The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Arkansas State Board of Health has
been given power to revoke the license of any
physician who is guilty of habitual drunken
ness.
A German Psychologist, who devoted him
self with great patience to the counting OF the
hairs on different heads, to ascertain the aver
age number on a human head found that,
taking four heads of hair of equal weight the
number OF hairs, according to color, was as
follows: red, 10000 black 1913 000 brown,
100000; fair 10000.
A novel advertising card has been issued by
firm which makes a speciality of aluminium
on which is presented a pillar showing the
relative weight of various metals. An alum
1nium tower six inches high weighs less than
q gold tower of a single inch Silver is nearly
half as heavy as gold. and it is about a third
heavier than zinc. One feature in the com
parIsOn, which will be news to most people
who have gone into the subject deeply, is
That silver and lead are almost the same
weight, while copper and brass are both lit
tie lighter. The expression AS heavy as
lead does not seem to have much justihca-
tion in the light of modern science.
Candidates for literary honors and degrees
| have tough time Of it in the Flowery land.
p ng Hung, censor for the Shantung circuit
reports that when he was appointed to patrol
| the gates and precincts of the examination
halls during the recent competition for the
| chulen or provincial graduate degree. held by
special act OF imperial grace at Picking he
| found that although many thousands of the
| candidates behaved decoroTsly and quietly
upon entering the hall yet that there was
| an alarming latitude Of extra time granted by
| the presidents and officers Of the examining
| board to the candidates. According to law
| decreed in previous reigns. students were e.
| Quired at the first set examinations to hand
| in theses and poems not later than
4 O'Clock on the afternoon of the
| next day after entering the eXamna-
| tion halls, No candles are allowed
| TO be given to the candidates and any infrac-
| ton made by overstepping the limit of time
granted as above would re der the examin-
| ing board, proctors, and assistants as well as
| the delinquent candidates themselves liable
| to be denounced to the throne. Nowadays
memOrialSt desires to note, and during the
recent examinations especially, candidates
lntrlnged the regulations during the first set
| OF examinations by going on with their work
| late into the night Of the next day, and in
stead OF handing their papers in in the after
noon did not do so until midnight, or about
eight hours beyond the prescribed limit And
| then the censor goes on to tell how up-
rOariously the students carried on, lust as
AmertCa an boys would do In fact, students
are the same the world over it would seem
| from this.
1t is a curious and rather startling fact that
next to the articles entering into food and
clothing, paper is the most universally used
commodity in the world says the Washing
ton star 1t would be an almost impossible
task TO ind IN any civilized community per
son or business concern that does not TO a
greater or less degree make use of paper in
some OF Its various forms. Some philosopher
has said that the civilization and DrOSneritv
OF country may be measured by its con
sumption OF paper. If this is as fair an index
as it seems upon reflection to be- reasona HE
statistics prove the United States to have
dlStanced all the other nations OF the world in
the race of true development. Perhaps no
| line of business has had a more remarkahle
growth in the United States the past ten
years than the paper-making industry This
is true in all branches, hut especially so in
in the line of book and news print papers. The
American people are a nation of readers
ana the rapidly decreasing prices of books
and newspapers have greatly increased the
consumption OF paper in these two lines
One or two cents will purchase a mass of
reading matter, in the form of our great
dallieS, consisting of from eight to sixteen
pages, while IL to % cents will purchase hand
somely bound and attractive books of stand
ard ana popular authors. The daily ODtnut nj
news print paper In the United States is about
l,20O or 800 tons. just think of l25 or 100
carloads OF newspapers mentally deyoured
each day in this country. The production of
news print is larger than any other grade,
That of book paper is probably as much as
1000 tons and of writing $50 tons each dailv
1t will be interesting here to quote some ~
the figures OF the paper industry ia the
United States, as compiled bv the pa nar
Trade Journal. The gross daily capacity of Ina
paper mills Of the United States In Operation
during lSE23, for all kinds and grades NJ
paper was estimated at about 10000 tons or
TINS amount nearly $500 tons represented
news print and book paper, 800 tons Wran
ping paper, $50 tons strawboard 450 tons writ.
ing paper, and almost 2,4C0 tons Of the various
other kinds and graccs. The states which
rank first in the production Of paper are New
York, Maine, Massachusetts Wisconsin,
Pennsylvania. Ohio and Illinois, From these
seven states comes nearly three fourths the
entire paper supply of the country. Nv far
the greater part Of this vast output is con.
sume1 in the United States-the greatest
paperuslng country in the world. In foraign
a firm footing sie