The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The brief announcement by cable that
the great strike of the linen workers in
Dundee Is over means good deal more
than it says. The total popula ton Of
Dundee is 164 900, and last year there were
seventy spinning mills there, employing
81 go people. In other words, one out OF
every three inhabitants of the city. count
ing the women and children, is employed in
a linen mill and is dependent on the indus
try for support.
The current issue of the American He
brew contains this word of caution 10 It's
readers: There viii be a number Of pro
posais-some have already been mooted-
TO raise money for the purpose of provid-
ing funds for carrying on a new campaign
for retrial in the Dreyfus case. Such pro-
posa.s are unnecessary, inadvisable and
injudicious The Dreyfus family need no
help of that nature. The proposals open
tempting field for exploitation by men
who are certainly not in the position of
Caesars wife"
The rate of depreciation of warships
has long been a mooted question, but It
has remained for the japanese naval au-
thor1ties to place themselves on record
with definite statement of what they re-
gard as a reasonable figure, In the esti-
mates for repairs and rebuilding the Japa-
nese experts have given SO per cent. on
cost as the rate of annual depreciation for
armored vessels and 5.4 per cent. for I'M
armored craft. The figure for the various
types of torpedo craft is given as 65 per
cent. per annum.
The colonial snob has made his appear
ance in Australia, as the following adver-
tisement in a Sydney paper will show:
Lady barley wishes attention called TO
the fact that a pair of stockings worn by
.s..l
~ for her will be on view this afternoon
at the bazaar to be held in St. James par
ish hall in aid of the sisters of the church.
The stockings were sent out by one of the
Queens dresseTs 10 friend in Austrana
and later on fell into the hands of Mr..
Pore, who has kindly lent them to Lady
barley"
-Anglo-Jewish leaders attach the great
est significance 10 the fact that Kaiser
Wilhelm has just gone out of his way to
decorate Jewish rabbi. The object of
this distinction is the famous DR.. Cod
stein+Mutzig. who is now able to wear
the Order of the Red Eagle. 1t so hap
| pens that.the doctor is a close friend of the
Dreyfus family and that he is also the
most important rabbinical parsonage in
| Alsace. 1t is argued that the Kaiser
would not select such man for honor az
| such time unless it were to emphasize
his conviction of the innocence of Drey-
| fus.
Sir Thomas Upton" says a Brilisher
| quoted by the New York Press, mas done
a great deal for England in reducing the
| price of teas. We drink over $50 900 900
worth of tea every year, and a reduction
| of 5 or cents pound means a great deal
| The first tea sold in England fetched $50
a pound, at GarraWay's Coffee House. in
g11o hat
| 1851. Coffee was introduced at about the
| same time; to be exact, the use of coffee
| was first known in England in 1850 What
we now drink annually costs only about
| $17O00,OO0, which is $3SO00,000 less than we
| pay for our tea"
French physicians have for some time
been recommending goat milk in place of
| COW milk, especially for children. The
| former, they say, is richer in caseine and
| it carries no danger of tuberculosis. Goat
| milk is nearly the same in composition
with that of a young mother, and even
| better because it contains more salts,
| which favor the bony system. Goat cream
| or butter, containing all the caseine, is
| wholesome 10 weakly children. Goat milk
| is said to cure constitutional syphilis in
| infants, and dyspeptics can take it when
| cow milk dsagrees with them. Cow but
| ter is dangerous goat butter is harmless,
and ought, according to this theory to
| take its place. There are a number of
| goateries near Paris and in the Swiss Alps.
| NJ Crepin, the naturalist, enthusiast
| for goats. states that the "hircine odor'
| of goat milk depends on the nourishment
of the animals. Il have fifty goats whose
milk has no hircine odor whatever. Only
when ii ages this milk has the goatish
| SAVIOUR" he says.
Bishop Leighton Coleman (EpscopaD
| of T0oIa NO hoe inc baH bic raI
summer tramp. which he made this year
| in Virginia, says the New York Tribune.
| He went clad in heavy dark clothes, with
| big shoes, soft hat, wearing a linen "dus-
| ter and carrying cane. He joumeycd
! about two hundred and twenty miles, or
| an average of twenty-five miles a day.
| His highest record was thirty-tWo miles
! in one day. The Bishop toured through
| the Blue Ridge mountains, sleeping in
| taverns, farm houses and hotels. He did
| not tramp on Sunday, neither did he at
! tend church, as that would have aroused
| suspicion but on Sunday he retired 10 a
| wood in the mountains and, erecting a
rude altar said the Episcopal service. The
! Bishop has been making these tours for
| about forty years and on this trip he was
! recognized for the first time AS he was
| walking by a station in Virginia a little
! girl ran up TO him and shouted Hello
! Bishop He paid no attention to her but
| remembered tndt Sne was IN q cOnSfeSa-
ton that he had addressed during the sum-
| mer.
There are 5000 theaters in the United
! States if we count all kinds" writes
Franklin Fyles, in the first of a series of
| articles on THE Theater and Its People -
! in the October Ladies' Home Journal
More than two thousand are fairly class
| able legitimate, and over one thousand
more are devoted TO vaudeville. The two
| thousand others taper off in various ways.
| To estimate the capital invested In all
! this thea rriCal property is difficult But
! about $l000OO,000 is invested in the three
| thousand first-class legitimate theaters
| which Will be considered in this article
| That issan average of So. 1888 each, which
| is low enough, some costing as much as
| $780, 600 each. 1t is equally hard TO com
pute the money paid by Americans for the
| atrical amusement. Separate audiences
| yield from absolutely nothing, in extreme
| cases of failure, TO as much as $2OO0O a,
| an exceptional performance of opera A
| conservatives c9lpIIlafint1 ie nat