The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-24
ITEMS of INTEREST.


applied Christianity at Iowa College,
! Grinnell, who wrote the authorized
American biography of Tolstoy is
credited with knowing more about
| Russia and the Slavic world general
/ ly than any other living American.
Barbados business men have offer
ed to supply 10000 negroes for labor in
the Transvaal and to agree to deliver
! them at Lourenco-Marques within
| twelve months, at 800 per head, pro-
vided the wages should be not less than
! $3.50 per month with board and lodg-
ing.
| Collector Stratton of the San Fran
cisco port has received notification
that the Chinese minister has made
| following regulations as To the use
of the flag: A flag having one dragon
rampant in a yellow moon will be re-
| served for common use; two dragons
| are to be used only in the case OF Iner-
camille joint stock companies.
The decision of the Chancellor Of
the Exchequer to retain the coal tax
has caused a great deal of iissatisfac-
ton among coal miners in Wales. A.
one time they entertained the idea of
striking against the government by
| limiting the production of coal, but
have now decided to resort to consti-
tutional methods, to be continued gen
| orally.
The biggest oil carrying steel barge
in the world, STANDARD Oil No. "a, re-
rcently built at Shooter Island arrived
at New York recently on her first trip
from Port Arthur, Tex, with 500 600 bar
ralG of nil tho l. .oy hat l,-ac
ever come from the Lone Star state in
one bottom. The barge made the trip
in ten days in tow of the big ocean tug
Astral
The mother of Thomas Hardy the
novelist died at the age of 81 in the
little matched cottage which she had
occupied all her life on the heath at
Northampton, near Dorchester, in
which Thomas Hardy was born. Thence
he used to trudge daily to the national
school at Dorchester and later to his
work in an architects Office, in the
same town.
An American match factory in
Baden practically dominates tina [
branch of industry In Southern and
Western Germany. The LuXfer pris-
matte glass and American radiators
| arc -iif1Q0 lltIG ny vi chllGil WI NJ VI
the home companies, and an Ameri-
can factory at Hanover supplies pneu-
matte brakes for the whole Prussian
Railway system.
The Naples Table ASSOCIATION,
which has for it's object the promotion
of scientific research by women, has
announced at Boston the offer Oh a
| prize of 81, 600 to be awarded in April,
1907. for the best thesis submitted by
a woman on a scientific subject i'll
Volving laboratory research. This is
| the third prize TO be offered by the
association. The first prize was award
ed in April, 1893 to DIR. Florence Sa-
bine, of Johns Hopkins Medical School.
| for d research on the origin of the
| lympllatic glands. Mrs. Ellen n. Rich
ardson, of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, is chairman of the
Prize Committee. --4-. .
AFTER twenty years of tlogged
fighting Samuel Fessenden of Connect
| cut has secured control of the state
Republican machine Fessenden fixed
his eyes. on the United States Senate in
| 1884, when he was a prominent Blaine
| Boomer, and has kept his object in
view ever since. 1t now seems likely
Jilc1t IIfS uHiDiliOtl- MAY De TtdlAZed.
| Senden's stubborn persistence recalls a
remark he made at the Republican
! Convention in st. Louis in 1896, Joseph
| H. Manley of Maine was managing
| Thomas B. Reeds presidential boom,
| but capituIated when he realized Nc
| kinley's strength. Fessenden, enraged
a this ifaiHt-hearted action, roared at
| Manley: Joe, God Almighty hates "A
| GUTTER"
One of the queerest corners of the
earth is Chatham island, off the coast
of Ecuador. Capt Reinman, Who re
Gently visited it to inquire into the
| proper grounding of deep-sel cable,
says it abounds in cats, every one of
which is black. These animals live in
| the crevices of the lava foundation near
the coast, and subsist by catching fish
and crabs instead of rats and mice.
The French fisheries, with head
quarters at st. Pierre and Miquelon,
have been carried on under the bounty
| system since the year 1916. The rea-
sons given why a bounty should be al
| lowed are that the fisheries form a
nursery for the navy, and thus the gov
| eminent is enabled to secure men for
that branch of the service who are not
only familiar with the sea, but who
| from experience in their business, are
| quick to think and act in times of
emergency the theory being that fish
ern1en make the best sailors.
"A Chestnut street oculist. after he
had explained in burst II confidence
the other day how the prevalence -ot
the spotted veil is booming his bus.
ness, went further in his revelation.
| and said that the usual method of read
ing by artificial light is all wrong. saws
the Philadelphia Record. With nearly
everybody the method is to sit under :
! bright light as close to it as possible
so that the light will fall in strong
rays directly on the printed page. II
the remainder of the room be dark Il
*, generally considered to be SO much
the better. The mistake involved in
this idea consists in thinking that an,
such contrast of light is desirable. Oft
Ell enough, too, when reading is done
under these conditions there is a re-
Election from the page to the eye, which
| makes the light seem brighter than i;
! is. The proper way is to have NOR.
! than one light In the room and all Of
| them high, so that these will be re
| fiscted as well as direct light On tbs
page, especially If the walls and fur.
1tishings BE light in color This wild
1 give more nearly the effect of day-
light. OF course, any reflections Oh
hight directly into the eye are to be-
aV oided in either case.
There are nine thousand burning
lights and signals stretched dlung the
American coasts. forming perfect
link, so that the navigator never need
lrbe beyond sight of one IF the bea oons