The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

nlng a newspaper one day Verne, ike
Charles Reade ana Sala, relies much on
newspapers, yellow books. reports, and so
forth, for his subjects, and he is member
of the learned societies.
1t is reported from Honolulu that just
before the battleship Oregon sailed from
that port for Manila the mascot pig Blan-
co. which was captured from the Spanish
cruiser Cristobal Colon during the engage
ment off Santiago, was tenderiy taken
ashore in the sailing barge. 1t seems that
Blanco's hoofs were wearing off on the
hard deck of the Oregon and il was
thought best to send the Spanish pig to the
San Francisco zoo.
A decidedly original sentence was given
by Western judge recently. A man who
did not know how TO read and write was
sentenced for a minor offense to be I'M
prisoned until he learned. The next prs
oner could do both. and he was sentenced
to stay in jail until he had taught mis- pre-
decessor in the dock. After three weeks
they were discharged, both having full
filled their task to the satisfaction of the
judge.
"A skunk got into the ventilating f1ue
of the Methodist Church at Sherman, N
Y, a few days ago and gave the audience
no little annoyance during a series of re-
vival meetings. After several efforts 10
get him out he was finally chloroformed in
the flue and then removed without IN
creasing the offensive indication of his
presence. The opening of the fiue Will
now be covered with netting.
Harvard University is TO pension pro-
fessors and assistant professors who have
served the institution for twenty years or
more, a plan of retiring allowances having
been established by the president and fell
lows of the university. The plan was first
suggested in Harvard in 1880, since which
time the necessary fund has grown to
$40 600. Harvard is the first American
university to establish general system
of retiring allowances.
The maximum amount of money coined
or issued in the United States-that is, the
money supply of the county was on the
LIST of March 81. $50, $4,000, and the largest
amount in actual circulation was Sl,9S,-
$40 612. The increase In the money in cir
culation in the last twelve months was
the large sum of $202 ass, 900, and the in
crease is still going on apparently at the
rate of $10000000 per month. The per cap
tia circulation, $25.51, is slightly below the
highest point, which was reached in the
latter part of 1898.
The planters in Hawaii realize that the
contract system is al an end and are now
trying the experiment of proft-sharing
with the laborers. So far the plan has
worked well and is believed to be the final
solution of the labor question. The su-
gar industry is by all odds the most i'm
portant and to get sufficient laborers the
planters have to offer liberal terms. They
claim that profit-sharing is the fairest
to all concerned and will make the islands
more prosperous than was possible under
the coolie system.
In Germany the pupils of public schools
perform an exercise in drawing with the
right hand, and then are compelled to do
| it with the left till they have accomplished
| just as satisfactory results, while in the
| Industrial schools ambideXterity Is also
| taught by requiring the use of the left
| hand in saving wood and in similar oc-
equations. 1t Is claimed that not only does
this render a person almost doubly eff
| Gent but that the general health is much
improved by it, as more nearly perfect
J circulation is thus established.
The total amount of power estimated
as necessary for the Paris exposition is
10000 horse power, of which 1900 is al
| lotted for lighting and 5000 for motive
pONSI. OpCI TINS assumption there rs al
| lowed consumption of 100000 pounds of
steam per hour, or, for POS days at seven
hours per day, total of 631, 400, 900 pounds
! of steam for the entire period. This will
| require 200 tons of coal a day, and the wa
| ter required for condensing purposes is
estimated at more than 2SO,0OO,OO0 cubic
feet for the whole period of the exposi-
ton.
The church authorities in Wurtemberg
have decided that at funerals where the
body of the deceased is cremated the
clergy in their official capacity can hold
| services at the house, but not in the Gene
| terry where the ashes are laid away This
| decision is found to be very embarrassing
| by ministers, as one writes: I'VE follow
the body of a suicide dressed in our robes
| and offer at least a prayer, sometimes
delivering an address by request of friends,
! but over man who through aesthetic or
sanitary consideration wishes his body
burned the pastor dare not show as much
respect as over that of a murderer"
That nature presents no obstacles that
cannot be surmounted by engineering skill
and commercial enterprise, says Leslie's
| Weekly, has received another denonstra-
ton in the recent completion of the first
twenty miles of the White Pass and Yu-
kon Railway route. Two passenger and
freight trains are now running daily be-
tween Skaguay and the summit of White
Pass These first twenty miles of the Jour
ney to the Klondike present to travellers
afoot some of the greatest difficulties of the
| whole trip, but there will soon be no moro
of this slow and painful to!ling through
the passes 1t Will be possible within a
| comparatively short period to travel all
the way to the gold fields in a luxurious
railway car The line is being rapidlv
pushed to Fort Selkirk, on the Yukon. II
Is expected that passenger and freight
trains will be running as far as Lake Ben
nett by June l, and by the spring of 1900
the valley of the Yukon. unparalleled in
mineral wealth and natural beauty, but
heretofore SO inaccessible. will be open 10
| the world.
-Dostoyeffski, in one OF his novels. calls
Siberia an Eldorado. and the opening up
of this vast country by the new railway
tends to bear out his assertion saws tbo
Philadelphia Press. AT all events life