The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| it-4Railway earnings are 100000
week. greater this year than last.
Mexico now has $4,000 American
residents and s2S2,OeOOoO American
money,
The profit to the government on
pennies pays the entire expense of the
4 mint. ,s.gy
| I'm the wears 1854 to 1890 the aver
age life of Englishmne increased
| abept four years.
"A proportion of 7.19 per 1000 of
l French conscripts have been exempted
from military service from 1850 to 1900.
The largest cast iron pipe ever
turned out in America, it is asserted.
was recently completed for a Phila-
! delphia contract, calling for pipe hve
feet in. diameter.
In trying to obtain an interview on
South African matters with Lord Mil
,ner, afVtennese journalist only got the
following sentence: For six years and
. a half / have worked like a slave"
Tile English postoffice gives 20 per
cent. better speed in delivering parcels
than the private carriers, and at a cost
of cents for one pound, s cents for
two pounds and "a cents for eleven
pounds.
! "A prominent English lawyer ex-
presses the opinion that if a police
man ip4 plain Clothes boards motor
car he may be legally thrown off. The
motorist cannot know that the intru-
der is not going to commit an assault
on property or person.
The phonetic. sense of. the English
speaking race has been rendered so de-
| fective by the confused photography
| of the tongue that, to different men
| the same combination of letters will
| convey different sounds. This makes
a standard impossible
Germany has laid more than 1000
miles of ocean cable within the last
seven years, including the line from
Emden to New York, via the Azores,
which is 4,SO0 miles in length. She is
now laying another line between those
two points. and it is expected that the
| work will be completed before the end
of 1904.
The doll export trade from the
Thuringia district of Germany has
been unsatisfactory during the last
| fiscal year, and where it not for the
business with the United States the
distress among this trade would be Ia
mentable. During the year ended June
80, 1903 the export of dolls and toys
from this district to the United States
amounted to $1,S40,013 out of total
export of SO, So, 609 showing how i'm
portant this trade with the United
States is to the doll and toy makers of
| Thuringia.
The electric omnibus which made
it's initial appearance. some years ago
has made better progress in. Germany
| than elsewhere. There is in operation
| one line between Koenigswald and
| Dresden, which appears to be entire
| ly successful, and another at Biel1. In
the Dresden line the trackleSs troll
| ley is operated by means of a flexible
| conductor attached to current coltec-
| tors, which take the place of the fa-
| miliar trolley wheel or sliding shoe,
| and WHICH are supported on two over
| head wiress The collector ehas four
| wheels. two of which. rest on each of
| the wires. The flexible rcablea ternni-
| mates in a plug attachment, so that
! when two cars come up to each other
! and wish to pass they simply exchange
4 'cab1e6, thus Veryl clevef1y avoiding
4 the necessity of having definite pass
/ ingf turnouts1 The roads trayersed are
unpaVed, but hard and very billy, the
grade in many cases being. unusually
| heavy. rs slt - -r 81 - - . -.
The suggestion lately made by Mr.
James WEIGH to a>representative of the
Daily. News that audiences should be
| fed beforehand son "a menu suitable to
the play" is decidedly novel, and
| would furnish material for an interest
ing essay" says the Westminster Ga
zette. Unfortunately, any really ade-
quate treatment of the subject would
require the wit and fancy of a Charles
Lamb. The connection between dinner
and the drama is, of course. we'll
known. The fashionable dinner-hour
| ending at 9 practically settles the
| length of modern plays, and also to a
great extent their character, for the
man who has dined desires to be en-
tertained, hence the popularity of mu-
steal plays and the decay of serious
drama. If there is anything in the
| Persian proverb, "A man is what he
eats there is, doubtless, something to
be said in favor of Mr.. Welch's idea
| that the playgoer should accommodate
his diet to the exigencies of particular
classes of plays. We may, therefore,
| yet see such announcements as "Vau-
| deville viands" or "Terry's two-and-
| six-penny table dhote" displayed in
| West. End restaurants.
An English writer directs atten-
ton to a supposed cure for the mys-
ferrous malady known as mountain
| sickness. The discoVerer of the specific
is a Russian topographer named Pass
toukof, who for some years. past has
| been making aScentS in the Caucasus,
| where he has climbed the Grand Ararat,
Mount Kasbek and Mount Elbruz. At
| such high attitudes as these it is easy
to understand that the question of
| mountain sickness becomes a serious
one, and on more than one occasion
| M. Passtoukhof has found not only
himself, but all the other members OF
his expedition, completely Frustrated
by IT.. On one of these occasions il
occurred to him to try the experiment
of lighting his spirit lamp and MAX
ing some tea, which he administered
to himself and his companions in an
almost boiling condition, with a re-
suit that far exceeded his expectations
Almost Immediately the more serious
symptoms disappeared, and in a short
time all the members of the expedi-
ton found themselves well enough to
continue the ascent. Later on M. Pass
toukhof repeated this experiment OF
using boiling tea as . remedy for
mountain sickness, with results so in
variably successful that he now feels
Justlfled in considering that it may
really be regarded as a specific.