The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

door lives, and almost all OF them DelohS
to the Intellectual class. Usually the loss
of hair begins before the thirtieth year.
In woman il usually constitutes general
thinning; in man it affects the top of the
head. Diseases that affect the general
nutrition of the body are likely to thin the
hair.
Philip Ealithorp, farmer OF Hitch
cock, S. D., has demonstrated that sugar
cane can be grown in that section. He
experimental with twelve acres of what
is commonly called sorghum caue" and
is more than gratified with the result.
1t is rank in growth. has large and very
juicy stalks, equal i'm every respect to
that grown in Iowa. and from it fine
quality of sorghum molasses can be made.
Mr.. Ellithorp will cut the crop for fod-
der believing 1t superior to the best corn
fodder, cattle taking to it ravenously.
Brother Jonathan" was Gov Jona-
than Trumbull Of Connecticut to whom
Washington often applied fer aid ard ad-
vice during the Revolution, and Uncle
Sam was Samuel Wilson, a government
inspector at Troy, N. Y, during the war
of 1872 who was accustomed to mark
packages he had Inspected and passed
with the initials "E. Al. s." Z. a.
stood for Ebert Anderson, the government
contractor and a local wag started the
story that U. s., originally intended for
United States, meant Uncle Sam" in
playful allus'on to the ins7ector's first
name Mr.. Wilson died in 1854.
The foreign demand for American
corn is rapidly increasing. Until within
recent years Europe failed to recognize
the superiority and economy of corn is
cheap food for animals. but they are now
awakening to that fact. Indeed, the IN
crease in the export observed in the last
five years has been the most striking fea-
ture of our foreign commerce, the increase
observed during that period being equal
to about 254 per cent. The maximum was
reached in the last fiscal year, when the
exports attained the unprecedented total
of 209, 34S 273 bushels, valued at $S5,206, 3Se.
This figure represents but one-tenth Of
the total value of our corn crop.
The shah of Persia, though he disguised
the French people with his unclean per-
sonal habits, he proved a profitable shop
per, and he returned home with a ship
load of purchases. In the list of the lat
ter American products figure to the follow
ing extent: Sixty bicycles, fifteen lawn
mowers ten washing machines, ten naph-
tina launches, ten wiudmills, five we'll
boring machines, three motor cars. TWEEN
" DdDS CbIIidStS, lllISe pltOiiOSld ICi
sewing machines, ten furnaces and enc
private railroad car. And his majesty Sc
lected these only after a careful COMPARE
son of the makes from every other ma
ton represented at the Paris Exposition.
The average mans coat picks up a
vast quantity of bacteria in the course
of day. and these are delivered by him
in his own home when he returns from
lob ba Ha has
rubbed and brushed up against seats in
cars that but moment before were oc-
cupied by reasty, germ-breeding gutter
snipes. He has leaned his elbows on pol
lu4ed tables and bars, his back on pillars
and posts. all oozing with microbes. Only
the rich and fantastic change for dinner
Nearly every one beneath the upper ten
dom of swells and struts lounges about
the house in the same old clothes with
which he wipes up the Office. How he es-
capes infection l cannot magine.
William Creiger of Worthwhile. Mich.
has on his right cheek a wart which acts
as barometer for the entire neighborhood
and in the matter of accuracy is declared
to be far ahead of the weather bureau
During dry weat her it is small and rather
dry When a storm is coming twenty
hours notice is given Mr.. c. by this wart
swelling to two or three times its nor
NAL size. During the late drought Mr..
! Creiger was the object of much prom
nence as everybody wanted to know
when rain would come in order to save
their corn and potatoes. The day before
the rain did come the wart began grow
! ing larger and Creiger was sure the
| drought would be broken, and it was.
Perhaps there is lesson for good
many Americans in the fact that Spain
seems to have been much benefited by
the less of her colonies, saws the Chicago
Chronicle. For a number of years the ma
! ton was drained of fer young ne1 in
! order to keep up he warfare on Cubans
and Fi'ipinos the m3ney cost of which
was about $780, 600 annually Now, &C
cording to Spanish financial journal
| Spain is progressing more ranidy than
| II has at anytime within the last century
! The government loan of S20),C0l00 was
| oversubscrited three times. Industries
| which have been dormant for years are
being revived and electric traction is
making is way into Spsni- h cities. Spain
is still receiving large share of the
products of what were once her colonies
and is buying heavily of machinery from
| The United States.
Touching the hump continues to be re-
| garded as sure means of wooing Mis-
| IreSS FORTUNE says a writer IN the New
York Press. Two young men who appear
| ed to be in moderate circumstances judg-
! ing by their dress, walked through Mail
| street yesterday just at the time when a
| hunchback grasped his horse by the head
| and backed him toward the wholesale end
| of the Possoffice. The situation did not
warrant either in jostling the malformed
creature, but they sidled up over toward
him until one rubbed his arm against the
! protuberance of spine. 1t seemed to be
accidental. Of course. and no harm was
| done. The leprechaun paid no attention
! They passed on a little distance. when
| the one who had rubbed against the de-
| formity whispered: Everything goes nv
way to-day. / touched his hump" The
| smile Of serene satisfaction indicated a
positive faith in the enterprise.
THE moving train illusion is some
thing the cyclorama experts have been at
work on for years" said an old showmnn
talking about tricks of the trade. accord
ing to the New Orleans Times Democrat
| THE idea is to present the same effect
one gets in looking out of the window Of
| passenger car moving at full speed
and the thing suggested itself almost as
soon as the modern cyclorama was in
vented. In the abstract IL seems very sim
! ple-merely a matter OF seating the spec
taiors in a dummy car and then reeling
long panorama of landscape past the win
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