The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Figaro says that American women have
even set the fashion for their French sis
tiers. The latter have begun to copy styles
which they find worn by women from Chi
cago and New York.
The British and Foreign Bible So
ciety is providing all Boer prisoners with
Bibles printed in Dutch, and the plan will
be carried out within few weeks. The
society might save its money. It's a-queer
sort of Boer who don't carry a Dutch BIZ
bic. and most of them, like Dom Paul.
know much of II by heart.
There are more than twice as many
blind persons in Russia as in the whole
of the rest of Europe. They number $780,
0e0, which is equivalent to two in every
LOCO of the population. In France and
England the proportion is not quite one
per t0O0 In the United States most OF
the blind belong to the Republican party
When the political economist in talk
ing for Mckinley tells you about the great
wages paid to American workingmen and
quotes $40 as the average earnings in this,
that or the other mill. il is well to remem-
Der that out of ninety-eight of the chief
national industries of this country only
twenty-nine of them give employment 300
days in the year.
"A notable feature of the American
celebrations. and of the United States at
the exposition itself, and in general of
the American tourist in Europe, durin;,
these recent years, is the inordinate use
OF our flag. Young women are dressed
IN II, young men wear it around their
necks for cravat, il is twined round the
head of the colored cook at the corn
kitchen
For some unknown reason there has
been great falling off of suburban travel
on the steam lines entering Chicago.
trains which have been going and COM
ing We'll loaded in the spring and winter
are OFTEN this summer nearly empty. 1t
Is not caused by absence of people from,
the city for there was no such falline
OH last summer or in previous years. II
may be that the cool and rapid trolley
Hnes nave begun to cut into the business
OF the steam roads.
Kansas women continue to keep in
evidence. One of them ran a state con-
ventlon the other day and compelled the
nomination of her candidate for the SUI
preme eench. Another, the wife of the
mayor and banker in her town, runs the
oest Motel in the state, so it is called II
Is cottage but little larger than the Or
olnary IT is beautifully furnished and
she superintends the cooking and serving.
Inc table is said by travellers to excel
anything of the kind in the West. and
she Is getting rich on her own account.
her husband has nothing to do with the
arair. He dimes there like any other
man.
Sir William Bailey. the head of the
Albion works. at Stafford, told this story
the other day "A certain Manchester
merchant saw a mummy in Egypt and
brought away portion of the mummy
cloth. This was handed to a buyer of a
large Manchester warehouse, who was
asked If he could tell where it was woven.
After examining it carefully with his
glass, he said he thought he could put his
hnger on the mill where 1t was produced
II ne could borrow the piece for few
Gays. Afterward he reported that it was
made where he had thought nsar Old
ham, and was called by the manufac-
turer his No. So"
Chicago grain men are interested in
the report that within the next few years
an enormous grain trade is certain to be
developed between Mongolia and Siberia
The population of the vast Mongoliar
steppes concerns itself almost wholly
| with the breeding CT cattle and horse.
| and Is likely to draw almost all it's food.
| stuffs from Siberia in the future Anothe,
matter of similar interest is the CROWNS
| wheat area of Argentine. In competition
| with the United States the Argentine Re.
| public is at an advantage in some ways
and at a disadvantage in others. Hei
wheat fields are close to the se4bcar
making great saving in land freigh.
and she has cheap labor but the ocear
| freight rates are exceseive
| The annual payment of a rose by q
church in Pennsylvania as rent, custom
| surviving from colonial days early i'm the
last century calls attention to strange
rents in England. The Duke of MARI
borough gives a banner to the Queer
every year on Aug. 2, the Blenheim an.
niversary, as rent for the manor Of
| Woodstock. The Duke Of Wellington
| pays the same sort of rent for Strathfield
sage, presented to the Iron Duke for hi:
| victory at Waterloo. In Yorkshire hun,
| DIR DIS CT acres bring in no other rent save
| roses. Formerly land in Norfolk wa:
held by giving the king each year TWEEN
| ty-four pasties of fresh behring's. Ii
| other places a cock, a hen, a side of ba.
| con or other article is given instead o.
| money.
| John ]. Brenneman, who represents
| New York firm in Shanghai, wrote thu:
| in letter da ed June 30: IT am likely
| going up to Hank Kow, about nine hun
| dred mi es up the river, the coming week
| ard | expect to sec some interestins
| siehts. 1 have joined the American r n,
| Company of the Shanghai volunteers Tn,
| American consul has armed Us with Mar
| tint Henry rifles bayonets and cartridge
| We are drilled twice a day by regular
| army men. Things are quie ling dow
| about Shar ghai. but we will be prepared
| for emergencies The best paying thing
| here at the present moment are firearm:
| and ammunition. They are commanding Z
| premium of 100 per cent. and in som,
| cases more. Almost all The large bushes.
| houses out here are general merchants
and they deal in every ard anything tina
comes along"
Ernest L. Harris. the American con
sular agent at Eibenstock tells why tn,
lumber merchants of Hamburg, Germany
are prejudiced against American lumber
They ordered lumber from the United
! sta es. received IN documents, paid one
/ half or three-fourths of the invoice value
| inspec. ed the cargo after having paid FL
| the same, and tn found that the lumber
| was not in accordance with the order
| They had to sell the best they could, ex
being obliged TO bring suit against thu
firms in the United States, and in ever,
case have come i'm contact with the par