The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Kentucky paper warmed up 10 his work
as he proceeded and closed with this
gushing sentence. she vas waited into
the gloom OF eternal night at O'Clock in
the morning"
New desks are 70 be placed In the
hall Of the House Of Representatives a;
Washington Three hundred members
have reserved their Oh desks. agreeing
10 pay for them the average auction price
brought BY the rest.
"A recent trial az Fort Nyer. Va, was
70 test the relative merits of khaki col
cred and blue flannel shirts for soldiers
W HE no decision was reached. il was
found that the khaki shirt is wen adapt
ed for fed service similar 10 that in the
Philippines.
Indian territory. which increased IN
pOpula from 1900 in 1880 TO Ssi 900 in
lsoo- is an ssplrsnt for the same territorial
representation in Congress as is now given
70 ITS neigabor, Oklahoma. formerly 4
part of it. The white population OF the
Indian territory is largely increasing.
A bill which has just become a law
Of New York makes the funeral expenses
Of a deceased person payable from his
estate before any other debts. Besides
ure may have some effect in encouraging
reasonable simplicity OF funeral display.
A Bostonian who has lived for years
in Paris says that the reason so few
injuries are inflicted in French duels is
that Erenchmen in dueling invariably use
revolver about the size of an American
toy pistol, the bullets of which are not
much larger than birdshot A man
mia ~
from such pistol ana not be hurt very
much.
A poet trust is the next thing accord
ing TO the Chicago Record Herald. which
says: I'VE have just received the fol-
lowing circular from the well known
house of J. P. Morgan & Co. New York:
Plans have now been completed for the
lorna ton of a poet trust embracing all
the leading poets of the United States.
and stock will at once be offered for sale.
The authorized capital stock of this COM
oina will be $40 preferred stock and
S1e3 common stock. We have to announce
that the Sweet Bard of Elyria. o.; the
Poet Laureate Of the Order OF the Mac
cabees, the Peerless Piper of Perseopolis,
No, and J. Gordon Coogler, the Sweet
Singer Of the Saluda, have authorized us
TO pool their interests, and we confdens-
" expect to have the various magazine
poets in line within thirty days
The government of Bengal has de-
voted the sum of 5000 rupees to be ex-
pended in research work having for It's
end the assistance Of Indian indigo plant
ers in the Improvement Of their industry
says a London newspaper The natural,
indigo industry is threatened with ex-
tinction by the products-declared 10 be
sUperior-of German chemistry. After in
Vulnerable attempts a synthetic indigo has
been produced, and has been rapidly dis
placing the vegetable product of the IN
dian planters, who find themselves unable
to compete, either in price or quality, with
the superior dye of the German laoora-
tories. Il is held that the Indian planters
could maintain their ground if they con-
Quoted their operations on a more scien-
tific manner. They do not extract the
full value of the plants treated by the
process now generally in vogue. nor do
they bestow sufficient care on the prepa-
ration of the material for the market.
France. writes a Paris correspondent,
has just inaugurated the vast increase
in her navy, which has been contemplated
for years and which was authorized by
an act passed by the Chamber of Depu-
ties in February. The Minister Of Ma
rlne mas issued an order for the beginning
of work on two battleships the Repun-
iique and the Patrie, which in point of
dimensions and general equipment win
surpass anything now in the French navy
These vessels will have a displacement
Jor Il, $50 tons, more than two thousand
in excess of that of the Suffreu. the lat
est and greatest French warship affoat
They viii each measure 431 feet inches
IN length by beam of rs feet 10 inches
ana Will have a draught of q feet
lhcnes. Each vessel will carry four guns
OF II inches two in the forward and two
in the aft turrets; IS guns of SO inches.
distributed among the smaller towers
and gunholes; IS guns of / s. inches, and
two LAS inches, besides FIVE torpedo pro-
Jectors two of which are submarine
A dispatch from Alden to the London
STANDARD says: The Duke and Duchess of
Cornwall and York made a trip while here
to the famous water tanks five miles from
Alden. The tanks lie in an angle of the
nils east Of the town and are a strange
evidence of former magnifcenee. Their
antiquity is undoubted, but has never
peen ascertained with exactitude They
nave by some authorities been ascribed
TO the period Of the second Persian inva-
sion of Yemen, about 600 A d. They con-
sist Of series of pits, with a storage ca
pacity Of 100000 gallons, so constructed
anu OouiIeCleu Dy cnanPelS as to collect
all the rain that may fall upon the hard
unabsorbent hills Some of the cisterns
are hundred fathoms deep, and are won
derful enough TO have created a belief
among the Arabs that they are the work
of magicians. All are lined with fine white
stucco, which gives the appearance of
immense marble tanks. Their Royal High
nesses inspected with great interest these
wonders. which remained buried for gen
creations until the British occupation.
The India census returns which have
come to hand, says a Simla dispatch, more
than confirm the conjecture that the Off
cial estimate of three-quarters of a mill
ion as the>loss of life due to the distress
of last year is far short of the mark In
all probability at least 100000 have died
in India since 1896 from causes directly
due to famine Further returns received
show that enormous decreases have been
recorded in the districts of the Central
provinces affected by famine Thus Raj
pur is $4,000 short; Chanda los 900; Be
tut, $1,000; Patna. $4,000, and so on. The
figures for the whole of the Central prov
inces show a decrease of more than one
million persons as compared with 1891. In
ordinary circumstances an increase of
100000 might have been confidently ex-
pected as 10 years ago the growth record
ed was well over a million 1t is certain
that IN 70 1905 ,ortfo4fe..