The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-14
ITEMS. OF INTEREST.

The British government keeps eleven
vessels at work sounding and charting
the ocean beds 10 find out where dan
gers Turk. Last year 10000 square miles
were carefully charted in different parts
of the world-Asia, Africa and the South
Pacific.
The wooden belfry of famous Faneun
Hall, Boston, has been replaced by one
exactly similar of iron, and it is hoped
that the work of altering and strengthen
ing the historic building will be completed
by the middle of September. The drill
room used by the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery Company is now unobstructed,
tTusses having supplanted the supporting
columns.
-Firmin Moindrou, California sea cap
tain, is making his plans to attend the
Paris Exposition, and is going to sail in
the trunk of a redwood tree Il will build
a schooner from one of the largest trees
in Humboldt county" he says. THE
hull will be one solid piece-simply the
trunk of the tree followed out and hewn
into shape. I will take a tree from %
to "A feet in diameter for my boat. She
will be As feet long, Is feet beam and 10
feet deep. and will be rugged as a schoon-
er. / will sail from here go around Cape
Horn or through the Strait of Magellan,
cross the Atlantic and down the Seine to
Paris. l want to be ready to start in
time to reach Cape Horn about the last
OF December of this year. so that l will
arrive in Paris by May of 1907
Now one may drink his lager sans
foam, and he may carry IL in mis- pocket.
Beer lozenges are among the latest things
which have been produced by science in
Germany for The convenience of human
ity. The lozenges are made of the powder
obtained by evaporating lager beer, and
contain all the Ingredients so that in or
der 10 convert them into sparkling ale
all that is necessary is to dissolve them
in water to which some carbonic acid
has been added-possibly soda water
would suffice. Or, one might swallow
lozenge and follow 1t by a draught Of soda
water. While the saloon or the pub
may never be seriously interfered with,
the railway traveller might find in the
beer lozenge just what he is looking for.
while the cycling tourist must hail them
with delight.
Five seen some mighty queer things
in my time" says an old gravedigger
quoted by the Baltimore Ssn. 1--WE seen
people-mourners, 1 mean-catch sight of
name on the card tied to some flower
piece and they have gone straight to
work TO tear up the whole thing IN tell
you another thing I've noticed. When a
woman comes along and makes a big
fuss at her husbands funeral. and says.
throw me in; l can't live without him.
/ know that In a few weeks time I'll see
her out here leaning on some young fell
lows arm. It's never failed. It's happen
ed every time. But the people-women
and men, too-who don't take on a lot
but just keep still. and sometimes don't
even shed a tear that's the kind that
Xn14d DON
ing again so SOON
The detectives in the large depart
ment stores are kept on the alert all the
time TO prevent depredations by skillful
shopllfters. In order to do this most
thorough system of spotting thieves by
the use of photographs has been adoDted
In one of the large department stores. in
the recreation room used by the female
clerks, is collection of photographs num-
bering nearly 1000. In this lot can be
found the pictures of nearly all the no
torious shoplifteTs in the country The
young women are encouraged 10 study
these photographs, and in many instances
they have been able to call detective
and point out a person whose picture
adorned the gallery. When one of these
persons is caught there Is little ceremony
used. The detective quietly comes along
side and seizes an arm in a grip that can
not be mistaken. Straight to the nearest
door she is conducted, and when once
outside stern admonition to never come
back under penalty of arrest is given.
Sometimes the suspected person IS search
ed, and if particularly notorious the heads
of each department are called in TO get
a look at the features. The detective eys-
tenn is so perfect now that there is COM
paratively very little thieving INDUCED in.
Authentic history and biography in
China embraces period from the year 122
of our era back to the remote period of
1857 years before Christ. says Self Gull
ture. The historians of China embrace A
succession or uninterrupted series of more
than 2 400 years. The full and continuous
history of the empire was compiled in the
second century of our era. The great
libraries of Peking contain volumes of
books numbered by the hundreds of thou
sands. In the archives of the govern
ment are still to be found the ancient pre-
dictions of eclpses made with great ac-
curacy, together with works on astrono-
my which show a fair knowledge of that
interesting science. Biographies very
succinctly written, of the Emperors of
the most ancient dynasties still exist. and
written works of learned men are as volu-
mnous as those of European nations. And
all this learning ard love of learning has
been acquired without help or suggestion
from any foreign people. If their authen-
tic histories reach back to nearly five
centuries ago. mythical history reaches
still further back into the very night of
time. When Nineveh and Babylon were
in the splendor of their might men in
China were predicting eclipses. making
catalogues, and giving names to the stars
But Nineveh and Babylon were mere
mounds of earth and rubbish when China
was great, and to this date the civiliza-
ton and life of the empire is the wonder
of the world.
In these not days. says the Chicago
Chronicle, many people complain loudly
that they perspire Too freely, little think
ing that to that fact they owe the good
health they enjoy and immunity from heat
prostration or sunstroke. Precipitation is