The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Is farm for raising butterfleS ana
moths. The output is 10000 a season.
During the decade ending in 1900
the lumber products of Michigan fell
from $50 ,OOO, 900 per annum to $4,000, 600.
king Edward VII has bestowed the
first Garter at his disposal, that held
by the late Earl Fitzwilliam, upon the
Duke of Bedford
Selling elevated railroad tickets for
50 cents apiece is the latest ruse adopt
ed by swindlers who prey upon newly
landed immigrants at the Battery IN
New York.
-Spectacles will be allowed hence
forth in the British army, as the war
Office has issued orders, permitting Of
ficers and soldiers to wear glasses on
and off duty.
Travellers in Belgium this summer
will find at Bruges big exhibition of
early Flemish painters. The pictures
have been brought together from col
lections throughout the country.
M. Mounet-S ully's readings of SER
mons by Bossuet and other great
French preachers have been so success
cessful that he intends to hire large
concert hall in Lent of next year IN
which to repeat them.
-Newgate prison is to go at last. At
ter discussing its demolition for many
years the authorities concerned have
finally agreed and provided the money,
and a new Court House and jail VIII
be erected on the old site.
1t turns out that Johannes Brahms
left only one musical manuscript, set
of eleven preludes for the organ, an
instrument for which he wrote very
little. The work will be published in
the fall by Simrock of Berlin.
Westminster Abbey was closed at
Eastern to the public until after the
coronation. 1t has been transferred
for the time from the charge OF the
dean and canons to that of the Earl
Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk, who is
Roman Catholic.
"A cinematograph for the blind has
been invented by DR.. Dussand, a
French physician, according to the St.
James Gazette. The successive stages
of the picture are embossed on sheets
of tin and made to reVolVe rapidly ne-
tween the fingers of the blind person.
-Prussia is bound to make the Poles
German. A number of school children
have been tried in a police court for
singing Polish songs on their way
home from school. The prosecutor in
sisted that they should be imprisoned
and not fined but the court had the
sense to acquit them.
Arrangements are being made at
oxford University for the celebration
on Nov. next of the five hundredth
anniversary of the opening of the Bod
leian Library. Bodley's work was be-
gun in 1898, and four years were spent
in providing accommodation for and
collecting the books.
Rotterdam is building the biggest
cxcavated dock in the world. It's area
is $50 acres with a depth of water of
fourteen feet, which will be dredged
cut later to twenty-eight feet. The
earth dug up has been used to build
the surrounding quays and to raise the
level of neighboring streets.
-Gervex, the painter of panoramas,
has sent two political pictures to this
years Salon. One is the Banquet of
the Mayors held in 1900 with life-size
figures; the other is a portrait of
Prince Victor Napoleon, standing by
the side of bust of Napoleon 1, with
a portrait of the Prince Imperial in the
background.
-Giosue Carduccis library and man.
uscripts have been bought by Queen
rob x,,fn ~.
use of them while he lives, and will re-
ceive an annuity of 1000 francs; at his
death his heirs will get 10000 francs.
1t looks like a delicate way of arrang-
ing a pension for Carducci, who is a
Radical and would refuse a pension
from the State
"A Danish scientific expedition to
the west coast of Greenland has been
authorized by the government 1t con-
sists of Herr l.. Myllus, Eridisen Out
her, Count Harold Moltke, painter and
Herr Knud Rasmussen. The expedition
will spend eighteen months in studying
the natives and the country and will
work it's way up to Cape York and
Peary's first winter station.
Several insurance brokers in Lon
don are issuing policies indemnifyine
the holders against losses occasioned
by outbreaks of smallpox in the vicin-
ity of their residences. Thus if a pol
icy holder is forced to move by reason
of the development of a case of small
pox next door to him the cost of re-
moval is borne by the insurance COM
pany.
The State Department at Wash
ington has twenty-five negroes on its
pay roll; the Treasury Department. 21O:
! the War Department. 40; the Postoffice
| Department, "a; the Navy Department
| 25; the Department of the Interior. 200
Eleven negroes hold appointments ir
| the consular service and 1853 are EN-.
ployed in the government printing Of.
| flee.
The Reichsanzeiger of Frankfort
publishes the regulation with refer,
ence to the sale of butter in Ger.
| many, which will go into effect or
July 1, 1902. 1t will be unlawful Il
sell or offer for sale butter which ir
100 parts of weight contains less thar
| eighty parts of fat, or more than eight.
cen parts of water, if unsalted, or more
than sixteen parts of water if sailed
The first practical trial of a new
system of the single rail railroad is t,
| be made at the Crystal Palace, Lon
don. The line, which is to be one anC
q half miles in length, will be worked
by electricity. The difference between
this system and the prevalent type q
monorail is that the line is on tn
| ground, and large wheels nroiectin,