The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

sne was given q hearing said he was sorry
that there was no. law under which he
could hold her, and that some such meas
ure ought to be enacted.
Next week." announces a Missouri
editor. who has the Sheldon episode still
fresh In his mind I'VE will be running this
paper as Jesse James would have run it.
Delinquent subscribers may expect call
from us with their accounts stuck in the
muzzzle of six-shooters Otherwise this
paper will have to be run as the sheriff
would run it."
In recent number Of the Manila Amer
lean the Gorilla Grand Opera House ad-
vertised as the event OF the season, THE
Geisha, with all the original scenery,
dresses and effects from Days Theater,
London" The scale of prices was given
as follows: Boxes, to hold four, $12; or
chestra stalls, So; upper circle, behind
boxes, 81, and gallery, 81, all Mexican
money. Doors open at 6, overture at T.
carriages at $780,
1t is reported from Malta that Ad-
miral Lord Charles Beresford is virtually
revolutionizing the Mediterranean squad
ron. especially as regards its gunnery. He
Is insisting on the utmost attention being
paid as to accuracy of fire, both with large
guns and rifles, and is manfesting the ut
most ingenuity in devising targets of
novel character. He is likewise initiating
and taking part in gun-roorn debates on
all matters likely to quicken the intelli-
gence of officers and men under his orders
In note recently presented TO the
French Academy of Sciences, NJ. E. Doll
mer describes some curious facts which
seemed to him to demonstrate an improve
ment in the condition of tubercuous pa
TENTS subjected to igh-frequency electric
currents. Night Sweats have been stopped
in about fifteen applications, and after
long treatment the appetite is said to re-
turn and the weight Of the body increa e.
Experiments made upon twenty-seven per-
sons by the author of the note led him to
believe that the constancy and clearness of
the observed results showed that The meth
cd was a feasible one.
The London Financial News estimates
that the fame which attaches to STRAIT
ford-on-Avon because of the fact that
Shakespeare was born there is worth S.
100000 to that town. The charges for
admission TO the poets house, to Anne
Hathaway's cottage to the church, to the
memorial and to the grammar school net
| $3.50 900 yearly-a sum which is equivalent
to an income of per cent. on the $780,
900 capital. This calculation does not take
into account the income to the railways
from the pilgrims to the Warwickshire
mecca and there is no estimate of the
| profits of the Stratford tradesmen, who do
| a good business in photographs, pamphlets
and trinkets relating to the town and the
great bard.
The Washington correspondent of
the Chicago Record says: President
Roca of the Argentine Republic, Presi-
| dent Erazuriz of Chile President Campos-
SALES of Brazil and President Diaz OF
Mexico have all given promises, more or
! less definite, that they will attend the Pan
American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901,
| and If the plan can be carried out it will
be a great advantage to their countries as
well as to ours; but If they come they will
expect to have their visit returned. OF
course, it would be impossible for the
| President to go to Brazil or Chile or the
| Argentine Republic, although he might
| without any difficulty, make a short trip
| through Mexico. 1t would be perfectly
| legitimate, however, for him to designate
! a substitute, and that would offer an OPP
| portunity for u vide president to make
| himself useful
| Prince Louis Napoleon has Just been
promoted by the Car from the rank of
a brigadier to that of a major general
| of cavalry in the Russian army, and
| while this promotion has given an inn
| mense amount of satisfaction, not merely
/ to the Bonapartfsts but to monarchists
| of every description in France 1t has an
noyed the present French government,
whose recognized organs of the press ex-
| press both displeasure and concern. 1t
| is certainly strange to find the Car, who
] Is supposed to be the closest ally of the
| French republic, Shower1ng marks of
| favor and adding to the prestige and i'm
| portance of the one French prince who Is
popular in france, and whose past and
| present record is sufficiently clean to
render him the most likely pretender and
| as such a dangerous foe to the republic,
| says a correspondent.
| Consul Hughes of Coburg on March 7
| quotes from trade journal the statement
that the length of electric lines in Ger
| many shows an increase of 45 per cent
| over last year. the available power has
| gone up 81 per cent, and the growth of
| accumulators now aggregate almost exact
| ly fourth of the dynamo power of the
| power stations; yet there are very few
| pure accumulation lines. Overhead conduc-
| tors continue to predominate. Apart from
| the two pioneer lines at Berlin and Frank
fort, of the years 1881 and 1884, all the cleo
| trio roads have been built within the last
| nine years. The total length is LIZA miles
| Most lines have only single track, which
is made feasible by the almost universal
| practice of stopping at certain points only
| The gas-tram line at Dessau, which was
| considered so successful, will adopt cleo
| tricity the coming summer.
| The new Iowa school library law pro
vldes that every school district must an
nually set aside from to Is cents for each
| child of school age, the money to go to-
| ward the purchase of books for the L.
brary. During the academic year the
| books are to be kept in the schoolhouse
| but during vacation time they are to be
| kept for the use of the pupils in the house
| of some one selected by the board. AS the
| books may be loaned to persons not pupils
| 1t is suggested that the country stores be
used as vacation quarters for the library
| and the proprietors of those places, in
| view of the additional trade which the
| presence of the books would bring, are
eager to comply. The books to be pur-
| chased are limited to list which the state
| board of education is TO make out. At
| present nearly all the Iowa cities and
| towns are awaiting themselves of the law
| permitting school directors to spend s25
| a year on books; women's clubs are Aid
| ing largely in the work, and in the rural