The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Hgnt at santiago SHOWS that only about
one shot in every thirteen fired by the
Americans hit anything more than the
water.
The largest subscriptions to the Popes
Peters pence for the year 1898 came from
the United States, and amounted to $142,-
200 Great Britain and her colonies came
next, with $i25,000; France. with $4,000,
Italy, $4,000; Austria, $4,000, and Ger
many, $4,000.
When the Roentgen rays first came
into use for medical purposes they were
open to the objection that they sometimes
injured the skin and caused blindness. BY
DETECTING certain colored rays, Prof Find
sen of Copenhagen has been able 10 over
come this objection.
AT a Topeka dining table one day re
Gently member of the Kansas House
made the remark that certain member
must have been drunk when he made the
motion to strike out the enacting clause of
a bill which was being discussed by the
diners. Il examined the enacting clause
carefully he said "and found that it did
not differ in any other bin" And then he
wondered why the laugh started.
The Briton's drink bill, published last
week, shows a yearly expenditure on in
toxicants of $40 for every man, woman and
child in the United Kingdom. Irishmen
and Scotchmen, it seems have been much
maligned in this connection, for while the
Enghshman drinks 2.41 gallons of alcohol
yearly, the Scotchman manages with 1.65
and the Irishman with 1.54. The English
men spends 500. 50, the Scotchman Sl5.25
and the Irishman $13. Is.
"A French court has just made a de-
cision that establishes the point in France
that when a bicyclist is attacked by a dog
and in attempting to drive it off meets
with injury, the owner of the dog is liable
The plaintiff in the case lost his balance
in chasusing the dog that pursued him, fell
off, hurt his left wrist and smashed a val
liable cigarette case that he was carrying
in his pocket. He claimed damages of 500
and $40 was. awarded him.
Protective mimicry, that cunning de-
vice of nature to preserve animals from
their enemies isswell shown in the eggs of
certain fishes, notably the California
shark, known as gyropleurodus francisco
The shark is of a sluggish habit, lurking
among rocks, and its dark eggs resemble
a deaf of KEEP or seaweed folded up spirally.
1t is deposited among the beds Of KEEP and
clings to the leaves by the edges of the
spirals. The young shark bursts open the
end of the egg and swims away. Another
shark egg of the Pacific coast has tenta-
Giles, which clasp the seaweed and also imi-
tate its appearance.
The inclined moving elevator can no
longer be considered a mere suggestion.
but ranks among practical commercial de
wees. In substantiation of this claim is
the fact that there are now a number of
such elevators in everyday use in the
stores in and around New York city. One
OF the large stores in New York has one,
a Brooklyn department store boasts of an
other while a third is located in a bust
Eess house in Providence, r. L These
three elevators have carried hundreds Of
thousands of passengers without a hitch
or accident, and have become very popu-
lar with the patrons of the stores. Sew
eral of these stairways are projected for
the Paris Exposition. These elevators can
lay claim to great economy for they re-
Quire only fve-horse power motor and
dispense with the services of an attend
ant, being entirely automatic. They can
be operated very cheaply. In fact, the
calm is made that the cost is not over 81
a day, for an elevator having a capacity
even greater than that of vertical eleva-
tor
The Metropolitan Railway of Paris is
about to begin the construction of thirty
three and one-half miles of Underground
electric roads, consisting of two lines east
and west, and two lines north and south.
with a circular lines through several of
the principal boulevards. 1t is expected
that a part of this will be completed be-
fore the exposition of 1900 Seven-tenths
of the work will be underground and the
remainder about equally divided between
viaducts and open trenches. The grades
reach per cent, and some of the curves
have a radius of 2i6 feet 1t is hoped to
complete the first three lines by the year
1906. and the remainder five years later.
The expense will be about $i0O0O,OO0; but
since the project was proposed the gauge
has been changed to four feet eight and
one-half inches, which will cause a CON
siderable increase in the cost of the work;
but, it is expected, will increase the value
in as great a ratio. The trains, says the
Railway News, will be composed of from
four to six cars each, one-half of which
will be motor cars and the rest trailers.
and will accommodate from 200 to 300 pas
sengers each. The expected speed is thir-
ty-two and one-half miles per hour be-
tween stations and from ten to eleven
miles including stops. The fare will be
uniform for any distance.
Congress and the President, by making
accurate the admiral Dewey which
careless civilians have so long been accus-
toned to use, raised the hero of Manila
to nights of grandeur which. however
pleasant otherwise. bust be just a little
lonely, says the New York Times. Not
only is he far above everybody in the navy.
but no officer in the army has a CORE
spending rank. There are generals of one
sort or another in every city and almost
every village, but all of them either does
or should mitigate his title with an adiec.
tive or two, and hitherto it has been for
a good many years the same with all the
officers commonly called admirals. Now a
real, unmodihed admiral is a very large
parsonage. That he can draw nearly S14
OO a year from the treasury of his CRATE
ful country is about the least of his privi-
leges. He can also feast his eyes when
ever so inclined, almost on the graceful
fiutterings of a little blue flag with a white
star in each of its four corners. and on,v
In very rare instances, perhaps never. in
any port where he happens to be. win
the rising or the setting of the sun re-
ceive official recognition until he gives the
W ord Resides tbiS tho adrairo1