The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-17
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TleS or the American colleges anu uA4NSl
stiles. Harvard has 10000 volumes, Chi
cage University $4,000, Columbia H9,U0J
and Cornell 225,O0o.
Prof. Ogden Doremus of New York city
recommends the use of phosphate of am
monia to render wearing apparel, cur
tains and other starched goods, as well
as furniture, non-infammable.
According to a London journal the
number of stamps now current IN the
world is 1854. England has 1S1, her col
onies 3,S43 The United States has 26S diff
ferent kinds, the republic of Salvador ~.
The Zulus carry their wounded to the
hills and expose their wounds to the air,
having found by experience that that il
the quickest way of curing them. There
is in London hospital for the treatment
of wounds by ozone, founded on this
Zulu practice.
According to a Chicago newspaper a
Bohemian shoemaker has invented shoe
that is heated by means of an electrical
apparatus in the heel, with tubes con-
veying heat under the surface of the sole.
The inventor claims perfect protection
from snow and rain al a cost of about 81.
The Canadian postoffice department
has authorized the opening of a postoffice
in North Victoria county, Ontario, to be
known as Butler. and the name of Upper
Thorne Center, near Coulogne, has been
| changed to Ladysmith Another Lady
smith is to be located in Western On
tario, and a third in British Columbia.
Reports from Dawson City say that
little will be left of the Klondike metro
polls after the homeward rush in May
and June. Merchants are closing up their
places of business, and instead of every
building being crowded, Ito let signs are
frequently seen. Business is dying, and
most of the dealers are going 20 Nome.
1t is practice with ocean liners to
save up their soiled linen, towels, etc,
until port is reached, and passengers are
obliged to do the same thing. Now. how
ever, one steamship has been provided
with complete laundry for caring for the
wash of the ship and that of the passen-
gers as well. / is capable of handling
1000 pieces of linen a day.
1t is noticeable that all the great gen
erals, either of the past or present, have
been known to the public and their SOL
diers by some familiar nickname
Lord Roberts sobriquet of "Bobs''
is the most popular name to
conjure with just now in South
Africa, just as LIE Petit Corporal" was
the watchword for Napoleons legions.
Frederick the Great was dubbed
by his soldiers "Our Fritz"
and the Duke of Wellington. who
gained the confidence but never the af-
lection of his troops, was known as "OId
Nosey'-an uncomplimentary allusion to
his most prominent feature-just as
| "Stonewall' Jackson and Marshal Vor-
warts" expressed the most noticea BILE
characteristics of Jackson and Butcher re-
spectively.
The Melbourne Age has announced n
remarkable find of gold at the New Mug
| getty gully, near Yandoit. about ten miles
| northeast of Daylesford. The mining reg
| istrar at the last-named town reported to
| the mines department that on Nov IL Iasf
| two miners named Freeman and Rodgers
while working at New Nuggety gully nm
earthed a large alluvial nugget. WEIGHING
no less than 100 ounces II pennyweight at
depth of 13 feet from the surface. The
nugget is very smooth and well water
worn, and there are a few specks of
| quartz adhering to 1t. 1t is about 6
| inches long, inches wide and 2 inche g
| thick in the center, tapering off to a thick
ness of half an inch at the edges The
gold is worth about "a Is per ounce. An
extraordinary feature of the discovery Is
that 1t was made within eight feet of she
| spot where 2l6-ounce nugget was IN
earthed in 1895 by miner named j. Brown
| and close to the point at which a third
nugget weighing l24 ounces, was found by
T. Bait on Jan. % last.
The habit of ether drinking is the d.
rect result Of a temperance crusade. says
the Hospital. In 1898 Father Mathew be-
gan to preach total abstenance i'm Ire
land. Within three years 100000 of his
fellow-countrymen had Joined his banner
| and pledged themselves not to touch alco-
hol. In Great Britain and America the
success of his campaign was equally great
But it so happened that between 1872 and
1915 some of the Fathers converts resid-
ing in a village called Draperstown. IN
County Londonderry missing their accus.
TONED stimulant, asked local medical
man to give them something the consump-
ton of which would not violate their vow
of abstention from alcohol. yet which
would relieve them from their craving for
1t. He gave the applicants a drachm of
either In water. The habit spread. til in
seine of the neighboring places there was
shop for the sale of ether for every
twenty-three Of the population From
that time until now the habit of ether
drinking has gone on in that part of Ire.
land, and men and women, young ana old
are alike its victims.