The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The blank cartridge which caused
over 400 deaths from lockjaw in July
are made by four American and one
Canadian manufacturer.
The deaths from consumption in
New York have decreased 40 per cent
since the health department began it's
crusade against the disease two years
ago.
1t would take the entire popula-
ton of the United States to shell the
corn crop by hand. The steam shelter
will shell bushel of corn a minute
while the most practiced hand would
occupy and hour and a half to the
bushel.
The number of theological stu
dents has been reduced one-third at
Princeton; at Andover it has been re-
duced from 100 to 15 Formerly a
Yale class Of 300 would graduate six
ty ministers, but last year it turned
out only four.
The total number of employees of
all the corporations is 100000, and they
receive in wages nearly 5000, 900, 900. The
employees of these combinations num-
Der only per cent. of all employees in
would be possible.
The cotton crop of Alabama, Ar
kansas and South Carolina is about
100000 bales, worth $50 each. Georgia
and Mississippi produce 100000 bales
and Texas 2,400,00 bales. More than
half the cotton is now produced west
of the Mississippi river.
The latest addition to the German
language is the word ''knusperchen,"
meaning little thing that can be nib
bled. This is the word that has just
taken the prize offered by some Ger
man educational society for the best
translation of the noun cake
In Australia, under a new law, no
contract can be made for the carrying
of mails by any steamship line which
allows a, colored man to work on any
of the ships. The mail steamers hith-
erto have been largely manned by
dark-skinned British subjects from In
dia.
Let our arithmetics apply addition,
subtraction, percentage and common
fractions to agricultural problems and
the farm boy will see the need of edu-
cation as a preparation for his own
life work. AT present, however, the
entire curriculum leads away from the
farm.
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 municl-
pals average 31.6 The average salary
to officials and clerks is $3.50 per an
for 70 Y01o &c nd
annum for municipals.
Scotland has an area of 1902, 4S2
acres, of which 4,S94466 acres are I'M
der cultivation; 112 persons own one
half of the total area and eighteen per-
sons own one-fourth of it. One-fourth
of the tenants hold five acres or less
and nearly one-third hold between
five and twenty acres.
Animals have a language made up
of signs or inarticulate sounds express
ing impressions, sensations, passions,
but never ideas. So this language ex-
cludes conversation and is limited to
intersections or signs or movements ex-
pressing joy, grief, fear, anger, all the
passions of the senses, but never more.
Tobacco is both cultivated and con-
sumed on a large scale in Japan. The
plant was introduced by the Portuguese
in the seventeenth century, and the
trade in it is government monopoly.
Tobacco is almost universally used in
a small pipe. While cigarettes are
manufactured in large quantities they
are nearly all exported.
The Lutheran Church ranks first
AMONG Protestant demon nations in the
United States, having 1900 congrega-
tons and a membership of 100000,
forty-eight theological seminaries, for
ty-three colleges. fifty academies, ten
young ladies' seminaries, twenty-five
hospitals, fifty-two orphan asylums,
twenty homes for the aged and eight
deaconess houses.
when a man sneezes heartily he
may know himself to be healthy. No
person in poor health ever sneezes,"
says the eminent doctor. Sir iona han
Hutchinson. This statement will be
challenged by those familiar with the
plague, who know that hearty sneeZ-
ing is its first symptom. Everyone
knows that a series of sneezes comes in
the first stage of catching cold and that
the hay-fever victim sneezes to his
Products of agriculture have al
ways formed the largest share of our
exports. In 1880 they formed So per
cent. of the total exports, and manu-
features formed but IL per cent. of the
total. In 1900 agricultural products
formed but 81 per cent. of the total,
while manufactures had SO increased
that they formed 81 per cent. of the
total. The expectation of agricultural
products has increased less than 40
per cent. since 1880, while that of man.
ufactures has increased 300 per cent
in that time.
I'm the water fishes see only at very
close range-about half their own
length. This will seem, perhaps. I'M
likely to anglers, although some of
them can cite instances showing that
FISH cannot see far. Snakes seem to
have very mediocre sense of sight.
The boa, for instance, does not see at
more than a quarter or third of it's
own length. Different species are
limited to one-fifth or one-eighth of
their length. Frogs are better off;
they see at fifteen to twenty times their
length.
Gilman Lowe, a New York athlete,
lifted 1,OO6,O0O pounds in "a minutes and
35 seconds. The scale was so arranged
as to bring the arm, leg and back
muscles into play. Each lift of the
beam under which he stopped raised
1000 pounds of dead weight. During
the two months training Mr.. Lowe
lived on only one meal daily, consisting
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