The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A new fad in New York city is pet tur-
ties. and on these warm summer mornings
one can. see dozens of children and wo-
men around the ponds in Central PARK
airing and exercising these curious pets,
saws an exchange. Some Of them BRING
their turtles wrapped in embroidered
blankets similar TO those used Tor pei
dogs and / noticed names embroidered
in silk upon them. cupid, turquoise,
"Schley" and Dewey" were in group
Fastened in the top of each blanket is a
ring to which a chain is attached. Inc
turtles are placed on the ground az the
edge of the pond and allowed TO crawl INTO
the water as far as the chain VIII permit
them. Then they are hauled back ana
started over again.
The cloisters of the Church of st.
Ethelreda, Ely Place. Holborn, LONDON
are now being used for a purpose very
different from that for which they were
originally intended. Father jarvis, the
head of the House of Charity there, has
placed them at the disposal of any cy-
cliSts who may wish TO store their ma
| chimes while attending divine service. IN
Essex the unwonted spectacle of monks
riding bicycles may be daily witnessed
| The Franciscan fathers who have charge
of the mission at Braintree have also to
! attend to the spiritual needs of Two other
missions at long distances, and, in order
| that they may accomplish this work, they
! have, with the permission OF Cardinal
| Vaughan, invested in cycles, on which
they ride from one mission to another
! When it is said that the mud and sand
to be removed from the New York har-
Dor to make the new channel to the sea,
| il deposited in The East river, would be
| sufficient to make the river dry laad from
| shore to shore and from the Battery 10
| He'll Gate, some idea of the size of the
colossal undertaking may be obtained says
| a New Yorf letter. 1t is estimated that
nearly 5000O,000 tons of mud and sand
| must be removed, in order to make the
| east channel forty feet deep and 1000 feet
wide. Congress has appropriated the
money, the engineers have drawn the
| plans and contracts are being awarded
Ia order to make the channel it is con-
sidered necessary TO build new dredges,
which will draw up the sand by means of
suction pumps These dredges will be 800
| feet long and nearly IS feet wide and will
| have a capacity of 5000 tons an hour 1t
will take a year to build the dredges, anu
probably two years more to do the work.
"A biblical student in this city, says the
| Washington correspondence of the Chi
| cago Record, declares that if the descrip
! tons of So.omon's temple are accurately
| given in the Bible and by secular author
| tiles Inc toTal value of that edifice and its
| contents must have exceeded $50 600, 900, 900.
! In the first place, the value of the mate
rails in the rough is estimated at s12,500,
100000 and the labor at $30C0,0O00O0. Ac-
cording TO Villalpands 1900 men were
| engaged in cutting cedar lumber $4,000
| were engaged in cutting stone and $1,000
in bearing burdens, for a period of seven
years. who, in addition to their wages, re-
ceived 50 cents day for food. According
to the same authority, which is corrobo-
rated by Josephus, the vessels of gold
were valued at 10000 talents which re-
duced to American money, is equal TO
.. 326, 4S1 C15. The vessels Of silver are cal
culated at 1928 ,715000, the veslments of
the priests and the robes of the singers
$40, O50.O0O and the value of the trumpets
of gold was 100000.
|, There is no lack of respect for the
rights of the fair sex among the officials
at Cramps sanDyard; but, despite that
fact, no women are admitted within the
gates, except at launches and other fes-
tai occasions, says the Philadelphia Rec
ord. This rule was made simply as a mat
| ter Of economy, pure and simple. few
days ago a young gentleman well known
in society escorted two ladies to the great
works, but, 10 his surprise, was firmly
refused admission. He could not under
stand the refusal, and on his way out
of the Office appealed to a friend who
he thought possessed sufficient influence
| to gain the desired admission The friend
willingly made the request, and when he
met with refusal asked the reason. "Wen
| I'll tell you" smilingly said an official.
| your friend outside is accompanied by
| two ladies. We have 1000 workmen in the
! yards, and all of them are busy. If we
permitted the ladies' inside the gates every
enc of the 1000 workmen would lose a
| couple of minutes apiece in looking the
party over, and you can easily figure up
what such a loss of time would amount
| to. / am sorry for the ladies' but the rule
| cannot be broken"
One of the most curious wills ever filed
in the office of the register Of the District
OF Columbia was that of Mrs. Caroline
Brown Winslow, who died about year
ago, says the Washington correspond
| ehce of the Chicago Record. She was
one of the Oldest women physicians in
the country and quite successful in her
! practice. Her money was divided among
| her relatives. Her husband was given
an annuity of $50 a month. and fund was
| set aside to pay the expense of the publi-
cation of a monthly magazine devoted to
the promotion of social purity. Her library
was divided among several women physi-
! clans In this city, and her body was be-
queathed to Howard University, with tha
proviso that it be carefully dissected bv
a woman student to be selected by the
| dean of the medical school for the pur
pose of advancing her knowledge of anat
omy; after which 1 desire that the sew
eral parts of my skeletone shall be care
| fully prepared and wired together for tha
use and benefit Of the Minor Normal
School of the District of Columbia found-
er by my friend, Marila Minor of Madi-
son county, New York, said skeleton IN
occupy the place in the schoo. which tbe
| founder designed that her skeletone shonId
occupy in the school make this re
quest because the law demands that ever,
medical student dissect a body before re-,
celving diploma of graduation ana sncb
bodies can honorably be obtained onIv ~,
request or sale before death. ShouId ~
trustees OF Howard University decline ~
accept this bequest desire that INV bod,,
De cremated and the ashes thrown n tbs
winds" 10 the
The following calm and moderate esn-
mate of the future of liquid air, which
closes an article on the subject con+rih,,
Ted to the Independent by Prof. George y
barker of the University of PennsvIvsnja
Is IN striking contrast to soma reoe,,, nc