The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

With the aid of new trousers guard
the bottoms Of the pants can be securely
held in a folded position around the ankles,
a piece of spring wire being bent double,
with one end inserted in the fold and the
other slipped under to grip the two parts
together.
An improved feed-bag for feeding
horses on the streets is attached to the
collar instead of to the bride allowing the
animal to move its head freely, the hoop
which carries the bag having an extens on
at the rear which can be secured to the
collar for use.
-Brakesmen VIII appreciate a new ear
attachment to aid them in passing from
one car 10 another comprising a sliding
extension secured by springs to the end of
the running board, with lever on top of
the car TO extend the board across the
space between the cars.
A ring case has been patented by
Michigan man for the storage of finger
rings. cleaning them automatically as they
are slipped into place the round standard
and screw-cap having surfaces of abrad-
ing and polishing material which act on
the two sides Of the ring as the case is
closed.
-Evaporated bananas will soon be as
common commodity in the United States
as evaporated peaches or apples A cor
poraton has been formed backed by
American capital, which will buy and dry
the fruit where 1t grows and ship the pro-
duct 10 this country. Evaporated bananas
can be made the basis Of many delicious
dishes. and are in high favor with bakers.
cOnfectiOners and others
1t is said that the bobolinks which rear
their young on the shores of Lake Winni-
peg, Canada. and go to Cuba and Porto
Rico 10 spend the winter, twice traverse
a distance exceeding > 500 miles or more
than fifth of the circumference Of our
earth, each year. The kingbird lays It's
eggs as far north as the 57th degree Of
lotitude and is found in the winter in
South America. Tae biennial pilgrimagcs
of the little redstar exceed 5000 miles, auc
the tiny hummingbird 1000
Colorado has added another name 10
its list of harvest festival days Begin
ming with watermelon day at Rocky
Ford, which has been a great holiday for
several years, there have been added
Strawberry day Peach day" Fruit
day. Corn Roast day" Potato day
and the interesting FESTIVAL Mountain
and Plain" The addition this year to the
list is Game and Fish day." which was
put IN operation a Steamboat Springs on
Sept s, and was an undoubted success.
The lieutenant governor of Burma has
ordered the renovation of Mindoon Minis
mausoleum al Mandalay. the work to be
done by the public works department as
the maintenance of a historical structure
says the Upper Burmah Gazette. This is
the tomb which some few years ago was
desecrated by some Burmah budmas shes
who believed that they would come upon
the gold coffin in which the King is said TO
have been buried. but We're frustrated in
the attempt. as the coffin is said to be en-
jirely surrounded by huge powders which
can only be removed by machinery.
A German philologist has prepared sta
tistics upon the comparative richness of
all the spoken languages of the word. Eng
fish figures at the head of the list with
an enormous vocabulary of 100000 words
Next comes German, with $4,000 words /;
Italian has 5000; French, 80 COO the Turk
ish language, $4,000. and the Spanish tongue
only boasts of 20000 words 1t is not,
however, by the number of words that
we measure the value of a literature The
great French writers of the seventeenth
century for their chef d'oeuvres were con-
tent with a vocabulary which only con-
tanned 5000 words.
"A London paper tells a story of che
enthusiastic vegetarian who carries out his
principles so far as TO wear vegeta bic
boots One day recently he lay down I'm.
der tree and fell asleep. He woke with
vague idea of vampires about. to dis
cover that two sheep were hard al work
on the boots, and had already polished Off
about half the uppers. The viper which
| bit the hand which fed it was pattern of
gratitude an comparison. There is Just \
nope of course that the boots disagreed
wi B. f0fa GI e.til
deplorable, as tending to disgust the sheen
themselves with Vegetarianism. But what
has become of the rest OF the boots? Pa.
irons OF vegetarian restaurants must be-
ware of isteak for a day or two"
The Census of Dawson City makes the
population less than a third of what it
was commonly supposed TO be, there now
being less than 5000 inhabitants, and of
these about three-fourths are Americans
says the Commercial Advertiser In a
month nearly 1880 have left for the Caps
Nome diggings in Alaska. This is sig
nlfioant in view of the international dis
pute about the boundary line If the cfo-
dus from Dawson City to Cape Nome con-
tinues there will soon be little urgency in
the Canadian contention for such an ad-
justment of the boundary difficulty as
would give them access to Dawson through
British territory. The rise of Dawson
City created that difficulty, and the decline
Of the dissings there may solve il.
Prof. II. W. Wilson holds that the Nile
still remains the greatest victory ever won
at sea. In its direct effect it was great
for of thirteen French sail of the line elev-
en- were taken or destroyd. loss which
French estimates place at 5000 drowned
killed and wounded, apart from prisoners
who were put ashore, was inflicted, where
as the British loss was only 21S killed and
677 wounded in addition to Nelson, who
received a distressing blow from a piece
of language on his forehead Not a
British ship had to be sent home for re-
pairs. Napoleons army in Egypt was iso-
lated from France and its Ultimate can
| ture assured. But the remoter effects of
the battle were even more momentous. As
Jurien de la Graviere has said, from the
Nile dates the complete Generalization Of
the French navy and the sense of crush
ing inferiority which thereafter possessed
il. The Mite was thus the prelude and
precursor of Trafalgar. Nelson never aft
erward did anything better, though had ne