The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

-Ine DlrLn rate among the IOISlSlA-
born in Massachusetts, is 50 per 1000;
among the native-born 1t is II.
Some Chicago burglars used an acid
in order to take only real silver from
a house they had broken into.
"A collection of stamps formed by
G. Owen Wheeler, of the London Phil
atelic Society, was sold by acution re-
Gently for $3.50.
Gold crosses and diplomas were
presented by the German Empress last
year to 176 women servants who had
been forty years with the same fam
lily.
AS a result of one weeks idle
ness of seventeen Fall River (Mass.)
cotton mills recently the loss in wages
to the 1900 operatives affected was
not less than 100000.
"A Socialist paper published in KAN
sas has half a million circulation: an
other in Missouri 50,O0O and maya
zine now printed in Canada circulates
more than 100000 copies.
The German Reichstag has made
an appropriation for heavier rails and
ties for the Berlin ossen Railway, up
on which the widely advertised high
speed electric trains failed a year ago
because the track was too light.
The mines of the Black Hill dis
trict, South Dakota, for the year just
closed produced $8,363,S92, which is
nearly ST. 900, 900 increase over the pre-
vious year. The average value of the
ore handled in the district per ton was
$4.44.
1t is estimated by the Treasury
Department that the exports of the
United States for the current year
will reach the great total of 81, 5OO,O OO,-
900. The imports will be about ST.
900, 900, 900, half of it raw material for
manufactures.
German papers state that it is pos
sible to keep eggs fresh for any length
of time by simply immersing them in
a 10 per cent. solution of silicate or
soda, commonly called liquid glass.
Eggs preserved in this way will hatch
a year afterward.
The largest production of hemp for
one year under normal conditions in
the Philippines was 10000 tons. There
is a possibility of the islands being
made to produce sufficient for the
consumption of the whole world. Hemp
needs no cultivation. Care must only
be taken that it is cut in the proper
season. The natives cannot be eXcelled
the world over in the preparation of
hemp for the market.
"A number of articles made from
galalith, or milestone, were shown at
Hamburg The casein from skinned
milk hardened by formaldehyde and
variously colored was used for table
tops, combs, knife, handles, cigar hold
ers, balls, rings, chessmen and domi-
noes. An advantage of the new prod
uct, as compared with celluloid, is the
fact that it does not ignite so easily
and is entirely odorless.
"A cabinet officer of the Mikado re-
Gently referred to the fact that there
are $50, 900 trachoma patients in Japan,
and that in Tohoku distrist it is i'm
possible to obtain the requisite num-
Der of recruits for the army if some
sufferers from this disease are not ad-
mitted, adding: THE Japanese army
will physically collapse if things are
to go on in this manner" Trachoma
is a chronic Inflammation of the eye
lids which contracts them inward un-
till the lashes scratch the pupil, caus-
ing in many cases blindness.
The Klondike district does not give
promise of increasing its output of
gold over that of last year, which
amounted to $4,000, 900. Lack of new
strikes or discoveries since the
memorable find in 1896 has set a limit
to the output, and it is now on the de-
cline, having at this date produced over
$50, 100000 in gold. The Nome mining
district is daily increasing as a pro-
ducer and is being extended over a
vast expanse of territory, projecting
from Golovia Bay to the Arctic ocean,
and east inland from the Boring Sea as
far as the difficulties of transportation
will permit.
Field Marshal Lord Roberts, who,
with his staff, is coming to the United
States next month, is commander-in-
chief of the English army. He is Earl
of Kandahar, Pretoria and Waterford,
his title coming from his distinguished
military service in Afghanistan and
South Africa and from the intimate
association of his family with Water
ford, Ireland. He has a longer list of
honorary titles and more medals than
any other English officer of modern
times, all of them won in active serV-
ice in the field. With his staff he will
sail Sept. % from Liverpool for Bos-
ton.
Richard Croker continues to rage
at the authors of the reports published
in this country that he has expressed a
personal preference for this, that or
the other aspiring Democrat as a can
didate for the New York mayoralty in
the autumn. Here is an extract from
a letter received from him by a we'll
known Tammany, adviser" Next time
any idiot tries to mix me up in the cam
paign by saying he had an interview
with me in England and heard me
mention names, please do me the favor
to tell the first newspaper man you
meet that the informant is a liar from
Liarville and a damphool into the bar
gain"
Literary statisticians have been
computing that Sir A. Conan Doyle
would be the most richly rewarded
author in history, had all his works
been paid at the rate quoted for his
new Sherlock Holmes stories. THE Adj
ventures of Gerard" 81 a word. Tn
to and including THE Hound of the
BaskerVilles, and without counting
the new book, which is now running
serially, his takings would have come
to something like $1,500,00 But the
author has not always received 80 a
word, or even the hundredth part of
mat. There is a letter in the possess
sion of an American publisher emhodv.
ing proposition from the creator 10