The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Aolh pCi4CG utildl tlleHt, inc IelelptS Oh
tie burglars and highwaymen Of that city
for Tie past shteen months have been a
Etue rising OF $5,5OlO00.
Capt Blackburn. who recently made a
daring voyage to England alone in a little
4-ton cutter, suffered severely on his way
over but expresses a hope of returning to
America in the same way in about two
years.
Lightning struck church at Wake
field, Gogebic county. Michigan. the other
day, and when workmen started to re-
pair the damage it was found that there
were Il large number of dead sparrows ia
the befry. The birds had evidently sought
shelter there from the storm and the light
ming had killed them
India has immense coal deposits, from
which the output in 1896 was 1851, $40 tons.
In The Bengal districts alone, the Ranigurg
and Baraker colHeries are estimated to
contain 900 tons; the Karampara col
heries $500 100000 tons; the Bokara collier
les, l,5000J0,000 tons; and the Djherria col
leres, $4,000 tons.
The authorities of Akra, Guinea, have
sent word to Belgium accusing the officers
of the Belgian steamship Albert Willie
with throwing into the sea and drowning
two negroes who were i'll with contagious
disease, in order to escape the annoyances
OF quarantine at Akra. The charges are
being investigated.
In recent test of the comparative
friction of truck having roller bearings
ard one with ordinary boxes, the ratio of
resistance was found to be / TO 20 with
a load of 3l2 tons, l 20 1857 with load OF
five tons. and / TO 80 with a load of ten
1t,
Ter bearing where their use is practical
be.
notwithstanding the fact that Great
Britain has been ruling in India more
than 300 years, the masses of the natives
are still unacquainted with soap 1t is
sold to some extent in the towns but is
almost totally unknown in the villages.
The sales of soap indicate an average con-
sumption of an ounce per year to each in
dividual
The bequest of 1000 which was left to
he city of Boston by Benjamin Franklin
in 1871 has now grown to 100000, and is
to be expended. One-half of it will be
used for The erection of a public school
building, and the other 100000 is to be
devoted 10 the furtheranCe of Mayor
Quincy's public bath and gymnasium
schemes.
The latest method of overcoming sleep
lessness has been suggested by Prof. ].
NJ. Baldwin 1t consists in trying to pic
ture another person as asleep. The more
clearly The other persons sleep is pic
tured the stronger becomes the subjec-
ave feeling of drowsiness. The inclination
to somnolence depends a good deal upon
the subject of contemplation.
Modern books, however. RAPIDLY they
may deteriorate from other causes, are
projected from bookworms by the chemi-
Gals used in paper-makins. Such, at least
IS the conclusion of DR.. Garnett who af-
ter forty-eight years of service as keeper
OF printed books at The Brit sh museum is
able 10 say that ne has seen only one book
worm, and that was imported from Crete
The London Chronicle relates that a
bevy of young ladies peeped into the read
ing room of the British Museum one after
noon lately. One damsel in particular took
stock of the spacious interior with an air
OF greatest interest. Then she whispered
10 companion: IF all these beastlv
desks were cleared out what a Jolly place
tins would be for one to cycle in on a wet
day."
Three kinds of electric biography
across space are recognized by Prof. Sill
vanus p. Thompson-those depending. res
pectively, on conducdon. induction and
wave methods. The last kind has been
employed by Prof. Sfaby, OF Charlotten-
burg, in sending Ineligible Morse signals
thirteen and one quarter miles, balloons
being used 10 raise the end conductors 1850
feet in the air
Since the sale of alcoholic liquors In
France has been unrestricted the number
of drinking places has increased unit! now
there is one saloon for eighty-hve inbabf-
tants. Many temperance societies in
France are working TO reduce the evil
of drink, temperance in that country
meaning abstinence from strong drink not
from wine. Brandy and absinthe have
been the curses of France for ten years.
The great army of Smiths is well repre-
scented in the peerage of England. No less
than six earls daughters have acquired
the surname of Smith by marriage The
latest is the daughter of Lord Wilton. who
becomes by marriage Lady Mabel Smith.
1.-THE others are Lady Blanche Smith. sister
Of Lord Kintore; Lady Esther Smith, daugh-
ter of Lord Arran; Lady Barbara Smith.
eldest daughter of Lord Coventry; Lady
Sybn Smith, only daughter of Lord An
trim. and Lady Elizabeth Smith, eldest of
Lord IGlgin's daughters.
o. the German imperial navy is the Weis-
senburg, just completed az the Vulcan
works at Stettin. She is S54 feet long. Ga
feet beam, and draws % feet of water
The steel hull has 100 water-tight com
paTtmenrs, a double bottom, and a belt of
armor 1874 inches thick, backed up bv
inches of teak. Her decks fore and aft
are 2l9 inches thick. The engines develop
$500 horsepower, and on the trial trim
drove her through the water at the rate of
16la knots an hour. The Weissenburg
carries six 11-inch guns, placed in pairs
in three oarbettes, six 4-inch and eight 3D.
inch rapid-fire guns.
In 1915 the decadence of Ireland began
in earnest, and it has kept up ever since
In that year the population was 8295.06
the high-water mark. On the Both of last
June it was 4,531051. the lowest ever
knownS While emigration has been rob.
bling the nation of its vigorous sons ana
daughters, the birth rate has been in
sufficient 10 fill up the gaps thus made