The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


negotiating for its purchase with the
Viennese company owning it.
1t is not generally known that the
jackal is a greater destroyer of hui
manity in India than the tiger. Sta
tistics published by the government
of India show that while S2S persons
were killed by tigers more than 1000
children were carried away by jackals.
Electric anaesthesia proves valu-
able in surgery, as we'll as in dental
operations. By high-frequency alter
mating currents a French surgeon has
produced insensibility so lasting that
a serious and difficult operation was
performed, the patient feeling nothing.
About five years ago a Maine wom-
an, taking a consumptive husband to
the mountains of Arizona, was shown
an abandoned claim by her Indian
servant. She took it, with great diffi-
Guilty secured $500 to work it, and be-
fore the year was out sold it for $780,
600 and a life interest.
According to the latest taxation re-
ports the number of Prussian million
aires has increased from 6,O16 in 1899
to 6,601 in 1902, or 81 per cent. But
they are millionaires in marks, a mil
lion marks being little more than q
quarter of a million dollars. Only
791 are millionaires in dollars and but
two are worth as much as $25,000,00
"A newly patented German process
of giving relief to ornaments and VEIN
ing on wood consists in gluing strips
of paper over the parts to be raised,
and then dabbing the entire surface
vertically with bundles of fine steel
wire. The softer parts of the wood
come out as dust, while the protected
places and the hard annual rings re-
main unaffected.
In spite of M. de Whites denials, it
is authoritatively announced from
Brussels that negotiations are pend
ing between the Russian government
and the Franco-Belgian banking syn
dictate concerning a new great Chinese
loan, to be guaranteed by Russia. The
loan will be issued in May, and is to
be used for the construction of new
railway lines in Manchuria.
An amusing feature of the present
controversy concerning the metric sys-
tenn, in which one party holds to the
yard and pound as consecrated An
glo-SaXon standards, is that the
United States Fundamental legal
standards of length and mass are the
meter and kilogran, respectively, and
not the yard and pound. The yard is
legally expressed as the 3,600-3, 937th
part of a meter.
"A Milwaukee woman is nothing If
not patriotic and has just ladened her
thirteenth child with the musical name
Of Theodore Roosevelt Henry Clay
Payne Bradenburg. The youth was
born on st. Valentines day, and 1t was
at first decided to name him Rubley ST.
Valentine, but then the President and
race suicide came up, so Mr.. Roosevelt
and Secretary Payne were honored and
sent photographs.
AT the recent corn carnival at Peo-
ria, Mo-, there were on exhibition an
apple of the pippin variety and an ear
of ordinary yellow corn, the former
Weighing six pounds and about the size
of an average watermelon, while the
latter measured fourteen inches in
length, contained 947 grains by actual
count, was two inches In diameter, six
inches in circumference, and was picked
from it's stalk nine feet from the
ground.
The extra good women of the Sew
enth Day Baptist Church at Marlboro,
N. J., are much disturbed because their
hens insisted on breaking the Sabbath
by laying eggs. The hens have been
constantly demonstrated with, but have
paid no attention to the New Jersey
blue laws. Now the women have taken
matters into their own hands and de-
cided to sell all irreligious eggs and de-
vote the proceeds to the church treas
ury.
An improved machine for sealing
envelopes has been invented by a man
in Topeka, Kan. I'm operation" says
the Scientific American, 1.-The envelopes
are fed into the machine, the flaps
moistened, turned, and finally pressed
tightly to sealing position. The ma
chine, it is claimed, will seal from 5000
to $1,000 envelopes an hour of an ordi-
nary bulk, mixed sizes, and especially
adjusted will seal at about the same
rate up to one-half inch in thickness.
The Italian brigand Nicola Nora,
who 'Ias condemned at Benevento to
fourteen years penal servitude, has
been transferred to the Santa Teresa
Prison in Florence. At the station of
Benevento, just as Nora was being
led to the compartment of the train
reserved for him, he caught sight of
the lawyer who had acted as public
prosecutor in his case, and was with
difficulty restrained from attacking
him. Nora is rs years old and has
passed fifty years of his life in prison.
London municipal returns for the
week ending April 1 show that there
were 2,525 births and 1.461 deaths-in-
Guiding seventy-four from measles,
five from scarlet fever, twenty-seven
from diphtheria, and forty-six from
whooping cough, (there were fifty
eight cases)-whieh is twenty below
the weekly average. Allowing for the
increase of the population, the births
were forty-nine and the deaths were
800 below the average numbers in the
corresponding weeks of the last ten
years.
Copenhagen, the capital of Den
mark, has just elected Socialist may
or. He is a working painter named Jen-
sen, who has been for some time presi- |
dent of the Denmark trades unions
After his election he was met outside
the town hall by a procession of over
1000 Socialists, with torches and bands |
They conducted him through the
crowded streets. which were lined with
cheering masses of workingmen, to the
Peoples Hall, where a fete on a large
scale was held. Mayor Jensen is the
first Socialist to gain such high honor
in Denmark.
1t is reported from st. Petersburg
that, in consequence of the differ