The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Labor is higher in Cork than in any
other county in Ireland.
More than one-fourth of the inhabi-
tants of Newfoundland are engaged in
catching and curing fish for a liveli-
hood.
Not more than $500 persons in Paris
have capital of as much as 100000,
and nearly one-third of those are for
eigners.
1t requires the labor of about TO-
100000 men and women for nine months
of the year to harvest all the crops
Of the world
The growth of the nails is more
rapid in children than in adults, and
slowest in the aged. 1t goes on more
rapidly in summer than in winter.
"A prominent New York bookmak-
er. say the Paris papers. has ordered
an automobile capable of going 100
miles an hour. He is said to have
agreed to spend as much as 100000
to get such a machine.
I'm order to prevent the extinction
of the chamois in the Swiss Alps a
law has been passed in Grisonos, Swift
zerland, prohibiting the shooting of
chamois on the mountains. A real cha
mois skin is now. worth $50.
"A Brussels (Belgium) bank is US
ing six horsepower automobile for
collecting purposes. 1t is complete
ly closed in the rear, the only means
Of entering the car being through the
front, directly past the driver.
According to the official returns
there were 275 sugar mills in opera
ton in European Russia last year. The
beet crop of the country amounted to
nearly 5000, 900 tons, while the area I'M
der cultivation was 100000 acres.
Eagles have been noticed flying at
hight of 5000 feet, and storks and
buzzards at 1000 feet. A lark will rise
to the same hight, and so will crows.
AS a rule, however, birds do not fly
at greater hight than 1000 feet.
In regard to the gross income of
electric lighting plants the data show
that the private plants average 1853
per cent. of their cost and the munich
pals BIG. The average salary to Of
ficials and clerks is $3.50 per annum
for private plants and $432 per annum
for municipals.
In the time of King James I of
England rigid bankruptcy laws were
enacted and bankrupt might, unless
his inability to pay his debts arose from
some accidental cause, be set in the pill
lory for two hours, one Of his ears being
nailed to the pillory and cut off. This
law was repealed only in 1916.
Among working women Miss Alice
Dunlap, of Peru. Ind. occupies a uni
que position. For 80 years she has
been manager of the same telegraph
station at Peru. Previously she was
employed for five years in railroad
dispatch office. In her career Miss Dun
lap has sent and received 100000
! messages.
The recent International contest in
Ireland is said to have aroused I'M
usual interest in things automobiling
in the Emerald Isle. The Department
of Agriculture is endeavoring to pro-
mote the industry of manufacturing
alcohol from potatoes. in the belief that
| alcohol as a fuel will eventually dis
! place gasoline.
Returns made to the Commissioner
of Labor of the state of New York
covering BAG, 900 wage-earners show that
only 1880, or SIS per cent, were idle
| during the entire first quarter of the
current year, as contrasted with 81
! per cent. and 11.8 per cent. in the COR
| responding quarters of last year and
! the year preceding.
Last summer a nest of young owls
was taken by some English gamekeep-
ers and inclosed in a box, but was
| left where the old owls could bring
food to them. From June 25 to July
! % the following morsels were provided
| by the old owls for their offspring
! Thirty-seven rats, fifty-nine mice, 11S
moles, one sparrow, one partridge, one
| lark
Miles of subterranean corridor
| lined with tombs and cells were con-
structed years ago far below the mag
| nificent cathedral at KieV, Russia. In
these cells over 1900 ascetics perform
their daily devotions and duties-live,
! eat and sleep, in the grim company of
their dead predecessors. For a short
| time each day they ramble in the beau
| tiful gardens above.
A Paris sporting daily is promot-
| ing two automobile events-a Paris
st. Petersburg run and an Around
Europe" tour. These affairs will be
converted into races wherever the ne
| cessary permits can be secured, and
| mere commonplace pleasure jaunts
where racing is tabooed. May and
| June of next year have been selected
| for the running of these events.
1t was long before the French
farmer could be convinced that by the
| use of I1D-to-date methods of FILLING
the soil and harvesting the crops, the
| products of his land could be ma
terially increased. This change of ideas.
| in a great measure. is being accom-