The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


blind of Japan support themselves by
practicing massage.
The Russian official organ in st.
Petersburg has a fine name for the
! newsboys. 1t is the Prauitelstvin
| Fiestnik.
published that the author may convince
his readers-if any-that Columbus was
born in 1451.
AT recent fashionable wedding in
London the hats of the bridesmaids
were trimmed with natural flowers:
and it is predicted that the style will
be popular next summer.
The new Cathedral at Liverpool will
be remarkable for its high vaulting OF
the nave and choir-116 feet, measured
In the barrel vaulting, and in the high
transepts, 140 feet.
Work is to begin Immediately on
the erection of a large museum in OF
tawa, to be called the Victoria Nation
al Museum, which is to be the center of
literary and scientific work in Canada
The Russian government has grant
ed permission to three foreign compa-
MES to cut wood for three years in the
northern province of Archangel, the ex-
ports not to exceed $23. SOC, 900 in value.
The zebrula. the cross between the
zebra and the horse. has been under
test In Germany. and Is claimed to be
less liable to disease than the mule,
IlVelier and better adapted to transport
work.
-Four persons died and several
were made critically i'll as a conse-
quence of eating food supplied by a
cookery school attached to the Grand
Duchess Alice Institute for Women at
Darmstadt.
The frequent discovery of new dfa-
mond mines in the Transvaal and
Orange River Colony is resulting in
important orders being placed with
British manufacturers for diamond
washing machinery.
Mexico will send to the Worlds
Fair a model of the penitentiary of the
Federal district of that Republic. A
full set of photographs and interesting
data concerning the history of the ia
nous structure will accompany the
model.
Fishermen on the Lake Of Neu-
chatel are using automobile boats.
They are driven by a benzine motor
and lighted by electricity. They are
nat bottomed, glide noiselessly over
the water, do not brighten the fish and
are great success.
"A Yankee opened a store in Bir-
mingham, next door to an English
man in the same line of business.
Thereupon the Englishman put I'D a
placard reading Established Fifty
Years" The American responded with
one reading thus; Established Yester-
day; No Old Stock
The Hereros, now in rebellion
against Germany, have a pretty fair
opinion of themselves and of their
chief. One of their songs begins:
What is the King of England, what
is the King of Germany compared with
thee, o Mahereo. first among all
princes? Have they so many thousand
cattle as thou? No! Who is so mighty
as art thou?' The Hereros despise Eu-
ropeans. The name for a European
is 'otyirumbo" thing
The following model of modesty
appears as an advertisement in Lon-
don newspaper: "Wir any wealthy,
charitably disposed gentleman, enthu-
siastic automobilist. or large firm, give
a greatly interested man of small
means a secondhand car? Applicant
who would be deeply grateful, is very
keenly interested in motoring, but
cannot afford to buy a car. As a guar
antee of good faith he would gladly
undertake not to dispose of car at any
time without the full consent of
donor"
The actual efficiency of the arc
light over the oil lamp is about five to
one, when both are burning at their
maximum. This is given by a French
expernnenter as the result of an inves-
tigation that he has been making. If,
however, the arc light is cut down to
an equal candTe-power with the oil, its
efficiency is less than that of OIL The
exp er,menter claims that the efficiency
of an oil lamp may be increased from
25 10 40 per cent. by surrounding the
lower flame with a copper ring to pre-
vent loss of heat through convection.
The 4S7 islands which constitute the
Japanese Empire have an area of a. lit
tie over 100, Oo0, 900 acres. of which only
about one-fifth is under cultivation, and
according to the census of 1893 there
are 43,T60754 people distributed over
this by no means extensive territory.
This indicates a population of about
It's persons to the square mile, and il
means that every two and half acres.
of arabic land must feed four mouths
If it were not for the fact that large
number of the natives derive their sub
sistence chiefly from the sea the coun-
try would be in a chronic state of semi
starvation. and. as it is, the domestic
supply of food needs to be eked out by
importations from abroad.
Since Oct, /, 1908, the Bavarfan
state railways have discontinued first
class passenger coaches on all except
international limited trains. In 1901
only So per cent. of the total number
of passengers travelled first class; in
1902 the number was only 40 per cent.
The utilization of first class passenger
seating capacity was 1926 per cent.
in 1902, and S.S4 per cent in 1901 The
percentages for ordinary passenger
trains alone were lower still. The rel
alive insignificance of first class traf-
fic, together with the ACCOMPANYING
waste OF seating capacity, led to. the
abolition of the first class, which, ii
is believed, will be followed by other
German railway administrations.
John Muir. the naturalist. while in
a forest of huge redwoods in Califor-
MIA, came across a man who was herd
ing a band of horses. When Mr.. Muir
asked If he might have some flour, the