The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


"A st. Paul woman who died the other
day left by will enough money to pay
taxes on certain personal property which
she had not returned to the assessor.
-Fifty-four days time from New York
TO Manila by the United States cruiser
Buffalo is the record for the time being
by way of the Suez canal.
Very few people realize at what ire
mendous heights birds sometimes traverse
the air. Herons and wild ducks. geese
and swans, when travelling long distances,
fly at greater heights, often as much as
1900 feet. But ii is the hawk, and more
particularly the vulture tribe, that con-
stantly wing the air at far greater limits
than these. The common buzzard spies
for carrion suspended a mile above the
earth, and the great condor of the Andes
has been watched through powerful tele-
scope floating at the amazing height of
1900 feet, over five miles above the sea
level.
The largest coal field in the world is in
the Chinese province of Human. Baron
Won Richthofen, who investigated the min
eral wealth of China, reported that the
whole of the southeastern part of the pro-
vince of Human may be called one great
coal field, covering in all some H,7OO
square miles. Over large areas of this the
coal measures are visible on the surface
and a good proportion of the coal is of
excellent quality. Human also produces
iron, copper silver quicksilver, tin, lead
and gold. AS to the latter mineral, there
are sixty-four localities where gold is TO
be found, and in some the mines are in
disputably rich. The same minerals are
found in Shansi, which in proportion to
its area has the largest and most easily
workable coal field of any region on the
globe At the present rate of consumption
the world could be supplied with coal from
Shansi for 10000 years.
The worlds product of tobacco is es-
tlmated at about 100000 pounds, val
ued at about $500, 100000 OF this the
Western hemisphere raises about 65OOOO,-
900 pounds, the United States contributing
4S0 900 pounds, and Cuba, whose tobac-
CO is the widest known and most highly
esteemed only producing 900 pounds
Europe raises about 5OO,O00,O00 pounds; the
East Indies, 400O0NO0O pounds; Australia,
100000 pounds, and Africa not enough TO
be counted. by the addition of our new
territories the United States will increase
her product by Cuba, 81 100000 pounds
Porto Rico, S,SOOOO0 pounds and the Phil
ippines, 100000 pounds, which will give
US a total of 603 ,SO0,0 900 pounds OF the
states in the union, Kentucky leads with
about $4,000 900 pounds which is far in
excess of any other state, North Carolina
coming next with only 100000 pounds,
and Virginia next with 35,00OOOO pounds.
"A novel form of entertainment has been
devised for the Paris exhibition, and it is
to be called the Mareorama, being an idea
of the poster artist, M. Hugo 'Afesi. 1t
a MIA nj he
deck of a passenger steamer, approached
by a gangway, and complete with masts,
tunnels, rigging, and all other equipment.
From the deck will be seen a panorama
of the sea and the port from which the
voyage is commenced, but by various de-
vices these will soon fade away, and the
various scenes to be encountered in a voy-
age to Constantlnople witnessed. Naples
and Vesuvius are seen by sunset and sun
rise and storm at sea is also shown TO
the traveller. A rocking motion is given
to the fictitious vessel by mechanical
means, and concealed fans afford sea
breezes. The effect of the illusion is said
to be most pleasing, and in many cases the
deception is almost perfect.
-Airolo, where the landslide from the Sas-
so Rosso occurred in last December, is
well known to many American travellers
as the place where the st. Gothard tun-
mel enters the mountain on the south, as
well as where the famous pass of the same
name commences its ascent. After an ex-
animation of the mount, the Swiss geolo-
gists have concluded that additional masses
of rock are likely to fan, though they do
not believe that subsequent landslides will
carry any greater amount of rock than
the last The summit of the mountain is
1900 meters above the valley, and the fall
ing rocks by the time they reached the viii
lage had acquired a velocity of fifteen to
twenty meters per second. The most Sc
rious aspect of the present condition of
the mountain is on account of the rocks
which hang suspended on its flank. Were
these to fall it is feared that the village
and the mouth of the tunnel would suffer
great damage from the avalanche
"A telegram sent TO the Seattle Cham
Der of Commerce the other days. saws the
New York Times, read as follows: "I
have just passed the public building for
Seattle. 1 got 100000 as a starter. NV
thanks to the chamber for its assistance
and congratulations to my home" II is
most impertinent, because so needless.
to add that the signature to this commune
cation was Jas. Hamilton Lewis" Who
else would have expressed himself with
such tactful modesty, who else could so
cooiiy and calmly have relocated Congress
ana the President to their proper places ?
Il have just passed the public building
1or seattle" says James Hamilton Lew
Is OF course, he had. And he got $500 :
600 as starter" That's business. and the
rest will also be business no doubt unless
the Whiskered Wonder of the West seeks
relaxation and obtains it by toying again
with west Point and the regular army, A
man must have some pleasure, however
ana even James Hamilton Lewis is after
all a man.
The first aspect of prison life that
strikes one who enters within the doors is
It's cut-offness from the world outside >,
writes Mrs. Ballington Booth in the Feb
ruary Ladies Home Journal 'sThe man
who has friends who still care for him
may receive stated number of visits =
year, when for a few minutes he talks
with his wife or mother or friend in the
guard room, and he is allowed to write
one letter a month and to receive letters
twice week. To him there is therefore
still this little bridge between his cell and
the world from which he has been ban