The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1t is estimated that the farms of Kan
sas will this year yield over $3.50 for every
man, woman and child in that state.
According to the latest report of Unit
ed States Consul Ingersoll, at Copenha-
gen, Denmark. the popularity of Ameri-
can goods is rapidly increasing in that
country.
All buildings belonging to the Chinese
government are yellow. and it is a capt.
tai offense for any private person to use
that color on the exterior of his dwelling
or place of bus ness.
Under a French law any person who
has been extensively mentioned in a pc
riodical publication has the right to re-
ply in the next issue thereof, provided
he do not use more than twice the space
occupied by the original article.
One of the most interesting fish stories
of the season comes from Lake Sunapee
". H.. in which body of water P e.
Lynch says that he caught with hook
and line what appears to be swordfsh
The only swordfish known to science
sticks to salt water; but the Lake Sun
apee specimen had a serrated ''bill'' over
seven inches long, and looked very much
like the denizen of the deep sea. 1t has
been sent to Boston to be stuffed and
mounted.
In the village of Bodru a Turk named
lsmail said to be 40 years old, frequent
ly walks to Bartin, ten miles distant to
sell eggs. He has had thirty-four wives
the last of whom he married only a few
days ago. The bride is so years his ju-
nior, and the marriage was celebrated
with much solemnity, to the sound of
drums and flies and oe volleys from fire.
arms. The whole village was en- fete
The wedding procession included all the
male progeny of the patriarch bridegroom
consisting of 40 sons, grandsons and
greatgrandsons. The number of his fe-
male progeny is not stated. o.
M. Gorges Izambard is credited by a
writer in the Moniteur de la Photogrs-
phie, with having made the first advances
toward printing by photographic action,
and the following suggestion seems
worthy of notice: An original is either
written or typewriter on paper with
gelatinous or gummy ink, and while this
ink is moist the sheet is rolled over with
fatty ink charged with metallic pig
ment, which is highly Opaque to x rays,
this fatty ink adhering to the general
ground of the sheet, but not on the moist
letters. The sheet thus obtained is a kind
of negative, under which a block of gela-
tine bromide papers may be at once i'm
pressed by the action of the x rays.
The discovery of the second comet of
1900 has been credited to Prof Brooks,
of Geneva; but Daniel E. Parks, of Den
YER an amateur astronomer now asserts
that he saw the object with a 4-!nch glass
at least forty-eight hours before Prof
Brooks did, and that he not only had
witness q. j. Reilly. but succee eded in
having a record of his observation made
in the Denver Republican on the day in
tervening between his own and Prof.
Brooks discoveries.
Every now and then some new tonic
lotion or form of exercise appeals 20 wo-
mans vanity, says the New York Tri-
brne. Just now the girl who takes her
exercise by punching the bag believes she
has discovered an Incompatible tonic for
her complexion. To secure the best re-
suits the punching bag should be used
just after the morning BATH when the
loose dressing gown worn gives free play
oil the muscles. Ten or fifteen minutes
OF this vigorous exercise will send the
blood coursing through every part of the
body. The bag should be placed by an
expert, and should hang about on a level
Witn the user eyes. Inc striking mo-
ton must be upward and the left hand
should be used as much as possible. The
immediate effect of this splendid exer-
else is to develop the muscles of the
chest and arms. The advantage of using
the left hand even more than the right
VIII be evident at once when 1t is re-
membered that dressmakers ha bituaIly
complain of the difficulty in fitting their
clients, the majority of whom have the
right shoulder higher than the left. This
state of affairs, of course, comes from
the habit of using the right hand almost
exclusively.
The ST. Louis Republic OF Aug y
contains page special headed The Most
Valuable Bit of Farm Land in the World -
Some years ago G. P. Millard of Houston,
Texas county, Missouri, conceived the idea
of cultivating the ginseng plant. which
grows wild in parts of kentucky and
tennessee. The Department of Agricul-
ture at Washington assured Mr.. Willard
that ginseng could not be cultivated but
he obtained few roots and began his ex-
periments. These lasted for several
years. Now he has a quarter of an acre
of thrifty ginseng Not until this year
has Mr.. Millard consented to dispose of a
single plant, root or seed of his ginseng
StOCh EVERY SeeO was Care1uflX pre-
served, and planted by him the following
spring. He was determined that his stock
should not run low. But this year he
feels that he has enough stock for him
self and that he can spare some TO others
who wish to embark in ginseng culture
He has closed one contract for SIG, 900 worth
of roots and seeds. TO be delivered 10 a
New York man when the crop is gathered
in September. Other contracts for sums
ranging upward from $25 bring the total
aomunt of sales for this year close to SIS. =
eco. All of this supply has come from the
quarter acre tract. A year ago MIR. Mil
lard planted another half acre in gin
seng.
-"Apropros of telegraphng" said an old
local operator, according to the New Or
leans Times Democrat, "the newest
thing out is what is known as the MUIR
ray high-speed page-printing machine"
In some respects it is the most wonderful
invention since the perfecting of the du-
pick apparatus. and I understand Il is
about TO be tested on an elabora te scale
in number of American cities, including
New Orleans. 1t would be impossible
for me to describe the machine in detail
so as TO be understood by anybody but an
expert; but. speaking in a general way
tho ynaScaoa fs first ranrOdtIred ON a Ian "