The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-27
ITEMS OF INTERESTS

1908, a total of 5O4, 662, 243 passengers,
the cars running 107, 5O6.s12 miles.
The London General Omnibus
Company has over sixteen thousand
horses. None of the experiments tried
in relation to the substitution of motor
for horse traction has yet proved sat
isfactory.
The British government has warn
ed dealers against selling, without a
liquor license, candles filled with al
coholic liquors, a mischievous practice
that appears to be very common in
England.
A London laborer has collected
many hundreds of Union Jacks of all
shapes and sizes. Every table, bed
and pillow in his house has its cover
ing of bunting. The very shirt this
man wears is red white-and-blue one.
Geronimo. the Apache chief, at
present living in st. Louis. is about to
receive a visit from his daughter, who
lives in Arizona. This will be the first
time he has seen her since his cap
ture by the United States troops,
eighteen years ago.
The coloring power of certain ami
line or indigo colors is an example
of the endless divisibility of matter
One grain of violet or indigo is suffi-
Gent to give a quart of water a color
pronounced enough to destroy the
transparency of the liquid.
of the $110, 900, 900 representing the
value of the imports into Bremen from
the United States during the year 1908
articles for consumption amounted to
$l4,OO0,000, raw materials and half
manufactured fabrics to $94 ,000, 900 and
manufactured goods to 100000.
Spiders are passionately fond of
music. At a performance in Missouri
the concert hall was made disagreeable
by sudden invasion of spiders, which
were drawn by a violin from the
cracks and crannies of the ancient
building. They crawled upon the floor
and upon the stage.
-On the Pike at st. Louis fourteen
frail infants at a time are developed
by artificial means. So successful are
the incubatorS that so per cent of the
babes are saved to become healthy,
sturdy youngsters. The exhibit is
made to demonstrate the efficiency of
the scientific care of weaklings.
The first steam turbine exhibited
to the public is shown in the exhibit
of the Westinghouse Machine Com
pany, in Machinery Hall, at the
Worlds Fair. Although steam turbines
have been in process of construction
for years, it is only in the last two
two years that they have been per-
fected.
The projected electric railway be-
tween Berlin and Hamburg would cost
100000 marks, single track, and 1885,
100000 marks double track. The dis
lance is to be covered in an hour and
fifty-hve minutes. 1t is estimated
that $4,000 passengers a year could be
counted on, and a single-track road
would pay expenses if there were only
$4,000; for double track, $4,000 would
be required.
Navigation on the Danube and the
Elbe has had to be stopped, because
the rivers are without sufficient water
for the boats to keep afioat. The boats
that left Buda-Pesth for Orsova only
| got as far as Moldova. For some time
| past the boats which were drawn by
tugs could only be half loaded. On the
lower Save, where at this time of the
year an active export of timber is US
ually carried on, there is not water
enough to float RATS.
The two-thousandth student at the
University of Freiburg receives free
| lodging and board, and at one of the
local cafes he is entitled to a daily cup
of coffee, a glass of chartreuse, and a
Havana cigar. 1t has been pointed
out that if it had not been for the
''studentinnen" Freiburg would not
have been able to celebrate it's two
thousandth student; for without these
thirty women the number of students
would have been only 1899.
The Jewish encyclopedia, which is
now being published, takes up the
Jonah-whale controversy at some
length and gives a solution of the mat
ter which may be highly satisfactory
to some. 1t says that the fish which
swallowed Jonah was made especially
for the occasion when the world be-
| gan. For this reason the fish had a
mouth and throat so large that Jonah
could enter easily and its eyes were as
large as windows and lamps lit its
interior.
One of the most remarkable forms
of clock in the world is clock fan
manufactured by Swiss jeweler The
| clock consists of u leaves hinged like
an ordinary fan. The number of the
| hour is marked from / to IL at the
| end of each of these leaves. The fan
| timepiece starts at o'clock and ex-
pands regularly for II hours. when it
suddenly closes up and starts all over
again. The half hour is indicated by
the leaf of the fan being only half
extended.
japanese merchants are extending
their efforts in the manufacture and
export of teas. and it is possible that
| this may be done somewhat in the
spirit of rivalry, but it must be con-
| coded that without the aid of resident
foreigners engaged in the tea trade
Japanese teas would never have been
| INTRODUCED abroad to any considerable
extent; neither would its present for
eign export be maintained. The same
may be said in the case of mattings
and other japanese exports.
Henry VIII could give our mod
ern beefsteak eaters cards, space and
an easy beating. His limit was not
under seventeen pounds at a sitting
During one night with the abbot Of
Reading he ate so heartily at a loin
of beef that the host said he would
give 1000 marks for such a stomach
Done" said the King, and kept the
abbot a prisoner in the Tower won
his 1000 marks and knighted the beef
High living had knocked the abbot's
stomach out, and a period of abstemi-
| BUSINESS in the. Tower restored II.