The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-03

A white rust is an unexplained
disease" of English and German gall
vanized iron that has developed with
in a year or two.
The silk production in japan is I'M
usually large this year. 1t is expected
that much of the finished product will
find a market in the United States.
Eleven public houses in a village
which only contains thirteen dwellings
is a record which will be hard to beat,
says Pearson's Weekly. Such a village
is to be found in County Derry, Ire
land, the only premises not licensed
being the police barracks and a
creamery.
Out of a population of $4,000 in
Waterbury, Conn. from $1,000 to 3d.
900 are Irish or of Irish descent. They
predominant in municipal affairs and
their societies are the strongest in the
city. 1t is one of the few cities in
the country where Gaelic is taught in
night schools.
The drought has driven Australian
pastoralists to all sorts of expedients
ito keep their stock alive. In Queens
land one squatter has chopped bull
rushes in to chaff, mixed them with
molasses and water, and used them
for food for his sheep with very sat
sifactory results.
The m9t valuable collection of
bronze Roman coins ever dispersed at
auction was sold lately in London. 1t
belonged to E. BLOT, and the APO lots
yielded $7,925. 1t included the finest
known specimen of the sestertius, with
bust portrait of Diadumenian, A. D.,
217, which brought 500.
The value of the coal mined in ia
pan is almost equal to that of all 9TH
er minerals combined. 1t varies from
the hardest anthracite TO peat, but the
quality is usually inferior to that of
American coal. Modern machinery
and methods have been introduced in
the operation of many mines.
The Department of Agriculture at
Washington estimates the newly seed
ed area of winter wheat at about 34,-
100000 acres, an increase of SIG per
cent. upon the area estimated to have
been sown in the fall of 1901. The con-
dition of winter wheat on Dec. l was
99.7, as compared with 86.7 in 1901,
81 in 1900 and nine-year average of
91.4.
-Venezuela's prisons seem modelled
on the Black Hole of Calcutta, accord
ing to the description of Captain
Davidson, who says that more than "a
score of persons were crowded into
a room 16 feet square, with nothing
to sit on. This would be bad treat
ment for the worst type of local
scoundrel, but when applied to innocent
victims of politics and revolution
nothing in Dahomey or any province of
Jumbo Land was ever more abomina-
BILE.
"A remarkable popularity of the
redwood (sequoia sempervirens) is it's
manner of increase, which is from DOR
mant buds at the base of the stump,
as well as from the seed. When a tree
was blown down or fell. as its period
OF existence was reached. several
shoots pushed upward from the cir
conference of the stump, and of
came fully grown. six, ten or a dozen
feet in diameter. In after years, as
these trees have fallen, each would
have circle of trees surrounding it.
In France there are 1873 women
employed as gatekeepers at the rail-
road crossings. They get very small
pay, but the railroads provide each
one with a house and a small garden
patch rent free. These women work
every day in the year. They may not
leave their posts for a day off, even
on Sundays and holidays, and their
working days are from Is to IS hours
long. Five thousand two hundred
and seventy-five of these women earn
not more than $3.50 a month; 200 re-
ceive from that sum up to 81 80; l $50
get from "a 70 M
1871 to $1O.61. Only so women get
higher wages than this, and none gets
more than $S1.S4 month.
-Apropos of paragraph describing
the cards sent out by a happy Amer
lean mother announcing the divorce of
her still happier daughter, a cores
pondent writes to the London Chronicle
to say that he regards the innovation
as a good one. 1t does something, he
thinks, to prevent those embarrassing
complications that are so frequent
when nobody knows who has been di-
vorced from whom; and he quotes in
support of this bon mot by a New
York hostess, who had apparently mis-
laid her list of divorced intimates: IF
they don't stop giving divorces" she
exclaimed, Il shall stop giving dinners.
Three times last season 1 placed ex-
husbands by former wives at table"
She saw, however, no remedy for the
inconvenience of the present system
until husbands were copyrighted like
books, with heavy penalty for the in
fringement of the owners rights"
"A conductor of a Sixth avenue car,
during a lull in the ringing of fares,
stood passing coins from one hand to
the other, turning up the date of each
coin as he did so, says the New York
Times. There are more ways of max
ing money than by knocking down
fares, he remarked noting the inquir-
ing look on passengers face. ANY
greenhorn can pocket a dozen nickles
in collecting 120 fares in a car built for
forty-eight passengers, but a man has
got to know something to spot a coin
that has a premium value. It's sur
prising how many more or less rare
coins pass current without falling into
the hands of some one who knows their
value. This was suggested to me one
day, and l took to studying the cata-
logueS of dealers in rare coins and
memoriZing the dates of those that are
worth more than the prices stamped on
them. Since then 1 have picked out of
the money l have taken in fares sew
eral hundred coins with a premium
value ranging from a few cents to SIS,
and have redeemed them with my own
money and sold them to dealers in
coins.''
-Wu-Ting fang, in an article on
Chinese and Western Civilization"
tells of an American, who having lived
in China. for q while. was ma hIa to on |