The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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Ind, is utilizing a piano box for COW
stable, and says the cow-which is a Jer-
sey-has plenty OF room. The owner of
the COW has contrived means of heating
the box by the use of a lantern, placed in
such way as to be free from danger of
fire.
The bronze statue of Lafayette to be
erected in Philadelphia, represents him as
a slender young man of 20. In the right
hand is a drawn sword and the left is
placed over his heart. The right foot
rests on a broken cannon, the other on
the ground. A bronze medallion of Nine.
De Lafayette will be placed in the granite
pedestal.
Mont Blanc has always been regarded
as norman STAND, but the increasing use
of it for shelter huts inns, hotels, restau-
rants, Photographic establishments, etc,
has raised the question of ownership. The
lower slopes are divided among three diff
ferent cantons, and there is some doubt
as to the rights of taxation of property
on the higher levels
Water power furnished by the 26S-foot
falls of the Snoqualmie river twenty-four
miles from Seattle and thirty-four from
Tacoma, is to be used for electric and
transmission power in those two cities.
The plant will cost about $500, 600 and IL
900 horse power is to be supplied. A new
feature of the venture is that aluminium
wire is to be used.
How the late war affected invention is
shown by Commissioner of Patents DUEL,
who says in a report that on Dec Is 1897,
there were Ii, 1872 applications awaiting ac-
ton. This number increased until March
10, 1898, when it was 1887 On June q,
the number was decreased to L, 49, while
on Dec. q, 1885, the number then awaiting
action was only 5,464.
"A wedding was celebrated in cloudland
few days ago, when Mrs. Alice Mott of
New York and Mayor Smith of Fort
Steele. East Kootenai, Vancouver, British
Columbia, were married on the top of
Mount Sullivan. The idea was the brides,
who fancied she would prefer to be mar
red az a distance from the earth, where
clouds would be beneath rather than
around her.
Norway recently enacted a law forbid
ding the sale of tobacco to youths under
16 without signed orders from adults.
Tourists who offer cigarettes TO youths
render themselves liable to prosecution.
while the police are empowered to con-
youths who smoke in public streets. fine
for the offense being likewise imposed,
which may be anywhere from so cents TO
SIS.
A new alloy has been discovered which
is said to be wonderful substitute for
gold. 1t consists of ninety-four parts of
copper to six parts of anthony. The cop
per is melted and the anthony is added
together with a little magnesium and car
Donate of lime to increase the density.
The product can be drawn, wrought and
soldered like the precious metal, to which
1t bears striking resemblance when pol
ished. The cost of manufacture is about
"A cents a pound.
An International congress on tubercu-
1oss will be held in Berlin from May %
to u, next year, under the presidency of
the imperial chancellor, Prince Hohen-
lobe, and supported by an influential COM
mittee. The subject will be divided into
five departments: % Propagation; 90
etiology; go prophylaxis; "a therapeutics;
90 sanatoria, in each of which there will
be a short address and extensive discus
sions and debates. 1t is proposed that
all the governments of the world shall
be informed of this congress and official
representatives invited.
One reads much of Hon hunting in days
gone by but individual cases rarely ap-
pear in the news items, says the Philadel-
phia Press. A recent issue of the Lon
don Times tells, however, of an authenti-
Gated case. The hero. is a Mr.. Richard
Whitehead, an officer of her British maJes-
tvs East Africa protectorate. A notorious
king of beasts, which had been playing
havoc among the coolies at work on the
Mombassa Railway, killing and deVouring
several of them. had last been seen at
Tsavo and Mr.. Whitehead determined TO
do little killing on his own part. Pass
ing one dark night through a deep cut
OF the road, when accompanied only by
his coolie servant, he saw the lion on a
projection above him. The night made
aiming difficult. He fired. but missed. In
stantly the brute sprang down upon him,
crushing him to the earth, tearing his
clothes to ribbons and ploughing his back
with desperate claws. Luckily the ground
was slopng and uneven, and in the terri
Bile struggle the lion rolled over, allow
ing his hunter a chance to break away
and have a second shot. But this proved
little better than the first. The lion made
for the frightened coolie servant, and
before Mr.. Whitehead could reload, had
made away with the victim, whose half
eaten body was found not far away next
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