The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Church Society for the Promotion of
her power for more humane treatment of
wounded animals on the battlefield,
Queen Victoria has minated that she
does not consider such, interference within
her province. ~ VI
KAISER Wilhelm presented 10 the zie-
then Hussars as a New Years gift eepy
of the Dutch naval flag taken by the regi-
ment in 1887. 1t then accomplished the I'M
usual feat for a cavalry regiment of cap
turing a man of war. A ten-gun Dutch
brig ran ashore in trying 10 break down
the djkes and the Hussars managed TO
board her.
-One of the New York theaters adver-
tises in its daily programme all the ar
ticles lost and found in the house and in
that way ii does good service for its
patrons Articles found at the close of
each performance are taken to the box
office, where a list is made and printed
the next day. AN losses that are reported
at the box office are advertised.
1t is said that the engines of the new
British battleship Montague are to be the
most powerful ever placed in a man-of-
war. They are to develop $4,000 indicated
horse power and the speed is to be one
knot over for every 100-horse power.
There will be two sets of triple expansion
engines and thirty Belleville boilers, which
will cost f150.000 The total cost of the
vessel will be over 100000
The state prison commission of New
York recommends in it's annual report
that the striped uniform for convicts and
the lockstep be done away with. 1t also
suggests the establishment of a state re-
formatory for male misdemeanants be-
tween the ages of 16 and 80 years, and
that as check to prison abuses all pris-
oners be allowed to write to the Cover
nor of the state and other officials at GER
tain stated intervals.
An electoral system which will put a
premium upon thrift and marriage Is
about TO be inaugurated in Belgium I'm
der this new plan every man between
the ages of q and % years who shall pay
81 per year in taxes will be entitled to
vote one ballot married men over Is years
of age will nave two ballots each, and u
such married men shall own real estate
or government bonds or savings bank de-
posts producing an income of $40 year
they will have three ballots each.
The number of persons engaged in
coal mining in the United States and
Canada is 100000 and the number of min
ers killed in accidents in coal mines In
1898 was 1913 or less than in 1891, when
the killed numbered 1076. In view of the
number employed the mortality is less
than is commonly supposed to character
ize mining occupations. The deaths are
yearly about as many as have occurred
in the British army during the bloody ac
lions of the last four months in South
Africa.
-Thirty-fve years ago there were no
streets in Bangkok. All traffic was car
ried on by boats and the numerous canals
still compete with the street traffic. As
late as ten years ago there were no more
than nine miles of paved streets in the
whole city. To-day there are over forty
seven miles and many new streets are be-
ing opened up each year, on which the old
iron and wooded bridges are being re-
placed by modern steel bridges The
King himself builds one steel bridge each
year out of his private funds as a gift to
the city and this is opened to the public
with some ceremony on his birthday.
New York householders are groaning
under the tips exacted by the city ash
men, and without which they perform
their duties in way to make life a bur-
den and yet in a way which saves them
from being punished by the authorities
OF course it is the householders' fault for
ever having commenced the tipping sys-
tenn, but although the practice has sprung
up since the death of Col, Waring, who
when he was in charge of the street
| cleaning department never permitted tips,
| it is now firmly established and has be-
come a burning question. The ashmen
have a regular schedule, 81 a month for
private houses, 81 for apartment houses
| and so on up the scale.
There was a case of malignant typhoid
| fever in a house on Diamond street, near
| Twenty-third, in Philadelphia, last week,
and a messenger from the health office
| was sent up there to paste the necessary
labels on the doors. When he reached
| the house he discovered that he had only
| one typhoid fever label left, but he didn't
| let a little thing like that bother him. He
| affixed the typhoid label to the front door
| and, going around to the back gate, posted
| a diphtheria Label there. This circusn-
stance has nearly caused a panic anon g
the hucksters who frequent the fronts and
| the rears of the houses. 'Gee!' comment
| ed big huckster, "dat's de sickest fam ly
1 ever seen. It's lucky der amt got a
| side door. Dey'd have smallpox on dat,
| sure!"'
The Badische Anllin and Soda Fabrik
is now manufacturing sulphuric acid by
| a new process, which has lately been
| perfected and which is considered a great
| Improvement on previous methods. The
process makes use of the So-called cata-
| lytic power of platinum and other sub
| stances to occasion the union of sulphur
dioXide with oxygen, and obviates the ne
cessity for the lead chamber and towers
| and Uhe use of nitrous fumes to carry the
! oxygen. The chief feature of this new
| method Is the discovery that to obtain
| good results it is necessary to get rid
| of the heat of the reaction, and when this
| is done it is possible to secure an eff
cheney of 9S per cent The process is said
| to be particularly valuable in the manu-
| facture of the strongest acid, as there is
no necessity for concentrating plants, and
it also gives an acid which is exception
ally pure and free from arsenic. For
weaker acid, such as chamber acid, 1t is
probable that the old process will be more
| economical, but the perfection of the dis
covery is considered one of the most i'm
portant steps in technical chemistry dur
ing the last few years.
The first wig mentioned In history
was made out of a goats skin and was
IVORY, nv tho danohtar Of Ca,,1 Ly;no