The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


drunkards" published in London un-
der the new licensing act contains the
names of three times as many women
as men.
"A model for a proposed statue of
Kosciusko at Chicago has been re-
jected by the municipal Art Commits
sion on the ground that the horse is
too frisky.
The graduates of McGill Univer-
sity have undertaken to erect on the
campus a recreation building, to cost
over 500, 900, in connection with the
seVenty-nfth anniversary of the insu-
tuition, which will come next year.
The United States has the highest
murder rate of any country in the
world. 1t would be interesting if
some expert mathematician would
compute the number of columns the
American newspapers give up to these
grewsome murders in the course of
year.
Ever since Frederick the Great,
the house of Hohenzollern has been
CONSPICUOUS for it's devotion to music.
The latest instance is Prince Joachim
AlDIGCHl Oh EIuSSlds Tie SSNOlAQ Sun VI
the regent of Brunswick, who has just
completed the music for a spectacular
ballet entitled THE Miracle of
Spring"
The most hazardous part of the
work on the Manila telegraph cable is
that completed between San Francisco
and Honolulu, in which the sea bed is
precipitous, with valleys $1,000 feet
deep. The next two sections will lead
acros plains of mud at depth of 49,
900 feet, while the last section will be
laid over a series of mountains.
The thoroughness with which the
agricultural schools of the Western
states are going into the education of
farmers is illustrated by the an
nouncement that the Iowa State Agrl-
cultural College has just established
a course of instruction in the Slaugh-
tering of live stock 1t is a laboratory
course, and the young farmers VIII
learn the art by practical instruction.
There are sixty-three committees
in the House of Representatives at
Washington, and only one of them
was entirely exempt from the effects
of last falls election. That is the
Committee on Expenditures in the
Treasury Department, of which Mr..
Cousins of Iowa is chairman. Every
other committee lost from one to five
members through defeat in convention
or at the polls.
-Hoeritz, a Bohemian forest village
which rivals Oberammergau in
small way is to give the Passion play
next summer for the first time in five
hn oil Of fhnCa
says the circular sent out, 'is the
keeping of an old popular pledge, and
it is also for the alienation of the
poverty of the inhabitants of the Ger
man Bohemian forest" The plays will
be given on Sundays and holidays
from June till September.
The first bill vetoed by Governor
Bachelor, of New Hampshire, is that
providing an appropriation of $4,000
TO found a State sanatorium for con-
sumptives. The Governors reasons
are substantially these: That tuber-
culosis is decreasing in New Hamp-
shire; that the projects for curing the
disease in that climate are largely eX-
perimental and that the state should
not at present make such provision for
the care of one class of sufferers.
"A Turkish ministerial portfolio is
a sort of gold mine to the holder. 1t
is not The vezier, however, who holds
the richest claim, though his salary is
$66, 400 a year, which is also that of
the Y. ii Minister. The plum" of
Turkish officials is the admiralty,
which is worth $S4, 900 a year, and the
present holder is stated to have
amassed a fortune of $12,0O0,O00. The
Minister If Foreign Affairs has S44,-
O0n. and the Minister of Finance comes
next, with thousand less.
The annual report of the Leipsic
Chamber of Commerce says in general
of the business of Germany in the year
1902 that while a few branches of man
ufacture and trade experienced a par
tial recovery, the year as a whole
belonged to the period of overproduc-
ton, collapse and panic that began in
the summer of 1900, and has entailed
the fatal condition which still exists,
viz, prices of food and raw materials
which are above all logical relation
to the market values of finished pro-
ducts.
-Viscount Tadasu Hayashi, Japa-
nese ambassador at London, was re-
Gently initiated into Freemasonry at
the Empire Lodge. The ceremony was
a unique and interesting performance,
inasmuch as he is not only the first
foreign ambassador to be initiated in
an English lodge, but he is believed
to be the first of his countrymen, who
are mostly Shintoists or Buddhists, to
be instructed in the arts and mysteries
of the craft. Although there are two
lodges in Yokohama, one in Toxic and
one in Yeddo, they are all under the
Grand Lodge of England, and all the
members are British.
The United Statea geological sur
vey has recently issued the Peters
burg and Degonia sheets, two topo-
graphic maps covering a large section
of Southwestern Indiana. Aside from
their value as maps they are of partic-
ular interest by reason of the fact
that they show portions of the old
Wabash and Erie Canal, which the
surveyors and engineers engaged in
the work were able to locate during
the survey of this part of Indiana
During the early days of the Republic
this canal was looked upon as a great
feat of engineering, and was the pride
of every resident of the Middle West.
The zealots of the White Rose are
not likely to find themselves without
an object for their misplaced enthusi-
asm, for the house of Stuart seems
unlikely to die out for many genera
lions to come. Princess Louise of Ba-
Varia, who celebrated the thirty-fifth
anniversary of her wedding a few
weeks ago, and who, quite against heI
I s11 49, 1se.4