The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

given 5000 for the building of a home
for the friendless in Oshkosh.
The humorists of the English press
are referring 10 Sir T. Upton. owner of
the Shamrock, as Sir Tea Upton"
Henry w. Corbet, United States sen
ator from Oregon went to New York in
1874 and worked in a store for $3.50 week.
james Carr, the New York coFored
lawyer. who was recently appointed one
of the assistants of District Attorney
Gardiner, taught himself to read at the
age of 10. and read Latin fuently at II.
Efforts are being made to persuade the
Emperor of Japan to visit the Paris Elk
position. Should he go, it would be the
first time in the history of Japan that its
ruler has undertaken a trip to foreign
country.
The Emperor of Russia has probably a
finer hunting forest than any other living
sovereign, but he has not time to visit ii
often. The name of the forest is Below
eshkaja Puschtcha, and it takes /, 800 for
esters to take care of it, 1t is in this for
est that August the Strong was nearly
killed by a bear in 1905
Richard Mansfield was examining the
Shaw monument in Boston the other day
when he noticed a man with a kodak
pointed at him. He Numbered loud pro-
tests at the impudence of The photogra-
pher, and was then apparently still more
annoyed TO. find that the man only wanted
to get picture of the state house.
1t is said that Levi H. Letter the
Chicago millionaire. intends to erect a
handsome monument in the old Letter
graveyard on the David Strife farm, near
Hagerstown, Md. where he was born.
This farm. il VIII be remembered, was re-
Gently sold at auction for $l1,620, but the
right of access to line burying ground is
held by the Letter family in perpetuity.
-Twenty-se mining companies own
ing property in Storey County, Nevada,
aud all included in what is known as the
Comstock group, have contracted with an
electric company for power at 81 a horse
power. The power now used by the COM
pany costs about $50 and the great saving
made by this change Will make it possible
to handle vast quantity of low-grade ore
that has heretofore been cast aside as not
worth the cost of reduction There is a
promise of increased activity and prosper
ity for the people in that region that they
have not known for years
A big piece of granite has been cut
from the Palmer quarry, five miles from
Vinalhaven Me. Ii measures in the rough
S ate 81 feet in length and is s
feet inches thick, by feet IN width, the
total weight being $40 tons. When turned
into cylindrical form it will he 81 feet in
length by feet inches in diameter, and
will be the first of eight columns which
are destined to support the great dome of
the EpscoLa al Cathedral Of St. John the
Divine of New York Two of the eight col
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to be of the same diameter and 81 feet in
length
An interesting feature of the London
Coal Exchange, which is to celebrate its
jubilee next month, says the Yorkshire
(Eng) Post, is its floor. 1t is constructed
of inlaid wood arranged so as to represent
the mariners compass. Woods of many
kinds went to the making of the pavement,
among them being black ebony, English
oak of various hues, white holly, elm
(bOth English and American). red and
white walnut and mulberry. Some of the
slabs of wood, of which there are altogeth-
er 1900, have interesting historical associa-
tons. One piece forming the haft of the
dagger represented in the city corporation
arms, i5 a portion of a tree planted by
Peter the Great when he worked as a ship
wright at Deptford
-Dromedares have a great love for to-
bacco smoke, and can be made to do al
most anything under its influence, and in
Egypt they rely more on it than on any
thing else to control these huge animals.
In cases where the dromedaries have to
work night and day to accomplish jour-
ney in the shortest possible time they are
kept going with cigars. The driver inserts
a triangular piece of wood. pierced at one
point like a cigar-holder, into the mouth
of the animal the cigar being lighted and
pressed into the hole in the fashion fol-
lowed by man. The dromedary immedi-
ately shuts its eyes and puffs away
through its nostrils till the cigar is burnt
out. The smoke appears to refresh it and
the driver has no difficulty in persuadng
it 10 go on without further rest.
No less than one hundred and five
worlds congresses have been officially au-
thorized up to the present time by the
directors of the Paris Exposition, and the
number viii steadily increase as the SCI
| entMc value of these assemblages shall
! become more clearly apparent to experts
in every branch of industrial development
! philosophic inquiry and artistic effort,
says the Philadelphia Record. At these
/ gatherings the specialists of all nations
will be assembled and the proceedings of
! each congress when published in full will
! constitute valuable and exhaustive treat
L
! all-embracing and encyclopaedia charac-
| ter of the congress programmes at Paris
| affords but faint surface indication OF
/ the marvellous complexity of modern social
! and Industrial organization. Even skilled
| specialists aud trained experts must be
/ assiduous students and eager learners if
| they would keep in the van of world pro-
gress.
The London Times publishes a careful
! analysis OF the German census taken on
June IA, 1895. from which il appears that
| the population amounted on that dav IN
| 81, TO coo, of whom %, 400 600 were males and
| -6.36OOGO females, the excess of females he
| ing therefore nearly a million. This popu-
| lation increases at the rate of little
| more than million a year. for which new
! means of maintenance, education, and
| housing must be provided. The rush is.
of course, to the towns. the general urban
| population having increased since 1882 bv
Sc per cent, while the populations of towns
with more than 10000 persons had more
/ than doubled. OF the total, S292OOO are oc-