The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The latest lifeDoat, which has been
approved by the British admiralty, car
ries three long cylinders into which 1,OO0-
600 cubic feet of air can be compressed
This air will drive the boat fifteen miles
an hour for six hours.
One of the numerous country men,
bers of the Connecticut Legislature intro
duced a resolution providing that the gen.
eral assembly shall finally adjourn Thurs
day, April 6, at p. m, this act to talos
effect upon its passage"
in the Island of Minora, one of the
Philippines, the humming birds are pug
nacious little creatures. Thousands Of
them frequently attack huntsmen with
out the Slightest provocation. inflictng
sometimes serious wounds on the face and
neck.
"A pension of $500 yeaI, granted to the
Earl of Surrey in 1913 for his victory over
the Scots at Flodden Field and drawn reg
ularly by the Howard family ever since,
has just been compounded by the Duke of
Norfolk, the Earls representative, for ST.
900 in cash.
-Offenses against Kaiser Wilhelm's dig
nifty in the one year 1898 were punished,
taken all together, with 1000 years of i'm
prisonment, according to the Nurnberger
Zeitung, a Social Democratic newspaper.
Last year the United States imported
2,2S6 horses, worth 100000 and exports
over 81, 900 horses, worth $6,0O00O0. In 1890
this country imported 3S24S horses and ex-
ported only $500.
"A Nebraska soldier writing home from
Manila says: zone of the boys here got
box from home. He was tickled to death,
and said I knew I'd get some hing from
hcme-something that's good to eat When
he opened the box, behold ten nice boxes
of canned salmon and ten cans of corned
beef. Jewhiz. He took every can and threw
them in the river At home he was fond
of canned salmon and corned beef, so his
folks thought that would be a good thing
for him. They little know how much of
that stuff a soldier gets in the army. Every
other meal is salmon, rice, corned beef or
beans"
The New York Evangelist says 1.-THE
deputy superintendent of public instruc-
ton in Porto Rico Victor Selden Clark,
has written to MIR Hooper, the superln-
tendent of the Brooklyn Institute, asking
for its catalogue and prospectuses of lee
lures for the present year. with an idea
of organizing an institute on somewhat
similar lines in Porto Rico. We learn that
an American library is TO be established
at San Juan. from which books will be
distributed over the island on the plan
of the New York State Library There is
also TO be a reading room for citizens and
| soldiers in San Juan, and all books and
| periodicals will be gratefully received.
| They can be sent 10 Gen. Guy V. Henry
or Gen. Eaton, care of Col. A S. Kimball
! quartermaster, New York city who will
see that they are forwarded free on govern
ment transports"
Peppermint" Todd the fusion con-
gresham, who represents the One Hun
| bred and Eleventh Michigan district is so
| called because he became a millionaire
in the manufacture of peppermint ex-
tract, says the New York Tribune He has
huge farms on which he raises nothing
but mint. and his venture has proved very
profitable. AS a legislator his chief ambi-
| ton seems to be to get in the Record
! and for this purpose he interrupts the pro-
ceedings more often than any other mem
Der of the House. Uncle Joe" Cannon has
! found way to abolish the nuisance thus
| caused, and al the same time accommo-
date Mr. Todd's ambition. Whenever Todd
| interrupts Uncle joe the old man turns
to him with the air of a father dealing
with troublesome child, and tells him
u
| peppermint congressman's constituents
think that all the remarks In the Rec
ord are delivered on the floor; so Todd
| is satisfied.
"A well-known professional man." saws
| the Philadelphia Record, who is noted
among his friends for his absent-minded-
ness thought he had reached the hight
! of absurdity when he was forced TO ask
his wife his first
in order to answer properly a question
| asked by the assessor of his district His
| memory, however, played him an even
worse trick the other day, and the Joke
| was so good that hep told it on himself
| He was writing letter in the postoffice
| corridor one evening when a seedy-look-
| ing person came up with a hard-luck story
| The writer paused long enough to tell the
beggar that he had nothing for him, and
! requested him to go away. The fellow per-
! sisted and again poured forth his woful
| Nory. A Waterman finally chased the
| beggar away, and the absent-minded
writer started to read what ne had writ
ten. Great was his surprise when he
found that he had transcribed word for
word part of the hard-luck tale that had
| been pourned into his unwilling ears"
The. Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Record says: 1--WE are likely to
have statue of Washington, as well as
of Lafayette, to unveil in Paris on July
| 4, 1900 for the association of American
women which has been engaged for seve-
raj years in raising funds to present one
! to the people of France in exchange for
| the Lafayette statue which stands in
jackson Park, in Washington, has made
a contract with Daniel c. French, the
wellknown sculptor, to make an eques-
trian figure of heroic size, with the under
standing that it shall be completed and
ready for unwilling on the day named.
Mrs. Field, wife of the Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court; Mrs Hobart. wife
| of the Vice President; Mrs. Mcmillan
wife of the senator from Michigan, and
Mrs. Phoebe a Hearst are the committee
in charge and have the cooperation of
many prominent women in different parts
| of the country. large portion Of the