The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the Midway before being towed across
the Atlantic. 1t is 545 feet long and
100 feet broad, and can receive the
largest and deepest draught battleship
in the British navy.
The zeze is a favorite instrument
in East Africa. 1t is a sort of crude
violin, composed of bar of wood fast
ened to large gourd. There is a sim
gle string made of vegetable fiber, and
different tones are produced by length
ening or shortening the string.
There are fifteen cities containing
more than 10000 negroes, with total
population of 70O,0 900. Five of these
cities exceed $4,000, namely, Washing
ton, with S6,702; Baltimore, with 1929;
New Orleans, with 77,714; Philadelphia,
with 2,613, and New York, with 60,666.
are encouraged to marry, as they are
observed to be more settled and atten-
tive to their duty than when bachelors.
In London such marriages are discour-
aged, as rendering servants more at
tentive to their families than to those
of their masters.
An aged Athenian professor, now
living in retirement on a pension, has
become a convert from Christianity to
the religion of his classic ancestors. he
has transformed a room into a temple,
has set up two statues Of Juno and
Mercury, before which he sings and
prays, and has erected an altar, on
which he now and then offers up sacri-
fees.
Cats make the most careful toilet
of any animals, excepting some of the
opossums, lions and tigers wash them
selves like the cat, wetting the dark,
India rubber-like ball of the forefoot
and the inner toe and passing to the
face and behind the ears. The foot is
thus a face sponge and brush, and the
rough tongue combs the rest OF the
body.
America leads in the matter OF Wo-
men practicing medicine. The first
was Elizabeth Blackwell, who grad
uated as physician in 1S49 Three
years fater there were SIX IN oop Phlla- ma
| delphia In 1859 there were 5000 Wo-
men doctors in the United States; IN
1896 there were 4,555, and now there
| are probably 5000, some of whom nave
a very lucrative practice.
New Workers. says Poultney
Bigelow in White Mans Africa
|
of the gaudy omnibuses which once
| piled up and down Fifth avenue. Many
| of them are now in service at the
! Cape taking people to and from the
| docks. 1t was odd to see painted on
| the sides of these buses the Old Ia
miliar pictures representing Indians
chasing buffaloes, or scene ON the
Hudson river"
A great deal of nonsense is talked
about sparrows driving away other
birds, says a writer in the Ladies
Home Journal. Like the downtrodden
| italian and other peasants from the
Old World, the sparrows are prepared
| TO live here where others would starve.
They kill no birds. We are too won't to
attribute the results of our own mis-
deeds or shortcomings-the barbarities
of millinery fashions, wanton slaughter
masquerading as sport, the hack of
good bird laws and the enforcing OF
them where such eXist-to these trou-
| blesome noisy, quarrelsome little
feathered gamins. Fitted to survive af-
ter centuries of competitive struggle,
they cannot be exterminated. AS well
try to eliminate that other triumphant
European immigrant, the daisy, from
our fields.
One of the most precious posses
sions of the University of Pennsylva-
MIA is a fragment of a vase which
was smashed in a raid by the Ella
mites upon ancient Nippur. The inva-
sion took place in comparatively re-
cent times, as Archaeology goes, but
the inscription on the vase dates back
to the time of a king who lived 4,500
years before Christ. This piece of
pottery, therefore, is $500 years old,
and the inscription on 1T is Oldest bit
of writing in the world. The charac-
ters are not in cuneiform but in pic
ture writing-the chirography of all
peoples in their racial infancy. Yet,
most wonderful G, all, this vase has
been followed out by a machine, for
on it's concave surface are plainly
visible the parallel lines made by the
instrument which formed it. Posi-
bly, the instrument was the bronze
drill, plentiful evidences of which have
been discovered by DIR. Petrie on the
most ancient utensils of Egypt, but
whatever it may have been, it is
humbling commentary on the mechan-
ical pride of the men of modern times.
The transmission of money through
the post Office to any part of the
United States, or in fact to any part
of the civilized world, is coming more
and more into common use, and the ag-
| gregate of the sums so sent seems al
most incredible, says the Georgetown
(Mass) Advocate. The ease by which
it can be accomplished and IFS perfect
safety commend this system of send
ing money to the great public. Its con-
venience in remitting small sums in
payment for papers, Seeds plants or
any article of merchandise is incalcu-
liable. To those who do not understand
how this is done and wish to send in
this way it is only necessary to in
| quire a the postoffice for a money or
| der, and il desired the manner of send
ing Will be clearly explained and the
and the amount desired for
warded at once to it's destina-
ton. Any sum can be thus forwarded
from ten cents to a hundred dollars or
even more. The safety of the money
sent is guaranteed, and the security is
greater If possible than that of other
methods. The use of the mails for this
purpose is constantly increasing and
continually growing in popularity.
The detailed results Of the last CEN
sus of London, says the Baltimore Sun.
show that the administrative county,
has 74,S39 acres and a population of
4.036.541. Including the whole urban
area, the population is said to be over
100000. In 1901 the population of the
administrative area" was 95g,310 and
in 1861 1t was 1888, 341, so that IL has
about doubled in forty years. The
"City of London" OF whose Lord Nav
or we hear so much, has but 26. 923 res
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