The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


eral and several engineers. The inventor
has replaced the wax cylinder of the Edi-
son photograph by Steel band, and the
style by a magnet energized by telep-
hone. Currents transmitted by the tele-
phone pass through the electromagnetic,
and create consequent poles of the steel
band, and more or less of the converse
operation is employed for reproducing the
sound 1t is suggested that the telephone
graph may be set by a telephone subscrib-
er on leaving his Office, 10 receive mess
ages during his absence. and that 1t Will
probably do its work better than the aver
age Office boy.
"A Havana correspondent of the Con-
gregationaEst (Boston) writes: "Baptists,
Methodists, Presbyterians Disciples, Epis-
copalians and Congregatlonalists are all
here, but none of these branches of the
evangelical church seem to have sufficient
men and means to meet the enormous
demands of the situation / attended last
Sunday the Catholic, Baptist and Congre-
gational Churches. / found the Catholic
Church almost empty, with scarcely
man in the audience. l found the large
Baptist Church thronged with Cuban chill
dt en- in Sunday School. A teacher in one
of the best private schools In Havana, who
has a diploma from the Spanish govern
ment, when asked why she wanted 10
unite with the evangelical church, said,
I wish to unite with 1t because there is
no hypocrisy about it,"
Sir John Murray, in his presidential
address before the geographical section of
the British association, brought out some
interesting facts as to the temperature of
the ocean at great depths. The data OBJ
tanned up to the present time shows that
al a depth of $50 meters the temperature
of the water remains nearly or quite in
variable at all seasons. 1t is estimated
that so per cent. of the mass of water is
a a temperature below "A degrees C.
Nearly all the deep water of the Indian
ocean is below II degrees c., this temper
allure being about the same for great
part of the South Atlantic and certain
parts of the Pacific, but in the North At
lantic and the greater part of the Pacific
the temperature is higher. For depths be-
You'd $500 meters the mean temperature
of the North Atlantic is one degree great
er than that of the Indian ocean and a
part of the South Atlantic. The mean
temperature of the Pacific has an interme-
date value. AS the depths of the sea con-
stitute an obscure region where the solar
rays cannot penetrate, it follows that veg
etable life must be absent upon SO per
cent. of the bottom.
"A soldier serving with the Third Cav
lily In St. Joseph, Mo-: II think we will
stay at Vigan during the rainy season.
The insurgents don't like the rainy sea-
son any more than we do. We are living
fine here now. Sweet pota toes grow
abundantly. Oranges, bananas, lines
lemons. cocoanuts and pineapples are
plentiful the year round. There are sew
eral kinds of oranges and bananas. OF
oranges there is one kind of which the
iS uh
grow to be three and four inches in diam
eter. There are also the green banana
the red banana, the yellow and the seed
banana. The latter has seeds like the
pawpaw in the states. Monkeys are very
numerous. Bino Is the principal intoxi-
cant. One drink makes man feel good,
two loco and three will find him throw
ing rocks at his own funeral. The war
so far as the so-called insurgent army *
concerned, is at an end. There are and
will be for some time to come rowing
bands of insurgents, whose aim is to equal
or surpass the record made by Jesse
James and his followers"
Capt George Whitsett of Kansas. who
is serving in the Philippines, writes home
to friends: There is not an American
banker here. If we put our gold army
pay in one of these banks we can get only
its equivalent in silver; We never get it
the bankers here, either native or for
eign, and an American banker could get
the patronage of every American soldier
and sailor connected with the Islands. I
figure that there are 10000 American SOL
diers here 5000 civil employees of the gov
eminent, and any number of sailors and
officers of the navy. Based on this and
the amount of American mercantile bust
ness going on, 1t is estimated that an
American bank would have very soon a
deposit of $50 900, coo. It's fine opening
for some one in that line. However, it
has to be gone about slowly and investi-
gated carefully, as 1t is very ticklish
business to handle funds and make loans
here. The customs of the country and
the nature of its crops and the commod-
titles in trade would have to be studied
before safe venture could be made but
some American will surely enter this field
soon"
DR.. Frank Baker, of the Smithsonian
Institution has sent Elwood Hofer
guide and hunter of the Yellowstone Park.
to catch SINE of the monster bears on
Kadiak Island in The Gulf of Alaska, for
the National Biological Park. These bears
are of the polar breed perfectly white
with long, heavy fur, ard al fun growth
are twice as large as the ordinary black
bear of the Rocky mountains. weighing
s
high as an ordinary cow-the biggest car
niVorous ANNA living. The tracks they
leave in the snow have often measured ff-
teen inches long and ten inches wide.
They are very savage and fight desperate
ly when attacked. Several have been kill
I'd and the skins have been brought to this
country, but no Kadiak bear was ever.
captured alive. DIR, Tarleton H. Bean. the
hsh expert, who is in charge of the de-
partment of fisheries at the Paris sxno-
sition, while making an exploration Of the
hshing resources of kadiak Island last
yeSr saw good many of these bears and
describes them in graphic terms. He saws
that while climbing rocky hill one day
he saw large, drove of them near the
coast running about and playing like SO
many lambs. There must have been hun-
dred and fifty or TWO hundred in the
bunch. he says, and some of them were
enormous.
Treating of the subject of fossils. a
writer in the London Chronicle saws.
Every animal, like many human beings
has had "a past" To decipher this rast