The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-29

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A newspaper printed on the excursion
steamer Ophir published one number in 50
degrees minutes north latitude IL claims
to be the paper published farthst north Of
AM on rcord.
From 1898 to the present year the num-
Der of steam boilers in the Transvaal has
increased from 1.O71 to 2,2S2, three of the
gold fields alone employing no fewer than
go dynamos, supplying 1,400 motors and
80 600 lamps
"A series Of experiments made by Benno
Erdmann and Raymond Dodge show that
in normal reading the letters are spelled
out separately, and one after the other bat
that a short word Of not more than four
letters can be read off in less time than
single letter.
Pigs were imported in New Zealand by
Capt. Cook about 177O, and. soon becoming
wild, increased to a remarkable degree. A
century later wild pigs were so abundant
in the fax thickets of the province of Tar
MAXI, on the North Island, that a hunter
could shoot fifty in a single day.
The Pixies Peak Power Company pro-
poses to develop 3,2OO-horse power for dis
tribution for mines in the neighborhood
of Cripple Creek, Col The source of the
water supply is Beaver canyon. and a
steel and rock dam will be built having a
storage capacity of 100000 cubic feet.
The Kashmir Railway is to be con-
structed over 1S6 miles in the most noun
famous part of India. 1t will be operated
by electricity, water power being used.
This permits of a much lighter motor for
drawing the same load and also permits
of grades which a steam engine could not
climb without recourse to the rack sys-
TEN.
"A Manila correspondent of the Chicago
Record, speaking of the departure of the
Kansas Twentieth Regiment notes the
curious thing that when the men turned
in their arms most of them turned in
Mausers, when they were charged with
Springfield rifles on the books of the reg
iment. They had captured the Mausers
from the F'ilpinos.
The sock social epidemic" says the
Kansas City Journal, ''is spreading
throughout Missouri, aesthetic Carthage
being one of the most recently infected
localities. Despite its name there is moth
ing Simpsonian, so to speak. in the style
of entertainment provided, the character
istic feature being a requirement that
each one who attends shall contribute in
pennies sum at least equal to the figure
represented in the size of the hosiery
worn"
A large panel in white marble was I'M
covered the other day in the parish church
at Bryntysilio, near L!angollen, to the
memory of Lady Martin QHelen FauciO.
says the Westminster Gazette. The me-
mortal is beautiful alto-rehevo, designed
by Foley, of the celebrated actress, seat
ed with volume of Shakespeare on her
knee, and it has a medallion of Shake
speare at the base. The memorial bears
the following inscription: In memory of
Helena Faucet, Lady Martin. who died at
Bryntysi.io. 21st October, 1898 Her gra-
cious genius belonged to the word. The
charm of her goodness was for her home
and for those who loved her" These
words are by Mrs. Richmond Richie, and
are taken from one of her introductiOns to
the biographical edition of the works of
her father, w. NJ. Thackeray.
DR. Newell Dwight Hills writes in the
Ladies Home Journal: And yet this King
(Solomom with his maguiicence and un-
rivaled power. this shrewd judge, this skill
full statesman this scholar with his wide
culture became a pessimist and stands
forth one of the saddest figures in all the
history of melancholy. But if we analyze
his misery We find that he was a pessimist,
not because men are disciplined by con-
aict and trouble, but because he was a
confirmed egotist. Had men used printing
presses in those far-of days the first letter
to be exhausted in setting up Solomon ;
copy would have been the capital letter
Il" "I' builded me houses. "I' got me
soldiers, 'I'' wrote proverbs, 'I'' had man
servants, 'I'' had maid servants. Through
Unsuitable egotism Solomon lifted up this
tah
ed all creation to stand around and admire
him But simplicity is to a great man
what sweetness is to a rose A blOated
and overweight egotism makes happiness
impossible.
In the hallway of a Philadelphia doc
tors house stands a fine example of
grandfather's clock, the possession of
which the medical man owes entirely to
pinch of snuff says the Philadelphia Rec
ord. Some years ago the doctor in Ques-
ton set his heart upon such timepiece,
and devoted two of his vacations TO clock
hunting. He visited many New England
farmhouses without success, as old furni-
ture has been pretty well gathered up
by the dealers down East" and then
carried his quest into Delaware and Mary
land. where he found many old clocks,
but none of them for sale. He was about
to return home disconsolate, when he was
Cdlltu lltO COIlSulld over a patient Qy-
ing of qu.usy. The resources of medicine
had been exhausted, when the Quaker City
doctor bethought himself of an old snuff
box he had picked up during his wander
ings, in which still fingered a modicum
of snuff, pungent as of yore. With this
powdered tobacco the doctor assailed the
nostrils of the sick man, who, sneezing
violently broke the abscess in his throat
that was choking him to death. Slim
ulants- were administered. and the sick
man recovered. The Philadelphia doctor
left the place the morning after this re-
markable operation, but he had not been
home a week before the grateful Mary
lander sent him a grandfathers clock, ac-
companied by card upon which was writ
ten: This clock. which struck the hour
of my birth, would have marked also the
hour of my death if your skill and know
ledge had not stayed the hand of the de-
stroyer."
Church people in the United Kingdom
are once more up in arms against the aged
Queen for permitting lawn tennis ana