The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-18

breeding of certain species in order that
the country may be restocked with
game.
Income tax is chargeable upon in
come which arises or accrues during
the year of assessment, even though it
he not actually received within that
period, says the British chancellor of
the exchequer. If the income is not
subsequently received the tax can be
recovered.
twenty languages are spoken
in India and none of these is spoken
by fewer than 40O.O persons, while the
most general is the mother tongue of
IS, 500. 600. Besides these there are in
the remotest parts of the country dia-
lects spoken by no more than 500 per-
sons, which none other than themselves
can interpret. India has nine great
creeds. numbering their followers from
the POS 600, 900 Eindoos down to the So
$50. 900 Animistics and the innumerable
sects included in the $1,000 Others"
A record of the hight of Indiana
soldiers in the Civil War shows that
out of 11s,254 there were 15,47 feet 10
inches high, S.706 feet IL inches, 6679
6 feet high, 2,614 feet i inch, 1857 6
feet inches, 4O6 feet 3 inches and 1886
over feet inches. Commenting on
these statistics DR.. Gould, actuary of
the United States sanitary commission,
writes: 1T is evident from our statis-
tics that the Indiana men are the tall
est of all natives of the United States,
and these latter the tallest of all civil
liked countries.
"A portion of the first iron bridge
built in England, which spans the
Severn at Ironbridge (Salop), has given
way. The parting of the Orders
caused a report ike a thunderclap. The
bridge was erected In 1873, anc, accord
ing to the act Of Parliament under
which it was quilt, the sovereign has
to pay toll before he car cross. The
act gives the trustees many powers,
and at the foot of the list of tolls ap-
pears the following: This bridge be-
ing private properly, every officer or
soldier, whether On duty or not, is
liable to pay toll for passing ever, as
well as any baggage wagon, mail
coach, or the royal family
king Edwards coronation revealed
the existence of a remarkable criminal
in Australia A native of England, he
received his first sentence in 1853, one
of ten years, for highway robbery on
one OF the Victorian goldfields. Since
then he has spent forty-fve years in
the prisons of Victoria and New South
Wales. He was recently admitted to
a benevolent asylum near Sydney, and
he received permission from the au-
thorities of the institution to go into
the city to witness the coronation il
luminations. On the way he noticed
an unguarded house and the tempta-
ton proved irresistible He was cap
tured while emerging through a win
dow with some valuable plumber. At
the age of 73 he is now beginning a
four years term of penal servitude.
In Paris an auction will soon be
held which may well be styled curious,
since only locks of hair which once
adorned the heads of distinguished
persons will be sold at it, says the
New York Times. According to an
expert, here are the present prices
for locks Of this kind: A lock from a
pope'S head is worth about $40, and
even more has been paid for some of
Leo kits hair; Emperor Williams
hair is worth about rs cents a lock,
and few hairs from the head of the
great Napoleon are we'll worth $40;
the hair of famous writers, especially
Victor Hugo, Alfred de Musset, By
ron, Schiller, Alphonse Daudet and
Tolstoi also commands a considerable
sum. An Italian collector claims to
nave in his possession some of Dante
hair, and" says a French Journalist.
IF he can prove that it is Dante's
and offers it for sale at the coming
auction, he will certainly obtain a
large price for it,
This is what the Chinese compost
tor has to contend with: 2l4 root
words, of which there are from 1900 to
1000 derivatives in daily use, while for
the writer that loves the unusual in
language and style there is a choice
OF some 10000 words enshrined in these
Chinese dictionary. Something like
ll,00O spaces are required to hold font
of Chinese type, says the London Tele-
graph. Large cases are ranged about
the compositors' room, and each case is
divided into spaces for each individual
type, and, moreover, each type is a
complete word in itself. 1t is estimated
that a Chinese printer can arrange
about 1000 characters in a day, and for
each simple or elementary character
there is a separate division in the case.
AT the head is the elementary charac-
ter, and then follow in order and in
column all words denoting things per-
tanning to, or composed of, that char
acter object-e. g., under the primary
character for wood" will follow such
words as table" stool" tree" and
other objects of the wooden" nature
s Taking $50 feet as the greatest av-
erage depth at which reef-building cor
ais can live, says the Chicago News,
how much material in the shape of
marine deposits and what time would
be required to bring foundation UP to
within the requisite distance of the
surface to afford a base of operations
for the coral polyps7 Sixteen tons of
chalk are contained in a layer of sea-
water 900 feet deep and a mile square
and this material may be utilized py
the chalk-animalcules for shell-buiId-
ing purposes. If this amount of chalk
were precipitated over a square mile
the layer it would form would be less
than .0001 of an inch thick. The tenth
of an inch would at least be the ont
side limit. How long would such an
agency take to build up a base for
coral rock from the sea depths? He'll
prin's calculation throws some light on
the problem Every year the accumu-
lation on the ocean-bed would not ex-
coed one-nine thousandth of an inch in
thickness, giving one foot of thickness
in about 100000 years. Then, if a fo,1n-
dation has to be built up from a denth
of 600 feet to the limit of coral life n
would require seventy-five fathoms nf
material at least, and at the rate of
accumulation just given such an erec-
non would require 100000 years.
Commissioners Yerkes of the inter-
nal revenue bureau has been compell-