The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

cent.
There are about $50 volcanoes on
this earth that have performed in mod
ern times. There are many hundreds
more that have long been extinct.
The value of the diamonds in the
United States is estimated to be $780,
100000. OF this amount $170 1000, 900
worth are owned by residents of New
York.
The German army has a swimming
school for troops, where everyone must
learn to swim. The best swimmers are
to cross a stream several hundred
yards width, even when carrying their
clothing, rife and ammunition.
"A contortionist has been swindling
the street car lines in New York city
and Philadelphia by allowing himself
to be struck by trolley cars and then
obtaining damages for the accident. :"
He evaded capture for seventeen
months,
For a year the use of phosphorus
matches has been prohibited in Swed-
en-. The new law has resulted in the
invention of match by the engineers,
Ladin and Jernandes, which has been
named the "repsticken,' or scratch
match. 1t will light against a wet
surface. 1t is said to be less poisonous
than a safety match.
Most of the Presidents of Peru have
been soldiers. They have attained
power by the aid of the army and at
the expiration of their constitutional
terms have usually endeavored to con-
tinue themselves in Office by the same
means. They have been practically
dictatorS, and their rivalries have kept
the country in a state of turmoil.
"A Munich journal claims that there
is more Danish. Scotch, and, especial
ly, German blood than Norwegian in
Ibsen's veins, His grandfather,
Peter lbsen, was a Danish fisherman
who emigrated in 1920 to Bergen, and
there married the daughter Of a Ger
man. Peters grandson, Henrik Peter
1bsen, married a Scotchwoman, and
their son married the daughter of a
wealthy German merchant.
An italian authority finds that
when hens are fed on food contain
ing a large percentage of iron the
eggs also reveal the presence of iron
in the very digestible form of the al
illuminate. Such eggs exert a tonic
effect on persons who eat them. The
case illustrates the fact that all eggs
are not alike by any means, and that
according to the food fed, they may
vary greatly in dietic value and ef-
feet.
An Englishman in Petticoat lane
the other night was caught in the act
Of slowing his handkerchief away in
his sleeve, just as the girls do. He
slipped it neatly between the sleeve and
cuff. 1t is the common practice of
fashionables in London society just
now. A few New Workers had the
habit years ago, excusing it on the
ground that a handkerchief in the
pocket (any pockeO blemishes the
physical contour.
Charles Henry Leeds, Mayor Of
Stamford, Conn, will be among the
students of Yale University when that
institution reopens this fall. He will
devote himself to the study of political
science in a three-year course. Mr..
Leeds will not resign as Mayor, to
which position he was elected last No
vember by a large majority. His
friends are planning to make him Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor next
spring. The Mayor graduated from
Princeton in 1895 and is only 30 years
of age.
-"Cloves," said a physician, make
an excellent and handy remedy for
nausea, for the headache due to train
rides and for slight attacks of seasick-
ness. l went abroad last year, and on
the boat the first day out l began to
feel the approaches of seasickness. /
took Glove every hour all the rest
of the day. and by midnight the at
tack had left me, and it did not return
again. My wife is much given to indi-
gestion, particularly when she eats pas
try, but experience has taught her that
she may now eat pastry with impunity,
provided that she swallows a Glove
now and then for several hours after
the meal"
German Chambers of Commerce ex-
ert powerful influence on legislation
in the empire. During the long prepa-
ration of the tariff bill which was re-
Gently passed by the Reichstag these
bodies made their influence felt in ev-
cry part Of the country. When a Ger
man manufacturer desires to have his
interests considered in tariff legislat ton
or commercial treaties he does not
have recourse to the member of the
Reichstag from his district, but to his
Chamber of Commerce. The govern
ment, in its treatment of commercial
questions, always obtains the opinions
| of merchants and manufacturers
through the medium of the Chamber
| of Commerce.
The late Gustave Larroumet be-
came the successor, in 1885, of Fran
cisque Sarcey as dramatic critic of
| the Paris Temps. While he lacked
his wit and his vivid style, he had more
| appreciation for the foreign drama,
| notably Shakespeare, for whom Sarcey
had shown little sympathy. Sarcey
himself was a great admirer of Lar
roumet; he was quite enthusiastic
over his work on Marivaux, and it
was largely owing to his recommen-
| dation that the younger man (who
lived only flfty-one years. was appoint
ed Maitre de Conference at the Sor-
bonnie in 1884. Here he soon won fame;
| and for several years he was the fav-
! orite authority on French literature
| of the women in fashionable circles.
The duties of German Chamber OF
Commerce are to further by every
means at its command the commercial
and industrial interests of the district
| in which it is situated. 1t takes the
initiative in examining any new enter
| prise which may materially benefit the
| district; it actively interests itself in
the building Of new railways, canals
| and steamship lines and in the estah-
| lishment of commercial museums OF
sample rooms, and studies ways and
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