of
thaI name IN the gazetteer. 1t may be
observed that the exploit of this night ed
itor throws ordinary newspaper bIunders
into the shade.
1t has been discovered in st. Paul that
electric ground connections, made by at
taching wires 10 water pipes, not only ruin
the pipes by electrolysis, but seriously in
tertere with the operation of the water
meters. In one case a meter through
which a large quantity of water was dis
charged failed to register. This was an
extreme case and easily detected hut
what the effect has been upon the indi-
Gators in cases where the current is moi
so strong the officers of the water board
have no means to determine To protect
themselves, however, they have ordered
the removal of all electric wires from the
water pipes
How little regard is given to Kaiser
Wllhelms edicts against gambling by Of
ficers has been shown in the recent I'm
nocents Club" gambling trial in Berlin.
The three officers accused were acquitted
the charge that they cheated breaking
down through the excess of zeal of a de-
tective, while charges that the club was
organized for the purpose of plucking pig-
cons fell through on account of the dis
appearance of essential witnesses, who
turned up after the trial was over The
officers who had relations with the defend
ants, showed up the habits of German Off
GERS IN any way that has shocked Berlin.
One result of the trial has been the flock
ing to Berlin of gamblers from all parts
of Europe.
A c. Hunkemoler of Holland has OBJ
tanned patent for the production of arti-
fetal whalebone from tendons. especially
the strong tendons of the hind legs of an
lmais. The novelty of the process con-
ssts of producing an article of considera-
BILE value from parts which have hitherto
been abandoned to the gluemaker; and it
is claimed that the artificial whalebone
surpasses the natural article both in elias
ticity and strength. The process is ex
planned in few words, as follows: After
removing from the fresh or sailed fem
dons dried ones cannot be used all adj
herring flesh or skin, they are thrown into
water solution of salt of chrome OF
about ten to twenty per cent. of their
weight. Chromate of aluminium and
one-half to one part of chloride of sodi