The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A report is being circulated in Paris
to the effect that during the forthcom-
ing visit of the Car to Rome, Prince
Nicolas of Montenegro will be present
incognito for the purpose of discuss
ing the Balkan problem.
In a gorge of rock little more than
two hundred feet wide the United
States government has decided to con-
struct dam of solid masonry, the first
under the Hansborough- Newlands act,
at the Tonic Basin site, that will ere
ate in the valleys of the upper Salt
river and Tonic creek the largest ar
tificial lake in the world. 1t will ir-
rigate 100000 acres.
-Four classes of projectiles are used
in the United States navy-armor-
piercing projectiles for use against
armor common shell for use against
unarnored or very thinly armored
parts, shrapnel for service against ex-
posed detachments of men a consider
able distance away, and canister,
which is employed against detachments
of men lacking protection within close
range.
For the st. Louis fair the exhibit
of the Department of Geology in the
National Museum will be organized by
DR.. George P. Merrill, head curator,
with the assistance of the scientific
staff of the department. Probably the
most striking object exhibited by this
department will be a restoration of the
remarkably extinct reptile known as
StegaSaur, which is not unlike huge
"horned-toad," with a double row of
large, fiat spines along the tail. Its
length was about twenty-five feet.
With this extraordinary creature will
be shown the singular reptile Tricera-
tops, which was exhibited at the Buffa-
10 Exposition. Many visitors to the lat
ter exposition COMPOUNDED Triceratops
with the mastodon, and in order to cor
rect this false impression, as we'll as for
general interest, there will be exhibited
a skeleton of the mastodon, and along
side of it the skeleton of an elephant.
Owing to figures recently published
in regard to the personnel of the mon
astery establishment at Mount Athos,
the Turkish government has become
alarmed at the multiplication of Mus
coVfte monks and their acquisition of
Greek monasteries in Turkish territory.
The Greek Minister of Justice has
drawn the attention of the patriarch of
COnstantinople to the extraordinary
concessions made to the Russians and
to the change in the aspect of Mount
Athos. For example, the Convent of
st. Panteleimon, which was recently
acquired by Russia has been restored
to its former aspect as a fortress and
is occupied by nearly 5000 monks,
whose habit barely covers the uniform
of the Cars soldiers. 1t has been
persistently stated in Athens. as web
as in Constantinople, that there are
several officers of the active Russian
TI,
ter also points out that such conces-
sions We're prejudicia1 to the interests
of the Greek people.
My wife and IL said a German
town man, according to the Philadel-
phia Record, "have been married a
little over five years. We have no
children, there are just two in the
family, and we have use for but one
servant, girl to do general house.
work. One would naturally think
that such a job would be a sinecure
for girl at "a a week, the wages INV
wife pays and yet in those five wears
we have had no less than sixty-three
separate and distinct girls. How do I
know the exact number? Well. I
keep diary, and among other things
have jotted down the numerous
changes in servants. Some of them
have only stayed a day or two, the
longest term of service being six
months. Some have been discharged.
some have gone out and failed to re-
turn some have left because the work
was too hard, some have married one
was arrested on a warrant sworn out
by former mistress whom she had
robbed. 1t seems to me that sixtv-
three servants in five years is about
the record, and yet I don't think we
are hard people to get along with. II
didn't own my own home I'd give up
housekeeping and board"
In a pamphlet recently published
Staff Surgeon Beadnell, of the British
cruiser Powerful, gives a detailed rec
ord OF anthropometrical data concern
ing twenty-four officers, ninety-six
petty officers and able seamen. 40 or
binary seanen and boys, eleven stokers
thirty-seven marines and seventeen
miscellaneous ratings shortly after
commissioning for the China station
IN 1897. II would appear that the aver
age night OF the marine Is 2.B inches
greater than that Of the able seaman
though the latter is 0.S year older. this
the author suggests may be due "a fhe
seaman having slept in a hammoek
from ms entry AZ boy, whereas tn
marine mar nearly completed his YER
utal CROWN before be has 10 sleep IN a
hammock the hammock would seem
hceoraing 20 the observations recorded |
70 check vertical and favor horlgontst
kt9hths 1he LEFT Ann u Tie stoIeu ~.