The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Hungarian peasants have a super
stition that fire kindled by lightning
can only be extinguished by milk, and
owing to their refusal to use water a
barn with farmers whole hay crop
has been burned in one of the prov
inces.
Women constitute nearly 80 per
cent. of all college students in the real
ly important colleges of the country,
and women graduates of these institu-
tions in the United States, both co-edu-
cational and Women's colleges, number
about 10000.
Experiments made in the German
army with carrier pigeons, having been
satisfactory, every warship leaving
Kiel or Wilhelmshaven will hereafter
carry a consignment Of pigeons, TO be
released at varying distances from the
land stations.
in England alone the volume of CO.
operative business has grown, in the
last forty years, more than forty times
as fast as Englands international
trade, one hundred times as fast as
her manufactures and 100 times as fast
as the population.
A fatal parasitic disease has been
successfully used on large scale to
destroy the grasshopper, another Cor
locusts, another for rats. and prize
has recently been won for the discov-
cry of an insect which will destroy the
cotton boil weevil.
Bank Superintendent Kilburn, in
his last report, says that there has
been no failure among trust compan-
les in the state of New York, in eigh-
teen years, and with a single excep-
ton, no trust company has in recent
years sustained an impairment of CAPT
tai
IF you're so hard up" said the
easy mark, who was temporarily I'M
able to extend the accommodation
asked, "why don't you borrow some
money from Titefist?" Heavens, nor
exclaimed the other. "Why, he al
ways expects to be paid back. "-Chi-
cago Evening Post.
-Three-fourths of the great mass Of
manufactures which enter into inter
national commerce are composed of
iron and steel, copper and cotton, Of
which we are the worlds largest pro-
ducers, and for the manufacture of
winch we nave LaclllLl6S dI least cQQek
to those of any other country.
The Dowager Duchess of Argyll,
who was the dukes third wife, is at
present preparing for publication the
memoirs of her husband. These are in
part written by Argyll and in accord
ance with his wishes as expressed in
his will the widow is completing the
work from many diaries and docu-
ments bequeathed to her for that pur-
pose.
Business men going across the At
lantic often take with them scores of
unanswered letters For the conven-
fence of such hurried travellers one
steamship company has engaged young
women stenograp piers who take replies
to such letters and then typewr1te
them, thus giving the busy man much
more time for real enjoyment on the
| voyage.
Extended and painstakng expert
ments with formalin injections in ami
mails suffering from inoculated sept
cemia in the laboratory of the New
York health department show conclu-
sively that formalin. the recently
vaunted cure for blood poisoning. is
more injurious to the normal blood
cells than to the bacteria whose prod
ucts are poisoning the blood.
M. A. P, T. P. OConnor's London
weekly, gravely announces that Hon.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, son of the au-
thor of the famous Breakfast Table
SERIES has been promoted to the lord
chief justiceship of the United States in
| Washington The Massachusetts jurist
is referred to as IAN interesting per-
sonality, a typical American, tall, thin,
intellectually strong rather than physi-
cally robust and good linguist."
Mrs. Roswell D. Hitchcock, wife of
Commander Hitchcock of the navy, is
interested to a considerable extent in
gold mines in British Columbia. In a
recent address before the Pocono Pines
assembly and summer school in Penn
sylvania Mrs. Hitchcock spoke on
Gold Mining, Fascinating and Lucra-
tive Profession for Women" and in the
address she recommended the gold fields
as regions open to women as to men,
provided women carried their business
qualifications and the proper outfit.
Regular visitors to the Navy De-
partment in Washington will now miss
the CHEEKY Hi, brother" with which
u.
used to greet acquaintance. When
Roosevelt became assistant secretary
of the navy he was greeted with the
usual EXPLANATIONS when he first met
Melville, then chief of the Bureau of
Steam Engineers. The new assistant
secretary was rather inclined to resent
such familiarity on short acquaint-
ance, but ere long he and Melville were
warm friends.
Those unfamiliar with the differ
ences in the construction of ships made
for war and peace may wonder that
the speed of 1871 knots an hour main
tanned by the Kearsarge is a cause
for Jubilation, when passenger steam
ers make more than 20 knots The
The passenger ship being built for
speed is given length ten times her
beam measurement, while in the float
ing battery the proportion is but five
to one. The liner" uses $4,000 to 81. =
900 horsepower, while the Kearsaree
used but, $500
A cabinet officer of the Mikado re-
Gently referred to the fact that there
are $4,000 trachoma patients in Ia
pan, and that in Tohoku district If is
impossible to obtain the requisite num-
Der OF recruits for the army If some
sufferers from this disease are not
admitted, adding: The JAPANESE
army Will physically collapse if things
are to go on in this manner" Trach-
oma is chronic Inflammation Of the
eyelids which contracts them inward
until the Ashes scratch the pupil,