The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-05
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DurIee Couege, renting as hlSh as IS per
week. But every man was regarded as
unusually extravagant who awaited him
self of these more expension quarters.
Now more than half of the $50 college
rooms rent for more than s. per week.
An impression has become current in
America that the japanese live almost ex-
clusively upon rice. This is a mistake In
1896 Japan produced the leading cereals in
the following proportions: Rice, $50, 1885,
$50 bushels; wheat II, 761, 945 bushels; rye
24,6l6, 235 bushels; barley, 81, 426 425 bushels;
millet of all varieties, 11,O17,65O bushels;
rape, S,55i,760 bushels. There were also
produced 3,715.170 bushels of Irish pota-
toes and 81, 94S, 566 bushels of sweet pota-
toes.
After the war of 1859, when Napoleon
III crossed the Alps with his army to fight
against Austria for the sake of Italian
unity and independence, a fund was raised
by grateful Italy to erect a monument in
his honor. Barzaghi the Italian sculptor,
modelled a magnificent equestrian statue.
Political conditions changed and with them
popular sentiment. The statue was slowed
in the court yard of palace in Milan. 1t
has remained there all these years, COW
cred by dust and cobwebs. A movement
has now been started to erect the statue
and the proper site is being discussed.
If you want to ask a sheep where he
got his wool, and why, take dog into
mountain pasture band and if the sheep
are afraid of the dog they will invariably
run uphill rather than down. You have
your answer. The ancestors of the domes-
tic sheep like Wild sheep of the present
day, lived among high mountains and
needed their woody covering to protect
A. .-l1 IS Asrrl,
atmosphere. They chose the high and
inhospitable region to live in because they
found the fierce flesh-eating animals of
the plains too strong for them. proof
of these facts is that the wool grows on
a sheep the year round.
"A man, "a years old, of Kent county,
Maryland, has made an interesting calcu-
lation, based on figures of French stats
tics. He figures out that he has lived 30
$50 days, slept 10000 days, worked 10,920
days and spent 9760 days in eating, walk
ing and diversions. He has eaten 1880
loaves or 141a tons of bread, which, at
8 cents a pound, cost $S56.S0; 26, $50 pounds.
or 1872 tons of meat, which, at cents
pound, cost $1,34O; and IT'S pounds of veg
etables, eggs, fish, etc, which, at cents
pound, cost $154.56 He has drunk II, $50
gallons of liquids of all kinds, costing
and drinking in his "a years $500
1t is reported that Maj. ]. L. Emer-
son. recently provost marshal of the mill
tsry garrison camp of Aldershot will
bring a company of fifty British soldiers
to this country. They are picked from the
flower of the army. A band of twenty
five pieces will accompany the party. This
band will wear the gorgeous scarlet uni
form of the Fifteenth Royal Irish Lancers.
raj a1rrr
taken, and a full equipment of arms A
syndicate will back the trip. Exhibitions
are to be given in the principal cities of
the country. Some of the Rough Riders
will be asked to take part in the exhibit
ton, so that the public can see the differ
cree between the English and American
cavalryman. The English troops will show
some of the smartest uniforms of the
army. Squads of men will wear uniforms
of their regiments. and, as the representa-
ton is wide. dozen different kinds will
be seen.
One Of our journalistic neighbors, says
the New York Times. is displaying good
deal of rather belated emotion over the
declaration made, or said to have been
made, some time ago, by Mr.. John D.
Rockefeller to the effect that he would
give $1,OO0,00O year to any man who
COuiQ take lU4i anu LlSIdCIOfY. charge OF
his fortune end save him from all worry
about its investment and preservation.
Now, million is a most attractive an
nual wage, and it is not improbable, or
at least, 1t is not impossible, that Mr.
Rockefeller would be willing to purchase
leisure ard freedom from anxiety at this
rate. But, though his offer may have
been sincere, we do not believe that he
expects any rush of applicants for the
position described. Human conceit and
audacity are wel-nigh limitless, but the
Standard Oil magnate knows. and everv
body knows, that from the very nature of
things no such transfer of labor and re-
sponsibility can be effected. Only a man
fully equal to Mr.. Rockefeller in business
capacity could take his place. and such a
man would never work for a salary. how
ever large. Instead. that man would
utilize his time for the piling up of mil
lions OF his own-and of other people
and the chances are that he would be an
antagonist as well as a rival of the author
of this queer want" advertisement. The
conditions of Mr.. RockefeIer,s~ proposi-
ton remove it almost as far from serious
discussion as from hopeful acceptance.
What he voiced was simply the WEAKNESS
incidental to carrying the burden of enor-
nous wealth. He doubtless realizes. and
certainly everybody else who is rnoder
atSiy Sdiio uOeS so, Jndt he can OnlV Law
that burden down by abandoning it. not to
be picked up by somebody else, but to be
torn to pieces and carried off in fragments
by everybody who could get hand on it.
As Gen. Leonard Wood is a doctor as
well as a soldier, and has therefore been
subjected to the influences not of one. but
OF two, professions traditionally inimicaI
to the preservation of sensibilities truly
delicate. 1t is more than probable that he
will fail to realize how very terrible is
the latest news sent out from Santiago
says the New York Times. The report
apparently authentic, is that the so-called
reforms recently instituted there have had
most disastrous effects upon the vultures
Of the city-have, in short, reduced them
to the verge of starvation, and threaten.
II the changes now in progress are fully
carried out to infiict upon every one of
these birds the most agonzing Of deathsl
The situation is one calculated TO fill every
member of the Anti-Vivisection Society
with horror. The Cuban vultures have