The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-25

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in the British colonies is about H.
900, 900. They pay no imperial taxes
not even a part of the expense of the
great navy which protects them.
Venezuela will have coined at the
Philadelphia mint 100000 bolivars in
silver. A bolivar is worth 1873 cents
and its name is pronounced bo-lee-ver,
with the accent on the middle syllable.
The sugar beet belt extends from
the valley of the Hudson westward
through Southern Michigan and North
ern Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colora-
do and Utah to the Pacific slope in
California.
A statement just issued by the
United States Postoffice Department
shows that fifty-seven women are en-
ployed as regular carriers in the rural
free delivery service and 900 are on
the substitute list.
The German Portland cement
works have a capacity of z9,OO0,0OO
barrels a year, which is double the
home consumption. The United States
gets more than quarter of million
barrels of the excess.
Trains are running on the railway
from Mombassa, on the Indian ocean,
to Lake Victoria Nyanza, distance
of 54S miles. The road will make a
saving in transportation of Uganda
and East African protectorates of $780,
900 a year.
Carrying out its idea Of paying
nobody a profit" the Standard Oil
Company has stations Of its own in
all the important ports Of the world
and in many European cities delivers
'water-white" oil at the consumers
kitchen door.
Government insurance Of horses in
Bavaria is eminently satisfactory, as
shown by the first annual report of
the Royal Chamber of Insurance. The
government has conducted the bust
ness of insuring cattle and against fire
and hail for many years.
of the alphabet the letters most
frequently used out of every 1000 let
ters formed into words in daily use
are, first the letter E, which takes
the lead, occurring 1877 times; the next,
T. running So; o, IS; S, 70; I, II; r, 20;
NJ &c; H, 65; A, Ga, and L, 40.
Ohio having paid the last of her
debts July there are now six states
without outstanding obligations. They
are Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, New Jer-
sey, West Virginia and Ohio. The
debts of Delaware, Kansas, Michigan,
Nevada, South Dakota and Wyoming
are only nominal.
"A number of wealthy Virginians,
now living in st. Louis, have promised
to subscribe literally to the fund need
ed for a reproduction of Monticello at
the Virginia State Building at the
Worlds Fair. Citizens of Norfolk
and Richmond are warmly interested
in the project, and are contributing lib
orally. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee is now in st.
Louis looking after Virginia's inter-
ests.
The official designation Of the head
of the hierarchy of the Catholic church
is as follows: His holiness, the Pope,
bishop of Rome and vicar of Jesus
Christ, successor of st. Peter, prince
of the apostles, supreme pontin of
the Universal Church, patriarch of
the West, prirnate of Italy, archbishop
and metropolitan of the Roman prov
ince, sovereign of the temporal don1in-
ions of the holy Roman Church.
Among other British notables who
came over to see the big yacht races
is the Duke of Roxburgh, whose faith
err was a great admirer of American
enterprise. When the late duke met
James Russell Lowell, then United
States Minister in London, he embar-
raised the post diplomat by insisting
upon lending him a cook. You see,
sir" he explained, lit is only men of
good digestion who succeed in dip
lomacy, war or sport"
Since the assertion made by the
New Orleans Times Democrat that the
last three stanzas of the well-known
poem, High Tide at Gettysburg" were
added by an unknown hand after the
first publication of the poem, a great
number of letters of inquiry have been
sent to the author, Will H. Thompson.
To these, the Portland Oregonian an
nounces, Mr.. Thompson has replied
that the Southern journal was in error,
and that he wrote the whole poem.
All mills in Japan run day and
night. the change of hands being made
at noon and midnight. In one mill in
Osaka 1900 workers are under fifteen
years of age and operate only $500
spindles. In this county 800 persons
operate that number. In the Lowell
mill of 1000 looms and $4,000 spindles
there are 700 male and $500 female
operators. In Japan 1t would require
$4,000 persons to do this work. The
wages, however, in Japan are Is cents
per day for a man and 91s cents for
a woman.
John D. Crimmins, the New York
street railroad magnate, alighted from
car at Fifty-ninth street and Sixth
avenue few days ago. where a num-
Der of boys were playing. One of them
said, laughingly: Mr.. Crimmins, you
own lots of railroads; won't you give
us one?" The millionaire smiled at the
boys as they danced around him and
said to the lad who had addressed him:
you young rogue, this is not my day
for giving away railroads. Here's a
dime for you. It's more than had at
your age, and If you use it as 1 used
my first dime you may have a railroad
of your own some day.
The Crown Prince and Princess of
Greece were the other day the central
figures in a singular incident at the
theater of Phaleron, where they were
making a short stay. Their royal high
nesses were occupying a box in the
house during the performance of a
French operetta, when suddenly a
quietly dressed man entered and be-
gan furious TRADE against the Prin-
cess, whom he threatened to strike
The Crown Prince sprang to his feet
and first flung the intruder violently
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