The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-18
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cent, while the production OF wheat has
increased nearly $50 per cent.
A dock capable of accommodating
steamers 30 per cent. longer and broader
than the Oceanic is to be built at Liv-
erpool. 1t will cost nearly 100000.
The largest hospital in Europe Is. at
Moscow, and has 1000 beds. Its staff
consists of ninety-six physicians and 800
nurses and about 1900 patients and cared
for every year.
The Canadian government has sent
a representative of it's census department.
to New York to study the methods which
will be employed in counting the popu-
lation of the metropolis.
There is a large cat farm ranch"
would hardly be the proper term'-.in Lin
coin county, Oregon, and the residents
In the vicinity have obtained the consent
of the postoffice department TO the chris
tenng of their postofflce by the name of
Angora. The first postmaster of Angora,
singularly enough, is Thomas Tom.
THE education of women must play
an important part in the development of
the South according 30 DIR. C. d. Nc
liver, the principal of the Normal School
at Greensboro, N. C. Educate a man
and you do WELL" he says. Educate
woman and you do better; for your nave
not only educated her, but have made
sure of the education of four or five OF
the next generation"
HOLSTERS are so scarce along the New
England coast that the imports Of the
live sheIfish from the Canadian maritime
provinces promise to be larger than ever
for this fiscal year, and in value will prob
ably constitute at least sixth of all the
to nd ATearNr
Bruins wick to the American market. The
imported Holsters enter duty free, but
nevertheless command high prices.
Probably the greatest profit ever en-
joyed by the government as resu-t of
the destruction of money was in connec-
ton with the fractional currency or shin
pasters issued during the Civil War,
says the Chicago Record. The total
amount issued was 1868, 724,079, of which
$3.50, 55S has never been presented for
redemption A large amount has been
preserved as curios by collectors, and oc-
casionally even now it is offered for ne
demption. This was especially the case
during the recent hard times. People who
had the old shinplasters of war times in
their cabinets and scrapbooks got hard
up and sent them in for redemption.
THE world is alive with modest in
dustries that never are thought of by the
millions not connected Herewith" says
the New York Press Here, for example
we are toting home day after day innum-
cradle parcels, each by means OF small
handle hooked into the strings with wires
Millions of these handles are made an
nually Every merchant is obliged to
have them. Their cost is small, yet they
must be reckoned in the profit and loss
account. Miles and miles of copper and
iron wire are used in their manufacture,
and enough wood is employed 20 make
whole forests of birch and maple. There
is a company in this city with capital
of only $4,000 which turns out many tons
of these useful articles and realizes a
handsome profit thereon"
When Tommy" comes marching home
again, says an exchange, he may astonish
his adoring wife by calling for some of
the strange dishes he has tasted or heard
of in South Africa. 1t is scarcely prob
able that a meal of caterpillars will ap-
peal to him, however. The Kattirs eat the
repulsive creatures with relish, collecting
them in the same way as people in some
parts eat uncooked shrimps Ostrich eggs
and ostrich steaks not even the most Will
ing housewife can procure in England,
though in South Africa both are consider
ed, and with justice, nice and dainty dish
es If his sojourn down South teaches
Tommy" the value of good coffee, he will
be a lucky man. In his British home he
rarely finds any encouragement TO drink
it; the weak, tasteless liquid that is set
before him is coffee only in name. In
South Africa coffee is the universal bever-
age 1t is made without the addition of
chicory and is so vitalizing that no other
drink, and most certainly no alcoholic one,
can touch its beneficial qualities.
The man who kills a female mosquito
is a public benefactor. according to Prof.
Medical Journal. The best time to destroy
| these carriers of malaria is in the spring.
For every mosquito killed." says the ma
laria expert, there will be 100000, 900 less
in the following year. If eggs are laid four
times, and 10000, 900 900, 600 less when eggs
are laid five tines Petroleum thrown
upon the pools of stagnant water where
they lay their eggs destroy the young as
soon as Matched. the oil getting into their
eathing apparatus when they come TO
the surface for air The expert warns per-
sons susceptible to malaria not to sleep
in the open air. but to remain indoors at
night and In the early hours of the morn
ing. If the windows are open no lights
should be Tito prevent the ingress of
mosquitoes. Windows and doors should be
covered with netting. If one is obliged
country, the face and neck should be COW
cred with veil and the hands with
gloves. Turpentine, turpentine soap, iodo-
form, menthol and a paste of valerianIc
acid are good chemical protectives. Senior
Cell makes the novel observation that
lin a malarial country patient sick with
malaria is a danger to others and should
be isolated" He is a source of infection
to the mosquitoes that bite him and
through these mosquitoes he infects his
fellow men. Quinine disinfects the blood,
but IL is of little use against certain par
asitic forms that produce reiapses and Of
no use against the amoeba which COM
pletes the sexual cycle in the mosquito"
Returns of the Suez canals traffic in
1899 show continued increase of business
and profits. The number of steamers trsv-
ersins the canal was 3,4So, aggregating
9,S93o22 tons, and paying the company
s17.51O.142 in tolls. This was an increase
of sixteen in number of ships, 10000 in ton
mage and s1,75l,0C0 In receipts. In ten