The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IldQG IL SClGIlAllC dlNClAPN at ShANANN -
Gently by swallowing a culture of ty-
phoid bacilli. She had all the symp-,
toms of the fever within four days, and
became desperately ill, but the physi-
clans saved her life.
The colonial treasurer of the
Transvaal has sent to England for
$4,000 worth of pennies, with the view
of aiding in the reduction of the cost
of living in the Rand. Owing to the
dearth of pence, matches are at pres
ent used as a portion of the currency
of the Rand.
Some of the old Nile lakes, which
were formely dry salt plains in sum-
mer and covered with few inches of
alkali water in the wet season. have
been reclaimed by the British govern
ment and are now worth from $500 to
$500 an acre. They produce magnifi-
cent crops.
The United States leads in fur
nishing both the machinery and the
raw material for the new industrial
development in Mexico. The exports.
outside of metals, amounted to 500, ILL.,
730 in gold, of which the United States
took 81 per cent, while all Europe took
but 10 per cent.
The coal production of Japan was
almost trebled during the years from
1892 to 1901, and the amount exported
a little more than double in the same
time, while the extension of steamship
and railway lines and growing number
of factories caused the domestic con-
sumption to be almost quaorupled.
The men who presented themselves
for examination as recruits in the
army during the last fiscal year show
ed a high average of physical excel
lence. The candidates examined num-
bered 45, 21S, of whom 30,176, or almost
exactly two-thirds, were accepted. OF
42,1S3 white men. 27,700 were accepted,
and of 3,035 colored men, 1855 were ac-
cepted.
The Milwaukee Board of Education
is considering plans for the establish
ment of a public school for the blind.
1t is proposed to convey the pupils to
and from the school in carriages, as
otherwise a guide would be required
York Point" systems of instruction
are to be followed if the project for
the organization of the school shall
be carried out.
An experimental in Munich, Ger
many, has discovered that when an
electric current is sent into the ground
by thrusting in one of the terminals,
the earthworms and snails within a
radius of six feet crawl out and get
away from the vicinity. He believes
that they are seeking to avoid the dis
comfort made by the current, and con-
cludes from this that the effect produc-
ed by electricity in stimulating the
growth of a plant may be due to the
determination of parasites around its
roots, rather than to a direct effect on
the plant itself.
Daniel Godwyn, who died in Eng
land in 1869, left an estate to the So
ciety for the Propagation of the Cos
pei and the remnants of this bequest
have just reached that society in the
snaps of a sum Of e244. 1t seems that
the testator bequeathed lease-hold
property to the society in violation of
the Mortmain act. After a delay of
fourteen years the estate went into
chancery,' where it remained from
1888 until the other day, when the
balance was paid out to the society,
only 9244 being left after payment sf
the expenses of such amazingly pro-
tracted litigation.
Miss Claudia Flint of Bethany,
Mo-, who is described by the Bethany
Republican as the charming young
daughter of Sheriff Flint is the cham
piOn ice cream soda consumer of
state whose young women are all
pretty fair consumers says the Kan
sas City Journal. "A Bethany re-
staurateur offered a watch to the per-
son buying the most ice cream sodas
from him in the season ended Sept.
30. Miss Flint won the watch by
turning in $500 tickets, each repre-
senting a soda that she had bought.
Her average consumption on this
showing was fifteen sodas per day."
The Russian Liberal Review. "Os-
vobozhdenie," says that Russia has
made and is making enormous and
senseless expenditures of men and
money in order to create an accursed
yellow Russia" which has no real
value for the Russian people. THE
Russian cost of the Chinese war was
$210,000000, says the journal 1--WE
have acquired a place where, from the
economic point of view. Japan, Amer-
ca and England may conveniently dis
pose of the surplus products, and as a
place where we may become involved
with powers whose combined strength
is great enough to defeat US on the Pa
cific as badly as we were at Saba sta
pool
"A plant for making silk from wood,
erected near Sydowsaue. Germany, is
at present turning out fifty pounds of
skein silk a day, which product can
be increased in quantity to 1000
pounds. The silk is soft in texture and
creamy in color. Each thread is made
up of eighteen single strands. A single
strand is hardly perceptible to the
naked eye. In strength it is but one
third that of the real silk. When
woven into pieces, the new substitute
is said to have the appearance of real
silk. The pulp undergoes a chemical
process, and is pressed through very
fine tubes by hydraulic pressure, form
ing the single strands which go to
make I'D the thread.
There are three great railroad lines
that show the climatic problems that
engineers have to solve in building
the new trans-Canada road, travers-
ing high Northern ATTITUDES; the trans
Australia road, running through an
arid region, and the Uganda road,
which traverses a tropical country
In hicyb 10 Y,oonxy 5iaE l.