The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Chinese Emperor must never turn
"a corner when out for a drive. If he Is
seized with a fancy 10 drive out. which.
fortunately, does no. occur often, as il
means enormous expenses. all the streets
must he straight; il any houses interfere
they are promptly swept away. while even
dried-up water course must be spanned
with bridge.
Lake Tanganyika. in Africa, offers a
unique field for scientific exploration. This
region. like Australia is one Of the few %
calities where animals SUN live that have
become extinct elsewhere. certain whelk-
like moslusl1s of this lake appearing to
have been driven from the ocean and 10
be identified with fossil forms of Old Ju-
rassic seas in Europe.
{ Belgium is the most confused little ma
tionality on earth. In the great cities the
population is made up of inextricable mix
lures OF Flemish races and the Walloons,
pure French and Germans. Add to this
broad sDlashes of the Spanish blood that
came in with the Princes of the last CEN
fury and YOU have q curious conglomerate
MANTLE brave little Belgian.
Tourists in Europe are usually much
puzzled by the question how much they
ought 10 give in fees at hotels. The Ber-
in Taseblatt, in discussing the matter
Suggests tndI the porter SnOulO gel y
pfenngs Is cents) per person per day. the
boots the same: the head waiter 80
10 cents a day and no one else a cent,
unless SPECIAL services have been rem
dered.
The japanese now publish three times
as many books as the Italians, whose it
erary powers seem to have faded almost
entirely away since the days of the Ro
mans. Out of 25.O00 volumes published last
year in the Land of Flowers no less than
| 5000 were law books and 300 treated of
| religion, which shows that the romantic
| little nation has not yet taken kindly To
| any written form of romance.
| In the town of Rising Sun, Nd is a
man who occupies a unique position. In
1852 the Rising Sun, Aurora and Law
| renceburg Telegraph Company was formed
| TO connect the places named by wire. The
| line was operated for several years by the
| company, but in 1872 the stockholders sold
| out 60 J. T. Whitock of Rising Sun. who
| has since been both day and night Oper-
! ator lineman, president, board Of directors
and general manager.
The author of THE Man With the
Hoe has aroused the resentment of a
man with a horsewhip. Richard Henry
| Stoddard. the venerable but viriie literary
| editor Of the New York Mai. and E,X-
| press lashes Mr.. Markham's famous pro-
duction as follows :"It is a shallow and
| vulgar assumption. the hasty conclusion
OF purbhnd and blatant demagogy. and a
| schooiboy with eyes in his head who
! dared to promulgate it would deserve a
sound whipping. If Mr. Markham has
persuaded himself that the life of a la
borer is fit subject for pity and indig-
nation. for poetic sniveling and poetic
cursirg, we are sorry for him. False and
morbid in conception, and verbose.y
| turgid in execution there is nothing in
The Man With the Hoe TO justify the
sensation thar it seems to have occa-
stoned, or 10 create the belief that the
cheap chin muse of Mrf Markham il
poetry
Hundreds of persons contend that the
twentieth century will begin with Jan l.
1900, while other hundreds contend with
equal posidveness that the correct date is
Jan. !, 1901" writes Edward Box in the
October Ladies Home Journal. THE 1900
| contingent argue thet. of course, the new
century begins with its numeral date and
so on TO figure our very deity that with
the last day of The year 1899 the hundIed
years will have run their course They
argue that il the first year ended with
Dec 81, 1899 and that the first day of
January, 1900 is therefore, the first day
of the new century. And curiously enough,
this latter figure is correct but only in a
numeral sense. These statisticians over
look one very important fact, however;
make a century, and il calls for no expert
mathematician to figure it out that the
full hundred years of the nineteenth cen
Jury wiz moi have run their course until
II O'Clock midnight OF the thirty-hrst of
December, 1900. Numerically, we enter the
twentieth century with Jan. l. 1860. But
nevertheless. we must complete that entire
year of 1850, and go through its three
hundred and sixty-hve days. before the
actual nineteen hundred years shall have
run their course"
DIR. H. S. Tanner, who nineteen years
ago went forty days and nights without
food, is stil in the flesh and clipper at the
| age of siXty-seVen, says the Rochester
; Post Express. He says: My stomach.
which Dr. Hammond said would never Iii.
sest food again, is working regular time
and wouldn't trade it for any similar d.
gestive organ on earth. keep pretty well
for man of my age and am lively on my
feet The doctor is as devoted as ever
to his peculiar ideas on the subject of diet.
BY eliminating The use of meat ne would
reduce the cost OF food to the limit fixed
by bio Lewis a 121a cents day He at
tributes i'll health largely to the use of
pork and badly cooked food. we do not "
he says, eat the right kind of food and
We do not prepare it properly for the Ia
bic. Why, look at the hotels l find
travelling agrees with me all right except
as to the hotel cooking, and that is terri
Bile. 1t is unhoy cooking. They think they
have got 10 be up-to-date. and they have
so many queer ways of fixing things in an
indigesuble way" But the fault, if there
is any, lies rathed with the guests Of ho-
tells than their managers, since the forme T
never ask so long as their palates arr
tckled whether hygienic principles have
been consulted i'm the preparation of the
| food. The true idea of cooking is to retain
the natural flavor of the viands, but the
aim of the modern cuisine is 10 disguise it.
Decorator Painter Wilhelm PlInwald of
Stuttgart has taken. out patent on an in
vention which admits of producing organ
iments in relief on wood or stone as quick
ly as they can otherwise be drawn or
painted. says the Scientific American.
When the printing is done only wood
color or a coored glaze needs 20 be applied
The new process is carried out as follows
Add to suitably diluted size enough chalk