The Savannah morning news., 1901-02-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A Grundy county CKan.) physician
recently sent to the address of one of his
patients a bill for professional services,
and within ten days received the follow
! ing letter written on the back Of his
memorandum: Deer Sur this noat was
put in my box by mistake 1 hain't the
man hees dead and amt any relation OF
mine anyway. 1 don't see how your con-
shens will let you dun the dead. Why
don't you live a better criston live and let
! live and try to meat that man who dide
| in heaven which is worth moer than forty
| dollars to emmy DOCTOR"
Every state has increased in popuia-
ton, and the only city which has appar-
entity lost is the one which padded its
returns ten years ago and now suffers for
it's folly. says the Saturday Evening Post.
| The United States now has a larger popu-
lation than any European country except
! Russia; and the average of our wealth and
productive capacity carries US far beyond
| that kingdom in real greatness. Ger
many. among European countries, comes
next to the United States, but il can show
only a population of 52,279,9o1, or about
two-thirds of our total. In area the
United States, with its new possessions,
is about as large as all Europe. In wealth
it is the richest nation the world has
ever known.
Astronomers are turning their tele-
scopes in the direction of the planet IRA
nus, which has become interesting OF
late by reason of the fact that it has as
stunned such position in the sky that its
four moons, revolving about it like so
many little golden shuttles, are at pres
ent in a pane at right angles with the
line of vision from the earth, says the sat
urday Evening Post. Uranus is one OF
the great planets of the outer group in
the solar system. Uranus is very IN
teresting sort of a world in more than
one respect. II is about sixty times as
big as the earth, and one of its years Is
equal to eighty-four of ours. From the
viewpoint of its in nabitants (supposinS any
such to exist the sun rises in the west
and sets in the East while all of the four
moons have the same popularity. 10
them the sun looks only one four-hun-
dredth as large as it does to US. iuasmuch
as they are 1,s00,000000 miles away from
that luminary, and daylight is proportion
ately dim, though bright enough TO see
by comfortably, inasmuch as at midday
it is equal to the illumination of fifteen
moons like ours. Uranus has diameter
of IS 600 miles, and its distance from the
earth is 100000 miles.
A dispatch from Goshen. y. Y, says:
William j. Brown, of Elmira, an expert in
the use of explosives. day or two ago
fired driven well at the Howell Gene
terry. at Pine Island, with two charges of
a high explosive. Weighing respectively
seventy and ninety pounds, which were
set off. the heavier, one hundred and
twenty feet from the top and the lighter
at a depth of two hundred feet. The lat
ter is supposed to have torn huge
pocket far down in the well. and col
umn of water was spouted up to a height
OF over three hundred feet. With it came
the earth and rocks and three very cu-
rious fish. One struck near the well and
Topped back into 1t, and the other two
were captured. The larger measured
eight inches in length and weighed almost
half pound. The fsh were ey-less. a
dull gray in color and were similar in
shape to a frankfurter sausage. A by
stander caught the big one. but says
that he received a heavy electric shock
when he touched it. He struck at it with
a Ratchet and the blade glanced off its
body. 1t soon died. The survivor IS
covered with small scales, so arranged as
to render it impossible to tell which end
is head and which tail Heading either
way it swims equally well. but prefers
to burrow under a heap of sand.
The Duke of York becomes Duke of
Cornwall by the accession to the throne
of his father. that title (the first English
dukedom) having been conferred on the
Black Prince land his heirs, the first-born
sons of the Kings of England" and first
born" having in the case Of Henry VIII
been decided to mean eldest surviving"
Attached to the title are estates that
bring i'm some 10000 a year. says the
London Chronicle. His Royal Highness
will probably shortly be created Prince
of Wales, though there has been much
variation in the time after accession or
birth Of a son at which our sovereigus
have be>>owed the title. His Majesty and
King George w received Il almost at
birh. The King bore II longer and as
cended the throne at later age than any
other Prince OF Wales. and George Nv
was second 10 him In both respects
George II had been two years on the
throne before he gave the title TO his
eldest son. who was then . years ia
The record Of the eighteen Princes OF
wales, including Richard Of York. father
81 Edward ~ has been by no means
cheerful Only eleven asccnded the
throne ana only six have reached the
age % -. Five died before they were
-, and siN-Edg-lrd ", Richard 49, Ris1- |
ARD 81 York, Edward. son 81 Henry VI
Edward ANA Charles l--died death " |
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