The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


year before.
1t is said that 400 acres of timber are
destroyed in the United States every day
in the year.
In London walking IS now looked upon
as health-giving exercise, and is greatly
INDUCED in by all degrees.
The Americans in the Klondike have
exactly the same rights and privileges and
pay the same taxes as Canadians.
The report of -the Ontario department.
of immigration for 1893, shows that 4,Ol5
storage passengers settled in Ontario.
The number of persons In Berlin whose
Income exceeds 1925 a year, and who must
therefore pay an income tax, is $4,000.
About $50 women servants are engaged
by Emperor William to look after the
twenty-five royal palaces and castles that
belong to the crown
-Adna Adams Treat of Denver, Col, is
probably the Oldest Mason in the world
having Joined the order in February 1898
Mr. Treat is now in his 103rd year and still
in vigorous health.
OF the fifty richest persons in the
United States only five owe their fortunes
to copper, silver or god mines. They are
). b. Haggin of California, Mrs George
Hearst and John Mackay of San Francis
co, and w. A. Clark and Marcus Daily of
Montana.
The recent death of a member of a
Sedalia CMo.) firm disclosed the fact that
for thirty years the firm had kept no ac-
count books 1t did strictly cash bust
ness, and divided the days receipts each
night, share and share alike. When a bill
of goods was purchased each member of
the firm paid one-haH of the money out
OF his own pocket
"A Catlettsburg Ry) paper records
the fact that the East Ashland Cow In
surance Circle has been called on for an-
other assessment, Noah McKenzie's COW
having died. The circle is composed of
twenty-five members, and when any one
of them loses a cow an assessment of one
dollar each is levied, to go toward the pur-
chasing of a new COW.
Senator Depew, in Directing to the
Millionaires Club as a descriptive title
for the body of which he is q member
says that three-fourths of the senators
have no income beyond their salaries and
what they can gain in addition by limited
opportunities from their public duties for
the practice of their professions, contribu-
lions to magazines and other literary et-
forts
Ozone Is now used for number of IN
dustrial operations, and one of the most
important is its application to the bleach
ing of yarns. A plant has recently been
started in Silesia for this purpose, and ii
is likely to be followed by other works
where cotton, wool, and silk will be treat
ed. Ozone bleaching is said to be supe-
rior to sulphur bleaching, as permanent
whites are produced which do not disap-
pear upon washing. There Is also no
injury done to the fabric by the process.
An interesting fact in connection with
the new overland train which the Burling-
ton is about to put into service between St
Louis and Puget sound, by way of Bill
ings, Mont, is that for nearly the entire
distance of $500 miles 1t will run through
country acquired by the United States at
the time of the Louisiana purchase of 1901.
When Napoleon Bonaparte, on behalf OF
France, sold the territory to us for about
212 cents an acre, he little dreamed, in his
endeavor to annoy England, what mag
nificent empire he was practically giving
away.
w. w. Pef1ey, who was an Idaho vol
unteer in the Spanish war, is probably the
only man who ever had his hight certified
to by law. When he enlisted for service
in the Philippines his hight was put down
in the records of the war department as
5 feet SIS inches, though as a matter of
fact he was feet 105s inches. In order to
make the records correct several affidavits
made by his officers were sent to Wash
ington, and Congress passed a bill provid-
In a Of 81 Tor
Private Pef1ey's hight on the enlistment
books as feet 105s inches.
There is no longer any doubt as to the
truth of the statements made by an emil
nent geologist that large chain of noun
tains in the Cascades of British Columbia
is in constant motion and follows the
course of the mighty Columbia river The
latest scientific observations positively as
sert this fact. The chain consists of three
layers of dark brown basalt formation is
about eight miles long, and rises to an
elevation of 1900 feet above the river.
The masses of rocks Enthusiastically take
the course of the Columbia A forest.
which was previously located back of the
mountains, on the river side, has entirely
Disappeared; nothing but large thick
stumps of trees sticking here and there
out of the water are left.
An interesting experiment was recently
performed to show that the temperature of
air may be raised to very high degree
by an explosion in the vicinity II is stat
ed that compression of 200 atmospheres
would cause the temperature to rise to
LOGO degrees Centigrade, and since explo-
sives in bore holes can exert a pressure of
5000 to 5000 atmospheres, the heat so pro-
duced would be sufficient to ignite gases
in the neighborhod. In the experiment
tending 10 confirm this view two CARTRIDGES
of ammonia nitrate safety explosive were
suspended a short distance apart and
photograph taken at the instant of their
explosion. In the picture luminous flash
appeared at the meeting-place of the two
waves of explosion, which is attributed TO
the air being so highly heated by the COM
preston as to become luminous.
"A private letter from Rio de Janeiro,"
says the Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Record explains that the recent
revolution in Brazil, concerning which
there were many sensational dispatches
was almost entirely imaginary. There is
always more or less talk of revolution