The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

which is nearly eight times as much
as they originally cost. The proceeds
of these sales go to the band fund.
Shortly before his SEVENTEEN birth
day Bjornson tried to raise fund for
the aid of INDECENT teachers in public
schools. Only 5000 crowns was subscrib-
ed and it is said that he is now trying
to purchase one of the educational Pc
riodicals of his country with a view of
helping to carry out his plans.
The railway in Uganda is practi-
cally finished. All the steel viaducts
for the road including twenty-seven
bridges from the United States, have
been completed, and there only remains
the substitution of steel structures for
a few small and unimportant temporary
bridges. Trading vessels are being
placed on Victoria Nyanza. At pres
ent there Is a through train twice
weekly In each direction between Nom
basa and Fort Florence.
The exceptional activity in Cana
dian railway circles, with the admit
ted scarcity of rolling stock and mo-
tive power, has led to a large number
OF orders being placed by the railway
companies for new equipment with
both Canadian and American firms,
and the facilities of the companies have
been taxed to the utmost to fill these
orders, while the Canadian Pacific has
had to go to Scotland and Saxony in
order to obtain the locomotives re-
CURED by the road.
-Alonzo Weed. a tramp, has been
elected Mayor of Amesville, O., as a
joke. and now the people of Amesville
can't see the joke. Amesville's cleo
ton promised to be a tame affair, as
field. The day before the polls open
ed the hobo waited into town. and
some one nominated him as a Joke.
Others took it up and voted for him,
so when the ballots were counted ii
was found that the hobo and real can
didate had each received 81 votes. They
tossed up for the job, and the tramp
won. Now Amesville has taken the
matter to the Governor.
Lord Iveagh of Dublin, and Alder
man Pirrie of Belfast, both men of
wealth, have decided to put into effect,
at enormous expense to themselves,
wisely constructed, plan by which in
dustrial conditions and the general
welfare among the people of the green
isle of Erin will be aided beautifully.
These two benefactors will establish
system by which Irish farmers and
others will be helped by opening CEN
trail stations from which produce and
other freights will be distributed by
the use of collecting and forwarding
wagons. Motor cars will be employed
later. This philanthropic undertaking
will surely do much good.
The Philadelphia Press tells story
x,,h;ob ;uus+ro tae Iyol how o1Iaar thin cs
sometimes get into the mails. An eld-
erly woman was seen the other day
waiting patiently for long time be-
side mailbox in Philadelphia. Final
ly a postman appeared and she ex
planned to him the object of her wait.
She had hurried to the box to mail
letter. and just as the deposit was
about to be made she sneezed vio-
lently. dslocating her false teeth,
which, catching in the same hand that
held the letter in her agitated absent
mindedness she placed in the post box
by mistake. The postman returned her
lost molars, and told her it was not
unusual 10 find many odd things de-
posted in this way which somewhat
relieved the mind of the old woman,
who. placing her teeth in position and
thanking the carrier, hurried to her
nearby home.
Secretary Jones of the British
South Africa Company, who recently
visited Rhodesia, speaks of the "inex-
haustible supply of COAL" which the
advent of the railway to the Wankie
ccal fields will soon throw open. He
estimates the initial output of the
Wankie colliery at 300 tons, daily, and
declares that as soon as the railway
makes the transport of heavy machin-
cry possible this will be increased to
1000 tons. With the exception of the
best Welsh coal there is, in Mr..
Jones opinion, no better steam coal
in the world than the product of Wan
kie. With the gold-mining industry of
Rhodesia people are more or less IA
miliar, but 1t is not so we'll known
that copper, zinc and other mineral
deposits abound in that region. Mr..
Jones further states that the pros
poets of agriculture are exceedingly
hopeful and that facilities now exist
for the employment of modern farm
machinery.
"A remarkable engineering work has
recently been completed for furnishing
water to the Coolgardie and Kalgoor-
lie districts, Western Australia, where
exist what are said to be the richest
u.
feet high has been built across the
Helena river, in the Green Mount
range, about twenty-five miles north
west of Perth. The reservoir thus
formed is seven miles long and will
mold 100000 gallons. 1t is proposed to
deliver from the reservoir to Kalgoor-
lie-328 miles away-5, 900 900 gallons of
fresh water daily. To send this water
through the 1928 miles of thirty-inch
pipe 1t was necessary to make a lift
OF 2,7OO feet by means of eight pump
ing stations, the machinery for which
cost $l,500,000. The pipe is laid in the
ground along the track of the railway.
except in crossing the salt lakes on
the route, where it is supported on
prldges. The total cost of the work is
estimated to be not less than $4,000
600, while the expense of operating and
the interest on money borrowed is 81
100000 annually.
The mosquito plant, of which some
account was given in this journal the
other day, is, it appears, no new dis
coVery. Sir George Birdwood, the
physician, physiologist
and botanist, and Oriental authoriiv
sends an interesting letter on the sinh.
Ject to the London Times He saws
that this plant and allied basils have
oeen known from time imrnemoriaV'
throughout India as a defense against
and a prophylactic in ma
larlal districts. The Hindus recognize
several species, such as wild TulsI"
white Tulsi" or black Tulsi." Krish-
na-tuisi, and Tulsi par excellence. One |
or other of these basils is found grow
ing everywhere in India, especially