The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Kansas has 800 -four mills, with a ca
pacity of about 10000 600 barrels year.
Philadelphia has two doctors, a dem
fist, and two druggists all named Slaugh-
ter.
Immigrants are arriving in Canada In
large numbers from Britain and else
where.
Vanderbilt University, at Nashville,
Tenn, will celebrate it's twenty-fifth an
niversary on Oct q, q and % next. Kis-
sam Hall, the new large dormitory which
has just been erected at the expence of
". *. Vanderbilt, will be dedicated at
the same time.
A. A. Putnam, an electrical engineer,
of Rochester, N. Y. made an oral will
the other DAY by talking into a phono-
graph. He signed his name on the wax roll
of the machine with hot copper wire,
and the witnesses did Tx wise. Legal au-
thorities say that the will is valid.
Upward of $1,000 has thus far been
contributed toward the guaranteed fund
of $4,000 to meet the expenses of the Gu
ban public school teachers who are to be
taken to Cambridge. Mass, for a summer
course of instruction at Harvard Univer-
sity. The teachers $50 In number, will be
lodged in the college dormitories and in
private houses.
"A correspondence of the New York
Sun suggests that the Stars and Stripes
would make an admirable design for a
pos.age stamp. "A plain flag three-quar-
tiers of an inch long on a white center,
with brown lace-work border" he says,
would he the prettiest postage stamp in
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ficat over every land OF the globe"
Tests made on the South London
Electric Railway show that the tractive
resistance per ton of train measured at
the draw-bar at the moment of starting
is forty pounds, and this falls to ten
pounds as soon as a speed of six miles
per hour is attained. Between six and
thirteen mil per hour the resistance re-
mains almost constant, while above that
speed it seems to rise almost proportion
atey until a speed of twenty-sx miles per
hour is reached, when the resistance is
about twenty-one pounds per ton.
"A Russian engineer, w. Olschewsky.
has recently invented a rapid process Of
brick-making, which is now being work
ed at Coswig in Germany. The bricks are
composed OF mixture of slaked lime and
sand, which is moulded in a press the
proportions of lime and sand varying
with the kind of brick which Is to be
produced. The bricks are then placed in
a closed chamber and exposed to the ac-
ton of steam at pressure of about 100
pounds to the square inch for twelve
hours. The bricks have a specific gravity
of 1.SS and a crushing strength of 22)
tons to the square foot They are also
porous and absorb Is per cent. of their
volume of water on immersion. The
amount of lime used in their manufacture
varies from per cent. to 10 per cent of
the total
The Boston Transcript thus quotes O
soldier returned from the Philippines:
Servants? You would not have much
trouble with them If you made the fullest
uses of the opportunities of expansionism.
Out in the Philippines there are millions
of good servants. They would make the
best in the world for us Americans, be-
cause they don't object to being servants.
/ am speaking, of course. of the lower
classes of the Filipinos. The natives of
wealth and education are exceeded in
pride by none but a Spanish don. Not
only the women, but the men, are glad
of an opportunity to go into domestic ser
vice at wages that would seem absurdly
low in this country. What can they do?
Well cook, sew, make beds launder and
keep a house tidy. To be sure they don [
do all things just as New England house
wives would went them done, but one
great charm about the Malay Is his teach
abtlity. He can quickly learn to do any,
thing commonplace, and many things
above that plane. AS q servant he is
quick, regular cheerful and respectful.
No matter how absurd or misplaced the
duties are that are thrust upon him, he
performs them without audible comment -
"A New Orleans man says: II received
letter from my brother In Cape Town a
few days ago, in which he says that the
place is literally overrun with tourists.
VINO seems to regard the war asa big spec-
tacular entertainment. They are all around
with cameras and a great many have
managed TO push their way almost to the
front line of military operations, where
they nave proven very serious annoy-
ance to the troops. The day before nv let
ter was mailed five women were sent in
under special escort They all claim
ed to the representatives of different OH
scure provincial newspapers from which
they had evidently obtained credentials as
an aid to sight seeing. and after following
Kltcneners division a considerable dis
lance into the Free State they we've
Obliged to apply to the army for help. They
could get nothing TO eat and two of them
were down with fever. They were then put
under guard and sent back TO Cape Town
Elsewhere in his letter my brother SAYS
that Gen. Kitchener is the most unpopu-
lar man in South Africa, and that Cane
Town is full of stories about the way he
insults and browbeats the officers under
him. Some of the particulars he gives ara
very interesting. Among other things n
seems that a member of the Generals
staff lately left the command and report
| ed back TO headquarters without leave On
account of the manner in which he was
| treated. He was arrested for desertion In
the face of the enemy, but later on releas-
ed. and the affair hushed up to avert scan.
dali"
The Empress Dowager of China, who
| is one of the most superstitious creatures
| in existence, has become convinced tina
something is wrong in the relations be
tween her government and the gods, and
| recently issued a decree on the subject
| says the Chicago Record. There has beer
| a long-continued drought and and failure
! of crops in the province of Shun Tien-Fu
| although, she says I'VE have repeatedly
| erected lofty affairs to heaven to suppl
| cate for rain for the parched earth, which