The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-08
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waste occurs III ala the IiuAt-SIoWlh5 us
tricts of this country, and that when there
is glut carloads are thrown away. Most
of Oregon's great prune crop last year
roted on the ground.
-Pojenken swennsson, a tenacious
Swede, was drifting in a boat on the
Smoky river, Kan, smoking a pipe. The
boat went over a dam and capsized.
Swennsson kept his head above water and
swan 10 shore still smoking his pipe.
One Of the most remarkable things on
the North Pacific coast is the large num-
Der of hailbut in Alaskan waters Small
steamers catch cargOes N a few hours
time, and it IS no strange thing 10 see 100,-
90 caught in from two to three days.
In a letter just received from Surgeon
Beck Of the Thirteenth Minnesota, now in
the Philippines. he says that in the 100
cases of wounded soldiers who had gone
to the hospital at the time of ais writing
there were only three cases Of amputation.
One of the queer freaks of the Bangor,
Ne, police grist the other day was an in
toXicated man who went into a leading
hotel and telephoned himself for the pa
troi wagon. When il came he climbed in
and rode over to The city hall TO be locked
up.
The gross expenses of the state of New
York in the year 1859 viii, it is computed.
amount 10 $25,000,OOO, of which nearly 10
per cent Will be necessary 10 pay the de
ticits Of departments which exceeded I'm
1895 or in previous years the appropriations
made for them.
A pet thrush owned by New York
man sang so long and loudly in the early
morning that formal complaint was enter
ed before a mag strate. The latter ordered
the bird to be kept indoors and the cage
covered with a dark cloth until a reasona-
bic hour in the morning.
At Asst, in California, last year a els
tern 10i feet long by "a feet vide and "a
feet deep was formed in a hillside for the
storage OF wine. The immense tank was
lined with concrete two feet thick and
coated inside with aglaze as impermeabTe
as glass. The capacity of the tank is 5J0,-
COO gallons.
The increase of insanity in civilized
centers of population is appalling. A half
dozen new asylums have been built in and
about London in the last dozen years, and
each one is filed almost as soon as com
pleted. The number of insane in London
institutions alone now reaches an aggre-
gate of over 5000.
"A Maine farmer, who raises fine straw
berries, came TO Wells village with a fine
lot recently and commenced peddling them
at Is cents box. He sold quite portion
of his load al that price, when he found
that he must sell at two boxes for quar-
ter. Then he retraced his route and re-
funded the difference to all those who had
paid the Is cents per box.
Tunnels under the Thames at London
are multiplying rapidly Hardly has the
Blackwell tunnel been open when another
at Rotherhite is projected. 1t is to be
thirty feet in diameter-three feet more
than the Blackwell tunnel 1t is to be a
mile and a quarter long. The total work
VIII cost about 100000, but nearly "a, 000-
900 of this will go for the approaches.
The work of making biological sur
vey of Lake Erie, under the auspices of
the United States commission of fish and
fisheries, which was begun last year will
be continued during the summer The
party viii consist of Prof. Jacob Reighard
of the University of Michigan, as director;
Prof. II. b. Ward of the University of Ne
braska, DIR. Il. S. Jennings of Dartmouth
College, DR.. Julia B. Snow of the Univer-
ity of Michigan, R. H. Pond and number
of assistants.
In Boston, where bicycle riders are not
required by law TO carry lights at night,
fears nevertheless prevail in the cycling
world that such law will be passed. Ac-
cOrdingly, the carrying of lamps by those
who want the light they shed is discour-
aged as much as possible. One method
used by expert Wheelmen when they en-
counter a man with a lamp on the fork
of his front wheel is to crowd him into
properly tight place and then ride so close
as TO break the lamp off without having a
collision or doing other damage.
The increase in the export of Ameri-
can manufactured goods during May, for
which the figures have just been com
pleted by Chief Austin OF the bureau of
statistics, puts that month third in rank
among all the records of the American
export trade in finished goods. Never
until March last was the volume of ex-
ports of manufacturers equal to $4,000 900
per month. The figures then rose at
bound to $96,025 1888; in April they were
S33, 0l5,97O and in May $9OS16,314 The in
crease over May of last year was about
50, 100000
1t is well known that many animals
appoint one or more of their number to
act as sentinels to guard against surprise
while the rest are asleep or feeding. or
at play. Among the misunderstanding that
word in its widest sense-that are thus
prudent may be named the following:
Wasps, ants, channels and other ante
lopes, prairie dogs, wild horses, rocks,
swans, Australian cockatoos zebras
quails, certain monkeys, f1amingoes, New
Zealand silver eyes. shags and other
birds, marmots, moufon and other sheep,
seals. African wild cattle, huancoes, ele-
plants, etc.
"A novelty in summer schools is Of
fered in Missouri this year. The state
university has given instructions along
the lines familiar in such schools during
the vacation season for a good while past,
and 1t now adds new courses in horticul-
ture and agriculture President Jesse
holds that some attention should be given
in the public schools or an agricultural
state to studies of soil. climate, birds,
insects and plant life; and he points out
that the fields forests and highways in
the country and the lawns and public
squares in the cities and towns furnish
all 1s.g &