The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


New York city,.
"A free Pasteur Institute is TO be
established in New Orleans in connec-
ton with the Charity Hospital.
Paris has slot machines by which
the batteries of motors can be re-
charged from electric street wires.
Many women are employed in
French automobile factories to do the
lighter branches of the work.
"A recent run from London to Glas-
gov, $50 miles, was accomplished in p
hours without once stopping the engine.
Twenty-Five gallons of gasoline were
consumed.
India has advanced from $2S,000,0O0
in imports in 1910 to her present 1884,
900, 900; her exports have increased
equally fast, or from $51,0O0,000 in 1910
to S403, 900, 000
The ivory chair and footstood pre-
scented to Queen Victoria by the Ma
harajah of Travacore will be among
the royal jubilee presents exhibited at
the Worlds Fair.
Chicago is to get rid of the Ferris
wheel at last. 1t is being taken down,
to be set up again on the st. Louis
Exposition grounds. The new COM
pany is capitalized at $125,OOO.
Some enthusiastic Automobiles in
Paris are having their cars built large
enough to hold ten passengers. In lux
urious appointment they remind Amer
leans of Pullman palace cars.
professional chauffeurs in Boston
must, according to the new regula-
tons, display tin badges resembling
those worn by New York's street
cleaning brigade. Sixteen hundred gen
tlemen drivers and upward of 200 pro
fessionals have been registered at the
Hub up to date.
The Trades Assembly of Science
tady is raising a fund of $4,000 or more
for the erection of a labor temple in
that city. The trades unionists there
number over 10000 1t is purposed to
levy an assessment of one days pay
upon each member for the benefit of
the building fund.
One of Connecticut's exhibits at
the st. Louis Fair is to be a collection
of the nuts grown in the state-nut-
will be exhibited at the winter meet
ing of the Board of Agriculture, and
from this display selections Will be
made for the st. Louis Exposition.
Awards made will go to the Individual
growers and exhibitors.
Fireman Thomas Callahan's goat
ate the pocket off a pair of trousers
belonging to another fireman that had
been carelessly thrown down in the
engine house in Louisville, KY, few
days ago. In the pocket were twelve
silver dollars. The goat did not have
time to die of Indigestion, as he was
put to death with force and violence,
and the twelve silver dollars were re-
covered.
1t has been noticed that dust has a
tendency to collect on electric light fit
tings~and wires, and on walls and cell
ings near them. The cause is believed
to be two-fold-partly the influence OF
air-currents induced by local heating.
and partly the identification of the
dust particles, which, when floating IN
room. are attracted to the electrlc
conductors of the non-earthed side OF
an earthed system.
The United States imported East
Indiau goods in 1892 to the value of
,S24, 773, 1O7 and in 1902 to the value of
$4S. 42121S. The exports thither from
the United States in the years indi-
Gated were $3,674,307 and $4,621,S76, re-
spectively. The most important i'm
ports to the United States from the
East Indies are: Jute manufactures,
$40, OOO 900; jute, manufactured, $4,-
900, 900; hides and skins, $4,000, 200,
gums, $4,000, 900, etc.
Statistics compiled by The Delta
Epsilon Quarterly of twenty-four
Greek letter" societies in American
colleges and universities show total
number of $50 active chapters and
membership of 1872, 1864. The oldest of
the fraternities is the Alpha Delta
Phi, which was founded at Hamilton
College, this state, in 1892. The list
does not include the Phi Beta Kappa,
the graduate fraternity, whose first
chapter was organized at William and
Mary College, Williamsburg, Va, in
1875, and which has now fifty-three
chapters and a membership of over
1000 surviving.
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