The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

4 Landtag (Parliamen) prohibits the
| Chamber of Commerce and Export As
ISOLATION of Dresden and all similar
business associations in Saxony from
| giving information of any character
to the representatives of any foreign
country.
| According to the London Lancet, it
! is quite exceptional to find in a child
bred in parochial charity institutions
that, healthy individuality which is
characteristic of children who have
been boarded out in the freer and more
natural atmosphere of family life.
AT Algiers an old Arab swallowed
his months wages to avoid being rob-
bed. The ccins. mostly big franc
| pieces, caused him such intense pain
that he went to the hospital, where an
operation led to the recovery of the
money, which amounted to just over
IA.
| The Reichsanzeiger publishes a de-
cree with regard to slavery in the
Cameroons and Togoland whereby
| children born of domestic slaves be-
| come half free and the children of half
| free men become free. The sale of
slaves is voluntary or otherwise, but
the exchange of slaves is forbidden.
The playing of billiards by students
has been prohibited by the State Agri-
cultural College of Oregon. The action
was by resolution of the faculty, and
| makes suspension the penalty of viola
ton of the rule. In making the an
nouncement President Catch said an
examination of the college records
| showed that 80 per cent. of the failures
| in class work were by students who
frequented billiard halls.
"A detachment of British soldiers re-
| Gently visited a deserted Boer farm. In
| the sitting room they found a piano to
| which a pathetic note was attached,
| entreating them not to smash 1t, as
it was a present from somebody's dear
mother, and consequently souvenir
which was much valued. The hard
hearted yeomen, of course, promptly
| proceeded to search it, and found it
crammed with gunpowder and caps.
"A correspondent of the Boston
Journal tells of a certain delicate SOU.
venir owned by a resident of Washing
ton, d. c., which was exhibited by it's
proud owner. 1t was q gold ring
made of the filings of the teeth of his
dead wife. Whether the teeth were
removed after death and cracked like
buternuts to secure the gold, or
whether the gold was simply chiselled
out, leaving the teeth in the jaw, de-
ponent cannot state. The association
seemed to be pleasant, whatever the
process of removal
DIR. Emil Holub, who died recently
in Vienna, devoted eighteen years OF
his life to scientific research and ex-
plorations in Africa, and to obtaining
the largest collection of specimens that
was ever brought by one man from
that continent. This collection was so
large that the Austrian government. to
whom he desired to present it, could
not grant him adequate space for it's
permanent exhibition. Two exhibitions
of it, one at Vienna in 1891, and the
other at Prague in 1892, were held and
attracted wide attention among scien-
tifie men. The entire collection was af-
terward distributed among various Eu-
ropean museums.
In Germany, says the Liverpool
Post, every domestic servant is under
the supervision and protection of the
state. Each one on entering service is
duly registered at the Burgomaster'
or at the nearest police station, and re-
ceives little book containing not only
the various rules and regulations of
domestic service, the bylaws concern
ing the hiring penny" the 'fortnight's
notice." and so FORTH but blank pages,
on which the masters and mistresses
subsequently insert the discharge and
testimonial. On leaving one situation
to enter another the domestics book
must be shown to the police sergeant,
who puts the official seal on it and en-
tiers the new address in his ledger.
The University of Athens is very
old 1t is conducted on the German
plan; most of the professors are grad
yates of German universities and the
German Language is heard about the
building more frequently than any
other except Greek. The institution
has a large amount of property, and
several of the chairs have been hand
sonely endowed by private individuals.
There is no more interesting or Gu
rious sight on this earth than the in
terror of the extinct crater, Aso San,
about thirty miles from the city OF
Kumamoto, in japan. 1t is inhabited
by 10000 people, who live and prosper
within its vertical wall 800 feet high.
The inha bitants rarely make a journey
into the outer world, but form, as 1t
were, a little nation by themselves.
The epoch of the beginning of life
en- the earth cannot be carried back,
according to the reasoning of Mr., +.
appearance of water on the earth's
surface. The powerful shocks of light
ming which must have occurred con-
tinually in the damp, warm atmos-
phere then existing, led to the produce
tion of ammonia and the oxide of MI
trogea, as happens to-day, These SUBJ
stances were carried down in solution
by the rains, and on the surface of the
earth met solutions of carbonic acid
and the Chords, sulphates, and phos-
pilates of the alkaiieS and metals. This
was then the first opportunity for the
formation of varied heterogeneous COM
binatiens and for the coming into be-
ing of the first living substance,
"A dispatch from Lexington. KY,
says: For some cause, unknown to ex-
pert lumbermen, the massive forest
trees of Central Kentucky, principally
of the white and burr oak variety, are
dying. Some of these monarchs of the
woods are decayed in the heart with
age, but this class of trees is Variously
estimated all the way from two to five
hundred years old. The trees that are
now in a. state of dissolution are those
which have sprung up in the last three
or four decades and which were sup
posed to be in perfect health. Lumber
men report of this latter class of trees
that about four out of five they cut
down are dead. Those trees near
ground where tobacco has been eontin-
uously planted are all dead, leaving
the suppositien that the weed has, in