The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

provements to cost $SO.OOO,OOO.
THE mercantile fleet of Japan ranks
seventh in the worlds shipping.
The average yield of wheat in Rus
STA is less than half that of the United
States.
"A. Canessa, a wealthy art collector
of Naples, is in this country. He has
excavated 100000 worth of art in
Italy.
"A feature of the Worlds Fair at
ST. Louis will be the remarkable num-
Der of family reunions to be held
there.
The wages of coal miners in Canada
are three to four times as high as in
Belgium, where not more than 81 a day
is paid.
The red cedar which is used in the
large tracts in Colombia, near the Vene-
zuelan border.
Switzerland is inaugurating a sys-
tenn of itinerant school teachers, who
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isolated outlying villages
"A feature of Minnesota's butter ex-
hibit at the Worlds Fair will be
statue in butter of Father Hennepin
discovering the Falls of st. Anthony.
"A new system of simultaneous tele-
graphing and telephoning, invented by
Prof. Bruno and an engineer named
Turchi, is being introduced extensively
in Italy, Portugal and England.
The true name of Korea is "Cho-
son." meaning land of the morning
sum-" 1t is by this name that the coun-
try is designated in diplomatic papers
at the State Department at Washing
ton.
There are no important manufac-
tories in South America because coal
and iron are nowhere to be found in
large or commercial quantities. All
manufactured goods have to be i'm
ported.
Fishermen along the German ocean
used to look on deep sea research as a
mere scientific fad. They changed their
minds when, in consequence of these
researches, 100000 cod were caught in
a few days on new ground.
The generation of power from the
heat of the sun by reflection of the rays
on 10000 mirrors, each four feet square.
Will be a striking exhibit at the
worlds Fair. This solar engine, it is
claimed, will generate an intense heat.
The production of beet sugar during
the last season was: Germany, ], S97. 300
tons; Australia. 1,162,9OO tons; Russia.
l,l6O,6O0 tons; France, us, 200 tons: Bel
GUM, 199,200 tons, and Italy, 1900
tons. Seven tons of beets produced one
ton of sugar.
There are considerably more than
5000 doctors in London alone, while
the total of Great Britain and Ireland
comes to 1870. The doctors increase
at the rate of about 400 a year. but
ten years ago, when the necessary cur
rlculum was four years, instead of five.
the average increase was twice this
number.
.-England's treasure-hunting craze
has invaded the theaters. Every week
during the. run of Forty Thieves and
a Half" at a Sunderland theater
pursetof gold is to be-coneealed in the
NONA' anu at each performance the
principal comedians, Ali Bahia and
Cogia, will give clews as to the where's
abouts of the treasure.
The British Medical Journal tells
curious story at the expense of the
French Academy of Medicine, which
has recently moved to new quarters
On the place being cleaned, the room
in which the Council used to hold its
meetings was found to be a kind of
museum, containing specimens of
Paris dirt, collected in the course of
many years. AS a first step in the
process of publication, the carpet.
worn and heavy with the dust of ages,
was taken UP, when, to the wonder
ment of the beholders, another CARPET
still more ragged and grimy, came in
to view; under this was another; be-
low that again a fourth, and so on
till some ten layers of moldering car
pet had been removed.
The Baltimore News, telling stories
of the great fire in that city, speaks of
woman who saved some very impor-
tant documents while the men around
her laughed at her cowardice in NOV
ing when there was no danger. She
paid absolutely no attention to them.
She was the secretary to the president
Of the company whose building was
threatened, and he not being present,
she felt that it devolved upon her to do
what she could to rescue the most
important of the records and other
papers. She engaged the draymen,
selected the place where the things
should be stored, and rode there her
self on the last drayful She saved
her firm many thousands of dollars by
her promptness and energy, as the
building was completely Quilted.
Unless fresh appointments shall be
made. of which there appears to be
little likelihood, the class of French
life senators must soon become ex-
tinct. The youngest of the ten life
senators is 20 years old, and the eldest
80. NJ. WALTON, who is the father of
the House, as well as father of the
constitution, was born in 1872. Then
follow in order NJ. Goui- born in 1918;
M. Cazot, in 1924; NJ. d'Audiffert-Pa
quier, in 1923; M. MaEnin, in 1924; M.
Berthelot, in 1897; NJ. de Marcere, in
1928; Gen. Billot, in 1928; NJ. Berenger.
in 1880. and NJ. Herve De Saisy, in
1888.
Korean culture resembles that of
medieval Europe. Scholars and pro-
fessional men of letters use the classic
tongue of the oldest of living empires,
China, which is a dead language to |
the common people. 1t holds the same |
place in Korean literature that Latin |
did in the literature OF European coun- |
tries during the middle ages This |
instrument of the learned is |