The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A shell from a Pinch gun makes
its flight of nine miles in AZ seconds.
French is the language of more than
100000 of the S.5OO,OOO of Canadians.
The convicts in the Ohio peniten-
tiary now number 1,456, against 1855 in
hard times.
The banking capital of New York
city has been doubled within five years.
More than $40, 900, 900 worth of sport
ing good were sold in the United States
last year.
Our total trade with Alaska for
the fiscal year was: Imports. $1O,22s, =
900; exports, $9.497, 900.
The United States Treasury holds
three and nine-tenths as much gold
as the Bank of England
The suicide rate in the United
States has increased in ten years from
II to II per 100000 population.
The practice of cremation fakes
slow progress despite the considera-
ton in it's favor which can be urged.
Five hundred and sixty thousand
persons in the United States are de-
pendent upon the street cars for sup
port, ~.-
Commerce between the United
States and Russia during the last
fiscal year greatly surpassed that of
any previous year. -...-.--
TO 1aa in
troduced to the State General of Hol-
land this session is a bill providing
for rest on the Sabbath.
The Russian Emperor has ordered
his officers to send him photographs
of all the convicts who are sent to
Sachaliu, taken before they are sent
to the lead mines.
There are no restrictions on trade
in India, and there is no reason why
our exporters should not compete sue
cessfully with those of the United
Kingdom, especially in cotton goods
and all manufactures of iron and steel.
The only obstacle is the want of more
rapid transit for their goods and more
determined efforts to secure the bust
ness.
The production of butter in
Siberia is keeping pace with the de-
velopment of that part of Russra's
railroad or transportation facilities
Russian papers report an increase in
dairies from 140 in 1898 to 1,107 in 1900
and $500 in 1902. The butter exports
increased from 100000 pounds in 1898
to SO, 100. 900 in 1900 and 9O,2S0,0OO pounds
in 1902.
Prof. Koch, of Heidelberg, is the
only instructor at any German univer-
sity who lectures on journalism. He
has for several years delivered lee
lures on this subject at that univer-
sity. and has now been invited to re-
peat his course on the History, Ma
ture and Significance of Public Opin-
ion. the Press and Journalism in Ger
many" at Cologne.
"A report from the Osaka, Japan,
exposition. published in European
papers, says d Japenese has devised a
plan for the artificial production of
pearls. His method is to put grain
of sand or foreign substance forcibly
into pearl oysters, which he after
wards puts back in the beds. In this
way he gets pearls so like the natural
pearls that connoisseurs cannot tell
them apart. ~
i'm all the industrial schools of
France great stress is laid upon prac-t
tical instruction in workshops. These
workshops or laboratories, as the case
may be, are the counterparts of ma
chine shops and factories, so that the
pupil on leaving the school may enter
the ranks of the industrial army of
France trained and ready for active
work in various branches of in
dustry.
The new School of Mines at the
Birmingham England University is
to have a novel piece of scientific ap-
paratus in the shape of model mine
at BOurnbrook, about ten feet below
the surface, extending over about three
quarters of an acre. The passages will
be constructed of brick arching, and
will be lined. paved and finished so
as to resemble an actual mine in de-
tail. The mine will be laid out to il
lustrate the best ways of working coal
and methods of timbering and will al
so demonstrate the various systems of
underground haulage.
-Newtons law of gravitation, which
states that two bodies attract each
other with a. force inversely propor-
between them, has been made the sub
Ject of an exhaustive investigation
by Prof E. w. Brown, of Haverford
College, says the Scientific American,
Prof. Brown announces that his call
cUEations show that Newton's law
represent the motion of our moon to
within one-millionth of ! per cent.
and that no other physical law has
been expressed with anything like its
plain and simple statement. The witt
Messing of so simple a thing as the
fall of an apple from a tree led the
thoughtful mind of Newton to inves-
LEGATIONS and studies, resulting in the
statement above, which has enabled
the astronomer to measure and weigh
the heavenly bodies and to calculate
their orbits with a degree of certain
ly which seems marvellous when we
remember the vast distance which sep.
arates us from them. and know that
some OF them are not even visible
through the telescope, and are known
to exist only by the motion of visible
bodies which accompany them in their
movements.
With large share of the machin.
cry which is used in our manufacture
ing industries the builders furnish
special wrenches, which will only fit
nuts Aof a certain size and are intend
ed to be used in connection with the
one machine. These, of course. need
no adjusting to fit the nut, and, being
ready for instant use, are a great
convenience and save time for the
machinist But there are many in
stances in the everyday work of the
machiniSt, and some other cRasses of