The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ana stone cutters, $4.oO; machlnlStS, %
to $3.50; painters, $3.50 to $3.50; res
taurant cooks. $25 to $40 a week. A
few expert electrical workers make
$500 month; two expert decorative
painters get $40 a day, and a limited
number of plaster cast men. command
equally high pay.
During the progress of trial in a
Missouri court one day last week
heavy shower beganz-the first rain
that had fallen for a distressingly
long time. The jurymen, most of whom
were farmers, paid more attention to
the conditions outside than to the trial,
and the judge suspended court for a
while, remarking: THE jury can walk
it wants to, to satisfy itself that it
really can rain in Missouri
Considerable concern is felt in Shelf
field at the decrease in the number of
razor grinders, which heretofore has
been an important craft in Sheffield.
1t is estimated that fully 25 per cent.
of the old journeymen have either died
or dropped out of the business, so that
only some 300 grinders are left. The
interesting feature is that young men
appear averse to apprentice themselves
at the trade, so that, with he further
natural inroads on the ranks, the razor
grinding business may reach an acute
stage, particularly as no machinery has
yet been devised to supersede hand
labor for this operation.
To reach the new gold fields of
Thunder Mountain, in Idaho, it has
been necessary to cover sixty miles of
the 140-mile journey by night, when
the snow is frozen, on snow shoes.
Even in the closing weeks of winter,
when the snow was fourteen feet deep,
the arrivals at the main camp num-
bered fifty day Hereafter, unless
there shall be a heavy snowfall, the
trail will ge kept open for pack horses,
and the 1900 to 5000 persons who are
there will be able to buy necessaries
at lower prices. Recently flour, sugar
and salt sold for SO a pound, while the
wages at the mill were only 81 a day.
Fresh deer meat, however. brought on
ly eighteen cents pound.
The Canadian census bureau has is
sued a bulletin giving the results as
regards the religious affiliations of the
people. The grand total of persons is
5,371, 051, of which 222S, 997 are Roman
Catholics. OF the Protestants, the most
numerous are the Methodists, with 916,-
S62; the Presbyterian, with 842, 301, and
the Anglicans, with $780, 316. All these
crease in the ten years since 1891. The
Congregationalists with 28,2S3, have in
creased only 126 in ten years, and the
Salvation Army has lost 3,642' on the
1881 figures of 13,949. Unitarians have
gained 157 on a total in 1891 of II, and
Universalists have lost SAT out of their
1891 total of 3,1S6.
The following curious advertise
ment recently appeared in a Spanish
journal: This morning Heaven sum-
moned away the jeweler, Sibald Ill
maya, from his shop to another and
better world. The undersigned, his
widow, will weep upon his tomb, as
VIII also his two daughters, Hilda and
Emma, the former of whom is mar
ried, and the latter is open to an offer.
The funeral will take place tomorrow.
His disconsolate widow, Veronique Ill
maya. P. S.-This bereavement will
not interrupt our employment, which
VIII be carried on as usual; only our
place of business will be removed from
No. Lessi de Leinturers to No. Rue
de Missionaire. Our grasping landlord
has raised the rent"
The New York Medical Journal
says: THE medical law of the state
has been so amended that the regents
of the university of the state, in their
discretion, admit conditionally to s4he
medical examinations in the prellrii-
nary ubJects-anatomy, physiology,
and hygiene and chemistry-applic
10 years old who meet the other re-
quirements. Under this amendment the
regents have power to grant allowance
OF one of the four years of study in a
medical school to graduates of college
courses, registered by them as entitled
to this privilege. Gov Odell has sign
ed Assemblyman Brilrs bill making
uniform the public health laws relating
to local boards of health; also the bill
providing that medical students admit
ted ito preliminary state medical ex-
animation must be 10 years of age.
The American Bridge Company has
just closed a contract for the steel
work on the big Thebes bridge that is
to be thrown across the Mississippi
river between Southern Illinois and
Missouri, says the New York Journal.
This bridge is to be used by a group
OF railroads, and will be one of larg-
est of its kind in the country. The
contract involves 13, 900 tons of structu-
raj steel. An official of the United
States Steel Corporation to-day. in
speaking of the new bridge plant that
is to be built at Economy, Pa, said
that its erection had been made i'm
demand for heavier structural steel
forms. 1t will be the largest plant
of the kind in the world, and will be
capable of producing heavier work than
any plan now in existence The con-
struction work would have begun some
time ago except for the Encouragement
OF plans that were made necessary by
the steel corporations conversion
scheme, out of which will arise $50, 00O,-
600 fresh capital available for this and
other Improvements.
The medieval fortress of Volterra
is now formidable prison house, says
a writer In the St James Gazette |
When last | visited it there were ATS
prisoners within its walls, all of them |
murderers. 1t is an uncanny sensation |
to look upon nearly 500 human beings. |
each one of whom has taken the life |
of at least one, other human being. |
One hundred and forty-nine of them |
were condemned for life, and that
meant murder of a brutal and cold |
blooded description; the remainder
were imprisoned for periods ranging I
from fifteen to thirty years. and that
would mean murder with extenuating |
circumstances the result of /
Inconsistency in a sweetheart, or frailty /
and cellular; the exercise courts are |
The confinement is vigorously solitary |
in wife, or faithlessness in a friend. |
cellular; there are cellular smithies |
and cellular workshops: nay. the very |
chapel is cellular. Two tiers of cells |
run one above the other, and the pris. |
oner in each, while unable to see his |
fellow cOnVictS can tbrOurb n -.