The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Three German steamship lines touch
at Morocco harbors, and nearly all the
export business is done by them. Some
German newspapers are already looking
forward to a future partition of that
country by European governments.
Manila is as gay as the climate per-
mits. Everyone likes TO look at his best,
especially during the late afternoon and
evening. The drive along the Luneta dur
ing the hours around shutdown is a scene
kaleidoscope in color. Circumstances per-
hitting, there is plenty of social life in
the evening.
james Mennt. now in New York City
Hospital. Blackwells' Island, has the
largest head in the world. 1t is 81 and one
eighth inches in circumference, as against
% for the average. Yet he is only four
feet one inch in hight. His trunk is built
on gigantic lines, but his legs are very
short and thin.
-Chicagos fire losses for 1899 are now
closely estimated at S575O. 900. These are the
figures as advanced by the officials of the
Chicago Underwriters Association, and
taking the first six months record it is noe
improbable that they are approximately
correct. The income of the companies for
premiums is estimated at 100000.
Referring to the shell factory of the
Beers recently destroyed at Johannes
burg the Electrician, of London, states
that all the machinery in the plant was
driven by electric power, and that origi-
nally it was the largest engineering
works of the kind in South Africa. the
machinery alone having cost 100000.
in Paris it has been customary for cy-
clists to go to the nearest restaurant and
to initiate their tires with the help of the
carbonic acid apparatus which is used to
give a head TO the beer, but il is found
that pneumatic tire inflated with car
bonic gas soon loses its resilency, and the
gas escapes with remarkable rapidity.
The outlook for the fax industry in the
northwest is described as hopeful by the
Minneapolis Tribune Last year some
800, 600 acres were sown to this crop in
North Dakota, and the yield of seed was
in tine neighborhood of 1900, 900 bushels.
By jump in the price of seed the far
mers were well remunerated, but there
was practically no market for the straw,
that being quite as much of a waste as
wheat straw, and much of it being burned
as refuse. 1t was good straw too so rep
resentatives of a fax fiber company of
Boston and London declared and on their
recommendation flax fiber mill with a
capacity for working up 1000 tons of
straw per month, has been erected in
Fargo. This will give the farmers of the
state a market 90 that extent for what
was formerly a waste product. With the
seed and the straw both merchantable,
the farmers expect to do well raising flax
The Fargo concern is to manufacture
high7grade linen writing papers, and it il
believed that if such papers can be made
from the straw grown in that region.
all kinds of linen fabrics can be made
also. If these expectations should be
realized more fiber mills are assured for
North Dakota, and Northern Minnesota
has hopes of also being prominent in this
new industry.
Elk Secretary Sherman's name will go
down in history attached like BANDS to
a silver law which he did not write. The
Conger bill. based on Secretary WINDOWS
plan for issuing notes against silver bull
lion deposited in the Treasury and re-
deeming the notes in bullion on demand
passed the House in the Fifty-hrst Con-
gress, and in the Senate was stricken ont
and replaced by a free coinage bill When
the conferees were named, Mr. Morrill,
who was chairman of the Senate Com
mittee on Finance, asked to be excused
from serving on account of i'll health. and
Senator Sherman, who stood second on
the committee, was appointed in his
stead, with Mr.. Jones of Nevada and Mr.
Harris of Tennessee as colleagues The
compromise measure, dictated by the sill
yer barons of New ada and other mining
camp states. was christened with Mr.
Sherman's name because of his accident
al seniority in the conference; this asso-
citation has been subject of great cha
grin to him, and he was among the most
energetic workers for the repeal of the
obnoxious purchase clause in the fall of
1898 Mr. Sherman is the putative author
of another measure which seems to have
accomplished pretty nearly everything
except what ii was ostensibly designed 10
do This is the famous federal antitrust
law. Mr. Sherman did introduce a bill
looking to the restriction of the tendency
to industrial combination, but 1t was re-
ferred to the judiciary committee OF the
Senate, and was there ripped to pieces and
made over by Senators Edmunds and
Vest, TO whom belongs whatever credit
or blame attaches to its authorship in the
form in which IT passed. II
seems. therefore. to be a dangerous
precedent-this citing of laws, in formal
state papers. by the names which the
public have come to associate with them.
It gives an air of authenticity to these
colloquial titles, and to that extent is la
ble 10 help crystalize into history false
impression derived, in too many instances
from personal or partisan prejudice.