The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

path of education. The Chickas,aws have
five colleges and the Creeks have ten The
Choctaws have no colleges, but have 160
common schools in which the higher
branches are taught.
Boston has opened its free public
baths. The bath trustees asked for an
appropriation of $106,OOo but got only So
Co., They decided that summer bathing
is a great public necessity, and will spend
most of the money for that.
The Columbia faculty recently issued
proclamation tc stop the hazing of sub
freshmen between the current morning
and afternoon examinations on the ground
that il prevented a candidate from doing
himself justice at the latter session.
When a British soldier Is taken a
prisoner of war he Is guilty of an offense
against the Queen and can be put upon
TRIAL. He must then prove that it was
impossible for him to take any other
course without uselessly throwing away
his life.
Colorado has sold sixty acres of tim
Der near Devils Head mountain, where it
is estimated there are 10000 gray squirrels,
which have lived and multiplied there for
years. protected by public sentiment The
squirrels will be evicted by the wood
cutters.
The authorities OF San Francisco have
decided that after July /, next year, no
fence or billboard shall be allowed to ex-
coed ten feet in hight. This extension
of time was given on account of the con-
tracts already entered into between bill
posters and advertisers
just four times as fast as the population
and as consequence the medical profess
sion is becoming enormously overcrowd-
ed. In the past dozen years the popula-
ton has increased ID per cent, but the
number of doctors shows a gain of IS per
cent.
-Advices from the Columbia river sal
mon packing industries indicate the prob
ability of a deficiency in the total pack
The scarcity of fish now in the river is
pronounced abnormal by all engaged in
the spring and summer season. The one
redeemfng feature is the fine quality and
size of the catch. .
1t is reported that an English syndicate
has invested 100000 in the purchase of
ten copper claims located above White
Horse in the klondike district of the
Northwest territory and that a smelter Of
large capacity is among the possibilities
of the next year there. Machinery for the
development of the property is to be
shipped to White Horse this summer and
the deposit is to be vigorously opened up.
In the New Hebrides human life has
been made safer by the introduction of
pigs into the islands The cannibals ore
said to prefer roast pork to roast man.
and as the porcine tribe Increases among
the natives they may give up their feasts
on human flesh altogether. excepting when
something unusual happens such as en-
tertaining king of some other cannibal
island or state occasions of rare ceremony.
Wireless telegraphy is now in regular
use in the North sea by the North Ger
man Lloyd line. instruments are install
ed on Borkum lightship, and the arrival
of every incoming vessel is telegra phed to
Borkum Island, from which a cable car
ries the message to Bremen. The Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse, which carries a
transmitting instrument, can send sig
nal long before she comes into view of
the hghtship
"A Chicagoan who has just returned
form Paris says that on most
restaurants there are signs announcing
"All languages spoken here" He re-
marked TO the manager of one of these
places: You must have a great many in
terpreters in your establishment" mot
one" was the surprising reply. Then who
speaks all the languages" asked the Chi
cagoan. The customers" said the
Frenchman blandly.
-Ghazi Mukhtar Pasha, Ottoman High
Commissioner in Egypt, has made a report
to the Porte calling attention to serious
evils in the internal administration of the
Ottoman empire and urging various re-
forms, including liberty of the press. ap-
pointment to Offices by merit the creation
OF a council of notabes with control of the
finances independent tribunals and the
abolition .of the palace veto on the deci-
sions of the Council of Ministers.
The Righteousness of the miner and the
trapper has left its impress upon the no
menclature of the state of WASHINGTON
Names abound IKE Jump-off Joe, Hell-to.
Pay (since changed to Eltopia), Raw Dog
Yailer Dog, Starveout, Hardscrabble.
Keno, Long Tom, Saddle and Bake Oven.
A Columbia river town in Eastern Oregon
was long known at Alkali When il be-
gan to take on refined airs ii had the Leg
islature dignity it with the high-sounding>
name of Arlington.
-One of the interesting pieces of appa-
ratus recently shown at the Royal Society
soiree at London was a clock which was
controlled from a distance by means OF
wireless biography. The signals were
transmitted by Hertz waves, and there
was a short vert cal wire, a coherer, re-
lay and local battery, which worked the
mechanism of the cock. 1t was stated
that with the use of a standard pendulum
and this apparatus all the clocks in town
would be kept al Ike without the use Of
wires.
M Letorey a French architect. has
applied the captive balloon to the clean
ing or decorating of cupolas, high roofs.
towers and monuments. The balloon can
be raised or lowered from a wagon by
windlaSs and II can be steaded by stays
from the side OF the envelope 1t has two
platforms or 'nace,les," one on the tor
the other underneath, and these comnun-
icate by ladder up a central tube The
balloon scaffold." as II is called might
be useful and safe in many operations
such as now require steeple jacks.
A young man who was hunting recent
ly in the Alleghenics, near Red Oak Knob.
Va, shot large bald eagle. The bird
measured feet 2 inches across the wings
When the hunter went to examine the
prize he was astonished to find ore OF the
eagles claws held firmly in powerful
steel trap, to which was attached a steel
chain five feet long. Trap and chain had