The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ man ana cnllQ IN THIS country. To the
| first day Of October the gain over the
record-breaking traffic of last year was
about 100000 tons of'freight and g.
| 100000 tons of shipping as measured
/ by the government inspectors. The
mere increase of tonnage which passes
! through the 800" this year will
amount to about so per cent. of the
entire tonnage which goes through the
Suez canal Already there is demand
for greater accommoda ton. Work plan
ned for twenty years has been out
| grown in five.
The London Tivoli Music Hall man
ager has discovered an inventor who
has found way of turning out sea
-breezes at will, says Pearsons Week
| ly. 1t consists only in a small ma
chine, which will stand in the prone
! made at the back of the grand circle
occupying about the space of a couple
of people, and by the action of cleo
tricity upon certain chemicals makes
ozone in huge quantities and breathes
1t gently forth. 1t is to drive all the
carbonic acid out of the house and
keep the Tivoli filled with as pure an
atmosphere as nature makes on the
sea. Sometimes it will be Brighton
that will be laid on. A different pinch
of the chemicals or a turn of the
wheel, and it may be Bournemouth or
Scarborough or Nice or any other place
where the air is good.
In 1888, when Henry VIII rooted
up Thomas A. Becket's grave, and
erased his name from the scroll OF
saints, he also ordered that all pic
lures, stained glass windows, and fres-
Goes bearing upon the life of this saint
should be destroyed, says the London
(NhT0ninln In r1rhar Cf
Thomas was held in special honor, the
law was evaded by Superimposing an
other picture over the forbidden one
On the north wall of the church at
South Newington, near Banbury, there
Is crudely executed fresco of Christ's
triumphal entry into Jerusalem. From
the effects of age and damp this fresco
is gradually disappearing, and now
through the colossal donkey, on which
our lord is represented riding, can be
seen the figure Of the murdered arch
bishop, prone on the chancel steps
Gradually, possibly, the whole under
lying fresco of the murder of st.
Thomas at Canterbury will come into
view, and it is evidently of far higher
artistic merit than the hastily exc
cuted covering one.
An interesting report comes from
Vienna that the Turkish Sultan has
written a volume of "reminiscences,
says the New York Tribune, in
which he reveals startling secrets of
the diplomacy of the Sublime Porte
and the efforts of Christian nations to
aggrandize themselves at the cost of the
Sick Man of Europe. The Oriental IA
bic adds that the book is not to be
published until after the death of the
present occupant of the Yildiz Kiosk
If by any possibility there is an
atom of truth in this amazing tale, it
cannot be doubted that the successor
of the supreme Caliph will prevent the
sending out to the world of any such
autobiography. 1t should be borne in
mind, however, that a Shah of Persia
and an absolute monarch of Afghanis-
tan have left on record accounts of
some OF their experiences, impressions,
and opinions. Even among the ex-
allied potentates of the East the "ca-
coethes scribendi" does not seem to be
entirely lacking.
The other day the new ar1nored
cruiser Good Hope was full: of men
running about with Jumps of pig iron
in their arms. Visitors passing at the
time stared in amazement says the
London Pail Mall Gazette. They could
not make out what was happening But
the explanation was simple. In the
course of few days the Good Hope is
to commission as flagship of Rear Adj
mlral w. H. Fawkes, the first admiral
to have command of the cruiser SQUAD
ron, and the dockyIrd officials were
testing the vessels stability, to ascer-
tain how much she would roll in a sea-
way. These tests were carried out
by means of hundred tons of pig
iron shifted from one side of the deck
to the other. AS the vessel heeled to
Starboard or to port the number OF
degrees she went over were measured
with the aid of a plurnbline hung down
her hold. The result was eminently
satisfactory. Capt. Madden is to be
nag captain to Rear Admiral Fawkes.
and the Good Hopes commander will
De Commander Lionel Halsey, who
served with H. NJ. S. Powerfuls brig
AIDE in Ladysmith. Among Comman-
der Halsey's cherished possessions il
the white ensign that floated over the
naval brigade's camp during the IA
nous siege.
The serious situation arising from
the drought in Australia grows week
by week, says the New York CONNER
cial Advertiser. A large area. of the
wheat lands in Northern Victoria. we
are now told, can yield nothing. The
farmers cannot feed their horses and
cattle, and are appealing in their ex-
tremity to the government for free car
rage to the southern areas where the
landowners are offering free pasturage.
Inc september rains have been a
failure. OF the beasts that are being
sent south to the good grass, many
are so emaciated that they cannot
stand the railway journey, and hum
dreds have died in the TRUCKS In New
south Wales the same cause is going
10 ln1ict another severe blow on the
wool industry According to a recent
estimate the fiocks there have been
depleted by some So per cent, leaving
something short of &c, 100000 sheep for
the yield. The shortage of wool for
the year is computed at 1882 900
pounds, amounting to some 270 900
bales. This, reckoning at $50 per bale
brings the pastoral industry face To
race with loss Of $13,50o 900 on ac-
count of the drought. 1t is perhaps
an exaggerated estimate, but another
account puts the loss of sheen since
the beginning of January at no less
than 100000.
The problem of the governorshtn Of
Guam is to be subjected to another ex-
pertinent of a radical nature. this time
under the auspices of the most eminent
sociologtst in the naval service. Com
mander William Elbridge Sewell. who
lert the New York navy yard last week
In the supply, and proceeded to his far
away post by way of Suez, saws tha
New York Tribune Commander SewalI
has long hRan ky1ox.zy, -. 81 =. -