The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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"A fund recently started in San Fran
cisco for the erection of a monument to
commemorate the victory of Manila bay
has already reached $4,000 and is still be-
ing added to.
The catalogue of the 1900 Paris Exhi-
bition will consists OF Is volumes, one for
each Of the groups, into which the general
classification is divided. Each will include
a historical sketch of The industries dealt
with.
A German Psychologist attacks the
prevalent notion that sugar is injurious to
the stomach. He considers it one of the
most wholesome and nourishing foods, adj
hitting, however. that dyspeptics should
not eat sweet dishes in the evening.
Scotland seems a strange place to find
statue OF Abraham Lincoln, and yet
there is one there. 1t adorns a monument
erected in Old Gallon burying ground.
Edinburgh, to the memory of the Scot
fish Americans who fought in the Amer
lean civil war.
"A circular has been issued by the
French Minister of Public Works to the
railway companies of France informing
them that unless their trains keep better
time the government will enforce the fun
penalties ordained by law for railway mis-
management.
"A church in which only two services
are held during the year is surely a curl
osty, yet you will find such a one in
the middle of a large field near the viii
lage of Towton, England 1t was original
ly erected as a memorial to Lord de Cliff
ford, who fell in the battle of Towton in
1851
-Two-thlrds of the quinine consumed is
produced in the Island of Java, from cul-
tivated trees, the young plants having
been procured by the Dutch government
from Peru in 1852. The English govern
ment also started cinchona plantations in
India, which now produce large quantities
of cuinine.
1t is reported that the wireless tele-
graph apparatus of a young Swedish en-
gineer named Oring will be tested by
Lord Armstrong. He will get some of the
Atlantic liners to use the transmitters and
receivers whife crossing the ocean, and
thus try TO communicate with them at a
land station.
The reported offer by the Columbian
government to lease. to any one who wants
to work them, the famous emerald mines
at Muzo at a yearly rental of $2OOOO0 is
a revolution in the country from which Il
comes, if the country happens to he in
South America.
While manufacturers and others
throughout the United Kingdom are pro-
testing against flooding their home mar
kets with goods marked made in Ger
many the Berlin Koelnische Zeitung APP
peals to Germans to show their patriotism
and assist home industr ies by buying Ger
man made cloth in pace of the English
material
The Society of Total Abstainers just
formed in Vienna. is the first ever estab-
lished in Austria. Everybody drinks in
Austria. An Austrian baby begins to sip
beer at the age of three months and, as it
grows up, learns to consume the liquor in
ever-increasing quantity until, when full
grown man, he can drink it by the gallon.
The college graduates of the country
make pretty go1d part of the population,
and Harvard takes the lead, with a total
of % 2S7 graduates. Yale has sent out into
the world 1880 men and Columbia 1881.
Princeton has graduated 1900 students,
Dartmouth $50, Brown, 1890. Bowdoin A.
6l9 Amherst 1000 and Washington Univer-
sity ,436.
The division of forestry of the depart
HlSII Ol agriculture 1T lllG plGStItl NiIilb
has sixteen men in the state of Washing
ton gathering data regarding the growth
of red fir and how best to keep the land
in a productive condition. Fir is rapidly
growing timber and Clifford Pinchot, chief
of the division, believes that with proper
care there should be a perpetual supply
which should maintain Washington as a
great lumber-producing state in perpetui-
ty.
1t is stated by a French scientific jour
nal That the surgeons of Austria and Ger
many, on the motion of DR.. Hubenek, of
Breslau, are considering whether or not to
make it rule that surgeons should be
clean-shaven. Hair is a nest of microbes
some of which are pathogenic. OF course.
there is another preventive of danger-that
is, to disinfect the hair by washing it be-
fore performing an operation A Hunga-
rian surgeon would not accept as pupil a
woman doctor with a fine head of hair un-
unless she cut ii short and, strange 10
say, she did.
Notice has been sent to Mayor Ash
bridge of Philadelphia, that the heirs of
John W. Miller desire to take possession of
Philadelphia at once. THE order" saws
the Record, was peremptory and couched
In forcible legal language, and the pre-
sumption is that I. V. Roberts, who sign
ed the letter as attorney is a very young
man. The circumstances, briefly rehears-
ed in the letter are these: John W. Mil
Ter owned the ground on which this city
is now built. and disposed of it in ninety
nine years lease, dated in June, 1900 This
lease must have expired in June, 1899, says
Mr.. Roberts, and he appears quite sur
prised that the property was not promptly
turned over to his clients. The Mayor
sent a reply TO the effect that the ques-
ton had been referred to the City Solici-
tor, but as the movements of the City So
licitors Office are slow and Mr. Roberts
is a man of action it is possible that he
may appear any day and proceed to dis
possess the million and a quarter people
who occupy his clients premises"
The carriage and walk of the native
woman of Manila are thus described by a
returning traveller: LAS rule the women
of all classes are as straight as the wall
of a house, if not straighter. A plumb line
dropped from the nepe of the neck would |
in most instances, fall well behind the
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