The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


ton of Trustee Linn resolution was
adopted b. the Cicero town board last
evening calling on the town attorney 10
draft an ordinance legisiating the bee OUT
of the greater part of Cicero. Mr.. Linn
said bees were so much in evidence that
parents were afraid to send their children
TO school, and favored an ordinance Tor
bidding the keeping of bees within 200 feet
of street or highway.
John Stuart, the superintendent of the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway, was
formerly telegraph operator at Hoken-
dauqua, Pa. He went West and found
employment in Chicago. AT the time OF
the great strike, some years ago, he vol
unteered to take charge of the locomotive
of an important train on the Northwest
ern road, which he did successfully TINS
service attracted the attention of the van
derbilts who advanced Mr. stuart RAPID
", until he was finally appointed superin-
tendant of the railway at $1,000 salary
per annum.
George R. Seamans of Austin proposes
to use liquiied air to take the place OF
cremation. says a Chicago dispatch. Gre
nation" he says, us all very well in its
way, but it has too many disadvantages.
Moreover, ii is far more expensive than
disintegration by the aid of liquid air. Inc
liquid can De had for about 80 cents gal
ion, and four gallons would be suthclent
for my purpose Add 70 lhis the cost OF
a rubber bag in which the body can be
enveloped and frozen, and, with contln-
gent expenses, the whole ceremony can De
carried through for the small sum of SlO.
After the body is frozen it will be reduced
to a fine ghttering powder under heavy
W
the four winds"
Another new torpedo destroyer the
Ikadsuchi has just been built for the Jap
anese navy in England. When the pro-
gramme of the japanese government is
completed in seven years time the MI
kado will have al his disposal slXty-nVe
ships, with an aggregate tonnage OF zS5'UVu,
eleven torpedo boat destroyers, and 10
torpedo boats. The latest vessel Is typl-
cal of the kind of new additions SO rapidly
being made The Ikadsuchl is 20 feet
long with a horse power of $500, and
speed of 3014 knots, which must be nearly
the record of her type. Built by Messrs.
Yarrow, of high tensile steel. she contains
five 6-pounders, a R-pounder ana Two o
inch swivel torpedo tubes
The Philadelphia Record says: Con
ductor Penn Little of the Reading Rail-
wav who was painfully injured few
weeks ago by being thrown from the top
of a car at Nicetown, is aware now fhat
great rivalry exists among undertakes
and florists in this city. The day fol-
lowing his accident he received twenty
two proposals from various undertaKers,
who wanted the job of burying him, the
rates running from $50 to $3.50. Florists
from all over the country sent their rates
for gates ajar,' broken columns, pillows
and vacant chairs. One gardener called
in person, and Little, meeting him at the
door. succeeded in getting 50 per cent. dis
count off market prices before he made
himself known as the man supposed to be
dead"
The Philadelphia Press prints dis
patch from Cairo, Egypt, saying that M.
Georges Legrain has found two remark
able statues in the ruins of the temple at
Karnak. One is alabaster and represents
the great Theban god Ammon 1t IS
eighteen feet high, and was originally
made from one solid block of stone, the
largest alabaster statue in the world. IL
was found in three pieces, which were
easily put together The artistic finish is
perfect. The second statue is one that
was set up by King Usertesen l in honor
of his father, back in the days of Abra-
ham. On the lap of this effigy is a slab
upon which are carved inscriptions prov
ing the antiquity of the work. Accom-
panying NJ. Legrain when he made the
discovery was Charles ". Crewdson, cor
! responding secretary of the Chicago So
ciety of Egyptian Research, who is trav-
| cling in Egypt in the interest of the So
ciety he represents.
After all the agitation by the temper
ance people against the army canteen and
| the act of Congress abolishing it, the war
| department gives out this bit of news: IAN
experiment with two new styles of army
canteens is being tried among the troops
in Cuba and Porto Rico; 500 have been
distributed for use among the troops now
serving in the tropics, and 500 of another
kind have also been purchased and issued,
There have been no reports from the SOL
diers yet as to the value of the new pur-
chases." This is startling at first sight,
says the New York Tribune, but there is
| really no cause for alarm that so large
a distribution of canteens is going to make
| drunkards of our soldiers in the tropics;
| the canteens are not of that sort This
particular canteen is water carrier with
| a long porous, pipe-lke filter, and car
ried over the shoulder. The water per-
| COATES through the porous substance and
| fills the pipe with small-siZed drink, af-
| ter drinking which the soldier must wait
| until the pipe is again filled by the pro-
| cess of filtration, unless he should in his
| thirst pull out the filter and drink from
| the canteen in the old way.
They say that the best hotel in Texas
| Is to be found at Bolton, a town on the
Santa Fe Road, and it is kept by "seven
sanctified sisters as the proprietors are
popularity called, writes w. E. Curtis, in
the Chicago Record Several years ago a
woman in that place and her husband
quarreled over the best we of expoundlng
the scriptures to a Sunday school class
| and were 50 stubborn that they separated
| and were finally divorced. This family
| controversy was taken up by the town
which was soon distinctly divided between
the adherents of the husband and the ad-
| herents of the wife, The result was a
large crop of divorces, and seven husband
| less women, including the original cause
of the commotion Joined together and
! rented the town hotel One of them did
the cooking, another was parlor maid. a
third made up the beds, and so they di-