The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

brilliantly colored than those varieties
which frequent human habitations.
The fertility of Egyptian soil is il
lustrated by the fact that every one of
1O, 500 square miles can support 92S per-
sons, whereas even in densely populat-
ed Belgium there are only $50 to the
/ square mile.
1 The experience in Edinburgh, Scot
| land. is that wooden pavements, even
when made from the creosote- bearing,
Australian jarrah wood, last, on busy
streets, but ten years, while granite
blocks, If reset once or twice, will last
thirty years.
"A committee has been appointed by
the management of the st. Louis ex-
position, consisting of lawyers from eV-
! cry state and territory in this country,
| to arrange for an international Con-
! gress of lawyers and jurists during the
| progress of the fair.
"A Tippecanoe monument will be
erected in memory of Gen. William
Henry HarTison's defeat of his savage
| adversary, Tecumseh, Nov. II, 1911, at
the confluence of the Tippecanoe and
| Wabash rivers, in Indiana. Congress is
| to be asked to appropriate $4,000.
The investigation of the fishes of
| the Nile organized by the Egyptian
! government and the authorities at the
| Natural History Museum, South Ken
! sington, has resulted in over 5000 spe-
! cies being received at the museum. Mr..
| Loaf, the superintendent of the sur
| vey, is extending the line of his explo-
rations during the next few months
| as far as Gondokoro.
In Brown county. Kan, man has
! filed suit for divorce on the ground
that his wife is big and fat and strong
| and able to work for her own living.
| whereas he is sickly and unable to
work at all. He says that he can live
on his pension, but that it is not
enough for two, and he asks the court
| to send the fat wife away and make
| her earn her own living.
| "A novel project for the raising of
| $100, 900 endowment fund for Amherst
| College, to be presented to that insti-
| tuition in 1922, is under consideration
| by the alumni. 1t is proposed that 100
| members shall each take out twenty
| year paid-up policy, in a reputable
| company, for $1,000, with the agree
ment that the money shall be paid over
to the college at the expiration of the
| twenty years.
| The Astrological Society," says
that Europe contains three great
| libraries. First, the Bibliotheque Ma
| tionale, of Paris, with three million
| printed books; second, the British Mu-
scum, containing over two million lit
erary works: third, the German Ma
tional Library, with 100000 volumes
| and over $4,000 manuscripts, many of
priceless value. Taken together, and
including the Library of Congress at
Washington, they contain practically
all the printed and written literature
which exists in the world to-day"
The new battleship design submit
ted to Congress by Secretary Long
contemplates a vessel 45o feet long, rs
| feet broad, with a mean draught of
| 241a feet says Leslies Weekly. This
! gives a displacement of 1850 tons,
| which, with all coal and stores on
| board, would be increased to II, 604
tons, at draught of about q feet.
| The maximum thickness of the armor-
belt is to be eleven inches. The battery
| will be by far the most powerful yet
| put into any ship. 1t will include four
twelve-inch rifles, eight eight-inch
guns, and twelve seven inch rapid-fire
guns, with large auxiliary battery
Prussia has 200 meteorological sta
tions fully equipped, 1900 rain gauge
stations and 1,4O0 stations that record
| storms and unusual phenomena. The
| results of their observations are re-
! duced and published for each week, for
| each month and for each year. The
highest point of Prussia-the Schnee-
Koppe-1,6S6 metres in altitude, has
| been occupied by a station since June,
| 1900. The exploration of the upper re-
| gions of the atmosphere is systemati-
cally carried on by kites carrying self
| registering instruments and one of
these kites has been sent to the hight
| of 4,255 metres. Balloons are also
utilized for special work of the sort.
Children in the Paola (Kan.) public
schools have established correspond
ence with children in the Edinburgh
(Scotland) public schools, and the let
ters which pass between them contain
| much that is amusing. For example,
one Scotch boy is very indignant at
the mistaken ideas which are held of
| his people. He says: MANY people,
| even in England, think that our male
sex dress in kits, but they are quite
wrong. for there is hardly a man in
! Edinburgh or anywhere in the mid
die and south of Scotland who wears
kits. 1t also is thought that the lam
guage of the Scotch is bad English,
but it is quite the reverse, for the
English is bad, broken Scotch"
The Nile dams at Assiout and at
Assouan will be completed during the
next year and are designed to impound
the water of the freshets so that the
whole of the province of Fayum, now
arid, can be irrigated. To permit the
| passage of the freshet water the dams
are pierced with orifices closed by
| hood-gates whose dimensions are call
culated to permit the passage of all
the flood water without hinderance.
| There are in all $50 flood-gates at diff
| ferent attitudes. If all are open all the
food water passes freely. In practice
they will be closed gradually so as to
impound water sufficiently to fill the
| reservoirs. Each fiood-gate has an
| opening 2 metres high by metres
| long Except that a few are Of half this
| size). The pressure on the lowest
gates is 300 tons, and in spite of the
| enormous pressure the gates are OPEN
ed and closed by machinery which
works with perfect smoothness and
case.
People grow old by thinking them
selves old, says Success. When they
reach the age of 40, so or 80, they inn
agine that they look like others of
| the same age, and that they soon win
be useless, unfit for work, and unable
| to perform their wonted duties. AS
| SllrplV as thpV tl1if,lf tbic uftlI oo,,a.