The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In her book, La Feminisme," Miss
Schumacher declares that in France the
cause of woman's advancement has beeE
cultivated principally by the men, not the
women; that in Sweden very few women
are interested in it, though the king IA
vors it. and that in England il is opposed
by the learned Institutions, while in Rus
STA they all favor it.
DO we own the Klondike? This ques-
ton, says the Philadelphia Record, forms
the headline of news item in an IS
teemed contemporary which prides itself
upon the accuracy of its information. The
item in question recounts the alleged dis
covery by five Finlanders" of "the real
Russian boundary marked by
a series of mounds constructed of loose
stones, upon which appeared a number
of regularly engraved characters" One
might ignore tommyrot of this character
but for the mischief caused by the in
stillation into the public mind of misin-
formation concerning an important ques-
ton of international politics. We GER
tainly do not own the Klondike. The
boundary between Alaska and the North
west Territory of Canada from Mt. st.
Elias TO the Arctic ocean runs with the
Hist meridian, which has been surveyed
and exactly located by the United States
geodetic survey and found TO intersect
the Yukon river at least forty miles west
of Dawson.
The Portland Oregonian says: "A man
who has long been identified with fishing
interests of Astoria was in Portland yes
terday, and gives it as his opinion that the
| salmon-canning industry of the Columbia
will soon be a thing of the past. The bus
mess of exporting frozen and picked sal
mon has been increasing rapidly, and last
iS saJ fr1 of b.a
| catch, thus materially reducing the pack.
| The men engaged in freezing and picking
| salmon can outbid the cannerymen for
| fish For instance, they have of late been
| paying nine TO 10 cents per pound for sal
| mon, until within the last few days, when
| a larger catch of fish broke the market
and reduced the price to or ST.
| cents. Cannerymen can never afford
to pay such prices for fish to pack in COM
petition with Alaska canneries. Mr..
Schmidt, of New York, who has been in
| the business of shipping cold-storage fish
| for several years, is putting up an extern
| sive cold-storage plant, and several others
are figuring on going into the business of
freezing and picking salmon for export"
There is no doubt that many of you
in the habit of visiting New York and
| patronlzng the thea ters do not know tina,
ticket bought for certain performance
and not used on that date is always good
| for an admittance, says the New York
correspondent Of the Pittsburg Dispatch.
| But it is. The reason you don't know it is
probably because theatrical managers do
not care to spread the knowledge. In
talking with a Broadway manager this af-
ternoon he gave me this little piece of
information: "A man who buys a reserved
seat for theater,' he said, may no,
use it on the evening for which he bo6ght
it. Good for this date only may he
stamped on the pasteboard. That would
| seem TO mean that the ticket could be
used at no other time. Probably most Of
| the public accept that, as proving the inn
possibility of making use of the ticket, and
that few make any attempt to get the
| worth of their money when they were pre-
| vented by any cause from using the tick
cts on the date marked on it, But it
! could be presented at any time, and would
| be good for an admission ANY theater
manager would have to recognize the hold
er's right to enter the theater, although
| that would, Of course, carry with It no
right to the seat. 1t is that right which
is limited by the printed date. For all
other purposes the ticket is quite as good
as If You used it on the date it bears"
After giving me this information the man
| ager requested me to keep it under nv
! hat" but as it is something that all the
atrical patrons should know do not con-
slider it any breach of confidence to make
1t public.
When the hour came for the Kansas
legislature to close, the other day, the ex-
ecutive council took the somewhat re-
markable precaution of stationng detec-
tives at every exit of the state house with
| instructions to see that no public property
was carried away says the New York
| Times. 1t has been the custom in the past
| 1t seems, for a vast number of articles,
| ranging from typewriters down to ink
stands in value, and from desks and chairs
| to punches of envelopes in size, to disap-
| pear at the end of every session, and the
| authorities decided that for once at least
this sort of stealing should be discouraged.
| The detectives found plenty to do. and
! dozens of would-be thieves. We're forced
to disgorge. The depredators were chiefly
| legislative employees, and they excused
| their conduct by saying that they regard
| ed the property taken as perquisites of
| their positions at had always been done. y
| they said. Two or three quite weu-known
| members of both House and Senate partici-
pated in the raid, and had to endure the
humiliation of handing back plumber of one
| sort or another a senator who was car
| rying off two volumes of state statutes
became extremely angry when halted. He
expected to return the books, he declared.
and was only taking them away for tenn
| porary purposes. very We'll" replied the
| detective, Just give me receipt for the
| books and take them along. / must do nv
| duty or give some adequate explanation of
why l did not do it, 1t would be interest
| ing to know whether the Kansaus are PC
| culiar in footing their capitol or in taking
| action TO prevent the dirty business. There
are other states in which legislative "sou-
venirs" are not quite unknown.
The torpedo boat destroyers built by
Schichau of Elbing for the imperial Chi
nese navy with their complete outfit and
| twenty-five tons OF coal on board saws
| Engineering, are reported by Mr. Schichau
20 have steamed 35.2 knots over The meas
ured course of eighteen and one half sea
| miles and with sixIy-seven tons of coal
that is, full bunkers-33.6 knots. The
| trials took place in open sea, between the
| lighthouse tower at Pillau and that az
| Rrusterort. The weather was even OF
force 5. The distance between the two
| lights is eighteen and one-half sea miles.
| and the course sfaarad bxr A. -