The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-09

ury according to the contract. There were
ISL horses and 1877 cars in use. and 26, 4l3
passengers were carried during the year.
The net proceeds amounted to 45o 491 marks
CS1O2 ,f57).
-Mentz is to have an important celebra-
ton next year. 1t is to be the qunccnten-
airy of the birth of John Gutenberg. the
inventor of printing with movable types,
who was born in or near that city The
imperial chancellor has lent his name TO
the movement and il is intended thai the
memorial ceremonies shall be on a grand
scele. II is very odd fact considering
tie career of the man whose memory is
10 be celebrated that the committee of
management does not include any member
Of the press
-NIassachusetts has paid out $4,000 for
the soc purpose Of getting rid of a GER
tain family of moths! The GYPSY" moth
is the very destructive insect which the
state board seeks to drive out. The lit.
Tic CIeatures have proy Cd such a pest that
it has been found necessary to employ hun
dreds of men to do nothing but destroy
tieu. Indeed the above sum is by no
means all that will be required to a.
conpljsh the work, for Il is estimated that
fully ten times tina amount must be spent
before they are finally eXterminated.
Douglass HaHgren, second grade quar-
termaster of the cruiser Boston, now out
of commission at the Mare Island navy
yard called upon Mayor Quincy of Boston
the other day and presented to the city a
flag, pennanC and jack purchased by the
crew of the Boston, and used on the cruiser
on her homeward trip from Manila. The
pennant is 800 feet long, the flag 45 and the
jack H. These colors were purchased in
Manila by the crew for the homeward Voy-
age; and at a meeting Of about twenty-five
members il was voted TO present them to
The city
S. Joseph Visvana,h of Ceylon, a Hin
doc of high caste, who has been a student
in the University of Calcutta. has entered
Johns Hopkins University as a special
student of oriental languages. The uni
vcrsity will also have two JaDaneses stu
dents this year-namely. Nisaburo Yama-
suchi and Y Hattori. both graduates Of
colleges in Tokyo, Japan. The former VIII
take up graduate work in history under
DIR. II. y. Adams; the latter, advanced
chemistry under Profs. Remsen aud Morse
DR.. Rokeno NakaSeko. q Phi. d. of last
year, who has now gone to Yale. was the
only representative of Japan at the uni
versity last year.
Great quantities of Russian petroleum
are used for fuel for locomotives and ma
rine engines. The cruisers of the Baltic
fleet are now fired with Oil and its use is
likely TO be further extended to the whole
Russian navy. There is decided advan-
tage in the use of petroleum on war YES
sells in the celerity with which steam can
be got up with that fuel. The oil also
feeds itself to the flames, thus diminishing
the labor required in handling coal. But
there is also a drawback The combusti-
bic quality of the oil would make it a
source of danger in case of naval en-
counter A shell exploded in the vicinity
Of a ships oil tanks would be almost as
quickly destructive as if exploded in her
powder ma gazine.
AT present the two greatest railway
tunnels of the world are those piercing the
ST. Gothard and Mont Cents 1t will not
now be many years before that other great
mountain of the Alpine range, the Simplon
viii also be pierced, so that men may pass
to and fro in trains beneath its mighty
summit. The operations, il is true, are
progressing slowly. but steadily and surely.
More than 2,G90 men are there at work.
The length Of the cutting at the north end
is now about 500 yards that at the south
only about 800 yards. The work is at pres
cnt progressing at the rate of five yards
day at each end. 1t is impossible to fore
tell the probable date of completion, owing
to the changing nature of the strata; but
when the two gangs of workmen meet in
the middle they will have completed the
longest tunnel in the world, for they viii
have cut through thirteen miles of noun
tain.
Woman novelists, particularly Ouida,
rarely allow their heroes and heroines to
partake of a substantial meal, while in the
pages of the men writer's feasts abound.
Compare Dickens and Thackeray. Each
III.
Fhackeray tells of the feasts with an cpl
curean touch an appreciation of the del
icacies of the table while Dickens written
meals are always hearty plain, boiled beef
and greens and meat pies ruling. In
SCOTS stories there is hint of pictur-
esque splendor about the dinners he de-
scribes. There are noble" meals and
much geniality and good-feowship. The
elegant young men of whom Ouida writes
usually breakfast at midday on peaches,
chocolate and cakes, and yet are great
athletes and general wonders on this sy-
baritic diet. DisraeH does not descend to
specify meals, but has way of introduce
ing gorgeous banquets of unlimited
courses. Everything in "Lothair' hap
pens at dinner parties and fiat little birds
in aspic jelly" and ortolans usually form
part of the menu.
The rifles used by the Beers in the
war of 1881 were mostly Wesley Richards
Il was the sporting rifle most in favor in
the country at the time and every store
kept a supply of the psper-covered cart
ridges that were used for it, Each man
mede- small alterations to his rifle to in
duce 1t to come into the shooting position
with the balance that he preferred. and
there was scarcely a rife in the Trans
vaal that had not a bit of lead let In some
where in its woodwork. It was necessary
to shoot quickly to kill the springbok and
other high veldt buck, and the Beers arm
and cartridge belt were especially adapt
ed to rapid loading and firing. In the old
days Boer was as fond and as proud
of his rifle as he was of his TRIPPING"
riding horse, and knew exactly itsAshoot-
ing powers under all conditions. He has
just had the best military rifle of the dav
put into his hands, but he will not know
il as he knew his Old rifle, and will not
have quite the same confidence in It's
shooting Comparing the Mauser issued TO |
the Beers and The Lee-Metford the English
used, the former is the stronger and sim |
pier weapon. but the British know their