The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


100000 bananas were received from the
tropics and on March 4 100000 oranges
came in, the shipment being made from
Los Angeles, Cal. This orange train
was composed of twenty-eight cars and
a caboose. There were 1854 boxes or
oranges to the car. making 1912 boxes IN
all.
The name of Sing Sing, so far as the
New York village is concerned. is no
more, having been changed to Osining.
Manufacturers brought about this change,
the impression having gone abroad that
all goods turned out in the village were
prison-made The village showed a de-
crease in the last census of 1913 In popu-
lation, though neighboring places showed
uniform increase. Sing Sing was incor-
porated in 1913 and the prison was erect
ed eleven years later. The prison is still
within the village boundary lines
Several weeks ago an abscess develop
ed in the stomach of William Thorpe,
resident of Quantico, Md. The growth
so weakened him that physicians feared
to use the knife and the patient was
slowly dying. few days ago he saw
Philadelphia paper in which there was-a
cartoon making fun of Senator Quay OF
Pennsylvania. Thorpe laughed and imme-
diately a stream of blood gushed from his
mouth. The doctor happened to call Just
then, and after examining Thorpe declar-
ed that THAI abscess had broken and that
the patient would now get well. All of
which goes to show what Philadelphia
cartoons are good for.
-Workmen are now actively engaged
IN restoring the Parthenon at Athens.
One end is nearly completed and work is
proceeding on the other portions. The
London Sphere says: 1.-THE restoration
work is not being carried out with old
fragments of marble which have been
dug from the surrounding earth, but with
newly quarried marble, the glaring fresh
ness of which is reported to contrast vio-
lently with the mellowed stones of the
ancient temple of Athena. 1t is surprs-
ing that the news of The work now in
hand, which aims at nothing less than
the complete restoration of the Parthenon
should have only reached us after the
completion of one end of the building.
There are several foreign schools at
Athens which might we'll have interested
themselves in the defense of this most
perfect specimen of Greek architecture
to the extent of appealing to a country
which has always been particularly inter
ested in the historical monuments of
Greece"
world, and it is surprising to find that
the presidents outnumber the kings.
There are twenty-four presidents and only
twenty kings. But the balance is more
than made straight by the emperors, sui
tans, mikados, rajahs, khedives, ameers
and other potentates who prefer their
special title to that of king. Only one
reigning monarch of the world, if we ex-
he n ..fC
woman. This is Queen Wilhelmina of
| Netherlands. OF the sovereigns of Eu-
| rope twenty-one have no direct male
heir. These include, among German
princes, the Kings of Saxony, Bavaria
and Wurtemburg, the Grand Dukes
Of SaxeWeimar, Meclenburg-S chwe-
rim and Hesse-Darmstadt, the Dukes
of Saxe-Altenburg and Saxe-Co-
burg, and the Princes of Liechten-
stein, LiDpe and both Schwarz-
| burgs. Besides these there are the Car
of Russia, the Emperor of Austria, and
the Kings of Italy, Spain, Belgium and
Servia.
"A City of Mexico correspondent of the
Boston Transcript writes: 1.-THE City of
Mexico is now in the hands of the con-
tractors who are putting in the new sys-
| tenn of sewers, which precedes the paving
| of the streets with asphalt. When these
| improvements are completed and the &c.
00ooo0 or more in gold now provided is
| expended in undermining his ancient cap
| itai, here will be one of the most beautiful
and delightful cities to visit in the world.
for it will retain it's unique features ana
| lose most of those now found so disagree
| able by tourists. The following item
| clipped from local paper in this city is
| a curious Illustration of the meeting of
old and new methods which one finds ev-
| erywhere, and which, while impressing
the visitor so forcibly, are taken as q
matter of course by the inhabitants:
Coaches are not the only things that get
INTO the zanjas, as the sewer excavations
| are called. Scarcely a day passes that
| the police records do not show the find
| ing of one or more bodies, the manner
| of their coming there frequently being a
mystery.
| The heavy artillery manufactured by
Schneider & Co. at their works at Creusot
has been brought into special prominence
by the part which it has played in the
Transvaal war, and military experts can
not fail to be interested in a series of ex-
| periments which took place recently, at
Havre with several new cannon invented
| by Messrs. Schneider and Canet. In these
new guns everything possible has been
| done to simplify the process of loading
| and so increase the rapid1ty of the firing
| Each gun requires trainer at the han
! dies of the direction wheels, one person
| to open and shut the breech, two to load
| and one to withdraw the cartridge case
In order that the attention of the person
who is sighting the gun shall not be di-
verted the sighting apparatus is placed
on the left side of the gun, forward of the
breech. He is thus not troubled by the
gases which escape from the breech When
engaged in firing the men operate in such
way that when there is a shell fired
there is another in the breech and
third in the hands of the nearest attend
ant In this way the quick-hring gun
was able upon several occasions to fire at
the rate of a shot every four seconds
Thirty of these shells were distributed in
two minutes over a space of three hun
dred square yards How many men of a
column of infantry would be standing aft
er having experienced such a fire?
in Manitoba they are growing to
limited extent a kind of grain new to this
continent. 1t is called spelt and is
Russian grain. 1t also grows in some
parts of Germany The seed was OBJ
tanned from Russian settlement in Da-
kota. The peasants fleeing from the rule
of the great white Gar had brought this
little remembrance of home with them.
AS for unnumbered centuries their ances-
tors had been obliged to hoard up the