The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


in Paris the other day. He said the
words had been there sine he was a
child, and had exercised an 'unholy
spelP' on him ever since.
The street tramways of the City
of Mexico, which began only few
years ago as a few independent mule
lines, now form one electric system
with modern equipment. There are
100 miles of lines, and the service com
prises GOA cars; $500 horsepower is
required to work the system.
The new method for sewage dis
posal by bacterial treatment in sep
tic tank Is not altogether free from
danger. In this process the sewage is
stored in closed tanks for a variable
period, during which time it is acted
upon and dissolved by the agency of
the bacteria present. Probably marsh
gas and other gases are generated;
Which become explosive when mixed
with oxygen and fired.
Chain Tin Sin, of San Francisco,
who returned to China with his family.
was one of San Francisco's interesting
characters. He landed before the days
of the exclusion act big, rawboned
cody. He leaves now with his white
in American gold and securities. He
has been a miner, cook, gambler and
merchant, and was successful IN every
thing he undertook.
in parishes where the population can
not sustain a church school the chill
dren of Catholic families attend the
common schools, under an arrangement
with the educational authorities that
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the regular school hours. After the
school is dismissed the children may be
taught religion by members of any
denomination who desire to use the
school houses for that purpose. but at
tendance is voluntary. That is the
Faribault plan, which was introduced
in 1892 at the town of that name, and
has since been extended very general
ly throughout the Northwest.
Much interest has lately been
aroused in London by two surgical OPP
erations which have resulted in a mark
ed change of character in the patients.
One was that of boy of good family
who had developed strangely brutal
instincts. A clever surgeon examined
him with care, located what he consid-
cred the seat of the trouble, removed
a piece of the skull. and thus relieved
the defOrming pressure. The lad was
restored to his parents a normal and
lovable child. The other case was that
of a soldier who. after an injury in a
skirmiSh, developed a propensity for
theft. An operation on the brain cured
him.
One in every thirty-six of the males
over Is years of age in Great Britain
is a seaman in the mercantile marine
or a fisherman. That by no means
represents the proportion of Britons
who go to sea in ships. For the cur
rent year the total number of officers
and men, active service ratings pro-
vided by the estimates of 1900 over
the previous year. Taking the two to-
tails this means that one in about every
twenty Britons is a sailor, which is an
enormously larger percentage than
that which any other nation can boast,
even with the CONSUMPTION which sup
plies the seamen of several continen-
tai countries.
DR.. Thomas March Clark, who has
been the Protestant Episcopal bishop
of Rhode Island since 1854. and is the
pres ding bishop of that church in the
United States, is coming near in length
e.. years to the record of Leo XIII.
Rlst op Clark entered his ninety second
year last Saturday, and, du. ing its
daylight hours he sat on the Verlnda
OF lis cottage and there received con-
gratuIatcry letters and kilograms. He
was spaled the fatigue of any formal
observance of the anniversary. Age
has not IoT bed him If mental power or
ni the wit and gra .lors kindlileSs
which have made him beloved, albeit
the care of his diocese has been passed
to coadjutor.
Artificial silk is now being made in
Europe from wood fiber, under an Eng
fish patent. The American consul at
Stettin writes of it: THE sample
shown me was very soft and of cream
color Each thread is made up, of
eighteen single strands. A single strand
is hardly perceptible to the naked eye.
AS to the relative strength of a real
silk thread and this imitation. the real
silk is two-thirds stronger. 1t is said
to take coloring or dyeing readily, and
when woven into pieces has the ap-
pearance of real silk. 1t is impossible
to get samples here, or information as
to the process of manufacturing, ex-
cepting that no particular kind of wood
is required and that the pulp under
goes a chemical process and is pressed
through very fine tubes by hydraulic
pressure, forming the single strands
which go to make up the thread"
There is perhaps no elevator in the
world, says the Washington Star, more
exclusive than that provided at the
Capitol for the Supreme Court of the
United States. That elevator can be
used by exactly eleven persons, and
no one else would for a moment con-
slider entering it except as the guest
of one of these eleven privileged gen.
tlemen. The fortunate eleven are the
nine Justices of the United States Su-
preme Court, the Clerk and Marshal
of the court. The elevator goes from
the ground floor of the Capitol to the
main floor, on which is located the Su-
preme Court of the United States. IT
is a small elevator so that, with it's
conductor, three portly forms of Jus
tees of the Supreme Court of the
United States would fill it, 1t is one of
the very latest designs of electric
elevators, and is finished in magnif
cent style. The interesting thing about
this exclusive elevator is the fact that
the Justices, welded as they are to
past customs, have not yet got ont of
their habit, formed before the new
elevator was put in place, of going
from the ground TO the main floor by
means of the Senate elevator.
Ten airship builders have ANNOUNCE
ed their intention to compete for the
100000 prize offered for aerial cars
at the st. Louis Purchase Exposition.