The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

there are nearly I,UUO,UUO IliOIC WOihSh
than men in the British isles.
Artificial teeth and "uppers" for
boots and shoes are among the new
uses to which paper in being put. At
this moment a substantial business firm
in Boston is considering a proposition
to take UP the work of manufacturing
paper hats. By and by high hat,
dress suit and shoes rivaling patent
leather, all made of paper, may be
considered quite the correct thing.
Mr.. Chamberlain has received a
COPY Of a curiously prohetic pamphlet,
written eleven years ago by Liver
pool provision merchant, now deceas-
ed, in which a system of preferential
tariffs is strenuously advocated. me
singular feature of the publication is
that the writer like the Colonial Secre-
tary, proposes that the revenue from
the tariffs should go to create an old
age pension fund.
The cost of a standard freight car
is $3.50 with wooden underworld, ana
81. 900 for steel underframe. The stand
ard car is Sc feet long, 8 by S1s INSIDE
measure. The capacity is from $4,000
to 1O0 900 pounds. The life is from ten
to twelve years. The cost of stand
ard locomotive is $4,000 to $1,000;
weight on wheels, 100000 pounds; tank
capacity 5000 gallons, and coal bin 10
to 20 tons capacity.
"A $27 ,OoO, 900 profit in three years on
an investment of $3.000.0OO is what the
Gates Lambert Drake Ellwood Syndi-
cate is reported by well posted experts
to have realized from its Texas oil
fields, says a special Chicago dispatch
to the New York Tribune. In addition
to the tremendous increase in the value
of the property, the stockholders have
been receiving monthly dividends of
per cent. or 50 per cent. year.
An impression has been abroad for
some years that Nine. Modjeska, the
actress, had lost the large fortune she
earned in this country. The fact is
that she has been quite able to cease
acting any time she wanted to in the
last ten years, but continues her pro-
fessional work because there is a de-
mand for it and because she likes IL.
Most of her fortune is invested in her
California ranch. which has increased
in value largely of late.
Considerable surprise is expressed
over the smallness of the estate left
by Paul du Chaillu, the explorer and
author. Mr.. du Chaillu received much
money from wealthy patrons and scien-
tific societies to carry on his explor-
ing work and also obtained handsome
returns from the sale of his books,
but he left only $500. The late Justice
Charles P. DAILY of New York In his
will set aside a trust fund of $4,000
for the use of Mr.. du Chaillu.
According to French paper, there
is a man in London who possesses a
remarkable straw hat. For years past
he has followed King Edward about at
foreign watering places, and whenever
he saw the Prince of Wales, as the
King then was, drinking anything
through straw he pounced down upon
the straw and added it to his collection.
Last year this strange collector had
gathered such a bundle of straws that
he had a hat made of them. The hat
should be thoroughly waterproof.
"A committee of the Royal Medical
Society of Germany having been ap-
pointed to experiment with the ten
best-known methods of reviving those
apparently dead from drowning found
that rolling, combined with pressure
on the back, was Strikingly efficacious.
The committee considered that this and
the even simpler method of rhythmic
pressure on the back with the sub
ject placed prone, should hold prom
inent place in all the recommendations
for the Fesuscitation of such persons.
James Watson of Sullivan, Ind, is
much excited because he cannot prove
that he is alive. He feels quite sure
| that he is, but the War Department
| said that he was not when he applied
for a pension which he should have for
herving in the Mexican War. After one
of the battles the surgeons said that
| he could not live, and his captain gave
him his discharge, and then evidently
reported him as dead on the strength
of the surgeons report. for he is dead
on the departments rolls.
A Dublin workman has produced a
novelty in the shape of a kettle, cup,
saucer, and spoon made out of a far
| thing. He hammered the bronze coin
| till he had obtained a very thin sheet
| of metal, from which he fashioned a
| complete and workable kettle, with a
swing handle, removable lid, etc. to-
| gether with a cup, saucer, and spoon.
| He can boil water in the miniature
untensil and pour it through the spout.
| The weight of the kettle, cup, saucer,
and spoon is forty grains. The weight
of farthing is forty-eight grains.
The latest amusement in Kansas is
the progressive peanut party, which
sounds harmless. Only women play the
| game, for it is too great a nervous
| strain for a man. A dish full of pea
nuts is placed on table and four woln-
en-, armed with hat-pins, are given seats
| around it, and at signal begin to jab
| into the peanuts with the hat-pins. 1t
| is a foul to touch a peanut with the
| hands, and the two sticking the most
! peanuts on the hat-pin win, and pro-
gress to the next table Social life in
the West must be very pleasant.
Two amateur gardeners at Ports
mouth, N. H., are getting themselves
laughed at this summer. One attempt
ed to put top dressing Of phosphate
on nasturtium bed, but used cement
instead. When watered 1t made a COW
ering as hard as a rock, but the COAT
| ing could be removed while the same
| amount of phosphate would have killed
the seeds. The other gardener watered
d row of sweet peas nearly two weeks,
only to find that nothing was planted
| where he had been watering, the sweet
! peas coming up in a row about foot
away.
The little Baroness Clifton, daugh-
ter of the late Lord Darnley, though
only years old, is a British peeress in
her own right. and has already PLAYED
her part in several important func-
tons. Lately, at a bazaar in aid of the
Royal Free Hospital, in London, she
presented bouquet to Princess Chris
tan az the opening ceremony. When