The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-13

gold fields at Bulla Bulling, Aus
tralia.
Locked into his office by mistake. a
Swiss editor, in order to keep an APP
pointment with his wife, jumped out
of a third floor window and broke his
leg.
Of the 41,00O 10000 people in England
more than half of them live on an in
come of less than $12 a week, and
the earnings of 100000 of this num-
Der do not exceed Sc week for the
family.
The postoffice of New York city
has thirty-two stations and 159 substa-
lions. In it is handled daily forty-five
tons of mail matter. Fourteen stamp
cenceling machines each handle $4,000
letters an hour.
The death rate of the globe is esti-
mated at siXty-eight a minute, 1890
a day, or 35,740,S00 a year. The birth
rate is seventy minute, 100000 day,
or 96,972,000 a year, reckoning the year
to be 365 days in length.
In consequence of numerous COM
plants by peasants about the increase
of insects injurious to the crops, the
French Minister of Agriculture has or
dered a stricter observance of the laws
against the slaughter of birds.
Why do mosquitoes bite human
beings? According to DIR. Santos Fer
nandez, of Cuba, it is because the fe-
males can not form their eggs without
sucking some warm blood. If they
fail to get it, they lay no eggs.
Because of the failure of last years
onion crop in the Northern states,
which was due to the rotting of the
vegetables in the ground, the "pauper
onions" of Europe and Africa are be-
ing shipped here in large quantities.
Shortly before recent election in
Dercolo Tyrol, adherents of the Cleri-
cal party cut some vines in the vine
yards and posted up warnings that if
the peasants gave the Liberals a ina
jority all their vines would be cut and
ruined.
1t is probable that ere long an
italian company will establish a steam
ship line from Venice to Calcutta. At
present Italy holds only l per cent. of
the East Indian foreign trade, and
most of that is carried on in foreign
vessels.
There are now in custody in Eng
land and Wales, undergoing terms Of
Imprisonment for crimes, 625 aliens Of
comparatively recent Importation. An
investigation into the antecedents of
these criminals shows that in a ma
jority of instances they were driven
or assisted out of their own countries
and entered Great Britain unchal-
lenged.
Pierre Celessin Cert, a member of
the firm of La Grange ct CERT, the
greatest advertising contractors in
France, who has just died. was seven
ty-seven years old. M. Cert was init
mately bound up with the history of
the French press in the last half CEN
fury. He had in many instances aided
papers by paying them an annual sum
for their entire advertising space.
Thomas A. Edison has taken out
7S1 patents in all, for which he has
paid in fees $500 OF the whole num-
Der Ill were taken out before 1885,
Since then he has taken out each year
from three to twenty-three new ones
Last year he took out nineteen. The
clerks of the patent Office have kept
systematic account of the patents of
Mr.. Edison, tabulated and indexed, so
that reference to them is easy.
DIR. Samuel ]. Metzler, a Berlin
physician, has come to the conclusion
that all microbes may be killed by a
series of violent shocks He seems to
have proved his theory-at least to his
own satisfactorily attaching to the
waist of girl number of bottles of
soup filled with microbes and making
her skip and dance until she was al
most exhausted. By that time the mi
crobes were well-nigh exterminated.
The drinking of absinthe as an
"aperitif' appetizer is such a feature
of Partisan life that the French rail-
roads are coming to recognize it. At
the green hour" between s and &
O'Clock, when the wormwood distilla-
ton is drunk, an "aperitif" train is
run between Paris and Versailles. in
which man may sit and imbibe his
absfnthe as he speeds alongside the
woods and villas and flashing reaches
of the Seine.
The color of ships has been always
a vexed question, says the Pail Mall
Gazette. and although home stavers
had become accustomed to the black
hulls and yellow upper works-not AL
ways the same tint of yellow in Diff
ferent ships-the representatives of the
white ensign on foreign stations were
differently colored. Other powers
tried experiments, so did this coun-
try, the object in each case being 10
diminish the visibility of the ship as
target in ordinary weather. Finallv
shade OF gray was adopted for the
British navy, and precise instructions
were given as to the admixture on
black with white paint required IN
produce It. Apparently the matter must
In any case depend largely upon at
mospheric conditions. A rainstorn. for
example such as that In which the
sships left spithead on the Monday fol-
lowing the coronation review last year
would suffice 20 obscure anything. But
u Is quite sure that the correct Tins
has been Feached7 As 20 dayligbt
nothing need be said 81 present. but
in the Mediterranean. at any rate h
Was found upon recent occasion. thar
quite Unexpectedly the bulls 81 ne
gray ships showed W Ntfh remarkable
diftinctnesa when the aeaFchlight wa