The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Cincinnati. The company has fitted up
room with drawing apparatus and instruc-
ton will be given In che company's time
The printers' strike at Amsterdam has
had peculiar result in the journalistic
world. From April Is to April 30 no Am
sterdam newspaper appeared, but from
that date the managers of nine newspa-
pers agreed 10 print a single sheet, cali
Ing it the Extraordinary Journal.
M. Danysz of The Pasteur Institute in
Paris has found microbe which will
wipe rats out of existence. He has tried
the effect of his microbe in warehouses,
farms and other places, and in 80 per
cent. of cases the rats completely dis
appeared
A check for ST, 564. 44.44 drawn on the
National Bank Of Commerce of New
York, in part payment for the Third Ave
nue. Railroad bonds, by Kuhn, Loeb &
Co, the purchasers, is said to be the
largest ever made in this country in
business transaction.
The Boston Transcript says that the
trees which suffered most from the raw
ages of caterpilars last summer were the
first to bud this year and that their
foliage is much thicker than that of the
trees which were not stripped of their
leaves when others suffered
A prehistoric city, covering several
hundred acres, has been discovered in
Mexico. The ruins We're covered with
earth, but the excavations already made
show that the discovery is one of great
impor lance from an archaeological point
Of view.
A Capitol guide. showing party
he faVU Ha vs.
ago, halted them before the statue of
John Hancock, and after they. had ad-
mired it and its unique inscription, led
them away with this final hit of informa
ton. Hancock was a great man; you
know, he wrote the Declaration of INDIE
pendence!" And not one of thai party
raised his voice in protest
Comparing Canada's gold mines with
these in South Africa, the Quebec Chron-
icle says that the Johannesburg main
reef Is about fifty miles long by seven
miles wide. In Western Canada the Lake
of the Woods gold district alone is about
$50 miles long. by about $50 miles wide;
then there are still more promising gold
areas In the Boundary creek district. the
Russian district as well as the famous
Yukon gold fields.
Tourists declare there is no pretter
town in the Free State than Kroonstad,
and none more healthy In all South At
RIGA. In fact. it is one of the centers
to which consumptive patients are sent
from all over the world. Kroonstad boasts
a club and four or five hotels and there
is good fishing In the Valsche river. which
curves round the town. Golf links and a
boating club supply the outdoor amuse-
merits of the place.
A paper lately read before the French
Academy of Science by Prof Ballard
shows. by new and exhaustive analyses.
the value Of eggs as food and the enor-
nous consumption OF this product of the
domestic hen. He shows that rs per cent.
Of the egg has a nutritive value. The rest
is water. Ten eggs without the shells
equal just about one pound avoirdupois of
meat. So that when eggs are 10 cents
dozen or less in this country, they are
cheaper, than meat.
Two hundred and ninety millions of
dollars for poultry, the proceeds Of enc
year. compared with $1S6 10000 for cgs
for the same time, tells with emph asis
the enormous magnitude of the p3ultry
business. II becomes startling when ii
Is remembered that we are still impo -ters
of eggs, for we should supply every hoc2
demand and be able to export b sides.
England imports 135. $50 Ill dozens of eggs,
at cost of $50. Ss5, a26, and we furnish A.
oSS of the amount. or did in 1897.
The following curious epitaph is
vouched for by the Buffalo Commercial
as having been copied from a stone in
country graveyard on the banks of the
St Lawrence river, near Prescott:
Erected to the memory of
ELIZABETH RICHARDSON
who herocly defended the life
OF her lover by sticking a
pitchfork in a mad cow nose
Age 49,
When Samuel ]. Tilden ran ssor pres
ident In 1876 his literary bureau was
subject of ridicule among the oder poll
ticians, who looked upon it as new
and Quixotic scheme. But the literary
bureau has now become the most import
ant adjunct of every national committed
In 1896 the Republican National Commit
tee expended $4,000 for printing alone
and the greater portion of the money
raised by the Democratic Committee was
used In the same way.
The two places in Washington where
the vandal stands in awe are the Supreme
Court room and the White House. the
former being the more awesome. In oil
other public places may be found the
dirty finger prints of the vandal The
y,
fragments are cut from the furniture and
hafigings of the Senate and House of Rem
reSentaftyes and names have been scratch
ed into the marble and on the bronze
doors, but something holds the most ruth
less in check when he comes TO the
Supreme Court.
Mayor Hart, Of Boston, has instituted
many businessllke reforms in the ad-
ministration of municipal affairs since
he entered upon the duties of his office.
lie has now given orders to the City Au-
ditor and City Treasurer to forward him
eaeh morning statements showing the
bus nj SIS done on the pre- 3eding day. and
these are to be made public: for the
Mayor believes that the public should
know how much money the city receives
and spends each dav. The first statement
that for Satur lay last, a h3If-hol day
showed receipts of $S,62O.7l and expendi-
lures of sl2s.5s4.45.
Taking Texas as a whole" said a
citizen of that state to a New York Tri-
bune reporter the other day, 1.-The out
look Is for a yield Of wheat, cotton and
cgrn this year that will break all records
Inc wheat crop especially will be enor-
NOUS But 1t is when the census returns
are tabulated that Texas will give the
country surprise. Our increase of pop-
ulation In the last decade will show a
bgser percentage of gain urohahl