The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Emmanuel Kant and the last member of
his family, Charlotte Benisna Kant, died
recently in the almsnouse at Mitau
(CouranD, in the I'D year of her age.
The favorite author of Senator Frye
of Maine is Ruskin, and the senator rare
" travels without a volume of this
writer's works. Though MIR. Frye by no
means accepts the authors political econ
omy, he thinks him the greatest master
OF style.
The University of Bonn has had
windfall. Herr Otto HoeIterhoH of Hen
nep, lately deceased left his whole fort
une estimated at goo marks, to the
university, in memory of his wife, who
was a daughter of the former Prof. Book
ing of the Bonn Faculty or Law.
There are many queer industries in the
world. says the Philadelphia Record, but
the New Jersey farmer who has lately
made a contract with a Philadelphia mil
linery firm TO furnish crow heads at Is
cents apiece claims 10 have a monopoly on
the latest novelty in the industrial line.
The enterprise bids fair TO become ex-
tIemeiy profitable, as there are thousands
of crows in that section of Jersey, which
is just over the Camden county line in
Gloucester county. The crow is a very willy
bird, and as usual thing powder and shot
are only wasted IN an attempt 10 kin him.
The farmer knows this, and has wasted no
tine in cunning. He traps the birds by the
dozen, and has robbed all the nests he
could find. In a chicken incubator he has
Matched out over 100 eggs, and the young
crows will be ready for the beheading
process in about eight weeks.
Yet another flying machine. and this
time, comments the Daily Graphic, a
monster with no fewer than seven wings,
but said to be modelled after the general
form of albatrossr' This new con-
triVance appears to be capable, accord
ing to its inventor, of getting uD pace
equal TO that of an express train, and the
motion is described as steady and quite
agreeable, not being disturbed by any
swaying sensations. The individual at
tached to this aeroplane as it is dubbed
need only move his body when suspended
in midair so as to slightly tilt the ma
chine up in front to approach terra firma
once more in a delightful and gradual de-
scent. So far, however, the aeroplane
has made rs flights without the smallest
hitch or damage to either machinery or
man, and the motion is described as
smoother than that experienced when
riding in a rubber tired carriage
The oldest surviving ex-senator of the
United States, says the Chicago Chronicle,
is James Ware Bradbury of Maine, who
celebrated last week his 9th birthday No
other person ever elected to the Senate ar
rived at this extreme age. Mr.. Bradbury
was born in 1903, graduated at Bowdoiu
College in 1875, was admitted to the bar in
1877, and settled at Augusta, where he has
since resided. For a few years he edited
the Maine Patriot, printed in that city. His
practice of law extended over a period of
rience equaled only by very few mona
Senarian members Of the English bar. This
venerable man was elected to the United
States Senate in 1916 taking his seat in
1871, which he occupied for one term only
He declined a reelection and has remained
ever since in private life, devoted during
the active years of his career to the du-
ties of his profession. For a part of his
senatorial term Hannibal Hamlin was his
colleague.
England in fine weather. like It's inhab-
itants when in happy circumstances, has a
singular look of newness and good breed
ing, says Vernon Lee in the July Atlantic
Everything is swept and garnished, like
the interior Of a daintily kept house. The
hOp-hOleS make a pale green pattern on
the violet ploughed ground. In the
streams, the long willow-like weeds are
combed out and starred with jasmine
ipJhlllS UlOSSOlIl5. 4 ISM OdTL ike RAOSlS IN
the sunlit bright golden water. And then
the gardens of the old cottages-cottage s
some of them, of the time of Elizabeth
nay almost of the Black Prince, with seal
lOped weather tiles of delicate peach-bloom
color and brilliant whitewashed walls
against which stand out geraniums and
pink and white malows and even an ex-
quisite japanese lilly. What dainty pros
perity! And characterisucally English
through the midst Of it runs the past, in
the shape of an old Roman highway You
can still see slabs of ii, along the downs
among immense nut-loaded beeches past
duck ponds and haystacks. What a strange
mixture Of a very present Present with
Past which seems scarcely Past at all!
The last of the works of the much ma
Ggned George " to be mentioned here
says the Pan Mall Magazine, is the en-
larged and improved royal kitchen lat
Windsor Castle) 1t stands-perhaps the
largest single kitchen in the world-on
ground where royal kitchens have stood
from time immemorlal George " it was
who in 1928 gave it its lofty roof and top
light Ventilators, its splendid clock let into
the stone walls and its generally medieval
appearance. At either end of the kitchen is
fixed an immense and venerable smoke
stack, whose origin is lost in the mists of
antiquity. One of these annually has the
ilOIiOI u IOdSlluS ner majesty baron Of
beef. The hot plate table in the center of
the kitchen measures no less than II feet
by feet. The batterie de cuisine, in its
brilliant array of gittering copper, is large
enough to cheer the hearts Of a small
army OF commands, and to show its office
is no sinecure, one may mention that 1t
has TO make an annual visit TO the manu-
1acturer for restoration and repair. Lady
Bloomfield says of this kitchen in 1872;
The fire was more like Nebuchadnezzar's
burning fiery furnace than anything else
can think Of and though there is now no
company at Windsor, there were at feast
10 or 20 large joints of meat roasting
Charles Murray Controller of the house
hold told me that last year they fed at
dinner 113000 people"
The cause of earthquakes was the sub
ject chosen by Prof. Stanislaus Meunier
for a recent lecture at the Paris Museum
of Natural History. Starting from the re-
celVed hypothesis that the earth is cooling.
though slowly and without condensation