The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


were looked into by the board. but the
decision, was in favor of the wood. The
first order for this kind of pavement
will aggregate about fifteen miles of
streets to be paved.
Few as the saloons are in Missis-
sippi they pay nearly one-third of the
states total income from privileges.
Mississippi is regarded as one of the
most ultra of prohibition states, made
so by the anti-saloon sentiment in a
majority of the counties under the To-
cal option system. Fourteen OF the
counties pay the bulk OF the s150,O00 re-
ceived annually from this tax.
"A singular competition is reported
between two Italians who have devoted
their existence to collecting editions of
the "Divina Comedia." One had dis
covered PA editions, and his rival the
same number, but, determined not to
be beaten, the latter had 215th edition
specially set up and printed in Paris,
taking care that only one copy of it
was printed.
In the High School in Sioux City,
Ia. the school board has undertaken
what is proving to be a very success
full experiment in serving hot lunch to
the pupils at cheap prices. A lunch
room has been fitted up and there are
scholars can purchase many hot dishes
at minimum rates. Everything is sold
for checks, which can be obtained in
lots of 10 to rs cents worth.
The Fire and Lighting Committee
of the Council OF New Orleans La,
has reported favorably on the passage
of an ordinance giving a franchise to
a telephone company which undertakes
to provide phones at very low rates.
The ordinance provides that within Is
months 10000 telephones are to be in
stalled in the city, free of cost, ana
the rates are to be 2 cents for the use
of a phone for a period of five min
utes.
AT the present time there are seven
self-propelling fire engines in the coun-
try. Those in the Boston (Mass.) de-
partment have been in service since
1887 and have proved of great value.
Each weigh nearly nine tons, but are
easier to handle than those drawn by
horses. They answer second alarms
and are much better hill-climbers than
the horse engines. The largest size
engines throw an average of $40 gallons
a minute, about twice the amount of
water thrown by the average horse en-
gines.
"A dispatch from Allentown, Pa, says:
The unique spectacle of man crying
because he was not in Jail was witness
ed in the Court House last evening. The
man who was so anxious to get behind
the prison bars was Walter Miller who
had pleaded guilty of two charges of
larceny and had been sentenced to
three months. The sentence was inn
posed just before the adjournment of
court, and Miller got lost in the crowd.
He wandered away, and finally landed
in the corridor of the Court House,
locking for a person to take him to
jail District Attorney Groman hap
pened along and found Miller crying.
He asked what was the matter, and
was told by Miller that he had been
sentenced to prison, but didn't know
where the Jail was, Court Crier Dallas
Dillingar came along at this time and
showed Miller the way to prison. The
convicted man dried his tears and went
to jail rejoicing.
Several. scientists connected with
the chronological department of the
Nebraska State University are engaged
in a detail study Of the Jack rabbit"
so-called, with a view to devising some
scheme for the rapid determination of
the animal, which has now become a
pest in that section and threatens the
destruction of numerous crops. The
placing of a bounty on the scalps of
coyotes some years ago caused a gem
eral slaughter of those natural enemies
of the jack rabbit. and now the lat
ter have increased nearly fifty-fold.
There are two species that infest Ne
braska--the "black-tails'' and the "sil-
ver- tails"-but there is no appreciable
difference in their size, food or habits.
Prof. Lawrence Brunsr, state entomol-
ogist, says that the Nebraska farmers
will have the jack rabbit pest to con-
tend with for the next four years at
least.
"A writer in Science reviews the re-
cent issue of Who's Who in America"
in the light of the distribution of ce-
lebrity through the United States. The
book contains 1851 names chosen out
of the &c. 900, 600 inhabitants of the
country. Of these 11,137 reside in the
United States, the rest in AZ foreign
countries. New York state is credited
with 2,S49: Massachusetts, with 1,01o;
the District of Columbia with $50;
Pennsylvania with $50; Illinois with
7G4 Ohio with 422; New Jersey with
314 California with POI; Connecticut
with 266; Missouri with 222; Maryland
with 200. All other states have less
than 200 each. Of the 1,551 persons
biographed S.141 cases give returns
that can be usefully classified as to
education. OF these, 5,775 are college
men and 4,Sl0 are college graduates;
sos had a common school training only;
2S2 were privately educated and 81
were self-taught. The summary is
distinctively in favor of higher educa-
ton, and they reveal the countrys
unparalleled element of strength in the
possibility of eminence open to those
whose training was attained in the
public schools alone.
Speech is the result of slow pro-
cess of natural growth, and there is
20 human race that does not possess
: says the New York Sun. If in the
resent state of the world some philos-
opher were to wonder how man ever
began to build those houses, palaces
and vessels which we see around us we
should answer that those were not the
things that man began with. The saw
age who first tied the branches of
Shrubs to make himself a shelter was
not an architect and he who first float
ed on the trunk of a tree was not a
navigator. So it is with speech, which
grew from rude beginnings. All the
more intelligent animals can express
simple conditions of mind both by
sound and gesture. The dog can emit
four or five sounds each fully under
stood by its companions. The common
barnyard fowl has from nine to twelve
distinct vocal sounds, all of which are