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


According 10 military paper publishs
ed in London the uniforms of English
Privates cost the taxpayers about as fol-
lows: Line infantry, SIS. so; artillery. $3.50;
hussars, $3.50; killed highlanders. $1S; I'M
mounted engineers, s2l; mounted engin-
eers $751; life guards, s35.
The Supreme Court of New Jersey
says 1t is not required that the railway
Companies give audible warning CT the ap
reach of their cars to children playing
on the sidewalk. II is enough If the motor
man makes every effort to arrest the mo-
ton of the car when such children rush
from the sidewalk and run directly in
front Of the car.
Elementary courses in agriculture are
to be introduced into the public schools of
Illinois at the beginning of the next
school year. With the primary purpose of
interesting country boys in what may be
their life work, the course will be adaot-
ed especially to the country schools, but
1t will be introduced into town and city
classes in modified form.
An Italian military journal gives an
account OF a perfected automatic rife in
vented by a captain of the Italian army.
The chief feature of the weapon Is the
employment of part of the gas generated
by the discharge of each cartridge in
working rotary cylinder which extracts
the empty cartridge case and automatic
ally recharges the weapon from the maya
zine.
In New South Wales a new use for
the monograph has been found. A candi-
date who found it impossible to visit all
parts of the sparsely settled region he
wished to repres mt in The Legislature die
lated his speech into an instrument and
sent a number of copies about for his
constituents to hear, a large picture of
himself he prg the voters to know whom
they were voting for.
James w. Davidson, United States
consul at Tamsui, Formosa, writes that
Formosa now controls the camphor pro-
duct of the world. The japanese annual
production has dwindled to 800, 600 pounds,
the Chinese yield has never exceeded 220,-
900 pounds, while the Formosan supply,
increasing yearly, reached 1000, 900 pounds
in 1885, and the yield for the last four
years has ranged over $1,000 600 pounds.
According to a French newspaper
German surgeon, whose man-servant lost
both arms and legs and part of his face
by the explosion of a shell, has calculated
the cost of manufacturing an artificial
arm. A pair of arms, with hands, joints,
etc. complete. would cost about $780, a
pair of legs. about $40; false nose in
| metal-indistiguishable from the real arti-
| cle-costs $50 to $780, and for $40 pair
of ears. perfectly natural! in appearance
and furnished with artificial drums. can
| be produced. A complete set of teeth
| would cost $40 to S65, and a pair of glass
| eyes, $50. Thus the total cost of supply
| ing deficiencies to a man who has lost
| all his limbs and the major portion of his
| face is $500 to $500.
The manufacture Of silk has for sew
eral centuries been the chief business of
| Lyons, France. The Romans established
works there In the third century A. D. for
| the manufacture of cloth of gold and sill
ver but every vestige of these was swept
| away by northern invasions. The pres
| ent silk industry was taken there from
| Italy and Spain and the Levant about the
| year 1856, under the fostering care of
| Louis XII. He imported machinery and
weayers, with the expressed purpose of
| diminishing the stream of gold then flow
| ing into foreign countries. 1t is recorded
| that Ave aunes of silk at that time cost
| from 800 to 400 francs, or from As to 80
| francs (s9. 26 to s11.5S) a yard, money then
| being worth about four times its present
| value.
"A French explorer has just discovered
the vanest people in the world, says the
| New York Herald. BY curious coinci-
| dence they happen to be also the ugliest
| They are the Pahouins, a savage tribe
| of the western coast of africa. Like all
| ssvages, the Pahouins hunt, fish, and
wage war on their neighbors. Neverthe-
| less, their main occupation is in the adorn-
Tl-t. H.
| clothing is of so light a character as not
to incommode him. he bestows good
share of his thought upon the adornment
of his body, which he tattoos i'm elaborate
| designs done in red or blue. Or more
| fanciful effect Is obtained by tattooing in
relief by injecting underneath the skin the
| juice of plant which produces a perma-
nent swelling. Sometimes the face and
body are also tinted with a dye. red being
| the color most In demand. The same
method was used in edorning the face
especial attention being given 40 the nose
Many of the Pahouins, after tattooing or
| painting their noses, pierce them with
| long, slender bones; others after piercing
| the nose, attach to it a string of colortd
| pearls. Both men and women concentrate
their efforts on their hair. Their inge-
nuity, which is shown In the construction
| of scores of different headdresses of bone
the warriors, is illustrated in far greater
degree by the coiffures of the women. The
extreme OF simplicity in the Pahouin wo-
mems methods OF making themselves
| beautiful is to shave the head till it is
smooth and round as ball. and then TO
| color II with dye
The Dowager Empress and Ii Hung
! Chang have worked together for many
years, says the London Telegraph. and If
| gratitude be a Chinese quality. which the
| missionaries deny, she probably feels
| grateful TO him for his untfring service
Anyhow in spite of the Japanese War, he
has received many marks of imperial fa-
vors during the last four years. He is at
! this moment viceroy Of the two great
provinces of the West river, Kwangsi ard
Kwangtung, and lives at the Capital City
! of Southern China. Primarily he was sent
to Canton to put down the piracy of the
! water ways with a strong hand and to re-
| store order TO the turbulent districts of the
interior. To friendly diplomatists IL vas
whispered that he was specially instruct
ted to oppose French aggression on the
| Tonkinese frontier. He was to be the
strong man at the helm. All things in
! China are what they call on the Bunds
"show-piggin," and IL is probable that the
real and governing reason for, LIS removal
! from the. capital 90 the far south of the
empire was TO nullify his personal lnfiu-
ence with the Dowager Empress and TO
| give a free hand to the ancient intrieuers
| who are always competing for her favor
/ That Ia will deal effectively with tho "a