The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

&dCChSidiib ID DtlhS gradually NOh-
verted into a large orchard. The Austria
liam orange in particular has great fu-
ture, as it ripens at a time when Spain,
Italy and California cannot provide che
fruit.
Massachusetts savings banks have
gained SIS, $50, 124S7 in deposits during the
past year This surpasses the gain in any
previous year, and stands as a high water
mark of industrial prosperity in the Old
Bay State.
Two plump infants comprise the fam
lily of Mr.. and Mrs. C. L. Cartmil of
Owingsville, Ky. Della May, aged years,
weighs $50 pounds, and Willie, aged 4,
weighs 30 pounds. At birth Della weigh
ed pounds and the other Z.
Princeton University will soon have
monument on its campus erected TO al
ma Mater" The monument will be the
work of Thomas Shields Clarke, a gradu-
ate of the university and will be present
from him to his alma mater.
Russia is being opened up to wonderful
engineering possibilities. All of it's great
rivers are being measured and surveyed,
and all knowledge concerning them digest
ed An intricate system of connecting ca
nails is projected that will cobweb the en-
pire.
The Minnesota Valley Historical Socie-
ty has decided 10 build a granite shaft fif-
ty-two feet high TO the memory of Indians
who befriended white settlers during the
Sioux rebellion of 1862. 1t will be located
on state land near the village Of Morton,
RenVille county.
The new military motor cycle is a ter
rible engine of war The machine is driv-
en- by an automatic petroleum motor and
mounts a twenty-seven-pound automatic
Maxim gun capable of discharging GOO
rounds per minute while travelling along
at the rate of fifteen miles an hour
1t seems that in the present day Arabs
who are obliged to traverse the sandy
wastes of Arabia depend TO large extent
upon angels food both for themselves
and for their camels. The mamma is in real
ity fungus which is found in great guam
titles on the sand after rain.
The first academic course in landscape
architecture at an American college will
be inaugurated at Harvard at the begin
ming of the next collegiate year. The
course will cover four years and will in
clude architecture, landscape gardening,
fine arts botany, agriculture and chemis-
try.
Chemical examinations made in the la
boratory of the University of Urbana, IN.
have shown that soil in which for twenty
four years Indian corn has been annually
raised showed 30 per cent. more exhaus-
ton than soil on which for the same length
of time there had been a rotation of crops.
The direction of the meteorological OBJ
servatory on Mount Blanc has been con-
sidering the advsab ility of installing the
Marconi wireless telegraphy system upon
the mountain. The ordinary system of
telegraphy is used normally, but the great
snow drifts have played havoc with the
telegraph wires.
The steel rail factories of the United
States have sold enough rails for next
years delivery to keep them running full
time for about nine months. There are
large advance orders in most other branch
es of the iron and steel industry and
prices, instead of showing any tendency
to react, are still advancing.
The New York infant born to a for
tune takes his airing nowadays in the
newest thing in English baby carriages.
1t is called the princess Victoria" and
In price 1t ranges from $50 to SO. 1t is
sold at swagger English place uptown
and is warranted to be the kind of thing
used in the British royal family.
Liberia, having obtained an income
from royalties paid by the English rubber
syndicate, is now again paying interest
on her debt of 100000 on which she de,
faulted twenty-five years ago. The ar
rears of interest have been cleared off by
an agreement Of the creditors to receive
$4,000 as payment in full of all back in
terest.
Rome is to have a subway Through
the Quirinal hill to the slopes Of the vi
minal and Esquiline. The tunnel will be
hfty-three feet wide, with tracks for car
rages electric cars and foot passengers.
An electric street railroad from the Por-
ia del PoDolo to the Porta San Giovanni
will pass through it. The engineers give
out that it will take only seven months
to build the tunnel.
For some time the younger members
of the Quaker congregation in Plalnheld.
N. j., have wished to introduce steam
heat electric lights and other modern
comforts in their meeting house, and re-
Gently brought the matter up in meeting.
After an earnest debate on il the congre-
CATION decided to continue with the old
fashioned box wood stove and oil lamps.
as they have done since 1777.