The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

N1dlllS IL tlOIly-OilG years Jill e4lQ WebS
married at the age of seventeen years.
1t is announced from Stockholm
that King Oscar of Sweden and Nor
way, who in consequence Of ill-health.
handed over the reigns of government
to the Crown Prince on Jan. q, has
again resumed his kingly functions.
The regency is therefore at an end.
The British weather service is col
lecting reports from the North Allan
tic and Mediterranean of the temper
atures observed by shipping masters.
The data thus collected are, to be
worked up in charts. This will show,
among other things, the extent of the
Gulf stream.
The flavor of eggs may be infu-
enced by the food eaten by lay
ing hens. The North Carolina expert
ment stations, by feeding a quantity
of chopped wild onion tops and bulbs
to hens, obtained eggs so pronounced
III flavor that they could not be eaten
and this continued while the opion ra-
ton was fed.
There are few more striking facts
than the growing Importance of
Puget sound customs districts. In the
year that has just closed all the GUS
toms districts of the United States
showed a decline of exports and grain
products except the Pacific coast. ports,
the shipments from Puget sound ports
increasing As per cent.
The historical keep Of the. Chateau
diff, in the harbor of Marseilles, which
was put up for auction together with
the island itself last autumn, has at
last been sold. The French govern
ment decided not to sell at first, be-
cause gaming syndicate had plans
to. buy the island and turn it into a
Monte Carlo. The purchaser of the
keep is the captain of a French liner,
who got it for 5,O5Of.
The first Channel turbine steamer
was launched the other day at Dunn
barton. 1t was built for. the South
eastern and Chatham Railway Com
pany for their Dover Calais service.
The vessel has been named The Queen
She is 80 feet long, and is pronounced
by experts to be a very graceful
model. 1t is expected that she will
perform the voyage from port to port
in from forty-five to fifty minutes.
"A DR.. Rehfeld of Lucerne. switzer-
land, has been condemned to three
months penal servitude and S,0O0f.
damages for causing the death of a
woman of Kriens, near Lucerne, by his
want of skill and negligence The
relations of the deceased brought the
action of legal advice. Dr. Rehfeld
was also prohibited by the court to
practice in the Canton of -Lucerne. The
prisoner was a fully qualified physician.
The Hotel Savoy in New York
plumes itself upon the possession of
the largest mirror in the world. Only
tow steamships of the ocean-one of
them the Friesland, in which it came
have room in their holds to. stow
away such a large package. 1t is a
little more than thirteen feet square,
and is nearly half an inch thick. To
get this perfect plate five different
glasses. had to be cast. 1t was made
at the st. Gabian glass works in Paris.
Two. Italian inventors, Signor Tur-
chi, an engineer, and Prof. Bruno, both
Of Ferrara, claim the invention of an
apparatus by which telephone and
telegraph messages can be sent stimuli
taneousy along the same wire. The
inventors have been permitted to give
demonstration of their system before
Signor Galimberti,- Italian Minister of
IL
practical test in the working of the de-
partment.
The Paris municipal returns for
the week ended April shows that the
number of deaths registered was 1000
as compared with LOIS during the pre-
yious week, and with the average of
1882. There were twenty-six deaths
from violence, including twelve sui
cides. The number of marriages eele-
brated in Paris was 3S9, and 1,122 chill
dren We're born, of which SCI were boys
and SCI girls, 274 of the total being IL
legitimate.
In view of the establishment of the
Department of Commerce and Labor,
it may be interesting to note that the
internal commerce of the United States
last year has been estimated by the
government statistician at 500 900, 000,-
600. Fifty years ago it was only $4,000
100000. The manufactures of the Unit
ed States are nearly. double. those, of
Great Britain and Ireland, and about
equal to those. of France, Germany and
Russia combined.
A gentleman of Gletterens in Fri
bourg, using the net from a boat near
Chexroux, Lake Neuchatel, Switzer-
land, the other day drew out two
trout of which one is locally reported
to have weighed twenty-nine pounds
and the other nineteen pounds. His to-
tai catch, besides these two monsters
of the trout kind, weighed 100 pounds.
Chevroux has a. local reputation for
large fish, and just now they are more
than usually common owing to fresh
cts in the streams.
In regard to the report that the
Morgan Shipping Trust is seeking au-
thority to place its ships at the dis
posal of the United States ore other
governments, for military or other pur-
poses, the Neue Hamburger Borsen-
MALE points out that the German
shipping lines have only entered into
a traffic or tariff, agreement with the
trust, and that no more far-reaching
arrangements were concluded. "Ac-
cordingly," the journal adds, German
firms will not be in any way affected
by the above measures"
Esperanto" an artificial Language
made by DIR. L. Zamenhof for a uni
versal language, has gained $4,000 ad-
herents, among them members of the
French Institute, professors in CONT
mental universities. Count Tolstoy and
W. T. Stead. Its object, as stated by
a writer in LIE Monde Moderne, Paris,
is: ITO furnish people who need to
communicate, with Observation-Disclosures
ers, scientists and business men--the
way to a mutual understanding with
out necessity of resorting to the study