The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-05
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ing endangered by the weight of 100000
volumes which have been in it since 1872.
The Italian government has appropriated
| funds for their removal.
New periodicals to the number of 27i
were started in the United Kingdom last
year, and 1872 publications were discon-
| tinued. London's newspapers, magazines
| and miscellaneous periodicals at present
number 2,240.
One of the boxes OF chocolate which
| Queen Victoria sent to the soldiers in
| South Africa has already been the means
of saving a life. AT Estcourt q Mauser
| bullet struck the box which private n
| the Second Lancashire carried in his
| haversack, and remained imbedded in the
chocolate.
After South Africa is conquered Great
britain is going to offer to each Of her
| soldiers whose time has expired 24O acres
OF land there, provided they will occupy
| il for ten years, as an inducement to set
| tie in the country All the officials AMI
| all the mining and other companies con-
cerned are favorable to the plan.
1t is curious to note that the last
| three theaters burned in Paris have all
| been state or, as they are called in
France. Subsidized houses-the opera
| QS73 the Opera Comique QSSO and now
! the Francois. But whereas twelve years
! elapsed between the burning of the Opera
| Comique and the rebuilding. the Francois
will, ii is said, be reopened by the middle
of July.
1t is stated that under the American
plan the school attendance in Cuba has
been raised from 1900 to $4,000 pupils, with
1000 teachers. Although English is taught
the teachers employed are Cubans. No
! local school taxes are raised. The school
| expenses, which it is expected will this
year reach four million dollars, are paid
| from the island treasury. The teachers
| salaries are higher than those paid in tha
United States.
Congress is to be asked to appropriate
a considerable sum for the Philadelphia
mint, including boilers engines, dynamos,
| pneumatic tools. lifts, telephones and ma
| chine TOOLS coal handling machinery, mo-
! tors, etc. as well as fine equipment of
machinery connected directly with the
| coinage of money. II is thought that
in a few years the mint may be relied
upon to produce most of the machinery
and appliances for ell the United States
minis.
Population of the four greatest cities
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in the figures Of the recent census: ST.
Petersburg, 1,132 III; Moscow, with its two
suburbs, SsS,614; Odessa, 40j, 041 "a great in
crease since 1892, and Warsaw, COG, 072.
Contrary to what is observed almost uni
versaly throughout Europe the men out
number the women in the three first-nam-
ed communities; while in the last, War
| saw, the proportion of women is but
slightly superior to that of men.
Says Ainslees Magazine: The cost
of constructing a cable system is about
5000 per mile and the total amount in
vested in submarine lines a. present is
upward of S200,OOO0)O. The value of the
land lines is of course, much greater in
the aggregate. The largest company in
America has done a capital of SIPS 900, CO.,
pays out yearly between $S0000O0 and
sl0,O900O0 sa aries and last year carried
over 100000 messages. These figures are
inadequate, but they serve to show that
telegraphs form enc CT the worlds great
business interests"
"A Bridgeport Comm gun club has
ordered sixty dozen live quail from Kan
sas, and proposes to liberate the birds
at various points in the surrounding coun-
try. They cost 81 a dozen. II is expected
that when liberated they will be easily
able to maintain themselves, and will
mate during April and May. Each pair
will produce two brOods of ten or twelve
birds each during the summer and early
fall, and it is expected that about 50
per cent. of the young will survive. When
the open season shall arrive, in the
fall there will probably be about 5000
quail for the sportsmen
We are apt to consider that stage eff
fects are an invention of the present CEN
fury, says an exchange. This may be so
in some cases, but many of them are ex-
tremely old. The limelight is probably
the most valuable accessory for modern
stage effects. 1t was introduced some time
around 1881 or 1883 and was regarded as
great curiosity. It's expense, however pre-
vented its being used to any extent for
a long period. In 1910 intricate machinery
was regularly used in religious plays for
the stimulation of various natural phe-
ncmena. Earthquakes always seem to
have been the most pleasing and taking
of effects, and we hear of them as far
back as 1852. when Evelyn refers to a pup
pet show in which an earthquake effect
was used. The old paper snow for winter
effects is largely abandoned and in FIR nee
waste clippings of glove manufacturers
are used instead The white-glove clip
pings fall better In the air than small
pieces of paper, and they cling better to
the scenery and to the actors garments
as they descend. The ordinary nautical
effects are of considerable antiquity Full
rugged ships were in Use in Paris as far
back as 1713.
Ancient tradition-which, unfortun-
ately, we have no means of verifying
ranks woman pre-eminently as an inven-
tor, and the Chinese continue to worship
Siling-chi the goddess of silk worms in
cOmmemoration of the discovery ~ sill
by one of their expresses 1000 years be-
fore the Christian era. In India there is
a temple, known as the Light of the
World, dedicated to Nourmahal, the gift
ed Princess who first gave to the world
cashmere shawls and the perfume altar
of roses, says Frank Leslie's Monthly. 1t
is a;so alleged that gauze was first invent