The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the ODD spectacle OF SIduuIlOlHeI air.
granddaughter acting in the same piece.
The former is Nine. Marie Laurent, the
original Nine. Raquin in Zola's "Therese
Raquin."
A dispatch dated Pittsburg, May %,
says: Tomorrow morning two trains of
steel gondola cars, each train containing
fifty, viii be started eastward for ship
ment to Egypt. where they will be placed
in service by the Egyptian Railway Com
pany in the path OF civilization blazed
along the Nile by Gen. Kitchener. The
cars were built here and will be run TO
Jersey City on their own wheels 10 be
transshipped to Alexandria. American
steel cars were selected to run on the rail-
way by the English authorities, as 1t was
believed that these cars could stand the
severe climate of the Nile better than
wooden cars. Should the experiment be
successful it is said that the English gov
eminent may hereafter use steel cars on
all of its colonial railways in the tropics.
Richard Bates, who lost by
theft $3.50 or thereabouts in a
sleeping car in New York state,
got a verdict for that amount when
he sued the car company Then another
court reversed this finding and now the
Appellate Court holds thar while the sleep
ing car companies are not insurers of the
personal property of their passengers,
they are not absolved from liability on the
ground Of negligence. But the court holds
that the measure of damages is not the
amount Of money that the passenger lost,
but such sum as he might have been ex-
pected 10 carry, if he carried it and lost
ii. in view of mis- station in life, the length,
duration and purposes of the journey and
the probable contingencies that might be
expected to arise during the journey. The
court orders a new trial, at which the
damages must be proved along this line.
The London correspondent of the New
York Medical News says: "A recent re-
port of the British war office gives most
interesting COMPARISON between the
physique of the 'oA1cers and that of the
enlisted men. 1t has long been the con-
viction of the writer that the popular and
traditional impression as TO the 'sturdi-
ness of the lower strata of society and
.puniness' OF the upper was utterly mis-
taken and that the better classes were
better in physique as well as in social po-
sitlon. The measurements given in this
report fully confirm this view, as the Of
| hcers, on entering the army, average two
inches taller, from one to five pounds
heavier and have two or three inches
| greater chest girth than the recruits. And
| this too in spite of the fact that the
men average nearly two years older than
| the officers a enlistment"
The national memorial of the thous-
andth anniversary of the death of King
! Alfred the Great, which falls in 1901, will
consist of a statue of the King, at Win
| chester, where he is buried, together with
| a hall to be used as a museum of early
English history, says the Westminster
| Gazette. The executive committee are
| arranging for the publication of a popu-
| lar work. with the view of diffusing public
! knowledge of Alfred's life and work, and
have also under consideration the expe-
| diency of holding an exhibition of objects
pertaining TO the Alfred period in London
during the anniversary year. Several other
| suggested means of commemoration are
| before the committee and receiving their
| consideration including a military re-
| view, naval display, historic pageant and
| a meeting of learned societies. About f3O-
900 will be required for this purposes.
| over $1,000 has already been subscribed.
No one who now meets the dignifed
white haired peer, whose visiting card
| bears the inscription, THE Ri. Hon. Lord
| Strathcona and Mount Royal Of Glencoe,
| c. c. ". c." would imagine that ne COM
! menced life as an errand boy, yet such
| was the case. says the Philadelphia Times.
| He crossed the Atlantic in 1887, when
| William the Fourth was still on the
| throne and landed in New York after a
! voyage of thirty-siX days. He worked his
way 10 Canada and eventually entered the
service of the Hudson Bay Company. The
knowledge gained of the capabilities of
! Canada while acting as officer and subse-
| quently as the last resident governor of
this company enabled him to lay the foun-
! dalton of his fortune. Lord Strathcona
! is man of immense wealth and has no
fewer than five residences-a house in
| Cadogan square, S. w; his beautiful place
| in the valley of Glencoe; Norway house
| Pretoria, in Nova Scotia; Silver Nights
| Winnipeg, in the great Northwest, and a
mansion in Montreal He shares with his
brother peer. Lord Mount Stephen, who
| has had a similar career, the distinction
| of being one of Canada's pair of grand old
men,
London Spare Moments says: No less
than 275,0O0G00 gallons of water find their
way annually down the throats of Lon
| doners; while The beer consumed amounts
| to 5000, 000 gallons every year-a quantity
which, if placed in four -and-one-half-gal-
! Ion casks, end TO end, would make a line
|
| way around the equator. If this beer wera
| put into a colossal barrel 100 yards in
| diameter, the top of the barrel Gf cylindri-
cab, would be on a level with The TOP of
| Nelson's hat if the Nelson column were
perched on the top of the monument
while $50 life guardsmen could not Join
hands around its base. In fact our sea
of beer would float the entire feet of the
| United States, and would allow a disiribu-
ton OF almost pint to every man, woman
and child in the world. OF neat spirits
London demands about 100000 gallons a
! year. or sufficient bottles co. 600 if
placed five feet apart to throw a spiriiuous
| girdle around the earth at the equator
| If we add water or aerated waters in the
ratio of two 10 one We have diluted spirits
| sufficient to allow ten gills to every man.
woman and child (absit omen) in the Unit
| ed Kingdom.
The utility of music in matters pertain
ing to war is probably one of the greatest
forces, says Parsons. At the present day
| in all the armies of the world musical
| war signals are considered NOT oplx ,,saf,,1