The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-23
ITEMS of INTEREST.

essary in Germany nowadays, where
careless. remark easily brings the speaker
under the heavy hand of the law, says
an exchange. Only the other day a work.
man attending his fathers funeral was
overcome with grief as he turned away
from the grave and so5bed out; Fare
well. we shall never meet again" His
words were reported to a magistrate, who
summoned the workman for an outrage
against public morals by denying the N
mortality of the soul, and sentenced him
to fifteen days imprisonment
"A new paper product is the result of
the enterprise of one of the japanese
paper companies. II is a substitute for
ordinary shingles, made of thick, tarred
pqsteboard. The paper shingles have met
with a quick and large demand, selling for
about one-half the price of wooden shln-
giles and being much easier to manlp ulate-
They economic the labor of mechanics
and are said to be as proof against rain
and fire as the ordinary articles. Paper
shingles have been adopted for the sub
roofing of the new Toxic Chamber of Com
merce and Imperial Toxic University
buildings.
A copy of a curious newspaper has
been found in the French national arch
ives, saws Literature. Il is dated jan L.
The articles are evidently written by wo-
men and the object of the paper seems
TO have been an attempt to pace women
on an equal footing with men. The fem
mime pioneers of 1903 were evidently near
ly 100 years ahead of their times. La
Fronde, the Partisan newspaper written
printed and published by women, IS now
in it's third year and appears to be sue
cessful, while only one copy of l. Athence
des Danes is to he found.
A dispatch from Norfolk, Va, June 49,
says Hilary Jones, a negro laborer, has
made a gruesome find in the hold of the
former Spanish cruiser, Reina Mercedes
now in dry dock at the navy yard. The
Mercedes was put in dock TO have her
bottom cleaned and holes plugged. Jones
was sent TO clean blge hole which had
become choked and stumbled against
something hard. He picked up the two
objects, which proved to be human
skull. with black hair on top, and bone
from a leg The frightened negro rushed
up on deck and could not be induced TO
return to the ships hold. The skull and
bone were secured by relic hunters. 1t
is believed to be part of the remains Of
a Spanish sailor who was drowned when
the ship was sunk at Santiago.
The Jewish Messenger of New York
wants to see a Jewish university in Amer
lea. Not 10 teach theology, says the Mes
senger. but "the gift of the Jews of Amer
lea to the nation, to represent the intel
lectual bent" of The Jews as other uni
versties represent other religious bodies
I'VE Iraelites wish to be known for other
traits than those of the successful imam
cier and merchant. We wish to be idenu-
fed more vigorously with the development
f-aTaa 4
do our share in the problem untrammeled
There is nothing un-Amercan in founding
a general university under Jewish aus
pices, although it is surrey un-Jewish TO
fail to impress our young people with
Jewish atmosphere and to train the Jew
ish scholar as worshiper in its highest
sense"
DIR. A. Tucker WISE an English physi-
ologist, records the cases of more than
thirty persons who became attacked by
tuberculosis apparently through associa-
ton with Gagged birds That canaries
parrots, ETC., are commonly subjected to
tuberculosis DR.. Wise considers to be an
established fact, and he warns owners of
birds Of the danger of avian infection,
The practice of allowing birds to place
their beaks in contact with the lips is
a risky and dangerous proceeding as re-
CARDS liability to receive bacilli in this way
If the bird is not healthy. Flies can also
convey filth, and with it disease germs
from the cage to human food, or the
dust of dried excrement and mucks may
pollute the air of any room in which birds
are Kept. Feeding ana nursing sick birds
Gncluding parrots and blowing the dust
and husks from their seed and cleaning
the cage are not without danger. The
canary or any other bird kept in the
kitchen, is positive peril to the house
hold, as by fiuttering and whisking the
dust from its cage or mucuc from its beak
the food of whole family can be con-
tamnated. 1t is not surprising. he OBJ
serves taking into consideration the un-
natural and unhealthy life to which man
subjects the domestic animals, especially
BIRDS confined in small cages, that these
captives should become diseased, and pol
lutte the air with pathogenic germs.
"A Chicago dispatch, dated June Is
says: The eyes of all Chicago were turned
to-day upon the lake front fountain
and the gasp which was caused when The
nude figures were first exposed to the
cfltlcai gaze of cultured Chicago wes
heightened and deepened unto Titanic pro
portions The mere fact that these beau
tlfui nymphs of heroic size were modelled
by young women under the direction Of
dorado Taft, director of the sculpture
department of the Art Institute has
phased Chicago and that is sometime
that doesn't happen often. They are very
lovely and sportive nymphs. notwith-
standing their great size and thew are
essentially feminine. A good MANY neonlc
explained the fact that they were with
out clothing by the theory that il would
have cost too much to put garments on
them. Commissioner Mccain looked The
statues over with the eye of connoIs-
seur and of moralist and came TO the
conclusion that if that fountain was heb
art 1t was too much for Chicago 10
set about having it removed at once ana
was much relieved when he found tbat
it was only temporary and would he
taken away after the commencement Of
the Art Institute. President c. C. Rart-
lett of the Law Enforcement Iearne
said: IF Director French of the Arr
Institute is anxious for a test of chi
Cages ability to stand the nude in art
l would be agreeable to a proposition to
bring the matter up as a legal test"
The way thimbles are made in this
country and England is simple enopgb
says the New York Sun. Dies of the dif.
ferent sizes are used into which tbe