The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| lN-HNe years. fOsvVV AAOtliGlCoo
have been sent from Great Britain to
| Canada, where they were comfortably
| and happily provided for.
The claim recently made by an ex-
pert of the Agricultural Department
that the hen, and not the eagle, is the
| Great American Bird, is backed up by
| the fact that the eggs produced in this
| country in a single year have market
value of $25O,000.000.
People who are not in the habit of
following the course of trade, and COM
pairing figures, will be surprised to
learn that the export of apples from
this continent to Europe has, within
| five years, increased from Is, 900 to more
than a million and half barrels.
A leading New England railroad
has lately issued an order prohibiting
it's baggagemen and other steam en-
ployeS from receiving tips" The
| president of the road explains the or
der by saying that the management
| desires all its patrons to receive equal
| service, without discrimination of any
kind, and that this is impossible so
long as the practice of tipping" con-
tinues.
The most valuable book in the
world is in possession Of the Univer-
sity of Upsala, Sweden. 1t is the
! translation of the four Gospels into
| ancient Gothic, made more than $500
years ago by Bishop Ulphilas. 1t is
| kept in a steel Safe by night, and eX-
hibited to the public daily from IL
till 2 o'clock. No visitor is left alone
with the priceless volume for single
| instant.
Sir Robert Giffen estimates the an
nual income of all the people of India as
&46S. 100000. AS the population is about
1000, 900, this estimate makes their
| average earnings $3.50 cents a year, or
only II cents q day. But it should
be borne in mind that the population
is almost altogether agricultural, and
that it is supported by the products
of the soil, with little need for cloth
ing or fuel.
-"Chief Dairymaid to the King is
the official title of Miss Mary Childs,
a pretty young woman, who has Just
been installed in King Edwards home
farm at Windsor. The position is by
no means sinecure. for the chief
dairymaid must supervise the butter
and cheese making industry under
royal patronage. Her principal duty is
to serve up for the royal table two
pounds of butter every morning and
supplies of cream cheese and thick
| cream as needed
Paris has a dog cemetery on an
| island in the Seine. A plain grave
without a headstone may be had for
81 and the body is removed on a lit
tie wagon for a similar sum. The
graves are leased, not sold. The charge
for five years lease is IS, for ten $40,
for twenty SIS and for thirty 500. Very
stringent rules forbid the use of cere-
monies or decorations such as are used
at funerals. No cross may be erected
over an animal or bird, for all pets
may be inferred here. The inscriptions
are of curious and exaggerated sem
timentality. lola Dorian, the author,
says on her pets tombstone that if
she cannot accompany the dear and
noble animals she does not wish for
heaven" and on "Follettes" grave a
mourner has placed these words: my
dear Toilette, thou who vert always
faithful and intelligent, we regret
thee much; repose in peace" Near the
entrance to the cemetery stands a row
Of battered stones from graves the
leases of which have expired.
w. E. Shaw, Of Brool1line, gave an
electrical party" the other night, the
feature of which was the exhibition
of an electric clock for blind and deaf
mutes, says the New York Tribune.
Mr.. Shaw is deaf and dumb, and he
was assisted in demonstrating the
workings of his invention by Tommy"
Stringer, blind. deaf and dumb, who
is making great progress in the
sciences. The clock tells the time and
alarms the sleeper by agitating a lever
which is connected by a string to a
pillow, causing the pillow to move up
and down, the vibrations being COM
municated to the sleeper by touch. A
circuit is closed by which an electric
current is sent through a small in
eandescent lamp in front of parabolic
mirror the rays of which are thrown
into the face of the sleeper. 1t releases
spring connected with a hammer
which falls upon a Illuminating cap, the
loud explosion of which at close quar-
tiers is perceptible to a deaf person.
1t would seem to fill the bill as an
alarm clock which would rouse the
heaviest sleeping commuter.
Maj. Powel-Cotton, the African
explorer, writes: I'VE left the Tarash
valley and struck in a northwestern
direction to the foot of a range of
hills, along which were many brack-
lsh pools surrounded by vivid green
SidSS ana Win quite a number of
ducks swimming on the surface Now.
IN all my journeyings through elephant
country do not think l had ever come
across a skeleton of one of those
beasts for whose death the guides
could not account and on no occasion
did ever see two skeletons together
Here l was surprised to find the whole
countryside studded, with remains. I
thought at first that some fell disease
had attacked a vast herd, but on
questioning my guide he said: oh. no
this is the place where the elephants
come to die. We often come here to
pick up the ivory 1 had heard of
places like this from the Swahili trad
ers. One man in particular had told
me that far away to the east of Lake
Rudolph he had come upon one of
these elephant cemeteries and in
few days had collected moreivory than
his caravan could carry; but 1 had
always regarded these stories as ia
bles till here under my own eyes was
the proof of their TRUTH
There are ninety-five vacancies in
the grade of second lieutenant of the
army, of which fifty-five are in the
infantry, twenty-five in the artillery
and eighteen in the cavalry. OF these
vacancies 20