The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

people will pass through the turnstiles and
1t is possible that the total number may
reach 100000.
"A large Mormon temple will soon be
built in Louisville, KY. It will be used not
only as a place Of worship. but also as
the central point from which missionaries
will be sent to various points in Kentucky
and contiguous states.
In the year ended June 30, 1907. the
United States purchased 287O4.19O pounds
of coffee from Mexico valued at S4,573, $50;
the following year, 34.5u, 16S pounds, valued
at $3.50, 1872; last year, 27,324S27 pounds. val
ued at S2,6S6,248. Prices are going down.
"A recent report shows that 1900 school
children in London are absent each time
the schools are opened, and this in spite
of force of $50 inspectors specially en-
ployed to whip up the different neighbor-
hoods and secure regular attendance The
London magistrates are blamed for much
of this evil on account of their indisposi
ton to back up the boards inspectors by
inflicting fines upon parents summoned for
not causing their children to attend.
The increase of L4ondon's population
in recent years has been extremely slow.
Taking the increase between 1891 and 1896,
as basis, the population of London in
April, 1897, would be estimated at 4,474,-
$50, an increase of Al, 312 equivalent 10 1882
per cent or less than / per cent. in the
year. With respect to births, marriages
and deaths, the statistics quoted stop at
1896. with births for that year: Males,
legitimate, 65,92S; illegitimate, 1852; fe-
males, legitimate, 50 S62; Legitimate, g.,
4S1, making a total of 1873 S33 showing a
decrease of 1922 from the previous year.
OF the 1874 people married in London in
1886 49, 54 were bachelors, 36,755 spinsters,
49, widowers and 3,117 widows.
"A company was recently formed for
raising reindeer in Eastern Norway, for
the purpose of supplying Southern mar
ketS with reindeer meat. There is
growing market for this meat in France
and Belgium Reindeer are quite cheap in
this part of Norway, and 2,400 animals
were purchased for $3.50. 1t is believed
that in a short time LOCO deer can be killed
a year without diminishing the herd. A
slaughtered deer is worth about $3.50. In
order TO prevent the market from being
flooded with fresh deer meat canning
plant will be attached to the farm. The
company controls about sixty miles of
mountain land.
Russia has gone to Paris for money
The government of the Gar is greatly in
need of cash. London refused to lend it
any and it was thought useless to ask
Berlin The Russian government has
| committed itself to great undertakings
which it must finance somehow, and be-
sides 1t has to fight famine at home
Therefore it has turned to France once
more. Nothing has yet been settled Even
the amount likely to be advanced is not
arranged 1t is spoken of as from ten TO
twenty millions sterling. But how mucn
the government urgently wants is not ex-
| actly known. The general impression seems
to be that the French banks will combine
to raise the loan on certain conditions
The Russian government has wished for
31s per cent. loan at or about par. But
a new loan at 312 per cent. could not Sue
coed, and it is generally expected that
the loan will bear 4 per cent.
General Manager Turner, of the Van
dalia Line. has issued a circular announc-
| ing that there has been issued by the Penn
| sylvania Railroad passes on a silver plate
| about the size of the card annual form,
| to Mrs. ]. Edgar Thomson, Mrs. Thomas
| A Scott, Mrs. George b. Roberts, wives of
! the ex-presidents of the company, and to
| Miss Annie Thomson, daughter of the late
| Frank Thomson. These passes bear their
| respective names, and read, good during
her life There has also been issued to
each of the members Of the Board of Di-
rectors of the Pennsylvania Railroad a
round silver pass about the size of a sill
yer dollar, on one side being engraved the
coat of arms of the state of Pennsylvania
and the words, pennsylvania Railroad
| Directors Pass on the reverse side the
name of the director and a keystone, on
the latter appearing the words Good
over all lines and on all trains" These
passes are without Limitation as to time
of use.
There is one curious aspect Of the
Transvaal business that does not seem 10
have attracted as much attention as it de-
serves. The indemnity for the Jameson
raid has been practically admitted in prin-
ciple, and Mr.. Chamberlain himself has
agreed to refer 1t to arbitration. Nothing
further has happened, of course, and it
is obvious, now that war has broken out,
nothing will happen and no indemnity Will
even be discussed, because with the ruin
of the South African republic, there will
be no one to demand or to receive it.. But
1t must also be remembered that the in
demnity in question was to be paid, not
by the crown, but by the chartered com
pany, and that Mr. Rhodes had expressly
guaranteed the company that he would
refund the money. But as deadly hostili-
ties are now in progress, 1t is pretty safe
to assume that Mr.. Rhodes check will
never be drawn, unless the Beers should
again come out victorious.
Prof. J. Cossar Ewart, in a lecture on
"Zebras and Zebra Hybrids," at the Roy
al Institution, London, discussed the in
visibility that had been attributed to the
zebra lat short distances, and described
some of the observations he himself had
made on this point. These quite bore out
the belief that it was possible for a man
not only to hear a zebra breathe, but even
to rush into it without being able to see
it. Young zebras were less easily seen
than adults, but in his experiments with a
full-grown one he found that on a star
light night it became invisible at ten yards
and in moonlight at forty After giving
| reasons for supposing that not so very
long ago the horse was completely. strip
ed he proceeded TO consider why its
stripes had disappeared, and came to the
conclusion that the reason was to be
sought in the fact that they ceased to be
of any special use to the animal as a
protection against his enemies. Just as
the horse had been gradually losing his
stripes, SO the zebra, he thought, had been
| increasing them, and in the quagga there
was, uerhaDs, an instance of reversion.