The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

- lie american "a ana OuIuIy pant
has purchased the Ohio Falls Car Man
ufaoturing Company at Jeffersonville.
Ind, for S2,500S)0, and as the company
has paid taxes upon an assessment of only
$l602n the county assessor has taken
steps to recover the back taxes.
The New York police department on
March l had a total membership of 1854
officers and men, of whom nlnety-one were
in the bicycle squad, eighty-niue in the
tenement house squad, 164 detectives,
thirty-thTee were in the sanitary corps and
nine were detailed for service in the house
of detention. There were also thirty-eght
police matrons, bringing up the total force
TO more than 1900.
"A report from the United States consul
at Montreal covers exhaustively the dairy
products trade of Canada. The consul
shows, among other things, by what
means Canada has increased her export
trade in this line, while that of the Unit
ed States has decreased in some directions.
Briefly stated, the success of our neigh
bors has been achieved by catering direct
ly to the peculiarities (even the whims)
of their foreign customers.
Cheap cab service-25 cents mile and
70 cents all hour per passenger-is to be
provided by five well-known society men
of New York city. They have practically
organized a company for the purpose. The
proposition to form the new company
came up when a bill providing for the
organization of the General State Carriage
Company was introduced The present
cab system in New York is constantly
a source of complaint.
The New York Legislature is about to
appropriate $1,000 to enable DR.. E. T. Cor
win, an accomplished Dutch scholar, to
translate and publish the valuable Dutch
| records relating TO the colonial history
of the Empire state, which he has just
| gathered. Two years ago DR.. Corwin was
sent TO Holland by the general synod OF
| the Reformed churches 10 collect these
records and upon returning he brought
with him large number of important
and interesting documents.
The Breckenridge (Ky.) News thus de-
scribes the meteor that recently fell In
that locality: 1T is composed of nickel.
| iron and cobalt. and was at a white heat
when 1t struck the earth. 1t was very
much like a bubble, and the air inside
| made it hollow 1t is about eighteen
inches long and ten inches wide and weigh
ed twelve pounds. 1t was found in the
gravel pit at Skllman, fifty feet below the
| surface of the earth, showing the fearful
velocity it had attained in its travels. In
| cooling off the meteorite cracked, and the
crevices in it are clearly defined. The out
side is oxidized by exposure to the ele-
ments."
"A list has been prepared at the war de-
partment of the soldiers whose distinguish
ed service in the war with Spain will en-
| title them to certificates of merit. The
| list contains nearly 100 names 'of men
1 whose gallantry and bravery entitle them
| to this recognition. The names will be
submitted to the President and then the
certificates will be prepared for his sigma
ture. To the soldiers of the regular army
these certificates carry with them more
| than the honor of their possession. F,v-
cry enlisted man holding one of them is
entitled to g per month extra pay during
the time he is in the service of the gov
| eminent.
"A crank wrote thus to Mayor Ash
bridge of Philadelphia, the other day: II
would like to say few words on typhoid
| fever. If the people of this city would
stop eating celery and raw fruit of all
kinds and stop drinking ice water there
would be less sickness. If they don't stop
eating celery, we will always have typhoid
| with US" Another crank suggested that
| electric light wires should be placed in the
reservoirs and in the bed of the Schuylkill
river, and at stated periods every day
| heavy alternating currents Of electricity
| should be run through them. BY this
| method, the writer argued all fever mi
crobes and germs would be shocked to
death.
Our consul at Moscow writes to the
state department that American cotton has
a very keen competitor in the Russian
market in Asiatic cotton grown from i'm
| ported American seeds. This latter cotton
| Is equal in quality to middling New Or
| leans cotton. 1t is reported that this Ash
| attic cotton deteriorates after a lapse of
years, and that fresh seed have to be plant
ed. The prices are about the same; lately
| however, American produce has had an
| advantage owing to a fall in the price
| which Asiatic cotton has not been able to
| follow on account of the cost of produc-
ton and transportation. In addition to the
above cotton, there are some varieties of
native Asiatic cotton of inferior quality
at corresponding prices.
Chicago is determined to be great city,
If it has to annex the whole of Illinois,
says the New York Commercial Adver-
tiser. A scheme is on foot 10 annex the
rest of Cook county, together with TWEEN
ty-seven townships outside of that county,
to Chicago. This is expansion with a
vengeance. What the scheme means may
be gathered from the fact that the en-
larged city would cover an area of $40
square miles, while the area of New York
city, as enlarged, is only 2S5 square miles.
To put it differently, Chicago would cover
almost as much area as the state of Rhode
Island. However, if the people of Chica-
go are eager that their city shall occupy
a conspicuous place on the map, no one
can object. 1t is an innocent ambition.
But annexation Of prairie does not add to
population.
A policeman is thus quoted in the Phil
adelphia Press: THE other night, about II
O'Clock, a man came running to me, and
said that the engineer of a big store near
my corner had run a pin in his leg. II