The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


bench. who tried the Phoenix Park muir
derers, is dead To the day of his death
he remained under special police protec-
ton.
There is a new railroad car that by its
own motion congresses ammonia gas to
liquid, which in going through the pipes
expands and produces the necessary cold
ness in the air
Two troopers of the Fourth Hussars
and two men of the West Riding Regi-
ment in India have purchased their dis
charges and joined the Roman Catholic
brotherhood in Bungalore.
The new treaty between Mexico and
China allows the free admission of Chi
nese emigrants and in fact, the two gov
ernments agree to encourage the settle
ment of the Chinese in Mexico
according to the Hawaiian Gazette
there are ordinarily from thirty to forty
varieties of fish on sale in the Honolulu
market. A large percentage of the ma
tives make their living by fishing
American apples are peeled. sliced and
dried and then sent TO France, where they
are converted into cider. With the addi-
ton of carbonic acid gas and a certain
favoring the cider becomes champagne
much of which is unsuspectingly drunk as
the genuine article.
There are 10000 miles of railway now in
operation or under construction in Africa.
According to the Engineer. already 400
miles of line northwest from Cape Col
ony and 100 miles southwest from Cairo
are complete the Intermediate distance
being about 5000 miles.
Since May. 1898, up to and including
June, 1899, the total of desertions from the
various regiments in the American army
has been SIP. of which 3036 were from
the regulars and 2,736 from the volunteers.
These figures are from report sent to
Congress by the war department.
It's a singular fact that the dumping
of the garbage of New York city in the
vicinity of the harbor has produced such
a state of things that it is regarded as i'm
possible for any warship to get within
three miles of the metropolis without run
ming aground, so great is the deposit.
The British. cruiser Magicienne, which
held up the German imperial mail steamer
Bundesrath in Delagoa bay on the ground
that she was carrying contraband of war.
took part in. the great national naval dis
play in New York harbor, May, 1893, in rel
ebration of the Columbian quadri-centen-
NAL.
BY the Hindoos of to-day the ruby is
| esteemed as a talisman which is never
| shown willingly to friends, and is con-
| sidered ominous of the worst possible for
| tune if it should happen to contain black
| spots. The ancients accredited it with the
| power of restraining passion and regard
it as a safeguard against lightning.
An Iowa Company has been organic
| ed with a capital of 100000 to raise rice
| in Texas Options have been obtained on
| 1900 acres Of land in that state and when
| the enterprise gets established it will
| probably be the largest rice farm in the
| country. About 100000 acres in the gulf
states are devoted to the production of
| rice.
| Near Burden. in Kansas. is Russian
| Mennonite who has reached the age of II
| He came from Russia in 1875 with twelve
| children. the progeny of his first wife
| Shortly after arriving in Kansas he was
married again and thirteen more children
| have come to join the family. All of the
J nty-fve are alive and live with the
old man Or in the neighborhood.
An American furniture manufacturing
company is now shipping from it's facto-
ries American furniture in the rough. Be
ing in parts and tightly packed, it occu-
| pies little space and consequently the
| freight is low. 1t is put together in Lon
| don and Glasgow workshops, and the
| statesmen place the furniture in the hands
Of dealers in England and Scotland.
AT Mascali, near the foot of Mount
| Etna, is to be seen the largest tree in the
| world Its trunk is 304 feet in circum-
| ference. The largest tree in the United
| States is said to be the gigantic tree near
| Bear creek, on the north fork of the Tule
| river, in California It measures $40 feet
in circumference. The famous giant red
wood tree in Nevada is 119 feet in circum-
| ference.
| During a recent holiday in New York
| the price of American beauty roses went
| UP to the usual figure of $50 dozen and
remained there. Pinks sold in some place
| for 81 a dozen. But it was the azaleas
| that brought the highest prices. A basket
| of them was made up by a certain florist
| for a millionaire. The millionaire was
| regular customer, but his basket cost
| $175.
| The ermored trains which nave figured
| so prominently in the fighting around
Ladysmith were put together at the rail-
way workshops at Durham. The train is
| composed of a powerful engine, tender
| and three twenty-ton iron trucks, the sides
|
! feet high with one-half inch boiler plates,
loopholed with vertical slots for the men
| to fire through.
Another prehistoric fossil-this time
huge lizard, nearly thirty feet long, and
| looking much like an alliga tor-has been
| discovered in d petrified condition, on the
| coast of Chilli Its head is nine feet long
| The tail is fifteen feet long, lack
ing one inch. Measured across the back
the creature was nine feet and nine inches
| broad It's estimated weight was six tons.
The fossil has been sent to Valparaiso
A German authority on leather and
leather goods notes the increase in the
American shoe export trade during ten
years, with the wish that Germany had
| more of the same enterprise. The Ameri-
| can shoe exports in 1889 were SIS $50 pairs
valued al $3.50 902, while for 1S99-fscaI
| year-they amounted to 1885 2S7 pairs.
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