The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-16

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railway, and for that purpose have given
the Sultan S1OS,OO0 TO be used in construct
/ ing a railroad.
Apricot pulp to the amount of twenty
eight tons was recently ordered from Cal
ifornia by single London jam-making
nrm. Englishmen are the largest con-
sumers of jam in the world.
According to an apparently authentic
article in a French periodical not less
than 10000 aristocrats are at present con-
hned in the prisons of Europe. Russia
stands first with 1900 blue-blooded law
| breakers.
During the prevalence OF the intense
cold in the Yukon region the first two
months of this year (6S.5 below zero being
! the lowesD there was haze all over the
! country and an epidemic of rabies seized
upon the dogs of Dawson.
Manufacture of beer from beet roots
is being advocated in England The beet
abounds in the sugar juice, but it is
stated that the cost of separating il from
| the gums, acids and salts lis somewhat
expensive and would result in a higher
| price being charged for the beer.
"A socialistio colony is to be set up in
lawyers will be allowed in it. Everyone
IN the colony will be forced to work for
a uniform rate OF wages and those who
are lazy or prove themselves morally un-
| INT will be expelled
The faculty of Stanford University in
California has directed that saloon and
cafe advertisements must be omitted from
the Daily Pa.o Alto, the college paper.
ma -
mainly on such advertisements for ffian-
cial support and publicati ton may BE sus-
| pended.
-Four tenement bills have been passed
by the New York Legislature They pro-
vide for permanent bureau for the IN
spection and regulation of tenement house
construction and operation for certain re-
strlcuons as to light and air supply and
| for safeguards against further fire. One
of the bills provides that landlords shall
be held responsible for disorderly tenants.
A few drops of any perfumed oil will
secure libraries from the consuming eff
fects of moldiness and damp. Russian
| leather, which is perfumed with the tar
| of the birch tree, never molds, and mer-
| chants suffer large bales of this article to
| lie in the London docks in the most care
| less manner, knowing that it can sus-
tdlH no INJURY from damp.
Sweden and Norway both boast sew
| eral homes for unmarried women. One
of these was endowed more than 200 years
| ago by man who left the bulk of his
| fortune to his spinster descendants. The
! home is managed by salaried trustees,
and the unmarried woman who can prove
| kinship to the founder is entitled to
| home there.
Not content with providing its own
| gas, electricity, water and street car SER
vice, the city of Glasgow proposes to dis
pense its own liquor, and the municipal
| saloon is talked about. A committee ap-
| pointed TO consider the question has re-
| ported in favor of an experiment and Par
| lament is to be asked for the necessary
| power.
| A bill which has the support of Gov
Mclean in Connecticut appoints a tax
| commissioner with a salary of $500 a
| year, who has power to go into any town
| and examine suspected taXdodgers under
oath. The same bill penalized by 500 fine
and % per cent. addition to a tax list
the refusal of a taxpayer to hand in a
| list.
Dawes, situated among the Alps, 5000
feet above the level of the sea, has be-
come the most popular place in Europe
| for winter sports, such as skating, to-
| bosganing, curling, skiing, etc. The sea-
| son generally extends from the middle of
November until the middle of March, and
last year there were ninety-six days of
ska ting. Curling has developed greatly
and this year new curling ring has been
| opened.
Twenty-Five years ago, Russia was
practically dependent upon foreign ship
yards for her warships. Now she has ten
shipyards of her own on the Baltic and
the Black seas, and in them ten battleships
and cruisers, ranging from 5000 to 1880
tons each, are being constructed. Eight
| other warships are being built for her
abroad, but they are probably the last
that will ever be built for her outside her
own navy yards.
The Tuskegee (Als) Normal and In
dustrial Institute. established for the ben
eft of the colored race started i'm 1881
| with one teacher and thirty students IN
a rented building. The average attend
! ance now is 1850 students, representing
| twenty-seven states, Africa, Cuba, Porto
| Rico and Jamaica, and eighty-six officers
and teachers are employed. Its graduates
and undergraduates number 5000
The government finds il exceedingly
difficult to secure properly qualified car
penters for the navy. Out of twenty-one
| applicants recently examined at the
| Washington Navy Yard only three were
| able to pass. Carpenters are paid from
! $500 to $3.50 a var. according to length
| of service, with added percentum for
| longevity and Communication for quarters
| while on shore.
Some twenty years ago a resident Of
| Boston, Mass, devised a new spinning
machine, which he took with him to
| Bradford, the center of the spinning in
| dustry of Great Britain. There, aided by
| local engineers and experts. he improved
his appliance, which is now in active OPP
Grafton. 1t is capable of spinning a va
riety of materials such as asbestos and
peat moss, as easily and as readily as
wool, and when completed it is difficult
to determine the nature of the fabric.
Under an act passed at the last ses-
sion of Congress the Virginia.
boundary line has been fixed in the mid
die of the main street of Bristol, Tenn.
There is a car line in the street, and pas
sengers on opposite sides of the car now
ride in different states. The marriage of
minors, forbidden in Virginia, may be
performed on the south side of a car. A
Virginia criminal on the south side of the
street is safe from arrest, should he so