The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The sterilization of meat in Bel
GUM is yearly gaining in Importance.
The object of this innovation is to re-
turn to the trade, under the form of a
wholesome product, meat which other
wise would be unfit for consumption.
The largest strike on record is not
yet ended. The $500 men and boys en-
ployed in Lord Penrhyn's slate quarries,
in Wales. went out two and a half
years ago, and the settlement of the
strike is now question in British
party politics.
Canon Anger, biographer and edi-
tor of Charles Lamb, once uttered this
pithy saying: "You may preach like
an angel, but if you can whistle on
stick people ignore your preaching and
speak of you as the man who can
whistle on stick "
"A wireless telegraph plant of the
Marconi company will be placed at the
foot of Fulton street, New York, which
will work with all steamers having ap-
paratus. This will enable ships held
outside the harbor by fog to conmu-
nicate with the world.
Twelve of the fifteen divisions of
the new Department of Commerce and
Labor are organizations hitherto I'M
der the secretaries of other Depart
ments. Only the Secretary's personal
staff, that of commerce and that of
manufactures have to be organized.
In his book on laughter, James
Sully says: There is in laughter, from
the first ejaculation, something of a
biting sensation or something of mel
ancholy pain" and, again, THE laugh
able spectacle commonly shows us in
the background something regretta
ble."
Marine insurance is very old. The
earliest voyagers, the Phenicians,
practiced kind of insurance. The
master, before sending his small bark
to the edge of the earth, mortgaged
her against her return. If she came
back he returned the loan, with a
heavy premium.
1t having been found that the me-
ter is not a natural unit of measure, it
not being exactly a ten-millionth part
CT a quadrant of the terrestrial merid-
ian,M. Cadet suggests that the hight of
the column of quicksilver in the ba-
rometer, at a given altitude and tenn
perature, be taken as the standard.
The French government has just
issued the revenue returns for the
month of March. They show that the
amount received for indirect taxation
was PA, 253, 400 francs, being an increase
of 6796,500 francs as compared with
the budget estimates, and of 9,121, 700
francs, as compared with che corre-
spending amount of 1902
Gen. Sir Drury Lowe has written
to the London Times condemning the
abolition of the lance in the British
army. He describes it as "the heaviest
blow yet dealt at our cavalry as such,
and considers that it will place the
troopers at a disadvantage if pitted
against a European power. and will
be specially deplorable in India.
United States Circuit Judge Amos
NJ. Thayer, who wrote the unusually
lucid opinion in the Northern Securi-
ties case, was born in Chautauqua
county, New York, sixty-one years
ago, was graduated from Hamilton Col
lege and served in the Civil War as a
lieutenant in the signal corps. He
lives in st. Louis. He was appointed
a United States district judge for
Eastern Missouri in 1887 by President
Cleveaand.
The .coffee-chewing habit is in
creasing alarmingly. 1t is easily con-
tracted because of the pleasant taste
of the fresh roasted berries and the
exhilaration from the active principle
of coffee being similar to that from the
alcohol in beer and whisky, the habit
is hard to break. The effects of coffee
eating are much more marked than
those from tobacco using. 1t wrecks
the nerves, yellows the skin and de-
stroys the appetite.
AT Broughton, near Brigg, in Lin
colnshire, England, some lands are
held by the following tenure: Every
year on Palm Sunday a person from
Broughton enters the church porch at
Caster having a green silk purse con-
tanning two .shillings and penny, tied
up at the end of a cart whip, which
he cracks three times in the porch and
stays there until the second lesson be-
gins. Then he enters the church and
cracks the whip again, finally depos-
iting the purse and contents.
There are to be seen at present in
the Selkirk mountains, in British Co.
lumbia, some curious natural produce
lions of the winter season, in the form
OF gigantic snow mushrooms nine feet
I'm diameter. and consequently twenty
seven feet round. They have. quite the
appearance Of the ordinary mushroom,
and are formed By the wind driving