The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

could, if pushed. furnish 50 per cent. more
raw rubber than at present and that the
possibilities of Africa as a rubber export
ing continent are limitless
What is commonly known as the
measuring or span" worm has made
its appearance in the section of country
surrounding Richmond, Ind, and is doing
vast damage TO young fruit trees.
Rev T. NJ. Price of Iowa Falls, Iowa.
pastor Of the First Congregational Church
at that place, has written drama based
on the first three chapters of the book
of Genesis He says the drama is the ia
vorite me hod of the old testament and
that it ought frequently to be used as
presentation of old truths in new form.
English death duties were nearly $15,
0OO, 900 larger in the governments fiscal
year ending March 81 than in the previous
year. Almost the whole of the tremendous
increase was made in the last quarter
of the year and il has been attributed to
the fatal effect of influenza among elderly
people.
Borden College, Indiana. which Prot.
W. w Borden opened seven years ago,
and has since maintained will be closed
at the end OF the present scholastic year
and will be changed into a museum for
Prof. Borden's collection of geological,
archaeological and historical specimens.
one of the finest and most famous collec-
lions in the world.
"A Kansas paper, finding 1t impossible
to secure enough subscriptions to guaran-
tee weekly wages, issued the following
Valedictory: LAS we said a few days ago
in our initial number, the daily would
fNr1lN ffuarrr i y,
town and see if it was wanted. We find,
after thorough canvass of the town,
that we could count on about $12 a month
advertising for it. Tai Tar
"A young man who was hunting recent
ly in the Allies near Red Oak Knob
Va, shot a large bald eagle The bird
measured feet inches across the
wings When the hunter went to examine
the prize he was astonished to find one Of
the eagles claws held firmly in a power
ful steel trap to which was attached
steel chain five feet long. Trap and chain
had marks of vicious blows from the ca
giles beak, showing how he had vainly
endeavored to free himself from them.
They had not interfered with his flight
however.
Capt Joseph CONS .ock, a well known
mariner living in Seattle, spent almost the
entire summer at Cape Nome fifty years
ago. His mission to the far north was
not to hunt for geld, and though he spent
Two months on the Nome beaches and
wandered uD and down over the yellow
bees that have since beer found to be
phenomenally rich, not a sign of gold
Gid he see, nor did he hear a word Ut
trede by the Indians that would lead him
to believe it was different in that respect
from country that never produced an
ounce of gold.
The world famous Moulin Rouge dane
ing hall, in Paris, situated on the historic
nights of gay Montmartre, the Mecca CT
every pleasure seeking foreigner is likely
10 fall into the control of an American
syndicate, headed by a wealthy brewer
Eight hundred thousand dollars has been
offered for the property as it stands and
the deal will probably be consummated. The
idea of the syndicate is to Americanize
the resort, making elaborate improve
ments and eliminating certain French
features which attracted men unaccom-
panied by their wives.
The Chinese system of writing. with
its thousands of individual characters.
does not lend itself easily to transmission
by telegraph, so the Chinese words are
represented by English numerals and
these numerals sent over the writ and
translated at the receiving end into Chi
nese characters. The charges for tele-
grams, says our consul at Che Foo. are
curiously arranged. The Chimes words
represented by numerals, are sent at one
ialf the rate charged for straight Eng
fish words, but at the other end charge
CT one cent word is quired for putting
the numerals back into the Chinese char
acterS.
Down In Texas the worm has turned
and is comforting a benefit on farmers in
the Drop Heighberheed. The worm is de-
scrlbed as about an inch to an inch and a
half long, something like a small cater
pillar. and its color is black without
markings of any kind. He seems TO have
strong prediction for the army worms
that have been working in the cotton in
that part of the country, and whenever the
black worm strikes the army worm he
kills most of the ravagers and the re,
mainder leave. 1t is said the destroyer
gets in his work rapidly, and that the
army worms leave as soon as the other
makes its appearance.
M. Leuret, the French manufa cturer
of artificial pearls from fish scales. says
that he will come to the United States
and erect works az soon as he hears of
locality where the right kind of scales
can be had in large quantities It is sug-
gested that a suitable place might be
found on the St. Lawrence river. among
the Thousand Islands. The scales should
be small and have silver sheen The
brighter they are the higher price tbey
will command. The scales should be re-
moved while the fish are alive if posi-
BILE Twenty-Five thousand pounds of
these scales can be used a year. 1t .
anticipated that twice that quantity may
be used in a few years.
Electric smelling on a large scale is
to be tried in Switzerland near Meiringen.
in the Bernese Oberland, and a concess' on
has been obtained from the state for the
working of an outcrop of hermatite. saws
the Engineer. The vein has thickness of
seven feet and is visible for a length of
two miles along the mountain face The
ore will be transported by an aerial rome
way to 1nneskhchen, below. The conces-
sion obtained for the water mower
amounts to 10000 horse power This will
of course be more than sufficient to drive
the machinery was to supply the power for
the electrical furnace. One of the difficul-
ties which have beset the metallurgical
Industry in Switzerland hitherto has been
the lack of fuel for smelling.
"A correspondent writes from Germany
as follows: Il have just received a note
from relative who is at present living
in the Black forest. Lately he obtained
permission to inspect workshop and he
was surprised and amused when he tool,
note of the character of the nfclnarks
that were being turned out by the gross