The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Lake Superior is 100000 and west OF
it 100000.
A professor in Birmingham, Eng
land, has carefully examined sixty
seven skulls from the Neolithic, Bronze
and Iron ages and finds their teeth
complete and perfect, but one tooth
showing decay.
, Secretary Wilson expects in the
near future to see grain and fruits
growing on all the tract of land be-
tween Salt Lake and Saltair. This
result he expects to be accomplished
by Kidding the soil of it's alkali.
Prof. Alexander Graham Bell has
resigned the presidency of the National
Geographical Society in order that he
may devote a year to experimenting
with a kite flying machine. He is still
a regent of the Smithsonian Institu-
ton.
The diamond trust known as the
DeBeers Consolidated Mining Company
limits the output to a small fraction
of what it might be and makes the
price high enough to pay 40 per cent.
dividends and put 80 per cent. in the re-
serve fund.
Diamonds and other precious
stones worth $2,422,OOO were imported
in May. This is greater than in any
previous month. More than $50, 000, 900
worth of diamonds and other gems
have been imported since the great
May panic of 1901.
The American Bridge Company
completed twenty-seven bridges on the
Uganda (Africa) Railway in fifty-three
weeks. The British contractors had
built eight in two years previous. The
British builders employed more than
100 men in putting up bridge, while
the American used five.
During the next few years $6.5 900
will be spent in new buildings at the
Military Academy at West Point, which
will make that institution equal in it's
architectural features, dormitory con-
Veniences, lecture rooms, laboratories
and other buildings to any of the great
universities of the world.
Prof. j. j. Thomson's latest sugges-
ton on the subject of the source of the
energy emanating from radium is that
there are few atoms in each mass
lin a condition in which stability
ceases. and which pass into some 9TH
er configuration, giving out as they do
very large quantities of energy" The
energy of the radiations of this SUBJ
stance is so great that one of the cleo
irons thrown off by 1t, if sent in chase
of Mauser bullet, would pass through
1t as though it were standing still.
The Journal Official of Paris says,
in a report of the proceedings of the
National Agricultural Society, that a
new means has been discovered of pro-
ducing alcohol. AS a result of expert
ments made many years ago by Mr..
Barthelot, in the chemical ANALYSIS of
alcohol, efforts have been made to per-
feet and simplify the proceedings that
he had indicated, and it now appears
that chemical alcohol can be made
from carburet of calcium and it's prod
uct acetylene at cents a gallon, the
alcohol to be of 100 degrees.
All the lynchings within twenty
one years that he could verify have
been tabulated by Mr.. Cutler of Yale
University. In that time 1872 negroes
have been lynched and 1885 whites.
Since the whites are about six times
as numerous as the blacks, the proper
ton of negroes lynched is, of course,
very much higher than these figures in
ulNoibC. Ouly % per cent. OIL THESE ne
groes were lynched for the social crime
that is usually associated in the mind
with this method of punishment. The
number of lynchings has diminished
since 1892
The Canadian government has is
sued a census bulletin which gives sta
tistics as to agriculture in Alberta, AS
siniboia and Saskatchewan, which
united compose the Northwest terrific
ries. The total area of these terrific
ries is 19O,963, III acres. OF this area
1899 per cent. is unimproved. Field
crops, exclusive of hay, occupy SO per
cent. of the improved land, but only a
fair beginning has been made with
fruit trees and vegetables. The area
OF land in wheat, oats, barley, rye,
corn, peas, potatoes and other field
roots in 1891 was 194,77S acres, an in
crease in decade of 1893 per cent.
In Chicago in May, at time when
there had been no rain for three weeks,
plates two and one-half inches square
were exposed in as many streets for
one minute. The plates were then in
cubated so that each particle of dust
to which germ was clinging would
soon be surrounded with a colony of
germs which could be seen and count
ed. The average per plate was $50
colonies. On the day following nearly
an inch of rain fell, and on the next
day similar plates were exposed at the
same street corners, which, after de-
velopment, showed but 270 colonies. A
good rain had diminished the number
of microbes more than so per cent.
Bird fanciers are predicting a vogue
for the peacock. They say that people
who can afford 1t have been lately buy
ing hundreds of them for their coun-
try places. Ornament is one considera-
ton, but there is another thing that
recommends the brilliant creature in
a more practical way Some one dis
covered not long ago that there is nc
watching equal to the peacock as a
guardian against thieves and maraud-
ing tramps. Perched on the roof of ar
arbor or outhuilding of the estate.
peacock will announce in shrill dis
cordant notes that can be heard a mile
away the presence of suspicious look
ing strangers within the grounds.
-Mendicants are criminals. nine.
tenths of them with criminal records. is
the report of those who have investi
gated these wretches who are allowed
to parade their simulated miseries upor
our streets, says American Medicine
Those who are in fact legless or arm
less have lost those undesired and use
less organs as tramps in stealing rides
on railroad trains, etc, and even thu
few really blind of the many that pre-
tend TO be so, were made so purpose
ly or are glad they are so. New YORK.
city is Kidding herself of these impost
ors by the simple expedient of show