The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

university colleges is only about 90
500.
The Saline County (Kansas) Index
thinks it has discovered a new endless
chain. Every farmer boy" it OBJ
serves. wants to be a school teacher
every school teacher hopes to be an
editor. every editor would like to be
a banker, every banker would like tC
be a trust magnate, and every trust
magnate hopes some day to own d
farm and have chickens and COWS and
pigs and horses to look after We end
where we begin"
of all the high personages who try
to make matters smooth and agreea-
BILE by tippings, perhaps the present
German Emperor is the most we'll
known among that circle of subordi-
mates whose opinion is best worthy of
attention. The Kaiser is a truly mag
nificent giver of presents. His bill
for gifts when he visits this or any
other realm must be gigantic, so lavish
and free is he in his efforts to give
pleasure to the servants of his host and
hostess.-Pearson's Weekly.
A man who had practiced palmistry
at Russ, Australia, for several weeks,
gave a lecture in the town hall of
that place one evening recently, his
subject being Snakes" He had a
number of snakes, which he handled
with ease. After getting some of them
to bite pigeons, he caused tiger snake
which had been caught in the district
within the last few days to bite his
arm. He then applied his antidote,
which, however, did not prove eftica-
cious, for he died soon after.
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steel hands" Admitted to a hospital
the other day at his own request, he
was examined by a student, and pro-
nounced to be absolutely well. He
thereupon seized the students hand
and squeezed it till he literally crush
ed the fingers to show his apprecia-
ton of the welcome intelligence. On
being removed to a police station he
broke a thick log of wood in two, bent
pair of pincers with his fingers,
and burst a rope wound ten times
round a barrel
Examinations of over 100000 pairs
of eyes and careful tabulation of the
results in the Boston public schools show
that nearly all children enter the pri-
mary schools with normal eyes. In
the higher grades one-fourth of The
pupils are myopic, and in universities
this increases until from so to 20 per
cent. of the students are myopic. In
other words, near-sightedneSS increases
steadily from the lower to the higher
grades, and in exact proportion to the
length of time devoted to the eye
strain of school life.
The cost of hauling freight per
ton per mile on the London Northwest
ern Railway, Englands most impor-
tant line, expressed in cents, is 1.49;
on the Pennsylvania Railway the cost
is 0.404 of a cent, and on the New
York Central 0.416 of a cent This is
true, although the wages of English
trainmen are but half the American
An eminent expert attributes the
greater cost to the rigidity of the four
wheeler English freight wagons, which,
he says, are track murderers and
power absorbers.'
The Spectator is of the opinion that
teachers of young children do not suf-
ficiently appreciate the importance of
training the ear of the pupil to detect
the difference in sound between pure
and impure English. If, as a daily ex-
ercise, a scholar who speaks carelessly
is forced to repeat phrases over and
over, first correctly and then incor-
rectly, for comparison, the ear catches
the tune-if it may be so termed-of
the pure speech and learns to mark the
difference. In this way a better
speech may be acquired-if not the
perfect language.
The most recent excavations show
that Vesuvius began its work as a
conservator of antiquity earlier than
the memorable year A. D. 70. During
the tinOC in - 34.o
Sarno, near San Mariana, some most
interesting antiquities have come to
light. These had been covered up by
a volcano deposit about six feet thick,
which points to an eruption of We
suvius which must have taken place
in the seventh century before Christ
The relics include a Greek burying
place archaic Italian tombs and va
rious bronzes and terra-cottas.
1t is reported from Copenhagen that
the manager of a prominent local tour
list agency has received requests from
English and American automobiles
to furnish them with information con-
corning Norway roads. The manager
has given discouraging but non-com-
initial replies to the effect that the con-
dltion of the roads and the gradients
90 not favor the auto form of traction
AS a matter of fact, not very long ago
every provincial Magistrate in Norway
issued decree forbidding motor driV-
ing in their districts. 1t is said that in
Norway every one. looks askance at
these devils of rapidity" as a we'll
known Norwegian artist has termed
the automobiles.
Among the collections of the
Smithsonian Institute there are about
fifty objects which have been puzzIine
archaeologists for some time. The1
are cut from the hardest kind of gran
lite and are about the size and shape
OF horse collar. They were gathered
up by an American merchant during A
tour of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica
and other islands of the group. bur
their purpose has never been deter
mined. DR.. j, Walter Fewkes of
the Bureau Of Ethnology has lust re-
turned to this country after a tour Of
the islands named made for the sole
purpose of endeavoring to determine
the origin and use of the stone collars
He has gathered some data and thinks
he may be able to throw some little
light on the mysterious collars after he
mas gone over his notes carefully and
systematically arranged them.
La Patrie of Paris, which. during
President Loubet's visit to London be-
came more "intransigeant" than even
Henri Rochefort's PIntransigeant it.
self. having exhausted all common
means of vituperation, objects to the
way the English pronounce French