The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

in the Rhodesian Government Ga
zette is published a proclamation pro-
hibiting the practice of sorcery
throughout the territory. including the
throwing of bones, the use of charms,
any manner of conjuration and trial
by ordeal.
To be forced to get up early"
says an English physician. "grinds the
soul. curdles the blood, swells the
spleen, destroys all good intentions and
disturbs all day the mental activities.
Criminals are always recruited from
the early-rising class"
of the great abundance of water
power with which Mexico is supplied,
it is estimated that not more than $780,
900 horsepower is being utilized or is
in course of development at the pres
ent time. The potential horsepower
has never been estimated with any de-
gree of accuracy.
At fire in Erfurt, Germany, the
members of the fire brigade quarreled
with the chief, and instead of attend
ing to their duties belabored him with
hose until he was senseless. Mean
while, the fire had taken such a hold
that before it was got under control
several houses were burnt to the
ground.
The Victoria and Albert Museum,
South Kensington, London, has re-
ceived very valuable addition to it's
collections through the bequsst made
by the late Mr.. Constantine Alexan-
der Ionides of all his paintings, draw
ings, etchings and engravings, which
amount to nearly twelve hundred in
all.
Two Mohammedan criminals at Oh
mutt were in CONSERVATION the other
day on hearing that, like all other pris-
mustaches shaved off. They pleaded
that that would be an indelible dis
grace, and that their wives would
leave them. They were finally allow
ed to keep them.
President Loubet of France has
offended fastidious Paris by upsetting
traditions and driving on the boule-
ward with a team of Unmatched horses,
one of which was black and the other
white. Not only were the steeds I'M
matched in color. but one was a hand
and half taller than the other. The
effect was so startling that, it is said,
the presidents insistence upon it wore
out the patience of the master of GER
emonies.
"A Census Bureau report on occu-
pations shows that in Continental
United States the total number of per-
sons engaged in gainful occupations in
1900 was 29,073,23 which constituted
one-half the population 10 years of
and and nearly -ffthS
of the entire population. OF these A.
1873, $50 were women and 1,750,17S were
children. Those of foreign birth ag-
gregated 1851, 399, or one-fifth of the
total number of gainful workers.
In the last year the International
Longshoremen have organized forty
nine new locals along the American
great lakes, seven along the American
rivers, eleven along the Atlantic coast,
fifteen along the Gulf of Mexico,
twelve along the lakes and ocean of
the Dominion of Canada, four along
the Long Island sound, three in our
new possessions in the Hawaiian Is
lands making a total of lis new To-
Gals since the last convention.
"A young Russian Jew was obliged
to go to the war in Manchuria. At
first his father got letters from him
regularly, but presently they ceased.
One day the father was called to the.
police headquarters, where he was told
there was a telegram regarding his
son. but that he would have to pay 20
roubles to get it. He did not have
the money, and it took him some time
to collect it from his friends. When
he finally opened the telegram he
found it contained the announcement
of his sons death.
Extending diagonally across the
cotton belt the Southern Railway de-
rives the largest annual tonnage from
the cotton crop. The Illinois Central
comes next, and the Louisville and
Nashville third. On all of the South
ern roads the tonnage from cotton
seed and cotton seed products amounts
to nearly as much as raw cotton. For
instance, during the last fiscal year
the Southern Railway carried AL, sol
tons Of cotton and $4,000 tons of cot
ton seed and cotton seed products.
Earnings from the transportation of
cotton reached the highest figures on
all of the roads during the month of
October.
The so-called moving picture, be-
sides it's power of simply representing
motion on a screen as 1t originally &C.
Cured, has two other valuable uses.
One is to reproduce a series of mo-
lions Originally performed so rapidly
that the human eye cannot analyze
them) at a slower speed. so that the
student can study them leisurely; and
the other is to reproduce in moment
or two motions which may have taken
days or even weeks as originally per-
formed. At a recent conversations of
the Royal Society in London the in
strument called a kammatograph by
its inventors was exhibited, and by
means of it the movements of plants
as they grow, bud and flower, were
from mere sprout, growing to matur-
seed, in perhaps half a minute-a pro-
cess which, in nature, requires several
months.
TO what extent radium is RESPONSE
BILE for the heat of the earth is one of
the philosophical questions now inter-
esting scientists. Prof. Rutherford, be-
fore a recent meeting of the Royal In
stitution of London, said that he be-
lieved the amount of radium present
and uniformity distributed throughout
the earth to be sufficient to account for
all the heat lost from that body. In
this event, the cooling Of the earth, so
that ultimately it will become unin-
habitable, as was calculated by Lord |
Kelvin, will be postponed, and a few
million more years will be afforded for
the various forms of animal life. Such
a possibility was doubtless anticipated
by Lord Kelvin himself. for in his call