The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Avo PEI SOHS iOSl tHtlT lives OIl
the Great Lakes during the past season.
F'ifty-six We're drowned by the laundering
of ships, and thirty-two were lost over
board. No lives were lost on any of the
regular lines.o
An ice company which has just been
incorporated at New Haven, Conn, mas
announced that it intends to use automo-
biles for the delivery of ice next summer.
1t also proposes to put large freight cars
on the local street railways to convey ice
from the lakes and ice houses to the CEN
trail distributing points.
An absent-minded Western represen-
tative was seen to hurry up to a parcel
mail box in Washington the other day and
carefully deposit therein scrap of paper
which he carried in one hand. In the othe?
was a bundle of papers ready for mailing,
and these he hastily threw into a garbage
barrel which happened to be standing on
the curb near the parcel box.
james F. Carey of the Massachusetts
Legislature has introduced into that body
bill which provides that no agent shah
sbe permitted to enter the premises of the
state house unless he wear badge bear
ing the word Legislative Agent" or Leg
islative Counsel" The badges are to be
provided by the sergeant farms, and
must be cOnspicuously displayed by the
wearer. The bill is intended to correct
some of the evils of lobbying.
Not very long ago no women were en-
ployed in the Aston Library, says the New
York Commercial. AT present there are
at least Dozen and they know their bus
mess extremely well. The majority are
young and all have a scholarly, cultiva-
ted appearance. They move around as
noiselessly as nurses in hospital, and if
they indulge in little chats now and then
it is en- PEASANT and when there is a luli
in business. While it must be admitted
that all the employees of the Aston Library
are courteous and intelligent, the women
are especially 50.
A notice has been posted in the offices
of eight Chicago milk companies offering
$500 reward to the ten drivers who shall
before Jan. 1, 1901, return the greatest
number of milk bottles of the company
above those given out to regular custom
erS. 1t is stated that since the company
began the delivery of milk in bottles al
least II 900 of these bottles have been re
tanned by the customers. The bottles are
worth about 5 cents each to the company.
Get the bottles wherever you see them"
was the instruction to drivers. Women
keep them for preserves and pickles. New
er mind what is in the bottle, let the driver
throw it out on the floor, If it is straw
berry jam, so much the worse for the
jam
The enormous steppes of Russia, on
which range great herds of cattle, are COW
cred with snow for a least six months cut
of every year The cattle live upon The
tail punches of grass which project above
the snow. The long continued glare from
these snow fields, il has been found makes
the animals blind, in which condition they
are with difficulty able to find the neces-
Sary amount of food. A large Russian
cattle raiser, with an eye at once to profit
and philanthropy, has, accordingly in
vented snow glasses for the protection of
cattle's eyes. The glasses are made OF
smoked glass. and are fastened about the
animals heads by straps In a single herd
it is reported, there are 40000 cattle which
wear these queer spectacles. AT least so
we are informed by the Chicago Tribune.
1t is an interesting fact. says the New
York Commercial that all the excessively
rich men in the United States Senate
made their money in mines and mining
Senator Clark of Montana, by all odds the
richest man in Congress. worth anywhere
from 100000 600 to twice that, made all his
money in mines. Senator Hanna's $12 0O0,-
900 was largely derived from iron mines
Senator Jones of Nevada is worth $40 900
600 in gold and silver mines, and Senate
Elkins of West Virginia is rated at S7,000-
CO., mostly made in coal and iron mining
opera lions. Mcconnell. from the Scran-
ton district is the richest man in the
House. His wealth, estimated at $40 600
0G0 was all dug out of the coal mines in
Pennsylvania. Congressman Joseph c.
Sbley is also a very rich man, the source
of whose wealth is petroleum. Old Mas
ter Earth is beautiful parent, and the
sons she has endowed the most literally
somehow have a strong prediction for
sratecraft. or
In reply to a recent statement in the
London Times that the Oceanic of the
White Star Line, is not wholly English.
a correspondent Of that paper says: The
Oceanic like all the preceding White Star
liners, was designed by the late Sir Ed
ward Harland before he died. few years
ago. | happen to know that Mr.. Ismay
whose admiration for Sir Edward Har-
land could hardly be exceeded, subse-
quently decided to adhere to Sir. Edward
Hariands design l need not point out
that Erward Harland was a Yorkshire
man, and, therefore so far as the design
of the Oceanic is concerned she is Who'll
iy English Your correspondent says that
the ships of the White Star Line have
been epoch-making.' II is therefore only
fair to recognize what is an indisputable
fact-namely, that Sir Edward Harland
not only designed the first Oceanic, the
pioneer vessel of the fleet, but that he
also designed the second Oceanic, the YES
sci which represents the eliminating tri-
umph of this engineering genius"
Some interesting fossil remains were
discovered in Ness county, Kansas. One
specimen is of, unusual form, and was
claimed by the owner to be a fossilized
gall sac or bladder 1t was found quite
near remains of a tylosaurus mosasaurs
Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn was asked
about it by the Scientific American and
in his reply called attention to a fact
which it is well to bear in mind. He says:
The mosasaur is so badly injured that
it is of no value to any one. | hope you
will disseminate the view as widely-as
possible that the first thing to do after
discovering a fossil is not to dig it out
but to leave it alone and to write to some
repre- sentative museum, either the Amer-
can Museum of Natural History or the
United States National Museum, report