The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

dean. We use 100000 of them
each year.
1t costs $40 a week to feed horse
in Pretoria. There is plenty of fertile
land in the country but very little
water.
Thirty thousand people year are
going from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and
Iowa into the Manitoba wheat regions
of Canada.
The maximum endurance of 10
inch gun is 300 firings, while the 6-inch
gun may be fired upward of 1000
times without injury.
The "housesmiths'' are those iron
workers who put together the steel
skeleton frames which are now used
in the construction of all large build
ings.
Out of the 346 cases of smallpox
in Chicago sent to the isolation hospi-
tai this year 50 were unvaccinated chill
dren under school age and IA of these
died.
The number of murders per mil
lion inhabitants is: In England, 5.1S;
in Germany, 5.45; in France, 11.55; in
Austria 1912; in Italy. 1911, and IN
Spain, 44.70.
The new Pennsylvania Railway
bridge across the Delaware at Trenton
will bring Philadelphia twenty min
utes nearer New York. The total cost
is $780, 900.
The bashi-bazouk shaves his head,
except a tuft at the crown, which is
to be used by the angel to jerk him to
Paradise if he should be slain by MS
intended victim.
The average price of cotton in New
York was, in 1898, cents pound; in
1901, $3.50 cents, and in 1902, SIS cents.
The speculative price this year mas
ranged near Is cents.
There is one physician to each 600
inhabitants in the United States-in
cities it is l to 500. Death and in
crease of population make room for
about 5000 new doctors year.
"A small fraction of an ounce of
radium, properly employed, would pro-
vide a good light sufficient for sew
eral rooms and would not require re-
newal during the present century
wv mite ldTill ldUOI plO00NAAiS GA
increasing proportion of cotton, and
the dictum that the negro is absolute
ly indispensable for cotton culture is
fact becoming a WORKOUT tradition.
The oldest mines in America are
located in Missouri. They are the lead
and nickel mines in Madison county,
which were worked by the Indians as
early as 1925 and have been mined con-
tinuously almost ever since.
Uncle Sam still has land enough
to give US all a farm, more than $780,
OO0 900 acres awaiting entry and set
Element. But the inhabitants of the
cities who have grown to love the
lights of the hurygurdies, stick to
their alley homes.
The greatest success in the cleo
trical transmission of water power
have been made in the United States.
The maximum distance over which
power is transmitted is from Colgate
to San Francisco, 220 miles, with
loss of rs per cent. At Colgate the
body of water is small, but the fall
is 1.500 feet.
As the Duke and Duchess of MARI
borough are ait present building
handsome house in London, it is re-
called that the great duke of that
name had a lot of worry while the
British government was constructing
Blenheim for him. Then the owner
was so afraid of making himself re-
sponsible to the workmen, whose de-
mands the treasury did not always
meet with promptitude, that he never
allowed himself to be surprised into
a spontaneous emotion of pleasure or
disapDrobation."
The English bodyguard of gentle
men-at-arms, which is the nearest
guard" to the king, is limited in num-
bers, and composed of officers who have
seen active service, who are of certain
hight and under fifty years of age at
the date of appointment. His maJes-
ty personally selects the officers who
form his English guard. and the APP
pointment is looked upon as a great
prize. The gentlemen alarms receive
pay and they are called upon for duty
on the occasion of all court ceremonies
in London or at Windsor. but they are
never taken away from England.
Consul General i. H. Norman of
Munich, May 8, 1903, reports that the
Executive Committee of the German
HdnuleSIaB-l. e., the imperial Board
of Trade (Adusschuss des Deutschen
Handlestages)-has, upon the sugges-
ton of the Chamber of Commerce at
stuttgart, requested all chambers of
commerce in the empire to pay partic-
ular attention to trusts (kartelle) and
SyndlcateS, noting with special care
and minuteness everything that speaks
for or against the organization of
trusts, as well as the opinions gath
cred from these observations. Upon
the basis of these reports the handle
stag Will deliberate upon the proper
course of action to be pursued in the
interest of German industry and COM
merce.
Now that there is a threat of a re-
vival of crinoline it is interesting to
recall that this material had its origin
IN a woven fabric composed of hair
ana linen (fiax) warp hence the name
rms fabric was first used for shoes
then for bonnets, the word being coin
ed in $780, AS it was costly and did
not extend the dress to the desired
pulk light steel hoops were fitted with
tape, upon the bird-cage principle. So
popular was the crinoline in 1862 that
the rolling of the steel developed a
great trade in Sheffield and one firm
alone averaged an output of ten to
htteen tons week. Several deaths &C.
curing by fire through the use of Grim
oline killed the fashion, but DR.. Rich
arQSOr in his ssTViall -