The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

taxpayers of the United Kingdom, 10000,
900 to India, and fl.75O0O0 to the self-gov-
erning colonies.
Glasgow, which is famous already for
it's experiments in municipal ownership,
of public utilities is 10 inaugurate mu-
nicipal telephone exchange of 5000 sub
scribers. The plant is to be of the most
modern kind. 1t is expected to pay for
itself and its running expenses a an an
nual charge of about $3.50. The charge
by the private corporation now doing
business is $50. But, a cynical writer
suggests. in Glasgow they do not mix
politics and municipal business.
There is now a clergyman of the
Church of England who has married his
deceased wife's sister. in spite of all The
preiates in the House of Lords who vote
consistently againt any recognition of the
practice. The name of this daring limo
vator is Rev. George Poynder. and he is a
priest of the diocese of Melbourne His
bishop, DR.. Goe formerly rector of ST
Georges Bloomsbury, has suspended him
for twelve months; but this apparently is
only formal tribute 10 the conventional
church feeling on the subject, as there is
an understanding that he will receive
new appointment in the diocese at the
expiration of his extended honeymoon.
The Royal Society held its annual con-
versazione at Burlington House, when.
as usual a large and distinguished com
pany assembled to view an interesting
collection of scientific appliances and in
Vendons. OF these perhaps the most re-
markable is clock controlled at a dis
lance by the wireless telegraphy of the
Hertzian wave system. The great poten-
tialities of the invention may be under
stood when il is exira!ned that under
the conditions which the exhibitor, Rich
ard Kerr, f. G. S, proposes, ID would be
possible for the whole of the clocks of
London to be simultaneously adjusted by
one clock to which the necessary CON
trivance had been attached. To render
a clock sensitive to the influence of the
wave system it would be necessary 10
aftiX a receiving instrument with a CO.
herer, an arrangement which might be
extended not only to the public clocks,
but to those of private residences Then
by means of a transmitter established ar
any point of the city it would be posi-
Bile to adjust every clock in the metro
polls by the instantaneous pressure of a
button.
THE higher culture gives resources
for joy and action. 1t gives worth and
dignity to unmarried life. but it takes
away none of the joys of true marriage.
know that the idea is prevalent that
the educated woman is spoiled for hum
bier duties; that she will play the piano
in the parlor while her mother cooks in
the kitchen; that she is weak in nerve
and ftabby in muscle. less fitted for the
stress of life and less willing to do her
part in it than her unframed mother or
her unlettered grandmother. As to this
l can only say it is not the fact" writes
David Starr Jordan, in Harpers Bazaar
"A little learning without training is a
dangerous thing. In these days of many
books the uncultured woman is exposed
20 many new dangers which our grand
mothers could NOT know. Half educated
mothers are too often caught by passing
fads-medical, literary and religious 1t
rs among the partly educated women that
worthless books find their readiest sale
II is from among them that the societies
for the promotion of the higher foolish
ness draw their memberships variety
of ideas which real knowledge would dis
sipate, and which now add unprecedent-
ed terrors TO matrimony."
When the siege of Paris began and
festive little parties or over-confident in
habitants of the city swarmed into the
suburbs to see the French outposts there
was among the latter a good deal of rival
ry in the trade of laying down rugs and
tarpauline for those civilian sharpshoot-
ers who bought shots at a franc a shot
al the enemy's outposts. The Germans
refused permission for certain promi-
nent Englishman to pass through their
lines from the city on the ground that
one of their spies had reported him as
having been at the village of Bordeaux
just outside Paris, when the French
troops drove a brisk trade in letting out
shots and having chance shots at the
German outposts The allegation was not
denied and no pass was granted, SAYS the
New York Press. Surgeon General Cor
don, who represented the medical de-
partment of the British army during the
war speaks in a book he wrote of the
French outposts making as much as
forty or fifty francs day each by crying
out; shots at the enemy-one francr'
hundreds OF their customers being women
one village, soon to be ravaged by fire
and the sword was like a fair. and The
sentries could not sell shots fast enough
for rich Paris tradesman was standing
by offering heavy money prizes for the
civilian marksman who brought down
German sentries
Some curious figures are given by the
Home Journal of New York regarding the
cost of college life, and they show in =
picturesque way how the young American
wins place in the front line. with or
without aid and comfort from the ''old
man The class graduating from the
academic department of Yale spent an
proXimately during its four years course
81 10000 This class numbers but S27 out
OF the 25H students of Yale, so when the
expenses of this single class are consid-
cred, 1t must be remembered that nearly
seven times as many more students are
spending equal sums. Moreover, the fig
ures are compiled from statements hand
ed in by members of the class. and are
therefore, more or less Official Ont of
the sum named, $l35 600 was spent for
room rent, $4,000 for board $4,000 for
tuition TO the university and $4,000 for
books. The average for the freshman
year was 1858, for sophomore year $685.
for junior year 1912 and for senior wear
M,CW While thee figures at first sight
may appear to be large, they are smaller
on the average than for the ten preceding
years, as is shown by a comparison of
schedules. The cost to the individual stu
dent varies greatly. One student declares
that during one year, when his finances
We're at a low ebb he only expended s75
over and above what he earned during
the course of the year.
so-called "automotor horse" invented
by NJ. Emile Langrenne, is described in
British Invention This device is simply
a motor concealed in the figure of a horse
IN $50 O.