The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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is considered the highest waterfall in
the world. 1t bears the Indian name
of Bassaseachic, and is located about
100 miles west of the city of Chihau-
hua, near the summit of the Sierra
Madre mountains. The elevation of the
mountain is $500 feet above sea level
The cascade falls 97S feet.
A few years ago it would have
seemed absurd to promise that the
great commercial ports of the world
could be made absolutely free from
danger of invasion by such epidemic
scourges as cholera and plague, but a
careful investigation of the elements
of danger and a rigid enforcement of
quarantine regulations have made all
our cities exempt from infection.
The largest pair of shoes ever
manufactured for actual wear has just
been forwarded to their destination by
firm of shoemakers at Rockland
Mass. The size is labeled '17," and
they are nearly sixteen inches long
Four common shoe boxes were requir-
ed for packing them-two for each
shoe. The buyer is Harvey Murray, a
negro, working in sawmill at Tirrell,
Ark.
Senator Spooner of Wisconsin, has
bought on private terms the great
Blanchard estate, which includes prac-
tically the whole town of Pittsburg,
the most northern town of New Hamp
shire, which, it is understood, he will
turn into a game preserve. Much of
the property is in it's natural state and
is ideally located for preserve pur-
poses, and added value comes from its
in accessibility, practically absolute
privacy being there assured.
Experiments of great scientific in
terest are being conducted by the silk
producers of Lyons. The object in view
is to obtain silks already colored from
the body of the silkworm. AS a first
| essay mulberry leaves were treated
with neutral red of antidotolaine, with
methylene blue, and with picric acid.
The worms readily ate the leaves so
treated and began to show correspond
ing colors in their own bodies. They
| also yielded red and blue silks, while
those fed on the leaves treated with
picric acid gave white or orange-tinted
silk.
Several -four mills are now in oper-
alton at Hardin, Manchuria, where a
fine quality of wheat can be purchased
at 30 cents per bushel. 1t is one of the
best wheat-growing sections of the
world. United States newspapers state
that the northwestern part of our coun-
try can produce wheat and flour and
ship them 150G miles to Siberia at a
profit. If excellent native wheat can
be delivered in large quantities at Har-
bin for 80 cents per bushel with an
cient methods and machinery, what
dnno in
cry is introduced?
Clocks are all right in their
place." said the doctor, according to
the Philadelphia Record but 1
wouldn't have one in my office. Have
you ever noticed that few doctors who
have large office practices do have
them around? It's a fact, 1 assure
you, and of course there's a reason
for it, Occasionally you'll see hand
some timepiece, but generally it isn't
running. 1t is purely an ornament.
The why and wherefore of this state
of affairs is simple enough. If l have
roomful of patients waiting, the late
arrivals are discouraged to see how
many are ahead of them, but they
think to themselves that perhaps 1t
won't be so long after all, and they
sit down. Now If there was a clock
staring IneIIl III the lace lHSN WOuIu
watch the time, fidget about in their
chairs, and eventually go out whereas
in the absence of a clock they don't
know what time it is and remain. OF
course, most men carry watches, but
then only about rs per cent of the
doctors patients are men,"
Have you ever noticed how the
individual mugs are disappearing from
man, according to the Philadelphia
Record. 1T used to be that every regu-
lar patron of a shop would would have
his own cup brush, soap and bottle of
bay rum, embellished with his name or
initials, sometimes even with his pic
ture. In the older shops some of them
still remain, but the average run of
customers are now satisfied to have
their lather mixed in the common cup
used by the barber and applied with
the common brush. l spoke to a bar
Der about this the other day and he
said he didn't have half a dozen in
dividual mugs in his place. The cup
that is used for all-comers, he told
me, is cleaner than one that is put
away on a shelf with a brush and a
cake of soap in it, for it is thoroughly
cleansed, after each shaving, and the
brush doesn't have a chance to get
under the old order of things. Still.
the old system of supplying cups used
to be quite source of revenue to the
barber, and l can't exactly see why
from his point of view he should have
given it up."
In a discussion of municipal So
cialism the Liverpool Daily Post uses
some interesting facts from the expert
ence of English towns, which may be
tersely stated. Bath owns its hot
springs and has extended the grand
pump room at a cost of $150,0O0 Har-
rogate draws large income as proprie-
tor of baths, gardens and theaters.
bennington owns baths and a pump
room. Southport draws SIT, 500 a wear
from pleasure boats, toboggan and ''ae-
rial flights" Brighton owns a pavil-
ion and an Aquarium. Nottingham.
Birmingham and Wolverhampton clear
altogether S1S9,500 a year cultivating
sewage farms. Colchester owns an
oyster fishery. Bradford operates a
hotel. Plymouth owns theater and
hotel, Birkenhead maintains ferry
steamers to Liverpool at a profit of
$4,000 year York owns the Foss
canal, and Manchester, with sos. O00-
600 stock, is the principal owner of it's
ship canal. Bradford has wool-test
ing machinery. Leicester LIVERPOOL
ana Bradford manufacture stone from
cllnker. Towns, 22S in number, net So
10000 per annum from. markets. and
Dancester Chester and Lincoln own
race courses.
One would scarcely think that tbo