The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

market nave Deen lHlTOuuCeu On lliS
state railways of France, in the in
terests of agriculturists, who pay 10
per cent. above the ordinary freight
tariff for the use of the cars.
The Gar recently revoked the de-
cree which a year ago banished to the
Siberian steppes a number of students.
The students have refused to return to
European Russia. NJ. de Plehve, the
Minister of the Interior, has now issued
a decree which condemns" the stu
dent to return to European Russia, and
forbids them ito return to the steppe
regions of Siberia without permission
for the space of one year."
Telephone communication was es-
tablished last week between England
and Belgium, the service being operat-
ed by the Geographic departments of
both countries. The price is 10 francs
for three minutes. On the service be-
tween Tours and Paris two separate
conversations can be carried on stimuli
taneously on the same line, owing to
an apparatus invented by NJ Petit, in
spector of the electric service at Tours.
After Jan. 1, 1908, the German gov
eminent will prohibit the use of yellow
and white phosphorus in the manufac-
ture of matches. 1t is believed that
neurosis caused by the workmen han
ding phosphorus becomes hereditary
The governments report ION a safe
and harmless process of match manu-
facture" practically turns matchmak-
ing into a government monopoly after
the foregoing date.
The Paris municipal returns for
the week ending June u show that the
health of the capital continues to be
satisfactory. The number of deaths
registered was 939, as compared with
the average of 1884. There were So cases
of violent death, including 16 suicides.
The number of marriages was 696,
and 1000 children were born (53O boys
and 500 girls), 246 of the total being
illegitimate.
According to the British registrar
generals annual report, the birth rate
in London for the year ending April
l was the lowest ever recorded, being
28.5 per 1000. The death rate was III
per 1000, or $3.50 of the entire popu-
lation. The most active cause of death
was consumption, which claimed T.
621. There We're 3,410 deaths from vi
olence, including 535 suicides and 1881
accidents; of the last, 5S8 were infants
suffocated in bed The number of
marriages was 40,S17, or 17.S per 1000.
The German Ministry of the Int
rior has sent out a circular to the fed
eral government advising stringent
measures against 1.-The growing evil of
quackery," (QuacksalbereD. 1t is pro-
posed to have quack doctors register
separately and have their advertise
ments in the press censored. More
II ic Ho
should be authorized to arrest quacks
and to confiscate quack medicines
whenever there is reason to believe
such doctors and medicines are injuri-
ous.'
Certain Paris popular papers are
discussing the cost of living in the
French capital. Interest is added by
the publication of an old account book
dated 1903. Then the current rates for
white bread were Is centimes (about 3
cents) a pound; potatoes, 3Oc for 20
Htres; pork, 3Oc a pound; veal from 15c
to 25c; beef, zoe. A duck cost only CSC:
a partridge, 15c; a fine fat turkey, 3f.
6Oc; dozen eggs, 30c. But such arti-
Giles as coffee and sugar were only OBJ
tainable at At. 90c and 81. 60c, respec-
lively.
There is an inaccessible crag in the
Hartz mountains so unsightly that the
owner of a local chalet has determined
to cover it with vegetation. To this
END he is loading cannon with canisters
OF tree and grass seed, and firing them
onto the inaccessible peak. Canisters
OF old-fashioned grape would have
made pretty crop, and the harvest
could have been got in by means of a
balloon or airship. But the idea is a
fnr hot
when swords will be beaten into
ploughshares and cannon converted
into grain drills.
1t is reported from Cares that the
Turkish Governor of Tripoli has i'm
prisoned the entire commission of
twenty persons because it failed to
make up the arrears of $21, 900 assessed
to the Jewish community for military
exemption. The commission reported
that the poverty of the community
rendered the collection of the tax i'm
possible, and pointed out that Moham-
medans were neither taxed for ex-
emption nor called upon for military
service. AS a protest to the Govern
or's high-handed action, the Jewish
community have closed their shops and
suspended all business, thus causing
commercial stagnation.
"A Scotsman who was touring in
Eastern Russia attended service in a
Greek church, and had his attention
rlVeted by gigantic attendant in the
procession, who flourished an asperge
with great skill, uttering the while
some words which seemed familiar in
the tourists ear. Listening intentlv
he made out the sentence to run: "Tt's
jist pickle o. clean cauld waiter. IF
1t does We nae guild, it does We nae
harm" After the service he sought
out the attendant who took him into
a side chamber and disclosed himself
as a Dunfermline man, who had wan
dered in many lands and had tenporar-
lily taken service with the local Greek
priest.
AT Rostoff on the Don a woman
named Ichenholz and several accom-
plices have received sentences Of i'm
prlsonment ranging from ten months IN
three years for artificially mainline
young men to enable them to escane
military service. In some cases she
injected substance into the blood of
her patients TO give the appearance
OF blood poisoning; in others, she nrn.
duced palpitation of the heart which
gave the appearance of acute heart dis
ease' 4 fdu lchenholz also made per-
manent invalids of persons who Voc
insured against disablement Thus 81
tanning for them the annual nans;or.
required by their policies with insnrl
ance companies.
The Institute Medico of Mexico
CITY, according to the Mexican Herald
VIII send to the Worlds Fair an G.
Louis an exhibit of about ff4v 49,,