The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

-Prospectors are boring for zinc in four
counties in Northern Arkansas, and with
in the last year several changes in the
ownership of land there have resulted in
consequence. One syndicate is said TO
have purchased 1900 acres of land.
An invitation TO dinner in Manila is al
ways accompanied by an invitation TO
spend the night, owing to the military law
which provides for the arrest of all per-
sons found on the streets after $50 o'clock
at night unless they have passes.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fee
Railroad Company has purchased 100000
yellow willow cuttings, and will plnt
them on both sides of an embankment west
of Stockton, Cal, for a distance of eight
miles, to protect the road from washouts.
The present seems to be a dull season
for artists in London In the want adver-
tisement columns of the London Daily
News, for instance, the following noice
appeared the other day: "Wanted-P0si-
ton on yacht by artist having served APP
premiership at sea. Well educated. Would
take pursers work, wait in saloon or 9TH
er duties. Exhibitor Royal Academy"
"A picture by Sisley-"The Flood
which was sold by the artist in 1876 for IS,
and resold al a public sale at Bordeaux
in 1880, for SIS, brought $500 at auction in
Paris last week. 1t is needless to add that
Sisley is dead.
The following letter from Mark Twain
to his publishers is in the possession of
British collector: Please charge e. against
me- and for the same sell me several of
my books making discount to me that
will make the ~ go as far as possible, for
the cause is a pious one. Don't send the
books 10 me. Send them to Mrs. -
birmingham. 1 don't know the lady, but
she has applied to me on behalf of her
husbands church. Going to hold a church
fair there, and wants some of my books
TO sell 10 the godly. | have assured her
that the same shall be done. being rather
down on the cody, though 1 did not tell
her that"
"A marked increase in the number of
left-handed persons is noted by Wash
ington physician, quoted in the Star of
that city. The only reliable statistics on
the subject known 10 the Washington doc
tor are to the effect that in America up
to twenty-five years ago only per cent.
of the people were left-handed. This
statement has been allowed to run along
without question, but the Washington OBJ
server thinks that it is now far from
correct. His estimate is per cent In
the manual training school in Washing
ton that per cent. of the boys is left
handed, and a like proportion was found
among the girls in a sewing school. Left
handed members of baseball teams are
so many that they attract little attention
and left-hand users of the billiard cue
are on the increase, an expert in that line
reports. at is curious the doctor con-
cludes that left-handedness rarely oc-
ours among the colored race, and asChi
nese laundryman tells me that the Chi
nese are not allowed to be left-handed."
-Lompoc, in Santa Barbara county,
California, grows mustard for the whole
nations according to the San Francisco
Chronicle. In that region 1000 acres are
cultivated to the seed the industry en-
ploying about 200 farmers No one en-
ploys himself exclusively in cultivating
the plant, because of its refusal 10 yield
two successive crops upon the same land.
Accordingly, the mustard raiser can only
devote a part of his farm to it each sea-
SON The land from which he harvested
his crop this year must next year be
planted to beans or barley corn, pump
kins or beets. Indeed results show that
it pays to skip two years in planting
mustard, and only turn the soil to its
use every third season. What active
principle there is in the soil that is with
drawn by this exacting plant to the lands
impoverishment has not yet been deter
mined. When it has been learned how to
feed the SOIL in order to replace what the
growing mustard withdraws, the indus
try is expected to assume larger proper
tions.
The first discovery of gold in Burke
| county, North Carolina, was made in 1928
in The bed of Brindle creek one of the
small tributaries of Silver creek, which
! has its source in the South mountains,
| says the Pinehurst outlook. Soon every
! stream in the nelghborhood was pros.
/ H.,
| Large slave owners found a new and prof
| liable use for their slaves, and many
! thousands of them were put to work in
| this new field Placer mines were opened
and operated on a large scale, though by
primitive methods, the pan, rocker, long
tom, and sluice box being the only i'm
| PIGMENTS at that time-and, indeed, these
are still used in portions Of this region
to-day. Mining was at first confined 10
the stream gravels, which were generally
rich. Later on the upper decomposed
layer of the country rock and the more
ancient placers, formed by secular disn-
/ tegration and drift We're worked. A large
amount of gold was produced in this way,
but it is impossible to even approximate
/ the amount, as absolutely no records were
kept. The best authorities place the
amount at between two and three million
/ dollars.
The famine in india says Paris Nou-
vees, extends over territory of 5OO,0O0
square miles; in other words, an area
four times greater than that of the Brit
ish Isles To give one an idea of the ex-
tent of the scourge. some figures are sub
mitted herewith of the total population
Of the famshed provinces and of the per-
sons aided. 1t will be, besides, very evil
dent that all the starving people have not
been helped, and that those relieved re-
ceived only insufficient aid Following is
a table which will indicate the distress
ing conditions prevailing in India
Persons
Provinces Population. aided.
! Bombay and Sindh 100000 $4,000
Punjab Observation-Disclosures. 100000 17S00O
Central provinces ........12, 100000 1,441 coo
Banar ...................... 3,9O0,000 2s6,COO
Agonere- Werwara ....... 100000 10000
Rajputana ..................12 100000 $4,000
! Central India States mo OOO 0Oa