The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| in Philadelphia a scientist has comput-
ed that an average. man of 154 pounds
weight has enough iron in his system TO
make plowshare and enough phosphorus
70 make 10000 matches.
"A bill has been introduced in the Chick
asaw legislature in Indian territory 10 ap-
| propriate $500 to have portraits of two
of their famous chiefs placed in the new
capitol building of the Chickasaw nation.
in Switzerland they are making clocks
which do not need hands and faces. The
clock merely stands in the han and you
press a button, when by means Of phono-
! graphic internal arrangements, it calls out
The time.
"A majority of the voters of Ellis coun-
| ty Kansas, are Russians, and they nomj-
mated a straight Russian ticket last fall,
| but on election day for some rea son or
| other, most of them voted for the Republi-
can ticket and elected it,
Snow seldom falls in Smyrna, Asia
| Minor Consequently, when in the per
I Torrance of Puccinis La Boheme" re-
| Gently, the property snowhakes were al
| most as large as newspapers there was no
| criticism from the audience.
| The British museum recently received a
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curious and grewsome rosary from the
mysterious land of Thibet. 1t is composed
| of thin disks made from a human skull,
finished at the end with three peach ker-
| nels, and strung on a piece of common
string.
In Admiral Dewey's cabin hangs a pic
ture of the battle of Manila done by a
! Chinese artist of Hong Kong and pre-
! To no cd bEt
of the Olympia, who have themselves each
ordered a copy of the work a contract
calculated 10 keep the artist at work
for some time.
Duke Robert of Parma is going to sue
the Italian government, claiming as his
private property the immense library at
! Parma. This library, which was carried
to Parma from Lucques in 1919 by Charles
H. Duke Roberts grandfather contains
many exceedingly rare books, very old
manuscripts and precious Illuminated vol
| umes of great value. The Duke demands
! their restitution to him or an indemnity
of 100000 lire.
According to a story circulating in
Berlin, the Empress Augusta Victoria met
a chimney-sweep in a room of the royal
| palace on the morning before Christmas
She nodded in a friendly manner and babe
him wait moment. Soon she returned
leading her two youngest children, Prince
Joachim, years Old, and Princess Victo-
| ria, aged G. each bearing a Christmas
honey-cake, which was offered to the
sweep. The prince presented his gift with
royal suavity The little princess at first
was frightened by the grimy appearance
Of the sweep. Finally she handed him the
cake in gingerly manner.
The Queen of Roumania is perhaps the
only royal parsonage who acquits herself
as a public lecturer For some time past
her majesty has been accustomed to give
lectures privately in her palace to the
young ladies of the leading families in
Roumania. These literary assemblies
proved so attractive that the demands
for admission have grown announcement.
so that the Queen has thought it expedi-
ent to lecture in the high school for all
pupils who cared to attend. Before her
majesty could do this, however, she had
to obtain a regular professors diploma
from the King and the minister of in
struction.
State Geologist Blatchley of Indiana.
says the Philadelphia Press is again an
nouncing-as of old-that the natural gas
supply of his state-the real natural gas
will undoubtedly be exhausted within two
means that the many great industries now
dependent upon the gas viii have to re-
turn 10 coal at an expense far beyond the
profits of some for a great while past
Scientists have from the first vainly lift
ed up their voices against the unnatural
use of the natural product. No one would
heed and already this winter the demand
for coal in Indiana has increased enor-
mously. No corresponding season has it
| n nd I ba ba
is now flowing 1t is generally estimated
that before spring the increase will be still
greater. Yet there are still those who in
sist that the fault lies not with the pow
erty of nature but the prodigality of
man, whose method of distribution allows
of escape and waste.
An anti-semitic theater is to be open
ed soon an Vienna. 1t is especially design
ed, as its name indicates, to spread, ac-
cording to its means, or rather to increase
in the Austrian public the hatred of the
Jews that is already so dangerous a SEN
timent among d certain portion of the
population. All works by Jewish writer's
viii be carefully excluded from its stage,
and only pieces will be played that repre-
sent the Jews in an antipathetic or odious
light. 1t is suggested that the managers
will experience certain difficulties from
the fact that in Germany and Austria dra-
matte literature is chiefly the product of
Jewish intellect, and that masterpieces
of the tendency that they desire, such as
THE Merchant of Venice" are in any
event not plentiful. They do not intend,
however to be daunted by such considera-
lions. They are said to have powerful
financial backing, and the aid of the Jew
batting burgomaster of Vienna, Herr Lu-
ger, who has in turn interested the NUM-
cipal council in their behalf. This body
has without scruple voted a subvention
and provided a site for the theater free
of cost. Ii was to be opened on the day
after the Emperor Francis Joseph's jubi-
lee but was not finished in time.
The will of Orlando D. Hadsell of Chi
cago who left money at 10 per cent, is
an odd legal instrument, both in what it
says and the way it is said. 1t gives to
the somewhat neglected relatives the op-
portunity, which they have seized, of con-
+ testing its provisions says the New York