The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13
gums, 100000, etc.
Statistics compiled by The

colleges and universities show a total
number of $50 active chapters and a
membership of 1872, 1854. The oldest OF
the fraternities is the Alpha Delta
Phi, which was founded at Hamilton
College, this state, in 1892. The list
does not include the Phi Beta Kappa,
the graduate fraternity, whose first
chapter was organized at William and
Mary College, Williamsburg, Va, in
1875, and which has now fifty-three
chapters and membership of over
IL, 900 surviving.
As is generally known. the cuckoo
lays it's eggs in the nests of other birds,
leaving them to be Matched and the
young cuckoo reared by their foster
parents. The young cuckoo throws the
other birds out of the nests and gets
all the care itself After numbering its
foster brothers and sisters in the most
deliberate and callous way it is thence
forth tended with the greatest devo-
ton. Long after it has left the nest
the great bird, apparently big enough
to get it's own living and many times
larger than its foster parents, is fol-
lowed about and fed by them with the
same care as when in the nest.
The Chamber of Commerce of Es-
sen, Germany, has just published an
Interesting memorial on the influence
of protective tariffs on wages and on
the conditions of the working classes.
Referring to the district of Essen, the
chamber establishes the fact that the
average wages, which were $3.50 marks
90 cents) in 1871, were 3.S9 marks (93
cents in 1875, but went backward till
they descended to $50 marks 90 cents)
again. In 1879 system truly protec-
- hot
time on wages went up from 1851 marks
(S5 cents) in 1882, to 81 marks (S8
cents in 1888, '4.06 marks (97 cents) in
1892, 40 marks COS cents) in 1895, and
AIS marks Q.14 in 1900.
An extraordinary take of mackerel
occurred at Folkestone the other day.
1t was during a heavy sea in the Eng
lish channel, so heavy that many of
the nets had to be cut away in order to
save the overladen boats Three
smacks got $4,000 mackerel, one having
to it's own share 10000, and six others
was disposed of partly by being sent
to London and Paris in ice and partly
by being retailed on the street. the
price being $144 for 100 and sixteen and
eighteen for "a cents. Almost at the
same time Scottish fishing boats were
achieving a remarkable catch of her
ring off the coast of SCARBOROUGH,
which has given employment to the
troops of Scotch fishergirls who follow
the boats at this season of the year.
The cavern rat. found in the Mann
moth Gave of Kentucky, is of a soft,
blush color. with white neck and feet.
1t has enormous eyes, black as night,
but quite unprovided with iris. These
eyes are perfectly insensible to light
and when the experiment has been
made of catching a cavern rat and
turning it loose in bright sunlight it
plumbers about, striking itself against
everything, is unable to provide itself
with food and finally falls down and
dies. In its native depths, however, it
is able to lead a comfortable enough
existence, as it's enormously long whis-
kers are so extremely sensitive that
they enable it to find it's way rapidly
through the darkness. The principal
food of the cavern rat consists of a
kind of large cricket of a pale yellow
color and. like most other cave dwell
ers, itself perfectly blind.