The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-01

that viii bequeathing a sum Of money TO
Methedist missionary society is invalid
because the witnesses, who acknowledged
their signatures. did not know that they
were witnessing will when they signed
IT,
The state of New Jersey is now putting
in operation a system of state travelling
libraries Tor the benefit Of The rural dis
tricts and small towns. Twenty or more
Libraries of fifty books each have been
purchased The libraries will be under
control of the state librarian and will be
loaned 10 communities making application
preference being given to those places too
small to maintain public libraries
The proposal to celebrate on April %
the centenary of the poet Cowper has so
far fallen very fiat. It was first sug-
gested that the house in OIney where ne
had lived should be bought by public sub
scrlption to prevent il from telling into
the hands Of vandals. but MOI enough
money was secured for that. Now it is
proposed that the Darlor. gardens ana
summer house be retained as memorials.
the rest of the mansion to be let in the
usual way.
Henry Atven, a wealthy business man
of Sandusky, O., has brought suit against
the Presbyterian Church of that town.
charging IL with having, on April IT, 1898
dismissed himself and family from ne
church, thus depriving them of the privi-
leses of worship, communion or instruc-
ton therein. He claims that as ne as
sisted greatly in building up the church
ne should be allowed to worship therein
and an injunction mas been granted so
that Mr.. Atven can enter the church
Various schemes for crossing the chan
mel between England and France by means
of tunnel having failed owing 10 what
has been called on the one hand patriot
ism and on the other "insular prejudice"
a French engineer now, il is said mas
succeeded in constructing a submarine
boat by which the channel may be passed
without fear of suffering from that odious
and acknowledging malady called sea-
sickness. The system is that of cable
traction and the motive power electricity.
The submarine cable car, as it might be
called, would carry $50 passengers with
ease, and, in case the cables which roll
upon drums on either side of the vessel
strike or fall 10 act in any way. the tug
can be separated from them, brought i'm
mediately to the surface and complete
its journey as an oversee boat. The cross
ing would take about an hour.
"A new use for the photograph has been
discovered in Australia. During the fed
eral campaign in Queensland. the two
New South Wales federal leaders-Mr G
H. Reid, the Colonial Premier, and MI.
Edmund Barton, eX-leader of the Parlia-
mentary ppositon-being unable to accept
invitations TO address public meetings in
the young colony. the device of sending
Photographic message was adopted. That
of MIR. Reid as follows: Electors of
Queensland: You approach a point from
which you can advance to a large share
in the life, the power, and the prosperity
OF nation, or YOU can fall back again
into an isolated provincial sphere. Aus
tralia advances; will Queensland lag be-
hindu Mr.. Barton's address was of con-
siderably greater length. but the two were
a decided success, the tones of each speak
er being reproduced to perfection. AT
each public meeting at which the phono-
graph was introduced the delivery of the
living messages evoked roars of enthusiast
tic applause.
"A change for the better in the char
acter Of italian immigration is noticed
by the Pittsburg Disptch among the Ital-
lans arriving in that city Until recently
the immigration was composed principal
Iy of men, who came with the intention of
remaining only until they had accumu-
lated enough money TO make their con-
dition easier on their return TO their ma
tive land. The persons now arriving are
mainly farm laborers and mechanics. In
-
accompanied by his family, and has come
with the intention of never returning to
Italy. The families are usually pos
seSsed of little means, and their first bus
mess, after securing work, is to invest
their money in property. A number of
these people have secured permanent
homes lately, and those who have chill
dren attending school show a disposition
to buy residence property outside of the
various Italian colonies. Taking on this
new phase of the matter a prominent
Italian citizen of Pittsburg said that "the
education of the children of our people
has Americanized them. The children
viii never leave America, and the parents
win never return without the children
The Italians now coming to this country
viii remain, and their children become in
corporated with the people now here
The Pittsburg Dispatch thus quotes
one of the ten German manufacturers who
are now examining the manufac-
turing industries of the United
States: The great facility with
which the railroads of this country
move large amounts of merchandise has
interested us very much. The heavy
tracks and the spacious freight cars are
the solution of problem that Germany
is called upon to solve. Our tracks are
very light, and, as a result, our cars are
small, which fact is probably the greatest
hInderance to the commercial welfare of
the empire. 1 understand that your rail-
roads are taxed 10 the utmost in order
to supply the demand for shipping. Imag-
inc what a predicament we must be in
when we use cars with maximum ca
pacitv of fifteen tons, when the largest
cars in use in the United States have a
capacity of fifty tons. The use of small
cars in Germany Is a great mistake. which
must soon be remedied and our only solu-
ton is to adopt the heavy tracks thar are
in use in this country. We can boast
however, of some improvements over the
passenger service in the United States The
Pullman cars of America would never suit
the Germans. The seats are too compact.
We have been accustomed to plenty of
room in the cars, with exclusive apart
ments, which are seldom available in this
country
"A dispatch from Dallas, Tex. says:
"One Of the most exciting and interest
ing affairs Of a purely business nature
Witnessed in T2ropbara