The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


time there was a falling off of nearly 30
per cent. in the number of reported en-
bezzlements.
German locomotive factories number
eighteen and have capacity of 1.40O To-
cOmotives per year, part OF which output
is exported. Il is said that no American
locomotives have yet been introduced into
Germany.
The latest llfeboat, which has been APP
proved by the British admiralty carries
three long cylinders, into which 100000
cubic feet of air can be compressed This
air will drive the boat fifteen miles an
hour for six hours.
-Maros- Ujvar in Hungary, a manufac-
turing town of $500 inhabitants, may be
expected to grow rapidly. A Hungarian
singer, who undertook to give a concert
there, found ii impossible, as there was
not single piano in the town and he hal
not brought one with him.
If the reports of the criminal courts
of the state of New York may be taken as
an index it is safe to say that crime is on
the decrease in the United States. In 1897
there were 4,523 convictions. as against
only 1916 in 1898. This shows a decrease
of 596, or nearly 20 per cent.
Whales are thick on the Scottish coast
this summer. At Sand in the Shetlands
a shoaI of seventy-one bottle-nosed whales
was driven ashore and captured in one
dny. 1t was the first time in forty four
years that whales had appeared there,
though in former times they stranded fire.
qaently.
-Hiidesheim's famous 1.OOO-year-old rose
bush, winch it had been feared in the last
two years was dying, has sent out new
shoots and runners irOm thick root
stock this year and seems to be safe to
last Tor good many years to come. The
plant has not blossomed this summer.
Lightning caused the death of 367 per-
sons In the United States last year and
a property loss of $l,441,SS0. Few of the
deaths occurred in cities. The annual
number of thunderstorms at given local.
ties in this CoUr try averages between thir-
ty-hVe and forty-fve. The maximum is
in the southeastern states.
A number of Russian offfcers-among
the highest of the cossacks of the guard
have been sentenced to long terms of
Imprisonment in Siberia, and elsewhere
for frauds and populations Gambling, as
usual, appears to have furnished the mo-
tive for the vulgar crime of falsifyiug
accounts and similar forms of swindlng.
Harry Faljeon, eldest son of the nov
elist and grandson of Joe Jefferson, has
composed the music for a two-act opera.
'|loretta," for which his younger sister
Eleanor, wrote the book, which has Teen
performed with success in London. Young
FarJeOn is p years of age and his sister
is Is, but she had completed the play when
she was ".
A divorced mans club has been organ
lied in Alameda county, Cal, for the pur-
pose of sending out scouts and missiona-
ries, men who have found marriage a fall
ure and whose object it is to impress upon
mankind the dangers of matrimony and
give those inclined that way an opportun-
ity 10 profit by their sad and narrowing ex-
Deriences.
Mr.. Murray, a Scottish naturalist, in a
paper on the habits Of wasps, tells how
blackbird viii stand al the side of a hang
ing wasps nest and deliberately tear it in
pieces in order to get at the larvae, APP
parently undisturbed by the swarms of an
cry insects whose stings instantly put to
flight the human curiosity seeker who
ventures near TO watch the demolition.
dorchester, Mass, a suburb of Boston,
has recently been divided into two postal
districts, one of which has been desgnat-
ed by the postal authorities as New Dor
chester" The residents of this dstc:ct,
however, have fatty refused 10 have their
letters so addressed, asserting that as their
part of the town was settled before the
revolution they have well-grOunded Objec-
tons 10 the use of the adjective New"
Tho house i, yyasripoto,, =, ,,,,,;,t
li'SIdtHt L-Hcoh dieu IS DelnS renovated
to preserve it from decay Congress at its
last session having authenticated e4coo fo,.
lnat purpose me puhdIns VIII not be
1'a,- t ,,el,,,;. oueri =. l,iaoe ts
elements The room IN which 7 ''pcoIn died
will not be touched This modest little
house is yearly visited by thousands of
tourists from all over the country.
Diamonds and o+bor rrooio,,. -+o,,o. -
a,a 49, - - 7'oiie' -
'le Nai"e ol %-VVVV'VVo were imported at
New ork during the last fiscal year. Three
years ago the imports of this kind amount
ed TO only S7500OOO The increase is due