The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| licensed for $50 years.
-Discouraging reports Of the state
of the crops continue to be received
from nearly all parts of Ireland.
A wine cask has just been built
in California to hold $1,000 gallons
Its iron hoops weigh 10000 pounds.
-seamen on native river craft in
China get So a month, on seagoing Chi
nese vessels IS. They furnish their
| own food.
Girls dressed in gaudy red, black
and white uniforms are selling but
| ter and cheese in the streets of Berlin
for new company.
A church recently dedicated in St
| Paul was erected at a cost of $1,000,
raised by 10000 contributions of 20
! cents each.
Kansas manufactures binding Irvine
at her state penitentiary as a check
on the Binding Irvine Trust. which
has often advanced the price of Irvine
so per cent. at harvest time.
in England alone the volume of
cooperative business has grown in the
|
as fast as her manufactures and 1870
times as fast as the population.
The German government will in
troduce in the Reichstag bill requir-
| ing saloonkeepers to sell non-intoxi-
eating hot and cold drinks and cold
| foods. Credit will be forbidden and
the number of barmaids limited.
"A new occupation is opening for
tramps in England. They station
themselves near a police trap and warn
| approaching motorists of danger, and,
| as a result. are rewarded with dona-
tons of small pieces of money.
During the summer large numbers
| of women come from Poland, Silesia
and Galacia to Central Germany to
work in the sugar beet fields. They
are driven in gangs by male over
| seer and receive 80 cents a day and
board.
"A statue of Col. Josias R. King
of ST. Paul, said to be the first to vol
unteer for services in the Civil War,
will surmount the monument to the
soldiers and volunteers of Minnesota.
which will be erected in Summit Park,
| st. Paul.
The American cattle and fresh meat
| trade with France is practically nil,
| due in great part to the rigid sani-
tary measures prescribed by the
French government for the inspection
of cattle and fresh meats imported
into France.
The recent severe storm in England
caused an overflow of the valleys of the
Thames and the Severn, and the beauti-
fu1 hop gardens of the County of Kent
are probably ruined. The Kentish hops
are the finest and the most aboundant
in England, ana if the crop is really
ruined the loss will be keenly felt.
White washed laths hung on
barbed wire fence will make the fence.
visible to stock, and guard against some
of the dangers attending the use of
barbed wire. The soiling system in
place of pasturage is another remedy
against the dangers of barbed wire
fences.
The exposition just closed at Bris-
bane, Australia, was the most success
full ever held in Queensland. There was
an attendance of more than 100000 per-
sons, which exceeds the number in the
year of the Duke of York's visit The
success of the exposition shows the re-
Operative power of Queensland, which
suffered severely from the late seven
year drought, and from the federal law
prohibiting colored labor. This law ma
terially crippled their sugar industry.
The financial condition of the country
is good, and its prospects were never
brighter.
"A New Jersey statute, passed in
1893, provides that "all persons who
shall use or pretend to use of have
skill in physiognony and palmistry or
like crafty science, shall be deemed
and adjudged to be diorderly per-
sons" In a case recently tried under
this statute the Supreme Court OBJ
served that if there shall ever, be dis
| covered any rational evidence that
palmistry is a real science its use for
honest purposes will pass beyond the
range of the law of 1893. For the
present it must rank as "a crafty
| science
"A wine fagon once the property of
Admiral Brueys, taken by Lord Nell
son at the battle of the Nile and pre-
| scented to Lady Hamilton, was sold at
! a London auction the other day for 50
| guineas. On one side of the flagon is
| engraved: Nelson to Emma. In COM
memoration of the victory of the Nile,
Vanguard, Sept. 20, 1898. My forteth
| birthday" On the other side is this
inscription: Wine flagon of Admiral
Brueys, the bravest and NEST of sail
ors. -Four times wounded, the fourth
shot in twain on board his ship
LOrient, dying just before her explo-
sion"
According to a Berlin exchange,
Saturday is the most popular day for
weddings, possibly because for the
working classes the free" Sunday
will allow a second day of jubilation.
Friday is obviously considered an I'M
lucky day at Berlin as we'll as else
where, for fewer weddings are held on
it than on any other day of the week.
This, of course, tallies with the wide
on a journey, or, for a sick person to
leave his bed for the first time on a
Friday. Curiously enough, the ancient
! TeutonS, like the ancient Greeks con-
| Sidered Friday most lucky day. The
1. most popular day for weddings next
| to SATURDAY., is Tuesday: then follows
| Thursday, and Wednesday comes last.
| Sabbath observance in Belgium is
! optional, especially in regard to the
! delivery of letters. Postage stamps
have tiny coupon at the bottom, on
which is the legend engraved both in
! French and Flemish: mot to be de-
| liVered on Sunday" If the sender of
| the letter be a person of strong reli-
| gious views, who believes in observing