The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-07
ITEMS of INTEREST.


broken out among the windows OF
York Cathedral. Some of the thirteenth
and fourteenth century glass in the
edifice has been removed in order to
arrest the disease" The outbreak is
aseribed to a fungus.
Visitors to the ruins of St. Pierre
have observed the following surprising
effect of the eruption of May s. While
some parts of the walls and other re-
mains of masonry still stand nothing
remains of metallic constructions but
an impalpable powder.
Birmingham, England, has a mint
which in addition to turning out mil
lions of English coins, does more in
the way of supplying foreign govern
ments with coin than any other money
making establishment in the world. A
few days ago it shipped the first in
stalment of a huge Egyptian order
for 100000 piasters.
University Place, few miles east
of Lincoln, is the only town in Ne
braska where tobacco is not sold. Not
only are liquor, billiard tables, dance
halls, saloons and every other form OF
questionable" amusements barred
from this town, but now the cigar
store and the cigarette counter have
been added to the prohibited list.
Honeymoon, the new treaty port of
China, is on the West river, Sun-Ui
district, in the Province of Kwang-
Tung, and by the river route is upward
of sixty miles distant from Canton.
Its population within the walled city
is about 10000. Including the suburbs
its population reaches 100000. There
are no foreign residents either in Kong
moon or its immediate vicinity.
The statistics of ninety-four opera
tons for the bloodless replacement of
congenitally dislocated hips performed
by DR.. Lorenz and himself are report
ed by DR.. .Ridlon of Chicago. In but
ten cases does the anatomical replace
ment seem to be perfect; in sixty-one
cases there are good results and sew
enteen were complete failures. The
others are still in splints, and, there
fore, have not yet been radiograp hed.
The Prince of Montenegro has no
use for libel laws to restrain the news
papers, and editors are not punished
for contempt of court. This does not
arise so much from the liberality of
the rulers principle as from the fact
LudI ne is tII0Se1l ln6 OWtGI anu cul-
tor of the only newspaper published in
his donIifions. The paper is called Glas
Cznogofca, which is interpreted to
mean "The Voice OF the Montenegrin."
Experiments conducted by the Ag-
ricultural Department of the Universe
ty of Missouri have demonstrated that
the diseased chinch bugs sent out by
the United States Department of Agri-
culture to kill the chinch bugs by
infection are entirely ineffective. The
diseased bugs not only do not transfer
their disease to the healthy bugs, but
soon after liberation completely recover
and do as much damage as the others.
Reports from the Discovery, which
has been exploring the Antarctic
regions, give interesting particulars as
TO the appetittes which come to half
frozen men on long sledge eXpedi-
tons. Hunger proved dreadful
nightmare, some of the men having
horrible visions of tempting dishes. 1t
is questionable if anything could COM
pare in the way of hardships suffered
to this form of modified starvation on
such trips.
-Tahlequah,. which. used to be noted
on the maps of all old Biographies as
the capital of Indian Territory, is a
town ow-of about twenty-five hundred
people, and the majority of its popula-
ton are Cherokee Indians. The Chero-
KEGS are of all shades of compilations.
Some cOal-bfack negroes boast of being
Cherokee Indians, but the prevailing
color is a dusky brown. a little darker
than that of a Japanese, or a yellow
somewhat lighter than a mulatto.
The giant petrol of the Arctic re-
gion will feed on offal until it is so
absolutely gorged as to be unable to
rise off the ice in fight. Then it runs
along the ice, if chased, spreading its
wings out as sails. Before being cap
tured. however, the petrol will sud
denly stop and disgorge a quantity of
semi-digested food, and then go off on
a run again. If overtaken a second
time it will repeat the performance,
and then once it has got rid of its
dinner flies away.
The life of AN express locomotive
in England is estimated at twenty
five years; that of a freight locomo-
tive. at twenty-six, that of an ordi-
nary passenger engine at twenty-five
and that of a switch engine at twenty
seven. In the United States the life
of an express locomotive is eighteen
years, of a freight engine, sixteen
years; Of a passenger engine, ninteen
years, and of switch engine twenty
fwo years. In eighteen years, how
ever, the American machine has run
100000 miles-double the average
travel of an English locomotive.
Madagascar is celebrating, accord
ing to The Four Track News, the
opening of it's first railway. it's 15O-
mile macadamized road from the coast
to the interior, and the completion of
fifty miles of canals, as results of the
Frenchifying of the island. It was in
1892 that Lord Salisbury gave France a
free hand. under the Zanzibar con-
vention, to chastise and subject the
insolent Hovas, who had fiouted every
nation and disregarded their treaties.
including the one made with the United
States in 1857 and signed by President
Andrew Johnson. France undertook
the task for other nations in general
and herself in particular. of wiping
out century, if not seven centuries,