The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


-Corks which have slipped inside bot
ties can be easily extracted by a newly
designed implement, which has two
handles pivoted together to control a pair
Of elongated jaws which are made of
strong steel and are narrow enough to
pass through the neck and catch the
cork.
-Advices from. the Columbia river sal
mon packing industries indicate the prob
ability of a deficiency in the total pack
The scarcity of fish now in the river is
pronounced abnormal by all engaged in
the spring and summer season. The one
redeeming feature is the fine quality and
size of the catch.
The waterways of the Chinese empire
are infested with pirates and banditti who
swoop down upon inoffensive merchant
men, kill and plumber and HE themselves
back into the mountain Businesses. These
gangs exist throughout China, and their
practices are winked at by the local off,
Gals, who profit by the crimes.
Year by year the rustic popula ton of
England is gradually decreasing. This is
closely depicted by the custom observed
In Lincolnshire of hiring servants and
farm hands to serve for a year. On this
occasion the hiring fair has revealed that
whereas a few years ago milkmaids were
plentiful they are now practically I'M
known.
DIR. Bulge, the Psychologist of the
British Museum, went to Egypt recently
on behalf of that institution and pur-
chased a quantity of native cigars. The
case in which the cigars had been packed
was delivered at the museum in due time
but when opened it was found that seve n
of the boxes had been cieverly empusd
Of their cigars and flied with the beans
of castor oil plants.
Inspector Primrose of the Canadian
Northwest mounted police has submitted
his report respecting the census of Yukon
to the Canadian government The result
discloses a much larger percentage of
British subjects than had been suspected.
OF the total of 5,404, those of British allie
glance are 1752 In number, although citi-
zens of the United States still predominant
with 1851. The remainder are citizens of
other countries.
The Pan-African congress, to be held
in London in July, will assemble delegates
not only from all the civilized districts OF
Africa, but from both Americas the West
Indies and, perhaps, a representative or
two from the sparse and scattered negro
population of Australasia. II WILL in fact
take in negro representation ell around
the globe and give the black man a new
notion of his Importance and of his social
and industrial progress wherever his sur
rounding circums tances are favora BILE In
recent periods everybody has treated him
pretty well except the Beers and the white
inhabitants of some of our Southern
States. the oppressive powers of the for
mer now undergoing a process of limita-
ton to end in their extinction altogether.
-BiJirr Chandri Pal an East Indian tee
totaler, was one of the speakers at the re-
cent Temperance congress in London.
showing a zeal in the cause In which no
traces of Oriental languor were apparent.
His countrymen are an abstinent people
through the force of circumstances being
too poor to afford even the cheapest slim
ulating beverages, and most of them live
and die faithful in practice to the teeto-
taler's code. Bijirr Chandri's apps tolate
is evidently in the interest of the outside
pagan rather than his own people, the for
mer being sad tippler as the goings to
ana fro in the earth of the Oriental re-
former have assured him. England being
| one of the best fields anywhere to be found
for the study of the natural history of the
| species.
Never tell me that a cat has no rea-
soning powers" said a man from Cincin-
| natl at the Waldorf the other day, &C
| cording to the New York Mail and Elk
| recently and there saw a huge cat that
/ actually drove the cows home when he
| got hungry in order to get one of the
| farm boys to milk few streams into his
mouth. The cat in question was so fond OF
! milk that IL went with the bows every
night 10 get the cows, frolicking and NEW
| ing on the way. One night the boys were
| too busy to get the cows at the regular
hour, and so the cat went alone. Imagine
the establishment of the farmers when
they saw the COW coming in from pas
| lure with the cat mewing in pursuit II
was locked upon as a coincidence the first
night, but when. night after night, the
performance was repeated, they decided
that the cat was a thinker and so Mr.
Thomas Cat has all the milk he can drink
at that farm now
In a paper on political reform in the
Century, Gov. Roosevelt advises reform
| ers to disregard fanatics: 1t is vital that
every man who is in politics, as a man
ought to be, with a disinterested purpose
to serve the public, should strive steadily
for reform; that he should have the high
| est ideals. He must lead, only he must
lead in the right direction, and normally
he must be in sight of his followers. Gym
icism in public life is curse. and when
a man has lost the power of enthusiasm
for righteousness, it will be better for
| him and the country il he abandon pub
lie life. Above all, the political reformer
must not permit II to be driven from
| his duty of supporting what is right by
any irritation at the men who, while
nominally supporting the same objects
| and even ridiculing him a backslider
| or an "opportunist, yet by their levity
| or fanaticism do damage TO the cause
which he really serves, and which they
| profess to serve. Let him disregard them
| for though they are. according to Their
| ability. the foes of decent politics, yet
| after all. they are but weaklings, and the
real and dangerous enemies of the cause
| he holds dear are those sinister beings
| who batten on the evil of our poitica
system, and both profit by its existence
and by their own existence tend to per
| petuate and increase It, We must not b.
/ diverted from our warfare with these pow.
erful and efficient corruptionists by irri.
tation at the vain prattlers who think
/ n head NJ the