The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the capital invested Dy 6eIuldiS
in the Transvaal is estimated by ex-
perts to be fully $150,OOO,O
Street cars in ST. Louis killed only
seven persons a month during the first
eight months of this. year, but they
appreciate that the St. Louis EXPOSE
ton will give them opportunities to
greatly increase the average next
year.
A collection of Alaskan wild ami
mails will be exhibited at the Worlds
Fair. A pair of each of the land and
water birds, and one family each Of
polar bears, moose, mountain sheep
and mountain goats will be included
in the display.
= The Rev. Caroline Bartlett Crane
is the successful pastor of the Peo-
pies Church, Kalamazoo, Mich, an
organization which processes to have
no creed, the members merely sub
scribing to certain tenets called
bond of union.
The building of palatial hotels in
New York keeps pace with that of the
aters. The fall, which will bring cur
tam I1SlIlSS DIT nan d dOLCh new PA~S
houses, will see the doors of as many
new hostelries opened, not soon to close
again, night or day.
Andrew Carnegie has presented to
Dunfermline, his native town. the sum
of half a million sterling, to be en-
ployed. among other purposes, for the
advancement of technical education in
the district, which is the center of the
linen industry in Scotland.
Rear Admiral Casey. who has just
been placed on the retired list of the
navy, has seen forty-seven years of ac-
tive service. He has ever been noted
for his bluff exterior and imperturbable
good nature and was a universal Ia
Vorite with his subordinates.
-Undaunted by the difficulty which
Bishop Potter. of New York. is hav-
ing in getting money to carry on con-
struction of the great cathedral there,
Bishop Olmstead of the Colorado Epis-
copal diocese is planning a similarly
nota bic structure in Denver. 1t VIII be
begun in November next and his plan
is that only small portion that can
be used be now erected and additions
made in subsequent years.
The celebrated royal grapevine, near
Cum berland Lodge, Windsor Park.
England, which is much finer than the
far famed vine at Hampton Court. is
yielding magnificent quantity of fruit
this year. It's average is from 1900 TO
1000 punches a season. The vine, a Black
Hanbro, is one of the largest and
oldest i'll the kingdom, and the grapes
are very luscious. They are packed
and sent to the King. wherever his
majesty may be.
The recent discovery by the French
police of a mummy factory at Mon
trouge, near Paris, has caused no lit
tie CONSERVATION among owners of
these somewhat grewsome curiosities,
1t is said to be well-nigh impossible
to distinguish the products of the fac
tory from the genuine article, and hum
Greds of public institutions and thous-
tions and thousands of private collec-
tors and dealers are believed to have
been victimized.
-Newhere is the woman doctor more
in evidence than in Russia. Among
the wild and scattered population of
this immense country there is an mex
haustible field for women as doctors
and teachers. and it is the knowledge
of this fact which has disarmed the
opposition to their going through uni
versities. In 1897 Russia had 991
women doctors, and the number con-
-stantly increases. In this. profession
Russian women have made a dlstin-
guished name. They have enormous
practises in the great towns, and are
alargely employed by the municipali-
ties.
The people living in summer homes
at Muskegon, Mich, were surprised to
see the other morning what appeared
to be a veritable city, with its fine
buildings and wide streets, in the
clouds, with the base resting on the
placid waters of Lake Michigan. The
citys inner limits were a few feet
from shore. while the western terminal
was lost on the horizon. Report of
the phenomenon soon brought hun
dreds to witness the mirage. Some of
those present easily recognized the
principal buildings and distinctive fea,-
lures of Milwaukee. which is nearly op-
posite Muskegon. The mirage lasted
for about two hours and gradually
faded away.
M. Henneberg, a great silk manu-
facturer, who recently retired from
business, has built for himself on Lake
Constance a habitation exactly after
the model of a prehistoric lake dwelling
shown in the Zurich Museum. The
building, which is about 200 feet off
the coast of the lake, rests upon piles,
few yards above the level of the
water. 1t consists of only one room
and its framework is made from the
wood of the yew tree. Round this
room gallery extends of a width OF
some five feet or seven feet. The
walls consist of willow wickerwork and
mud plaster, the floor of hard mud
and plated willow, and the ceiling OF
pressed straw. The walls are orna,
mented with designs drawn with GOA
and bullock's. blood.
A travelling art gallery is a new
idea in Minnesota. where the travelling
library has reached a high degree Of
development. The idea is not new
elsewhere, however, and the Minnesota
plan may be only a copying of the
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