The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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Fingers are valued at q high price in
Australia. A Melbourne boy of s had his
fingers crushed in a gate at level cross
ing, and one had to be amputated. An
action on his behalf was brought against
the state railway department. The jury
awarded the full amount claimed, 5000.
The language of flowers is now play
ing n prominent part in the political dis
cord of the day in Paris. White pinks and
blue oeilets are the signs of the Reac-
tionary party, while the Socialists and ad-
vanced Republicans have adopted red bou-
tonneres Some anti-Loubet papers ad-
wise their followers to wear Panama hats
on Sundays as a special insult 10 the
President.
1t is not surprising that the plan for
billion dollar iron and steel trust has fail
ed. billion dollars is a good deal of
money. Counting one a second for eight
hours day ii would take man a year to
count million, and a thousand years 10
count a billion; or thousand men, count
ing one second for eight hours a day.
could together count a billion in a year.
one hundred silver dollars make a pife
foot high. A billion silver dollars would
make a pile 200 miles high.
Yankee ingenuity has upset an ancient
custom in India. For centuries every rajah
and even the minor potentates have had
special men to fan them during all their
waking hours These men are known as
punkas and they have been well paid for
keeping their masters cool. Now there job
is gone, for every rajah has bought an
American electric fan, with a motor to run
1t. The punkas have tried to convince
the superstiuous people that the fans are
hl la s.aI,
turna the wheels.
There are to-day about three hundred
women ministers in the United States.
In America the ministry is being more
used by women as a profession than the
law. The great value of women minis
ters in America is for scattered parts that
cannot possibly afford TO support a man.
They can maintain woman minister.
The chief opposition to women pastors
comes from ministers of the poorer and
least qualified class. OF course the older
and more conservative ministers, bishops
and the like, do not look with much pleas
ure on a woman in the pulpit But many
congregations in the United States are
ready for women ministers.
Lacking the power, or perhaps the
courage and enlightenment to abolish the
bun fight entirely, the Queen Regent of
Spain mas uOIlG wen III OTQeIlDS the OlSCOQ-
tinuance of the Royal Guards at these ex-
hibidons. II VAS the duty of these
guards, clothed in black and mounted on
black horses. to sic in the arena mOtiOnless
during the fight with their backs turned
toward it, guarding the royal box and
paying no attention to the shouts of the
audience or the mad rushes of the bull.
The recent death from fright of one of
these guards, when he thought from the
cries of the spectators that the bull was
coming up behind him to attack him is
probably the cause of the Queens order.
Whether the conservation of piece of
ground extends IKE the law maxims def
milton Of its ownership, down to hell and
up to heaven" is puzzlng some people in
England, as new underground railroad
station has been constructed directly I'M
der the Church of st. Mary Woolnoth, a.
the junction of Lombard street and King
William street in London. In Boston a
piece of ground bequeathed to a church for
sacred purposes is now covered several sto-
rieS high by department store legal in
genuity having discovered that a chapel in
one of the upper stories, and an agreement
that liquor should not be sold at that end
of the store, would satisfy the testator's
intentions. The ground seems thus TO be
cut from both under and over the old law
maxim
Statistics show that persons with red
hair are far less likely to become bald
than those who have hair of any other
color, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. The
average number of red hairs on the hui
man skull is 1900. Hair of a dark color
is generally much finer than red hair, and
three dark hairs cover as much space as
a single red hair. AS a rule a dark
haired person has about 10000 hairs on the
scalp. Fair-haired persons, on the other
a GVpl WnmPn-h1VR from.
400 to 10000. The strongest hairs how
ever, are those of a red color, and hence
they endure the longest. 1t may be added
that red-haired persons are generally of
sympathetic and passionate nature, and
are, as a rule, far more apt to be optimists
than pessimsts.
London is the best place for the holding
of the sessions of the International Coop
erative society," for it is in Great Britain
that the idea has made the greatest pro-
gress, says the Chicago Tribune. Since the
establishment of the Rochdale society in
iS44 the movement has increased until now
the cooperative societies have over 1900
900 members, which would mean that one
family in six in the United Kingdom has
part in the cooperative movement. The
British societies have a capital of 800 000,-
0JO and do over $500 900 900 worth of bust
ness annually. In the United States Coop
hence, as the election of the Rev. George
c. Lorlmer of Boston, president of the in
ternational society, to succeed Earl Grey
is an unusual compliment. DIR. Lorimer is
now pastor of fremont Temple in Boston,
but he is as well known in Chicago where
he was pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist
Church for several years. His son, George
Horace Lorimer, is editor of the Saturday
Evening Post of Philadelphia.
Col. Dave Henderson who is to be
speaker of the next House of Representa-
tives, has a national reputation for his
generosity in the distribution of garden
and flower seeds, says the Chicago Tri-
bune. The Third Iowa district is fairly
grown up with rare plants and vegetables
started from his free gifts. If the casual
traveller through Iowa happens to notice
that the shoest ring district is more bloom
ing and beautiful than the surrounding
desert represented by other congressman,
he can lay il entirely to Dawes" sense