The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-28

much greater radius of action.
--Norway's coast line-1,7OO miles in
straight line-becomes $4,000 miles
if followed round the fjords. II these
fjords are over 10000 islands. =
Statistics gathered at Princeton
Theological Seminary show that forty
one members of the association died
last year at an average age of 6S years.
During last year electrical railway
companies ran their cars eleven times
the distance from the earth to the sun,
killed 1918 persons and injured 4T,42S.
The normal child at the age Of
weighs thirty-five pounds, is 80 inches
in hight, with chest measure of COX
inches and head circumference Of 1914
inches.
Emile Berliner, we'll known for his
microphone- telephone transmitter, the
gramophone and other inventions, an
nounces that he has devised an aero
plane.
Water pipes lined with chinaware
and which are embedded in cement in
iron pipes are being used in Coberg,
SaXony. They are thought to be in
destructible.
The amount of human labor now
required to produce bushel of wheat
from beginning to end is on an average
only ten minutes, and the cost of such
labor is 8 1-3 cents.
Porto Rico sent to the United States
within year $7,466,579 worth of sugar
and Hawaii $25,S10,6S4 worth. These
two amounts equal one-fitth of the
sugar we consumed.
In trying to obtain an interview
on South African matters with Lord
Miner, a Viennese journalist only got
the following sentence: For six years
and half have worked like slave"
In Colombia railroad section men
get 80 cents a day, common laborers,
80 cents; street car men, 50 cents, and
dairy hands, 40 cents. The highest
wage is 81 a day, paid to steamer en-
gineers.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the novelist,
has founded vacation school after
American models in a garden loaned
for the purpose by the Duke of Bedford
in Bloomsbury, one of the poorer dis
tricts of London.
SO far as can be ascertained there
are 1876 automobile factories in the
United States, ten of which make cleo
trio machines, 100 make gasoline ma
chimes and twenty-five make steam
power machines.
The German government will intro
duce in the Reichstag a bill requiring
saloon keepers to sell Notwithstanding
hot and cold drinks and cold foods.
Credit will be forbidden and the num-
Der of barmaids limited.
During the summer large numbers
of women come from Poland, Silesia
and Galacia to Central Germany to
work in the sugar beet fields. They are
driven in gangs by male overseer and
receive 35 cents day and board
An oil painting of George Washing
ton, measuring six by eight feet, which
ornamented the assembly room of a
hotel in Long Island city, has been
damaged by a goat, and it is believed
by the owner to be beyond repair.
-rhe American cattle and fresh
meat trade with France is practically
nil, due in great part to the rigid SAM
tary measures prescribed by the
French government for the inspection
of cattle and fresh meats imported
into France.
The phonetic sence of the English
speaking race has been rendered so de-
fective by the confused photography of
the tongue that to different men the
same combination of letters viii con-
vey different sounds. This makes a
standard impossible.
1t has been estimated by an expert
in the employ of the government that
agricultural machinery reduces the
number of men employed to do a given
amount to one-third, while manufac-
turing machinery reduces the number
to one-fiftieth.
There is a punster in the Wander
bilt family. A day or two ago william
K, Jr., dashed out Of the Grand Cen
trail Station in New York, through a.
pouring rain, into an institution of
winch he is director. Great Jupiter
Pluvius," he exclaimed. this is a del
uge. over there at the station even
L..
Taking a million as a basis of CIR
culation, statistics show that at the
end of seventy years there will still
survive $4,000 out of 1000 900 persons.
At the expiration of eighty years there
wlil be 10000 survivors OF the original
million. When it comes to ninety
years of existence only S,s4 out of the
100000, or one in 115 will be living. OF
the original 100000 only fifty-four will
live to see the ninety-nine years. or
about one person out of 1890. The
century mark will be reached by only
twenty-three out of the 100000.
There is perhaps no elevator in the
world more exclusive than that pro.
vided at the Capitol at Washington. d
C.. for the Supreme Court OF the IInlt-
Cd states. That elevator can be used
by exactly eleven people, and no one
else would Tor moment consider en- =
teilng II except as The guest OF one
81 these eleven privileged gentlemen
Inc fortunate eleven are the nine fus-
tees Of the United States gunreuoo
Court, the clerk ana the marshal "a
the court. The elevator goes fror,'
the ground floor Of the Capitol "a ~
main noor, on which IL located the an
preine Court 81 the United states "A n
a small elevator. 10 that, with MS IN
aucior three poftly forms ~ iuefioes
~ the supreme Court 81 fha TfnltsS
states Wouid hn b. N n ono III ~.
very latest designs % electric eiete
iPif ana % nnished 10 magnificent style.