The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-18
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is said to be in danger. owing to the
external subsistence of the walls ada
cent to the Bridge of Signs and the de.
cay of the timbers supporting the Library
of St. Mark. The Italian government has
dispatched an expert to submit a report
on the matter.
"A daily English newspaper is to be
started in the Riviera. About quarter
of a million of people visit the Riviera
during the winter months. and of these
at least a third are English or Ameri-
cans, who heretofore were forced to send
TO Paris for newspapers in their own AN
guase. The new publication will be call
ed the Riviera Daily
The Princess of Wales possesses a
cross which is supposed to always bring
good luck to its owner. 1t was formerly
the property of the King of Denmark hav-
ing been discovered years ago in the grave
of the beautiful Queen Dagmar. Besides
It's supersitious interest, il is a fine work
of art and was given by the King to the
Princess on her marriage day.
In New Guinea tight lacing is in vogue
among the fashionable young men, who
wear belt about eight inches wide, made
of stiff bark In some cases this is so
tight that the upper part of the aldo
men hangs over in a heavy fold. Among
the same people a girl announces her be-
trothal by appearing shining with an ONT
ment of red ochre and oil, which covers
her head, shoulders and bosom.
Marie Bashkirtseff, the remarkable
young Russian woman who died at the
early age of 20, has Just had a singular
memorial erected fr hon in Do rfc II taIyo
the form of a hotel, built in Rue de PROXY
and a veritable marvel of taste and COM
fort. 1t was formally opened and occu-
pied the other day. 1t contains, among its
attractions, a number of paintings, the
work of this precocious young woman,
taken from the walls of the superb studio
which she founded for herself on the
Quai Malaquais.
When Rudyard Kipling in one of his
stories told of loading 1900 tons of freight
on a 2.500-ton steamer it was quickly
shown, in answer TO hypercritical objec-
tors, that such feats of lading were COM
mon enough in shipping circles, says the
Philadelphia Record. But now comes the
Marine Journal of New York with the fur
Their point that Mr.. Kipling's steamer of
80 feet beam and 240 feet length would
have to be nearly 40 feet deep to be en-
IN4Co " d AsJDO-lOu registration. Inns
depth would be preposterous, as the Ma
rine Journal shows by numerous citations
of the dimensions of steamers and their
tonnage. From which it appears that even
our modern 'Omer" sometimes mods as
he smites his "bloomin' Tyre"
Experiments to reproduce dead mems
features from their skulls are being made
in Germany. The method pursued is that
proposed by the late Prof. His of Leipzig
to reconstruct the face of John Sebastian
Bach. At the University of Graz the
skulls of criminals who have been execut-
ed are used. Casts of these will be taken
in plaster and given to different persons
to treat according to the rules laid down.
The results will then be compared with
one another and with photographs of the
original owners of the skulls, taken either
before or after death. Should they prove
at all successful in obtaining a resem-
blance there is likely to be a painful rum
maging among the bones of the great men
of the past.
The Russian naval maneuvers held in
the Baltic a week or two ago are said to
have been anything but a success. Every
ship engaged was not only short-handed,
but such men as they had were perfectly
untried hands, incapable of performing
the most ordinary duties, and causing a
large number of mishaps by their bung-
ling carelessness. There was a special
lack of engineers and firemen, to an ex-
tent, indeed, which endangered the safety
of the ships. The allowance of ammuni-
ton which had been placed on each YES
sci was absurdly insufficient, and rendered
any kind of systematic gun practice i'm
possible. In the auxiliary squadron of
thirty ships no less than twenty broke
down so completely as to be entirely hors
de combat.
The announcement that Brazils capt.
tai may probably be removed from Rio
to Minas means, at first glance, very lit
tie, but, in reality, it means the triumph
of the model town. says the Philadelphia
Press That is what Minas is. 1t is pro-
posed to create in the state of Genas
where the city now stands a new com
monwealth, somewhat similar to our Dis
trict of Columbia. under the direct au-
thority of the general government. This
new state will be a&out the size of the en-
tire kingdom of Spain, and will lie in one
of the finest portions of the whole country
Minas Is about thirty-six hours ride from
the present capital city, and is already the
fashionable place of residence for the rich
and influential of Brazil There are
city, which is watered by several streams
and built on principles strictly scientific.
Throughout the country the sentiment in
favor of Minas is decidedly pronounced,
except is one place-Rio de Janeiro.
1t was Lieut.. Hobson's choice that
caused the loss of the resurrected Span
ish cruiser, the Maria Teresa, if we are
to put absolute faith in the statement OF
a wrecker who was on the spot, says the
New York Press. The holes in the ves-
sells sides and bottom were closed with
plaster of paris, well backed up on the
inside with wood. The wrecking COM
pany advised a delay of at least ten days
before sailing for Newport News, to give
the plaster ample time to become thor
oughly dry and firm. Its contention was
that if there should come a blow the plas-
ter, il not hardened properly would wash
out, exposing the ship to certain destruc-
ton. But Hobson would not wait. He
wanted the Maria Teresa in the United
States, there would be no blow, the sea
would be calm, the plaster would harden
as she steamed along the unruffled brine
1t was Hobson's choice But the waves