The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

years, ranging from IS, 000, 600 in 1895
to 40 900 900 in 1898. Few are present
ed for redemtpoin, and an answer to
the question, What becomes of the
cents? would be as difficult as that to
the inquiry as to the ultimate fate of
pins.
The United States is now issuing
some new ten-dollar silver certificates,
which when they come to hand will be
worth keeping a day or two TO show
to the children, says the Philadelphia
Times. The newest in the series is
known as the Buffalo Bill" because
it bears the figure of mammoth buff
falo. The animal is headed toward
the West and with it's head down for
a charge, the long name sweeping the
ground. it is q fine type of the extinct
monarch of the American plains. In
this series only American subjects are
used. An eagle adorns the one-dollar
bill, George Washington's picture the
two dollar bill. the head of an Indian
chief the five-dollar bill. and now the
buffalo makes his appearance on the
ten-dollar note. For the bills of higher
denomina tions the Bureau of Engrav-
ing is still open to suggestions
-Apropos of Pierre Lorillard's re-
peated assertion that no gentleman can
live well on an income of less than
81 900 a day and expenses" says the
New York Times, a Union club asso-
ciate says there are to-day in New
York at least a dozen men whose liv-
ing expenses exceed those of Pierre
Lorillard at the time he made the re-
mark, a score of years ago. Europe
has had several spendthrifts, not on the
Jubilee Juggings' or Little Sugar
Bowl type, but of good social position.
who have thrown away their principal
and income at the rate within the dec
ade. Now, as if to prove that Mr.. Lo-
rillard was not far out of the way in
his estimate, comes the staid and con-
versative London Spectator with an ar
ticle published before poor Pierre's
death, trying to show that a man can
not possibly live we'll in a good social
position on a yearly income of less
than $50, 900. The wealthy seem to be
coming around to Lorillard's estimate,
particularly in America"
of the $26, 900, 900 worth Of f1bres i'm
ported, nearly one-half is sisal hemp,
which is successfully grown in Flori-
da, in the Bahama Islands just off the
coast of Florida, and in Yucatan, where
the conditions of soil and climate do
not differ materially from those of
Southern Florida, says o. P. Austin in
Everybody's Magazine. The plants
thrive upon the almost naked coral
rocks of the islands and keys along the
coast of Florida, and in large numbers
have been transported to the Bahamas
to stock the sisal plantations there
which are rapidly becoming profitable.
Jute, of which we import nearly $4,000
600 worth annually, has been success
fully grown in the United States, and
SO have others of imported 1bres. In
addition to the $26000,000 worth of
fibres imported, there are importattons
of manufactured fibTeS to the amount
of $32 600 900, most of which would pc
spun and woven in American mills II
the raw material were produced here.
The Agricultural Department, whlch
has carefully investigated this subject,
declares: "Where $50, 100000 worth OF
fbres are now manufactured in TINS
country it might be possible to manu-
facture $40,000,000 worth, and thus
double the home fibre industries, and
it might easily be possible to product
homegrown fibres to the extent OF
one-haIf of the supply needed
Commenting on the report that
Russia may establish a protectofate
over Tibet. the New York Tribune
saws: Tibet practically borders upon
British India. In some places the two
are in direct contact. while elsewhere
the buffer states of Bhotan and Nepal
lie between them. They are, however,
divided by the stupendous wall of the
HimaIayas, over which it would not
he easy for Russia to march an army
Afghanistan would afford less DIM
cult route. Tibet does not abut upon
the Russian Empire, but Is separated
from it by the width of Eastern Turk
estan The absorption OF TIBET ny
Russia is scarcely to be effected, there
fore, until Eastern Turkestan has
been taken. Russian possession OF II
bet would not shut India off from the
Yangtze Valley, since Burma abuts
directly upon the Chinese province of
Y1n-Nan. which is traversed by that
river Before any such barrier can be
established between India and China,
therefore. ii will be necessary for
France TO seize Yun-Nan and Sze-Chu-
en-. That is not likely to happen right
AWAY. And, in fact, when either Oh
these things happens, when Russia
seizes Tibet or France seizes Yun-Nan,
the actual partition of China Will be-
gin. and it will be a grab as-you- can
oerforrnance. in which Great Britain,
On the coasts of all three of the seas
of China, will doubtless play leading
part"
The Great Dismal Swamp is reg
ion strange and interesting, weird and
solitary. 1t occupies billowy plain
some forty miles in length. by twenty
five miles in breadth, along the Allan
tic seaboard. extending from SUFFOLK,
Va. in a southerly direction, well into
the bounds of North Carolina. It's deep
shades, great stretches of brake anu
IRIS very solitude make 1t a region or
interest. To the naturalist and sports
man il has much TO offer In its silent
| Businesses the black bear finds home
admirably adopted to his 2 increase.
Here amid the dense growth of under
brush and timber he may live I'm COM
narrative safety. And there is perhaps
| no locality in the whole Eastern United
States of like extent which can offer
a larger bear population than this
great morass. The white tailed deer
| is also an abundant deni5en of the
swamp frequenting the elevated parts
In addition 10 the deer and bears there
is a big game feature of rather unus-
nal nature. The swamp abounds in
wild cows. These animals. of brown
| color and somewhat smaller than the
ordinary COW. having for many years
been under the peculiar conditions or
the swamp. until they are almost COM
pletely specialized. are extremely Wild
They are ferahzed from the herds OF
| the farms adjacent to the swamps, and
are the descendants of cattle which