The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A new bridge is being planned for the
Bosporus. The designs which have been
prepared are extraordinary. Each tower
is surmounted by what appears to be a
mosque with domes and minarets.
Financial reports show that no less
than 1921, 2s3 shares of Sugar common
stock were bought and sold on the New
York Stock Exchange during the year
1900. This is the same thing as saying
that the entire common stock changed
hands forty times over.
"A caretaFer in Yellowstone Park re-
ports the birth of a new geyser in the
Fountain geyser basin. For an hour after
A. .44s. ~~.st ouelA tne earIn IL snot
a continuous stream of hot water hum
dreds of feet into the air. Il now plays
regularly every two hours.
1T is not generally known that one
British regiment has been in mourning
for more than century. This is the old
Forty-seventh, the Loyal North Lanca-
shire regiment. The o1scers wear black
blended with the gold braid in, memory Of
Gen. Wolfe, who was killed DIT Quebec.
The city of ST. Petersburg has as
sumed control of three of the street car
lines within it's limits, and expects soon
to take possession of the remaining lines.
When all the roads shall have been Sc
cured the city will advertise for proposals
to convert them to the electrical system.
Recently company has been organ
ICED to build a railroad from Vancouver
eastward through the Kootenai mining
district. The government of British Co.
lumbia will probably give a subsidy OF
$1,000 per mile for $50 miles. The country
90 be opened by the new road is one of
the richest in mineral wealth in British
Columbia.
AT an inquest at Columbus, O., where
a baby had burned to death by an acci-
dent, its clothing having caught fire.
one of the jurymen offered this advice:
II people would only rinse clothing, after
washing, in a solution of alum and wa
ter, they would never take fire; If they
came in contact with a fame they would
merely smolder.
When gambling house is raided in
Kansas the furniture seized must, under
the law. be tried In court and convicted
before being destroyed, just as though it
were a human being. A case of that
SOkS NAS u ACd AZ Il Oll OCOLl d lew udyS
ago. when crap and poker tables. fine car
pets, chairs, etc, were taken to the mar
ket place and burned.
Richard Harcourt, Minister of Educa-
ton for Ontario, has announced that he
will ask the Legislature at the coming
session to make a grant to establish trav-
cling libraries throughout the rural Sec
tons of the province. Boxes of books
containing twenty-five to fifty volumes will
be put on the road, the only cost to the
locality being that OF transportation.
The captain of a British ship which
lay at a New York wharf on Washing
toms birthday refused to hoist a flag in
honor of the occasion. When spoken to
in regard to the matter, he said the May
or Of New York city refused to half-mast
the City Hall flag when Queen Victoria
died. 81 believe in reciprocity ne said,
$50 l won't put UP any ribbons for your
man Washington"
AT Russell Springs, Logan county.
Kansas, the young people made arrange
ments to hold dance on Washington's
birthday, engaged a hall and issued
hundred or more invitations. AT the time
revival was in progress and before it
was over the OWtleE % the nail was COll~
verted and decided it was wrong to let
his property for dance purposes, and in
formed the young people they would not
be allowed to use 1t.
After an experience of five years Min
nesota has repealed the law which pro-
vided that a rebate should be given on
road taxes for each vehicle with wide
tires. The law failed entirely OF its OBJ
sect-the maintenance of good roads.
When tax settlements were due farmers
would demand rebates for wagons that
had never been used on the roads, and
the road fund was mulcted of money that
might otherwise have been used for con-
Struction.
The municipal council of the little
French town of Courteuil is discussing
an ordinance forbidding the wearing Of
tall silk hats within it's borders. The
stovepipe" is condemned in the argu-
nient of the advocates of the ordinance
as ridiculous headgear" which by rea-
son of its costliness constitutes a badge
of social superiority, and is, therefore,
humiliating TO those who never wear it.
The tall hat, reformers declare, 'is used
only by aristocrats who live and grow
fat on the sweat OF the poor"
Commenting on the origin of the name
Of Half Rock, a Missouri post office, the
Kansas City Journal says that it is not
to be accounted for by any popularity
of the physical features of the place, as
might be supposed. 1t seems that one
of the first buildings erected there was
a general store, the proprietor of which
sold such bad sugar that his customers
declared 1t to be half rock" The term
was in course of time applied to the store
itself, and subsequently to the postoffice
established at the place.
The first Industrial and manual train
ing school in the Philippines has Just be-
gun in che city of Dumanguette, on the
island of Negros. The school, which is OF
two stories, the first of stone and the secL
ond of wood, though not of bamboo. is
due to the generosity of II. B. Sillman OF
New York, who gave $4,000 The young
are to be taught carpentering
iron work, etc, and 100 acres of land have
been bought on which to teach them agri-
culture. The school is in charge of Rev.
Leon c. Hill, a Princeton graduate. Du-
was selected because OF the
friendly attitude of the natives.
AT various times the municipal corpo-
ration OF Liverpool has obtained powers
from Parliament to borrow sums amount
ing to 100000 for the demolition and i'm
provement of property found to be I'M