The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

cans nave taken advantage OF this TACT
| in prescribing it for feminine patients
whom they wish 10 temporarily isolate
from society.
AT the present time there are between
500 and 1000 men in New York who are
worth a million dollars or more. In 1875.
when New York had popula ton OF 10000
there were only nineteen men who We're
| assessed at s1000o or more, and the high
est assessment was only 100000.
Statistics just completed by the Income
Tax Commission of Great Britain show
tflat out of a total adult male population
of 12,j00,0O mere than 100000 earn less
than $3.50 a year. The income tax is col
lected at The rate of 16 cents on each s.
above $3.50, and the total tax, which last
year amounted to nearly Sl00, 600, was
contributed by mol more than 100000 peo>
pie.
There are thirty-two regiments in the
German army OF which all the officers are
members of the nobility. including Princes.
Counts, Dukes, Marquises, and BarOns
To offset these aristocratic regiments there
are thirteen regiments of which not
single officer is related to the nobility in
any way. There is a rivalry between the
two groups which in time of war, it IS
considered would make them both more
daring and formidable.
Golf enthusiasts will be glad to learn
of the invention of a new machine which
will enable them to keep their skill in
driving up to the top notch during the
winter The new device consists of a bali
at the end of an arm, attached TO an up
right. When the bah, which, when in Its
normal position, rests TWO inches Il boVC
the surface of the floor. is struck, it flies
around at the end of the arm and regis
ters the number of hundreds of yards it
would have gone if il had been driven
from a "tee" on the links In this way
one may even improve in driving during
the winter months and so out next spring
ready to surprise the experts.
An American piano. retailing here for
5000, fetches $500 in the TransvaaI. says
the New York Press. An organ worth So
mere sells for $50 there. American sad
dies and harness don't suit the Beers. the
former being too high-priced and the lat
ter 100 fine for the rough overland work o.
trekkng. In the canned meat line Aus
tralia so far underseils Chicago that our
packers are in despair. Our manufactur-
ers sold over 1000 tons of barber wire in
1897 TO the Transvaal, but strange to say.
The fence posts came from Germany ana
England Four ice plants were furnished
for the Kimberley mines by Chicago, haV-
ing an aggregate capacity of twenty tons
a day, besides 100000 cubic feet of cold
storage.
The London Daily Mail says if an ae-
rial machine was capable of travelling at
any rate up to 1000 miles an hour trav-
eler in il, starting westward from London
at speed of 600 miles an hour would ar
rest the progress of time. If he started
at 10 a. m. it would always be to him 10
a. m. Should he find his amending day
monotonous, he could reverse his direction
and get a quick succession of short days
and nights of some six hours duration
but he could regulate the length by the
speed of his machine. Suppose he trav-
eled from London one night a 10 O'Clock,
westward, at a speed of LOCO miles per
hour. He would soon experience the SEN
sation of seeing the sun rising in the west.
where it had set a short time before.
1t is said as much as $4,000 per annum
is expended by various transatlantic
steamers 10 overcome the friction caused
by foulng, while the cost of docking a
large steamer twice a year would near-y
double the total loss a a penalty for I'M
protected bottoms. A report mas recently
been submitted to the United States gov
eminent a four-years test of Cranes sys-
TEN of copper plating huils The ocean
tug Assistance was electro plated and
launched in 1895. Recently it was docked
and examined and it was found its bot
tom was absolutely free from marine
growths. It is claimed an iron vessel with
speed of twenty knots if coated with
copper, will have a speed of twenty one
knots.
DR. Thomson, in Knowledge, studies
differences of hight in man and establishes
three categories: % Tall races that meas
ure feet inches and over. This group
Io
negroes. some Polynesians. some Ameri-
can Indians, Scaudinavians, Scotch and
English. (2) Races of medium hight va
rying from feet 8 inches to teet
inches. CD Short races, having a hight
of feet inches or under. Among the
short races are the Malays. Lapps. Bush
men, lIottentots, Negritos Cor dwarf Ash
attic negroes, and the Akkar According
TO Sergi people of a hight not exceeding
feet II inches are found in Sicily ana
Sardinia, where they form IA per CEN,
OF the population. and a correspondence
short race is found in Central Eurooean
Russia.
The Indian corn propaganda al the
Paris Exposition and the conventions re-
Gently held in the West, in The interest of
corn producers. have brought out the fac.
that over twenty important products are
now manufactured from corn saws the
NdiIAOitlid whey dTulSt. one OF the most
important products is distilled spirits tbe
demand for which has increased greatly
since the invention of smokeless Dowder
in the manufacture of which the spirits
are largely used Among the other nro-
ducts made from corn are mixing glucose
crystal glucose, grape sugar anhydrous
grape sugar special sugar, pearl starch
powdered starch, refined grits, fourine
deXtrine. British gum, granulated gum.
gum paste, corn oil, corn oil cake. rnbber
substitute, gluten feed, chop feed. gluten
meal and corn germ. With the presanf
economical methods of manufacture not a
particle of corn is wasted. There is no re-
fuse.
The importance of accurately recording
subterranean movements and tremors was
emphasized by Sir Archibald Geikie in his
presidential address before the Geological
section says the London Chronicle In
many directions, as he pointed out. the
want of accurate numerical data is Sc
rious hlnderance to the progress of geo.