The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-11-25
ITEMS or INTEREST.

The cost Of maintaining the hfe saw
ing service during the past year was 81
6ssaes The amount OF property 3, saved
was. In round agures. $4,000. IN add
ton to 2607 lives such a record as that
would seem to Justify better pay and bet
ter care for the men engaged IN such dt-
hcult and dangerous work.
The boundary line between the Unit
81 States and Mexico has recently been
resurveyei and marked by stone monu-
NEVIS IN the form Of obeisks iocafed
abous fve miles apart. The shafts are
ten feet high at the top. hulf on founda-
lions Ave feet square and rising six inches
shove the surface Of the ground
An ostrich farm IS to be established m
the suburbs OF Little Rock. Ark Thomas
A. Cockburn Of san Antonio. Tex. has
purchased tract OF land and will take
mis- entire supply OF birds there az once.
Ms farm T. a branch OF one OF the cele-
bratea California farms. Mr.. Cockbufn
viii 90 10 Hot Springs because the climate
he says. Is better suited for his business
The New York socialists have COM
menced d crusade that hss for It's OBJECT
the enlistment Of the women In their
cause. To this end they have Incorporated
A Women's Socialist Society. which mas
just held a session In Brookiyn Al tne
orators were women. Their purpose -
10 SET on foot a movement for the incor-
porafion OF like organizations 10 an the
states.
In Australia novel idea has been IN
troduced for wedding out the man who
doesn't dance" Each lady has slip
Of paper perforated IN squares one square
for each dance on the programme she
gives one OF these coupons To her partner
Al the end OF each dance And any man
who cannot produce fair percentage u
coupons Ia refused admission to the sup
per room.
The return Of the Fish Commisslon's
steamer Aibatross from its fourteen
months cruise IN che Pacific brings sew
cral new facts as "a part OF les cargo. For
one thing 50 was demonstrated that al
the charts OF the South Pacific are mac
curate and chat mosI Of the Islands ars
inaccurately located. their real positions
being from two 20 twelve miles from their
location as shown on the charts.
Recent estimates are 70 the effect that
asphalt IS being dug out Of the famous
,nr lakes Of Trnldad-the most notable
existing sources of the material IN the
world-at the rate OF sOg0 tons per aR-
mum. There are suI 10000 tons In
dght but at thls rate the supply could
not last long were IL not that the lake OF
hitumen referred 10 IS receiving con-
slant accretion from che bowels OF the
earth.
a perambulatlng kitchen made IS ap-
pearance IN the streets OF Warsaw re-
Gently Il was provided with 600 quarts
M pea soup and passed through the in
dustrlal quarters, stopping for a short
time ~ the sewage works where several
hundred navvics are employed In the
Warsaw East End" the movable kitch-
en- supplied food Tor the women and chill
dren. the soup being served into the GUS
toners vessels, which were often Of the
crudest type.
The telegraph from the African coast
20 Lake Victoria Nyanza has been COM
pleted and # will be Of advantage To the
inhabitants OF Lower Egypt The natives
depend on the rise OF the Nile Tor irrigation
and hitherto they have only known
short time beforehand the condition Of the
waters Now. however. that communica-
Ion has been made from the sources OF
tho Nile the required Information can b.
sent several months IN advance and the
Egg ptiaus can regulate their supplies.
Many exchanges have printed para
graph Announcing that the daily popula-
Ion OF the Equitable building On New
York Is 100 and that the mail averages
about 1900 pieces a day. This record is
outsiriprcd by several building in Chicl-
80, according 20 the Chronicle. Noiably
he Monalnook block. which az present
has daily population OF close 20 II not
quite so" So vast Is the postal business
OF this human hive that Il was found
necessary 20 establish on the main floor
branch postOfice with four mail car
ners Tho Mouaduock block IL 400 feet
long. seventy feet wide. sixteen stories
high at one end ana seventeen at the
other, and has in all LOO offices. In .one
day over 2o.osl persons passed through the
Jackson boulevard entrance alone
An American ART student in Paris
says. There are more wrecks OF young
lives ana young ambitions IN Montmar.re
than IN any other quarter Of the globe
Fellows who fancy they are destined 70
become great artists have the Illusion
knocked out Of them bat they refuse 20
leave. They are there from an parts OF
The world. stranded. hopeless beFgars. liv-
ing no one knows how. and stunning their
fellowmen. one ease in Particular caught
my atteuton-that OF an EnglishHan
named Jones let as say. His father Is an
evangelist who came over 20 America
several years ago This fellow poses us
misanthrope OF the most pronounced
type. He associates with nobody. and his
only companion Is nttle black dog. lie
VIII live for days on bread and milk In
order that he may buy meat for his dog
one night was with crowd OF other
students. and We passed him IN the street
re turned Elared ~ ls aud Missed. I
nate them ! hate themr Then he sat
ao"h on the curb. with his dog IN his
arm: anu buried his face Ia it's shaggy