The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


fitted at London hospital with a cell
luloid nose.
The secret of making carbon paper
and typewriter ribbons is known to
scarcely two dozen people.
Electric lights now disturb the
ghosts of the Pharaohs in the royal
tombs in the Valley of the Kings.
Americans bought in Paris last year
$4,000 worth of goose liver pie. s2s,0OO
of human hair and $4,000 worth of
mushrooms.
The Himalayas have several peaks
over $4,000 feet, and more than a thou
sands which have been measured ex-
ceed 10000 feet.
"A man who advertised for a cook
and a music teacher received nine an
swers to the former advertisement and
3SS to the latter.
joaquin Miller. the California poet,
Is going to bequeath his estate near
Oakland to the people of his native
state for park.
+Seventy-one patents covering ap-
paratus for wireless telegraphy were
issued in the United States last year,
making the total number 1e9.
Swiss watchmakers are emigrating
to Germany, where there is great de-
mand for their product, in order to
save tariff fees and secure cheap la
Dor.
Native feelings in India have been
hurt by the new rupee, because the
king appears on it without his crown
TO be bare-headed is repugnant to the
Oriental.
The report of the Commissioner of
Patents for 1902 shows a total of 40, 400
applications for patents, including de-
signs. and that 27,776 patents, including
designs, were issued.
-Japan's government report shows
that insurance policies aggregating &c.,
0SS,939 are carried by Japanese. The
heather in his blindness seems to look
out for the future of his family.
The botanical papers report that
DeVries, the great Dutch experiment
tai evolutionist, has, by long-continued
selection, produced a variety of clover
which has normally four leaves.
OF the 40 steam ships now in Nor
gan's combine, operated as the Inter
national Mercantile Marine Company,
but ten were built in American and but
twelve carry the American flag.
Two black oak chairs, said, to have
belonged to Mary, Queen of Scots, and
to have been rescued when Hawley's
dragons set fire to Linlithgow palace,
were sold in London recently for 1920
each.
Every atom is composed of posi-
tive and negative electrons, or va
grant electric charges, in space. Just
how much a charge exists in space or
what its mechanism is does not yet
appear.
An offer has been made by the
Hamilton and Lake Erie Power Com
pany to the Mayor of Toronto to de-
liver 10000 horsepower of electrical
energy in Toronto at $40 per horse
power year.
Japan is getting the bicycle crazo.
1t irnnorted s2,700,0OO worth of wheels
last year, mostly of the cheaper
grades, costly from $l2 to $25. They
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purposes.
of the five new battleships author
ized by Congress the three 10000 ton
vessels win be named Vermont, Kan
sas and Minnesota, and the two 10000
ton vessels will be named Mississippi
and the Idaho.
The highest point to which a man
has ever climbed is 23,0s0 feet, to the
summit of the Andean peak Aconca-
qua. The feat was accomplished by
two men sent out by the Royal Geo.
graphical Society.
The merry-o-round factory at Abb
lene, Kas.. has received an order from
China for one of its machines. The
machine will differ from the ordinary
one in that il will be built to go by
man power instead of steam or horse
power.
Margaret E. Maltby. Phi. D., has
been appointed adjunct professor of
physics in Barnard College. Although
the college is solely for women DR..
Maltby is the only woman professor
and is the second ever appointed by
the trustees.
an Arctic expedition to go in search
Of rare flea that inhabits the person
of the equally rare blue fox. The
name of the ship which will carry the
expedition Is the For-get-me-not.w which
Is very appropriate.
Policemen are forced to bear the
weight of many nicknames, but the
most common is that of 'peeler" The
name is derived from the act creating
the London police force which was put
through by Sir Robert Peel, and the
men we're nicknamed for him.
Henry Roso, the wealthy Cuban
planter. who, it is said, gave the great
er part of his fortune in aid of the
Cuban revolutionists, is confined in the
Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane.
Mr.. Roso's estate. which at one time
was in the millions, has dwindled, it
is said. to. $4,000.
The awful question of the fun
church has been solved in the English
village of Hunton, where the church
is crowded every Sunday. A former
rector left a certain sum in his win
which was to be invested and the in
come divided among the six families
who attended church the most regu-
larly during the year.
-"Big. Bill" Devery has a collection
of thirty-six scrap books containing
the various newspaper roasts and COM
Diiments that have aDpaa~ad aAo,,.