The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Ones share of the world is 231s
acres.
/ The deaths from storms and floods
in 1902 were, $4,000.
The five volcanoes active last year
destroyed 10000 lives.
In Western Canada, 100000, 900 acres
of arabic land to-day await the plow.
The Clyde's mouth must be enlarged
to permit the exit of the two big Cum
ard steamers now being builded there.
The standing timber of Canada
equals that of the continent of Europe,
and is nearly double that of the United
States. .,,,,..
From the State Library of Ohio 500
travelling libraries, containing 22.O31
books, were sent out last year at a cost
of S4t.227. 1a1
The. pay of the American brick
layer is as much for two and a half
days as that of the British 'bricklayer
for a week. 81 a~+ pa
The. average European is 8 feet
6 40 inches high; the average Ameri-
can, feet = So. Their respective
weights are 1873 and 141 pounds.
The Mississippi and its tributaries
are navigable for $4,000 miles; the
rivers of Europe furnish navigation for
only half as many miles and few of
them are connected.
The Belgian Geographical Society
! proposes the appointment of a commits
| sion to study the correlation of the
| seismic, volcanic, meteorological and
magnetic phenomena and solar physics
| of last year.
An assistant in the Congressional
| Library at Washington finds that p
200 books therein are written by color
! ed persons. The authors are nearly
| all mulattoes, the straight blacks
| having done almost nothing.
Experiments to determine the dem
| sity of the earth will be conducted in
| the Tamarack mine, at a depth of
| 1850 feet, by the Goedetic Survey. The
| density of the earth has only been
computed by formulate based upon the
| law of gravitation.
Jake said one of those impecu-
NOUS old friends who haunt the corri-
| doris of the Washington hotels to Rep
! resentative Rupert of New York, II
wish you would lend me So" MN"
! said Rupert, where will you be in
| half an hour?" Fright at your ell
| bow" replied the impecunious friend
unless 1 should drop dead meantime"
Many insects unable to produce
| sounds which we can distinguish
| possess, nevertheless, sound-producing
| apparatus, and elaborate organs of
| hearing analogous to those belonging
| to other and in general larger species
| quite capable of making themselves
| heard. 1t is certain that a number of
| species of animals hear sounds that
| we cannot hear.
The postoffice Money Order De-
| partment handles about $500, 900 600 a
year. The loss by the dishonesty and
| carelessness of clerks has been only
| $251 in the last two years, but this
| is partly explained by the fact that
! the clerks are made responsible for
the money they handle, and any loss
| is considered theirs.
The. most hazardous section of
! the Manila telegraph cable is that
completed between San Francisco and
| Honolulu, in which the sea bed is pre-
! cipitous, with valleys $1,000 feet deep.
| The next two sections, extending to
| Guam. will cross level plains of mud
| at a depth of about $4,000 feet while
| the last section is over a series of
| mountains.
Herr Nardenkoetter, whose name in
large black type has been a feature
for years in the German press in con-
nection with nostrums, has been sem
! fenced to three-years' Imprisonment
and to pay fine of 5000, after a trial
which was fortnight's sensation for
| Berlin Nardenkoetter spent millions
of marks in advertising, lived richly
and contrived to defy the medical So
cieties and public prosecutors for years.
| Now he has escaped Imprisonment by
| going to England and FORGETTING his
! bail. On one occasion, it was alleged
! during the trial, he was in a great
hurry to satisfy some of his patients.
and simply filled their bottles with
soapy water from a wash-bowl.
Chicago railroad men have COM
piled figures to show that a greater
number of trains are handled in that
city every twenty-four hours than i'm
any other city in the world. OF the
| 1888 trains that enter and leave Chi
cago daily, l,i90 are passenger trains,
and $40 are freight trains. The pas
senger trains include S2l for suburban
service and 369 for through service. No
less thai twenty eight different lines
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