The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-16
ITEMS OF. INTEREST.

American furniture is being intro
duced in Constantinople. being better
and cheaper than that from Italy and
France, but it does not meet the taste
of the Turks.
Some chemists affirm that the ideal
ink consists almost exclusively of gal
late of iron and that the nearer the
liquid approaches this substances the
more perfect the ink.
Pneumatic postal tubes make slow
progress in this country In London
there are eighty-two pneumatic tubes
for the discatch of postal packets, and
their aggregate length is thirty-four
miles.
A French minister of justice pur-
poses to reform the obscure legal
France than in England, and substi-
tute tplain, straightforward sentences
which even the most uncultured people
will be able to understand.
Gray foxes in Buckingham, Va,
are acting in such a manner as to
suggest that there may be an epidemic
of insanity among them. Persons have
| repeat edly been attacked on the high
| WAYS. Some hunters hold the theory
that the entire fox tribe in that region
has been attacked with rabies.
1t is said that in France SS,000,000
picture post cards pass through the
postoffice annually. That country
takes the lead of all the others, Aus
| tro- Hungary coming next, with b.
| 000, 900. The total in circulation
| throughout the world in one year is
said by exports to be $780, 900.
The distribution of bread and milk
among children up to years of age
has been inaugurated in Budapest The
distribution takes place morning and
evening in a by street. The milk is
| first boiled in four large boilers,
whence it runs into a cooling appara-
| tus. Fifty children are allowed to enter
at a time, either with their mothers or
alone, while the others wait for their
turn in neighboring Warmestube, an
other charitable institution.
The British army clothing factory
in Calcutta recently received an order
| for 800 khaki suits for a regiment all
| ready on it's way to South Africa at
2 p. m. on a Saturday. Although the
| day was a holiday the factory sue
| ceeded in getting its tailors together
and by working almost night and day
! completed the 1000 pieces required at
a. m. the following Monday, forward
| ing them to overtake the departing
| regiment before it left India. This
savors more of American than English
methods.
| Scattered throughout the various
| Washington departments are hundreds
| of clocks and chronometers, which cost
| the government annually thousands of
| dollars. The chronometers are the
most expensive clocks in existence, and
| they are to be found on board every
warship of the United States. These
| timepieces cost $500 each. The ones
most consulted are those in the Mar
| BILE Room of the Senate and in the
| Speakers lobby of the House. Hun
dreds of people daily correct their
watches by them,
I'm the history of the German iron
industry the year 1901 will be recorded
as one yielding very unsatisfactory re-
suits. Business started out poorly,
| grew worse and is in doubly unsatis-
factory condition, because no one can
| predict when the improvement hoped
| for will finally come. The unfortunate
| part OF the crisis, which has now last
| ed for year and a half, is that no one
| considers prices, that every seller aims
! to get ahead of the other. and by
sacrifice sales contributes to spelling the
market and prevents a return of con-
f1dence on the part of consumers.
There has been no anti-Semitic
agitation in Italy. and Jews have stood
upon an equal footing with all other
citizens since 184S, when the Duke of
| Sermoneta obtained from Pope Plus
| TX decree abolishing an ancient GUS
tom compelling Jews once a week to
attend Christian religious services and
hear sermons concerning the wicked
| ness of the crucifiion. In the sixteenth
| century Pope Gregory XIII ordered
policemen to go through the Ghetto
and drive men, women and children
with scourges into the churches. and
to patrol the aisles and lash those that
appeared inattentive to the sermon
"A story is going the rounds of the
Kansas papers to the effect that at the
close of the Civil War Gen. Shafter
was an applicant for a first lieutenancy
in the reorganized army, and had
working in his behalf a congressman
| whose knowledge of army affairs was
very limited. One day this congress-
man sent the following message: Dear
Shafter: / have just returned from a
visit TO the Secretary of War. l find
| that 1t Will be impossible to have YOU
appointed a first lieutenant, as that
rank is now full. However, the Secre-
tary is willing to appoint you lieuten-
ant colonel which Is the next best
thing. VIII that do?"
st. Anthony is the patron and pro-
tector of pigs, and Stow, in his Sur
vey," mentions a curious custom prev
alent in his time in the London mar
kets. which has left it's mark in a
| proverb The officers of the markets
slit the ears of starved pigs and those
unwholesome for food: around the
necks of these the proctors of St. An
thongs Hospital tied bells, and set
rem loose upon the refuse heaps. II
| became the habit of people to feed
those pigs, and the animals. acquiring
knowledge of their benefactors
would follow them like a dog. whin-
! ing for food. Hence the saying. ''He
| follows me about like an Anthony pig. ;"
or He is a Tantony pig" applied to
a whining beggar or mere hanger-on.
THE world is threatened with a
pearl famine" said Mr. Dudley r..
Grote, jewel fancier Of Paris, France.
according to the Washington Post. "If
all the pearls in the oceans were to be
brought to the surface and offered for
sale tomorrow, the market would not
| be Hooded, nor would the demand for
| the delicate little Jewels be satisfied.
/ There has been a steady increase in
| the damap1 for nan fsic 1urf,aar 80. -.