The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

$4,000 sold at auction in Paris recently for
$4,000 after having made fast record.
The Trotter and PAGER regards this fact
as an indication that developed speed" is
valuable in machines as we'll as in horses.
"A grateful public" says the Drug
gists' Circular will put it's hand deep
into its pocket for a contribution to
fund for erecting monument to the man
or woman who will devise some way or
means of remedying the clothes mangHng
evil. We have laws prohibiting the use
of citric acid in lemonade or soda water,
and that acid is made from lemon juice,
and in the small proportions used in bev-
erages is quite harmless. Why not have
law against the use of chemicals on
clothes? If a man steals a shirt he is
sent to the penitentary for a year or so.
If he destroys it's usefulness and returns
the remains he lies out of responsibility
and chuckles in his sleeve at the help
lessness of his victim"
Half the paper money circulated in
the West" says an Omaha man quoted by
the New York Tribune. sis nasty and dan
gerous to health. 1t is filthy lucre in
literal sense. Why can't we have clean
money? What's the use of handEcapping
prosperity? Printing doesn't cost much.
We ought TO have money factory some
where west of the Mississippi. New
IlOHey SHOULD De on llG bargain counter VI
all the Western banks If the bubonic
plague ever strikes this country our paper
currency will beat all records of rats as
germ carriers. A dollar bill can do more
than ten rats. 1t moves in better society.
The one dollar bill will make the bubonic
plague al easy to get in the homes of the
rich as in the novels of the poor"
Lovers of the exhilaradng cocktail,
which cheers and makes a difference in
the morning, ought to be interested in
the experiments which are being made i'll
this country to produce a good Vermuth,
says the New York Commercial 1--WE
have succeeded in making passably good
quality of vermuth," said liquor man,
but am afraid it will be a long time
before We can equal the foreign article.
The best vermuth comes from Turin,
Italy, and the next in quality is made in
Marseiles. In fact, about ell the YER
muth sold is made in these two cities. The
latter named city produces practically all
that comes from France. 1t is not easy
to arrive at the quantity of Vermuth inn
ported to the United States for the rea-
son that il comes classified as wine The
secret of its manufacture is closely guard
ded in both France and Italy, and it
would not surprise me If We were making
a first-class quality of champagne in the
United States before we can make a prime
quality of vermuth.
r'ro ~-o~-eeN establishment Of d.
rect steamship line between Sweden and
/ - u,Alteu .tates is exclung much IN
| terest in commercial circles at Gothen-
burg. The trade between the two coun-
tries is steadily increasing, but is retard-
ed by insufficient transportation facilities
Goods shipped from America to Sweden
must be transshpped in German, Danish
or English ports, mostly the last which
/ fr,nr loIa 1,oA DaIa
and extra handling have often proved in
| furious, particularly to perishable goods
| such as American fruit, etc. Former at
| templs to establish direct steamship COM
| muncation with America have been frus-
| trated by certain English firms DESTROYS
of retaining their position as carriers of
merchandise and passengers. 1t has been
suggested. that the Swedish government
| back up the enterprise and substitute the
! Oo-'~"r-'. 70 tho Man is carried out. the
steamers will run between Stockholm,
aces -..~, 1u.4Il.-o-rS ana the United
States. Prominent business men in both
countries have already expressed sympa-
| thy with the project
The terrible ravages of lead poisoning
among workers in the English potteries
have formed the subject of frequent in
quiries of recent years says an exchange.
In fact. around them has centered a great
| controversy as TO whether present meth
| DDS with the consequent disastrous re-
suits to human life are absolutely neces-
| sary, or whether they might without 100
| serious effect upon the industry give way
| to a less harmful method. Gratifying sue
! cess has attended the application of the
| electrO-medical treatment on a somewhat
| extensive scale 10 the unfortunate men
and women who are suffering from lead
poisoning and its effects. Detailed par
| ticuars of the treatment are rot yet pub
| lie, though they doubtless will be available
| in due course; but there seems to be little
doubt as to the efficiency OF the electrical
| bath treatment, particularly at WolVer-
| hampton, to which town patients have
been sent from the surrounding districts.
! Out of something over thirty cases il is
| stated that three-fourths have been cured
and some other cases, at first considered
| almost hopeless, have shown signs of con-
siderable improvement.
Vice Admiral Jorje Mont who holds
the position of director general of the
Chilean navy, was born at Casablanco in
1915 After a varied and successful career
| at sea he was appointed assistant direc-
| tor general of the navy. He lived constant
| ly on board ship, sailing the north and
| south seas on the Chilean and Peruvian
| coasts In 1877 Admiral Montt made
voyage of instruction to Tahiti. Trans
ferred to the O'Higgins he made a voyage
| to 'Magallanes to put down a military in
| surrection in that convict colony When
| the war broke out against Peru and b.
| livia in 1879 he took an active part in the
| campaign in the north. In 1891 he took
! command of the squadron at the orders
| of the delegates of Congress declaring
a revolution against the constitutional
| president, Senior Jose Manuel Balmaceda
and was nominated president of the revo-
| lutionary council On the termination of
| the, revolution, which was triumph for
| the congressional party, he was elected
| President of the Republic During his
presidency the law of metallic currency
and the law of amnesty were passed. In
1892 he was elected honorary member of
| the Society of Arts and Letters of Mad
rid. and gained. for services to his coun-
| try, various medals and orders.
Horses were the sole guests at a re-
cent dinner given by company of Eng
| ish men and women who tourneyed from
| I don Inf tIa ttr,tr to- 1.