Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-30
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Kansas man has Celebrated two silver
weddings. having lived twenty-five years with
each Of his two wives.
New Jersey is one of the states which retain
the custom of making their treasurer APP
pointive instead of an elective officer.
Dr. Brent Of Boston the newly consecrated
Episcopal bishop of the Philippines, will start
for his new field of labor after Easter
In consequence of two years overproduction
of wine. the situation in France has reached
such point that the government is considering
relief measures
Statistics of the 155 medical schools in the
United States show that in all but. two four
years course is compulsory. There were 26.147
students enrolled and 5,95S teachers in these coll
leges last July.
A few years ago IT took one man thirty-Hve
and one-half hours to take a ton Of hay from
eleven hours and thirty-four minutes. The cost
is reduced from S5.o6 TO sl.2S a ton
Seven hundred thousand francs have been
voted in Rome for the construction of the
Franco-Italian telephone. The line will pass
from Rome through siena. Florence. Bologna
and Turin to the Mont Cents frontier.
For Christmas remembrance a. record break
ing lot of American candy was shipped
across the Atlantic, Much of it went in five
and ten-pound boxes and was from parents to
girls who are attending school abroad.
There are several states without debt. but
not American city, with the single exception
of Washington. the local debt of which is an
obligation of congress. State debts are de-
creasng steadily; city debts are increasing.
Ten years ago the total population of Ken
lucky was 1,SO0, 000 now 1t is 100000 a gain
of 1000 in ten years or one-sixth. Ten years
ago the colored population of Kentucky was
26S 600; it is $4,000, gain of only 5000
in ten years.
The shah of Persia is absolutely ruler within
his own dominions and master Of the lives
and goods of all his subjects. The whole rev.
of the country being at their disposal. re-
cent shahs have been able TO amass large
private fortunes
Some of the patients of a Baltimore hospital
for the insane had their regular full dress ball
the other night. The Virginia reel was the
last number the program, which was made
up of all the dances known to present day
polite society.
In 225 years If cancer increases at the pres
ent rate, that part of the human race over
thirty years of age will be practically ex-
tinct. This statement is made by DR.. William
F. Whitney, the bacteriologist Of the famous
Massachusetts general hospital.
Savings bank deposits in this country are
now the largest in the world, reaching S2,310,-
66O, OOO These deposits have doubled in about
fifteen years Germany is the next largest
81. 800 600 900: Hungary. s.2Ol, 100000;
ss2S' GS6.oOSS. ''--'''''' anu
John Higgins, a brakeman who had both
legs cut off in an accident near Emporia, Kan.
last September, has made a curious settlement
with the railway company He is to be taught
to have employment for life. He is also to be
provided with artificial legs.
There are two Emile Zolas in France. One
of them is an inventor and does not lack abil-
ity in the art of advertising himself and his
Inventions In a Paris newspaper this notice
has appeared: m. Emile lola, Of Plamboeuf
inventor of the spring nipplers, notifies the
public that he has nothing to do with his
namesake. Emile lola. the writer"
John Howard Bryant who is dead at his
home in Princeton. n. j., in his ninety-fourth
year. was the only remaining brother of the
late William Cullen Bryant. Mr.. Bryant was
active in politics during abolition days. and
upon the organization of the Republican party
was a delegate to the first national convention
at which General Fremont was nominated.