The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-18


has been laid to St. Helena, and the cable
was landed Nov. %, 1899 The present tar
if is S1.70 word, but on the final COM
pletion of the line the rate will be 81
cents 10 England.
An Indiana man claims to have a
brother in England who is the father Of
thirty-two children, all by one marriage
Three times there were quadruplets, four
times triplets, and twins appeared on the
scene twice. All of the children except
two are said to be living.
The question as to the occurrence of
animal life at high attitudes has recently
been brought forward by a paper in
knowledge for January by the Rev. j.
NJ. Bacon, in which his experiences in
making a balloon ascent last November
to observe the Leonid meteor showers
is described. He states that at a hight
of 5000 feet a large blue fly was noticed
buying noisily about the balloon, and it
IS question whether the insect was car
ried up in the car or was flying in the
air at that altitude. A member of, the
Alpine Club, Mr.. F. T. Wethered, states
that he has seen a butterfly scudding
across the summit of the Grandes
Jorasses at a hight of 1879 feet, and
sees no reason why the fly in question
should not have been on the wing M. c.
Flammarion tells of white butterflies fly
ing about his balloon when at a hight of
$3.50 feet Mr.. Bacon's experience has
been, however, that all winged creatures
are left behind long before the first thou
sand feet is reached.
Anarchists, pops and anti-manufactur
ing organizations can ruin any city. I'D
like to put my automobile factory in Chi
cago," said Joseph Letter the other day.
1T would give me many advantages which
could not be enjoyed in the East while
the freight rates would also cut a figure
but l won't do it-not while the labor sit
uation in Chicago remains in its present
fermented condition. A company in which
Lam interested is now establishing a plant
in New Jersey which viii employ 5000
men. l know that the saving in freight
rates would be about one-half of l per
cent. year on the whole business if the
factory was in Chicago. That factory
placed here would be a good thing for
both the company and the workmen, but
what security would we have that our bus
mess would not be continually broken up
by labor troubles? If I could have the
assurance that labor troubles would not
crop up 20 spoil my business, would pre-
fer Chicago to- any other place. l would
move that Providence factory here as
quickly as possible. But who can give
any SuCn assurance
Postmaster Dickerson of Detroit and
the Free Press of that city are respon-
sible for the publication of the report
that the postoffice department. is serious
ly considering the advisabiity of putting
out a new type of postage stamp, on
which shall be engraved Inc name of the
issuing office. 1t is said that the Post
master General is personally interested in
innnVafiOI ha int
ton to engrave the name of the city on
the stamps, not merely stamp it on them
as is done at present in the case of the
Philippine, Guam, Hawaiian, Porto Ricln
and Cuban stamps. Probably none bu.
the offices of first second and third class
will be so favored. the report continues,
the fourth-class offices, whose very exist
ence as Offices is threatened by the rural
delivery system now being developed, to
continue to use the unadorned stamps
The chief aim sought, it is explained, is
to prevent the undue swelling of the re-
ceipts of offices with the accompanying in
crease of unearned salary. If the project
should be carried out it would, says the
New York Post, cause a futter in phi
lateHc circles.
An artist whose studio is not so far
from Union Square has a strange love for
the awful says the New York Mail and
Express. He likes especially to terrify
visitors with relics of the dead. His
latest triumph is a human skull. 1t is
mounted on a post and between its teeth
is stuck a cigar Two teeth are knocked
out and that, with the opening for the
cigar, gives passage to several pet white
mice that make the skull their home. To
the inner end of the cigar is fitted a rub
Der tube ending in a bulb, which lies on
a table. When visitor comes in, the
artist offers a cigar and while the guest
is lighting it, invites the skull to smoke,
too, and lights the cigar that the teeth
hold. He then quietly joins his visitor
in a smoke, but surreptitiously works the
rubber bulb. The cigar in the skull
mouth smokes away merrily and proves
awfully fascinating to the visitor who
cannot take his eyes off it, Presently the
agitation of the tube disturbs the mice
and they begin running in and out of
the mouth. That finishes most of the
visitors, and they do not wait for any ex-
PLANTATION.
The Nebraska law, patterned after
statutes in some of the Eastern states,
permitting the closing of small outlying
schools and the transportation of the pu-
pills at the public expense to a large and
graded central school, is working well,
from both an economic and an education
al standpoint. Omaha furnishes two good
illustrations Of the money saving. One
school which has been closed had been con-
Quoted at an expense of SS5 a month.
Transportation of the pupils in this school
costs $6.6 a month. the street railroad
companies furnishing tickets at two
thirds Of the regular rates Another
school, now closed. had cost 800 a month
for the education of the seventeen pupils
sent there, nearly $50 year for each pu-
pill, while the annual expense per child
in the large schools of the city is from
SIG to $19. In the opinion of the supern-
tendent the change is not only desirable
from the standpoint of economy, but he
says it is also for the good of the pupils,
as they receive more attention than is
possible where there is necessarily too
much punching of classes. 1t is a rather
peculiar fact that whatever circumstances
have been made against the closing of
these outside schools have not been based
on the good of the pupils. but on the eff
feet it might have on real estate in such
localities.
The preservation of railroad ties by in