The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Mdncnur1d ana take the place winch
cattle and sheep do among some of
the other peoples of the world. When
a Manchurian woman is married she
is given a pack of dogs as a dowry if
her father is wealthy.
The expression, kick the bucket"
as synonymous with dying. is said to
have originated in an English method
of suicide. The intended suicide would
stand upon a bucket, put the moose
about his neck and then kick the
bucket from under him.
Near Ketschau, Germany. is the
deepest hole in the earth. It is 5,735
feet deep, and for geological research
only. The drilling was begun in 1880,
and stopped six years later because
the engineers were unable with their
instruments to go deeper
"A foreign observer, after a trip in
this country, wrote a magazine arti-
Gle. in which he declares that Ameri-
cans are totally without grace, and
asks: How could we expect to find
grace in a country where the men
chew tobacco and the women gum?"
At Los Angeles, Cal, a large con-
crete-steel chimney has recently been
erected which is $50 feet high above
the base and Is feet in diameter out
side and II feet inside. The chimney
was erected entirely by means of a
scaffolding built inside as it assembled.
"A cat at Littleton, N. H, crawled
into a length of stovepipe just before
the family packed their goods to move
to town in New York state, 300
miles away. When the goods were
s,, he
pipe, alive and little the worse for its
journey.
There are few things in nature more
wonderful than the common impulse
which seizes millions of undeveloped
insects living in dark tunnels under
meath the ground and urges them to
cut their way upward that they may
complete their appointed life in the
upper air.
In Naples gesture often takes the
place of words, not only with lazza-
roni. but even with princes. King
Ferdinand, on his return to Naples
after the revolt of 1921, addressed his
subjects in gestures: he reproached
them, admOnished them and finally
pardOned them, sending them away
satisfied without having articulated a
single word.
"A remarkable phenomenon was re-
Gently observed on the Californian
coast. A streak Of red water" was no
ticed some distance off the mouth of
San Pedro harbor, which subsequently
broke up into a number of patches,
each of several acres in extent. In
the course of a few days these patches
reached the shore, when the red color
was found to be due to the presence
of countless myriads of animalcules.
Up to 1914 the Cossacks were MAIN
ly bandits, and in fact, the name is
derived from Tartar word which
means ''robber." The first Cossacks
took boat on the Dnieper, the Volga
and the Don, and settled on the banks
of these great rivers, living by plum
der and by the proceeds of fishing
fighting generally on foot, but always
remaining near their boats, which Sc
cured them safe retreat in case of a
reverse.
"A sad case of robbery has been
reported from Chicago. An aged widow
has been working hard for sixteen
years to save money enough to make
amends for a wrong done a young girl
by her husband. She has spent no
more money than was absolutely
necessary, and by great denial had
saved $1,70O. This was hidden away
in a closet, but some thieves heard of
1t and last week stole it all. 1t is
feared that the loss may kill the old
woman.
In the newly invented apparatus in
Germany for milking COWS by electrici-
ty rubber hoods are attached to the
udder of the cow. These hoods are
connected with a vessel for receiving
the milk by means of a rubber tube,
from which the air is exhausted by
means of the electrical device. 1t is
claimed that the suction, thus secured,
resembles very closely the sucking of
a calf, and that for this reason the
COW lets down her milk more freely
than when milked by hand.
When the volcanic eruptions in
Guatemala last year covered the coffee
fincas, it was believed that the indus
try was ruined and that Guatemala
had received a blow from which re-
covery would be slow. Many planters
abandoned their ash covered planta-
tons and believed themselves ruined
But the activity of the volcanoes was
followed by heavy and long continued
rains, which washed away great deal
of the ashes and Incorporated more of
tnem Win the SOIL. Inc rain also
seemed to bleach the ashes and extract
from it a liquid fertilizer which proved
of great benefit to the coffee trees The
result is a crop nearly as large again
as last years. Hereafter, when the
volcanoes of Guatemala erupt and
spout ashes, the only unfortunate cof-
fee planters will be those whose fincas
are outside of the showers.
Torpedo range is now about 1000
yards, says the Review of Reviews.
The improvements which are being
made, it is estimated, will nearly dou-
BILE this, and that before very long
This means that when two fleets APP
proach each other in order of battle
usually in line ahead with ships 400
yards apart, and the lines making an
angle to one another, so that as many
guns can be brought to bear as posi-
ble-torpedo firing will begin when the
intervening distance is about two miles
This is, IL anything, beyond effective
fighting range of guns. AS the dis
lance decreases, the accuracy of the
flight Of the torpedo increases, and be-
comes as great If not greater than
that of the gun projectiles. What tao
tics are to be used to meet these new
conditions is not yet assured, but that
the chances Of hits with the torpedoes
are very large-one in three under the
conditions above stated--is we'll recog-
nized
"A process Of making beer kegs out