The Savannah morning news., 1900-10-01
ITEMS or INTEREST.


In the past year. according 10 author
Ivy Harvard. Yale. Columbia. Princeton.
Pennsylvania and Cornell Universities ex-
pended &soi,2D on athletics.
Free lectures given under the auspices
Of the New York city department Of ed
ucatlon snow an increase 10 attendaute %
1858 during the last winter and sprlns,
az compared with the same period OF q
year before
--Paulscu. the Danish inventor has pro
daced successful tclcphonograph. II
records al messages received during th'
absence Of a subscriber and gives them
Gus hours or days afterwards, when he
holds the trumpet TO his ear.
a Vienncse dentist. while experiment
Ing al the Hygenio Institute at Wurz-
burg. claims 20 have discovered the sue
eessful application OF electricity for the
destruction Of bacteria. II Is said that
the treatment ~ very simple.
June e. 1870. there were seven,y-two
war-ships Under construction in the United
Kingdom. afty-four being for the British
government. sixteen OF the vessels are
being built in royal dockyards. and the
remaining nfty-six In private yards.
The British government has suppress
ed the district messenger companies and
transferred the business done by them 10
the postofiice on the ground that the
companies are encroaching on the tho pre-
negatives Of the state. which claims
monopoly OF the conveyance of messages
by letter and by wire
Marie Ronge. German lady, who was
horn IN London and now resides in Wur-
temberg. has found an original way Of
utilizing her fine library. She writes 20
school teachers. especially 10 rural re-
gions. 20 ascertain their taste In the way
OF reading and then sends them parcels
OF her books 10 BE- returned az her ex-
penso after they have been read.
The famous professor Of jurisprudence.
senator Pesslna, who Is regarded as the
foremost living authority in Italy upon
criminal law. did more than any Of his
contemporaries 10 secure the total aboli-
zion Of capital punishment IN his father
land But the renowned scholar has been
30 deeply moved by the recent assasslna-
ton OF King Humbert that he has Just
published 'recantstion'' Of MS former
opposition 10 the death punishment in oil
cases and advises thas u should b.
adopted in the case Of political murder
ers"
1t Is a pretty hard story 10 swallow,
SAYS the New York Times yet one OF the
buyers for nrm in the broadway mil
hnery district vouches for 1t and feels
hurt II you do not believe Il. This ro-
mancer has it that there Is q butchery
in Northwestern OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
VILE Is the name Of the piace-where
in qaf
az Spring chikens are produced here
abouts all the year round. He claims that
the young crows are kept for eight weeks
at the end Of which time they are decap-
itated. and their heads sold 20 the millin-
era here for use Ia the decoration Of wo-
mems hats and bonnets. He doesn't say
where the crows eggs are gathered.
some interesting comparisons as to
the fatalities of war are deducted from
the literature Of the subject. NJ. de Bloch.
H. his book estimates that taking the
effectiveness OF the rifle OF 1871 as 100.
the efficiency OF the present French rife
g. 40. that OF the present German rife
f74 and that OF the newest American
rifle 900 This assertion that the krag-
Jorgensen 8 more than twice as effective
as the German and French rifles - uneN-
pcctedly complimentary to our ordnance
arrangements. But there Is no DOUBT OF
the main point-thc immense increase ~
range and rapidiiN OF hfe-oVer the tHles
OF 1871. which. In their 3ufn, were revo-
lntionary as compared win ahe HusAeu
OF the hrst hah century.
-.DownfoVfD Yesterday saws a Nome
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found sad-faced Individual clothed in
spotless black and looking YEARLY on
while the shutters we're oeing put upon
his establishment. am an undertnkeF
he said. ana l am zone up. why /
would have more business ~ one niue
town In the states IN one month than
have had here 10 three. why, Nome =
the most miserably healthy city Tor tts
size IN the world. Ihere nave Deen Just
nirsy dfuths ~ the CITY OF Nome Nonns
man. Just thirty deaths al summer ana
iive Undertaking establishments w against
them. what do YOU thlnk OF mat On
toll you. the place ~ an internal SWIM
die. and am going out wiTe nave
money let 70 get OUT on Ihe last smut
ter went up Win click "nd the san
taceh man plodded wearilN down me
street through the mua 20 get ms uehet
on the next outgoing steamer.
Owners ana captains Of steamboats,
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,ora, river arc IN ouanaarv over the
application Of the virginia separate coach