The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

spring.
There is society with over 300 MEM
bers in Riga, Russia. each of whom pays
three rubles every time a child is born
to one of the other members, while the
| one who has the child gets from three
| hundred to seven hundred and fifty rubies.
| according to the number of payments he
has made.
| President Jablonsk of the Polish Ma
| tional Alliance, is authority for the state
ment that many Poles are being recruited
| into British regiments. They are being
sent, he says not to South Africa, but to
| India, so that they may fight against
| Russia in case war with that country
| should break out
The British ironclad Warrior which
is the Oldest warship of its kind in Her
Majesty's navy, has just been stricken
| from the roll of vessels in active service
! The Warrior was launched in 1860 and
! completed the next year. She has a dis
| placement of $40 tons, and her iron arm
or is AZ inches thick.
An excltable resident of Boston raised
a great commoion at the office of the
| Board of Health of that city a few days
| ago by reporting the discovery of a case
| of leprosy in one of the most densely in
/ AldDItCu SGttIOIIS Oh llle f1uD. luNeSt IL d.
| tons proved that the supposed leper was
suffering only from a severe cold.
-Four years ago, when the Connect
cut Agricultural Experiment Station first
| began to make tests of food products 50
! per cent. of the coffee examined was found
TO be aduterated Last year, owing pre-
| sumably to the exposures then made, the
proportion of impure coffee was but 10
per cent. Of the soda water syrups ana
! lyzed last year fiftv-siX out of ninety-two
samples were adulterated.
The Manila papers say that a fortune
awaits the man who shall put up ice plants
in the larger cities and towns of the
! Philippine Islands The only ice plant in
! the archipelago is that at Manila, which
| is owned by the government; and after
the government has taken all the ice it
needs for hospital and other purposes the
remainder is sold to the soldiers, shop
| keepers and natives. The supply is al
together inadequate to the demand, and
the prices charged are said to be out
rageous."
The following New Haven dispatch to
the Boston Transcript CMarch 20 is of
special interest as showing how the in
crease in the price of copper has stimu-
! lated the scrap collecting industry: a
| diver for a New York company was in Es-
sex yesterday asking for information from
| some of the Oldest inhabitants regarding
| the spot in the river where the SteamDo,t
| New England was blown up about the
year 1852 The boiler and some of the
other metal was of copper, and as copper
! has advanced in price the company THINKS
/ il would pay to secure some of the metal
| along the river bottom He will come
here again soon with equipments"
The University of California holds in
trust a fund the interest of which must
be used each year for the purchase of a
medal to be presented to the most ad-
| vanced student. This year the interest
| happened to amount to as much as S240
! and the regents of the university were
az first puzzled to know how to put such
a large sum into one gold medal The
conditions under which the trust is held
would not permit of giving the fortunate
| student 800 medal and the balance in
cash, as was proposed so it was decided
| to inclose the medal in a case into which
the surplus gold should be so worked that
it could be easily taken out and disposed
of as the holder might see fit.
1t is stated in Benefits Weekly that at
Griffenberg, Silesia, a plant has been es-
tablished for bleaching by means of ozone
or ozonized air. The ozone produced by
means of electricity is forced into a
NlidlllpOl containing the dTllCleS 10 De
! bieached The ozone is found to be pref
cradle to chlorine or to the fumes of
! burning sulphur. 1t takes longer to
| bleach with ozone than with chlorine but
| there is an advantage in the fact that the
| ozone does no injury to cotton fiber. It
| is excellent also with wool and silk. 1t is
| superior to sulphur in that the white pro-
duced by ozone is permanent and the color
| removed does not return when the silk
or wool is washed Ozone is the natural
| bleacher, being the active agent in the
ancient system of bleaching
-Uelzen, on the Luneburg heath. in
Prussia, has magistrates who combine
frmness with mildness. They have lust
| issued this notice: Whereas lately again
many complaints have come in about the
| length of time guests remain sitting in
several taverns. and particularly wives
| have again and again complained that
their husbands have been thereby led
to keep drinking till morning in these
| taverns, we see ourselves compelled to call
to mind the regula lions about the hour Of
| closing and to point to the fact that the
police authorities have been notified to
| keep a sharp eye on having the regula-
tons obeyed strictly. We especially call
| the attention of tavern keepers in their
own interest to the fact that repeated
| punishment for permitting guests to re-
main beyond the police hour may result
in the loss of their licenses"
-Pincus Bath of New York is a veritable
walking saloon, says the Chicago Tribune.
1t is his bushes to go about from one
| business-house to another Offering for
sale all varieties of plain and fancy
| drinks. He wears an overcoat in the
| capacious pockets of which are stored
| bottles containing his stock in trade In
a little satchel he carries a supply of
glasses and all the paraphernalia of a
| bartender. He has been following the
business for four years and has a long
| list of regular customers whom he visits
daily at stated hours. His schedule of
| prices is said to be the most attra ctive
thing about him. Thus for cocktails and
all kinds of mixed drinks he charges
three cents, preparing the mixture under
the eyes Of his customers. He is said to
| have accumulated a considerable fortune
| from the profits of his business Pincus
jumped into sudden prominence recently
when he was arrested on the complaint Of
customer, who found fault with the
quality of the whiskey used in a three
| cent cocktail.
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