The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-21

Lawson IS now equipped Win lNo
steam fire engines, fourteen patent fire
extinguishers, one hook-and-ladder truck,
two hose carts and 5000 feet of hose, and
| has paid fire department. of twenty men.
a working head of steam is kept on the
engines al all times.
The Victoria Cross, the intrinsic value
of which is penny and one farthing,
or two and a half cents, cannot be accept
ed a pledge by a pawnbroker anywhere
| in Great Britain, under penalty of a heavy
fine. The cross is made from cannon cap
tured from the enemy, and weighs just
three and a half grains less than one
ounce.
There is no curfew ordinance in St.
Louis, but many of the owners of mills
and factories have agreed TO have their
factory or mill whistles blown in the even
ing to warn children when it is time to
go home. The whistles are 90 be blown a.
eight O'Clock in the winter and at nine in
the summer, and the plan will be contin-
ued in operation for year.
Views have been taken of the orchards
of Messrs Miller and Pancake, in the Vi
cinity of Rodney w. Va, for exhibition
at the Paris Exposition. These orchards
are the largest in the world, and contain
250,0 900 peach and plum trees. The owners
planted $4,000 trees last year, and cleared
for planting 1875 acres of timber land.
The first season their orchards began to
bear they shipped 100 carloads of peaches
and plums.
A pet monkey belonging to a son of
the Rev. w. G. Herbert, pastor of the
Caroline Street Methodist Church, of Bal
tmore got into the study of the clergy
man the other evening, opened volume
of the Encyclopedia Britannica, and tore
out sixteen pages of the article on Oar
wins "Origin of Species" Then it turned
to Buffers Analogy, and it was examining
1t with great apparent delight when the
clergyman returned and put a stop TO the
proceedings.
AT a recent meeting of the Paris Acad-
envy of Medicine there was an exhaustive
discussion on the subject OF that widely
spread plague. the influenza, and the beSt
way of treating it. There seemed to be
common agreement that there is no known
specific cure for it, although it will yield
as a rule, 10 ordinary remedies and careful
nursing. DR.. Hubbard, an eminent Parisia
practitioner declared that all the pro
fessed panaceas for the disease were prlc-
tcally valueless. He said that In his per
sonal practice he had found that quinine.
either in suphate or bromide COM
pounds was exceedingly efficacious, an
he expressed unbounded distrust Of mos
of the special remedies and especially Of
anti-pyrine in any form. Dyspepsia he de
cldreu, was especially lidDI6 10 bIlLS vi
an attack of the malady, and he therefore
recommended course of good, plain liv-
ing as a precautionary measure. He also
favored the liberal use of antiseptics to
destroy the omnipresent microbes. A num-
Der of other doctors expressed their gen
eral concurrence with DR.. Hubbard
views.
The Russian government is at presen
| engaged in carrying out an extensive
scheme of emigration to the Far East
With view to encourage this movement
the fares on the Siberian Railway have
been fixed at a merely nominal figure, the
fare from Kieff to KhabaroVsk being re-
| duced far below the limits of profit. 1t
| has offered these facilities in order to d-
| vert the emigrant traffic from the Volun-
! teer fleet to the railways. with the inten
| ton of retaining their vessels exclusively
for the transport of troops, large numbers
| of whom are constantly being shipped
| from Odessa. Thousands of peasants es
| pecially from the famine-strcken dis
tricts, are avaiing themselves of these
| advantages, and will leave for the Usuri
| region during the coming spring. Each
| family possessing 300 rubles will receive
on arrival plot of land gratis, besides
| being accorded other special privileges,
| such as exemption from taxation and the
| grant of seed. The number of applicants
for permission to emigrate by sea has al
ready appreciably decreased, but 1000 In.
| tending settlers are soon to sail from
! Odessa for the Far East. Five cruisers
| and one large vessel of the Russian Steam
| Navigation Company have been assigned
| for their transport.
| "A correspondent of London newspa-
per writing from Cape Town does not
draw a very hopeful picture of the future
of the Beers. Commenting upon the state
ment of Mr.. Selous that they are most
| prolific race and double their numbers
every twenty-five years, he asks how it
! is that their country, after two and half
! centuries of occupation, is one of the most
thinly populated in the world. They q in
creased rapidly in the Transvaal, he says,
mainly by trek, while there were new
| lands to appropriate, but now there is no
more fresh territory for them. He de-
clares that the Transvaal Beers have
been growing poorer for years, and that
in Cape Colony it has long been necessary
to expend public money to provide en-
! ployment for the destitute Boer while the
class of poor whites" is always growing
| larger. In the neighborhood of Krugers-
dorp and Fordsburg, there is white power
| ty, he says, of the most degraded kind
and the extent of II is constantly increas-
! ing. In those districts the Boer popula-
ton is he declares, worse off in many
cases than the Kaffirs. The fact is, he ex-
| plains. that the British and other Euro
peans, Americans, and Australians, who
have trades and industries, are, in all di-
rections, rapidly outstripping the Beers
who depend almost entirely upon cattle
raising, for which they no longer have
sufficient land. Their old occupation of
carriers has been taken from them by the
| railroads.
A new process for producing wine
from grapes, particularly red wine, has
been devised in France, with the result
that a better wine, with more color, more
body and an increased percentage Of al
| cohol, is produced from any grade of
| grapes The process, as described by the
| Scientific American, consists in subjecting
the grapes 10 the action of heat and pres
sure, instead of using them cold under
very slight pressure. BY means of the
heat a complete solution of all the red
coloring matter of the grape in its own
juice is effected. The must" moreover,
is sterilized, so that fermentation is I'M
| der control and q quality OF wine Is oh