The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


plies his patrons with what he calls
"noiseless milk" His wagons have rubber
tires, his milkmen wear rubber-soled
shoes and he has supplied each of his
customers with a little rubber mat on
which the vessels are silently placed.
In Wichita county Kansas, recently a
young woman died leaving lover and a
brother, who are not good friends. The
sweetheart ordered a handsome headstone
for the girls grave, and now the brother
has gone into court for an injunction to
prevent the erection of the proposed me-
mortal.
The Japanese University, in Toxic ex-
clusiveIy for women, is approaching COM
pletion and will be opened some time this
year. The institution is the outgrowth of
advanced ideas held by Japanese families
of education. Three rich Japanese men
have given enough to insure the compile
ton of the building
A monster lathe has just been made
in Philadelphia. 1t is eighty-six feet
long and its total weight is 1876 tons. 1t
has been constructed for preparing the
thirty-two huge granite pillars to be
used in building new cathedral, each
pillar weighing $50 tons. 1t has eight cut
ters and the granite block is reduced
twenty-four inches in diameter at one
pass over its length.
The slot machine has been adapted in
England to the directory This useful
volume is held fast in a closed position
by the arms of the machine until you drop
penny into the slot; then the arms re-
lax and you can consult the directory.
The book is kept open as long as required
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resistance is withdrawn the directory
closes automatically.
To overcome the difficulty caused by
the loss of time and the reluctance of
postoffice clerks to weigh letters the
French authorities are installing small au-
tomato weighing machines in postoftices.
You place your letter on that part of the
balance which corresponds with your idea
of the weight of your letter and If it is
too heavy label containing that infor-
nation comes into view.
From the latest official reports in the
British war office it is ascertained that
the total killed, wounded and missing
among the army during actions in South
Africa up to March 81 was 1898 officers
and 1882 non commissioned officers and
men. In addition I'll officers and 1881
non-commissioned officers and men have
died of wounds or disease, making the to-
| tai casualties foot up to the enormous
total of 1851.
The Ontario government is negotiat-
ing a gigantic railway deal involving a
grant of 1,542,OO0 acres of unsettled land
in the Algoma region in the northwestern
part of the province, to a syndicate of
capitalists as assistance toward building
railway through the region 800 miles
long, the government to control the rates
The estimated value of the land to be
granted is shillings per acre. The rail-
way will cost 100000
"A German expert in the East points
out that as time goes on more and more
men are required to coerce China into
doing the will of another Power. The
opium war required only 1900 Europeans,
the Anglo-French war against the Chi
nese 5000 and 1880 Indians. The Japa-
nese needed 5000 men and u5,O0O coolies
and to-day we find ninety men-of-war and
almost 10000 men attempting to compel
obedience from the giant empire.
DIR. Rhys, in his Celtic Folklore,
Welsh and Manx," tells the following leg
end of the curlew: when St. Beuno
lived at Celynnog he used to go regular
ly to preach at Landwyn, on the opposite
side of the water, which he always cross
ed on foot. But one Sunday he accident
ally dropped his book of sermons into the
water, and when he had failed to rescue
it a 'gylin-hir,' or cuTlew, came by,
picked it up and placed it on a stone out
If the reach of the tide. The saint prayed
for the protection and favor of the Crea-
tor for the 'gylfn hir;' it was granted,
and so nobody ever knows where that
bird makes it's nest"
"A Berlin correspondent writes that the
German public is again demanding more
stringent laws against the adulteration
of wine, which has lately been very prev
alent. Wine merchants of repute, who
ought to know better, buy the pure wine
| from the peasants, and out of one bar
| rel they make five or six by watering
and the addition of deleterious adjuncts.
Most of the doubtful and deteriorated
wine is exported to England to her colo
MES and to Russia. Formerly it used to
go to America, but wise legislation there
has partially stopped it. The Rhine and
Mosele wine merchants are terribly
afraid that their nefarious trade may be
| interfered with, and numerous meetings
are being held for the purpose of Great
ing a parliamentary majority against the
proposed anti-adulteration law.
The New York Times says that coal
mining is to be carried on this summer
| in the waters of Long Island Sound. Scat
tered all along the shores of Long Island
and Connecticut between New York and
Montauk Point are the wrecks of coal
| barges and coal schooners that have been
| abandoned by their owners and by the
| insurance companies that had insured
| the cargoes. During the past winter one
of the submarine boats that has been ex-
a lot of the wrecks of coal barges while
| the work of testing the value of the boat
was i'm progress. The wrecks were buoy
| ed, and where there was proof that the
| owners of the cargoes had abandon ed
them the wrecks were charted. Since
then number of venturesome capitalists
have organized company that will soon
get to work hauling the coal from these
wrecks and sending it to markets where
it may be disposed of.
Devotion to temperance impresses the
visitor more forcibly than any other tea
ture of Glasgow life except, perhaps. it's
capacity for whisky, says the London
Mail. The strictest regard for The great
cause animetes the authorities in all their
dealings with public affairs. Every
battle, every magistrate is a temperance