The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A pet Of a large white gander, which is de-
voted L. his owner and accompanies him
on his walks. If approached by a stranger
the gandeT iutters 10 his master. squawk-
ing for protector and is oomforted as one
m ght comfort a dog
At the recent Congress of Veterinary
Physicians at Baden-Baden, DR.. Hecker,
Of Halle, maintained that the foot-and-
mouth disease can be transferred 10
healthy animals by birds flies, etc, a fact
which, if subsIanulted WIKI cab for
modification of legislation.
The EiffeI Tower Is being painted with
five shades Of enamel paint. The summit
and the dome are to be a chrome yellow.
the shades Will graduate TO the pedestal
which will be of dark orange. Two coats
viii be required ard nearly 80 tons of
enamel paint will be consumed.
One of the latest German Inventions,
report tells us seriously is beer lozengers.
These are made of the powder obtained BY
evaporating lager beer, and contain all he
ingredients Of this popular beverage. The
only needfuA thing to turn them into a
sparkling ale is 10 dissolve them in water
IN which some carbon'c acid gas has been
added.
One of the most important Of he new
courses established at the University Of
Pennsylvania this year is that in com
merce, diplomacy and international law. 1t
Is a special two years course and is de-
signed 10 prepare students for the dip o.
matte and consular service and for the
conduct of international commercial rela-
tons
All the musicians who 80 10 Balmoral
are pleased with he appreciation of the
Queen, who thoroughly understands the
good points of a performance. But the
piano at Balnoral s said 10 be very infe-
rior, and none of the performers like 10
mention ii. They say there has not been a
new one there since the death of the
Prince Consort
In 1889 a Jaw was passed in Germany
that every German with an income OF $40
and over must insure his life against sick
ness and old age. In 1898 there We're II, POO
600 persons in Germany thus insured. and
so many of these had pulmonary consump-
ton that 81 of the insurance companies
erected at their own expense a sanitarium
for the care of these persons.
One of the most deadly snakes in India
was caught by an army officer in small
mousetrap a few weeks ago The officer,
just as he was going 10 bed, noticed some
thing dart for the door Of his bedroom, and
trap for it, placing it against the edge of
the wall close TO his bed. When he got up
In the morning the snake was found with
his head crushed in the trap
Russia has objected to the Sultan's
mounting pneumatic guns at the northern
entrance 10 the Bosphorus, on the ground
that such action implied that. he doubted
the Cars friendliness The result is that
the Sultan has Cancelled the contract for
the pneumatic guns, which We're the work
OF New York company. Ii is said that
the Sultan got the idea of employing
pneumatic guns from the accounts of the
actions of the United States dynamite
cruiser Vesuvius in the war between the
United States and Spain.
1t has been suggested that the now
clean and purified London Thames will
before long be again used by yachts and
the modern equivalent of the old pleasure
barges. Practical evidence that this will be
so followed recently in the arrival of Lord
de la Wars fine yacht, the Fire Fly
which steamed up the Thames and moored
off the embankment opposite Somerset
House. There she is TO lie. making a
floating London house, with the power to
be off into the country, up or down the
channel, any day that its owner pleases
Lord de la War; made the experiment for
a short time last year and found il so
peasant mat ne mas come again. Inc
Countess has accompanied him and re-
ceives her friends on board. According to
Lord de la War; the climate on the river
is charming, the nights far cooler and the
days quieter than on shore in town. Din
ing on board is one of the pleasantest ex-
periences of this new social departure. Ten
years ago all this would have been impos-
sible because the river had an evil SMELL
Now il is almost as clean as need be, and
a few years viii render it absolutely free
from up-river contamination. London ex-
poets to hear of members steam yachts
moored off the houses of Parliament be-
fore the season is over.
One of the London papers is of the
opinion that the yacht races excite very
different emotions in England and the
United States says the New York Times
Here, the feeling is "one of warmest en-
thusiasm;" there. lit amounts to no more
than keen curiosity" The explanation
given of this diversity is curious It
seems that we recognize In the Columbia
IAN officially authenticated national rep
resentative," while the Shamrock is due
10 the enterprise of one individual as dis
tinguished from a national enterprise, and
the public sentiment is inevitably and ma
terially modified by the fact" According
to this paper, the result is that while Eng
lishmen are much interested in the result
of the contest, they are deprived of that
very keen pleasure which has hitherto ac-
companied their excitement. In short, it
is not so much a national interest that
moves them as for the reasons stated,
and for some Others which need not be
mentioned curiosity as to which of the
two types of yacht will prove to be sue
cessful under the somewhat unequal con-
ditions laid down" BY this time none of
our readers can be in doubt as to which
one of the London papers it is that fur
nshes these quotations. Such minglng
of gross transformation and cowardly ma
lice is possible only for the Globe. 1t is
a journal without a peer in all the world.
Even Paris cannot equal it.
Several biograph machines were kept
| actively at work in this city all through
the Dewey celebration, and now the long
strings of pictures then produced are on
nightly exhibition in many parts of the
country, says the New York Times OF
course, the films bear almost innumerable
portraits of people who had no idea that
they were to be immortalzed in this way
| and sometimes the faces are recognized