The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

castle instead of a turtle deck. and is
of greater displacement than the older
class. The speed is 251a knots.
The Massachusetts bureau of labor
statistics shows that $4,000 persons in
that state have retired from business
on small competencies and, strange as
it may seem, $500 of them are farmers
in that land of stone fences. But $500
merchants have retired. and the list
includes 1,076. ciassed as laborers.
"A hanging overhead electrical rail-
road for London, similar to that in use
in Elberfield, Germany, is projected by
a group of German-American and Eng
lish tinanciers. A parliamentary con-
cession will be asked to swing the sim
gle track required over the Thames
from its south bank for eight miles.
The United States holds the lead
in competing with foreign and domes-
tic manufacture of machinery in
France, but much more remains to be
gained than has already been won. A
| universal and uniform complaint made
by United States consuls is that mann
| ufacturers will not consider the needs,
habits or prejudices of the people they
attempt to make their customers.
Chinese firemen seem to be i'm
mune to the fierce heat of the fire room
on ocean steamers, and can stand up
to temperatures that would speedily
PROSTATE white men. There are over
sixty lines of European steamers trad
ing with the far west. Out of this large
number only three of them have Euro
pean tiremen, and these have to have
collies to assist them.
1t has been discovered in Kirkgate,
London, that escaping electricity from
traction cables has been eating its way
| through gas pipes. A number of holes
were found in new pipes. These per-
forations varied in size from one-six-
teenth of an inch to five-eights, and
as the thickness of a new twelve-inch
main is only little more than Ave
eighths of an inch the damage in some
cases was almost complete.
According to advices from Copen-
hagen the aged King Christian receiv-
ed on June two invitations of state.
One was to visit the Kaiser in Berlin
the other to visit President Loubet in
Paris. 1t is reported that he has ac-
cepted both, and that after President
Loubet's return to Paris from London,
or about July 10, the venerable Danish
monarch will go to Berlin and thence
to Paris.
The periscope instrument provided
to give the pilot of submarine craft
a view ahead gives no correct idea OF
distance. Should he attempt to tor
pedo war vessel the submarine is
liable to run squarely against the OBJ
ject of attack when he thinks the
vessel is still far in the distance This
is a queer perplexity that will utterly
1ncapacitate the submarine for actual
service until a remedy is found.
Prof. Wright of Birmingham Uni
versity finds the fossil teeth of the
men of the Neolithic and the bronze
ages almost perfect in number, regu-
larity, and soundness. In those early
days mems teeth lasted all their lives;
the dentist was unknown sand not
needed. 1t is so now in many savage
and half-savage races, the South Afri-
can natives, for example. Why civil
lied life should tend to dental decay
and ruin is thus made a very impor-
tant question
The educational test of immigrants
shows illiterarcy among the Scotch.
Swedes and Norwegians to be l per
cent; among the English, Firms and
Morav1ans per cent; German, Swiss
ana French, per cent; Japenese, s
per cent; Dutch, per cent. The
range of illiterarcy among those COM
ing from Southern Europe is from IL
per cent. among the Magyars to 40 per
cent. among the Italians. The wide
spread impression that German schools
are the most efficient seems to he
groundless.
The report of the French bark Vim
cennes of sea of pumice stone six
miles long, south of the Tongan group.
would seem to indicate that there has
been some great volcanic outburst in
the neighborhood, of which the rest
OF the world has not heard. The first
SHIPS which passed through the Sunda
Stralts after the eruption of Krakatoa
found the sea for miles covered with
thick coating of pumice and for some
or them 1t was the first indication
tnat anything extraordinary had taken
place.
Commander Wihtehouse, r. NJ. has
returned to England on sick leave from
the survey of the southern portion of
the Victoria Nyanza, which has heen
rendered necessary in view of the
steamship services on the lake in con-
hectlon with the Uganda Railway. He
discovered
IN large quantities both in British and
Germdn territory along Lake Victoria.
one discovery, he said, is near the
Lumpas station of the Uganda Rail-
way at Mile $40, and the other in Ger
man territory to the east of Speke
Gulf. 'PeAe
M Rostand's reception at the
French Academy had nearly furnished
material for a thrilling epic For a
couple of days prior to the ceremony
Farls stood aghast at a rumor that
the popular poets uniform suit wouId
not be ready for the occasion and
tnat ne mad arranged to borrow that
OF M. Paul Hervieu. SartOriaI d.
votlon, however, saved the dav M
Rostands tailor declared that rather
than fail such a patron he would nar-
ism on the point of his own needle ana
about noon of the last remaining dav
the suit was delivered in triumph and
Paris sighed in relief.
"A meteorological department for
the Transvaal is being founded With
Its headquarters at Johannesburg. Mr..
lines, late Secretary of the Cane ~
Good Hope Observatory. will he +ba
director. AT Bulawayo two Jesuit fath-
ers propose to create a first-class me-
teorologlcal observatory, to which viii
pe duued an astronomical branch for
tne observation OF variable stars. Faith |
eI Goetz, from the Jesuit College at
Georgetown, Washington. who is - az
in charge of this installation was go
ent at recent meeting of the ISoyraI |
Astronomical Society in London an1 |
was wished godspeed, 4