The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

-IQe united states TdHhS SlAleelllh
as a producing country. Our an
nual output is but a fiftieth of that of
France.
Over 10, 900, 900 pieces of mail matter,
covering S4S, SAB in money and $1,4sS,OOO
checks and drafts, reached the dead
letter office during the year.
Our imports from Turkey are about
$40, 1000, 0O0 of which one half comes
from Turkey in Asia. Our exports to
Turkish territory are less than $5OO,OOO'
The number of insane in California
in 1860, was l to 1000, and in 1870
to 500. At present the registered in
sane number l to 269 of the general
population.
The shipments of iron ore last year
from the Mesaba range, in the Lake Su-
perior region, about eighty miles from
Duluth, were over 100000 tons, or
80 per cent. of the total production
of the United States.
in six years the annual per capita
consumption of whisky has gradually
decreased from two and a half to one
and fourth gallons. In four years
the consumption of beer has increased
from less than two to more than sew
enteen gallons per capita.
The greater number of the clergy
of the Church of England have not
enough 10 eat and drink, hundreds of
them are clothed in secondhand gar
ments sent to a charitable society, and
many of them have no fuel by means of
which to keep themselves warm.
The firing of a shell from 11O-ton
gun costs f166-f36 for 900 pounds of
powder, and f130 for the projectile.
That is what is costs to pull the trig-
ger" but as the 110-ton gun only stands
ninety-three shots. and costs f16.4S0 to
make, the actual cost Of each shot is
$40.
Grants by the British and Foreign
Bible Society to DR.. Morrison and his
assistants for producing the first
Chinese Bible totaled $4,000, while to
DR.. William Carey and his associates
in the various Serampore versions the
grants of money and material exceed
ed $4,000.
After fourteen years of study DR..
Won Schroen, professor of pathological
anatomy at Naples, is convinced that
he has discovered the bridge between
living and lifeless things in the So
called petrobaSts which form during
the process of capitalization and which
resemble living cells in their growth.
The agent general for Western
Australia has received a report from
his government stating that during the
month of August last 1926 ounces of
gold were entered for export, while
124352 ounces were received at the
\, Il, ~.
coinage, giving a total of 206,617
ounces. The total export and mint re-
turns for the month of August, 1902,
amounted to 1892 ounces.
of Gladstone a recent writer says:
No premier in the last half-century
paid less attention to his clothes than
did Mr.. Gladstone. His hats were par
ticularly shabby, his frock coats of
uncertain age and his neither gar
ments much bagged at the knee with
sitting at desk. This disregard
however, extended only to periods
when he was out of Office. When in
Downing street he dressed almost
smartly for a man of his age. How
many years service Mr.. Gladstone ex-
tracted from his famous Inverness
cape we do not know. Anyhow, he
started with it on his first Midlothian
after the general election of 1892 In
Edinburgh he appeared to wear the
same hat year after year, but it may
have been fetched north for the occa-
sion as mascot, as he generally
drove about bareheaded and very few
| of his constituents ever saw him with
his head covered"
Describing his impressions of John
Stuart Mill Sir Leslie Stephen says: 81
heard him speak in the House of Com
mons. Instead of an impassive philos-
opher I saw a slight, frail figure, trem-
bling with nervous irritability. He
poured out a series of perfectly form
ed sentences with an extraordinary
rapidity suggestive of learning by
heart, and when he lost the thread of
his discourse closed his eyes for two
or three minutes till, after regaining
his composure, he could again take up
his parable. Although his oratory was
| defective he was clearly speaking with
intense feeling and was exceedingly
sensitive to the reception by his audi
| ence. Some of his doctrines were spe-
cially irritating to the rows of stolid
country gentlemen, who began by lis
tening curiously to so strange an ami
| NAL as a philosopher and discovered
before long that the animals hide
COuld De pierced by ScOrnful laughter
To Mill they represented Grass stupid
ity and he became unable either to
conceal his contempt or keep his tenn
per-
The recent accident on the City and
South London Railway, which took
place at the London Bridge station, had
curious origin. A short circuit &C.
CURED on one of the cables in the ele-
vator shaft. which resulted in a burst
of flame and the sudden stoppage of
the elevator, which was on it's way
down. The lights also went out. In
the course of twenty minutes the car
was raised by hand, and all the pas
sengers liberated, there being little ex-
citement and no casualties. The short
circuit was caused by the curiosity of
rat. which had evidently heard the
joke about electric currents, and was
looking for them. She gnawed through
the lead and the insulation. and then
started in to eat the copper" At this
moment the short circuit occurred and
an impromptu electrocution was ac-
complished Apropos of feminine Gu
riosity a Western newspaper is re-
sponsible for the statement that a line
man. while recently inspecting a rural
telephone system in Adams county,
Illinois, entered the house of a sub
scriber, after knocking in vain, and
found the woman knitting in a rocking
chair, with the telephone receiver tied
to her ear.
DR.. Frank G. Aldrich, a London
physician, gives the following remark
able account of the amputation of q