The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


For the first time since the Grand
Army of the Republic was organized the
mortality in the order last year went
beyond 10000. Within four or five years
one-half of the 100000 members in 1890
will have passed from the rolls of the
living.
of all the British colonies New Zea-
land has sent the largest proportion Of its
strong youth to fight on the African
veldt. While Canada has sent one in
every 1.22S of its population and Austria
liza one in every $50, New Zealand has
sent one in every $780,
During the year ended March IA, 1901,
no less than sixty-1ve national banks,
representing over 100000 in capital
stock, began business in Texas. Most Of
them are situated in small towns and
will stimulate business in sections where
banks were scarce before.
Tramps in England are fast growing
fewer. In one county there were about
half as many tramps last year as there
were four years ago, and in another
county there were not one-third as many
Enlistments for the army and navy are
considered the cause of the decrease.
The municipal ownership party in st.
Louis, which polied 10000 votes in the
recent city election, is encouraged to be-
come active in state politics. Its name
will be changed from municipal owner
ship" to public ownership" If the idea
natures. 1t is socialistic from the ground
up.
An old horn snuff-box once belonging
to Sir Francis Drake, possibly the one
which he used at Plymouth Hoe during
his famous game of bowls has just been
sold for f3 los in London. The snuffboX
is a quaint old relic, bearing the coat of
arms of Sir Francis, with his name on
the lid.
-Twenty-four of the leading bankers,
professional men and merchants of Rich
land, Mo-, have entered into a covenant
to parade on May in shrtwaists, march
ing through the principal streets. At
night they will give an entertainment and
supper to introduce the shirtwaist as a
substitute for the "spike-tail' and Tex
edo.
From Dalmatia has come a perennial
| cabbage, which forms the principal food
of hundreds of families in Dalmatia 1t
| grows to hight of five feet and bears
| tender leaves throughout the winter
| These are picked singly or the whole head
| is cut and the stems sprout again. 1t
stands in the fields for three or four
| years.
AT the Paris Exposition the United
| States Weather Bureau was awarded a
| grand prix Gold medals were also award
| ed to Prof c. F. Marvin for instEu-
ments, apparatus and appliances, and to
Prof. A. J. Henry for cloud photographs.
The weather bureau will make an extern
| sive exhibit at the pan-American Expo
sition.
The United States are now patronizing
| the banana plantations of the West In
| dies and of Central America to the amount
| of about 100000 a year. That is the
| exporting, not the retail value. The ISL
| and of Jamaica alone is sending to this
country over 100000 punches a year
which means 81, 800 600 to the producers and
shippers of the colony.
| The latest convenience in the New
York apartment is a private safe, built
into the wall, and so arranged that only
| the tenant is acquainted with the COM
| bination. This makes it possible for the
| fiat dwelIer possessing valuable silver,
| jewels and papers to keep them in his
| apartment instead of in the vaults of the
safe uepOSIL VI tlS Ddhh'
of the pure Hawaiians SO per cent. and
| of the part Hawaiians 81 per cent can
read and write. Out of population of
1879, O30 the Hawaiians form 36 per cent,
| little more than one-third. But of the
| children in the schools the Hawaiian and
part Hawaiian number one-half. Of the
| 6,327 landholders in the island 4,717 are
Hawaiians more than two-thirds.
"A recent census of the population of
Rio de Janeiro gives the city approx
mately $50, 900 inhabitants. This is much
| smaller than was generally supposed. In
all, there are 60. 1872 houses and dwellings,
giving the large average of ten people
| each The tenements are crowded with
| hundreds of occupants, many of them liv-
| ing in the most wretched manner.
The public printer of Minnesota beat
all records by issuing the laws passed by
| the recent Legislature within two days
after adjournment. They consist of 4s1
general laws, fourteen special laws and
two constitutional amendments. They
| comprise 40 columns of type set in non
| pareil and agate. When made up" they
make twenty-pages of an ordinary daily
| newspapers.
A table, published In the annual report
| OF the department Vi Is en-
| Tightening as to the amount of money the
| people of the United States spent in pur-
! chasing favorite flowers at retail in 1899
| roses, S. 900 600; carnations, S4,0O0000 vio-
| let's $4,000; chrysanthemums $500, 900;
| miscellaneous, including lilies, $1,25O, 900.
These vast sums found their way into the
| pockets Of nearly 100000 producers and
dealers.
The origin of the tiger as an emblem
OF Tammany is said by w. C. Montanye,
coffee and spice dealer in New York, to
date from the time when William NJ
Tweed, then foreman of big Six" fire
company. took fancy to a picture of a
royal Bengal tiger in the elder Montanyes
store In the JOS. Tweed adopted the en-
blem for the Americas Club, and II soon
was accepted by all Tammany.
President David Starr Jordan Of Stan
ford University, who has accepted an Of
fer from the United States Fish Commits
sion 10 take charge OF an expedition for
the Investigation OF the FISH OF the Ha-
waiian Islands, will devote two months
to the investigation, following which
report viii be made out and forwarded 10
Washington. TO be used ar a basis for
general plan Of extending the work OF the
Federal Fish Commission 10 the islands.