The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the plaintiffs Hhand 50 heartily as 10
wrench his shoulder leaving MIN cripple
for life"
AT the recent election the people of
Maryland rejected a constitutional amend
ment which proposed 10 increase the sala-
ries of the supreme judges from $3.50 TO
$500 per annum.
in suit to recover the price of a BIZ
cycle sold on the instaIlment pan an Al
bany court has decided that bicycle is
not necessity to girl under age working
out as a domestic.
Only about one-haf The persons OF
school age in Iowa are recorded as at
tending school, and a movement is afoot
to bring her into the class of states that
have compulsory education laws.
Natural gas conveyed in bamboo tubes
was utilized in China years ago, and one
of their writer's mentions boxes which re-
peated the sounds of persons voices that
were dead--a machine similar to the pho
nograph.
1t is but little known that in addition
to being defender of the faith" by virtue
Of her position as sovereign, Queen Victo-
ria is also The oldest dignitary of the
church by virtue of her position of pre-
bendary Of St. David's Cathedral, Liam
daft.
College education is one of the greatest
businesses of the country. The 426 col
leges and universities, in which are en-
rolled 175,e0O students, represent an invest
ed capital of $250,0OO,000. and give employ
ment to $1,000 persons as teachers and Of
fcers.
Eyes Ct different colors vary in
strength. Brown and dark cello ed eyes are
weaker than gray or blue eyes. Light blue
eyes are usually the strongest and next
10 these come gray. The lighter the pupil,
the longer and the greater is The degree
of strain which the eye can bear.
In Vienna some indignation has been
caused by the production, soon after the
waltz kings death, of a burlesque found
ed in frivolous fashion upon many of the
melodies and values of Johann Strauss.
A Viennese critic remarks that this is
hardly a dignlfed method Of showing re-
spect to the memory of the dead.
The Board of Health at Plainfeid, n.
j., is considering the question of adopting
a rule which will prohibit the burning of
leaves within the city limits, as it is
claimed that the practice is coQdueive TO
much ill-health during the fall season.
Several physicians have said that the
smoke and smudge which comes from
burning leaves is the cause of many of
the ailments of che throat, lungs and
eyes.
in consequence of the distractions
caused in the narrow streets of Soochow,
China, by the large number of well-to-do
young Chinese anxious TO learn to become
wheelmen, and acting on representations
made by the more sober and sedate cit-
zens, the three district magistrates of
Soochow city have issued a joint proc,a-
nation forbidding the riding of cycles by
anyone except foreigners, missionaries and
converts.
The speed made by the British torpedo
boat Viper on her recent trial trip was
thirty-eight knots, or forty-four and one
third land miles, an hour, creditable
gait for an express train This is the fast
est that ever a boat tore through the wa
ter and it is claimed that the speed limit
has not yet been reached. The possibilities
of the turbine engines with which the Vi
per is equipped seem to have equaled eX-
pectations.
At a "shellfsh dinner" given by Archi-
bald Cramer to gathering of $50 friends
in Boston the other day 200 Holsters 1860
quarts of shrimDs were consumed The
menu was made up entirely of these she'll
fish, prepared in various ways. Each
guest received as souvenir a tiny gold
lobster mounted as a scarf pin and a
boutonniere of dried seaweed was laid a
each plate.
"A poor widow who was arrested in
Wilkesbarre, Pa, charged with assaulting
a constable, won much sympathy in the
court room when she said that the officer
in levying on her household goods on a
landlords warrant tried to remove her
baby from its cradle and take the cradle
The jury found her not guilty and placed
the costs on the constable and the u5tice
of the peace who had issued the warrant
The court struck off the latter clause.
There is much unfavorable comment
among the union workingmen throughout
Indiana because girls are employed in a
flint glass factory at Elwood. Organized
labor is preparing to investigate, TO see if
the conditions of labor in the factory are
such they should be. Ii is also propos-
ed, according to some union laboring men,
TO call the attention of the state factory
inspector to the fact that girls ranging
in age from ii to Is are working in fac
tory among men and boys
A new dredge for use on the VoIga
river in Russia, has just been built and is
constructed in two parts so as to pass
through the canal system leading from the
Baltic. Each half is PIG feet long 3115 feet
wide and feet deep, and each half can
be operated separately, making a bottom
cut 81 feet wide. The dredge has steel
hulls and is propelled and controlled bv
electrical machinery of American manu-
facture. Steam is generated by American
boilers fired with naphtha.
AT the recent exposition in Como the
''Voltaic pile" was very much in evil
dence' not only as an architectural feature
OF the Inflated exposition buildings. but
everything in the way of souvenirs was
gotten up in the same form. Boxes of
chocolate, pepper boxes, almanacs, etc.
We're all based on this design, and chrome
autographs and silk handkerchiefs with
pictures of Volta were for sale every
where. These matters all testify to the
appreciation of the greatness of this early
inventor
DIR. William r. Brooks diractor Ae A.,