The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The population of Australia has
increased by 10 per cent during the
last decade.
Hamburg imported 201.slO tons of
coal less last year than in 1900, and
British consignments show a falling
off of S27, 1910 tons.
Burglars at Indianapolis, before
leaving a store they had broken into,
called the police by telephone and re-
ported the break. Then they escaped
of the thirty-eight Sultans who
have ruled the Ottoman Empire since
the conquest OF Constantinople by the
| Turks, thirty-four have died violent
| deaths.
-Marconi's. experiments cost a good
deal of money. Each mast 1870 feet
! high means $1,000. Masts are so trou-
! blesome that he proposes to build tow
ers for permanent stations. Kites are
liable to be blown down.
--Twenty-nine sculptors have signified
their intention to submit designs for
the statue of Gen. Mcclellan which is
! to be erected in Washington. This is
believed to be the largest number ever
| entered in such a competition.
. In the japanese match factories the
boxes and labels are made by little
girls, who are wondrously dexterous
in the work. These little experts get
from one half-penny to two-pence
| half-penny for twelve hours work.
"A bill to do away with the free
lunch has been introduced in the Ohio
Legislature. The bill alleges that 1.-THE
| maintenance of free lunches encour-
ages lettering, enhances family neg
lect, judgments inebriation and pro-
notes disorders, besides creating I'M
fair competition in business.
There are in France 1854, 900 dogs,
an everage of rs to every thousand
human beings. Irish dogs come next,
with percentages of 70 per thousand.
England has only 3S per thousand, Ger
many 81, and Sweden only IL. 1t is
stated that Germany claims to have
almost 2,500000 dogs, Russia only l.
100000 and Turkey only 100000.
The following notice has been pla-
carded in the entrance hall of Wurz-
burg University: Honorable ladies
who attend public lectures are in
formed that before entering the lee
ture room they must take off their
hats. In case of noncompliance with
this notice, they must expect to have
their hats taken away by force" This
is signed by the university janitor.
Two very interesting souvenirs
! from Admiral Dewey's flagship Olym-
pia have just been placed in the build
ing occupied by the offices of the De-
partment of Construction and Repair
at the Charlestown Navy Yard. They
are the shield which was attached to
the stem of the Olympia when she
fought at Manila, and the scroll bear
ing the ships name, which was at
tached to the stern. Both were re-
moved to make room for more elabor-
ate ornaments.
1t seems that as yet the exact
speed at which the Hertzian currents
of wireless telegraphy move has not
been determined. Marconi says he
| thinks they travel at about the same
speed as light, $4,000 miles a second.
Therefore, should Marconi be able, as
he processes to believe he will be, to
send message around the world it
| would occupy in transmission approx
| 1mately one-eighth of a second, and
the clicks of the sending and receiving
instruments would be almost stimuli
taneous.
Experimental proof has lately been
obtained of the repulsive force of light.
which is deducible from Maxwelps cleo
tro-magnetic theory of light. The
value obtained from the experiments
indicates the probable correctness of
that deduced from theory. This result
OF the experiments is not merely con-
hrmatory of MaXwelPs theory, but,
what is of especial interest to astrono-
mers, it supports Arrhenius' theory of
comets tails, namely, that they con-
sist of finely divided matter emitted
from the head Of the comet and driven
from 1T by the force of the solar light.
"A German paper reports a singu-
lar freak of paternal liberality in the
matter of wedding dowry. On the
betrothal of his daughter Herr Ouch
atsheck had announced that he would
give her, as marriage portion, her
weight in silver currency. According
ly, on her wedding day, the bride was
formally weighed in the drawing room.
in the presence of the assembled
guests. before proceeding to church.
The bride turned the scales at 140
pounds, sack was at once filled with
silver crowns to the same weight. The
exact number of crowns was 1880.
about $500.
A dispatch from Chicago, March g.
says: A train crew 400 miles from Chi
cago telephoned over the telegraph
wires to Chief Operator Parsons of
the Illinois Central Railroad, at the
Twelfth Street Station. AS a result.
the railroad telephone was declared to
be a success. The train was stopped
near Fulton, Ky, and the. telephone
was connected with the regular wire
running to Chicago. In spite of the
fact that the message had to travel
over iron wires, which ran parallel to
more than score of other wires, every
word was distinctly heard by Mr.. Par
sons. The inventor, R. j. Tillman.
says it makes no difference whether or
not Geographic messages are being
flashed over the wires simultaneously
with the telephone messages. This was
proved true by the successful trans
mission of a Geographic communica-
ton from Fulton at the same time Mr..
Parsons was talking with the crew.
The little black or red ant of the |
temperate zone" says the National |
Druggist february, sis generally re- |
garded as a nuisance, but not as an |
insect that can offer any danger to |
HE or limb. An incident that happen |
ed the other daV at Soh1apo Pobo,oio