The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


company said recently that the average
age of the wild horse in 81 years,
whereas, the domestic horse lives only
20 TO % years.
The former Turkish Consul Cen
eral of Rotterdam, All Nouri Bey, who
was dismissed and condemned to 10l
years Imprisonment because of his
connection with the satiric journal,
Daoul, is trying to get even with the
Sultan by bringing out book entitled
Abdul Hamid in Caricature." He is
a born Swede, and spent some years
in Turkey, where he married a princess,
Hairie Ben Aiad the daughter of
Tunisian pasha. She is one Of the
leaders in the movement for the
emancipation of Turkish women.
A training school of kindergarten
teachers in an Eastern city has recent
ly opened a new course, called a course
in home-making. The object is to have
girls over Is years of age study the
house intelligently-its construction,
furnishing and decorating; housekeep-
ing, with its expenses, it's accounts, its
marketing, its cooking and it's laundry
work; and, finally, the care and nur-
ture of children, with reference not
only 70 their physical needs, but to
their books and their games. This is
new departure, from which much
good is expected.
City Judge OConnor of Utica, N.
Y, who was recently reelected by a
larger majority than any other judge
ever received in that city, asked to
be sworn the second Friday IN Novem-
Der, because it was the the 18th of the
month. Numerous circumstances lead
the judge to believe that Friday and
the number 13 bring him luck. He
bet an reading law on the 18th CT the
month, was admitted to the bar on a
Friday, and when he went to the Leg
islature, just thirteen years ago, the
number of his seat was Is. ThGce wer.
just thirteen persons at his wedding.
and he is now 20 years o.5-three
times thirteen.
-Gutta- joolatong is a comparatively
new material which is utilized as a
substitute for and in conjunction with
India rubber. 1t is a produ2- CT rhe
East Indies, chiefly the island of Dor
nao, and in the form in which it is
inn orted is described as "wh't'sh in
color, looking something like marsh
mallow candy, smelling st'Jagly of
petI oleum and oxidizing on exposure
W lIC dlIy OCC JiIl llS HAUL T. liG SttiIlc
description says: 1T is * a substi-
t'Ite for gutt1 ercha or India rubber,
tar is used chiefly as a filler IN manu-
features of India rubber gum and
gutta-percha." It's importation has in
creased from $4,000 pounds in 1899 to
100000 pounds in 1903
The blue grass region of Kentucky
is noted for it's production of fine
horses, and the Department of AgricuI-
ture is endeavoring to find out to what
extent the soil of the region affects
them. Mr.. May of the Experiment Sta
ton there, says that the greatest de-
velopment of live stock has been at
tanned in limestone regions, and that
the soil of the bluegrass country has
been formed largely by the disintegra-
ton of a limestone very rich in phos-
pilates This, he thinks, has materially
aided in the production of thorough
bred horses, but he believes that the
quality of the stock may be improved
even over what it now is by the adj
dition of certain mineral elements to
the food, and is making experiments to
that end
Moscow seems to be city where
nobody knows with any degree of GER
tainty what time it is. Arthur Symons,
in his new book on Cities" says that
no two clocks in Moscow agree; even
in the best hotels a clock will solemnly
strike a quarter of an hour before its
neighbor strikes Z. The confusion is
increased by the fashion of sticking up
dummy clocks in the streets as adver-
tisenlents. The maddening moment
comes when you have to catch a train
at Moscow. The railway timetables are
worked on st. Petersburg time, which
differs by half an hour from Moscow
time. When you are told that the st.
Petersburg express leaves at 9 o'clock
you are in doubt as to whether it leaves
at $50, or $3.50 by your carefully adj
justed watch.
THAT voracious and disgusting in
sect known as the cockroach is no
longer to be tolerated in the wardroom.
pantry, the captains cabin, the bread
lockers of the crew or anywhere else
in the navy. An expert cockroach kill
er has offered his services to eradicate
the pesky good-for- nothing from all of
the war vessels and the buildings at
the Atlantic Coast navy yards, asking
a specific amount of each ship and
naval station. His process for the
killing of reaches is a secret one. but
he has done some very effective work
on some of the vessels. He will next
try his hand at League Island, where
the reaches are reported to be both
troublesome and destructive. His orig
inal demand was 800 a ship, but the
Navy Department has effected a COM
promise with him, whereby the charges
are reduced about one-half.
The London Chronicle sees fit to
call attention to the fact that in his
telegram to the Emperor as to the
transatlantic yacht race Sir Thomas
Upton shows himself to be a. good
coulter but an Indifferent scholar, see
ing that he addressed his message to
His Imperial Majesty Kaiser Wilhelm
Ii. But in addressing a living SOW
erelgn it is against all rule and prac-
tice to add the Roman mineral which
distinguishes him from his predeces-
sors of the same name. A telegram
might be sent to his majesty King
Edward, but not to Edward VIZ
the latter designation being reserved
for use by historians and contempor-
airy writer's. Our King does not sign
himself Edward VII" but only Ed
ward" But. after all, Sir Thomas
Upton has not made a greater mistake
than was committed by the Kaiser's
own father, who in his first proclama-
ton, signed himself Friedrich III"
and when Bismarck drew attention to
the error it was explained by court
official-for what is more dexterous
than courtlv wit?-that it was the
fault Of the copvist for the printer
who had mistaken 81. R"-"Imperator
Rex"-for the Roman numeraI iii"
"A Paris letter says: There has re-