The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

of Bohemia precinct in Saunders county,
Nebraska, for twenty-four consecutive
years.
War correspondents in South Africa
say that the land in the vicinity Of Kim
berley is so sulphurous that even ants
cannot exist upon it.
The directors of the Paris Exposition
have received 1900 requests for permits
sion to erect refreshment and newspaper
booths on the grounds.
Prof. Beal, of the United States de-
partment of agriculture. calculates that
one species of sparrow (the tree sparrow
destroys So tons of noXious weed seeds
in seven months in Iowa alone.
The City Council of Cambridge, Mass,
has decided to hold an all-day celebration
on the 125th anniversary of Washington's
taking command of the Continental army,
which event occurred under the old Wash
tngton elm, Cambridge, on July 3, IT'S.
Cooper, Watts and Firth are the three
Oldest Royal Academicians. The eldest of
the trio is Mr.. Cooper, who is 81 years Of
age, and the youngest is Mr.. Firth, who
recently celebrated his S1st birthday. All
three veterans are still enthusiastic paint
ers.
"A new Johann Strauss is in the field. He
is a son of Edouard Strauss and a nephew
of Johann the Second, and has already
composed an operetta. He is going 10
start this year on trip around the worl
with johann Strauss Vienna orchez-
ira"
Rev. DR.. Ransford of st. Georges
Episcopal Church, New York, says he be-
lieves that the best thing 10 be done
IL,
them love of country first. Religious SEN
timenI will then, he says. follow natur-
ally.
The popularity of ex-Gov. Pingree of
Michigan among the Poles and Hungari-
ans of Detroit is in a large measure due
to his ability to speak the languages of
these people When he started out to
work among them he first took lessons in
their tongues.
Miss Bessie Shirley of Salt Lake City
owns and edits mining journal. Though
she is but 10 years old she established the
paper herself and has made a success of
it. She makes weekly trips to all the
neghboring mining centers in search of
news, and wields a great deal of infiu-
ence.
The sixteen electric floats built in New
Orleans at a cost of $42 900 have been sold
to Denver for an exhibition there, and
they will then be sent to Wichita, Kan,
for the next street fair. they are the first
electric floats built in the world, and were
used with great success at the carnival in
New Orleans.
The German Emperor is conservative
in his literary tastes. He likes Shakes
peare best of all authors, and has several
editions of the poets works in his library,
both in English and German. These he
has read and reread and read again until
he knows most of the notable passages
by heart, from which he constantly quotes
at consldera bic length. His favorite play
is Hamlet"
The fact that the United States have
become the worlds greatest producer of
coal and at cost of production far below
that of any other part of the world, is at
tracing great attention. especially from
British producers and consumers of coal.
The present output of the United States
is larger than that of the United King
dom, and coal can be bought in America
at the pit mouth at $l18 ton. as against
$1.36 paid in Great Britain.
In the province of Matanzas, Cuba, at
Ceiba Mocha, an industrial relief farm is
carried on by a New England relief So
ciety. lis first crop of early potatoes,
planted last November, is reaching the
markets, and is said to be practically the
same as Bermudas. They are of a bright,
rosy color and excellent flavor. Nearly all
the cultivating and harvesting were done
by war widows and orphans. During the
instruction 5000 reconcentrados were
crowded together at Ceiba Mocha. Eight
hundred are left. Five thousand are In
a cemetery near by.
The electrical energy required for
the many uses Of the Paris Exposition
will be produced by condensing steam en-
gines directly coupled TO common shaft.
There are thirty-eight groups of electric
generators, nineteen belonging to the
French section and The rest in the foreign
section. The total output of all is Pops
kilowatts. All Of the electrical energy
produced by these groups will be used for
general lighting, power. and freight and
pass elevators. Power for special
Lighting, special enterprises, and for res
taurants, theaters, and other public places
will be furnished by private companies.
"A landslide of remarkable proportions
followed the recent earthquake in San ia
cinto county, in Southern California a
tract covering coo acres on San Jacinto
noun tain and 1000 feet above the sea level
slid $50 feet down the mountain and filled
the small valley with debris. Great mass
es of granite were split by crevlces four
feet wide and seventy-five feet deep. The
falling mass was upheaved as it fell, CIV
ing the earth the appearance of a mighty
convulsion. The theory of local geologists
is that a vacuum under the mountain,
caused by drawing off water for irrigation,
became filed with gases and that the ex-
plosion Of these gases tore through the
crust Of the mountain and produced the
earthquake and landslide.
An electric street railway will be in
operation in Geneva Switzerland, within
six months. Its construction being in
charge Of Stephen D. Field Of New York
II. e But ers and his associates of San
Francisco have secured a charter under
the tile Of "Ccmoagnie Genevoise des
Tramways Electriques." and have OBJ
tanned concessions to lay racks on some
OF the finest strC cts and quays of the
city. The American overhead system of
trolleys is being used, as wei as the
American system Of Underground cables.
The charter OF the company requires that
the materials used in construction be
bought either from Swiss makers or from