The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

age of more than one divorce a minute.
The applicants belonged to the working
class, in which divorces were infrequent
before the passage of the new law.
German geographers are usually cred
tied with the closest computation of the
worlds population. Their latest figures
are 1,500,OO0O00, an addition of 100000 in
The past seven. years. An increase is found
in nearly every part of the world. 1t is
most rapid in civilized countries, especially
those that lead in the use of labor-saving
machinery. Greenlands Eskimo popula-
ton is growing, but the natives of the Pa
ci1c islands are dying out
New York is to have cheaper ice next
summer. A fight against the ice trust and
ice trust prices will be begun by the cree.
ton of an immense ice manufacturing
plant on Staten Island. 1t will have a ca
pacity of 1000 tons a day and will be by
far the greatest ice-making establishment
in the world. The company that will en-
ter into such active competition on the
field now occupied by the Consolidated Ice
Company is the General Commercial Com
pany, and its capital is 81, 100000, which
may be increased to IS 100000.
Queensland is inaugurating new de-
parture in the fruit trade, says London
Invention. 1t is found that dried bananas
take the place of raisins in pudding very
well, and an enterprising firm in Queens
land has sent to the agent generals office
in Victoria street, Westminster, a con-
signment of dried bananas, with the OBJ
ject of opening up a market for them in
England. As soon as the public have
tested for themselves the agreeable flavor
which dried bananas give to buildings
there is sure to be a big demand for them
The recent protest of j. Sterling Nor
ton of Nebraska against the cutting of
Christmas trees is warmly commended in
the West. In his protest he said "The
trees selected for slaughter on this ami
Versary are always The straightest and
most symmetrical. There were last year
more than 100000 of Christmas trees cut
down and put on the market. The alb
surdity of celebrating the birth of the
Savior of the world by wanton waste
| and extravaganza which jeopardzes the
welfare of millions of human beings YET
unborn, is obvious to every thinking man."
"A dealer in game. poultry and fancy
| meats on Barclay street, New York, is re-
sponsible for the 'embalmed-beef' scan
| dal, says the Chicago Records Washing
| ton correspondent. His name is Alexan-
| der B. Powell and he is the patentee of
a secret process for preserving that form
| of food by fumigation which is supposed
to cover the surface with a crust that
| VIII prevent the parts so protected from
| decay. Early in the war he addressed
| letters to various officials of the army and
navy, which received no attention. Being
| a man of enterprise and persistence, ne
| went to Tampa, carrying with him several
| sides of beef which had been treated by his
| process, and obtained permission to place
~ i
| the Rough Riders to Santiago, the Pana-
ma and other transports. This was tha
| beef which Gov. Roosevelt referred TO in
| his recent letter to Gen. Miles. When the
| attention of Gen. Wood and Col. Roose-
| welt was called to the meat it had been
| hanging in the hot hold of the steamer for
| four days and had been treated $50 hours
| before. 1t was put on the vessel the day
| that the expedition was to have sailed,
| but, as will be remembered, the trans
| ports We're delayed four days before start
| ing Mr. Powell also secured permission
| to send beef treated by his process to
! Porto Rico, and that was seen by Gen.
! Miles. No report was ever made to the
! commissary department, and Mr.. Powell
received no encouragement from any one
| in authority.
-''Skat," the national card game of the
Germans, at whose mere mention the true
Teuton's thumb and index culver in spas
| rnodic spontaneity, would hardly seem TO
| be in need of encouragement in the Faith
erland, says the Baltimore Sun AL
! though of scarcely eighty years existence,
it has become so popular among both stu
dents and "Phiistines" and wherever
the German tongue resounds,' that, in the
opinion of not q. few, it now almost
| amounts to a national nuisance whole
| literature has sprung up from the card
| table. Groth's "Kunst des Skatspieles"
has seen more editions than many clas-
| sicai German novel, and ignorance of this
| favorite game exposes a person to social
ostracism. No wonder that even the
| Kaiser, although hostile to ever kind of
| gambling, is deVotee of "skat." True, his
winnings and losings al this game cannot
be very great, for the highest stakes are
| "pfenn se," of which hundred are
| equivalent to only one United States quar-
ter. This latest accomplishment of the
versatile monarch became but recently
publicly known by the Emperors attend
ing during the holidays the production Of
BlumentaPs new comedy, "Auf der Son
nenseite' ION the Sunny Side. In this
pece Papa Wulkow," one of the charac-
tiers, breaks out in iubiation when he dis
covers that his future son-in-law can play
"skat" with ''schieberamsch," whatever
this variety of the game may denote. This
scene greatly amused the Kaiser and be-
tween the acts he made inquiries as 10
what this "schleberamsch" might be, in
order to add it to his other accomplish
ments. This the Berlin papers made
known to his people or the following
morning, and "gownsman and townsman"
rejoiced IN the delightful news.
The Abendpost a German paper of
Chicago. IN its Berlin correspondence
makes the rather surprising statement
that more American women are married
to German gentlemen than to those Of 9TH
er European people, and that they soon
adapt themselves to their new surround
ings. Like the German girl, the Amerl-
can has a prediction for a husband in
uniform. There is hardly regiment to,
day without its American among the Off
GERS wives, and these ladies from the
states are very popular, at least among the
men. If they only would not firt so
much" say the women, who are not quite
so enthusiastic about them; but the Amer