The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

money,
"A proportion of 7.19 per 1000 of
French ,conscripts have been exempted
from military service from 1850 to 1900.
Newspapers from Denmark to the
Russian provinces must in future all
go to St. Petersburg to pass the censor.
Though more populous than this
country, the Russian empire has only
800 newspapers. The number in this
country is $4,000.
A commercial agent of the Japan
csc government is in California to make
an experiment in shipping California
| oranges to Japan.
The Lieutenant Governor of Cochin
China has made rule that officials ad-
dicted to opium smoking shall be sent
back to France.
One of the rarest and most ex-
pensive. of gold fishes is the brushtaiL
pair of which Sell for e20O. Probably
| there is no other living thing of its
size and weight that is worth so much
money.
-Labor-saving machinery is in gen.
eral use by the agricultural and man.
ufacturing interests of Manitoba. The
best of modern machinery is in de-
mand and all conditions are favorable
to its profitable use.
-Tellurium, which has been known
as a primitive element for more than
a century, and selenium, which is of
more recent discovery, are distinguish
ed in metallurgy as metals which COM
bine chemically with gold.
Travelling agents are required to
pay an annual trade tax of 100 crowns
($42. SS). in Denmark. In case the agent
represents several houses he is required
to pay the above full amount for the
first house and half that sum for each
of the other houses.
The most valuable book ever pub
lished by private citizen was proba-
bly, the catalogue of the Waters col
lection of pictures and ceramics in
Baltimore. Only 100 copies were pub
lished, which were presented to the
great libraries and museums of the
world This small edition cost more
than 100000.
The Department of Commerce and
Labor is in receipt of information from
the royal italian embassy to the effect
that tenders are being asked for in
connection with the building of the
Pugliese aqueduct. The work is to cost
about $4,000, 900 and is to be finished in
ten years from date of concession. The
concession is for ninety years.
The new law removing nearly 60
per cent. of the customs and internal
revenue tax on sugar went into effect
on Sept. l, 1903. White cut loaf was
generally reduced from 1.05 francs to
| s., confines per kilogram (about Ga
| cents per pound, and white granulated
from l franc to 60 centimes per kilo-
gram (about SIS cents per pound.
There is probably no American in
dustry better exploited abroad than
that of agricultural implements and
machinery AS a consequence there is
an important foreign trade in, these
products. OF the $1S,000,000 worth OF
farming implements exported from the
| United States in 1902, SO, 1851 600 were
sent to Europe, OF these $2,0O0,000 were
received in France. -
F-Eastern Siberia offers an enormous
| field for iron and steel ware for build
ing purposes; also for tools, etc., for
carpenters and locksmiths. These lines
are largely in the hands of Germans.
There is also a large demand for guns
and hunting material. The United
States, by establishing a base of sup
ply, leads all others in this line. The
buyer in these far-off- parts never
bothers much about catalogues, partic-
ularly when. he can get his hands or
eyes on the object to be purchased.
He prefers to pick from a large assort-
ment and is willing to pay the price
demanded, even though it is high.
A young English army officer has
written a book. based on actual obsar-
walton, in which the rumored cruelties
on the natives of the Congo Free State
are shown to be real. 1t has shocked
all England, and that country has
taken official action to have the out
RACES stopped. The English Minister
to Belgium has handed to the Belgian
Foreign Minister copy of a note adj
dressed to the Powers that signed the
Berlin act. by which the Free State
was given international recognition
and the dominion of Belgium confirmed
so long as the safety and well-being
of the natives were conserved. The
signatores of the act have the right
10 see Ildt the promises HlduS w Del
GUM are strictly kept.
In CIerkenwell, England, there is a
street called "Pickled Egg walk" 1t
takes it's name from Picked Egg Tav-
ern, which formerly stood there and
made a speciality of serving picked
eggs. An interesting Londol thorough
fare is Hanging Sword alley which
| is mentioned in Dickens Tale of Two
Cities" London has also "Pickleher-
ring street." In Leicester is street
called 1.-THE Holy Bones" and another
called "Gallows Tree Gate" Hull has
a street with the extraordinary name,
THE Land of Green Ginger" Corydon
has a street named Pump Pall' and
there some years ago lived Peter Pot
tie, a dealer in furniture. The most
daring of farce writer's might well have
hesitated to invent a combination OF
name and address So improbable as
that which really belonged to Peter
Pottle of Pump Pail.
Lord Salisbury was one of the few
men whose statues were raised during
their lifetime. In the chapel of All
Saints College, oxford, his eff1gy de-
picts him as a SANTA Christian war
rior in armor. Forty-odd years ago,
when he was elected fellow of the col
lege, a reredos was being set UP in the
chapel, the inches being filled with fig
ures of apostles and martyrs. Pos
sibly the sculptor thought it would be
easier to carve representations of real
faces than of imaginary ones and so
he included Lord Salisbury among
+ them. At Ethan, near FOlkestone,
England, also, there is a stained-glass
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