The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

tea from Japan to the United States and
Canada amounted to no less than 3S,eS1, 239
pounds OF this amount Is 94e 90 pounds
were shipped from Yokohama, and the
rest from Kobe
Many of the state governors interlard
their proclamations with scriptural quota
tons. The Governor of West Virginia in-
cluded fifty such extracts in his document
of last Thanksgiving and about twenty in
his proclamation of Labor Day.
According to a medical authority there
is now in the United States one physician
to every 600 people-proportiena twice
as many as in Great Britain, four times
as many as France has, five times as many
as Germany has and six times as many
as Italy has.
"A new industry which has now as
sumed considerable importance in Italy
is the manufacture of carbide of calcium,
which is used chiefly for making acety-
lene gas. The United States and France
occupy the first and second places as pro-
ducers of carbide, Italy coming next.
The Secretary of the Interior has is
sued an order Withdrawing from entry at
the land office 800 square miles of terri
tory in New Mexico. The section in
cludes most of the more important cliff
dwellings thereabout, the intention being
to make of it the Pajarito Cliff Dwellers'
National Park.
According to reliable informa ton,
only 779 newspapers and periodicals pub
lished OF these 631 are printed in Rus
sian, 65 in Polish, AZ in German II in the
Estomanin language, s in French, in
Armenian, in Hebrew, 8 in the Caucasian
language and none in English.
In Colorado it is not necessary that
judges of county courts shall be law
yers. The result has been that decisions
of such tribunals, when appealed, are re-
versed in almost half the cases. 1t is
found that in nearly all cases county
courts get at the equity all right. but err
as to technicalities, and it is suspected
that more or less INSCRIPTIONS lawyers lay
traps to bring about just such results.
Mexico seems anxious to get back the
sons and grandsons of her former citizens
who are now citizens of the United
States, living in California, Colorado, Ari-
iona and New Mexico. In a colonization
concession recently made the government
stipulated that all colonists must be from
foreign countries with preference for
those of Mexican origin now in the
states and territories above mentioned.
The importation of felt hats into the
land of the white elephant is steadily
increasing. They come chiefly from Ger
many and Italy. Better qualities are i'm
ported from England and France. Straw
hats are also extensively imported from
Switzerland and Germany, whilst Pana-
ma hats come from France. The latter
are much liked by the native population,
and high prices are paid for them-up 10
10 ticals each, or 1925 gold.
The silk industry in Northern Italy
is making steady and considerable prog
ress. Lyons firms of dyers are even open
ing branches In the neighborhood of Co
mo. The exports of silk goods from Italy
rose from the amount of $685., s99 in 1898
to that of ,254 in 1899. New silk
mills are almost constantly being erected
and there is little doubt that the city of
Como will some day become the most
important silk manufacturing center in
Europe.
Diamonds, considered by Lincoln deal
ers superior to those from South Africa
and valued at from % to so per cent
higher than those found in that region
have been discovered at the diggings up
the Mazaruni river in British Guiana, ac-
cording 20 a letter to the state depart
ment from United States Consul Moulton
az Demarara. Concessions of land for
diamond mining are being made and the
industry promises well as the stones al
ready found are pronounced fully equal
in quality to Brazilian diamonds.
Two golf enthusiasts in Pittsburg dis
puted as TO the possibility of making a
course over certain city streets in 80
strokes. They finally bet 2,000 side
William ]. Patton Offering to make the
course -four and half miles, and Henry
r. Rea betting he could not do it. The
game was begun at O'Clock in the morn
ing, starting in California avenue. in front
of the Allegheny County Club. The play
er crossed two bridges, hit two men and
one dog. lost ever SO many balls and fin
ished in two hours, having only made 119
strokes.
Chief emong the assets of Italian no
tel-keepers, merchants and railroads is the
money left with them annually by tour
lists. This will aggregate about $75, 900 Co.,
and the individuals named have just TAX
en- steps to cultivate the travelling foreign
er with the view of encoura ging him to
spend still more. A Congress has been
held in Rome under the leadership Of
Signor Di Ferrari, a former member Of
the cabinet, who in his address to the
delegates said We propose to orga nize
all the forces of Italy which relate to
the cultivation of this industry"
The engineer of the Olympic Iron
works at Tacoma had an experience last
week which he couldn't forget even if he
wanted to remember the Maine. He be-
came entangled with the revolving shaft
of the engine and his body was instantly
drawn in and whirled around with the
machinery. A minute la Ter the engine was
stopped and his friends took out his max
ed and bleeding body. To the amazement
of all he recovered The strangest part
of the stcry is the fact that he was whir,-
ell around so rapidly that his feet struck
the floor with such force that they split
the enc Inch boards without breaking anv
bones or straining the muscles 1t is est
mated that his feet were traversng the
circumference of circle six feet in diam
eter at a velocity of 1000 feet a minute.
The annual gathering of Thousands of
martins for their flight southwark is now
taking place at Corn Island, near Jeffer,
sonville, Ind, The soil is covered with a
shaggy growth of small bushes but there
Is not a tree six feet tall on the island
An hour before shutdown the birds begin
to appear, and at times The sky is black
with them. BY the hundreds they alight
on the small bushes, and bear them
1ou,p 10 tho Ground Gu pny,a,a,,z a.