The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


National bank notes are one-sixth
of the money in circulation.
More than one-third of the in
habitants of st. Louis are of German
blood.
The United States imports of trop-
ical and semi-tropical fruits $1,000 900
day.
Customs officials in Switzerland
will in future examine passengers
luggage in the trains.
Only II per cent. of the families
Of London employ a servant, but there
are 205,S5S persons of the servant class.
"A shell from a 12-inch gun makes
its flight of nine miles in AZ seconds.
The birth rate in Berlin declined
The sinking of the shaft lao feet
from the river bottom by the Toronto
& Niagara Falls Company occupied but
little more than a month.
L. L. Whitman and E. T. Ham,
mond crossed from San Francisco to
New York city in a five horse power
OIdsmobile in 81 days travel.
In the United States the distance
of the average railway journey is
twenty-nine miles, in England it is
scarcely ten miles, while in Germany
1t is fifteen miles, in France twenty
one miles and in Russia sixty-tive
miles.
In the interest of making Australia
"a white mans country" a govern
ment bounty is paid for sugar grown
by white labor OF the last years
sugar crop of 100000 tons seven-tenths
was produced by Kanaka black la
Dor.
Emperor William of Germany has
ordered from the sculptor Goetz statues
of Hadrian and Alexander Serverus,
which are to be erected in Saalburg in
the positions formerly occupied by the
ancient statues of these Roman EN-
perorS.
M. Santos-Dumont has left Paris
for a five weeks trip to his native
country, Brazil, for the benefit of his
health. He has given orders for the
construction of his twelve-passenge
omnibus balloon to be entirely COM
pleted by the time he returns to the
French capital.
"A Dutch contemporary describes the
Ombilien coal field in Sumatra. The
field is estimated to contain 200, 000, 900
tons of COAL the seams varying from
six to ten feet in thickness. One seam
is as much as sixty feet thick in places.
The cost of the coal at the pits mouth
is $l.56 per ton.
Herr Heinz Zeigler, a Bavarian
aeronaut, is said to have traversed 765
miles in twenty hours in a balloon,
going with the wind and crossing the
Carpathians on his journey. He at
tanned hight, it is reported, of nearly
5000 yards, finding currents with We
locity of sixty miles an hour.
"A report from London says that the
cross channel turbine steamer Queen
has behaved splendidly during recent
southwesterly gales In gale of wind
she crossed from Dover to Calais re-
Gently in tifty-nine minutes and arrived
with a dry upper deck. The return
passage was made after taking in more
water ballast in siXty-nine minutes.
-Flowering plants are now forced in
to early bloom by bath of ether va
por. The plant is placed for forty
eight hours in a sealed tank containing
ether. 1t is afterward removed to an
ordinary hot house and comes into full
bloom in about two or three weeks. Lii
laos, azaleas and deutzias respond read
lily to the treatment, which is now ex
tensively used in Germany.
The grape cure at Weisbaden has
for long time been an important fea-
ture of the autumn season at that
famous health resort. The worth of
the cure lies in the high per cent. of
sugar in the fruit, grapes being from
"a to so per cent. sugar, with i'm
portant elements of acid and water.
The cure is especially recommended
for anaemic patients and weak con-
Valescents.
1t is considered that agriculture in
Italy has need to be greatly anchor
ated, and this will be brought about
by radical reforms in the methods of
cultivation and the augmentation of
production. A means to this end would
be more extensive use of modern
agricultural implements and machines,
to take the place of the out-of-date
and inefficient instruments which the
large majority of agriculturalists will
adopt.
According to a Paris physician,
who has noted the hour of death of
1850 persons, his observations covering
a period of several years, the maxi
mum hour of death is from to a. m.
and the minimum from to II a. m.
In the first case the mortality is 40
per cent. greater than the average
and in the latter 615 per cent less.
From 10 a. m. to q. m. in the day
the mortality is not high, the most
fatal hours being from to 6 in the
morning.
An ingenious engineering operation
is reported from Marseilles, France. A
government transport, sold to be brok-
en- up, sank in port. Divers were sent
down and reported that the afterpart
OF the hulk was worth recovering. The
method employed for floating the wreck
was original. By means of boards and
masonry the section of the vessel con-
tanning the engine room, with it's ma
chinery, was closed up and rendered
water-tight. Pumps We're then worked
When the half of the hulk, which. with
the added partition, formed a sort of
immense cask, had been emptied it rose
to the surface by the natural process
of the laws of hydrostatics.
The report says that notwithstand-
ing the most gratifying increase in the
total value Of the production of nom
metallic minerals, the grand total of
the value of the production of all the
mineral Industries of Canada shows a
railing off of rs per cent. This is due
not merely to the decrease in the Yu-
kon output of gold, amounting to So
oOO,O0O, but also to the very consider