The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

$50 miles.
Timber is now vulcanized in Eng
land by forcing a boiling solution of
sugar into it's pores.
The propellers OF the T1rb,nia. at
a speed of 34h knots per hou:, made
1000 revolutions per minute.
The proportion of policemen 20
reputation is one to 307 in Paris; one
to 4CS in London. and one 10 1853 iE
New York.
-Munich's reputation for beer drink
ing is in danger. The city is still far
ahead of any other in the quantity
consumed, but in 1901 ii drank fifteen
litres head less than in 1900, only BAL
| litres a man-that is to say, less than
| a litre a day. This is ascribed in part
to the falling off in the number or
strangers who visit the Athens of the
| liar.
"A French naval officer has invent
ed a vessel which he believes will pre-
vent seasickness. 1t is described as
submarine boat supporting platform.
| The boilers and engines are in the
submarine part of the craft. The plat
form is supported by two fioaters ris-
| ing ITOIn the SuDIIldTlIlc DOdI anu SOAA-
tains the cabins. The inventor claims
the craft will not roll or pitch.
-Khartoum is soon to possess its
own paper. The native journal, Al
Mokattam, has, by agreement with
the government of the Soudan, estab-
lished the first printing establishment
at Khartoum, where all official docu-
ments will be printed. Most of the
xvnrE will he in hiC and French.
There is also to be, in connection with
the undertaking, a new journal-the
first in the Soudan. At first 1t Will be
printed in Arabic, but later 1t is hoped
to add an English section.
The "grasshopper" or derrick ele-
vator now in use by the London grain
elevator company at the London docks
has been specially designed for trans
shipping the corn from the holds of
the largest types of American liners
engaged in the grain trade into light
erS for conveyance to other coastlng
vessels or warehouses. Its spout, in
which travels an endless belt covered
with buckets, will draw $50 tons of
corn an hour from the hold of a ves-
sci. When ready for action it sug-
gests the great stomach pump that
ii Is.
Alexander F. Chamberlain has
discovered that there are 131 words of
Algonquin derivation in the English
language. The Algonquins occupied a
considerable section of this country
before they were asked to move on, and
some of the verbal heirlooms they left
us are Chipmunk, hickory, hominy,
menhaden, moccasin, moose, mug
wump, musquash, pemmican, persim-
mon, pappoose, pone, porgy, 'possum,
raccoon, samp, skunk, squash, squaw,
succotash, Tammany, tautog, terrapin,
toboggan, tomahawk, totem, wigwam,
woodchuck. "
"A new japanese Buddhist paper
has made LAUNDERING good start"
1t is called 1.-THE laundering Dawn"
and this is how the editor breaks the
news to the public: This paper has
come from the womb of eternity, just
as we all came. 1t starts it's circula-
ton with millions and millions of
numbers. The rays of the sun, the
| beams of the stars, the leaves of trees,
the blades of grass, the grains of sand,
the hearts of tigers, elephants, lamps,
| ants, men and women are its subscrib-
ers. This Journal will henceforth flow
in the universe as the rivers flow, and
the oceans surge"
Things educational are away to the
bad IN some of the South Dakota
school. districts. AS fast as a new
school teacher has been engaged and
as soon as she arrives on the scene
some man came along and married
her. and all the children are i'll from
eating too much wedding cake. Not
long ago the following notice was put
up on the door of one district school:
Teacher wanted-If single, must be
old and unattractive. as two wealthy
bachelors threaten to marry the next
teacher of this school," To avoid a
clash on account of the notice a COM
promise was agreed to so that two
very determined old maids now teach
the school week about
"A curious aspect of the alien ques-
ton has shown itself at Berne Univer-
sity, where exactly one-half of the
1900 students are foreigners principal
| ly Slavs. In the faculty of medicine
there are now $50 women students from
Russia, and they have flocked to the
| Swiss capital for two reasons-the lack
of means of study in their own coun-
try, and the fact that the conditions
under which degrees can be secured
| are less severe than at the German
| universities. One effect of this influx
| OF fair Russians is the overcrowding
of the laboratories and the Swiss
| youth so feel the encroachment that
they are leaving Berne to pursue their
studies elsewhere.
The intrinsic value of the useful
skunk does not necessarily end when
his pelt is stripped says the Weather
ford Chronicle. By those who are used
to him and his ways he is eaten like
rabbit or any other animal which
comes within the category of game.
This may seem improbable to the
| reader whose acquaintance with the
skunk is confined for the most part to
mis- reputation, but the men who have
tasted the flesh of the animal declare
that II is as tender as young chicken.
as 1ully navored as duck and juicy as
goose when made into a steaming pot
pie with a crust and much gl.avv Az
nearly every farmer around Weather.
ford is a skunk hunter during the win.
ter the number of carcasses that 90
into the stewpan rather than the snow
drift may be imagined.
Lewis Dutrow, a carpenter on the
turnpike between Monterey and Buena
Vista, on the border of Washinctor
county, Maryland, has Just comnleted
a remarkable writing desk. saws the
baltlIlofe sun. The desk is made MAIN
~ Oh cypress and is an ornate and sinh
stantial piece of work. The noveiitv
Is the lid. This is made of white vol,
nut, in seven pieces, doweIed ninnad
ana glued. AT each end of the Tia ie n
tnree-lnch strip of quartered oak. The
SIZE OF the lid is 15H inches by 2Sik
lncneS. This lid Is inlaid xUith az