The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

MT. ana MIS-. COfildC hhCCdillSs VI
Hazelton, Pa. being the twenty-third
child born to the couple. Mrs McCallis
is forty-one years old and was mar
ried at the age of seventeen years.
1t is calculated by an engineer that
$50 600. 600 tons of coal are used an
ruallv throughout the world. OF this
amount 14S.0O0, COCO are burnt in the
United States. Great Britain comes in
second. with an annual consumption of
10000
Mrs. King, of Corpus Christi, Tex,
owns more land than any other woman
in this country, perhaps in the world.
Her holdings are not less than 1900
600 acres. located in the counties of
Nueces. Hidalgo. Starr and Cameron.
Her late husband, Capt. King, was one
of the Old-time cattle barons Mrs
King has about $4,000 cattle grazing
on her broad acres.
During the last seven years the
population of Europe has risen in
round numbers from 216000,000 to AGO.
0G0, 000 that of Asia and Africa has
probably increased a little more slow
ly; that of America has become more
than three and a half times as great
worlds population is now about l.
500, GOO, 00O and was S470OO,OO0.
THE educational side of rural free
delivery comes out clearly in the sta
tistics of one Western route, on which
there are l09 mail boxes. When the
route was established the number of
daily papers taken in the district was
five. Now the number is siXty-tive,
and most of the papers come from one
or other of two large cities. What an
enlarged outlook, what a widened hori-
zon that means
Ludwig Fake, the lyric poet, to
whom the Hamburg Senate has voted
an annual pension of $3.50 to enable
him to devote himself to his literary
tasks, has been a music teacher in
that city for twenty-five years. Once
before the Senate helped a struggling
author. Otto Ernst, while teaching in
a public school in Hamburg received
six months leave of absence to en-
able him to devote his time to his
dramatic work.
In view of the establishment of the
Department of Commerce and Labor
it may be interesting to note that the
internal commerce of the United States
last year has been estimated by the
government statistician at 500, 900 000,
coo. Firty years ago it was only s., 000,-
100000. The manufactures of the Unit
ed States are nearly double those
of Great Britain and Ireland and
about equal to those of France, Ger
many and Russia combined
The special advantages attaching to
the use of turbine engines on ships
are the absence of vibrations, which
shake hulls and fittings; the great saw
ing of weight in machinery, that for
a turbine being q pounds a horse
power, while that of the present style
of engine is $50 pounds a horsepower;
increased stability due to the low posi-
ton of the center of gravity in the
engine; less danger to the engine room
crew from fast-moving parts and a
much smaller engine room force is re-
Quired.
Lord Cromer. speaking at Khar-
tOum of the needs of the country, recent
ly said: Except sand, crocodiles and
hippopotami, of all of which there ap-
pears to be a somewhat superabun-
dant supply, there is not enough of
anything in the SOudan." If the re-
gion could exchange it's hippopotami,
CIOtOQIlGS anu SdIlu lOI IdllWdySt euu-
Gated natives and 'dust"-to use a COL
lopuialism for money-it would be rea-
sopably happy and prosperous. This
is the problem of commerce the world
oVer-to exchange what one does not
want for what one needs.
Maj. Edwards, of North Dakota,
who has just been appointed consul
general at Montreal, erected in Fargo
what was then-and perhaps is now
the tallest building west of Chicago.
He was then owner of a newspaper,
but was not sufficiently wealthy to
meet his weekly payroll, so he used to
swap checks with a friend who had a
good bank account. The friend finally
grew tired and said to the major
why don't you put a roof on that
building, Edwards? 1t is high enough
now Cant do it," was the reply.
Fact is, 1 have contracted to pay for
the whole thing when the building is
rooted in" The Rajor eventually made
arrangements which enabled him to
put the roof on.
-AFcurious story comes from Mar
seilles, where the steamer Vile d'Oran
has just arrived from Algiers. A boat
had been sent to fetch the doctor of
the ship, as it was on the point OF
sailing, and it had hardly started on
its return journey to the vessel, with
him on board, when a tremendous
thunderstorm burst over the town and
the port, the rain falling in a perfect
deluge. The worthy physician is A
careful man, and, having prudently
brought an umbrella with him, he
opened it, He was making the best of
bad joke, when, owing to a sudden
lurch of the boat, he toppled over into
the sea. The sailors, who were pull
ing for all they were worth, did not
notice his disappearance from the lit
tie craft and it would have gone very
hard with the doctor, who did not
know how to swim, if he had not re-
tanned his hold on his precious "ging-
ham," The umbrella, in fact, acted as
a life buoy and kept him above water
for upward of half an hour, when, as
he drifted along, his shouts attracted
the attention of his friends in the Vile
d'Oran, who had been wondering what
had become of him. the sailors who
had come with the boat having been
utterly bewildered when they dis
GOV cred that he was not with them.
The physician has to thank his UNI
brella for his marvellous escape.
There are now 5152S divorced peo-
pie in the United States, of whom 3d.
POS are women and 1884 men. The
reason for such an excess of women is
explained on the theory that divorced
men are more apt to remaTry than di-
VOrced women. There are very few
cities in which the number of divorced