The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

pounds, equal roughly 10 1orty men >
eggs.
The Crown Prince of Sweden will
head the Swedish Commission to the
st. Louis Exposition.
"A German innkeeper on the Swiss
border has undertaken as a result OF
wager to roll barrel full of wine
across Switzerland and Italy to Rome
The export trade in Galveston for
the fiscal year showed an increase OF
SO, 600, 900. Public and private improve
ments recently completed ana unuer
way will aggregate in cost $5,15S,000.
Last year Siberias butter produc-
ton amounted to over 1OO,OOOOOO
pounds. Siberian butter is now being
sold in the London market. There are
now over $500 butter-making diaries IN
Siberia.
In order to prevent the extinction
of the channels in the Swiss Alps
law has been passed in Grisons, Switz-
erland, prohibiting the shooting OF
channels in the mountains. real
channels skin is now worth $50.
The twin tunnel under the capitol
at Washington which the Pennsylvania
Railway has been given permission to
bore will be 5000 feet long, cost $SOO,OO0
and electricity is to be exclusively
used for hauling trains through H.
"A painstaking survey of the fishes
Of the Nile, extended far up both Blue
and White Niles, has just been COM
pleted It adds fourteen new species
to about ninety known before, ana
gives much other valuable information.
According to the English theoso-
phist, c. w. Leadbeater, ghosts are
classified in seven types. These are:
Thought forms, elves, churchyard
ghosts, astral impressions, double or
living man, animal apparitions ana the
genuine ghost.
"A Kentucky woman has discovered
new use for the telephone. Wishing
to visit a neighbor she pulled the baby's
crib up in front of the telephone. open
ed the receiver and told central II
the baby began to cry to call her up
at the neighbours.
-American-made machines and I'M
Elements are popular in Manitoba, ana
the more general use of them is SIM
ply a question of cost. If they can
be put on the markets here at prices
that will compete with prices of Ca
nadian-made goods, the demand Tor
them will largely increase.
There are very few roads in Mo-
zambique suitable for draft animals or
for American styles of vehicles. very
few vehicles are imported Tor local
use, and those that are imported are
generally secondhand, colonial-made
~ ,le CIThinPf
innumerable sudden and fatal SICK
nesses. and on this account traction
engines of English manufacture are
being gradually introduced there.
Considerable quantities of Ameri-
can agricultural implements, tools, etc.
can undoubtedly be sold in Mozam-
bique, but they must first be intro
duced by travelling representatives of
the manufacturers Once introduced,
iudicious advertising and letter writ
ing will serve to keep the trade in
healthy condition. There are no artl-
fetal obstacles to the extension or the
trade in these lines of goods in that
province, as all such goods are ad-
mitted free of duty.
DIR. Felix Regnault, French
writer, in an article on The Economy
of Time" insists that all authors should
employ clear and concise language,
suppressing all that is useless. He adj
vocates the simplification OF spelling
and the shortening of long words. he
suggests that a number of frequently
recurring words should be abbreviated.
For example, in an article on tuoerco-
losis he would spell out that word once
and afterward indicate it by It." He
would also print the more important
ideas in bold type. so that the reader
could seize the gist of the author
meaning at glance. Every article
should be preceded by a brief resume
and the frequent use of diagrams is
advocated.
"A successful journey through East
ern Mongolia has just been completed
by Mr. Claude Russell and Mr.. Hicks
Beach. says a Picking correspondent to
a London journal. The party left Pek-
ing in July, and, passing through Je-
hol, struck north to the Manchurian
Railway, at Tsitsihar, which was
reached in forty-eight days. Their
route lay east of the Khingan noun
tains, the distance covered, 1000 miles,
being to a considerable extent, so far
as is known, through county not pre-
viously visited by any European. The
travellers rode on ponies, with pack
mules for their baggage. They had
four servants, DuJ no escort. 1n0y
met with unfailing courtesy from all
classes, both Mongols and Chinese. The
country is thinly peopled, but is be-
ing gradually colonized by Chinese
from within the Great Wall.
When Charles Lamb used to write
to his old friend. Baron Field, a judge
in Sydney. N. S. w, in the early days,
he invariably asked in a postscript:
How is the hemp crop out your way?"
These inquiries puzzled the judge for
a long time, till one day another judge
suggested that they might have some
playful reference to the large amount
of hanging that was going on, mostly
through Baron Fields strong views
about the proper punishment for bush
rangers and kindred evildoers. No
hemp was grown at the antipodes in
those days. when it was required for
home consumtion. but the industry is
likely to become an important one now.
The government of New Zealand has
encouraged it's growth of late and now
it appears that during the past twelve
months hemp to the value of 3750, 900
has been produced in that colony.
Switzerland produces no coal, and,
therefore, all fuel, coal as well as bril-
quotes, must be imported. This costs
annually from 1850, 900 to $19,51O, 900,
which for country of only 5000, 900
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