The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The most highly concentrated in
dustry is the marking of collars and
cuffs, of which 1915 per cent. is within
New York state and S52 per cent. is
in the single city of Troy.
There was recently held in Ger
many a competitive exhibition of the
work of journeymen shoemakers. In
the United States the cutter is the only
skilled workman in the shoe industry
Prof. Dali Osso. inspector of the
Museum of Naples, has just published
an article in which he afirms that re-
searches and excavations prove that
there existed a Pompeii nine centuries
before our era,
The recent explosion upon the sub
marine boat LIE Francois has revealed
a new danger in this type of craft. The
accident established the fact that in
stormy weather oxygen gas escapes
from the electric accumulators.
Wireless biography gives worse re-
suits on land than at sea. A coherer
placed underground is not influenced
by electric waves. which proves that
the curvature of the earth constitutes
an absolute barrier to wireless teleg-
raphy.
The italian government has just
erected fortress on the great Chaber-
ton summit opposite Briancon, for the
defense of the Simplon tunnel This
fort is 10000 feet high and is believed
to be the most elevated fortified point
in the world.
The amount of water within the
nrhi Of la nth, -.
ing to sos 900, 100000 cubic yards.
This vast accumulation, if placed up
on the earth, would cover it's entire
surface to uniform depth of from
5000 to $500 feet.
In the School for the Blind at Lis
bon there has been established a new
kind of industry which will prove most
remunerative to the inmates. 1t con-
sists in unraveling or picking" Yege-
table fibers used as stuffing material
for furniture. beds. etc.
"A new speed record of twenty-sev-
en- seconds for the kilometer was made
by the Hon. c. s. Rolls, in Noting
hamshire, England. A 72-horse pow
er Mors racer was used and the rate
at which it travelled was equal to
eighty-three miles an hour.
Mr.. Marcellin Pellet, the French
minister to Central America, discover
ed, close to the lake of Amatitlan, in
Guatemala, small fish which swims
in the hot water of the springs close
by. 1t is stated that in the Philippine
Islands there is a similar fish
The Elgin dairy report says, in
speaking of the Lawrence-Kennedy
milking machine, a new Zealand in
vention: 80 far as the experience
of users has gone, the results are of
such a satisfactory nature as to just
ify the belief that at length the me-
chanical mixer has arrived"
AT recent meeting of the Semi
teetotal Pledge Association, in Eng
land, the secretary, G. H. +, Nye, was
able to report a large accession of in
dividual applications for pledge forms
amounting to some $4,000. From Birm-
ingham an application was read ask
ing for 1900 forms for one factory
alone.
DIR. Springer, of Paris, has a
method to make one grow tall. This
is to apply static and faradic electrici-
ty to the knee joints daily, in connec-
ton with massage night and morning.
He binds the joints in congresses satu-
rated with salt water each evening and
puts his patient upon a diet of cereals
to promote the growth of cartilage.
IT. P. O'Connor writes: 1T is we'll
known that Lord Rosebery has been
cursed by recurrent insomnia all
through his life. and / believe that
what is apparently cratic in his ca
reer is to be attributed to the want
of sequence which the depression of
sleeplesSness, amounting sometimes to
despair, has produced in his mind"
"A broomless housewife has become
a possibility, A Yankee has invented
a machine which sweeps and dusts a
room by suction from an air pump in
the basement. All that is necessary
is to pass a hose nozzle over the car
pets and furniture. The suction
through it carries the dust particles to
the cellar. none of them being thrown
into the air of the apartment.
"A London justice has just made an
important decision regarding dress
makers disputes. He will not have
dresses tried on in court, because he
had long since come to the conclu-
sion that with ordinary dresses any
coy NONAN WNc%A q 0ACSo W lAldhe IL
look as if it did not fit and he was
also perfectly satisfied that "any mil
liner or dressnaker could pull it about
and make it fit when it did not do
so.''
The constitution of Florida provides
that elections by the Legislature shall
be viva voce and elections by the peo-
pie shall be by ballot. Up to a few
years ago voting in Kentucky WIS done
by the viva voce method each man
declaring his choice, and the abuses
incident to it brought about it's re-
peal. The danger of viva voce voting
in Kentucky may be better understood
from the fact that many of the vot-
ers were armed.
According to President Harris of
Amherst, word that is looked upon
as profanity in Boston may express
the deepest sentiment out West, in
proof of which he tells the following
story: "a rough miner died out West
and was laid away by his fellow la
borers, with a common slab of stone
to mark his resting place. On the stone
was this inscription: Bill Jenkins;
died June II, 1901. He done his damnd-
est. Angels could do no more"
-Ceylon, according to its recent CEN
sus returns has no fewer than las