The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

daily.
One of the most prominent OF oil
magnates in Los Angeles is woman,
who is said to control about half of the
whole product.
The royal commission which was
appointed to examine into the question
Of London street traffic has decided to
send a subcommittee to the United
States to study American systems of
transportation.
The Buddhists are building temples
in many parts of the Sandwich Islands,
and the membership is running into the
thousands. In some places churches
which were built for Christian Japa-
nese were taken over by Buddhists.
Women constitute nearly 80 per
cent. of all college students in the real
ly important colleges of the country,
and women graduates of these institu-
tons in the United States, both co-edu-
cational and womens colleges, number
about 10000.
Manchester has celebrated the CEN
tenary of John Dalton's atomic the
DRY. His table of ultimate atoms,
was formulated in September, 1903,
and while his atomic combining
weights remain, the ultimate atom"
has been exploded.
DIR. E. R. Tenney Of Kansas City,
who recently returned from the Philip
pines, describes the Sultan of Sulu as
not the sort Of potentate pictured in
comic opera. He is very ordinary in
dividual, and does about as all the rest
of the Sulus do. He is not man of
great strength of character, but pos
sesses craft and cunning.
Rev. DR.. Klyoshi Satoh, Japanese.
has been ordained a preacher of the
Universalist Church, and will shortly
proceed to his native land, there to
take up missionary work. The rever-
end gentleman is first of his race to be
ordained in this denomination. Part
of his study consisted of three-years'
course in Lombard College. He was
ordained in Boston.
"A bill was recently introduced in
the Illinois Legislature to prohibit the
game of football in the State University
and other institutions of learning sup
ported wholly or in part by the state.
The prohibition is made absolute by
the BILL and any breach of it is to be
characterized as a misdemeanor. the
maximum penalty being a fine of 500.
Not only are the students forbidden to
play the college game, but presidents
and faculties are forbidden to permit
it.
The PA wells completed in the Baku
(Russia) oil field show an average
depth of l.3O2 feet and an average ini-
tial production of 292 barrels per well
per day, against an average depth OF
1,O86 feet and an average production
per we'll per day of $50 barrels for the
1858 wells completed in 1901, indicating
a very material increase in the depth
of drilling and a not inconsiderable fall
ing off in the average productiveness
of the wells. Oil is worth at the wells
two-thirds Of a cent a gallon.
DIR. Nathaniel T. Palmer of Bruins
wick, with one exception, is the oldest
physician in Maine. The only ply
sician who has had longer term of
practice is DR.. Alonzo A. Garcelon of
Lewiston. He was born in Gardiner
On Feb. q, 1917, and has passed his
seth birthday. He has been sixty
founders of the Maine Medical Asso-
citation, and one of the organizers of
the First National Bank of Brunswick,
of which he has been president for
thirty-one years.
-Margery Rogers, the girl who had
the choice Of giving UP the stage or
FORGETTING 100000 bequest, has chosen
the stage. Jacob Rogers, the million
aire locomotive builder, who gave over
100000 to the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, made a stipulation that his
grandniece should forsake the stage
before receiving a cent of his money.
This was done before his death and
the girl told him that she would not
give up her profession for all his
money. So she was cut of. She is
only is, and hasn't even yet got an en-
gagement, vet she is satisfied and
hopes for, a career before the footlights.
She is favorite with Sir Thomas Lip
ton.
SO liberal has been the response to
the proposal to place a monument of
the late r. D. Blackmore, author of
Lorna Doone," in Exeter Cathedral.
that the committee is able to provide
a memorial more imposing than had
been anticipated. To a marble monu-
ment, with medallion head of the au-
thor, will be added a stained glass
Hath, Jonathan and Samson, as illus
trative of the virtues embodied in
much of Blackmore's work. Beneath
the respective figures will be scrolls
bearing the words, Courage and Per-
servance," Love and Tenderness" and
Strength and Patience"
The career of Sergius De Witte.
Russian Minister of Commerce and FL
nance, resembles that of numerous
Americans who have attained high
place in public or semi-public life
His parents emigrated from Germany
to Russia, which fact was not at all
in the young fellows favor. He Sc
cured lowly position in the freight
department Of a Russian railroad and
crept up slowly but steadily until at
40 he was director. His reports to
the government attracted attention in
st. Petersburg, and he was invited to
enter the Department of Finance. of
which he became chief in a few years.
One of his sayings Isl "Only death
can steal mans brain"
A writer in the Rappel of Paris
takes up the democratic reforms that.
according to the judgment of the
French Radical Socialists, ought to ac-
company the two years military sery-
ice. He suggests that the regimentaI
bands be done away with, and points
out that over 1900 men are needed
TO make music. He also calls the at
tention of the French Minister of War.
Gen. Andre, to the disproportionate
number of men drawn from the ranks
and practical service to act as order