The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! ordinary cruising TdtS.
| Germany and the Netherlands con-
template providing a joint subsidy for
| cables to the Dutch Islands in the East
/ Indies to connect with the projected
Americans Philippine cable. This will
| make a connection between Europe and
Asia by way of America.
The difference of color between
green tea and black tea depends on
| the fact that the first is obtained from
leaves dried as soon as they are gath
cred, while in the case of the black
| tea the leaves are allowed to ferment
before drying. Black tea, therefore,
contains much less tannin than green.
The best authority on the general
situation in Brazil estimates the
worlds visible supply of coffee at TO-,
S13, 700 bags on Jan. l, 1902. OF this
New York holds 1924, 900 bags; Havre.
2,212, 100 bags Hamburg, $4,000 bags,
and Rio and Santos. 1851, 400 bags.
Brazil will have this year 100000 to
II. 100000 bags, which is an average
crop.
THE production of beer in the Ger
man Empire during the year ended
March 81, 1901, was 1850, 1924, 800 gallons.
capita of population was 1922 quarts
for the whole Of the empire. The gov
eminent revenues derived from the
manufacture of beer amounted to $22,-
1886, or 40.9 cents per capita.
Although Office seekers are in
abundance at Manila, the Philippine
Commission appears to have no little
| difficulty in obtaining fit persons for
| q in fror c 10 ~ a
rare, and the Civil Service Commission
at Washington has been asked to send
| out none who are not complete masters
| of both the English and Spanish Ian
| guages.
Prof. Birkeland's electrical mag
netic cannon has recently been given
severe tests at Christiana. The gun
works magnetically, the shell being
| drawn out of the bore and not impelled
| as by gunpowder. The professor claims
that by the use of magnetism as motive
power a thousand pound shell can be
! given greater range than by any OF
the established methods. The firing
of the gun causes neither smoke nor
sound.
Prof. Won Schroen of the University
at Naples states that he has photo
graphs of the chief events in the life
of a diamond. In his own words: THE
| crystal meets another one from diff
ferent mother. The two strike at each
other; they fight, strive and clasp with
each other. 1t is war to the death. 1t
| is a case of the survival of the fit
test. One must die. But no two crys-
tails from the same mother ever fight,
no matter when they meet"
"A London paper the other day re-
ceived from an amateur correspondent
on the Continent the following speci-
men of his work, entitled. Walker
| Upon Water" Capt Grossman, the
eminent inventor of the shoes to walk
upon the water descended the Danube
from Klosterneuberg till Vienna. He
/ was welcomed by a shouting crowd. He
proceeded with great calm and surety,
and was drawing after him little
boat with inside his wife,.
What will probably be the most
expensive book of the season is now
under way for private publication for
some 300 members of the Philadelphia
| Stock Exchange. 1t is a burlesque on
the members, the letterpress being i'm
| aginative biographies, and the illustra-
tions, which are the chief part of the
volume, by well-known cartoonists. The
subscription price is $780, but pre-
MUM of $75 is already quoted and the
market will probably go up.
The mineral production of Canada
during the year 1901. according to the
preliminary statement of the geological
| survey was valued at $685. 407, OIL, of
which SAP, 1874, 900 was metallic and $780,
1920 non-metallic. The growth is
equivalent to about per cent. over
| that of f900-a rather moderate in
crease compared with what recent
| years have shown. Gold, as result
of Yukon discoveries. occupies the first
place, with $24,462, 222 or more than a
third of the whole; coal, with value
of STATE, 122, comes next.
The animal keepers in the Lincoln
Park Zoo, Chicago, went fishing a few
days ago, and had reasonably good
| luck. They caught about 10000 gold
fish and 10000 of other varieties-most-
ly German carp, sunfish and the bull
| heads-which were taken from the pond
in the park. The object of the fish
ing party was threefold-to preserve
the Lives of the goldfish, which were
being eaten by the larger varieties; to
provide a change of diet for such of
workmen a chance to drain and clean
the pond.
in a report made public by the
Yale professors of the Connecticut Ag-
i ricultural Experiment Station on the
results of the analysis of cordials, it
| was stated: THE examinations of
| bright colored cordials has been. I'M
dertaken, not because they are serious
| ly adulterated, but because they illus
trate most strikingly the extreme to
! which the present mania for colored
| food may be carried. Thus creme de
menthe is a cordial containing from 10
| to 80 per cent. of alcohol, from 10 to
40 per cent. of sugar, a certain amount
of oil of peppermint, mint, possibly
other favoring matter, and vivid
| green dye, malachite green, a coal tar
product. Uncolored creme de menthe
| has very little sale and the greater
popularity of the green product is due
to the coal tar dye in it. OF the TWEEN
ty-nine samples examined, creme de
violette, creme de rose, curacao, and
even creme de celery, nineteen at least
contained malachite green, methyl vio-
let. penceau or other of these dyes"
Corn oil and corn-oil cake are by
products from the manufacture of corn
into glucose and grape sugar, says the
Crop Reporter. The oil is of a red
| dish-yellow color and of pleasant taste
| II is used in the manufacture of paints,
| leather dressing, various kinds of SOAP
| and rubber substitute. Corn-oil cake,
| the residue after expressing the oil
is valuable as an animal food, especial
ly for dairy cattle. A considerable