The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AS these ruins are in the Ute reserva-
ton a 10 years lease has been obtained
by the association from the Ute chiefs.
Before the Australian flag was
chosen more than thirty-three thous-
The competition was originally started
by The Australaisian Review of Re-
views, and as many of the designs were
well worth notice the government took
the matter up and offered reward of
e200 for the best suggestion. A board of
naval experts was appointed to ex-
anime those sent in, and a decision was
reached on October 3.
The suggestion which came origin
ally from Australia that there should
be a uniform postage of cents for
letters to all parts of the world has
been approved by Italy, Switzerland,
Egypt and some South American
states. while Germany has disapprov-
ed. England, France, Russia and Aus
tria has united in the suggestion that
the whole question should be referred
to the next postal worlds congress, TO
be held at Rome in 1902.
There is a very large class of people
in Mexico which makes a living out
of the production of drawn work. In
many of the schools, especially those
conducted by the government for indi-
gent children. and those run in the in
terest of the Catholic Church in Mexico,
the art of drawn work is taught. In
the Girls Home there are several hun
dred young girls who devote a large
part of their time to the production OF
the finest of Mexican needlework.
The Jonkoping matches of Sweden
are all made by machinery. Hand la
Dor has been reduced to a minimum.
The sticks are cut of aspen wood,
which is tough and porous and is now
being imported largely from Finland
and Russia, because the supply in Swe-
den is rapidly becoming exhausted. The
sticks are dipped and dried and boxed
without being touched by a human
hand. A single machine can put UP 40,-
900 boxes in day of eleven hours.
Many fish can produce musical
sounds. The red gurnard has earned
the name of seacock from the growing
noise which it makes, while another
species is called the piper. Others, not
ably two species of ophidium, have
sound producing apparatus, consisting
of small movable bones, which can be
made to produce a sharp rattle. The
curious drumming" made by the Med
iterranean fish known as the maigre
can be heard from depth of thirty
fathoms.
A Strasburg aeronaut says he has
seen an eagle at the hight of 5000
meters, and again a pair of storks and
a buzzard 900 meters above the sea
level. On March TO- 1890, some aero
nauts observed a lark flying at the
hight of 1000 meters; on July Is, 1899,
another balloon met a couple of crows
at an altitude of 1,4O0 meters. These,
however, are exceptions. Birds are
hardly ever seen above a hight of 1000
meters; even above 400 meters they are
not frequent.
The local paper of Sterling, Kan,
noted the other day that "a fleet of
prairie schooners passed through Ster-
ling Wednesday, in a straightaway
race to winward, with Oklahoma as
the final goal. They left here in a
bunch at 1892 with clubtopsails and
jibs set, with fair prospects for a
pleasant voyage. They had balloon
jibs and spinnakers furled away in
their feed boxes, and it is expected all
will finish the course before the eX-
piration of the time limit.
"A Philadelphia man tells this story
on himself His daughter, who is the
wife of an army officer in the Philip
pines, is on the way to join her hus-
band In San Francisco she remem-
bered that her father appreciated fine
old California red wines. She shipped
him case of a dozen bottles by ex-
press, and wrote that as she would
have to change a 800 bill to pay the
charges she had sent it c. o. d. The
wine arrived all right. Papa paid the
express charges, $3.50, on package
valued at $3.50.
Liverpool has the biggest warehouse
in the world. 1t is built beside the
docks. and is intended to house the
imports of tobacco which form so inn
portant part of Liverpool's trade. The
warehouse is 7251a feet in length. los
feet wide and 124 feet ten inches high.
The ground area is 1890 square yards,
and the area of the several floors 174,-
O9S square yards. There are at present
in bond in Liverpool some $4,000 hogs
heads of tobacco, weighing $4,000 tons,
which is equal, roughly estimated, to
a custom duty of f1S,000,000.
An aged resident of Caroline coun-
ty. Nd, was hailed in court the other
day to stand trial for the alleged lar
CSny Ol nine eggs EAlId ndu
to be summoned, and ii cost the county
$3.50 to try the case. Counsel for the
defendant (who was 70 years ODD said
that he had known his client as an
honest and upright man for forty years,
and that it was incredible that he
should steal eggs. He argued further
more that the state had not shown that
the eggs were sound, and nine rotten
eggs would have no value at all. The
jury returned verdict of mot guilty"
When Bishop C C. McCabe visited
Northwestern University in Chicago
recently the students called for a
speech, and the bishop surprised them
with an attack on hazing. "A hazer
is a coward" he said, land his acts
should be amenable to law. 1t is a
brutal custom and should be dealt with
severely. l sincerely hope the univer-
sity authorities will place their stamp
of disapproval on this practice"
The attitude of the Sultan of Tur-
key toward France has suggested TO
the residents in Tunis, which belongs
to France, a form of reprisal which
will not commend itself to the Moham-
medan mind. The evening prayer every
Friday in the mosques now concludes
with the words: May God give vic
tory to the commander of the faithful,
the Sultan Abdul Hamid!" 1t is pro-
posed to substitute French republic"
thus placing the 'Mohammedan worship
on the same footing as that Of other
religions.
The resumption of the use of water
gas by some of the gas companies in