The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

whose pencils he keeps in order and who
also purchase new ones from him. He has
a patent sharpener, and visits the offices
of all his patrons daily. Though he only
works four or five hours per day, he
makes between So and 81 a week.
"A reward of f1O0, says a London ex-
change has been offered at Kima, British
East Africa, TO any one who kills the Two
nlan-ea ting lions which have been terror
izing the district for some time past. No
married men are allowed 10 try for the
reward. 1t was one of the same lions
which, early in June, killed and carried off
from a railway carriage Mr.. c. H. Ryau,
a superintendent of police, while he and
two companions were watching at night
for the beasts.
-Margherita, the Dowager Queen of
Italy, once said to the Prince of Wales
Il can overlook many faults of man and
make allowances for his shortcomings
One fault, however, L cannot overlook, and
that is-his not smoking. When my hus-
band. the King. is annoyed 1 give him his
pipe; when he is good tempered | give him
a cigarette; when l want him to do some
thing particular for me l give him cigar
With pipe l can console him, with eli
gazette can delight him, but with a cigar
in Novidades of Lisbon appears the
following: We note as a curious and touch
ing fact that at the present moment unit
ed by the same grief, five widows of the
House of Savoy are weeping round King
Humbert's body. The first is Queen Mar
gherita, the virtuous and inconsolable
companion of the murdered King. The
other four are the Queen Maria Pia of
I1-r
Clotilde, Prince Buonaparte's widow; the
Duchess of Genoa, widow of Ferdinand of
Savoy, and King Humbert's bother-in-law !;
and Princess Loeticia, widow of Amaden
de Aosta.
In very little while there will be di-
rect telephone communication with steam
ers in the port of New York. People will
be able to call up the Deutschland or the
Oceanic as they lie at their piers. The
first test of the plan has just been made
When the Auguste Victoria of the Ham
burg-American Line reached her wharf a
wire was run ashore, and in a few min
utes telephone pay station on board was
doing rushing business. The wire is
passed through a portfolio and connected
by plug with line leading to Cen
trail 1t is likely that all the big passen-
ger steamship lines will adopt the tele-
phone system.
Here is readable lament with a les
son in it, from English Country Life: In
the only heart of the country left to the
home counties, so far from the appurten-
ances of town life that the rattle of rail-
way trains can only be heard family when
the wind is in certain quarter or the
night very still, you may find, even yet
genuine rustics. They are Old folk, full
of old wisdom and old civility, and they
dwell among a younger folk full of new
information, and infinitely less civil. 1t
is strange and unreasonable that after a
few years study of the primers of the
board school, harmless enough little books,
man should find ii derogatory to give
you civil Good evening as you pass,
but he does.
United States Consul Skinner at Mar
settles, says in his last report: French
farmers are disposed to abandon the cul-
tiVatton of olive groves. as in recent
years the prices obtained for the oil
have not been satisfactory Pure olive
oil for edible purposes is at present prac-
tically unknown in any important market
and II it W re offered for sale 1T is doubt
full whether it would be accepted by the
public, except as an inferior article, as
prefers the neutralized las OF a mix
ture CT the olive and vegetable OILS. and
would mistake the fruity flavor of the
pure juice of the olive for an adulterated
product. For some domestic purposes and
al ticulary for frying vegetables, ara
chloe oil-or peanut oil, as we call it's
considered, even in FL ance, tie home of
the olive. superior to any other product
Deep in the Golfers of one of the Lon
| don banks near the Houses of Parliament
! says the London Mail, there has rested
for decade the scrip for nearly million
pounds sterling. 1t is the Delagoa Bay
| Railway scrip. About f1Oo0 COO of it be-
| longs TO an American citizen and his as
| signs, and the rest to the English share
| holders. 1t was placed in The bank s
Golfers when the Delagoa dispute was
handed over to the arbitration tribunal at
| Berne as consequence of the seizure of
| the railway by Portugal in 1889 The
| United States ambassador was made Gus
| todian of the bonds. and Mr.. Choate will
| preside over the great distribution. The
Berne award was made a few months ago
! and the arrangements as to the amounts
| to be handed 10 the various bondholders
are being concluded. There is good reason
to hope that the million will be ready for
| division in a few weeks.
Undoubtedly the greatest surprise
which the figures of Gen. Merriam, the
| director of the census bureau, will have
| for the country will be those which deal
| with the growth of its cities. In 1880 the
wear in which the first national census
| was taken, the proportion of the people
| who lived in cities of 5000 population or
| over was 1856 per cent. of the aggregate
| population of the country. This proportion
| has grown steadily ever since except in
| the ten years between 1910 and 1920 1t was
1920 per cent. of the aggregate in 1890
| From the rate of growth in the ten years
| ending with 1890 the population in 1900 will
| probably be fully So per cent, says Les
| lies Weekly. There were only thirteen
| towns in the United States in 1890 which
had enough population to put them into
| the list of cities at the 5000 classification
| There were AS such towns In 1890 There
| are likely to be more than 800 in 1900
| Philadelphia was the largest of American
| cities at the time the first census was
taken, 10 years ago, and New York was
second Boston was then third Charleston
fourth and Baltimore fifth. St Louis did
not appear in the list of towns of 5000
population until 1870. Chicago did not come
into the list until 1850. Albany, the oldest
in the list of cities, which was incorpor-
ated in 1886, was twenty-ninth on the list
In popula tion in 1890.
There was intense excitement in
bachelor circles yesterday morning, saws
the London Mail, when the news of the