The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A special committee has been APP
pointed by the Russian Agricultural
Department to promote the expectation
of beef, eggs, fowls, butter, etc., from
Russia to the English markets. The
president of the committee has visited
England and investigated the markets
there, and has found an excellent
opening for Russian products. Froln
the data given, England imported last
year eggs to the value of s25,s3o.0oo
of which the import from Russia
amounted to 1855, 900. In regard 10
poultry, England appears to be one of
the largest consumers in Europe. In
1901 it imported poultry and game to
the value of S4609, AIS, the greater part
Of which came from France, and then
from Russia, Belgium, Holland and
Denmark.
Mr.. Louis j. Workman of Texas.
general manager of the Texas exhibit
for the Worlds Fair, reports that $175,-
600 of the $1,000 fund which the corn
mission is raising is already in signt
One of the features of this work is
the School Chldrens Nickel fund
Texas has $4,000 white, and 165,O00 col
ored school children, each of whom
will be expected to give a nickel to-
ward the fund. This would make to-
tai OF $S6.950 for the children alone
Banks, railroads, lumber companies
and other corporate interests ami indi-
viduals will make up the fund The
Worlds Fair organization for Texas
consists of IS commissioners, IS of
whom are directors, with an Executive
of five members, while Mr. Workman
devotes his superior energies to the
great work of carrying out the broad
policy of the commission.
Your modern surgeon of note is a
sterile" man. The operating room,
almost Theoretically sealed and at a
temperature of 100 degrees or there
abouts, is purified daily by means of
a hose throwing a solution of bi-chlor-
ide OF mercury over ceiling, walls and
floor. The surgeon, says the New York
Press, arrives in an ante-room in his
civilians garb. He is required to be
clean shaven, like a monk. His clothes
are removed. Two attendants in the
sterilizing room hand him a white duck
gown reaching from collar to heel,
and a cowl of the same material,
which covers tightly every part of his
head except eyes, nose anokmouth The
sleeves of the gown reach to his ell
bow. He incases his hands in the thin
nest, finest sterilized rubber gloves.
These garments are handed to him in
sterilized tongs. There has been no
human contact. Thus equipped, he is
prepared to saw and slice.
Under a French law still in force
the communication by a factory work.
man, clerk or manager of a trade Sc
cret to foreigner, or to a Frenchman
resident abroad, is punishable with a
term of Imprisonment ranging from
two to five years and with a fine rang
ing from 5000 to 10000 francs, says
Casters Magazine. The culprit is,
moreover, deprived of his civil rights
and kept under police surveillance for
period of from five to ten years after
his release from prison. A similar
communication made to a Frenchman
resident in France is less heavily pun
lshed, the term of Imprisonment vary
ing in this case from three months to
two years and the fine from Is to 200
francs. In the case of a state arms or
ammunition factory the maximum pen
atty must be imposed. 1t appears, fur
ther. that in France the proprietor of
a factory has a right. without reserve,
to the discoveries and inventions made
within his field of work by any of his
employees.
Fishermen say that terrapins, for
which Chesapeake bay and it's tribu-
taries have always been famous. are
growing more and more scarce each
year, so that now it is no longer
profitable to catch them for a living.
says the Washington Star. Those that
now reach this market are either
caught by crabbers or become entan-
gled in the fish nets. They bring good
prices. Some years ago they were
plentiful in the lower river and bay.
and fisherman with any kind of luck
could catch enough IN in
$500 for his weeks work in season. In
recent years however, the terra pins
nave disappeared. Much of the supply
that reaches the market here and the
larger cities in the North comes from
three large terrapin ponds near Ches-
neld IN Lower Maryland, where they
are raised for the market and are not
taken out until they reach a certain
size. Crows and rats prey upon ter
fapin's eggs which are buried in the
SAND to hatch, and to their depreda
ions and to the reckless way in which
the young are caught much of the
scarcity of the terrapin in Chesapeake
Bay is due
The visit of the Persian Shah tn
England and Capt. Mahan's timely
article in The National Review"
serve to remind the world of the ex
istence Of a Persian problem, saws the
New York Tribune. We might almost
say 1t reminds the world of the ex
lstence of Persia. Yet 1t is bv no
means negligible quantity coun-
try more than three times the size of
France, with 10000, 900 inha bitants, of
a civilization superior, on the whole
| to that of Russia, is capable of filling
considerable place in the affairs Of
the world. The Persian problem is
however, what most interests the re-
I cent hosts of Muzaffer ed Deem. and
Is what may one day be of intense
importance to more than one other
power. For Persia is, like Afghanis-
tan, buffer state" between the two
great rival empires of Asia. 1t does
not mark their point of nearest an
preach, as Afghanistan does. and II
does not so directly abut upon the In
dian Empire. Nevertheless it's reIa-
ton to the two rivals differs from thar
Of Afghanistan in degree only and NOT
in kind, while it's own intrinsic yaIua
| is far greater than that of the rugged
land of the Ameer. Naturally, Persia
has hitherto inclined toward the Brit
ish side, remembering Russia's long
and costly aggressions, and though
Great Britain has not paid Persia
subsidy, as she has Afghanistan. the
Shah has until lately ever been ready
to rebuff the advances of Russia and
to welcome those of Great Britain.
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inspectors on the state of labor in