The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-16
ITEsIs OF INTEREST.

900.
"A millionaire who died in Boston
few days ago directed in his Will that no
one owing him less than 5000 be required
to pay.
The savings banks of New York have
deposits amounting to $766,6S4 916. This
money belongs to no less than 1,s05, $50 per-
sons, mostly poor.
twenty-five years ago the United
States produced 20 per cent. of the cotton
of the world; to-day she produces s. per
cent. Of the worlds cotton.
"A son was born into a family near
Sabattus, Me, recently, being the twelfth
child of a mother only 80 or SO years old,
the eldest of the family being but Is years
old,
Partisan BARRIERS are legally compelled
to wash their hands after attending a Gus
toner and before waiting on another.
They must use also only nickel-plated
combs.
The political term dark horse" orig
mated from the habit of jockeys painting
some fast racer in dark co,ors and enter
ing him in a race under a fictitious name
and thus winning.
The two leading shipbuilding firms of
Belfast, Ireland last year turned out six
teen vessels-aH screw steamers-with an
aggregate tonnage of 121, $50, and a united
horsepower of 65, $40.
The exact meaning of Hogmanay-as
New Years eve in Scotland is called-is
not known. Some say ii comes from the
Saxon Hoggnight-the time for killing an
imals for eating and sacrifice.
in January. 1887, there were in St.
Louis 4,O67 saloons This year finds that
number reduced by statutory regulation
to 2,029, a decrease of 2,038. The Missouri
law prohibits the adulteration of liquors.
Warm suppers will hereafter be pro-
vided for the German army. The change
went into effect on New Years day. The
increase of cost for pork and sausage
for the Berlin garrison alone will be $780,
900 a year.
The largest price ever asked and paid
for a single pearl was $556,OOO, which was
the value of the great Tavernier pearl. 1t
is the largest and most perfect gem of its
kind known. 1t is exactly two inches in
length and oval shaped.
Two crocodiles in a circus at Bayeux,
France, got into a fight, in which a hind
leg of one of the beasts was badly lacerat-
ed. veterinary surgeon was called in.
who amputated the leg successfully, the
crocodile being as lively as ever.
The latest in the building line is the
aluminium hut for Klondike miners.
When packed for carriage it weighs 10
pounds. 1t is composed of four sides and
roof of thin sheets of aluminium and
when put up 1t contains 100 cubic feet.
The total output of gold in Alaska in
the year just closed, according to official
estimates furnished by the director of the
mint, was but 81, 0S9, $780, whereas Colorado
is credited with $245OO,00O of the total of
$50, 1857 obtained throughout the coun-
try.
The soldier boys in Manila say that
the Spaniards and natives there inva-
riably turn to the left instead of to the
right in passing others on the sidewalks
and in the streets, and consequently there
are numerous accidental collisions with
Americans.
The French electrician reports that the
town of Blankenberghe is now supplied
with water in which all germs have been
killed by means of ozone, generated by an
electric current The same principle will
soon be applied to the dangerous Seine wa
ter at st. Mature, Paris.
"A meteorological observatory is to be
established in the spire of the Cathedral
at Ulm, one of the largest churches in
Germany. Next to the Eiffel tower in
Paris it will be the highest post of me-
neurological observation in the world
erected by human hands.
An amusing story is being told in Edin-
burgh says the Liverpool Post. At recent
auction sale of old furniture a chair. bear
ing on the back the carved words Dun
ottar Castle was put up. Experts expect
edit might fetch about RS. The bidding be-
gan at IS, and soon reached $50, when only
two brokers remained in the competition,
which, to the amazement of everyone pres
ent, advanced in IS bids TO f100 and then
jumped in steps of 80 TO $500. Finally one
of the bidders retired, and the chair was
knocked down to his successful rival at the
price of 500. The secret of this successful
sale is quite simple. Sir Donald Currie had
seen the name on the back of the chair and
had commissioned an Edinburgh broker 10
buy it. Next day, forgetting what he had
done, he instructed a Glasgow broker TO
bid for the chair, and these two were the
rival bidders, with the result that Sir Dom
aid is now the possessor of what is prob
ably the most costly old oak chair in the
world.
In the Baltic the Danish island Born
holm, which is situated about twenty-four
miles, east by south, from the nearest point
of Sweden, may be regarded as a huge
magnet says the Boston Traveller. Al
though the power of this magnetic island
is not so great that il can draw the nails
out of ships, as was told of the legendary
magnetic hills, the magnetism of the rocks
on the Island of Bornholm can and does
| cause good deal of trouble to ships in
quite another way, for the island exerts
such an influence on the magnetic needle
that IL causes a vessel 10 turn perceptibly
aside from its course. The effect of the
island magnetism is fell at a distance of
about nine and a hair miles. On the Island
of.Canna Zone of the Argylshire Hebrides)
situate about three miles northwest of
Rum, there is a hin which has magnetic
power sufficiently strong to affect the com
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