The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-30

The only large cities that have not
a large German population are Boston,
with less than per cent. Germans, and
Washington, D. c., with Z per cent.
From a patch of land only thirty
feet wide and 200 feet long, Mr.. Jen-
ness of Portsmouth, N. H., raised 1,700
boxes of strawberries, which sold at
an average of 10 cents box.
The annual report of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, just issued.
shows SO,O0O,000 messages transmitted,
s29, 900 earned; net revenue, $S,OOO,-
900, and a surplus of $13,00O,OOO.
OF the 100000 men in Newfoundland
more than half are fishermen, who
catch $50, 100000 pounds of cod a year,
consume one-fourth of it and sell the
rest to Catholic countries for $780,
900.
The seacoast -defenses of the
United States are now more than half
completed. Twenty-Five harbors now
have a sufficient number of heavy guns
and mortars. The total cost of the en-
cheering work is estimated at $780,
600, 900.
ADULT 90y0UUsUUU nave dlItduy OGCh
paid in Spanish war pensions; the av-
erage yearly value of the Spanish war
pension is $1S7, and the average annual
value of all other pensions is 1913, and
304S09 applications for Spanish war
pensions await adjudication.
Records prove that the college man
at 80 is far in advance of the man of
the same age who entered by the APP
prentice door. Even at 80 it is shown
that four years spent at college were
not wasted, and that he really ac-
quired the ability to learn how to do
things.
The total production of pig iron in
Canada in 1902 from Canadian and
foreign ores amounted to S57, 1902 tons,
valued at $4,243545. of which it is es-
timated 1866 tons, valued at $1,043,-
OIL should be attributed to Canadian
ore and 2S6,23S tons, valued at $780,,
534 to the ore imported.
The Removal Society organized in
New York city is finding employment
and homes in different parts of the
country for Jews from the overcrowd-
ed ghetto. Last year the society sent
5000 persons to forty-five states and
OILY per C6Ills VI lIlSIIla oil llOW III
large cities and but l per cent. have
returned to New York.
Andrew Beard, a negro, who has
worked in the machine shops of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Com
pany, in Birmingham, Ala, for TWEEN
ty years, it is reported, has just sold
a patent for a car coupler of his own
invention, for 100000. In addition,
he is to get royalty on every coup
Ter made on his model for seventeen
years.
Congressman E. B. Taylor of
Warren, o., who succeeded James A.
Garfield as representative of the old
Nineteenth district in Congress on the
advance of the htter to the presidency,
has just completed the fifty-eighth year
of his practice of the law. 1t is said
that no other lawyer in Ohio is able
to show so many years of activity in
the profession.
-Ex-Gov. James P. Eagle of Ar
kansas was elected president of the
Baptist State Convention recently held
in Little Rock, a position which he has
filled for twenty-one successive years.
He was chosen by reclamation. The
convention was the f1fty-fifth annual
session of the association and there
We're over 1000 persons in attendance.
One pleasing incident was a reception
rendered to the venerable DR.. r. H.
Graves and his wife. DR.. Graves has
spent forty-seven years as a mission
airy in China.
A junior officer on the flagship
commanded by Admiral Fighting
Bob" Evans writes to friend, saying
that the chaplain on one or two oc-
casions took Evans to task because
of the profanity in which the latter so
frequently INDUCES. The Admiral took
these rebukeS good-naturedly, but did
not seem to have profited greatly there
by. One day the chaplain found him
reading the Sermon on the Mount"
and made this somewhat ungracious
comment: "Glad to see you doing that,
Admiral. 1 shall tell the men of it to
offset the oaths you utter" "All right,
chaplain" said the Admiral. "and while
you are about it tell them that my
profanity is like your piety-only skin
Deep"
Many years ago the oak fittings of
Winchester College, England, were sold
for less than $4,000 to a clergyman in
Cornwall. There were panellings, seats,
ly carved by the facetiously named
Grinling Gibbons. London Truth says
that this collection of priceless carv-
ing has now been sold for 500, 900 to a
Mr.. Cooper, who last year purchased
Hursley Park, the ancestral seat of the
Heathcotes, where it will find an appro-
pirate home. About the same time that
the college oak was sold, the Dean and
Chapter disposed of some of the cathe-
dral fittings, including the famous oak
throne erected by Bishop Trelawney.
This almost priceless treasure is also
supposed to be somewhere in Cornwall.
"A buffet made of oyster shells would
hardly appeal, it would seem, to the
average householder. and yet a resident
of Diamond street, near Sixteenth, has
an oyster shell buffet that his visitors
admire more heartily than any other
piece of furniture in his dwelling, says
the Philadelphia Record. This buffet
looks like mother f-pearl The shells
in it are BEAUTIFULLY polished, and what
gives the piece it's chief distinction is
the black spots, or eyes, upon each
she'll. These spots have an effect upon
the shells silvery, pearly surface that
is indescribably striking and harmoni-
GUS. The buffet was made by a cabinet
maker of Woodbury., N. ]. The shells
are set side by side in oxidized silver
and their background, or base, is black
walnut wood. 1t is doubtful if there
is another such piece of furniture as
this in existence.
In the early days of North Dakota
Senator Jud La Moure and Alexander
Mckenzie, the latter famous as the
most da ring shariff in x,,a,.-