The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

It's M9llS
London is admittedly one of the health
lest places in the world and its inhabitants
generally manage to live to a good age
Mr.. Charles Abbott, who was also known
as the Abbott of Charterhouse, died
last month, after completing his 10lst
year. He was the last survivor of a fam
lily of twenty-five brothers and sisters,
one of whom died only few months be-
fore completing his century. Mr. Abb
bolt carried his age well, was not a tee
totaler, but drew the line at tobacco.
The Sanitary Record calls attention to
the fact that Hezekiah. King of Judah C717-
GSS B. c.. was a pioneer in the construction
of water-works, having built a system TO
bring water into The City of Jerusalem.
The Bible says: "He made the pool and the
conduit, and brought the water into the
city, stopping the upper part of Chic. and
brought it straight down to the west side
Of The City of David. And Hezekiah pros
pered in all his works. Ut is worthy of note
that Hezekiah believed in municipal con-
trol OF the water supply, and did not put
the construction of the system into the
hands of gang of promoters.
The device for sending cards upstairs
at the Waldorf-Astoria is not one of that
noted New York hostelry's least interest
ing features. A series of brass pipes oc-
cupy a place in the western wall of the
office corridor. Each pipe contains pneu-
matte apparatus that enables the operator
to shoot your card directly up 10 the floor
it is intended for where another operator
receives it and dispatches it on its mis-
sion by bell-boy stationed there. Above
each of the tubes a curved piece of metal
branches out like and inverted arm. Its
under side is concave. Against this the
leather box containing the return mes
sage is shot from the mouth of the tube
and falls into the hands of the attendant.
BY this device a message can be sent to
even the fifteenth story in less time than
| it taxes to tell it,
Thu blue rose, which, with the black
has so long been the subject of horticul-
tural research, has, it seems, quite I'M
expectedly made its appearance in a con-
| tinental garden. Kizanlik in Bulgaria,
| whence the rarity is reported, is a dis
| trict renowned for its altar of roses, and
| consequently the flowers are grown on a
| very large scale The owner of the blue
| rose is M. lStantcheff who, when visiting
| his collections one day, noticed on a bush
| that had hitherto produced blooms of a
pale rose color five greenish-blue roses
| VI d hue ISCdlnIS the QGiCdlS tlulS Ol the
| turquoise. Samples of the soil where this
| rare plant is grown have been sent to the
chemical laboratory Of Sofia to be min
| utely analysed. 1t is known to be rich
| in lime, ammoniac, salts of copper and
! oxide of iron.
"A new industry in Kansas" says a
| correspondent of the Chicago Record, 'is
the manufacture of salt. A large deposit
| bog al
Santa Fe Railroad near the town of
Hutchinson, in the central part of the
state, which the local biologists claim
to be the largest in the world. More than
| 100000 has already been invested in
plants to purify it, and the output last
year reached nearly 100000 barrels. The
members of the Mulvane family of To-
peka, who are heavy landowners, bank
ers and proprietors of the Topeka Cap
ital, are the largest salt operators in the
state; but George Gould and his broth
ers of New York. are also heavily inter-
ested. Frank Gould, the youngest son
of the late Jay Gould, who has only re-
Gently reached his majority, is having
his first business experience in the man.
agement of the company"
Though we've had the income tax in
England until it is a regular part of our
system of government, it is yet thorough
| ly detested,' said a London man recently
1T will be a sad day for America should
| you ever adopt this odious and inuuisito-
| rial plan of taxation. What we ought to
do is to put a moderate tariff on imports.
not 10 benefit our home manufacturers.
for there is no chance of them ever catch
| ing up with American competition, but
merely for the sake of raising revenue. I
/ suppose, however, that there is no hope
| of any change, and that we shall go on
forever taxing men on their incomes,
which is unfair and unjust, seeing that
it applies only 10 a class In the United
States all men help to pay the cost of
maintaining the government through your
| indirect system of taxing. In England
millions escape paying a penny, and the
| burden falls on the rich and men of mod
crate thrift"
Not month passes, 1t is said in Wash
ington that the United States treasurer
and superintendent of the mint do not
hear of a gold brick game having been
| successfully played. The victims almost in
| variably' make their appearance at the
mints or assay offices with their metallic
bars carefully wrapped in Canton flannel
and slowed away in a capacious gripsack.
The experts are able to detect the fraudu-
lent character of the bars at a glance al
| tnouSh an many cases they are CleVerly
plated with the genuine metal. The weight
always gives them away, however. A week
or two ago the purchaser of a noble gold
brick about yard Tong turned up at the
| Philadelphia mint, and the officials of that
| institution had hard time convincing him
that he had been swndled. To satisfy him
| number of gold bars were brought in
which, combined, were about the size of
the fictitious chunk of plated iron. The
fraudulent brick weighed about eighty
pounds, while the rear gold occupying the
same space weighed over 200 pounds.
A physician writing in the New York
Times, states fact. laid down in MANY
medical works, which ought to be mora
generally recognized. In cases of persons
up to 40 or so years of age, whose hearts
are not otherwise affected, pneumonia ia
not a very grave disease, and Will there
fore result favorably by proper nursing
alone without very special remedies fToT
this reason there is very considerabIa
percentage of pneumonia cases which "are
treated with wonderful success nv anY
| remedy or which recover without 49,, :.