The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| inhabitants to carry knives with the ex-
| ception of those whose vocations require
II. Persons transgressing this regula ton
| are liable to a fine not exceeding 500 ru-
oles or three months imprisonment.
"A railway has been projected between
Berlin and Hamburg, in Germany, a dis
lance of 156 miles, on which electric trains
will run at a speed of 125 miles an hour
The tracks 2 will be isolated, and there
Will be no grade crossings or switches
all the ordinary interferences with high
speed thus being eliminated. The road
will cost about $33 600, 900. If the existing
plans should be carried out, the question
OF the relative cost of steam and electric
ity or long Substance railways may be part
ly settled, at least.
Jews in England, and also the poor of
many other religions, owe much to the
philanthropy of the present Lord Roths-
child, whose vast wealth has often been
drawn on for charitable purposes. Lord
Rothschild succeeded his uncle in the
baronetcy in 1876. He entered the House
OF Commons when only twenty-five years
of age, being returned by the Aylesbury
constituency in the Liberal interests, and
held his seat for twenty years. Then he
was raised to the peerage. Lord lieuten-
ant for Buckinghamshire for twelve years
once lieutenant for the city of London,
he is a familiar figure in society, COM
merce and politics of London.
The United States Weather Bureau in
tends, in the near future, to begin a Sc
ries of storm forecasts for the North At
lantic. This is now possible, owing to the
recent establishment of observing sta
tions throughout the West Indies, the
Bahamas, on Turks Island and in Ber-
muda, with a system of regular reports
| from the Azores Portugal, France and
England, which will be received when the
| cable from New York to the Azores and
Portugal is completed. When it is posi-
BILE forecast will be made of the wind
| force and wind direction for the first
| three days of the route of all outgoing
| steamers.
-Tung oil, also known as Chinese wood
| oil, is expressed from the seeds of the
a.eurites cordata. 1t is extensively en-
ployed in China and Japan in the manu-
facture of varnish Recent attempts to
| introduce it in Europe as a commercial
article have met with only partial sue
cess. 1t possesses greater drying proper
| ties than any other known oil, far ex
ceeding linseed oil in this respect On be-
ing heated in a vessel from which the
air is excluded it undergoes a curious
change being converted into a solid mass
The purified fresh oil has a not unpleas-
ant odor, but the smell of old or less
refined oil is very disagreeable, and has
| prevented its general use In the linoleum
| industry.
-Viennese duelling methods are quite
different from those of Paris. The chief
! Characteristic of Partisan duelling is its
| publicity and harmlessness In Vienna
! perhaps. not so many duels are fought
| but those that are generally result in the
| letting of considerable blood, and they
are always quietly managed. The other
| day woman was convicted in Vienna
| FOR renting her apartments for duels For
| years she has made this a profitable bus
| mess, and at her trial she admitted that
| In the last three or four years over 200
duels have been fought in her parlor Ev-
erythlng was so arranged that there was
not the slightest publicity, and as the
| nights always took place before six in
the morning the chances of the police
hnding out anything about them was
small. In fact Frau Pietsch might have
gone on doing this indefinitely had not
| her husband objected to 1t. He had begged
her to stop, but she wouldn't Then he
| got separation from her, and 1t was in
mis- suit that her occupation was made
public.
"A Few months ago the gardener on
John ]. Telford's place at Peru, I'D the
snort Line, accidentally wounded a crow
| whafe shooting at other birds. ard he
made a prisoner of the bird saws the
Louisville Courier-Journal. After its
wings were clipped 1T became quite tame
and was placed in the garden which is
| surrounded by fence feet high II
uhrived on worms and bugs and became
a CnirlrHn
weather set in other crows began to gath
| er about the garden at early dawn and
for hours at time kept up a continual
caWing The crippled crow in the garden
| answered each cav and morning after
morning the size of the visiting party in
creased ON the fence. Sunday morning
Mr.. Telford heard a commoton in the
| garden. He went to investigate and found
| -FOUR or five crows towering around the
crippled one. Presently he saw three of
the visitors place their beaks under the
| cripple, lift 1t UP and attempt to fly away
| They managed to get the cripple over the
| high fence; then it was dropped The lib
Grated bird hoped 200 or 300 yards, when
| an but two Of the other crows flew away
The remaining two swooped down on the
crippled bird and seemed to be caressing
| 1t, when boy captured the cripple and
| returned it to the garden.
The Pennsylvania Fish Commission
and the New Jersey Fish and Game
| Commission are to take common action
| toward reviving the sturgeon fishery. An
attempt will be made to propagate the
fish at the old shad hatchery at Bristol.
| and the efforts of the commissions will
| be watched with interest. Twenty years
ago the sturgeon fishery was a very valu-
| able one, but to-day the fishermen are
reaping the fruits OF that policy which
has been but too frequent in this county
in connection with its natural products
| that Of killing the goose which laid the
| golden eggs. Then II was supposed that
| the fishery was inexhaustible, but nature
has her limits. and the indiscriminate
| killing off of the game has resulted in
| the running of a once flourishing indus
| try. Twenty years ago there were more
! sturgeon taken in the Delaware in one
day than are now taken in a whole sea-
son, the consequence being that there mas
| been an enormous advance In the price
of the product. A carcass that then
brought about $5.15 commands about $50
to-day. A lump of caviar the size of a
cocoanut could be bought for u cents
now 1t sells for from 80 cents to 81 a.
pound At present about 81 100000 are in
vested in the industry. but the reports
| of this seasons operations show that all
the boats except two have lost money.
The distances over which birds mi.
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