The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
For a year or so Germany has been

For a year or so Germany has been
able to restrain the tide of emgra ton
much more than formerly In 1880 only
300 persons left that country to seek
homes elsewhere and of these but 1e0l6
came to the United States, a majority of
the remainder going to Brazil. In 1894
there were 40 0S9 German emigrants, of
which nearly all came to this country, but
even that is a great falling of as compar-
ed with many former years. The average
FOR the ten years from 1881 to 1890 inclusive,
was more than $4,000 a year
deportation of American coal has
grown steadily in recent years and at
present is increasing at a very rapid rate
During the last ten years the total ex-
ports have increased more than threefold.
In 1890 less than 100000 tons were sent
abroad; in the eleven months ending May
50 1900 nearly 6,500,0O0 tons were exported.
The bulk of this coal goes to British North
America, which in 1899 took :, POO 251 tons
Mexico came next with 4l0,769 tons and
Cuba was third with 326.509 tons The ex-
ports TO Europe amounted TO only 40, 10l
tons.
For kilograms between Washington
and Manila the American government is
at present paying about s4OO 900 annually
communication is by a roundabout way
1900 miles, as follows: To New York by
land; TO Valentia. Ireland by cable; 10
Brighton, England, by cable and land; TO
Havre, France, by cable; to Marseilles by
land; 10 Alexandria. Egypt, by cable; to
Suez Egypt, by land; 10 Alden, Ara bia,
by cable; to Bombay, India. by cable; 10
Madras by land; to Singapore, Malayau
peninsula, by cable; to Saigon, Cochin
emma, by cable; to Hong Kong by cable;
70 Manila, Philippine Islands, by cable.
Charles E. Watson, Republican Mayor
OF Findlay, O., has discovered that the
way of the tax-dodger is hard. The other
day he bought a new plano from a Toledo
hrm' at the same time giving a testimonial
ABOUT piano he had purcha sed from the
same firm and had used eight years This
testimonial was used as an advertisement
and the city assessor OF Findlay, on look
ing INTO the matter, failed to find Mr.. Wat
son credited with owning a piano during
that time. The Mayor has therefore been
called upon TO pay back taxes on the piano
TOT eight years as the testimonial said the
instrument was as good the eighth year
as the first"
United States Consul Hill. at Amster-
dam, reports that the new Elbe and Trave
canal which has been building five years
and has been completed at a cost of "a
10000 marks ($5,S31, 900 was formerly
opened by the German Emperor on June
10. The length of the new canal-which is
the second to join the North sea and the
Baltic following the Kaiser Wilhelm ship
canal, or kiel canal which was finished
nVe years ago al cost of 156, COO 900 marks
&51,l2S.OJ0-is about forty-one miles. The
available breath of the new canal is n
feet breadth of the lock gates, IS feet:
length of the locks, 81 yards depth of
the locks. feet inches. 1t is crossed by
twenty-nine bridges, erected at a cost OF
100000
consumption has often been called the
scourge of New England, so terrible have
been the ravages of the disease in that
part of the country. 1t is, therefore, a
fact of great Importance when il is shown
that the mortality from consumption In
this section is steadily diminishing The
latest report of the state registrar of vi
tai Statistics for Maine demonstrates that
such diminuton has been in progress
for a number of years, the deaths from
the disease having been 1852 In 1892. and
IN succeeding years, 1929 1882, 1l95 .172
I,llo, and l,O2l. The principal reason for
this remarkable falling off is undoubted
~ the tact that during this period the
people have been steadily coming to nm
derstand more and more clearly that pull
mohary tuberculosis is a preventable dis
ease, EieVen years ago the State Board
or Health issued its circular on the nre
venting of consumption and since then n
mas repeatedly been published in large
eoNlohs' which have been distributed in
every town. The press has co-operated
IN TINS campaign of education. and manv
hundreds of people have been saved who
II iett IN Ignorance. would have died of
the disease which they have now fought
off. Ne"'
-Briar root pipes are not made ~ hr,ar
root at all. as the majority of smokers
DeiieVe' but from the root of the large
meath known in botany as the erica ar
borea. Our "briar" is only a corrun,ion
OF the French "bruyere." Begun in the
tyreheese' sixty years ago, the briar root
industry Travelled along the French Riviera
10 the Iuscan Maremma, until its most
nourishing centre is now Calabra. Leg
norm has always been the center Of the
export OF Tuscan briar root, but as the
south Italian briar is OF superior quality
large quantity of the Calabran root is
also imported into Leghorn for selection
ana subsequent export. Roots, which In
some cases are of circumference of two
Leet' are cut into blocks and then boiled
The blocks will split II there ere any de-
disco' cred before the boiling process. Thu.
docks come to the manufacturers of pipes
in three shapes-the Marsellaise, relieve
and Beigian. From the first are cut the
bulldog pipes and from the second the
Hanging pipes. Belgian blocks, for which
thele is little demand, are fashioned into
PIPES which have bowl and stem at an
obtuse angle.
I "A newspaper of Mayence, Germany,
having recently declared that American
cloverseed is full of pernicious weed
seeds, the department of agriculture
makes the following reply: "The charge
that American cloverseed is impure is very
rarely made by European dealers or ex-
pertinent station workers of repute. On
the contrary, the fact that American Glow
erseed is very pure and OF excellent ger
mlnating quality has been recognized
even by those who oppose its use by Eu-
ropean farmers. Among the seed control
workers in Europe. Noble Eidam and
kirchner have given testimony to the high
purity OF American cloverseed, although
the two latter have been hostile to he
American seed Very little European Glow
ersst fndS its way to America, and IL is
thus Impossible to make a definite state
ment of its purity as the result of our
own Investigations. However, the depart
ment of agriculture secured this spring
twenty samples of European cloverseed
for experimental purposes. The average