The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-12

| nave OeeH OOuBeQ 10 sign De-
low, when the custodian of the regis
ter prepared a new sheet for his sigma
ture, which was later pasted into the
book.
"A carpet industry was started a
few years ago in a poor district in
Donegal, and commencing with a
dozen women workers, it has grown to
such an extent that it now finds en-
ployment for several hundred people.
| The carpets are hand made, after the
Turkish and Persian fashion, in mo-
safes of small wooden squares, the de-
signs and colorings being most arts
tic and effective.
The growing Russo-Austrian rap
prochement which began with the joint
submission of the reform terms to Tur-
key has been signally emphasized by
| the terms of the Cars letter to Count
| kapnist, the Russian ambassador at
! Vienna, in which his Majesty in con-
terring the Order of st. Alexander
Newsky on the ambassador, recognize
| the zeal which his Excellency has dis
| played in promoting 1.-The friendly re-
lations between the two countries"
The High Commissioner of Cyprus
Sir F. Haynes Smith, says, in the
/ SOUA DC VI q ISpOT( I0e or
! that Mediterranean island: THE great
want now is more capital. for which
there are numerous advantageous OPEN
1ngs. The great body of Cypriots are
| FULLY sensible of what has been effect
ed for them by the British government;
and they are deeply grateful to the Sec
rotary of State, Mr.. Chamberlain, for
the important and continuous benefits
which he has conferred on Cyprus dur
| o6rOai ai5t,. -
just before King Edwards visit to
Paris LIE Figaro suggested that the
government should clean the newspap-
| er Mosques on the bouleVards and
| along the Seine OF the filthy caricatures
which some of them exhibited for
sale. The authorities took no action,
but the proprietors of several kios-
ques withdrew the caricatures dur
ing the royal visit. In one or two in
stances a proprietor who failed to
show good taste in this matter was at
tackled by a crowd of students and his
literary and pictorial wares thrown
into the street.
The sustaining power and durabil-
ity of patent box kites used for me-
neurological observations have been
we'll illustrated by the behavior of
strings of kites sent up in Denmark in
connection with a study of the meteor
illogical elements in the middle strata
OF the atmosphere. On one occasion
the string holding the kites broke, al
lowing them to escape. Owing to their
unusual type they were readily recog-
nized and were found seventy-two
miles distant forty weight miles of
which was over the sea. Another time
the kites escaped and were picked I'D
in Norway.
There is rumor in Paris that the
German government has approached
the DUAL d'Orsay with view to make
a Joint representation to the British
government on behalf of continental
shareholders of the Netherlands Rail-
way, which was taken over by the Brit
lsh government as a war measure in
the recent South African hostilities
II Is understood, however, that the
french government had already been
informed that Great Britain is willing
TO give satisfaction to the shareholders
Of the railway the moment the new
IransYaal loan shall be taken up. Thus
II appears that another German diplo-
matlc manoeuvre has been forestalled
"A note from Odessa states that the
Russian Steam Navigation and Trad
Ing Company has just reopened ito
llne between Odessa and the Persian
Gulf, which had been discontinued
since last September because il could
not be run at profit to the company.
the russian government having with
drawn it's subsidy from the line he
cause If found it improbable in both
political and commercial resuects The
establishment of the line. which
was signalized by the departure of
the steamer Truvor from odessa on
April Is, is believed to indicate that
the government has renewed the sub
sidy.
Countries have to be educated I'D
to providing for new economic or So
cial conditions. Denmark is already
adjusting itself to the altered condt
tons which decreased the probability
OF female child's marriage. 1t has a
system of insurance against the possi
Dll1ty of spinsterhood. In Denmark.
II sum of about 1925 is deposited on
behalf OF girl at birth, she becomes
entltled' II unmarried at the age of 80,
10 receive an annuity of $25, which is
increased by $25 every ten years. n
however, she marries before she is
81, $225 is returned to her, or If she
dies before she is that age, there is a
contribution of some $50 or $35 toward
her funeral.
A report from Lisbon states that
the German minister there has been
reprimanded by his government for al
lowing the Anglo Portuguese BengueI-
la Railway scheme for Portuguese Az
RIGA to be brought to a successful con-
cluslon without making it possible for
Germany, at least in the form of cant
tai, to be represented. The convention
has just been signed in Lisbon. and tba
company will be operated with can't
tai of $10,O00,000 which is entirely snh-
scrlbed in England. The railway
while of course serving the tsaic,
ana commercial ends of England as an
ultimate feeder to the Cape-to-Cairo
line, is bound to open up the Angola
Hlnterland without cost to Portugal.
There are at present sixteen we'll
founded cases of judicial error under
consideration at the French Ministry
of Justice. 1t is admitted by the an
thorities that in four of these wit.
nesses have made death-bed confess
slons of perjury. After Dreyfus' case
the most interesting is that of lean
Chales. This has been placed in the
hands of Maitre Laguerre. Chales
spent thirty years in penal servitude
and his revelations as to the condi
tons of his Imprisonment will. II is
said, result in many notable reforms
particularly at the prison settlements
OF cayenne and Noumea. He proves
that many of the convicts who are
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