The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The egg collectors of London have re-
Gently been delighted by the chance of
buying one of the three eggs of the great
aux which were formerly in the correction
Of Count Raoul de Berace. There are
about seventy eggs Of this great extinct
bird now in existence and al recent auction
sales they have brought from $500 TO $3.50
The eggs are rather smaller than those
of the ostrich. Living specimens of the
great aux were found off the coast Of Ice
| land within the memory of people now
living but they yielded 20 the rapacity of
| hunters and collectors.
DR.. Colquhoun of Glasgow has been
charged with a marvellous life of crime
ana MS case reminds one of that of the
famous Dea William Brodie of Edinburgh.
! Dca Brodie was in the eighteenth century
| a trusted and most respectable citizen
who long had led a double life, using his
/ familiar acquaintance with the wealthy
people Of Edinburgh To plan burglaries. An
| attempt TO break open tee excise office
aroused suspicion and Brodie fled to Hol-
| land. He was later arrested, tried and
| hanged. and his scheme for bribing the
| hangman to leave his job half done proved
unaVaiEng. The body was cut down hur-
riedly and taken 10 a surgeon, but resus-
citation was impossible.
Siberia. long looked upon as a frozen
waste, is becoming a veritable Mecca for
immigrants. Their number last year was
10000, and with increasing facilities of
travel the movement thither is likely o
become of a volume comparable to the flow
OF populatio toward the United States at
its highest. The attractions are fertility
OF soil and mineral wealth. Between
Tomsk and Kooznesk lie q. 167 square miles
of coal lands, while the existence of iron
ore yielding as high as 60 per cent. in close
proximity 10 coal in the Amur territory
gives promise of an industrial future.
Wheat rfpens in the region of Irkutsk
within 107 days and the cold season lasts
only ninety-seven days.
Tho Emperor of Germany has just had
inaugurated this year, for use a the grand
maneuvers of the German army, a car
riage of very ingenious construction. 1t
is a very dow hung Victoria, with very
high box. In the latter is contained a
species of desk, which,, on touching "a
spring, falls toward the place where the
Kaiser is seated so that in the space of
a few seconds, without stirring from his
carriage, he finds himself seated az a full
hedged desk, equipped with ink, paper,
envelopes, ceiling wax, and in one word
all the furniture of writing table. For
| a man, who like the Kaiser, is obliged to
spend several hours every day in signing
and perusing documents and state papers,
contrvance of this kind is simply inval-
uab.e. It has been stated that Queen Vic
toIia was Obliged 90 sign at least 80 900
documents of various kinds during the
| course of every twelve months. The num-
| Der of documents which received the sig
| nature and the attention of the Kaiser
during the same period is more than twice
as many.
The Philadelphia Record says: The
postoffice authorities have Withdrawn the
privile ges Of the maif from what is known
as ''the hungry hen lottery" The adver-
tisement of this scheme reads as follows:
'On April j, 1900, we viii place on a. large
| sheet one quart of wheat. Three Plymouth
| Rock hens, which have been kept from
| feed for six hours, viii then be permitted
| to eat therefrom for ten minutes, wren
| the remaining kerne.s viii be taken up,
/ counted, and the number eaten by the
| hens ascertained. To the subscriber who
| estimates nearest The number of kernels
eaten by the hens we will give $50 The
ruling reads 1.-The eating propens.ties of
! hens, even though they be of the same
| breed, undoubtedly vary, and the number
| OF kernels eaten by one trio would be no
! criterion as 10 the number that would be
| taken up by another al a different time,
although under precisely the same condi-
| lions. In my opinion this scheme is a lot
| terry and all matter relating to it is I'M
mailable."
Ever since the satisfactory installation
of electric power distribution plants ashore
| there has been a growing agitation in the
| navy for the adoption of this means for
distributing power on shipboard, says the
| Electrical Review. Free from the objec-
tionable heat and the great danger Incl
| dent to steam pipes, it promised at least
to be far more economical in operation
| than the steam auxiliaries which it was
intended to replace. The battleship feeds
on coal. In the older type of installations
somewhere about one-fourth or one-fifth
of its bunker capacity would be used on
a cruise in operating the auxiliaries thus
shortening the effective radius of the ship
and increasing the expense of operation.
If the electric system is able, as it almost
certainly will be, to save one-half of this
coal, it will pay for itself over and over
again in the lifetime of the ordinary war
snip, and viii add several hundred miles
to the cruising radius of a large vessel
The tests of the Kearsarge are awaited
with the greatest interest for it is almost
a certainty that they will show the emil
nent desirability of the electric system in
the most emphatic manner.
"A correspondent of the st. Paul Dis
patch says: The most suggestive and
inviting name l saw was that of druggist
in North Dakota. 1t was L. R. Welcome
his first name being Urias. Across The
street was another men with a funny
name. He bore the euphonious cognomen,
John Stouepounder. In The next town |
found man who was so fat that the name
of Abraham Crumpacker seemed especial
ly fitting. But there was a woman in the
town who went him one better. Her name
was Emily FreshbIead In the next town |
got so interested in queer names that |
e fKnafx III
Sarah Deerhoof. In that same town there
is a man named Henry Bookstruck Ever
after that L was on the lookout. On the
train 1 met David Newsa4t and Mile
Newlove. The man with the most warlike
name l ran against was Abraham SaltDe-
ter. In one town 1 found man who had
a very poetic name. IL was Seabrght Sun
bloom. But the last name | struck finish
ed me. 1t seemed like a direct command to
cease my sacriligious monkeying with
peoples names. l took it as a warning
and quit a. Quickdnish. And what do you
suppose his partners name was? Il was