The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.



ers are complaining bitterly of the
continued fan in the price of sugar,
which will make a reduction of the
production of beet-root necessary.
Great Britain's public revenue
from April 1 last to the latest date at
hand amounted to s547,175,O30, de-
crease of, $43,449,665 from last year.
| Expenditures amounted to 1903, 6O2,-
$40, a decrease from last year of
1874, 4S5,035.
"A bill has been introduced in the
New York Legislature looking toward
the removal of all hedge fences along
railway tracks, on the ground that
| such fences do a considerable amount
| of harm by banking up snow, while
no practical good is derived from them.
The Japanese constitution guaran-
tees absolute freedom of religious be-
lief, and the gospel of Christ is preach
| ed from one end of the empire to the
! other. In Japan there are members
| of Christian churches who command
her battleships, who sit in her cabi-
nets, and who preside over her Parlia-
ment.
The gross receipts of the fourteen
bull-fights given in the City Of Mexico
| so far this season, in which Spanish
] matadorS participated amounted to
| S223, 900, or about 600 for each fight.
! The expenses did not amount to one
half the sum, leaving a clear profit
in the bull ring management of about
| $4,000.
THE unknown army" as the Com
missioner of Pensions calls the living
soldiers of the Civil War, who have
| not applied for pensions, numbers
| about 100000 or about 80 per cent. of
| the total number of survivors, who are
| placed at about 100000. This ''un-
known army is applying for pensions
at the rate of about $4,000 a year.
The production of cotton goods in
Russia is growing very fast, and as
the Russians have their designs on
securing the trade of Manchuria in
| this line, it is only reasonable to sup
| pose that they will eventually secure
that important trade. Russia Secur-
| ed the monopoly of the cotton bust
ness of Persia by giving a bounty of
cents pound to her manufacturers.
Mrs. Sarah C. Bigler, known
among Mormons as saint Sarah,"
has just died at Plymouth, Utah, at
the age of ninety-eight. She was one
| of the earliest converts of Joseph
| Smith, and was one of his closest
| friends until his death. Twice, in
| the early and troublous days of Nor
| monism, she helped to save the found
er's life.
The prevailing diseases Of Mexico
are of a mild malarial type, easily
avoided by following simple rules of
living and avoiding unnecessary ex-
posture to heat and rain. About thir-
ty miles from the coast the altitude
is from 600 to 800 feet above the sea,
| and in this region the climate is ex-
ceptionally agreeable. Here, as else
where, one is exposed to sickness, but
if the common laws of health are OBJ
| served one will experience no great
er amount of illness than he would in
his own country and live just as long,
If not longer.
On account of the depressed con-
dition of the salmon market. many
canneries in Alaska will not be operat-
ed this year. Other packing compa-
MES will go farther north, where they
will catch less pink and get more red
salmon. Reds are now selling at 81 20
on the coast, while pinks are very low,
the minimum quotations being SO
cents. This is below the cost of pro-
| duction and there is no profit for those
companies the bulk of whose packs
are pinks. The cause of the unfav-
orable condition of the market is over
production primarily. An effort has
been made to maintain prices, but
| without avail.
Another French military invention
is on record. This time it is not the
machine gun, but the army rifle, and
| again the inventor steps out from the
ranks. Corporal Grissolange, of the
| first Colonial Infantry, has devised a
method of greatly increasing the ca
pacity of small arms for rapid firing.
Instead of one magazine holding eight
cartridges, as at present, Grissolange
| provides three magazines, holding al
| together eighteen cartridges which by
| an easy mechanism worked with great
| rapidity, are brought UP in succession
to the feeding tube. The army COM
| mission on military inventions has just
notified Grissolange that the Minister
| bf War has placed his invention
before the commission. with instruction
to examine and report upon it.
The stock. takers latest achieve
! ment, is selling handsomely engraved
certificates for shares of stock in radi-
UNI mines, which have suddenly ap-
peared in California, according to their
| representations, says the Philadelphia
Record. Lewis E. Aubury. the state
mineralogist, publicly gives warning to
| the people against these swindlers, and
is doing his best to get the proper evil
| dence for their prosecution. Some time
| ego, he states, samples Of ore were
brought to the State Mining Bureau
| for determination, as the owner SEEM
| ed to have the idea that the ore con-
| tanned certain radioactive and mys-
FERROUS properties. After a minute
analysis by one of the chemists it was
found that no such properties existed.
But since that time, it appears, an
| other test of it's qualities was made by
another chemist" and the ore, ac-
cording to his investigations. showed
manifestly radioactive components
| Mr.. Aubury sent a representative to
| interview the chemist" but he found
the laboratory closed and a sign on
| the door to the effect that, owing to
some intricate experiments going on
the laboratory would be closed for sew
eral days. This chemist says that
he has extracted quantities of radium
| from the ore. Notwithstanding the fact
| that there are no facilities in the state
for the reduction of radium. After he
has obtained the proper evidence. Mr..
Aubury intends to place the matter
in the hands of the postal authorities.
Perhaps one of the oldest pets in
Albany is a full-grown owl owned by
| William Hill, of 81 Washington ave-