The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-19
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are valued at $le,OOc. They are made of
platinum, set with rubies, sapphires ard
turquoises.
-Delcasse, Frances minister of foreign
affairs, is the most democratic member of
the cabinet, not excepting the avowed So
clallst Mllerand. He is very short of stat
ure, blunt, coarse, unattractive of feature
and badly dressed. He is we'll liked by
his associates, however, and is respected
as a hard worker and a clear thinker. He
has lasted through three ministries.
The Goldfish plays a very important
part In the worlds commerce. Twenty
five years ago the annual catch by the
vessels of the United States was 75,0O0050
pounds; now it is about 100000. The
combined catch of cod by all the fisheries
of the world is estimated at $4,000, go
pounds annually, most of which is ex-
ported to tropical countries after having
been hard dried.
I'm an English contemporary is the fol-
lowing advertisement of shooting school:
Forty acres in extent. Gun fitting a
speciality. Instructions in the art Of
shooting. Patent try guns and tarzets
Most realistic ccverts. p. act ce at driven
birds. high pheasants, etc. Any number
of sportsmen can be accommodated Elk
perienced gun filters and instructors al
ways in attendance"
The Bank of France has an ingenious
arrangement by which suspicious visitors
can be photogra phed without Their
knowledge Behind the desk of he ~
Ter is hidden Photographic studio, and
at a signal from any Of the employees ct
the bank picture If the suspected Gus
toner is instantly taken. The camera IS
also useful for detecting frauds, an er su e
on check. which may net be visible u
the eye, being clearly pereceptible in
photograph.
Few houses in Uruguay are provide
with stoves for heating purposes. No Chin
neys or fire-places are provided, as a rule,
one house recently built at. a cost of S14,
900 having for its only chimney a stove
pipe from the kitchen. Cattle Craze in the
open all the year round, but during t e
! winter season, from April to October, the
| dampness is conducive to tie spresd of
pulmonary troubles. Only one dealer in
Mon tevideo sells heating stoves, ard tn So
are of American make Oil stoves 1nd
some favor, as coal sells at from $40 to
| $14 per ton.
There is one small species of butterfly,
| the Bugong Euplaea humata), which af-
fords a supply of food to the abcrignes
| of Australia, says the Newcastle Chroni-
| Gle Vast numbers of them congregate
| on the granite rocks of the Bugong noun
tains, and the natives collect them by
| making smothered fires under the rocks
| and so suffocating the butterflies. They
| then gather them by the bushel and bake
| them on the heated ground, stirring them
gently to remove the down and wings.
! Having sfted away the down and wings,
they either eat the bodies at once or
make cakes of them. which resemble
| Jumps of fat and have a sweet, nutty
| taste.
The German geologist, Heinrich
| Schmidt of jena has figured out the vari-
| Gus periods of millions of years, which
convey no meaning to most minds, into
| parts corresponding to parts of a day.
| This gives him these results; The first
| age of the world, the archaic or eozofc,
| occurred the same period toward the
| whole age of the world as do u hours. IS
| minutes and 4S seconds toward day.
| The paleozoic age was che equivalent of
| s hours minutes and 80 seconds. The
| mesozoic age equaled hours, IS minutes
| and So seconds. The quarternary equale
| to minutes, and, finally. what we are
| accustomed TO call the history of the
world 1.-THE history of the last 5000 years.
amounts to only FIVE seconds.
| The Mexican Herald says: 1.-THE Disz
doctrine, declared by President Diaz some
years ago which met with responsive en-
| thusiasm in Latin America, was, substan-
| TALLY, that not only should Europe not be
| permitted to gain another foothold on the
| territory of the New World but hat,
| gradually, Europe must withdraw from
| all interference and dominion in this hem
| isphere Nations all over South America
| cordially assented to the utterance of the
/ President of Mexico, which was distinct
| advance on the Monroe doctrine. The Mex
| lean people, by their splendid tradit ons,
| stand committed to the strongest form of
| the Monroe doctrine, In fact to the Diaz
1 III, tie not hos Oh &c
| ciples with its blood. And all Latin Ameri-
| ca is in s mpathy with Mexico
| During the course of an address before
a class of women medical students In
| Philadelphia, the other day, Mr.. WI Ting
| Fang the Chinese minister, said:
| Though Chinese and Americans are apt
to look at things oftentimes from entirely
different points of view, they agree fin re-
| garding medicine as a noble profession.
The advances which the Chinese have
made in this science are perhaps too i'm
perfectly known to be thoroughly appre-
| ciated in the West. We ascribe the dis
| covery of the principles of healing TO
| Hwangti a monarch who ruled over the
| Chinese people in prehistoric days, about
| 5000 years before the Christian era. Med
| icine, the most empirical of the sciences,
| as well as astronomy, the most purely
| mathema IDEAL. depends upon long periods
| of observations to verify its results. There
are medical works in the Chinese language
| that embody the accumulated experience
of the profession handed down from the
| remotest times. 1t is a great pity that
| these valuable mines of medical knowl-
edge are practically inaccessible to scien-
| lists from the West owing to the grea
| difference of language. 1 hope that the
time will soon come when this barrier
| will be surmounted and the vast contr-
| buttons to medicine from Chinese sources
will be made available to the whole
| world"
The Aero Club of Paris has recently
announced a prize of 100000 francs, which
has been founded by one of its members
to be awarded to the inventor of a really
| efficient aerial machine. The conditions
governing the award of the prize have
been formulated and d. mand that the air.
ship or aeroplane shall travel from the
grounds of the club, or from the hills of
| Longchamps. to the Eiffel tower and re-
| turn. This will afford distance of about