The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-04

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Several new 1O-inch guns mounted en-
disappearing carriages have been placed in
the fortihcations guarding San Francisco
harbor. Experts say the harbor is now
proof against anything that ray try to
steam into it.
A firm Of athletic outfitters in London
sent twelve footballs to the Gloucester
Regiment at the seat of war, who have
arranged with the Boer general to forward
them to Pretoria for use Of the imprisoned
men of the regiment.
In a Russian Journal a writer esti-
mates that to reach the level of other Eu-
ropean countries Russia would have to
construct SO, coo additional miles of rail-
road, not including Siberia, in order to
have the length of its railways common
surate with the population.
The Union Pacific Railway Company
is providing it's offices in large cities with.
a mutoscope for displaying some of the
interesting points along the Overland
route. Six sets of views have been provid-
ed, one of them being the Overland Linn
tied going at a speed of mile a minute
Missouri apples that have been kept In
cold storage since early last fall have been
to New York. There the fruit goes into
the cold storage end of a steamer. 1t is
supposed that cold storage will keep the
apples until they are wanted for use at the
Paris Exposition Missouri is cultivatins
European trade for its apples.
That voting would take women froIn
their homes and household duties was
recently at a Philadelphia meeting ad-
vanced as an argument against women
suffrage. But a woman in the audience
testified that one day when she went to
vote she took her little girl to school, did
one days marketing, cast her ballot and
got home inside of twenty minutes.
A man from st. Louis recently rode in
an electric car in Cape Town with eight
other Americans form different parts of
the United States. The car was made in
PHILADELPHIA the rails in Pittsburg, the
motor in Lynn; the motorman was from
San Francisco and the conductor from
Boston. In the friendly competition for
the trade of the world this country is be-
ginning to take its share.
1t is proposed in France to establish
a court of justice run by women and for
women. to which may be carried all those
cases concerning which the most learned
men know nothing. This will relieve
man Judge for instance, from determining
questions as to fit in suits brought by
dressmakers against their clients, and II
ought to do away with much expert tes-
timony in such cases.
A well known leader of fashion in
Philadelphia is making quaint little
collection of tiny dressed dolls that are
models of the frocks she wears herself.
When the dressmaker sends home a new
garment she duplicates it by tiny model
on a doll. Everything must be perfect
even down to the real lace and solid silver
OF gold buttons and diamond buckles The
dolls are ranged in glass case in their
owners dressing room, with the date of
their creation underneath.
"A school of whales appeared in the
lower Delaware bay last week in search
of food and they succeeded in driving
the herring up the river as far as New
Castle The smaller fish, which the hun
CRY whales devour by the bushel seem 70
know by instinct the presence of their
pursuers and might easily elude capture
by sticking to deep water. But in the
shoals they lose control of themselves.
The whales know a thing or two and lie
for their victims at The mouths of small
streams in the spring, when the herring
come up from deep water.
The Attorney General of Texas has in
stituted a suit against an alleged medical
college with view to having its charter
forfeited. The college" was Incorporated
eleven years ago. Most of its teaching
was to be done by mail, but the complaint
ayers that its main purpose was CONNER
cial and that it would sell diplomas at
$50 apiece to whoever it chose, informed in
the science OF medicine or ignorant of it,
A negro porter who could barely write
read was among the alumni, and on his
sheepskin appear the names of fourteen
physicians, several of whom are said TO be
creations OF the "faculty's' fancy.
A new use has been found for glass.
1t consists in packing butter in a box
made of six sheets of ordinary window
glass, the edges being covered with gum
med paper. The closed box is then envel-
oped in a layer of plaster of paris a
fourth of an inch thick, and it is COW
cred with a specially prepared paper. AS
the plaster is a bad conductor of heat,
the tempera ture' inside the Theoretically
sealed recep acle remains constant being
unaffected by external changes. The cost
of packing is only about cents per pound
1t is used to a great extent in Australia.
Butter has been sent from Melbourne to
Kimberley, in Africa, and was found to
he in a perfectly sound condition. Cases
are now made which hold as much as 200
pounds of butter.
The death of the Hungarian artist
Munkacsy in an asylum at Bonn will be
received with regret by the large portion
of the public that have been impressed by
his genius. His name was Michael Leib,
and he seems to have taken the name by
which he is genrally known from the
town of Munkacs, near which he was
born in October 1916. Apprenticed to a
carpenter, his talent for painting mani
tested itself specially, and he obtained op-
portunities to study at Vienna, Munich
and Dusseldorf. His picture, THE Last
Day of q Condemned Prisoner" exhibited
in the Paris salon in 1870, first secured him
reputation. He liked a large canvas with
many figures, and seems to have preferred
historical subjects that gave scope TO his
mastery of color and daring originality.
His picture Christ Before PLATE" Is the
one perhaps by which he is best known in
this country. Since 1897 when he devel-
oped symptoms of insanity, he has lived
in seclusion.
"A report has recently been made to the
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