The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

kid gloves are mace Oh SHeep VI
lamb skin, while rice paper is not
made of rice or any part of the rice
plant, and German silver is not silver
at all. nor is it of German origin.
With the water coursing down the
cascades and filling the lagoons, the
main picture" at the Worlds Fair
is fully complete. After night, when
the half million incandescent lamps
are glowing, the scene is one OF be-
wildering beauty.
The Japanese women have no serv-
ant problem to solve, simply because
they do not look down on servants
as such. Visitors bow as low to serv-
ants as to their mistress, and if the
mistress is away the servants serve
tea and entertain the visitors.
Indian boys and girls at Fort Shaw,
Mont, have prepared exhibits which
will be submitted in competition with
the work of other Indian schools at
the Worlds Fair. Previous to their
exhibition at st. Louis they will be
shown in. the principal cities Of Mon
tana.
In order to study the formation of
gums DR.. Grieg Smith of Sydney, Aus
tralia has isolated some in his labora-
tory. DIR. Smith believes that some of
them are due to bacteria formations.
He suggests that by the judicious Sc
lection of susceptible trees the worlds
present supply of gum could be greatly
increased.
Since the war began in the Orient
and so much has been printed about
torpedoes, many people have asked in
amazement why those implements
should cost so much. A good torpedo
made to order comes as high as $4,000.
Even ready-made torpedoes are by no
means cheap, as they cost $4,000 apiece
at wholesale rates.
The London Lancet reports a dis
cussion of the Academy of Medicine,
Paris, in which M. Lucas Champion
mere said that every day more con-
firmation was forthcoming of the idea
that 1t was the abuse of meat diet
which was the principal cause of ap-
pendicitis. In those countries where
the natives eat very little meat, as
in Brittany, appendicitis is very rare.
Rum and chocolate rations" have
been the solace of the British soldier
on homeward- bound TRANSPORTS. The
very latest army reform is that for
the rum a pint of British ale
is to be served at a cost of I'd or there
is to be the alternative of half pint
of chocolate for half-penny. The old
rum ration, which was half a gill of
spirits mixed with one and one-half
gills of water, cost a penny.
Since the purchase Alaska has
yielded $15O.0OO,OOO worth of gold, furs
and fish, and the territory has pur-
chased from the United States in the
meantime merchandise valued at $780,
000 600. The value of the Alaskan fish
sold in the single year 1908 was $S,000,
900, or more than the purchase money
paid for the country. In that year We
received from Alaska $10,22S, 064 in mer-
chandise, and $4,719,579 in gold.
While a Swiss policeman was con-
Quoting a handcuffed Italian prisoner
into Italy, they were overtaken by a
violent snowstorm, and the policeman
was obliged to take off the handouts
and attach himself to his prisoner with
a rope so as not to lose him in the
binding storm. Finally the policeman
fell exhausted. The Italian dragged
him across a pass, brought him in
safety to a village and then disap-
peared, after refusing reward.
"A Tarkio (Mo) farmer shows how
to grow corn scientifically in min
iature cornfield thirty-two feet
square, at the Worlds Fair.
The improved methods of culti-
waiting corn are shown by models
of the double new cultivator and
other machinery and Missouri mules.
The machinery displayed is all labor
saving, showing how the work of Gull
tivating crops can be successfully done
with the smallest amount of labor and
the least possible help.
The following specimen of Babu
English, extracted from the report of
a Punjab civil service employee, is GO
ing the rounds of the press: THE sub
postmaster report that last evening a
mice came out from behind the Office
door, and, after walking a little STAN
mered and breathed its last in the
presence of the sub-postmaster there.
As these are the prognostics of plague
/ beg you will kindly arrange to have
the Office disinfected at an early date"
Gases of death of animals from
nervous upset" are not uncommon,
and are found among very different
classes of mammals. Last year a cou-
pie of offers were caught, apparently
quite uninjured. on the river lamont,
and sent by train, each in a roomy
box. Both died almost Immediately
after their arrival at their destlna-