The Savannah morning news., 1902-03-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
There is dearth of school teachers
in England.

cna QUO times greater tnan the sup
ply.
A dromedapy race between Biskra
and Tagurta, Algeria, is being ar
ranged. The distance to be covered is
140 miles.
Lord Kitchener is said to save
England s2,5O0,OOO a month by his
management of the field canteens in
South Africa.
London papers, which recently an
nOunced the death of Admiral Monto-
jo, Dewey's rival at Manila, mistook
him for Vice Admiral Montoso.
The Duchess of Cleveland has de-
cided to sell the ancient and decorative
furniture in Battle Abbey, England's
most famous residence, which was re-
Gently disposed of.
An English sailor who had been re-
fused $50 of his pay asserted in court
that the money was stopped because
he would not wear heavy uniform cap
that made his head ache.
Great Britain's exports to its col
onies, according to recent returns, in
creased in 1901 by ISL, 1855 900. It's ex-
ports to foreign countries, in the same
period, decreased $1O4, 100000.
The vibration in the London "tup-
penny tube" which has shaken build
ings along the route, is to be obviated
as much as possible by using an in
creased number of springs for support
ing the cars and engines.
The up to date collector collects
watches. This is even more fashionable
than to collect fans, which some time
ago superseded stamps, coins and book
plates. A collection of watches may in
clude clocks of small size.
Three handcuffed native convicts
jumped off mail train in Bengal while
it was going at forty miles an hour.
Two-Sikh warders jumped after them.
Two of the convicts were killed and
one of the warders injured.
English society has been exercised
over whether it was proper to honor
the toast to the Queen standing, like
that to the King. The King has set
tied the doubt by announcing that both
should be honored while standing.
There are ISL newspapers and
periodicals in Sweden, including fifty
two dailies. Stockholm has twelve
dailies, seven published in the morn
ing and Ave in the evening, which is
large number for a city of 100000 in
habitants.
In 1900 there were in the United
States 372 boiler explosions, by which
263 persons were killed and $40 wound
ed. In Great Britain during the same
tod Nr,Ixy fxrra, ~
killed and sixty-five wounded by boiler
explosions.
South Wales coal operators are about
to sue the miners unions for $3.50, 900
for loss sustained by the union order
ing work stopped upon three days, with
the purpose of curtailing the output.
The amount to be asked averages rs
cents ton for each miner.
The women of Galveston, Tex, the
city SO nearly destroyed by the terri
BILE storm few years ago. have or
ganized to beautify the town. They
give entertainments to raise funds, and
with the proceeds buy and plant trees
along the streets and in the parks.
News from St. Petersburg, Russia,
states that the art dealers and book
sellers of that city have been COM
PEELED to give a pledge in writing that
they will not exhibit portraits of Count
Tolstoi. All postal cards bearing his
picture have been confiscated.
There are 154 lawyers in the city of
Manila. as shown by the register in
the Supreme Court. OF these fifty-nine
are other than Spanish and Filipino,
being mostly Americans. Many of
both classes hold salaried positions I'M
der the government in the legal work
of the departments.
Charles Bellamy, a Burlington Rail-
road fireman, in eleven years of faith
full service, has Travelled 6O6 $40 miles
and shoveled 32,501 tons of coal on the
way. He never lost a trip or received
a scratch through accident. Railroad
men say that it is a case of physical
endurance never equaled.
The milk trade attracts aristo-
Gratis. Lord Rayleigh is a milkman,
and owns one of the finest businesses in
the home counties. Every morning
special trains loaded with cans of milk
from his dairy leave the stations at
Hatfield Peverel for London. He owns
a herd of over 1000 cows.
Two ingenious cyclists have collab-
grated to turn the handle bar into a
gas generator for an acetylene lamp.
The handle bar is divided into a wa
ter chamber and a carbide chamber
the two being connected by pipe, and
the flow of water being controlled by
a valve from outside. In the center is
a gas chamber, having an outlet to
feed the lamp.
A bill to make voting at elections
compulsory, which is to be introduced
into the French Chamber by NJ.
Georges Berry, provides that any per-
son abstaining from voting at elections
shall have his name displayed on the
door of the Town Hall, pay, a fine of
from to 10 francs and be dis
franchised and rendered ineligible for
any public office.
The skin of the monster elephant
Charlie, for nearly forty years the
great attraction at the Crystal Pal
ace, London, will shortly be mounted
by taxidarmist. The skin weighs a
ton, one-fourth of the total weight of
the animal alive, which stood ten feet
three inches in hight. Charlie killed his
keeper not long ago and was shot
while on wild rampage in the Crys-
tai Palace. The animal was valued at
100000.
"A st. Louis druggist recently ad-
vertised for IAN accurate, registered,
thin drug clerk, with mustache."
When asked why he wanted an assist