The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-20

There is nothing medieval about the
pilgrimage 60 Rome in this year of jubi-
lee. Within the Eternal city electric cars
and horse cars to ST. Peters keep down
the greed of cab-drivers anxious to over
charge, and now pilgrims from Padua
will pedal their way TO Rome on bicycles
along the old Via Aemilia. Punctured
tires will test the pilgrims patience in
place of the peas in his sandal shoon.
AT Bosco Reale, on the slope of We
suvius, near Pompeii where the great
silver treasure was found a few years
ago, recent excavations have brought 10
light some of the most remarka bic paint
ings of the Roman period yet discovered.
In the grounds of the Del Frisco villa
a great peristyle and four large rooms
have been unearthed, the walls of which
are covered by twenty large frescoes of
rich coloring and more careful execution
than any hitherto known. The figures
are of life size, says the Scientific Ameri-
can. II is to be hoped that some process
will be discovered 40 preserve them more
satisfactorily than those at Pompei and
in the Naples Museum.
Italy is essentially the land of post
cards. To the collector 1t is at once a
joy and a terror, for the ordinary post
card of everyday use bears the date of
the year of issue, and so every year a
new card looking exactly like all the old
must be added to the album. The latest
invention in this way is a postcard shot
with various colors, so that the hues
change if the card is regarded from diff
ferent angles. The colors, moreover, are
made of sensitive chemical ingredients,
which are affected by changes in the
weather to the extent of altering the COL
ors. 1t is probable that this system will
hn avfn 6dd md in he CIa1l
have painted landscapes which present a
sunny appearance in the summer and put
on the hues of winter in the cold, dark
days.
Two agents of the division of forestry
left Washington recently 10 organize an
investigation of commercial trees, which
will be carried on in Western Washing
ton this summer. They will be Joined in a
few weeks by about twenty assistants.
The chief object will be to determine the
rate of growth and the stand per acre of
forests of different ages under varying
conditions. From this data can be reck-
oned the time required to produce a second
crop on cut-over land, and lumbermen can
decide whether it will be profitable to hold
and pay taxes on such property. Some
work of this kind was done on the Red
Fir last summer This will be completed,
and about July the Western Eiemlock will
be taken up. A party will also go to
California to study the Redwood about the
same time.
A Yokohama correspondent Of the In
dianapolis Press, who witnessed the re-
ligious ceremony of fire walking in Toxic,
says: There were present diplomats and
professors from the Imperial College, AMI
an Episcopal Bishop, and we think there
is sufficient evidence to prove that several
japanese women did walk through the
fire. A doubling Thomas gathered up
some of the salt in which they rubbed
their feet, both before and after their hot
walk, to take away and analyze. An
other suggested that the bamboo pole that
was used to make the path was hollow,
and may have contained a substance that
sifted out as it was drawn backward and
forward that destroyed the heat. The
little 'amak' of my friend, when asked
why the feet were not burned, replied,
Much pray much pray We have stated
facts. The Interpretation must come from
those Versed in the occult sciences"
When Admiral Dewey was in Nash
vile he was asked to crown the Queen
of Flowers, a pretty girl from Murfrees-
boro. He was evidently somewhat ner-
vous, ard to add to his discontinue the
crown was too large. He placed 1t on
the young girls head, but in a second it
had slipped around her neck. But the
gallant Admiral was not to be outdone
He delicately eased the crown from around
her neck and over her wealth of hair and
placed it on her brow. but again it slip
ped. The girl, of course, was embarrassed
as the eyes of several thousand people
were on her. The Admiral blushed a lit
tie, and. with the air of one determined to
conclude a task, caught the crown and
daintfly fixed it in the girls hair so 1t
would not slip. AS he finished his task
pressed RI 40 crifl Pc
hair, and with one of his characteristic
smiles added: ut will fit you all right
in the nlrrning."
Oklahoma wants statehood for the fol-
lowing reasons: The territory covers 49,
rs square miies and exceeds in total area
the states of Vermont New Hampshire
Ma massachusetts,, Rhode Island, New Jer-
sey and Delaware. 1t has 100 miles of
railroad and $50 miles under construction
Last year Oklahoma produced more than
100000 bushels of wheat and more than
10000 bales of cotton. The corn oats and
fruit crop, together with the cattle and
hogs raised, were of far greater value than
the combined wheat and cotton crop. The
enrolment of the school children in 1890
was 101, 474 in 1886 school districts, a larger
number than has either of fifteen other
states in the Union. The schools have
most liberal appropria tons of land, from
which the revenues are now in excess of
100000 each year. The territory main
tains university, two normal schools and
an agricultural college. All have good
buildings and are amply endowed. Free
education is provided for every child in
the territory, and the methods of educa-
ton are most modern.
In Paris the small palace, Avenue du
Bots de Boulogne. destined for the princes
and sovereigns who will visit the EXPOSE
ton, is now entirely ready for its royal &C.
cupants. The luxury of furniture and dec
orations has not been allowed to interfere
with project comfort nor exclude a GER
tain amount of coziness, as il is most
probable that the guests will choose to Wis
it under the cover of the convenient in
cognito which will spare them so many
petty trials. This does not mean, how
ever, that the little palace Is not sumptu-
Gus enough to be their official dwelling for
a few weeks or even a few months. The
sovereigns who will undoubtedly occupy
d are the King and Queen of Portugal,
King George Of Greece. King Leopol1.
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