The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

dog which belonged to an English dentist.
The dog was scarcely able to support life
owing to the loss of its teeth. The dentist
made an artificial set including four ca
nine teeth and four molars mounted on a
plate In the ordinary way. The dog now
eats meat and even gnaws bones without
difficulty, and has gained considerably in
weight.
The state of North Dakota has Just
passed its tenth birthday. "Fleet-footed
civilization" cries the Bismarck Tribune
But yesterday we had the sod shack, the
OK team, the prairie schooner, and the
war-whooD of the untamed red man: to-
| day we have soirees, musicales, pink teas
and functions, and We have golfers in plaid
cloaks and PoDulists with whiskers. We
are only ten years Old, but we are great
state"
1t is proposed owing to the number of
accidents which occur each year, that the
Maine Legislature pass a law prohibiting
the wearing by hunters of buff-colore1
clothes which may be mistaken at a dis
lance for deer. Ordinary hunting clothes
are the worst possible thing>for man 10
wear in the northern woods. Accidents
| have been most frequent and each year
several hunters are killed, often being
shot by their friends, who think they see
| a deer
AT White Haven, Pa, there is an aux
Hilary fire system. The borough owns
fire engine, but the streets are so steep
| that delay follows any attempt to get it
| to the fire. 1t is therefore utilized as sta
| tionary engine. In the center of the town
| there is a small reservoir holding about
| ], 800 gallons of water, and it is connect
ed with the city mains. From this engine
| house radiate three separate lines of four
inch pipes, covering the area of the town,
| with hydrantS at the intersections of the
| streets. In case of fire the engine is con-
nected with the pipe system, the suction
| pipe is dropped into the reservoir, and
water Is allowed to run into the reservoir
from the city mains. The system has
proved very effective.
In the county of Down, ireland, is a
steel-pIate road known as the Benbrook
and Newry Railway 1t is three miles
/ long and has rise of 1870 feet 1t has been
In operation for sixteen years. It is an
ordinary railway of three-feet gauge. All
| the trains are both freight and passenger
| The passenger line is built of ordinary
| steel rails, outside of and adjoining which
is lower line of steel rails. The wagons
are without hanges on the wheels and run
on the lower outside rails. The inner rails
for the cars are high enough above the
! outer rail to act as a guide to the wag
ons, keeping them on the track. The wag-
ons are brought to the train over reg
ular streets and roads by horses. There
is no delay in hitching them to the train.
The entire cost of the road was slightly
less than $4,000.
In the history of life in large towns ii
is curious how entirely changed are street
noises, says the Philadelphia Ledger. With
the exception OF the racket made by We
hicleS and the irritating street organ, the
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chimney sweep, the berry and fish woman,
| the old clos man, the hot corn end rag
man, made themselves prominent by a lib
| eral use of lung power. To-day the noises
| are mainly mechanical, and the trolley car
the bells of the bicycle, the garbage was-
on and the scream and yell of factory
| whistles and bells make the "welkin ring"
in a most discordant and without remedy
manner. In Chicago it is proposed that
the scavenger's wagons must have bells
| which may be heard at a distance of 500
feet and these shall ring whenever the
wagon is in motion, and this to prevent
| the scavenger in q dump where garbage
| is not desired The citizens of Chicago
resent this detective system. 1t is bad
enough to know that a garbage cart IS
going where 1t should go, but to have it
announce that it is going where it should
not go makes it nuisance indeed.
The new government printing office
will cost about 81, 600 900, and it is said that
even after its completion it will not be
large enough to meet the demands upon
it, The new building will be eight stories
in hight, and its floor space viii be about
nine acres. The floors win sustain a load
| of $500 900 pounds. The building will be
| constructed in such substantial manner
that nearly the entire space can be filled
with paper and books without injurng its
| stability n ba
| df1c American. Access to the various
floors will be obtained by twelve electric
elevators. The building will be lighted
with 1900 incandescent lights. A refriger-
ating plant will furnish cold, filtered wa
ter on every floor for drinking purposes.
A large crematory will destroy oil the re-
fuse material, and this will aid in heat
ing water, etc. IL Is hoped In time that
Congress will appropriate the money for
modern typesetting machines but II Is
probable that when the census is complete
and the reports published the equipment
of the census printing office will revert to
the government printing office.
If the year 1900 could meet 1899 and
compare notes it would be vastly" anus
ed and surprised says the Philadelphia
Ledger. II would be amused, for one thing,
at the serious view 1899 takes of condi-
| lions which it passed over as matter of
course, and over which 1t certainly did not
| worry 1t would be surprised-Well. it is
not easy to make the shortest list of what
might surprise it; yet one thing certainly
| would the spectacle of Miss Elizabe
Stack in the Washington barracks teach
ing soldiers to cook. In 1900 the cooxinS
didn't trouble an army. Show it a herd
of cattle, a good chicken yard, a mill or
town stocked with green groceries, and
the cooking took care of itself although
a good fence nearby helped along. If 1900
| could to-day see a little crowd Of men
l-teamsters, BARRIERS, blacksmiths, clerks
and Notwithstanding eggs, sterizing the
milk, making broth, jellies and Cruel I'M
der Miss Stacks direction, 1900 would GER
tainly laugh. Eighteen hundred may or
may not have had bareback, but it GER
| tainly did not have ten different ways of
| serving it,and it would never have thought
of teaching its soldiers to cook rice because
it happened to be the principal food in a
country about TO be invaded.
Comparatively few people are aware
that Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, be-