The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The works consist of four holders of 3,lO0,-
600 cubic feet capacity each, house I50
feet long and 200 feet wide for the inclined
retors and two houses go feet long and
60 feet wide for the condensers and scrub
bers. besides the smaller structure neces-
sary for such a plant.
Why is Friday an unlucky day? The
sun shines the rain falls; nature pro
crosses and everything seems to go<n the
same usual on that day as on any 9TH
er; bur still the belief in its ominous char
acter is widely disseminated and only too
firmly established. Byron had a great
dread of Friday. He was struck with
terror when he remembered that he had
embarked for Greece, at Genes, on a Fri
day, and he once dismissed a tailor at
Geneva who brought him home a new
habit on that day. At Pisa he went to
call upon a lady of distinction for the first
time, but Immediately turned away from
the Coor when he remembered il was Fri
day.
Maj G. w. Ford of the Kansas col
ored regiment in Cuba, writes as follows
of funeral customs in the island: Il was
sitting in a house to-day in San Luis, look
ing out in the street. when / noticed
crowd of Cubans coming along the street
talking and smoking cigars. 1 knew al
once II WIS Il lQuGldi DLOttSSAOL. 4 an
bearers and every one e.se were putting
away at their cigars. Women never at
tend funerals here. The coffin was of
dazzling blue color and one that l had
seen many times before for they do not
bury the coffin with the body. When they
reach she cemetery the body is taken out,
wrapped in grave clothes and the coffin
brought back. summed and used for future
occasions. The grave is from fourteen
to eighteen inches deep"
The last fight with the Dervishes east
of the White Nile seems to have been
that of Col. Lewis. who attacked the Emir
Eedil while he was crossing the Blue Nile
at the cataract south of Roseres. Fedil
took a position on an island, from which
he was at length driven after a severe
struggle. He eventually escaped with 300
men to the west side of the Blue Nile.
Crossing The White Nile will be still more
difficult for him, as that river is patroled
by Kitchener's gunboats. The only Der
wishes now in arms it seems, are those
with the Khalifa himself, against whom
an expedition has been sent. Telegraph
| lines are being built to connect Khartoum
with Kassala, Gedaref, Fashoda and other
points. The lire is to be extended to Ugan-
da by the men Macdonald is bringing from
| Uganda TO Lado, on the Upper Nile.
/ a NNA man paper 10 uuSdlidAlt GtlOQSH
/ to carry its betrayal of court secrets to
| the extent of giving the weights of the
| best-knOwn queens of Europe. To believe
| the Tageblatt, Margherita, Italy's beau
| tiful sovereign, heads the record with 176
pounds followed by Queen Victoria, with
| ~ Christina of Spain has recently been
| reduced to 147, while the Queen of the
| Belgians weighs 143 and the German EN-
| press 1876 CD. Maria Amelia Louisa Helena
| of Portugal, despite her long namei is
credited with only 1872 pounds, although
| Russia's Czarina pulls merely 100. For
our Dutch-American Marylanders sake
we regret to state that our German in
| formant leaves us in the dark with re-
gard to Queen Wilhelmina of Holland. He
merely presupposes that she is the
lghtest of all the continental queens, a
| problem which we drop unsolVed.
The declaration that the sun never
sets on English flag was always a false
sentiment, because British domain is so
| scattered that the sun actually passes
over one portion and darkness sets in be-
fore morning has come to the next, says
| the Philadelphia Press. The victories of
the past few months, however, have given
| the United States continual daylight. 1t
| is now never night all over the country.
THE crows flight" from Bangor, Me-, to
| Manila p. l., covers 175 degrees of long
| itude, or runs half way round the world.
And that's pretty good flight for a crow.
| For instan ce, if hole were to be dug
right through the earth from Bangor and
a newsboy dropped the whole way through
regardless of gravitaton-he would be
| able to walk to Manila and deliver the
morning papers to Gen. Otis men. The sun
| rises in Maine, but before it sets in the
Philippines morning is breaking all along
our Atlantic coast.
-"Guatemala is a flrst-rate country to
stay away FROM" former Louisiana man
who has spent considerable time down
there declares. "The government is bad,
the currency is next to worthless, and the
| climate is worst of all. Ii takes all the
| life and energy out of man from the
states ere he has been living there a
month l speak from the depths of a sor-
| rowful experience All the money in cir
| culation is of the rag variety, and there
| is no reason to think it will ever appre-
| ciate i'm value, for there is no specie worth
mentioning to back it up. There are some
silver mines in the country. but they are
not worked. In times past a good deal
of money has been made out of coffee cul-
| ture, but the boom in that business has
died out though the higher grades still
command good prices. The natives are
/ about as indolent people as exist on
| earth, and as in that climate it requires
but little to support life they never resort
to labor, except in direst need"
-Superstitious as is VIGOROUSLY the
Prince of Wales, his tendencies in that
direction have been considerably increas-
ed during the past year, and particularly
by the events of the past few weeks, says
a writer in the Washington Post Through
the failure of three of the guests to keep
| their engagements when invited by the
late Baron Ferdinand Rothschild to meet
the Prince last summer at Waddesden
Manor the house party consisted of only
thirteen, instead of sixteen, as had been
| intended. On the day following the
Princes arrival, and before any attemp.
could be made TO secure at least one new
guest in the place of the absent ones. the
| Prince fell and fractured his knee-cap. the
action necessitatng his immediate return
to London, and the breaking up of sthe
party. One of the principal guests was
| Christopher Sykes, and now both he ana