The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Natural gas found at Heathneld, Sus-
sex, is te,ng usel to light the railroad
station there. This is said TO be the first
practical use to which natural gas has
been put in Europe.
Running horses are unknown in Rus
STA. No one drives there without having a
thin cord with a running Moose around the
neck of The animal When The animal bots
the cord is pulled. and the horse stops as
soon as it feels the pressure on the wind
pipe.
Packages cannot be mailed to the Yu-
kon country, according to an order recent
ly issued by the postofIice department. Let
ters 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.
The opal mines in New Mexico and the
United States have been about exhausted.
no gems of much value being extracted
from them, though al one time large sums
were made out of these mines. Opals Oc-
cur in veins in the same manner as silver
or god. Those coming from below the
level Of water i'm a mine are not consid-
cred desirable They may lose their color
or crack after being exposed to the sun
level il is abandoned.
A recent Cairo (EgypD, dispatch says:
Latest indications point to a bad Nile
this year. and it is even feared that it
may be very bad one The natives have
been warned to SOW their crops early. as
there is no fear of an inundation The
amount of water will be sufficient in
Lower Egypt, but the high lands in Up-
per Egypt will suffer. The loss Of revenue
will he considera bic. The rise of the Nile
10 date is the worst on record. There will,
however, probably be a considerable cot
ton crop.
japanese statistical tables indicate that
there are little more than 10000 for
eign residents in the empire, nearly one
half of them being Chinese. There are
2,11S English, 1,076 Americans, 593 Ger
mans 491 French, 297 Russians. the re-
mainder being represented by small groups
of different natiOnalities. On the other
hand. the number of Japanese living
abroad is not far from 10000, the largest
share in Hawaii and Korea. OF japanese
students abroad, numbering $500, the Unit
ed States receives 2178.
Verbatim reports are seldom seen in
French papers and the shorthand writer
plays very insignificant part in Partisan
Journalism. These circumstances lend
peculiar interest to the fact that the
Figaro has a staff of eleven stenogra-
piers at the Rennes trial. With them are
ten typewriters and four sub-edtors A
special service has also been set on foot
to insure rapid transmission of the copy
to the telegraph office and between the
central telegraph bureau in Paris and
Figaro's printing house.
In an English churchyard the follow
ing epitaph is on the tombstone of a man
named More:
HE jacet plus,
Plus jacet hic;
Plus ct non plus
Quo modo sic?
Which may be translated:
Here lies More,
More lies here;
More and no more
How can that be?
The lighting of the Red sea seems at
first sound TO be a too practical infringe
ment upon an ancient FARMLAND. But Sir
Thomas Sutherland and other members of
Parliament interested in shipping are nat
uraIy anxious about the progress of the
lighthouse with which the porte has
promised to bejewel the southern waters
of the Red sea. The historical attitude of
Egypt toward tnG IteU sea DlIeFSs OF
course, a great deal from that of Eng
Eaud; but good yearly surplus now arises
from The Egyptian lights dues and 100000
is already set aside for the new towers of
safety for the trave,ers over that nys-
teTious main.
Reports from Mormon missions to the
south for last week show that 551 elders
are laboring in the South. They walked
ing their gospel They visited 1893 fami-
lis held 937 meetings and were refused
entertainment $40 times. In the central
Kentucky conference thrty-seven elders
are preaching. They walked S54 miles,
visited 1863 families, and they were re-
fused entertainment forty times. In the
Eastern Kentucky conference, forty-slX
elders were preaching. They walked S34
miles, visited 263 families. The report
shows a remarkable growth in Mormonism
throughout the South.
Deserted wives of pensioners are TAX
ing advantage of the law enacted by the
last Congress providing that one-half the
pension be paid the wife on proof of aban-
donment. More than 1000 of these claims
have been filed with the pension. bureau,
nearly all of which have received favor
able action. The pensioner in Dea@y every
case combats every prospective curtail-
ment of the amount he ultimately re-
ceives, but the proofs furnished by the
abandoned wife have almost invariably
outweighed his arguments and the per-
centage of such applications rejected by
the bureau is extremely small. Thirty
days notice is given to the pensioner,
within which he may show cause why
the division should not be made
"A school for backward children will
be established in Chicago this fall in af-
fliation with the department of pedagogy
of the University of Chicago. There is
only one school of the kind in the coun-
try. Ii is located in New York, and is
known as the Physiological School. Pres
ident Harper and Prof. Meade of the uni
versity are prominent in the establish
ment of the local school, and it will
have the cooperation of leading medical
men of Chicago. The teachers will be
selected from the best material. The CO.
operation of the neurologsts of the West
is expected in the support Of the institu-
ton. and a STAFF of local experts in neu-
will he MI in cha 81 h.